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Jon Watts to Direct Next ‘Star Wars’ Film

publishers 25articles 26first reported 27 Sep, 02:04 UTCdeveloping since 27 Sep · 4 editions

Jon Watts will direct Lucasfilm’s next “Star Wars” movie, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Deadline reports that the “Spider-Man” director’s film will continue the Skywalker Saga, while TheWrap describes it as the first installment of a new trilogy and Gizmodo identifies it as “Episode X.”

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