New Star Wars movies and Disney Plus shows explained, plus known release dates
TechRadar breaks down all of the new Star Wars movies and shows that are in development
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It’s a busy time for Lucasfilm’s iconic galaxy far, far away. Indeed, with so many newStar Warsmovies andDisney Plusshows in development at the acclaimed studio, your head might be a tailspin over when each production will officially debut.
You won’t be as confused as you were by the time you reach the end of this guide, though. Below, we’ve rounded up the latestintelon every forthcoming Star Wars series and film, including any known release dates, cast details, story teases, trailers, and the creative minds behind each project. Once they’re all out, our guide onhow to watch the Star Wars movies in orderwill be twice as big as it once was – but hey, that’s our problem to deal with, not yours.
Anyway, enough stalling: this is the new Star Wars movies and TV shows article you’ve been looking for, so read on to learn everything about each production, Padawan.
New Star Wars projects: the full list
Here’s a complete list of every Star Wars film and TV series that are currently at various stages of their development, plus any known project titles and months/dates we know:
New Star Wars TV shows
Young Jedi Adventures season 2
Release date:August 14Confirmed cast:Jecobi Swain, Emma Berman, Juliet Donenfeld, Dee Bradley Baker, Nasim Pedrad, Trey Murphy, Piotr Michael, and Gunnar Sizemore
Prepare to hit those hyperdrive engines, kids, because the second season ofStar Wars: Young Jedi Adventuresis gearing up to entertain you and your families this month. For those unfamiliar with the animated show: it’s set 200 years beforeEpisode I: The Phantom Menace, and follows Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs as they get to grips with using the Force, traversing the galaxy, and helping anyone in need.
Per a Disney press release, season 2 “follows the younglings as they continue their training and embark on even bigger missions across the galaxy. 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…”.
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Skeleton Crew
Here’s your first look at the upcoming Star Wars Original series, #SkeletonCrew, streaming December 3 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/QkMxeE8Kn8July 31, 2024
Release date:December 3Confirmed cast:Jude Law, Kerry Condon, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Robert Timothy Smith, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Tunde Adebimpe, and Jaleel White
Despite being yet another show set inThe Mandalorian’s increasingly crowded sector of the timeline,Star Wars: Skeleton Crewwill have a very different mission briefing to its predecessors. Jon Watts, director of the three MCU-setSpider-Manmovies, reportedly pitched the show asThe Gooniesin space.
Disney say it’ll focus on a group of kids – named Wim, KB, Neel, and Fern (perPeople magazine) – trying to find their way home after making a mysterious discovery. Luckily for them, they won’t be making their journey across a dangerous galaxy alone – Jude Law is coming along for the ride as their protector Jod Na Nawood (again, via People).
Revealed on July 31 alongside some first-look images and the cast’s identities,Skeleton Crew’s release date was confirmed to be December 3. It’s possible we’ll finally get a trailer at D23 Expo 2024 in mid-August, too. It should be a good series, though our expectations are tempered somewhat becausewe still believeSkeleton Crewhas a lot of convincing to do, not least because some of its Disney Plus brethren have underwhelmed us.
Andor season 2
Release date:expected 2025Confirmed cast:Diego Luna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, and Ben Mendelsohn
Arguably the most critically acclaimed of Star Wars' Disney Plus shows,Andor’s ambitious and morally complex first season showed us a darker, grittier side to a galaxy far, far away. Creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy will return to continue the story of Cassian Andor, Mon Mothma and the early days of the Rebel Alliance, withAndorseason 2’s 12 episodes unfolding over a four-year span that leads right up to the events ofRogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Luna and O’Reilly are back as Andor and Mothma alongside fellow returnees Skarsgård (Luthen Rael), Gough (Dedra Meero), Soller (Syril Karn) and Arjona (Bix Caleen). Ben Mendolsehn, who played Orson Krennic in Rogue One,has also reportedly been confirmed as one of season 2’s returning Star Wars villains.
Filming began in November 2022, but principal photography didn’t wrap until early 2024 due to last year’s Hollywood strikes, which heavily impacted its development. As such,Andorseason 2 was removed from Disney’s 2024 release schedule, but its cast have recently suggested that an early 2025 launch is in the offing. LikeSkeleton Crew, we hope to learn more about its return at D23 Expo.
