Patty Jenkins Will Direct a ‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron’ Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Star Wars Visions,
Star Wars: Lando, and
Star Wars stuff right there. But Lucasfilm isn’t abandoning the
Star Wars movie franchise either. At Disney’s Investor Day they confirmed that Taika Waititi is writing a new
Star Wars movie right now. And they also revealed a previously unannounced project: A
Star Wars film from Patty Jenkins called
Shortly after Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy announced the news, Patty Jenkins posted a video to her Twitter account where he described why she wanted to take on the project. “I love to move fast,” she explained. “I grew up the daughter of a great fighter pilot, and every day I would wake up and go outside and look up and see my father and his squadron taking off in their F-4s roaring across the sky, and it was the most thrilling thing still I’ve experienced in my entire life.”
First Official Star Wars Anime Announced
Star Wars, with the franchise announcing that its first anime adaptation was currently in the works with
Star Wars Visions that will release on Disney s popular streaming service of Disney+! Joining the likes of several new animated series and live-action shows alike, Visions will be bringing together a number of Japanese creators to create an anthology based in the universe that made the Jedi and the Empire household names since the original films were released decades ago.
On top of
Star Wars Visions, new series were announced for
Obi-Wan, Ashoka, Lando, Rangers of the New Republican, and more, proving that Disney is truly trying to expand the universe of
What If…?, and a rumored show about
Samuel L. Jackson‘s Nick Fury. The Pixar, live-action, and animated movies are harder to guess at, but there have been plenty of rumors about new
Star Wars shows. The most likely plan is to spin a bunch of characters from
The Mandalorian off into their own shows. Then there’s the already-announced
Obi-Wan Kenobi series, and the
Rogue One prequel focused on
Diego Luna‘s Cassian Andor.
In short: if you want more
Star Wars, more Marvel, and more Pixar stuff directly on your TV, you’re going to get it in the months, and years, to come.
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