Here’s every ‘Star Wars’ TV series and film in the works
Since Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader blew the box office away in 1977’s A New Hope, Star Wars has expanded over four decades into a multimedia juggernaut. With three film trilogies, TV spin-offs, novels, theme park attractions and a large roster of video games, the galaxy far, far away sometimes feels like it’s never been closer.
Sure, box office flops like Solo: A Star Wars Story indicate the franchise hasn’t always got things right recently. The perk of a multimedia franchise though? There’s always some part keeping the force alive (see The Mandalorian).
However, Disney CEO Bob Iger recently confirmed the studio had “lost focus” and would be pulling back on releasing so much Star Wars and Marvel content after a rush to create content for Disney+. It means a number of projects have been cancelled, others have been retooled and others still have a big question mark over their immediate future. Here are all the upcoming Star Wars TV and Film projects on the horizon.
What Star Wars TV shows are in development?
Here’s a breakdown
- Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Season 2 (August 2024)
- Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy (September 2024)
- Star Wars Skeleton Crew TV Series (2024)
- Star Wars: Andor season 2 (2025)
- Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 (In Development)
- The Mandalorian season 4 (Unknown)
- The Book Of Boba Fett season 2 (Unknown)
Young Jedi Adventures is an animated series that first aired on Disney Junior in 2023. The show, set in the High Republic era, follows a group of younglings studying the ways of the force. “Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Season 2 follows the younglings as they continue their training and embark on even bigger missions across the galaxy,” reads a synopsis. “Helping to lead the younglings on these missions is Master Zia’s new Padawan, Wes Vinik, and his astromech RO-M1. As they continue their training and grow in the ways of the Force, the young Jedi will travel to new planets with new and old friends and encounter adversaries like The Ganguls, who are growing in their pirate ranks…”
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy is basically the Stars Wars version of Marvel’s What If…?, just with added Lego. The four-part mini-series will premiere in September 2024. “After finding an ancient relic that can rewrite reality at will, a boy named Sig Greebling seeks out the solution to the changes with the help of an elusive Jedi.”
Created by director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is also set to finally launch in the near future. The show, which takes place in the post-Empire New Republic era, follows a group of younglings who find themselves adrift in space. A first look at Jude Law from the series was revealed during Disney’s D23 Expo, where he appears to be a mentor character.
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Acting as a prequel to Rogue One, the first season of Andor followed thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he becomes radicalised against the Galactic Empire, with the origins of the wider Rebel Alliance also being explored. The second and final season will continue this journey, with the show now looking at a 2025 release date following delays due to the Writer’s Strike.
Ahsoka acted as a spin-off from The Mandalorian, but was also a sequel to the celebrated Clone Wars animated series. After catching up with a lot of familiar faces, season one ended with Grand Admiral Thrawn returning from exile to fill the gap left by the destruction of The Empire, so Ahsoka will have a lot to deal with when the show returns. The second season was confirmed at the start of 2024, but a release date is yet to be announced.
A fourth season of The Mandalorian was written while the third was in post-production, but the future of the show is now up in the air following the announcement that Din Djarin and Baby Yoda will first be returning in big screen adventure The Mandalorian And Grogu. The movie is due for release in 2026.
The Book Of Boba Fett was met with mixed reviews, with the show mostly being used to set up the events of The Mandalorian season three. There’s been no official word on a second season, but it seems the characters will at least be involved in the upcoming Mando-verse film.
What Star Wars films are in development?
A trio of films was confirmed in 2024
- The Mandalorian & Grogu (May 22, 2026)
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s new Jedi order movie (Dec 18, 2026)
- Untitled Mando-Verse movie (In Development)
- James Mangold’s dawn of the Jedi movie (In Development)
- Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie (In Development)
- Lando (Unknown)
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Unknown)
- Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy (Unknown)
- Shawn Levy’s Star Wars film (Unknown)
Following the events of season three of The Mandalorian, it was confirmed at the start of 2024 that Baby Yoda and Din Djarin would be making the jump to cinemas with The Mandalorian & Grogu. Production is due to start in August 2024 ahead of a 2026 release date. “I have loved telling stories set in the rich world that George Lucas created,” said director Jon Favreau. “The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the big screen is extremely exciting.”
