How a lot Star Wars is an excessive amount of Star Wars? Disney and Lucasfilm do not assume we have reached important mass but. On prime of the various Star Wars reveals already out there on Disney Plus — and the 5 Star Wars films launched post-Disney acquisition thus far— many extra tasks are in improvement, with a renewed deal with getting tales from a galaxy far, far-off in cinemas once more.
This doesn’t suggest Star Wars’ TV efforts are winding down anytime quickly. Skeleton Crew simply dropped and we’re eagerly awaiting Andor season 2, Ahsoka season 2, and the recently-announced Star Wars: Visions’ Volume 3. However now we’re lastly getting some films to bulk out the Star Wars timeline too.
Different Star Wars film tasks are rumored to be in improvement, however we’re sticking to the formally introduced ones right here. Heck, there’s an opportunity a few of these films will not even see the sunshine of day, however they’re all formally on the books for now.
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The Mandalorian & Grogu
- Launch date: Might 22, 2026
- Director: Jon Favreau
Attainable deepfaked Luke Skywalker cameo apart, the subsequent Star Wars film will not cope with Jedi or Sith. After The Mandalorian’s season 3 finale wrapped up all the foremost story arcs from the 2 earlier seasons, rumors swirled that Din Djarin and Grogu had been leaping to cinemas subsequent as an alternative of getting a fourth season. Because it seems, these rumors had been proper, with Jon Favreau making his return to the large display screen to direct The Mandalorian & Grogu.
Little is thought in regards to the plot at this level (except you could find that leaked in-progress first look), however we all know Din Djarin is basically working for the New Republic now, after he and Bo-Katan Kryze took down Moff Gideon and reclaimed Mandalore. His subsequent journey will see him monitoring down harmful Imperial battle criminals, seemingly tying into the post-Ahsoka season 1 state of affairs which noticed Grand Admiral Thrawn returning to the identified galaxy alongside historic Nightsisters. Dave Filoni’s occasion film will deal with that battle and wrap up the New Republic-era storytelling efforts, so we’re anticipating The Mandalorian & Grogu to be lighter in galaxy-wide stakes and tone.
Dave Filoni’s New Republic-era film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Dave Filoni
Animation veteran turned Star Wars maestro Dave Filoni, now additionally Government VP and Chief Inventive Officer at Lucasfilm, has been instantly concerned within the improvement of all of the Mandalorian-adjacent Star Wars reveals. At the moment, he is writing and getting ready to shoot Ahsoka’s second season after cracking The Mandalorian & Grogu’s script alongside Jon Favreau, however these roads result in a fair bigger big-screen mission.
The announcement got here throughout Star Wars Celebration 2023, the place three new films had been unveiled by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. Ahsoka is maybe the central piece to those plans, because it reintroduced Grand Admiral Thrawn as the primary menace of this period and introduced a number of Star Wars Rebels characters into live-action. If we couple these heroes and villains with The Mandalorian’s largest gamers (and maybe even some legacy faces), a fairly explosive and fanservice-y Star Wars film might be coming our manner.
Rey Skywalker-centric sequel film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
All fingers are pointing to Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker being the key to Star Wars’ on-screen future, a minimum of relating to the precise post-Rise of Skywalker future. Regardless of the blended reception of the sequel trilogy, we are able to all agree that Ridley’s Rey Skywalker deserves to develop past the confines of the Skywalker Saga as she tries to rebuild the Jedi Order as soon as once more. We may even see John Boyega’s much-deserved return.
This was one other film introduced throughout 2023’s Star Wars Celebration, with Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy hooked up to direct. On prime of different rumored scribes, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight had been engaged on a draft for the script however departed the project earlier this year. Between that and the toxicity surrounding the sequel films, Disney could have since gotten chilly ft in regards to the mission however, for now, it is nonetheless formally within the works.
Simon Kinberg’s new trilogy
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Unknown
Considered one of 2024’s largest Hollywood surprises was to listen to that Lucasfilm, on prime of all its standalone films in improvement, was shifting forward with plans for a brand new Star Wars trilogy. The architect? Rebels co-creator, author, and producer Simon Kinberg. He is a prolific author, although a lot of his writing and producing efforts elsewhere have been hit-and-miss. The Martian was a transparent winner, however he additionally has Fox’s current X-Males films to reply for, together with the dreadful Darkish Phoenix adaptation which he additionally directed.
On the brilliant aspect, giving one author management of a trilogy of films ought to assist give it a cohesive story arc, so it seems to be like Disney has discovered some classes from the sequel trilogy. Kinberg may even function director, on prime of writing and producing, for a number of of those films. Particulars are murky on whether or not the Rey Skywalker film we talked about earlier would be the begin of this trilogy, or its personal mission. We’ll simply have to attend and see.
Shawn Levy’s thriller film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy just lately landed the largest win of his prolific profession with Deadpool & Wolverine, so it is sensible that Lucasfilm can be courting him for the galaxy far, far-off. Proper now, he’s got plenty of projects lined up, however a script for his Star Wars film is already within the works with longtime collaborator Jonathan Tropper attached. Unsurprisingly, the director’s lips are sealed relating to sharing even the tiniest bit about his pitch, however he’s fully committed to the project whereas being conscious that many others have didn’t get their films to the large display screen.
