Earlier this week, word got around that Kathleen Kennedy — the president of Lucasfilm since 2012 and the person most directly responsible for the modern era of Star Wars on the big and small screens — would be retiring from the position sometime in the near future.

Star Wars boss Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed the next trilogy for the mainline saga is officially in the works.

Kathleen Kennedy, the head of Lucasfilm, revealed in a new interview that Simon Kinberg’s Star Wars trilogy would continue the narrative after the Skywalker Saga. In November last year, reports stated that the studio had brought in the Dark Phoenix filmmaker Kinberg to write and direct a trilogy of movies set in the Star Wars