Hey, Star Wars fans: Remember how you only had a year and a half to wait between The Force Awakens and Episode VIII? Well, not so fast. This morning, Walt Disney Studios announced that Episode VIII would be pushed from its original release date of May 26, 2017 to December 15 of that year. That puts it on the same weekend The Force Awakens dominated to end 2015, setting up another giant marketing push on that same schedule. But Disney isn’t pulling out of that May release date altogether—the studio will instead slot in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, pushing that picture up from July. If the date change makes you worry about the state of Episode VIII, don’t let it; principal photography on Rian Johnson’s as-yet untitled installment won’t begin until next month in London.

However, the change also sets up a colossal showdown between Episode VIII with James Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar 2, which is currently set to open the following weekend. We’ll see who blinks first. For now, here’s the full press release from Walt Disney Studios: