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.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson addressed the notion that he and J.J. Abrams—who made the first and third films in the sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker —didn’t communicate enough about their 2015 and 2017 Star Wars films, leading to a disjointed feeling between the two.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson has shared his plans for his trilogy of Star Wars films, which was announced in 2017 but never materialised. While Star Wars studio LucasFilm initially stated that Johnson was going to develop three additional movies, the status of the project has become increasingly ambiguous over the past few years.