After coming back from the dead in Chapter 9 of The Mandalorian in late October 2020, Boba Fett is now returning in a series of his own that could begin shooting as soon as November 2020. Temuera Morrison will be reprising the titular role alongside Ming-Na Wen‘s Fennec Shand, who was first introduced in season one of The Mandalorian.
The show was teased in the after-credits scene of Chapter 16 of The Mandalorian, where we see Boba killing Bib Fortuna who had taken Jabba The Hutt’s place as Tatooine’s leading crime lord.
On December 21, 2020, it was confirmed by Jon Favreau that the show would indeed be the third The Mandalorian spin-off in development and that it would be eyeing a December 2021 release, only on Disney+. Favreau and Dave Filoni will be returning as producers, alongside Robert Rodriguez who directed Chapter 14 of The Mandalorian which focused heavily on Boba Fett
Roughly a month before the series was due to premiere, alongside the release of a new set of character posters, Lucasfilm confirmed that The Book of Boba Fett will hava a 7-episode season, one short of the 8 episodes release in both seasons of The Mandalorian.
Officially announced in August of 2019, the Disney Plus series will see Ewan McGregor return to the role of the wise Jedi Master first played by Sir Alec Guinness in 1977.
While originally Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the scripts for the series have been penned and that production would begin sometime in 2020, McGregor revealed that production on the show would not begin until 2021. Additionally, the series is reportedly being cut down to 4 episodes from the original plan of 6. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the show will end up having a shorter runtime since it’s possible that the story fits four longer episodes better than six shorter ones.
Deborah Chow, who directed two acclaimed episodes of The Mandalorian, will serve as showrunner for the series which will be set 8 years after the conclusion of Revenge of the Sith. The show is expected to begin production in September of 2021 in southern L.A.
In December 2020 the rumors that Hayden Christensen was to return to the world of Star Wars to play Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader were confirmed at the 2020 Disney Investor Day presentation. As the production start date approached, Indira Varma joined the series in an undisclosed role. In late March 2021, besides the aforementioned Varma, another 9 names were confirmed as being part o the cast, with Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse reprising their roles from the Star Wars Prequels. Rupert Friend was linked with the Grand Inquisitor role in a February 2022 report.
Announced in November 2018 this live-action series, set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and Rogue One, will follow Cassian Andor’s early days as a rebel spy.
After stepping late into production and co-writing Rogue One, Tony Gilroy will return to a Cassian-centered project as both director and writer. Lucasfilm is bringing established writing talent to the show, as shown by the contributions made to the series by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), Stephen Schiff (The Americans), and Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler).
Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk and Genevieve O’Reilly will all reprise their roles from Rogue One, with a number of new faces joining the cast, being Adria Arjona (True Detective; 6 Underground) the latest name to be confirmed.
The loss of a familiar face in K-2SO was compensated by the confirmation that Obi-Wan Kenobi would cameo on the show, with reports coming out that Ahsoka Tano would also make an appearance. It was also announced that Robert Emms (Chernobyl;His Dark Materials) would be making an appearance on the show in an undisclosed role.
On June 10 2021 it was reported, through different sources, that both Ben Mendelsohn and Forest Whitaker would be returning to the Star Wars universe, reprising their Rogue One: A Star Wars Story characters, Orson Krennic and Saw Gerrera respectively.
In late September, Diego Luna himself confirmed that production had wrapped by then, and at Disney’s Q4 Investor’s Call on November 10th, 2021, it was revealed that Andor would stream on Disney Plus sometime between July and September of 2022. This was later confirmed with the release of a Vanity Fair feature in May 2022.
It was during Star Wars Celebration 2022 that it was announced that the show will debut on August 31 2022 with a two-episode premiere.
With the release of its final trailer in early August 2022 it was announced that the show would now be premiering on September 21, three weeks after the previous release date, but that audiences would now be getting a three-episode premiere.
Just weeks ahead of the expected premiere date, it was announced at Lucasfilm’s D23 panel that the show would in fact be released on January 4, 2023, with a two-episode premiere. The entire season will consist of 16 episodes.
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Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Force 99 / The Bad Batch
Following the massive success of the first two seasons, from which two spin-off series (Ahsokaand Rangers of the New Republic) initially emerged, season three of the hit Disney+ show was confirmed and is set to be released in late 2022/early 2023. Pedro Pascal, Giancarlo Esposito are both likely to be returning and given how Chapter 16 ended even Katee Sackhoff might reprise the role of Bo-Katan Kryze.
