Colin Trevorrow: Star Wars Episode IX’s Script Draft Has Been Completed.
Colin Trevorrow has revealed that a major draft of Star Wars Episode IX‘s script is complete, and it will be revised further along the way before the film begins production.
A little less than two weeks ago, MTV interviewed Colin Trevorrow at CinemaCon to ask him about his involvement with Jurassic World 2, and more importantly, Star Wars Episode IX.
If you can’t watch the video, the important part of the interview boils down to the following:
“We’re writing, we’re designing, and there is a draft. You know, we’re throwing 110 percent of our souls into it, so there will be nothing left of me when I’m done.”
There’s not much to add here, other than that Trevorrow’s script does have Leia involved. But it does stay in line with some speculation that filming could begin before the end of the year. Hopefully, we learn a little more at SWCO and/or Disney D23.
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Someone else better rewrite this before shooting. Trevorrow and Connolly’s script for Jurassic World is a steaming pile of shit.
This is Trevorrow, Connolly and Rian Johnson that makes it better right?
I think people are putting too much faith in him the way that they did with Kasdan in TFA or Lucas in TPM.
true
Looper was above average. I think episode 8 might be a weird balancing act between The Force Awakens, The Phantom Menace and some pretentious art-house stuff.
Except Kasdan’s script helped bring the film to over 2 billion in sales and people actually like the film.
So yeah, what a huge mistake it was to include him.
Johnson has nothing to do with this script. That was a rumor that didn’t pan out.
Didn’t Lucasfilm hire Rian Johnson to write both VIII and IX as one continuous thing? I’m pretty sure Trevorrow is just directing, from a script written by Johnson. Nowhere in this article does it say Trevorrow is writing.
Trevorrow and Connolly are writing:
https://www.google.com/amp/collider.com/star-wars-9-rey-parents-colin-trevorrow/amp/
There was a rumor that Johnson wrote the story treatment, but evidence to support it never came out.
ok my bad
Where is the evidence regarding that if I may ask?
Steaming pile of Dinasaur shit or plain human shit???
Coprolite happens.
They should have brought Michael Arndt back in.
Yeah, I liked his ideas they threw out and he has a good resume.
Will be more excited after I see VIII which will really show if they are willing to take chances or continue to make this a OT tribute trilogy.
I’m hoping VIII will be the most awesome and original Star Wars film ever… but a part of me is thinking: AT-At Walkers attacking a hidden rebel base and Jedi training sounds awfully familiar.
To me this ties into the news that we had concerning Leia yesterday. I have a feeling she will end the film with her life in the balance – instead of her surviving in the next one she will now die and become a force ghost.
I hope not..don’t get me wrong I enjoyed TFA..but the similarities and the plot holes were strong in that one. I can’t take another similar story. I want original, I want unpredictability, I want another R1 experience. FUCK I loved that movie.
Yeah, jury is out. If it is an ESB remake I will be severely disappointed ! Backlash would be almost as big as prequels. I think a lot of people are ok to ignore The Force Awakens parallels to ANH because it was generally a good movie. But do that again in the next movie and those ignored parallels will come back out and hit Disney hard in my opinion.
We’d have the OT the PT and the remakes lol
It would be an enormously funny situation since, you know, if you take the “logic” used to call TFA “ANH rehash” and apply it to the PT and the OT, it turns out that ESB was the last “original” movie in the SW franchise because, according to that logic:
TPM = RotJ (mostly in reverse)
AotC = TESB (mostly in reverse)
RotS = ANH (again, mostly in reverse)
Now, they are not – obviously – exactly like TFA is not a rehash of ANH, but such are the byproducts of this way of watching a movies 😉
“Backlash would be almost as big as prequels”
Mmmm…no.
only if rey starts talking about sand. 😉
if it’s “a lot” maybe he should hand over the film to someone who is up to the challenge and work load. Complaining to MTV how hard his life is seems a bit amateurish. Steven Spielberg was working on Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List simultaneously but never heard him complaining.
The real complaining is the ” my childhood is raped fanboys”, not Treverrow. It has a Walker in it Wahhhh, it has snow in it wahhh, it has a space battle, a hidden base, wahhh. 9 will have a lightsaber battle and some redemption it’s gonna be like ROTJ…cry, complain, bitch and moan. Go watch teletubbies or something
I mean, Trevorrow is just a bad director. I have no idea if his movie will be a rehash, but I do know it probably won’t be good.
