--- title: Star Wars: Disney Boss Reveals New Details Beyond Episode IX description: Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed new details about the future of Star Wars canonical: https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T05:01:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:12.747Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Disney Boss Reveals New Details About Future Of 'Star Wars' og:description: Bob Iger on Han Solo, 'Episode IX' and another "decade-and-a-half of 'Star Wars' stories" og:url: https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32225b58a3ded02d/6988bfbda988ca3c506bb76b/gettyimages-629179810-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures And Lucasfilm's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Disney Boss Reveals New Details About Future Of 'Star Wars' twitter:description: Bob Iger on Han Solo, 'Episode IX' and another "decade-and-a-half of 'Star Wars' stories" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32225b58a3ded02d/6988bfbda988ca3c506bb76b/gettyimages-629179810-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Disney Boss Says _The Last Jedi_ Won't Be Changed in Wake of Carrie Fisher's Death > Sponsored content. 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Bob Iger attends the premiere of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" at the Pantages Theatre on Dec. 10, 2016 in Hollywood, California.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Carolyn Giardina and Aaron Couch / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Carolyn Giardina and Aaron Couch / The Hollywood Reporter Mar 24, 2017 5:01 AM UTC Disney CEO Bob Iger is peeling back the curtain on the future of _Star Wars_. “We’re starting talk about what could happen after _Episode IX._ About what could be another decade-and-a-half of Star Wars stories,” Iger said Thursday during a talk in Santa Monica. He also said _The Last Jedi_ will not be changed in the wake of star Carrie Fisher’s death in December. “When we bought Lucasfilm, we were going to make three films — _Episodes VII_, _VIII_ and _IX_,” said Iger. “We had to deal with tragedy at the end of 2016\. Carrie appears throughout _VIII_. We are not changing _VIII_ to deal with her passing. Her performance remains as it is in _VIII._ In _Rogue One_, we had some digital character. We are not doing that with Carrie.” **The Hollywood Reporter:** [_Donald Glover Cast as Lando Calrissian in Young Han Solo Movie_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/donald-glover-cast-as-lando-940517) The executive also revealed new details about the young Han Solo movie, saying the film will span the _Star Wars_ rogue’s years from age 18 to 24\. Han (played by Alden Ehrenreich) will meet Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and will be seen finding his ship, The Millennium Falcon. Iger was interviewed by his wife Willow Bay, newly named Dean of USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. Also on Thursday, Disney announced it was [extending Iger’s tenure as CEO until July 2, 2019](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-extends-ceo-bob-igers-contract-2019-988243). Iger said when he does exit Disney, he wants to leave the post “in a good position for my successor, whoever that is.” He continued: “Succession is a complicated thing. We \[the board\] felt we wanted to spend more time on succession … and we mutually agreed to another year.” Iger got a laugh as he added about retirement, “but I’m serious this time around.” **The Hollywood Reporter:** [_Disney Extends CEO Bob Iger’s Contract to 2019_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-extends-ceo-bob-igers-contract-2019-988243) There’s no heir apparent among the company’s executives, and Iger made no mention of possible successors. He declined to comment on his plans for life after Disney. Iger also talked with enthusiasm about the potential of virtual reality and location-based experiences. He described a planned attraction for Avatar Land, which is scheduled to open in Orlando in May, in which you sit atop the banshee, the flying creature from James Cameron’s film. “You feel a pulse and breathing. And a screen comes up and you are basically in Pandora. In 3D, you feel like you are right in it,” said Iger. “We spent a lot of time and money on robotics with expressions. There’s a Na’vi that has expressions you won’t believe.” He added that the planned Star Wars Lands (in both Anaheim, Calif., and Orlando) will include an experience that would allow the patron to get into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon “and go for a joyrides.” **The Hollywood Reporter:** [_‘Star Wars’: Emilia Clarke Cast in Han Solo Stand-Alone Movie_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/emilia-clarke-cast-han-solo-stand-alone-movie-948992) The young Han Solo movie also stars Donald Glover [as a young Lando Calrissian](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/donald-glover-cast-as-lando-940517), as well as [Emilia Clarke](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/emilia-clarke-cast-han-solo-stand-alone-movie-948992), [Woody Harrelson in a mentor role](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/han-solo-movie-who-is-woody-harrelson-playing-star-wars-universe-960882), Thandie Newton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing the film, which is slated to open in theaters May 25, 2018. _The Last Jedi_, from writer-director Rian Johnson, is set to bow Dec. 15 of this year. Iger’s comments came at the Scale: The Future of Tech and Entertainment conference, held at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica. _This_ [_article_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-bob-iger-reveals-new-han-solo-details-talks-what-happens-episode-ix-988348) _originally appeared on_ [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/) Star Wars: Disney Boss Reveals New Details Beyond Episode IX ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/"},"headline":"Disney Boss Says The Last Jedi Won't Be Changed in Wake of Carrie Fisher's Death","datePublished":"2017-03-24T05:01:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:12.747Z","description":"Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed new details about the future of Star Wars","url":"https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/","keywords":["movies","Star Wars","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32225b58a3ded02d/6988bfbda988ca3c506bb76b/gettyimages-629179810-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Carolyn Giardina and Aaron Couch / The Hollywood Reporter"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32225b58a3ded02d/6988bfbda988ca3c506bb76b/gettyimages-629179810-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures And Lucasfilm's \"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures And Lucasfilm's \"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712016/star-wars-han-solo-episode-nine/","name":"Disney Boss Says The Last Jedi Won't Be Changed in Wake of Carrie Fisher's Death"}}]}] ```