The latest news on every Star Wars movie and TV show on Lucasfilm’s slate
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Star Wars continues to evolve as a franchise, but it’s increasingly unclear what kind of direction it’s taking. Multiple movies were delayed or canceled after the mixed response to Rise of Skywalker in 2019 and Solo: A Star Wars Story the year before. Since then, most new Star Wars projects have been TV shows on Disney Plus, ranging from the high highs of Andor to the low lows of The Book of Boba Fett, with plenty of The Mandalorian, The Acolyte, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and others in between.
In 2023, Lucasfilm and Disney outlined some plans for the future of the Star Wars universe, including updating fans on upcoming projects and confirming a few release dates. In 2024, they announced a Mandalorian-led movie and a new movie trilogy written by Star Wars: Rebels co-creator Simon Kinberg.
Here’s a full calendar of upcoming Star Wars releases — what they are, where you’ll be able to watch them, and when they come out. And while you’re in the mood for more Star Wars, you might be tempted to catch up on the whole universe. Here’s the best order to watch existing Star Wars projects.
2024
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Coming to Disney Plus on Dec. 3, 2024
Jon Watts, the director of the MCU Spider-Man trilogy, helms this show starring Jude Law and a group of kids set around the same time as The Mandalorian. Watts has described it as a throwback to ’80s Amblin movies like The Goonies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert directed an episode.
Law will play Jod Na Nawood, a mysterious figure whom the actor describes as “someone who uses quick thinking, charm and conversation to get out of all sorts of scenarios.” He’ll be joined by actors Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Wim, Kyriana Kratter as KB, Robert Timothy Smith as Neel, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Fern, the four kids who find themselves lost in a strange part of the Star Wars galaxy. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will also feature new droid named SM 33, who will be voiced by Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz).
2025
Andor season 2
Coming to Disney Plus in 2025
The best Star Wars property of all time? I think so, and I’m not alone. Andor was a game-changer for Star Wars, and while details are light on the timing and scope of the second season, we know it will be 12 episodes and the end of the show’s run. Season 2 of Andor was originally slated to premiere in summer 2024, but the follow-up to the best Star Wars TV show to date has slipped to 2025.
2026
The Mandalorian & Grogu
Coming to movie theaters on May 22, 2026
The Mandalorian and his fuzzy green friend are headed to the big screen, in a movie directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni. No word on what this means for the future of the show, which does not technically have a season 4 announcement. But production on the film, titled The Mandalorian & Grogu, was reportedly completed in 2024.
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Ahsoka season 2
Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni are also currently developing a second season of Ahsoka, which may lead up to the events of the Mando and Grogu movie. Here’s everything we know about season 2 of Ahsoka so far.
Untitled Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Star Wars movie
This was previously “Damon Lindelof’s Star Wars movie,” but news broke in March 2023 that he was replaced by screenwriter Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke, Serenity). Knight has since left the film, and Lucasfilm is reportedly seeking new writers. Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel) is attached to direct the new Star Wars movie that will be set in a new era called the New Jedi Order. That era will be set more than a decade after the events of Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker.
Actor Daisy Ridley will reprise her role as Rey (uh, “Rey Skywalker”) in the movie, as she tries to rebuild the Jedi Order.
Untitled Dave Filoni Star Wars movie
The force behind much of Star Wars’ televised content, Dave Filoni, will direct a new movie intended to focus on the New Republic, the government body that comes into power in the wake of the Empire’s implosion. Lucasfilm says Filoni’s movie will “close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and other Disney Plus series.” Given how much the third season of The Mandalorian focused on cloning technology and post-Imperial power struggles, Filoni may be looking to fill in lore gaps about the return of Emperor Palpatine and the rise of Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy era.
Untitled James Mangold Star Wars movie
Director James Mangold (Logan, Ford v Ferrari, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) will helm a Star Wars movie set in the distant past — some 25,000 years before the original trilogy Star Wars era — that goes back to the dawn of the Jedi (literally). Mangold’s take on the earliest stages of Star Wars will be “a Biblical epic, like [The] Ten Commandments, about the dawning of the Force,” the director said at Star Wars Celebration 2023.
Mangold will explore questions like “Where did the Force come from, when did we discover it, [and] when did we learn how to use it?” he said.
Untitled Simon Kinberg Star Wars movie trilogy
Writer-producer-director Simon Kinberg is reportedly developing a new trilogy of Star Wars movies, which he will write and produce for Lucasfilm. There are somewhat conflicting reports about when that trilogy will be set; Deadline reported that Kinberg’s Star Wars films “will comprise Episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga,” which is manifestly unclear, while The Hollywood Reporter said the films are “not meant to be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.”
Kinberg has some experience in the Star Wars universe. He co-created and wrote for the animated series Star Wars: Rebels. He’s maybe better known as a writer on the mixed-bag run of X-Men movies, including X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (which he also directed).
Untitled Rian Johnson Star Wars movie trilogy
Rian Johnson, the writer and director of the divisive Star Wars: The Last Jedi, may never get around to that new trilogy of films Lucasfilm promised back in 2017. It’s been more than seven years since Lucasfilm announced Johnson’s trilogy, described as “separate from the episodic Skywalker saga” and starring “new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.”
In recent years, Johnson has instead worked on a different trilogy, focusing on his murder mystery series Knives Out. Last we heard, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Johnson was “unbelievably busy,” and that he and the studio were “not actively involved in anything at the moment.” Kennedy kept hope alive, though, adding, “But he really wants to step back into the space. It’s a big commitment of time, so that’s really on him.”
With Johnson recently signing a two-picture deal with Warner Bros., and Lucasfilm mapping out other plans, the director’s trilogy looks less and less likely to happen as time passes.
Untitled Taika Waititi Star Wars movie
Not much is known about this project, first announced in 2020, besides writer-director Taika Waititi’s involvement. It was not included in the January 2024 announcement of Disney’s upcoming Star Wars slate, and the latest word from Waititi and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is that it’s still being developed, though it doesn’t sound anywhere near close to production. “My thing is I want to take my time with that and get it right,” Waititi told Entertainment Tonight in 2023. “I don’t want to rush this movie.”
Lando
Disney first announced this spinoff show about Lando Calrissian in December 2020, and hasn’t said a word about it since. On the one hand, that means it’s not officially canceled — Disney’s been pretty open about cancelling Star Wars projects recently. On the other hand, there’s been no official confirmation that the show is still happening, or that Donald Glover will return to reprise his role from Solo — but at least we know he’s interested.
Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie
Frequent Ryan Reynolds collaborator Shawn Levy (Free Guy, Deadpool & Wolverine) is making a Star Wars movie. Not much is known about it, other than he hopes it will have a “big heart.” But there are questions of whether it’ll happen; Levy was not included in the January 2024 announcement of Disney’s upcoming Star Wars slate.
But there is movement on the project. In July, Deadline reported that writer Jonathan Tropper, creator of TV shows Banshee and Warrior, was attached to write the untitled Star Wars film. Tropper and Levy previously teamed up on The Adam Project, Netflix’s time-traveling sci-fi movie that starred Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Zoe Saldaña.