You have no clue of anything. Two years away. Have you been in a movie with Colin? Did he direct you? No…if he was a bad director he wouldn’t be directing at all, anywhere on anything.
Trevorrow has never made a good movie, so I feel within my rights to call him a bad director. Also, what on earth is that logic? Bad directors still get to direct all the time. Ever heard of Uwe Boll?
In your opinion.
Richard Marquand was, by no mean, a great director – but the third chapter of a trilogy doesn’t even need a good director. It needs someone who is good at doing what is told. Trevorrow can frame, can shoot action, has experience with big tent pole movies and is comfortable with special fx. He is going to work a) with a cast that, for the most important part, spent the last six years of their life with this characters, b) on a story treatment by the director of the second installment, c) under the supervision of director and producer of the previous movies. By that point, the damn thing basically run itself.
I think people are trying to convince themselves very hard that this movie will be good because it hurts to know that after what will probably be four good-to-great Star Wars movies were going to get a shitty one. I’m unconvinced.
we haven’t even seen one piece of footage from 8 and you are already talking about 9 based on nothing but your preconceived notions.
You’re doing the exact same thing in the reverse. It’s completely true that we have no idea how 9 will turn out, but based on the track record of the filmmakers involved it’s much more likely that it will be bad.
People said the prequels were going to be 2nd comming of movies based on Lucas’s filmography and see how THAT turned out to be…
Or claimed that Shyamalan will be the next Spielberg and see how that turned out to be. Or claimed that Split was going to be a trainwreck based on the previous few movies of the same person and see how that turned out to be.
Or people said Logan might going to be crap based on the previous Logan movie of the same director and see how that turned out to be…
Art is not some objective tendency. There are ups and downs. Maybe ep IX is going to be the life project of Treworrorw.
all i’m suggesting is to keep an open mind. lot of smart people are involved here.
Exactly. Also, and what’s more important: They care.
As evident by the reshots of R1 they really care about the quality of the final movie. They don’t waste money, time or energy to do their very best until the release date.
It obviouly still dosen’t guarantee anything, but at least we know they are giving their very best.
What is operating here, with your line of thinking, is called prejudice: you have an idea about Trevorrow – which is also kind of prejudicial in and for itself, since it’s founded on a total of two movies, at best (none of which was, objectively, terrible) – and, based on that idea, you are judging a movie that doesn’t even have a full cast, yet. Which is the same thing people did before TFA (“Ahhh!! Abrams is a hack!!”, “They will disneyfy Star Wars!”), R1 (“Ahhh!! Godzilla sucked!!”, “We already know how does it end, we don’t need a movie about that!!”) and that they are doing now about TLJ (except, this time, they are going more for the rehash route, because is really hard to say something bad about Johnson) and Han Solo.
Now, – if people wants to feel miserable, thinking that something they like or love will be, at least partially, ruined – this is fine and all. The problem is that, if you establish a movie is going to suck, months before it begins principal photografy, more than two years before its release, it’s more than likely that you’ll cherish that opinion enough to confirm it regardless of the actual quality of the movie.
That said, let’s be serious: we are not talking art, here. Star Wars is the quintessence of the “Big Tentpole, Industrial Entertainment Product” – and has been since 1977. It’s not haute cuisine, it’s fast food – you don’t need a renowned chef to have a good, or even a great, hamburger: all you need is people who know what they’re doing.
you may not like jurassic world but it is by no objective measure a bad movie. lucasfilm wouldn’t hand over the keys to the Ferrari if it was.
Jurassic World is a mess of a movie that has virtually no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Lucasfilm gave him this movie because JW made an ungodly amount of money and because he’s by all accounts a nice person who’s easy to work with.
-jurassic world needed to reboot a dead franchise. check.
-jurassic world needed to make money. big check.
-jurassic world needed to be entertaining. check.
it may not be in the same ballpark as jurassic park, but it did what it needed to do in a big way. and as you said, colin plays ball which means he will have no problem working with rian and the story group on the script. i fail to see the problem here.
In your opinion, he has never made a good movie.
In my opinion, the two films I’ve seen he’s made, I really enjoyed.
See how that works? Our opinions now cancel each others out.
