“Star Wars IX” sets release date

Disney and Lucasfilm have booked a date in theatres for Colin Trevorrow's “Star Wars: Episode IX” — May 24, 2019.

The studio also announced a slew of other high-profile moves. Disney is pushing back the release of the next Indiana Jones movie by a full year, from July 19, 2019, to July 10, 2020, in order to make way for the studio's live-action “The Lion King”, which gets the July 19 date, while “Frozen 2” will hit theatres November 27, 2019.

Little is known about “Episode IX”, which has a script being written by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. Earlier this month, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said that the late Carrie Fisher would not appear in the film as Leia.

Both “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars story” opened in mid-December, as will “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Dec. 15, 2017). Disney and Lucasfilm now want to test the summer corridor (prior to Force Awakens and Rogue One, all the Star Wars films opened in summer). Before announcing the date for “Episode IX”, Disney had already dated the untitled Han Solo spinoff for May 25, 2018.

Source: THR