Colin Trevorrow has been keeping the details of his exit from Star Wars Episode IX fairly vague and pretty positive-referring to his work on the film as an experience he'll cherish, but he offered a bit more insight about what may have gone wrong for a recent interview with Uproxx.
After working on the script for the next Star Wars film to finish off the Skywalker trilogy, slated for a December 2019 release, Lucasfilm reportedly decided to remove him from the project and call in JJ Abrams to take on directorial duties instead.
"That was a very acidic situation," he explained about his departure, which he later referred to as a "personal loss" for him. "The bottom line here is that sometimes creative people can’t find a shared path through the woods."
The director also spoke on the foot-in-mouth moment that lead to him co-writing Jurassic World 3 with Pacific Rim writer Emily Carmichael, even after he proclaimed on Twitter in 2015 that women weren't interested in making blockbuster films.
"She had done some shorts and she raised her hand and said, “Yeah, I want to direct big studio movies. Check out my short.” So I read a script of hers and brought it to Steven [Spielberg] and we hired her to do something else," he said. "I’m lucky she’s working with us on Jurassic World 3...sometimes, good things can come from idiot men saying stupid shit and everyone reacting accordingly."
While Fallen Kingdom will see Trevorrow on producer and co-writer duties, he will return to the director's chair for the franchise's next installment.
Read the full interview here.
