Lucasfilm and Disney have announced that the next episode in the Star Wars saga will be called The Last Jedi.
Scheduled for release December 15, 2017, written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman and executive produced by J.J. Abrams, Jason McGatlin, and Tom Karnowski.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a sequel to 2015’s The Force Awakens which continues the story told in George Lucas’s original trilogy.