Josh Trank was set to direct the second Star Wars anthology film for Disney, but at the beginning of May everyone learned that he had unexpectedly exited the project. Trank has been taking a lot of heat online for some decisions that he made with 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot. Trank has found the degree of scrutiny to be “very psychologically hard” and that is why he left Star Wars. Trank the LA Times, “I want to do something original after this because I’ve been living under public scrutiny, as you’ve seen, for the last four years of my life. And it’s not healthy for me right now in my life. I want to do something that’s below the radar.”
