Simon Kinberg To Write & Produce For Lucasfilm

EXCLUSIVE: Lucasfilm has closed a take care of Simon Kinberg to develop a trilogy of Star Wars movies. Kinberg will write the trio and produce them with Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy.

I heard this may comprise Episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga that started with George Lucas’s 1977 first movie, which, together with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, reshaped the worldwide blockbuster sport. Insiders disputed my intel that Kinberg will proceed that storyline, saying this as a substitute will start a brand new saga, and sit alongside percolating Star Wars tasks with James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Glover. As ordinary, Lucasfilm and Disney aren’t commenting.

Kinberg beforehand labored with Lucasfilm in co-creating with Dave Filoni and Carrie Beck the Emmy-nominated animated collection Star Wars Rebels that ran for 4 seasons from 2014-2018. He was additionally a marketing consultant on Star Wars Episode VII: The Pressure Awakens, the J.J. Abrams-directed movie that revived the franchise in 2015.

He has additionally been closely concerned in different franchises as author and/or producer. That features a decade spent on the X-Males movies and the Logan spinoff movie that starred Hugh Jackman and was directed by Mangold. He was additionally producer of the primary two Deadpool movies, and exec producer of the 2024 blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine; he produced the Ridley Scott-directed The Martian‘ and has scripted such movies as Mr & Mrs Smith and co-wrote the movie that launched the Sherlock Holmes franchise with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Legislation. He additionally produced the Kenneth Branagh Agatha Christie movie trilogy that began with Homicide on the Orient Categorical. Briefly, he’s snug within the franchise sphere.

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Upcoming, Kinberg is producing Paramount’s remake of Stephen King’s The Working Man, which simply went into manufacturing. Edgar Wright is directing Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy and Lee Tempo. He is also connected to provide Paramount’s Star Trek film directed by Toby Haynes and penned by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Kinberg is repped by CAA and Karl Austen at Jackoway Austen Tyerman.