Update: Star Wars Episode VIII Heads To Ireland For Initial Shoots

Correction: Lucasfilm has told Entertainment Weekly that the initial reports of reshoots for The Force Awakens were wrong, and the movie that will film in Skellig Michael is actually Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII. That doesn't mean principal photography, as all the statement said is that they're "shooting sequences," and by other reports principal photography won't start until either January or March 2016, depending on who's talking.

We noted that another Star Wars film, 2016's Rogue One, is shooting in England's Pinewood Studios, just across the way, so this will mark three consecutive years worth of Star Wars movie releases all shooting scenes in the region in one year.

Star Wars: Episode VIII, written and directed by Rian Johnson, is scheduled for a May 26, 2017 release.

Original Story: Luck o' the Irish to J.J. Abrams as he heads outside of England for some pickups and reshoots on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The team will head back to Skellig Michael, Ireland for "further filming to take place this month," according to Ireland's RTE News and the Minister for Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries.

The location is a sensitive one, with ecologists and others worried about filming affecting local wildlife populations, including those of birds. To that end, there are 16 limitation measures, including specific areas and only September available to Lucasfilm for the shooting. RTE notes that the weather during initial shots there may have been "too good" to accurately reflect the conditions they were hoping for during the shoot.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is relatively far along, and hits theaters December 18, 2015. Director J.J. Abrams said at D23 Expo that the current cut he's editing runs around 124 or 125 minutes. There is no word in the report as to who will be involved in the shoots, but at this stage in the game it's likely to be relatively minor. It should be noted that Star Wars: Rogue One, the first of the "Star Wars Story" non-Episodic films, is currently shooting in London's Pinewood Studios, one of the primary locations for The Force Awakens as well.