Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker wrote a novel called "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", which was originally commissioned by George Lucas for the purpose of being filmed as a low-budget sequel, as a fallback plan in the event that "Star Wars" did not do well. It was published in 1978, a year after the movie's release. This made it the first full-length original novel to be published in the Star Wars expanded universe. The next official novelization of a "Star Wars" movie was "The Empire Strikes Back" by Donald F. Glut in 1980. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker Star Wars: From the
Star Wars sequel trilogy and a week later, it was announced that J.J. Abrams would return to direct "Episode IX". He would the script with Chris Terrio, in addition to producing the film through his company Bad Robot Productions, with Kennedy and Michelle Rejwan. Disney had originally scheduled the film's release for December 2019, in keeping with the previous two sequel trilogy films, but then moved it up to May 24, a time of the year more common to the first six "Star Wars" episodes. However, after Abrams' return, its release date was moved back to December. On January 10, 2018, it was reported