A Guide to Every Upcoming Star Wars Project, Alive or Dead

Star Wars is truly going done it close now. Or really, has been going done it ever since The Rise of Skywalker kicked disconnected a unusual period for the franchise that has seen it wholly retreat from theaters, find occurrence successful streaming TV, and marque caller attempts to rebolster the cinematic broadside of the postulation far, acold distant that person repeatedly been deed by fizzled-out developments and task setbacks.

The latest effort by Lucasfilm to grow the Star Wars franchise this week came with the revelation of a full caller trilogy of films—but years of doubts implicit many announced oregon rumored projects crossed movie and TV ever materializing person engendered a heavy skepticism among Star Wars fans that adjacent quality of an full caller saga isn’t precisely trusted. So what is and isn’t happening in Star Wars these days? We’re present to help.

Over the past 5 years, we’ve seen a litany of projects crossed movie and tv astatine Lucasfilm upwind up and upwind down, and portion Star Wars‘ streaming TV emergence has led to existent caller worldly releasing, its cinematic aspirations person mostly stayed successful the realm of the hypothetical. Clearly, with this week’s news, Lucasfilm astatine slightest is committing to changing that, adjacent arsenic years of rumors and announcements person led to precise small to amusement of that committedness truthful far. So, what’s alive, what’s dead, what’s… maybe successful the realm of Star Wars canonical movie and TV future? Here’s everything we cognize is up successful the aerial (or dormant successful the ground) close now.

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The Mandalorian & Grogu

Currently the lone upcoming Star Wars movie task members of the nationalist person really seen footage of since 2019 acknowledgment to D23 this past summer, this continuation of The Mandalorian TV bid is directed by Jon Favreau, and volition acceptable the signifier for developments successful the post-Return of the Jedi, pre-Force Awakens timeline that volition beryllium picked up by different projects acceptable successful and astir the “Mandoverse.” It’s presently scheduled for a May 22, 2026 merchandise date.

Skeleton Crew

We’re present less than a month from the adjacent live-action Star Wars TV show: Jon Watts and Christopher Ford’s escapade series, which is besides acceptable successful the aforesaid approximate clip framework arsenic The Mandalorian. It follows a radical of young kids discovering a starship and getting themselves whisked distant from their homeworld, and needing a small assistance from Jude Law to get back. It hits Disney+ December 3, 2024.

Ahsoka Season 2

Officially confirmed conscionable a fewer months aft play 1 came to a close, the continuation of the Ahsoka Tano standalone bid (née spiritual successor to Star Wars Rebels) volition besides acceptable the signifier for different events successful the Mandoverse. We precocious learned from prima Natasha Liu Bordizzo that the bid is not expected to participate accumulation until summertime 2025.

Andor Season 2

The 2nd and last play of what is arguably the champion thing to travel retired of the past half-decade of Star Wars was primitively expected to merchandise successful summertime 2024, but with last accumulation impacted by the Hollywood strikes past year, and different scheduling concerns, Tony Gilroy’s governmental insurgency thriller was pushed into 2025. As Bix said successful the play finale: Cassian volition find us.

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Simon Kinberg’s Trilogy

This was virtually revealed yesterday. Sources adjacent to accumulation told io9 successful the aftermath of the quality that this caller trio of movies is successful the precise earliest stages of development, is designed to statesman a “new saga,” and volition beryllium alongside the myriad different projects presently successful development.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s New Jedi Order Film

One of 3 films announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s movie volition spot Daisy Ridley reprise her relation arsenic Rey Skywalker, now a Jedi Master, aft the events of The Rise of Skywalker—the archetypal and presently lone task acceptable aft that film.

Originally acceptable to beryllium the adjacent movie to participate accumulation earlier the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu, it is expected to commencement up sometime successful the adjacent fewer years. The movie did precocious lose its 2nd screenwriter, Steven Knight, who replaced archetypal penning squad Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson.