Besides being listed as an executive producer on the show, director Rick Famuyiwa is set to direct a couple of episodes of season 3, as confirmed by star Carl Weathers in July 2020. Famuyiwa already directed Chapters 2 (‘The Child’), 6 (‘The Prisoner’), and 15 (‘The Believer’).
During the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020, we got confirmation of an Ahsoka Tano series, after the character made her first live-action appearance on Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian. Rosario Dawson will return to play the former Jedi in a series that will be developed by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.
With the possibility of introducing characters such as Ezra Bridger, Grand Admiral Thrawn, or Sabine Wren still on the horizon, the first major addition to the cast is Hayden Christensen, reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker. Whether he will get to play Anakin before or after his turn to the dark side is yet to be confirmed.
Confirming the rumors that the storyline would follow Ahsoka as she met up with Sabine Wren (as seen in the Star Wars Rebels series finale), Natasha Liu Bordizzo was confirmed to be playing the Mandalorian warrior in the series. Besides the potential of being one of the best additions to live-action Star Wars, in line with Ahsoka herself, Sabine’s history also allows her to eventually cross paths with The Mandalorian‘s storyline as she’s closely connected to the Darksaber Din Djarin is seen wielding by the end of season 2.
The series was announced on December 10, 2020, during the Disney Investor Day presentation. As with The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, it will be developed by Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. It will be set during the events of both these series, and a major crossover event is scheduled for when its narratives are brought together down the line.
Following the firing of Gina Carano, the tentative series lead, the show’s future was in limbo, and following a trade report in May 2021, it was learned that five months after its initial announcement the show wasn’t yet in active development. This does mean that it has been canceled, with Lucasfilm perhaps giving themselves a bit more time to figure out what the show will be all about.
Variety reported in April 2020 that a new Star Wars live-action series was in development by Emmy-nominated writer Leslye Headland. Headland will serve as showrunner, producer, and writer on the show.
During the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020, we got confirmation of the title of the show, The Acolyte, and that it will be set during the late High Republic era. This could mean that the events of the series might be set a mere 50 years before The Phantom Menace, making it possible for several characters known to be alive at this time to make an appearance.
Production will be eyeing a February 2022 start, making it a fair assumption to expect a late 2023 release, even if nothing has been officially confirmed on that front. In June 2021 a trade report revealed that writer Matthew Robinson was working on the project as well as the fact that it was eyeing a December 2023 release.
Following the tremendous early reviews that Spider-Man: No Way Home got, the confirmation of a fourth solo outing for Peter Parker in the MCU seemed like a mere formality. Kevin Feige announced it himself, alongside producer Amy Pascal, in an interview released on December 17, 2021, the day the movie was set to premiere in North America.
While Tom Holland has been playing it coy when addressing his eventual return to a (possible) second Spidey-centered trilogy, it’s certainly hard to envision it without him. In early 2023, Feige revealed that the story for the new film had been cracked and writers had begun working on the script. Though no official announcement about the film has come down from Sony, in late 2023 rumors began to swirl that the film would be an Avengers-level project featuring a “street-level Civil War.“
On December 15, 2020, Legends, a new Disney+ streaming series, was announced. Each episode will focus on an individual MCU character, centering on the path they’ve been on throughout the years. This will allow audiences to catch up on their favorite heroes, as their journey in the MCU moves into Phase 4. The first two episodes premiered on January 8, 2021, one week before WandaVisiondebuted.
Episodes
Jan 8, 2021 Wanda Maximoff
Jan 8, 2021 The Vision
Mar 5, 2021 The Falcon
Mar 5, 2021 The Winter Soldier
Mar 12, 2021 Baron Zemo
Mar 12, 2021 Sharon Carter
June 4, 2021 Loki
June 4, 2021 The Tesseract
July 7, 2021, Black Widow
August 4, 2021, Peggy Carter
August 4, 2021, The Avengers Initiative
August 4, 2021, The Ravagers
September 1, 2021, The Ten Rings
November 12, 2021, Hawkeye
April 29, 2022, Doctor Strange
April 29, 2022, Wong
April 29, 2022, Scarlet Witch
July 1, 2022, Thor
July 1, 2022, Jane Foster
July 1, 2022, Valkyrie
August 10, 2022, Bruce Banner
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