Star Wars IX date set

DISNEY has set a date of May 24, 2019, for Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars: Episode IX and is delaying the next Indiana Jones by a year.

The studio has revealed little about the ninth instalment of the space juggernaut, except that Trevorrow wrote the script with Derek Connolly, his co-writer on Jurassic World and its forthcoming sequel.

Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi is due out on December 15.

The fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise – also yet to be named – has moved to July 10, 2020, to make way for Jon Favreau’s live-action remake of The Lion King, on July 19, 2019. Frozen 2 will hit cinemas on November 27, 2019.