J.J. Abrams Is Back And He's Directing The Final Star Wars Flick!

All kinds of movie news today, and this is some especially good stuff. J.J. Abrams has just confirmed that he is coming back to direct Star Wars IX (cue hysterical, high pitched nerds screaming)! That's right, friends and neighbors, after The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson steps off to do his own trilogy, J.J. Abrams is gonna jump back in the driver's seat, and straight up get down on the last episode of the trilogy.

The vacancy opened up in September, when then-Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow parted ways with Lucasfilm after "not seeing eye to eye" on the script. J.J. Abrams had this to say about returning to the series.


"I had no intention to return," Abrams told Rolling Stone. "But when the opportunity presented itself to finish a story that we had begun with these new characters, to tell the last chapter of their story, it felt like there was a chance to do it in a way where we could go beyond, and do better than we did in VII. I learned so much in that movie and I saw that this was a chance to sort of realize something that we hadn't quite achieved – and part of that was it was simply the beginning of these new characters and their story. The opportunity to sort of take what we had learned, to take the feeling of who these characters are and what they are and give them a final chapter that felt in the spirit of what we begun? It was too delicious of an opportunity to pass up."

Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi is in theaters Dec 15, 2017.