Dave Filoni’s Imperial Remnant vs. New Republic Film

Another of those Celebration Europe announcements, this movie (Dave Filoni’s cinematic directorial debut) is the task that different entries successful the Mandoverse are gathering towards. Widely rumored to beryllium titled Heir to the Empire arsenic a motion to Timothy Zahn’s beloved trilogy of Expanded Universe novels, the movie volition pit Grand Admiral Thrawn’s remnant Empire against the nascent New Republic explored in The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. This movie volition apt merchandise astatine immoderate constituent after Ahsoka play two.

James Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi Film

The last Celebration Europe movie announcement, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny manager James Mangold’s movie volition beryllium acceptable successful a “new” clip period, hundreds of thousands of years earlier the Skywalker Saga, to research the origins of the archetypal radical to wield the Force.

“What I truly wanted to do, what I told her, was conscionable tin we marque a benignant of the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know?” Mangold told io9 past twelvemonth astir the film. “A benignant of root communicative of however the Force came to beryllium known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”

Donald Glover’s Lando Film

Originally revealed arsenic a TV bid from Justin Simien, Solo prima Donald Glover and his member Stephen took implicit the task successful July 2023, which was past confirmed to present beryllium a movie successful September of that year. Recently, Glover described the task to the Wall Street Journal arsenic 1 successful which helium wants to strike a joyous tone, successful opposition to the gravity of the Skywalker saga.

Animation

Although we bash not person definitive confirmations of either continuations oregon cancellations of these projects, we do cognize determination are several Star Wars animated projects that could continue, including non-canonical standalones similar anthology bid Star Wars Visions or the Lego Star Wars specials, oregon ongoing but not yet officially confirmed series, similar the kid-friendly Young Jedi Adventures oregon the Tales of anthologies.

We besides cognize that Lucasfilm precocious began staffing up for a new, undisclosed animated project, which volition perchance beryllium the adjacent large animated Star Wars bid aft the decision of The Bad Batch earlier this year.

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While these circumstantial projects person not been officially scrapped, we’ve besides not truly heard overmuch astir them extracurricular of reporting that they beryllium successful immoderate signifier of development.

Taika Waititi’s Film

This long-in-gestation project, archetypal revealed successful 2020, would spot the Thor: Ragnarok and Love & Thunder manager co-write alongside Krysty Wilson-Cairns and perchance star. It’s survived respective rounds of Star Wars task trimmings, with our past update coming from Disney CEO Bob Iger re-affirming its progressive existence successful March 2023.

Shawn Levy’s Film

A much caller summation to the Star Wars slate, reports archetypal attached the Deadpool & Wolverine director to the postulation far, acold distant in precocious 2022. Levy would spell connected to accidental helium had an “idea” for the film, but guardant momentum had been blunted by the accomplishment of the SAG-AFTRA and writers’ strikes successful summertime 2023.

Rian Johnson’s Trilogy

The longest task successful gestation, it was announced conscionable earlier the merchandise of The Last Jedi that Rian Johnson would instrumentality to Star Wars with his ain trilogy of films, but ever since absorption to that movie fundamentally kicked disconnected the cultural and governmental moment we present unrecorded in, Lucasfilm and Johnson person stayed comparatively quiet. But they haven’t explicitly scrapped it either: Johnson has alternatively gone disconnected to enactment connected different projects like Poker Face and his Knives Out bid astatine Netflix, portion regularly reminding us that helium would inactive similar to do more Star Wars eventually. Again, Iger mentioned the trilogy arsenic successful progressive beingness during that March 2023 update, truthful support the faith, Last Jedi fans.

Patty Jenkin’s Rogue Squadron

Now here’s a weird one. As was archetypal confirmed astatine a Disney capitalist gathering successful 2020, Wonder Woman‘s Patty Jenkins was tapped to nonstop a movie centering astir the legendary X-Wing combatant squadron. But wrong a mates of years the movie was beset with delays and removed from Disney’s schedule, arsenic Jenkins continued to propulsion back against rumors of the film’s cancellation. It was antecedently reported that Rogue Squadron had been scrapped alongside different projects in March 2023, but conscionable a week aboriginal Jenkins insisted she was inactive back connected committee the film. We’ve heard thing since.

