Johnson said there was "never any outline or treatment or anything" for the remainder of the films, though he did note that the ideas he had were "all very conceptual" without further elaboration. Lucasfilm first announced the planned trilogy in November 2017, a month before The Last Jedi 's theatrical release.

Filmmaker Rian Johnson, who is known for Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and others, shared the reason for scrapping the Star Wars trilogy Johnson who directed the space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi released in 2017,