Rumors about his movie involving Rey Skywalker in some capability have been floating round for some time, with current stories from the trades giving them some credibility, however the reality is we do not actually know what he and Tropper are cooking. For all we all know, the powers that be at Lucasfilm might be creating a number of post-sequel-trilogy tasks in parallel to see which of them maintain essentially the most promise — throwing huge doo-doo on the wall to see what sticks, if you’ll.
James Mangold’s ‘Jedi origins’ film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: James Mangold
It is secure to say that the fifth Indiana Jones movie was divisive, however Disney and Lucasfilm clearly loved working with James Mangold on the mission as he’s been given the keys to Star Wars to work on a prequel. His film, additionally introduced throughout Celebration 2023, has been described as a “biblical epic” by the filmmaker himself. How far again are we going? Roughly 25,000 years if the plans don’t change. That may be a lot, sure, even earlier than the Outdated Republic days.
The pitch is straightforward: “The place did the Drive come from, when did we uncover it, when did we learn to use it?” Positive, Darkish Horse Comics’ Dawn of the Jedi collection already explored such concepts, however the present canon’s previous is a clean slate, so anticipate all-new ideas to be delivered to the desk.
This mission feels like essentially the most daring one which’s at present within the works, whereas additionally being the almost certainly to enter manufacturing quickly. It seems to be like recruiting veteran Andor scribe Beau Willimon to co-write the recent script was a transfer in the appropriate route.
Donald Glover’s Lando film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Unknown
Initially introduced as a restricted collection for Disney Plus with Expensive White Folks’s Justin Simien hooked up, this spinoff mission went silent for some time, then returned to life when it was revealed that younger Lando Calrissian actor Donald Glover and his brother Stephen were reworking it as a movie.
A couple of 12 months later, all indicators level to the mission nonetheless being alive, simply not a precedence one for Lucasfilm for the time being. Donald Glover is a really busy artist. It’s more likely to be on the lighter side of Star Wars, and we’re excited to see the place it goes, nevertheless it faces a frightening query; What tales are there left to inform for Lando?
Taika Waititi’s film
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Taika Waititi
There was a time when Taika Waititi was Hollywood’s hottest director. After Thor: Ragnarok, one of many greatest Marvel films of all time, the filmmaker was swarmed with affords to direct large blockbusters. Past the divisive fourth Thor entry, he is been specializing in smaller tasks and serving to develop many TV reveals. His subsequent film, Klara and the Sun, is now in post-production, however what’s subsequent for him? Properly, we’re questioning about that Star Wars film of his that was announced in 2020.
Waititi delivered a unbelievable piece of Star Wars in The Mandalorian’s season 1 finale (and in addition performed murderer droid IG-11), but many cinephiles and Star Wars followers have began to wonder if he is the appropriate decide to craft a whole film after his final two flicks felt so-so at greatest. Whereas it is nonetheless in improvement according to THR’s recent report and Waititi commented in 2023 that he’d “actually wish to get proper,” we predict this is without doubt one of the few which may slip into improvement hell, particularly as we have heard nothing about potential plot particulars and even the setting.
Rogue Squadron
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins is one other filmmaker that gave the impression to be all over the place a number of years in the past, however has since hit a number of bumps within the highway. In late 2020, Disney and Lucasfilm had been very dedicated to getting Star Wars again to cinemas by December 2023, and people plans even included a behind-the-scenes teaser for a Rogue Squadron film that also hasn’t occurred.
It might be lifeless within the water, however each THR and different sources have just lately said the studio nonetheless needs to make it, even when it has been moved to the again burner. As for the period, rumors pointed to it being a post-episode IX story as an alternative of yet one more story set throughout the reign of the Empire.
Earlier this 12 months, Jenkins confirmed she was back actively working on Rogue Squadron after shifting her consideration in direction of Surprise Girl 3 and Cleopatra, two tasks which have since gone silent (although Cleopatra would possibly nonetheless get made with another person). She’s said up to now she “at all times needed to make a fighter pilot film,” and after Top Gun: Maverick’s massive success in 2022, Disney and Lucasfilm can be foolish to not proceed to iterate on a script till the film is able to go, whether or not it is with Jenkins or one other lead.
Rian Johnson’s trilogy
- Launch date: Unknown
- Director: Rian Johnson
Forward of The Final Jedi’s launch in December 2017, Lucasfilm introduced that Rian Johnson would put together an entirely new trilogy after the second installment of the sequels. Everyone knows what occurred amongst followers later, however the actuality is that The Final Jedi was (and nonetheless is) celebrated by most critics and earned over $1.3 billion worldwide with its theatrical launch alone.
Even a lot of those that profoundly hated The Final Jedi because the eighth episode of the Skywalker Saga need to admit that Johnson may provide you with a fairly fascinating story that is not beholden to a pre-existing collection, whereas those that celebrated the film proceed to really feel that nothing made beneath Disney has fairly matched these inventive swings (moreover perhaps Andor). Whereas Kathleen Kennedy admitted in 2023 that the trilogy was indefinitely on maintain as a result of writer-director’s Knives Out commitments, evidently all events concerned still want to get together again… sooner or later.