He isn’t “bad”.
People said the same shit about Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One after Godzilla and it turned out to be completely baseless.
You know it huh?
I reiterate, I’m gonna laugh when VIII ends up being the weakest film of the trilogy.
You’re clinically insane if you think Johnson’s VIII will be worse than whatever turd Trevorrow turns in.
Again, I’m going to laugh when VIII ends up being the weakest film.
You never heard Spielberg complaining, because it was 1993… You know before the age of the internet.
Besides, there is a lot higher pressure when making ep IX than JP and SL. Those were original titles, where Star Wars is one of the largest movie franchises of the planet, where you make one mistake and your career is pretty much deadly wounded or dead.
Star Wars IX: Good Movie Not Guaranteed
(At least we’ll get Poe running around in high heels.)
*Facepalm*
Nothing personal against Colin Trevorrow but I’m still hoping that they announce that he is fired and Rian Johnson is directing Episode IX as well. As one of the few people who even knew who Rian Johnson was when they announced he was directing, I am very excited to see what he will do with Star Wars. He is one of the few directors that can make every single shot be an important detail to the film. Go watch “Brick” immediately if you don’t believe me. Easily the best film made 2000-2010. As for Colin Trevorrow, sure “Safety Not Guaranteed” was cute and Jurassic World was at least the 3rd best film in that series, but nothing he made ever impressed me enough think he is the right fit for Star Wars.
Brick “easily the best film made 2000-2010”? It was enjoyable and felt fresh but I wouldn’t go as far as to say that.
I haven’t seen Jurassic World and thought Safety Not Guaranteed was okay, however I believe Colin Trevorrow can do a great job under the right circumstances. With a treatment from Rian Johnson, I can only be optimistic… After J.J. Abrams, Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson, I trust Kathleen Kennedy in her choices of directors.
Always remember, The Empire Strikes Back was directed by the same guy who directed RoboCop 2.
“Always remember, The Empire Strikes Back was directed by the same guy who directed RoboCop 2.”
Holy shit! This is such a revelation for me. LOL
Yeah, Kersh only got better with age.
Haha but didn’t Robocop 2 come out 10 years after ESB?
Like I said, Kersh got better with age.
Jurassic World was the 3rd best film in that series?
…what’s the second? Because TLW and JPIII were both awful.
A lot of people knew who he was, hence the excitement.
Damn why is everyone bashing on this guy? Give the dude a chance. Maybe you all didn’t like his movies, but who’s to say he’s not a closet Star Wars fanatic and knows exactly what to do in terms of where the story is goin. Let’s just wait and see.
The internet can smell fear. Not too long ago, CT knew he wasn’t up for this…
https://youtu.be/kqo5NPBLHPY
Well if that’s the case and he changes his mind then oh well..but he seems pretty into it now. If anything happens later down the line..I would love for them to have Gareth back and direct cause he did a great job.
The biggest concern with this guy is the writing. I’m sure he’s got the chops to take an exceptional script and make it look wonderful, but he’s not the right guy to pen that script.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought Rian was writing the script.
Everyone assumed that, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.
I see..well..damn
They have plenty of time to bring in other talent to polish it up, if need be. I can’t imagine Johnson and Abrams not having any script input in tying up the character arcs and plot threads that they set in motion.
to be fair, JJ flat out turned down lucasfilm originally because of the daunting task. lot of pressure making a sw film… especially from us. 😉
Us? That’s a kind sentiment, but don’t kid yourself into thinking that anyone in Hollywood give two shits about any of us or what we think.
We (here in Star Wars Nerdland) should be nice to each other as best we can, but as far as I’m concerned, the big names are all fair game for criticism.
its not that big a stretch. lucas walked away from the films because the fans criticism of the prequels. since people like JJ are giant fans as well they know what the reaction will be if they screw it up. no one wants that rep.
He walked away ’cause he was finished telling his part of the story. He knows damn well what would make a huge bulk of fans happy (original OT release, etc.), but honestly does not give a shit. You can’t hurt that guy’s feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN561LI3D2Q
God these guys are so hard to watch. If you believe that… okay. But you do know that George has contradicted this take on his story, right? I don’t need to find & post the “There is no episode 7” 60 Minutes vid — I’m sure you’ve seen it.
