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. This new sequel trilogy will end in 2019 with

is out now, but there are still plenty of mysteries surrounding the 2019 follow-up to Rian Johnson\'s revolutionary movie.

was previously scheduled for May 24, 2019 in the US, but has now been bumped back to

will now premiere on December 20, 2019, giving new director JJ Abrams more time to work on the final instalment in this new trilogy. In the UK the movie is set to open the day before - Thursday December 19 2019.

films have been subject to some serious rescheduling already.

slipped from a summer 2015 release to December, and

was originally announced for May 2017 before also settling on a winter premiere. So the delay for

Filming was initially set to begin in January 2018 but it\'s currently planned for July 2018.

Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Andy Serkis (Supreme Leader Snoke), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose), Laura Dern (Amilyn Holdo), Benicio del Toro (\'DJ\') and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) are the stars of

. Ridley, Boyega, Isaac and Tran are sure to be back, although it\'s not looking too good for Dern and Serkis. As for del Toro, who can say right now?

Hamill is being cagey about his potential role in the movie (naturally), and currently Domhnall Gleeson is apparently unclear about whether he\'ll return as crazy old General Hux.

Carrie Fisher\'s brother Todd Fisher said that the late

legend would somehow return as General Leia – possibly using

\'s unsettling CGI reconstruction technology – but this has been denied by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Which comes as a relief.

director Trevorrow was on board, but in September 2017 Disney and Lucasfilm confirmed they had parted ways with the director, saying their visions for the project differed. It has now been confirmed that Abrams will be back to complete the trilogy he started in 2015.

movies, he said "we have to take them places that they haven\'t gone, and that\'s sort of our responsibility".

"The opportunity to sort of take what we had learned, to take the feeling of who these characters are and what they are and give them a final chapter that felt in the spirit of what we begun?" he added later. "It was too delicious of an opportunity to pass up."

Abrams said he wants to "go beyond, and do better than we did in

writer Jack Thorne was brought on in summer 2017 to work on a new draft of the

\'s Chris Terrio are writing the film. We don\'t know yet if they are starting completely from scratch or not.

Paul Inglis – whose credits include

An official synopsis is a long way off, so all we can guess about

For those who want the full spoilers on how the new movie sets up

One big thing we\'ve known for a while about the movie is the impact that Carrie Fisher\'s death has had on the plans for the next episode. The director broke our hearts with Trevorrow\'s confession that she was intended to be at the very centre of

Kennedy added that they "pretty much started over" following Fisher\'s death, although the script had not been finalised at that point. Trevorrow promised that Leia "will be handled with love and respect, and all of the soul that Carrie Fisher deserves", and we\'re sure that goes equally for Abrams.

, the untitled Han Solo-starring spin-off movie will be arriving. A third spin-off is yet to be revealed, but is fully expected to arrive in 2020. Kennedy has said that it should be announced in summer 2017.

Beyond that? Disney CEO Bob Iger has said that the films could continue into the 2030s.

"We\'ve got a creative team actually thinking about what could be another decade and a half of

stories," he told students at USC during a Q&A. "It\'s kind of mind-blowing spending an afternoon with a creative team thinking about that."

is in it for the long haul, and that Disney will continue to be make these movies while there is still an appetite for them. On top of the spin-offs, one way or another they will push forward with the main narrative, even if the focus moves away from the Skywalker clan.

went up about a year before the film came out, so don\'t expect

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