Toby Haynes is a well known television director known for the celebrated space-themed Black Mirror episode “USS Callister”. Disney+ has enlisted him to direct a Rogue One spinoff.

“He [Toby Haynes] steps in to direct after showrunner and Rogue One screenwriter Tony Gilroy opted out of directing duties due to concerns about traveling from New York to the U.K., where the series will shoot, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.”