'Star Wars': Jon Watts to Direct First Film in New Trilogy

Jon Watts has been tapped to direct the first film in a new "Star Wars" trilogy, TheWrap has learned. Best known as being the director behind the first three Tom Holland "Spider-Man" movies, "The "Skeleton Crew" filmmaker will direct from a script written by Simon Kinberg. Lucasfilm previously hired the prolific writer and producer to write and produce a new trilogy of "Star Wars" films. An early report insinuated are that this will actually be chapters 10 – 12 of the Skywalker Saga, continuing the path that most recently concluded with "Star Wars: The Rise of . . .