Go to the cinema to see a movie of Star Wars It is an event that every fan of the saga wants to experience, even though sometimes the result seen on the screen does not meet their expectations.
At the time of writing this article, Lucasfilm has not released any feature film in the franchise for five years: the last one was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. No release is expected until 2026.
But the wait is not due to a lack of announcements, since a lot have been produced in these five years that could well have become a movie—or several—.
However, there is a distance from saying to doing, and all parties that make decisions in Lucasfilm manage to agree on something and, in the process, congratulate directors or scriptwriters, it is a utopian scenario that rarely occurs since George Lucas sold the company to disney in 2012.
Many projects have been announced Star Wars in the last half decade, but many have ended up on the fridge or are in a strange limbo from which it seems they will not emerge anytime soon.
Today, at HobbyCine, we review what projects Star Wars are still going on, which have been canceled and which are in no man’s land.
The Force did not accompany these films and series
Possibly one of the most popular cancellations of Star Wars It’s the trilogy they were going to work on. DB Weiss and David Benioffthe creators of Game of Thrones. The project was announced before the final season of the HBO series aired, and generated quite a bit of hype.
But the end of Game of Thrones It sowed discord among fans, who were quick to “take up the torches” and start tremendous protests on social networks.
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The project, however, was shelved for “creative differences“, which is the standard Hollywood response to not having to say anything. Weiss and Benioff jumped on Netflix and began developing the series. The 3 body problem.
Another who was going to take charge of a film Star Wars was Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios. It was the boom time of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after Avengers: Endgame hit the box office sky. But the franchise is not going through its best moments and Feige did well to focus on it, so his film went on the shelf.
He took that same path Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republicthe live action series that he was going to star in Gina Carano as Cara Dune. His dismissal from Lucasfilm and The Mandalorian cut short the future of the series.
The “neither yes nor no” projects of Star Wars
We enter the realm of mysteries, since there are several projects of Star Wars whose development is an enigma, both for good and for bad.
We start with Rogue Squadrona film that was announced with great fanfare under the direction of Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), who abandoned the project for “creative differences“, but when he was left without his other great franchise, DC, he claims to have returned to work on the film.
Another project of this club is the trilogy of Ryan Johnson which was announced before the director released Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. It’s been stated that the project is still in development, but he’s just accepting other commitments, so it doesn’t appear to be high on the priority list.
He plays in that same league Taika Waititi with his movie Star Wars of which only one thing is known: “is in itLike Johnson, Waititi has plenty of commitments, but he’s said to have gotten back on track with this saga film after the 2023 writers’ strike.
Coming soon to theaters… if all goes well
The remaining projects are still active and are quite varied. The most notable for its surprising announcement and for its direct and continuing relationship with the star Star Wars series, The Mandalorian & Groguwill arrive in 2026 from Jon Favreau.
Presumably, that same year it is expected Star Wars: New Jedi Orderthe movie of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with Daisy Ridley back in the role of King fifteen years after Palpatine’s defeat.
Another prominent project is the event film he is working on. Dave Filoni and that will culminate the stories that have begun in The Mandalorian, The Boba Fett book, Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew.
James Mangold (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) also has a saga project in hand, but it will go back 25,000 years to the origins of the Jedi Order in Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, also called Jedi Prime in Lucasfilm.
Finally, the announced series of Landau has gone through many stages, including being converted into a film, currently being written by Donald and Stephen Glover.
The status of all these projects is not final, as Lucasfilm has demonstrated in recent years a weather-vane style when it comes to making decisions that can change this entire approach in a matter of days. For now, the situation is this in the future of Star Wars.
