Disney showed fans attending the 'Star Wars Celebration' convention in Chicago the first footage from the movie, which will be released in theaters in December and will conclude the story that began in 1977.
CHICAGO - The ninth film in the original Star Wars saga will be called The Rise of Skywalker, and will feature the return of the evil emperor Palpatine to threaten the young heroine Rey and the Resistance, Walt Disney Co revealed on Friday.
Director JJ Abrams, speaking alongside a handful of cast members, said the movie takes place sometime after the events of the 2017 film The Last Jedi. In an interview, Abrams told Reuters that writers met with Star Wars creator George Lucas before they started to script the final chapter in one of the world’s most-celebrated movie franchises.
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