Maybe It's Good Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars 9 Didn't Happen After All
Colin Trevorrow's script for Star Wars 9 sparkled a lot of interest in what Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker could have been had the director not been fired, but Jurassic World Dominion suggests going in another direction may have been the right call by Lucasfilm after all. Initially, the plan was for each film in Disney's Star Wars sequel trilogy to be helmed by a different director. However, a couple of months before the premiere of Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it was announced that Colin Trevorrow was no longer going to directEpisode IX and that Star Wars: The Force Awakens' J.J. Abrams would return to conclude the trilogy.
The exact reasons that led Lucasfilm to part ways with Colin Trevorrow will likely remain a mystery, but creative differences and the studio being unhappy with the direction the story was heading reportedly had an influence on the decision. The extremely divisive reactions drawn by The Last Jedi shifted the focus away from the behind-the-scenes drama involving the departure of both Trevorrow and Solo: A Star Wars Story original directors Philip Lord and Christopher Miller, but the eventual release of J.J. Abrams' The Rise of Skywalker brought back the question of what Star Wars 9 would have originally been like. The surfacing of Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars 9 script for what would have been called Star Wars: Duel of the Fates powered up those discussions even more.
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