Star Wars fans have a new film trilogy to look forward to with Simon Kinberg at the helm.

Kinberg has, admittedly, a mixed portfolio.

He produced the award-winning The Martian, for example, as well as Deadpool and Logan, but so too did he direct Dark Phoenix, arguably one of the worst X-Men films.

Still, this is someone who knows what it means to work on a major franchise, and he’ll bring that expertise to Star Wars.

What’s unknown is exactly where Kinberg’s trilogy will fit into everything.

It has been pitched as the opening trilogy of a new mainline saga but that still leaves plenty of question marks surrounding the project.

Will it bring across characters from The Skywalker Saga? Does it follow that saga chronologically? Is it something new entirely?

It’s all a little complicated

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