At the premiere of his new gothic horror film, The Little Stranger, Domhnall Gleeson revealed that he had started filming on the still-untitled Star Wars: Episode IX.
The film marks the return of director J.J. Abrams to the Star Wars universe after the filmmaker directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film in the current Star Wars trilogy that started in 2015. Gleeson told Variety that the return of Abrams to the property will be “epic.”
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Gleeson has been with the current trilogy as General Hux since Force Awakens, so the next films marks his reunion with Abrams.
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It makes sense Gleeson feels that Abrams’ return is epic, as last year, Gleeson told Collider he was excited when he found out that Abrams was returning:
“[I found out] like two seconds before, but nothing’s revealed about which, if any of us, are in Episode IX or not. I think it’s really cool that he’s doing it, and I’m interested to see how he approaches it because he’s a superb filmmaker. And it’s closing out—they’re doing it in trilogies aren’t they?… See that’s really cool, J.J. will do a fantastic job.”
Star Wars: Episode IX is set to be released on December 20, 2019.