Star Wars stories. Little did they know just how right they were.
Thanks to the runaway success of
The Mandalorian, the studio is doubling down on its Lucasfilm content on screens both big and small. Right now, however, the Mouse House is putting most of its effort (and money) into expanding its slate of Disney+ originals set in the famous galaxy far, far away.
The
Star Wars universe is growing faster than ever and will soon be easier to access than ever as well. Here are all the
Star Wars movies and television series coming to Disney+ and theaters. In addition, we ll also be listing all the galactic programming you can currently access on the platform.
2021 is the beginning of a new era of the Star Wars universe literally. Lucasfilm has assembled a crack team of writers and artists to carve out The High Republic, a time centuries before the Skywalker family started wrecking galactic politics.
There are going to be High Republic books, comics, and even a live-action Disney Plus series. And among our first glimpses of this new frontier of Star Wars storytelling is coming straight from Marvel Comics’
Star Wars: The High Republic. Written by Cavan Scott and drawn by Ario Anindito, the comic is all about the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy butting heads against a huge disaster.
Star Wars: The High Republic is the bold new transmedia initiative from Lucasfilm that takes
Star Wars hundreds of years into the past. Set a couple of centuries before the events of
The Phantom Menace, The High Republic shows us a Republic and Jedi Order at the height of their power. The Republic is expanding its reach into the Outer Rim with the Starlight Beacon, a sort of Watchtower for the Jedi Order to keep their eye on the furthest fringes of the known galaxy.
Each of the initial novels deal with a catastrophe in hyperspace, a cataclysmic event that sets the Republic and the Jedi against the Nihil, a mysterious group with even more mysterious motives. And each of those books,
The penultimate episode of
The Mandalorian‘s second season brought about several exciting and interesting aspects as Din Djarin and his allies tried to discover Grogu’s location. Much of this was due to the return of Bill Burr as the mercenary and ex-Imperial Mayfeld as director Rick Famuyiwa explored the parallels between Din and Mayfeld, their belief structure and one of the central tenets to the
Star Wars franchise: redemption.
One thing that has been great about the second season is the various characters and teams Din has met along way. It’s been a nice change of pace as opposed to last season where it was mostly just him and Grogu travelling the Outer Rim with a new partner in nearly every episode. While this season has still followed that format, the characters have felt or been familiar (especially if you’ve followed other
Get ready for the floodgates to open. During its Investors Day, Disney announced that it is planning to release a ton of new shows over the next couple of years, including 10 new
Star Wars projects.
The Mandalorian‘s ongoing second season, and announced some new concurrent spinoff shows:
The Rangers of the New Republic and
Ahsoka. The next “chapter” will debut on Christmas 2021.
Both shows will jump off from
The Mandalorian, something that Bob Iger had hinted at a while back. We’ve seen some elements of those projects embedded during this current season of
The Mandalorian, the efforts of the New Republic to maintain some order throughout the Galaxy and Outer Rim, and of course Ahsoka Tano (played by Rosario Dawson), who appeared in the episode “The Jedi” a couple of weeks ago and appears to be on a mission of her own hunting down Grand Admiral Thrawn. According to Kennedy, the shows will “intersect with future stories and culminate into a climactic story eve