Mile Fleming Jr, writing for Deadline, has the scoop on new Star Wars movies coming.

EXCLUSIVE: Lucasfilm has closed a deal with Simon Kinberg to develop a trilogy of Star Wars films. Kinberg will write the trio and produce them with Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy.

I heard this will comprise Episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga that began with George Lucas’s 1977 first film, which, along with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, reshaped the global blockbuster game. Insiders disputed my intel that Kinberg will continue that storyline, saying this instead will begin a new saga, and sit alongside percolating Star Wars projects with James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Glover. As usual, Lucasfilm and Disney are not commenting.

Except they are.

Rebecca Rubin, writing for Variety, says it is not Episodes 10-12.

Lucasfilm is developing a new “Star Wars” trilogy with Kinberg set to write and produce the three films with studio chief Kathleen Kennedy. This will begin a new series with new characters after “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, concluded the original nine-chapter “Skywalker Saga” in 2019. Though plot details haven’t been revealed, Lucasfilm has disputed the notion, first suggested by Deadline in their initial report of the forthcoming trilogy, that Kinberg’s movies will continue the story that George Lucas began with 1977’s “A New Hope,” introducing Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia.

Borys Kit, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, says the same thing even more directly.

The new story is not meant to be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, the name of the overall arc of the popular and pop culture-dominating Star Wars movies known as Episodes 1 through 9. The intent here is to have brand new characters and a new story, and not have it be a continuation, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. (Although that does not mean that some characters could not or would not pop up.)

Obviously, the “sources” are Disney and probably Kathleen Kennedy. I think it would be a big deal if they were actually extending the Star Wars branding to Episodes 10-12. The “sources” may not want that revelation to be out there just yet.

I also wish they’d drop all the other percolating projects and just focus on a continuation of Star Wars post Episode 9. For instance, the solo Rey movie should actually just be Episode 10.

Of course, that make too much sense.

The next movie that for sure if happening is Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, a continuation of the Disney+ series about the bounty hunter and baby Yoda coming out May, 2026. Personally, I would like the sequel to this to be named, Ahsoka and The Acolyte just for the internet uproar.

Apropos of nothing, my two cents on Episode 10-12 titles:

Star Wars Ep10 - An Amethyst Blade
Star Wars Ep11 - The Two Temples
Star Wars Ep12 - Revelation of the Force

I’ll let you figure out what any of this means. Likely, sound and fury signifying nothing.