Star Wars has liked announcing a lot of movies in the years since The Rise of Skywalker, but us getting to actually see them? Less so. That definitely seems like it’s changing, with the Rey movie set to begin filming this year and now, the announcement of another new movie that will lead the charge: The Mandalorian & Grogu. But what’s still coming?
We already have plenty of questions about what to expect from what is now the next Star Wars movie, but beyond that, there’s still a lot ostensibly in the works across film and TV—in terms of things that we know are likely to happen, and things that are... less so, but ostensibly not cancelled. Here are all the projects we at least have a decent idea are currently important parts of Star Wars’ future, on screens big and small.
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This year will bring us the third and final season of the Clone Wars spinoff following Task Force 99, the former Republic Commando squad of “misfit” enhanced clones, now on the run from the Empire trying to find a place in a galaxy that left them behind.
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The Clone Wars-era anthology series will return for new stories in 2024, although details are sparse on which characters will join the spotlight, after Dooku and Ahsoka were the major protagonists of the first season.
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In the live-action side of things for 2024, we have the first Star Wars Disney+ series based off of the “High Republic” period of transmedia novels and comics. Set in the purported final days of that era—approximately 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace—The Acolyte will follow a former Jedi Padawan as they reunite with their master and uncover a growing darkness that could undo the Jedi Order as they know it.
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This year will see a second live-action Disney+ series debut, in Jon Watt’s Skeleton Crew. Set after the events of Return of the Jedi and starring Jude Law as a mysterious, Force-using figure, Skeleton Crew focuses on a group of kids who find themselves whisked from their lives to go on a galaxy-spanning adventure and find their way back home.
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Just announced as the next Star Wars movie to enter production later this year, The Mandalorian & Grogu will continue the adventures of Din Djarin and his young, former Jedi ward after the events of The Mandalorian season three. The film will be directed by Jon Favreau and executive produced by Dave Filoni and Kathleen Kennedy, but further details are currently under wraps.
Star Wars movies are currently dated for May 22, 2026 and December 18, 2026 in Disney’s release slate, and although those dates are subject to change, The Mandalorian & Grogu will likely occupy one of those slots for now.
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The other film taking one of those slots is likely to be what we, until today, believed was the only Star Wars movie entering production this year. Announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe in 2023, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Star Wars film sees the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker, as she, after the events of the Sequel Trilogy, seeks to build a New Jedi Order.
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This Disney+ release was previously expected in 2024, but is now likely set for 2025 due to the impacts of the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The second and final season of Tony Gilroy’s political resistance thriller will follow Cassian Andor over a period of several years of his life after becoming a Rebel operative at the climax of season one, leading all the way up to the days before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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Also finally confirmed today, after much speculation, Dave Filoni is currently developing a second season of Ahsoka, following Rosario Dawson and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren. Presumably picking up from the climax of season one—which saw Ahsoka and Sabine stranded in a different galaxy as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Ezra Bridger returned home—the season will likely set the stage, for, well...
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Dave Filoni’s debut as a movie director. Long rumored to be titled in the vein of Timothy Zahn’s seminal Expanded Universe novel Heir to the Empire, this film, announced at Celebration Europe in 2023, is expected to tie together plots and characters from across the “Mandoverse” of series, as Thrawn’s forces go up against the New Republic.
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The third film announced at Celebration Europe, directed by Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’s James Mangold, will go back 25,000 years before the events of A New Hope to tell the story of the very first people to wield the Force, and the origins of its vast cosmic power.
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Interestingly Lucasfilm’s announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu made no mention of the TV series that started it all in the first place—neither to note that the show would continue, or that the movie would take the place of a fourth season and potentially bring an end to The Mandalorian entirely. io9 has heard so far that Lucasfilm has no plans set in stone either way about the series’ future.
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Everything before this has been stuff that is currently still the most likely Star Wars material to actually release in the next few years. But there are still projects that Lucasfilm has... well, yet to cancel more than anything else. Here’s a few things that we could potentially still be getting, but if we do at all, they’ll arrive well after anything we’ve previously discussed:
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Source: Gizmodo