Actor Domhnall Gleeson, who plays the cold-blooded First Order officer General Hux in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, is quite pleased that J.J. Abrams is returning to the GFFA as director on the currently-untitled Episode IX. Lucasfilm announced that Abrams would be replacing director Colin Trevorrow as the project’s lead earlier this month.
However, as it stands right now, Gleeson is unsure if he will be reprising his role as Hux in Episode IX.
While a certain segment of Star Wars fandom isn’t pleased as Boonta Eve Punch that J.J. Abrams will helm the still-untitled Episode IX after Colin Trevorrow’s surprise departure, the director of The Force Awakens does have the Force-ful endorsement of one galactic veteran. “I’m really happy J.J. is back,” Domhnall Gleeson tells Yahoo Entertainment while chatting about his role in the upcoming drug-running drama American Made. Of course, the Irish actor — who reprises his Force Awakens role as First Order commander General Hux in the upcoming middle chapter, The Last Jedi — emphasizes to Yahoo Movies that his endorsement shouldn’t be taken as confirmation that Hux will play a role in Abrams’s trilogy-capper, set to hit theaters on Dec. 20, 2019. “They haven’t revealed who is going to be in the third one.”
The Abrams-helmed Episode IX blasts into theaters on December 20, 2019.