Ahsoka season 2
Release date:TBCConfirmed cast:Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Hayden Christensen, and Ivanna Sakhno
Ahsokaseason 2 is in the early stages of development at Lucasfilm. Speaking on theHappy Sad Confused podcast, Star Wars' recently installed new Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni confirmed its scripts are being written, so it’ll be a while before the show’s sophomore season debuts on Disney Plus, aka one of the world’sbest streaming services.
Unsurprisingly, little else is known about its plot, but we have some ideas of where it could go, based onhowStar Wars: Ahsokaseason 1 ended. One thing we do know is that Baylan Skoll, the mysterious Force wielder who was played with such gravitas by the late Ray Stevenson, may not return following the actor’s passing in late 2023. He could be recast, but we’d be surprised if Lucasfilm go down that road.
New Star Wars movies
The Mandalorian & Grogu
Release date:2026 (TBC)Confirmed cast:Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver
Baby Yoda is coming to movie theaters! That’s right, a new Star Wars movie titledThe Mandalorian & Groguis on the way.The Mandalorian & Groguwas surprisingly announced in Januaryand it seems as though it’ll beThe Mandalorianseason 4in all but name – i.e. picking up the story of Din Djarin and his apprentice, the little green guy formerly known as Baby Yoda afterThe Mandalorianseason 3.Deadlineclaims, though, that season 4 is also still in development.
The Mandaloriancreator, lead writer, and showrunner Jon Favreau will direct the new movie. Per Star Wars X/Twitter fan accountMakingStarWars, multiple sets are being built ahead of a late 2024 filming start date. That practically confirms our report thatThe Mandalorian & Groguwon’t launch in theaters until 2026– but hey, at least we know Grogu and Pascal’s Djarin will be joined by some sci-fi royalty in the film, withAlienmovie icon Sigourney Weaver being tapped for an undisclosed role.
The Mandalorian/Ahsoka team-up movie
Release date:TBC
The overlapping stories ofThe Mandalorian,The Book of Boba Fett,Ahsokaand (presumably)Skeleton Creware all set to come together in a cinematic event that’ll focus on the “escalating war between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic” as it reaches a climax. Dave Filoni,Ahsokashowrunner and long-time protector ofStar Warslore, is lined up to direct.
“I hesitate to say it’s a big meet-up from just [The Mandalorian, Ahsoka,The Book of Boba FettandSkeleton Crew], because Dave has been developing Star Wars storytelling insideClone WarsandRebelsand so much of the work he has done for 20 years,” Kathleen Kennedy toldEW. “So it will be little bits of all that. There are a lot of sources he’s drawing from to see where we’re going.”
It appears, however, that Filoni is playing his Sabacc cards close to his chest when it comes to who’ll show up in the big screen ensemble – so close, in fact, that not even his stars know if they’ll be called into action. “When I heard they were doing the movie at [Star Wars:] Celebration in London, I was like, ‘Maybe one day I’ll find out whether I’m a part of that!'”Ahsokastar Natasha Liu Bordizzo told SFX magazine (viaGamesRadar). “This is one of those times when I can so happily tell you I have no idea what’s going on with that. I’m happy not to, because that way I don’t have to lie to you!”
The Jedi origins movie
Release date:TBC
The Acolyte took placearound a century beforeThe Phantom Menacebut that’s nothing compared to this Jedi origin story. In fact, at the risk of coming over a bitStar Trek, this prequel flick is boldly going where no Star Wars movie has gone before.
James Mangold is the filmmaker lined up to take the franchise back a few millennia to whatStarWars.comdescribes as the “Dawn of the Jedi”. The official summary says the film “will take audiences deep into the past, telling the tale of the first Jedi to wield the Force and harness it as a liberating power in an era of chaos and oppression”. According toTHR, Beau Willimon is penning the script
“I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story,” Mangold explained toiO9. “What I told [Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy] was, can we make a kind of Ten Commandments of the Force, a kind of origin story of how this Force came to be known, understood, wielded and harnessed.”
Understandably, little else is known about this one. However, Simon Emmanuel, who worked alongside Mangold onIndiana Jones 5, seemed to accidentally reveal its title (unless it’s a working title) to SFX magazine (thanks toRedditfor the catch):Jedi Prime.
