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British scribe Jack Thorne, who wrote the upcoming Jacob Tremblay movie Wonder, has been hired to rewrite Colin Trevorrow’s STAR WARS: EPISODE IX for Disney and Lucasfilm, the Tracking Board has confirmed.

Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly penned the most recent draft of the script. which despite rumors, is not believed to have been based on a treatment written by Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson.

Daisy Ridley is set to return, and we’ll see if John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver live long enough to join her. Production is slated to start in January in advance of the film’s global release on May 24, 2019.

Thorne has created several British TV shows, but more recently, he had a hand in BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy series His Dark Materials. He’s represented by UTA, and the Hollywood Reporter broke the news of his hiring.

Jeff Sneider | Editor in Chief