Top 10 Reasons Colin Trevorrow Parted Ways with Lucasfilm Over Episode IX

September 6, 2017 Willybobo

It’s that time of year again — Kathleen Kennedy has fired yet another Star Wars director, once again citing creative differences. Colin Trevorrow is the latest filmmaker to “part ways” with Lucasfilm after months of butting heads with Kennedy. The now-former-director of Star Wars: Episode IX is said to have been struggling to get a script approved by the Lucasfilm Story Group after requiring several rewrites due to the sudden death of Carrie Fisher. Or at least that’s the story being fed to the mainstream media. But FakingStarWars did some digging and uncovered the actual reasons Trevorrow left one of the most coveted directing gigs in Hollywood. After the jump, we reveal the Top 10 Reasons Colin Trevorrow Parted Ways with Lucasfilm Over Episode IX!

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Top 10 Reasons Colin Trevorrow parted ways with Lucasfilm over Episode IX

10. He wanted his career to live up to the title of his first film, Safety Not Guaranteed

09. Kathleen Kennedy opposed recreating Leia as a CG triceratops

08. The pressures of outdoing Yub Nub gave him severe writer’s block

07. Lawrence Kasdan didn’t like the cut of his jib

06. He wanted to be like Josh Trank, Phil Lord & Chris Miller and work on A Star Wars Story That Got Me Fired

05. Because The Book of Henry needed a terrible sequel much more so than The Last Jedi

04. They couldn’t agree on which trilogy’s third installment to rip off

03. After the 45th draft, he thought it best to end the mindless killing of so many Force trees

02. He simply could not write a believable Chewbacca/porg love scene to save his life,

let alone job

01. They couldn’t agree on how much Colin should pay the studio for letting him do exactly what they say

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