Rey’s New Jedi Order movie
Release date:TBCConfirmed cast:Daisy Ridley
The first release to expand theStar Warschronology beyondThe Rise of Skywalker, this movie reunites us with Rey roughly 15 years afterStar Wars Episode IX, in the recently ordained ‘New Jedi Order’ era. Ridley will return as Rey, as she rebuilds the Jedi Order, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Saving Face,Ms Marvel) is signed up to direct, and Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) is writing the screenplay. In April, Knight toldNMEthat things are “going well” on the script front. Per Star Wars fansiteThe Bespin Bulletin, filming isn’t expected to start this year.
“We’re coming off what was a major war with the First Order,” Kathleen Kennedy toldGamesRadar. “And now, Rey has made a promise to Luke, and that’s really the core of where we’re going and what this story will be. And I think it offers just a tremendous opportunity to introduce new characters and start with something fresh, because we culminated with what George [Lucas] was creating, and now we take all of that and move it to the next chapter.”
In January, Ridley toldAlloCiné(viaDeadline): “I think it’s a really fantastic exploration of the Star Wars world. It’s a really cool way of taking the story on in a bit of a different direction”. Speaking toTHRin May, Ridley expressed her interest in seeing Rey reunite with John Boyega’s Finn – comments that came less than a year after Boyegaexclusively told TechRadar he’d be “open” to reprising that role.
Lando
Release date:TBCConfirmed cast:Donald Glover
The one and only Lando Calrissian had been set to front his own TV series, withDear White Peoplecreator andHaunted Mansiondirector Justin Simien attached to write the show, and Glover reportedly keen to return to a role he first played in 2018’sSolo: A Star Wars Story.Things went rather quiet until, surprisingly, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy toldIGNat Star Wars Celebration 2023 that “[Lando’s] still happening.”
It’s since gained significant momentum. Simien has left the project (perEW) and Glover is now writing it with his brother (and frequent collaborator) Stephen.
Calrissian’s unexpected shift to the big screen was confirmed by Stephen Glover during his September appearance on thePablo Torre Finds Out podcast, noting: “It’s not even a show… The idea right now is to do a movie. Right now, because of the [Hollywood writers/actors] strike, it’s kind of like telephone, all of the information.“Varietyhas since confirmed the project’s transfer to theaters through its contacts at Lucasfilm.
Other Star Wars movies in the works
Yoda once said: “Always in motion is the future” – and the diminutive Jedi Master could’ve been talking about the Star Wars movie slate since the release of 2019’sThe Rise of Skywalker.Several projects been released and/or canceled since the franchise made its last visit to theaters, but, three high profile movies remain in the pipeline.
Rogue Squadron,the pilot-focused movie that was pulled from its original December 2023 slot (perVariety), is seemingly still in the works. Kennedy toldIGNat Star Wars Celebration in April 2023 that thisTop Gunin space blockbuster “definitely is something that we still talk about. Whether it’s a movie, or whether it ends up being in the [TV] series space, that’s definitely something.” Meanwhile,Wonder Womandirector Patty Jenkins, who was thought to have departed the project, revealed in March that she’sworking on a new draft of theRogue Squadronmovie.
Meanwhile,Thor: RagnarokandThor: Love and Thunderdirector Taika Waititi (who’s also directed, and starred in, episodes ofThe Mandalorian) continues to orbit a Star Warsmovie of his own. “Taika is still working away,” Kennedy toldVariety. “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”. Updating fans on how things were progressing last November, Waititi teased his film will aim to “capture that joy and the entertainment of those early ones [Star Wars movies].”
Lastly, Shawn Levy, who’s been involved in hugely successful projects likeStranger ThingsandDeadpool and Wolverine, is also still slowly developing his Star Wars flick; Levy confirming as much toDeadline. He’s since also confirmed that Jonathan Tropper, who worked with Levy on Netflix’s The Adam Project film, is penning its screenplay (viaOn Demand Entertainment).
For more Star Wars coverage, see which productions in its extensive back catalog made it onto ourbest Disney Plus moviesandbest Disney Plus showsguides.
Richard is a freelance journalist specialising in movies and TV, primarily of the sci-fi and fantasy variety. An early encounter with a certain galaxy far, far away started a lifelong love affair with outer space, and these days Richard’s happiest geeking out about Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel and other long-running pop culture franchises. In a previous life he was editor of legendary sci-fi and fantasy magazine SFX, where he got to interview many of the biggest names in the business – though he’ll always have a soft spot for Jeff Goldblum who (somewhat bizarrely) thought Richard’s name was Winter.
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