Premiere: TBD
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Tag: Star Wars
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Rogue Squadron
Premiere: TBD
One of the biggest surprises of the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020, was the official announcement that Patty Jenkins would direct a Star Wars feature film, becoming the first-ever woman to do so. The story will focus on a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy. Later on, writer Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying) joined the project.
In November of 2021, it was revealed that Rogue Squadron would be delayed indefinitely to accommodate Jenkins’ schedule. In early 2022, following the announcement of Disney’s upcoming cinematic release schedule, which goes as further as 2028, Rogue Squadron is seen still eyeing a release on December 22, 2023.
As of September 2022, Rogue Squadron was officially taken off the Star Wars movie release schedule. In 2023, Kennedy stated that the film was still “on the books” and implied that the studio was taking its time because they wanted it “to be great.“
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Untitled Taika Waititi ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Premiere: TBD
While nothing official has been revealed about the project, a Star Wars film written and directed by Taika Waititi has been in development since May of 2020. Lucasfilm had three dates put aside for Star Wars theatrical releases with Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron taking the 2023 slot. With Taika’s project being the only other referred to at the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020, it’ was once thought that his feature might be the one released in 2025.
In an interview with Total Film in May 2022, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the upcoming Taika Waititi-directed film is currently slated to be the next theatrical release for the Star Wars franchise. Lucasfilm is now aiming to have the film released in late 2023, but Kennedy made note that nothing was officially locked in during the interview. The film was originally expected to begin production in 2023 but was pushed back as Waititi continued to work on the script and focus on his next project, Klara and the Sun.
Taika is still working away. He’s writing the script himself. He doesn’t really want to bring others into that process and I don’t blame him. He has a very, very unique voice. So we want to protect that and that’s what he’s doing. But we’re going to make that one day.
-Kathleen Kennedy on Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film, May 2023In May 2023, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy gave an update on the project and there was some hope that production might start in 2024.
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Untitled 2027 ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Premiere: December 17, 2027
While nothing official has been revealed about the film, it is believed that director Shawn Levy‘s film will begin filming in late 2025 and be the next film to follow The Mandalorian and Grogu into theaters.
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Untitled J.D. Dillard ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Premiere: TBD
Variety reported that Lucasfilm was developing a new Star Wars film with director J.D. Dillard (Sleight) and writer Matt Owens (Luke Cage)
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Untitled Kevin Feige ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Premiere: TBD
In September of 2019, Marvel Studios One-Above-All, Kevin Feige, struck a deal with Lucasfilm to develop a yet-untitled film set in the Star Wars universe. Little is known about the project, said by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to be “a ways off” yet, but Feige has teased that he already has a high-profile actor in mind for a key role in the film.
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‘The Book of Boba Fett’
Premiere: December 29, 2021
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 around the time filming was reported to have wrapped, in early June 2021, rumors came out that the bounty hunter Bossk would be making an appearance on the show. Something that, given its subject matter, wouldn’t really be surprising.
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.
Cast
- Tamuera Morrison as Boba Fett
- Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand
- Jennifer Beals in an unknown role
Promotional Material
- Nov 1, 2021 Official Trailer
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‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
Premiere: May 27, 2022
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.
Late into August 2020 it was confirmed by Corey and Noah over at the Kessel Run Transmissions that Hayden Christensen is indeed returning to the Star Wars universe to play Anakin Skywalker, as well as a few plot points from the show.
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.
In early October 2021, it was rumored that the show would be eyeing a May 2022 release. This was later confirmed as Lucasfilm announced the series would start streaming on May 25, 2022, exactly 45 years after the theatrical premiere of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. This was later changed as the series will now be debuting on May 27 with a two-episode premiere.
Following the release of the series’ teaser trailer, young Luke Skywalker was confirmed to be making an appearance, played by Grant Freely.
Both the writers and the composer for the show were also announced ahead of its release, with Marvel Studios’ Loki’s Natalie Hold becoming the first woman composer for a live-action Star Wars project.
Cast
- Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi / Ben Kenobi
- Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker
- Joel Edgerton as Owen Lars
- Bonnie Piesse as Beru Lars
- Moses Ingram as Reva Sevander / The Third Sister
- Indira Varma as Tia
- Kumail Nanjiani as Haja Estree
- Rupert Friend as The Grand Inquisitor
- O’Shea Jackson Jr. in an unknown role
- Sung Kang as The Fifth Brother
- Simone Kessell in an unknown role
- Benny Safdie in Nari
- Grant Freely as Luke Skywalker
- Vivien Lyra Blair as Leia Organa
- Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa
- Simone Kessell as Breha Organa
- Tamuera Morrison as a Veteran Clone Trooper
- Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
Promotional Material
- Mar 9, 2022 Teaser Trailer
- May 4, 2022 Official Trailer
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‘Andor’ (season 1)
Premiere: September 21, 2022
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.
Production is eyeing a November 2020 start, a full three years after the show was initially announced. On September 22, 2020, Tony Gilroy stepped aside as director, being replaced by Toby Haynes (Black Mirror). Later on, in early February 2021, directors Ben Caron and Susanna White were also attached to the show.
During the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020, we got confirmation of a 2022 premiere, as well as some a first sizzle reel. Alan Tudyk was later confirmed to not be appearing in the show as K-2SO. There might be the chance this changes down the line if Cassian ends up being a multiple-season show.
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.
According to creator Tony Gilroy, the 12 episodes that make up season one will be divided into blocks of three, with each block representing a year in Cassian’s life. Following the two seasons of the show (8 blocks representing 8 years) the action will reach the events of Rogue One.
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.
Cast
- Diego Luna as Cassian Andor
- Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano
- Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi / Ben Kenobi*
- Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic*
- Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera
- Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma
- Stellan Skarsgård as Luthen
- Denise Gough as Dedra Meero
- Kyle Soller as Syril Karn
- Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen
- Fiona Shaw as Maarva
(* indicates RUMORED additions to the cast)
Promotional Material
- Dec 10, 2020 Sizzle Reel
- May 26, 2022 Teaser Trailer
- August 1, 2022 Official Trailer
- September 10, 2022 Official Trailer
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‘The Bad Batch’ (season 2)
Premiere: January 4, 2023
On August 5, 2021, prior to the two-part finale of season one, it was announced that the series would return for a second season.
Footage released at Star Wars Celebration in May 2022, and later released online, gave fans their first look at season 2, with the confirmation that the season would premiere on September 28, 2022, coming just a few days after through a Disney+ banner.
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.
Cast
- Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Force 99 / The Bad Batch
Promotional Material
- May 29, 2022 Official Trailer