He’s a manipulative guy — don’t let George tug on your heartstrings.
believe me i don’t. george was going to make VII(and talked about doing so for 20 years) up until everyone crapped on the prequels and then it became there is no VII and never has been… then disney came around with a dump truck of cash and it changed again. and then finally he was booty hurt again because everyone was excited about sw again even though he wasn’t involved.
but in regards to the new guys, most grew up as fans and are worried about mucking it up(and i don’t blame them, sw is the most high profile franchise out there)
I’m just waiting for the director that comes along as says, “I wanna make a film that Gary Kurtz would be proud of”.
I actually want that to be the opening crawl. 😉
You can be 100% they care. Maybe not about the opinions of the audience, but very certainly about their career.
Fcking up Star Wars means game over. Just look at Lucas.
You imply that there’s actually a majority in this “community” that can actually agree on anything Star Wars related. We can criticize or praise all we want, but we’re still paying to see the films. They’ll always have our money.
I didn’t imply any of those. But vocal audience reactions do have their consequnces. See: Lucas getting rid of Jar-jar in ep II and III.
And money on a single movie isn’t anything in a saga like this. Just look at how desperate WB became after Batman v Superman…
Especailly considering how ep VII basically had to restart the entire franchise after the prequel-fiasco. Why do you think half Hollywood (and even JJ before finally agreeing) turned down ep VII if noone cares about the audience and fans? Why Lucas still complains about the criticism?
Of course they care.
I think Lucas’ own kids talked some sense into him when it came to Jar Jar (just speculation on my part).
My original point though, had more to do with forums like this — where our opinions are split, or I pick on a dead celebrity’s family member, or call out a writer or director as a hack. The only celeb I can imagine who actually will seek out our comments, and care enough, might be someone like Max Landis, but he’s batshit nutz — if he ever gets a go at Star Wars, I’m out.
The guy rolling in cash?
Thank you. 🙂
They may not care about us, but they do care about what we’ll spend money on.
VII was the film it became due to half the Star Wars fan base swearing off the franchise based on their view of the Prequels. That movie was made to cater to 30+ something’s who had given up on Star Wars and their childhood.
How is this him saying he wasn’t up for it?
A tent pole film in a serious (or in this case, legendary) franchise will make or break a Director’s career. But the fact is when you have a 200 million + dollar budget and the expectation to make at least a billion dollars in revenue there’s a great deal of pressure and mandatory feedback from the studio to change a film.
Abrams, Johnson, Edwards, Trevorrow; they all have MUCH less control of a Star Wars film then they do something smaller. I imagine it sucks the joy out of the project as well as putting a tremendous amount of pressure on them to make the whole experience suck rather than be that joyful chance of living their childhood dream.
This dude obviously already had the experience with Jurassic World. It was a serious reboot for Universal and they dumped money into the picture. If it had flopped, Trevorrow would be doing hemorrhoids commercials.
And that’s just the Jurassic Park franchise. Now face Star Wars.
Also I guarantee LFL had already contacted him at this point.
if this is your level of logic…lol
And why, Uncle Deadly, do you think people are critical of CT?
I honestly have no idea. Because they are soulless people who didn’t enjoy a fun dino romp?
I like what he said about thinking of if as one movie, the end of a trilogy, six movies and nine movies.
the same people bashing colin probably felt similar about edwards pre rogue one but i bet they are eating crow now.
Gareth can direct ’em all from here on in — just give him stellar writers. He reminds me of Ridley Scott — also a consistent visual genius who has no problem making a beautiful-looking mess of a story.
or george lucas. can shoot a film but needs help to write compelling characters.
Never heard of him.
you know, the old bearded dude that wears flannel all the time and sounds like kermit. 😉
“GODZILLA IS SO BAD” was pretty common on these forums.
The usual crowd of haters spat fire at Edwards and Trevorrow, but said Johnson was the man and would elevate Star Wars to a new level of artwork.
I’ll laugh if VIII turns out to be the worst film.
Nobody will laugh at that. People on the internet are never satisfied. No need to hope for anything like that to prove a point.
I’m not hoping for it, nor is it a point I am trying to make.
It’s just that the group of frequent haters here all seem to think Rian Johnson is the shit. He may be, I have honestly never seen any of his films. But I would lose it if VIII flubbed it hard because of the people here who hold the dude up on a pedestal.