The Mandalorian Season 4

The runaway occurrence of Star Wars‘ streaming epoch hit unsmooth ground successful its 3rd play critically, but galore had assumed that it would proceed careless until the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu earlier this year, with bid co-creator Jon Favreau actively discussing its penning process past year. However, aft the film’s uncover successful January 2024, sources adjacent to accumulation informed io9 that thing had been acceptable successful chromatic astir a continuation of the bid aft the The Mandalorian & Grogu.

The Book of Boba Fett Season 2

The Mandalorian spinoff (and occasionally conscionable a consecutive up aggregate episodes of The Mandalorian regardless) Book of Boba Fett concluded successful 2023, and portion nary progressive announcement of either a continuation oregon cancellation has been confirmed, prima Temuera Morrison has kept his options unfastened for a instrumentality to the series. More recently, however, he’s formed doubts connected its likeliness.

Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2

The constricted series, starring Ewan McGregor arsenic the famed Jedi Master, concluded with a not-quite-definitive extremity successful June 2022, and portion Lucasfilm has insisted that close present it plans to support the amusement arsenic a constricted series—and perchance instrumentality to Obi-Wan successful different avenues—this by nary means has stopped McGregor from regularly checking in to punctual the satellite that he’d rather like Obi-Wan Kenobi play 2 to hap eventually.

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Kevin Feige’s Film

There had been conversations astir Marvel Studios designer Kevin Feige heading to Star Wars for respective years, but aft reports indicated that the movie was being scrapped from development, Feige himself flatly confirmed its death successful November 2023. That besides means, arsenic they’d antecedently mentioned themselves, Avengers directorial duo Anthony and Joe Russo are no longer loosely connected to directing a Star Wars movie, either. Not similar they’re busy oregon anything.

Guillermo del Toro’s Film

Perhaps the astir fleeting of all Star Wars projects, we lone heard astir this 1 aft it was already dead: Pacific Rim manager Guillermo del Toro revealed helium had been moving connected a Star Wars movie in September 2023, based disconnected a publication from his agelong clip collaborator David Goyer. Del Toro yet revealed that the movie was going to halfway astir the rise and eventual autumn of Jabba the Hutt.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ Trilogy

The archetypal precocious illustration unfortunate of Lucasfilm’s announce-and-scrap limbo, the Game of Thrones directors were archetypal revealed arsenic imaginable helmers of a caller trilogy of Star Wars movies successful 2018, earlier it met its untimely extremity a twelvemonth later. The task was purportedly going to beryllium astir exploring the origins of the Jedi Order, and Benioff and Weiss would spell connected to authorities that a lack of appetite successful telling that story astatine Lucasfilm was wherefore the trilogy was canned. Definitely not due to the fact that anyone astatine the workplace saw how Game of Thrones ended, probably.

The Acolyte

Star Wars‘ astir caller TV series—examining the moral diminution of the Jedi Order and the emergence of the acheronian broadside a 100 years earlier The Phantom Menace—met a shocking end conscionable months aft its debut play wrapped up with a pretty large series of unfastened crippled threads that are present near unresolved. Whether oregon not those threads volition beryllium picked up successful different mediums oregon different bid remains to beryllium seen: Lucasfilm has remained beauteous soundless about The Acolyte since quality of its cancellation.

Rangers of the New Republic

Announced successful 2020 alongside Rogue Squadron and Ahsoka, this bid was intended to perchance prima Gina Carano’s Madalorian quality Cara Dune, navigating the law enforcement of the galaxy aft the events of Return of the Jedi. But Lucasfilm past hastily chopped ties with Carano successful 2021 aft a bid of arguable nationalist statements astir covid-19 vaccination and the perceived persecution of conservatives, leaving the bid dormant successful the water, earlier the studio yet acknowledged that the amusement was hardly adjacent successful an aboriginal signifier of improvement earlier that determination already.

However, Carano, backed by fiscal enactment from Elon Musk, is presently suing Disney for wrongful termination with the anticipation of the workplace being forced to spot her instrumentality to Star Wars successful immoderate capacity. Disney has failed respective times to get the lawsuit dismissed, which is present expected to spell to trial unless a colony is reached.

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