During 2023’s Stars Wars Celebration event, Kathleen Kennedy announced a trio of live-action Star Wars films. Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny director James Mangold will create a film that goes back to the dawn of the Jedi, while Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film will be set after the events of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, as Daisy Ridley’s Rey sets out to builds a new Jedi Order.
Rounding out this trio of films, Dave Filoni will direct a movie that close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka and more.
“As you can see by all the television we’ve been doing, we’re exploring a lot of different storylines. This really spawns from what George Lucas said years ago, that he created Star Wars to move forward and backward along a mythological timeline,” Kennedy said at the time. “Now we’re looking to broaden that timeline, building a rich future, expanding upon the present, going deep into the past to tell our stories, and we’re thrilled to be working with some of the best and most passionate filmmakers on projects that will span the past, the present, and the future.”
The Daisy Ridley-starring film will release December 2026, with another Star Wars film set to follow in 2027.
Taika Waititi has been talking an untitled Star Wars project for a number of years now. Kathleen Kennedy previously stated it would be released in 2023, but obviously that didn’t happen. Speaking to TheWrap in June 2022, Waititi said he’s “still trying to figure out what the story is”.
The following year, he said in an interview with EW that he was still developing the project alongside Lucasfilms. “Like me, they have a lot of projects going on. I think they’re gonna push it until I finish these other projects. I’ve got about four other scripts that I’m trying to finish. My thing is I want to take my time with that and get it right. I don’t want to rush this movie.”
A TV series for Lando Calrissian, originally played by Billy Dee Williams and later by Donald Glover in Solo: A Star Wars Story, was also announced back in 2020 from director and writer Justin Simien (Dear White People). Since then, Donald and Stephen Glover have replaced Simien on the project, which is now being developed as a feature film. No further details have been announced.
Rogue Squadron, set to be directed by Patty Jenkins, was originally supposed to be the first Star Wars film following 2019’s Rise Of Skywalker. However, it was taken off Disney’s release schedules in September 2022 after it was put on hold the following year to allow Jenkins time to focus on Wonder Woman 3. After that project was cancelled though, Jenkins returned to Rogue Squadron. Speaking to the Talking Pictures Podcast in 2024, she confirmed she was currently working on a script. “We’ll see what happens,” she added. “We need to get it to where we’re both super happy with it.”
Following the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017, Lucasfilm announced director Rian Johnson would lead a new trilogy of films with a “blank canvas”. Seven years later, the films have yet to materialise.
Most recently, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed she was talking with Johnson “all the time” but they weren’t “actively involved” in anything, due to his busy schedule with Knives Out. “He really wants to step back into the space. It’s a big commitment of time, so that’s really on him.” It echoes what Johnson said in a 2023 interview, adding that he “hopes” we will see the trilogy at some point.
In 2022, Shawn Levy confirmed he would be working on a Star Wars film after Deadpool 3. In 2024, The Adam Project’s Jonathan Tropper was brought on to write the script but no further details have been shared.
What Star Wars projects have been cancelled?
The force wasn’t strong with these
Star Wars: Rangers Of The New Republic, a spin-off from The Mandalorian, has seemingly been cancelled. While there hasn’t been any confirmation, Kennedy told Empire Magazine (via IGN) that ideas from that show were being used in future episodes of The Mandalorian. “We’d never written any scripts or anything on that,” Kennedy said, adding that “some of that will figure into future episodes, I’m sure, of the next iteration of The Mandalorian.”
A key project that has been cancelled is the Star Wars films from Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who walked away from their deal with Lucasfilm back in 2019 to commit to planned Netflix projects.
J.D Dillard and Matt Owens were also working on a Star Wars film, reportedly set on the Sith planet Exegol but after Shawn Levy’s project was confirmed, the pair announced their movie was “unfortunately no longer a thing”. Late in 2023, MCU head Kevin Feige announced his Star Wars film was also no longer going ahead after it was first confirmed in 2019.
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