People are optimistic for a reason. Rian Johnson is really the shit. He’s probably the best Disney could hired to the task from the people who are currently working in Hollywood. Some argue that Villeneuve would’ve been better, but imo his style is way too slow for SW.
If you have some time, watch Looper. It’s not a masterpiece, and I think it’s a bit overrated, there are some issues regarding the logic of the time travel (although every time travel movie has), but it is a movie only a visionary could have made.
He’s not a mainstream blockbuster director like JJ or Gareth Edwards, much rather an arthouse- type, which is definitely a fresh take SW needs at this point imo.
He’s relatively young and only has a couple of movies, thus he’s eager to prove. Under his control there is real chance of delivering something truly remarkable (as lets be honest, all of us knew JJ won’t deliver anything better than “just good”), not “only” a fun action-adventure movie. Ep VIII has chance of being the best SW episode.
Honestly, if he fails to deliver, than there is little chance to the ST for being a worthy addition to the saga.
though ironically i’d say rogue one turned out pretty similar to Godzilla(which is fine with me because i like both).
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea5fe5f56464fd43fd66a4612c90484573390ae7a3979e93a22aa2087cd2ae8d.jpg
I was open minded with Gareth Edwards directing Rogue One, unfortunately the movie left me disappointed. Found it a dour offering that took itself way too seriously, when it had nothing to be serious about. Now have reservations about Edwards returning to direct another SW movie.
I’m no more worried about Trevorrow directing a SW movie than Rian Johnson. Loved Safety Not Guaranteed, but haven’t seen JW. Loved Looper, but cared little for Brick, and The Brothers Bloom.
Jurassic World wasn’t that bad…it’s quite decent actually, so would YOU PLEASE…give a fucking chance to Colin please before spouting venom that would not work on the reception anyways. Seriously, what part of chance don’t you understand?!
Everyone I know enjoyed JW, so I don’t know where all the hate comes from.
Same. I was stunned at how fun it was.
I liked it as well..actually looking forward to the sequel.
It was better then all the other JP except the first one
I got a bad taste in my mouth from the very first scene….. so it kind of tainted the rest of the film for me, although it was fun.
I HATED the CGI I-Rex egg hatching. Glad to hear that JW2 will have more practical effects.
JW wasn’t THAT bad. Besides, it was just another unnecessary sequel to Jurassic Park, a franchise about dinosaurs eating people… Seriously, what did people expect, the next Godfather?
With Star Wars there is much bigger space (no pun intended) to explore and win.
Jurassic World was a fun pop corn flick. He did a much better job than a lot of shitty modern remakes. I think he’ll do right by SW!
I agree. Jurassic was dumb fun, so Lucasfilm should be able to elevate Trevorrow’s talent to make a great movie in Episode IX.
Look, I think we all have a tendency to get jittery about upcoming Star Wars movies when some particular element about them jumps out at us as seeming hinky. I feel that way about the Han Solo film. But that’s more about what we currently know of the film itself and the overall concept for it.
We know next to nothing about TLJ yet, and we know absolutely nothing about Episode IX. We’ve no idea where the overall story arc is going, we won’t get any real sense of that until we’ve seen TLJ this December, and therefore we haven’t the first clue as to what the tone of Episode IX ought to be.
I haven’t seen Jurassic World yet, mainly because I’ve been so underwhelmed by damned near everything in the series since the original film. The impression that I got from what reviews I’ve heard was that it was basically a Big Dumb Explosion Movie with dinosaurs. If it did indeed fall short as a movie, though, then I’m not prepared to write Colin Trevorrow off as a director, because I’ve no idea what he was handed in terms of a script, and how much freedom he had to improve on it.
If he was essentially hired to make a Big Dumb Explosion Movie out of Jurassic World, then that’s not to say he can’t make a much better movie when given the opportunity – and he certainly has an amazing creative team and an incredibly dedicated production company behind him on Episode IX.
I don’t feel like it’s time to dismiss IX just because of the director they hired for it. A lot depends on the synergy between a particular director with a particular production team on a specific kind of story.
Just my two cents, as always.
Yeah, I’m not sure what the hype was about. JW was kind of like a Big Dumb Explosion movie. BUT a little better. Maybe more of a Big Meh Not Bad Explosion movie.