Disney Irish
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Read the article. It only says they finished filming BB8's parts for episode 9, and ends with speculation that the droid will return in future films. Though honestly, it was a pretty poorly written piece that tried to write a full article on a twitter post- the whole thing is just the author's musings and speculation with little reason to believe him.
Agreed. I don't see BB-8 going anywhere. For one thing he is still in the Disney XD Series Star Wars Resistance, that is continuing after EP9.
With regards to the Twitter post, all it was was the actor who has brought BB-8 alive in the films saying that filming for the BB-8 scenes have wrapped and saying thanks to the crew and Lucas Team. That isn't a good bye to the character.
Geez, these sites will do anything for clicks. And people buy into like a moth to flame.