Since Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader blew the box office away in 1977’s A New Hope, Star Wars has expanded over four decades into a multimedia juggernaut. With three film trilogies, TV spin-offs, novels, theme park attractions and a large roster of video games, the galaxy far, far away sometimes feels like it’s never been closer.
Sure, box office flops like Solo: A Star Wars Story indicate the franchise hasn’t always got things right recently. The perk of a multimedia franchise though? There’s always some part keeping the force alive (see The Mandalorian).
Back in 2024, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the studio had “lost focus” and would be pulling back on releasing so much Star Wars and Marvel content after a rush to create shows for Disney+.A number of projects were cancelled following the shake-up while others were retooled. Some just disappeared completely.
More recently, LucasFilms chief Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down from the role, and has been replaced by Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan. Her take on the future of the franchise? “Anything’s a possibility if somebody’s willing to take a risk.”
Here are all the upcoming Star Wars TV and Film projects o the horizon.
What Star Wars TV shows are in development?
Here’s a breakdown
- Maul: Shadow Lord (2026)
- Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi Series (2026)
- Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 (In Development)
- The Mandalorian season 4 (Unknown)
- The Book Of Boba Fett season 2 (Unknown)
Maul: Shadow Lord takes place after the final series of The Clone Wars and sees the former Sith lord once again up to no good. “After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire,” reads a brief synopsis.
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi Series is the first of several limited series’ to be released under the Visions Presents banner. The Ninth Jedi is a spinoff from the animated Star Wars: Visions TV show and continues the story of short films The Ninth Jedi and Child Of Hope.
Ahsoka acted as a spin-off from The Mandalorian, but was also a sequel to the celebrated Clone Wars animated series. After catching up with a lot of familiar faces, season one ended with Grand Admiral Thrawn returning from exile to fill the gap left by the destruction of The Empire, so Ahsoka will have a lot to deal with when the show returns. The second season was confirmed at the start of 2024 and filming began April 2025 but a release date is yet to be announced.
A fourth season of The Mandalorian was written while the third was in post-production, but the future of the show is now up in the air following the announcement that Din Djarin and Baby Yoda will first be returning in big screen adventure The Mandalorian And Grogu. The movie is due for release in 2026.
The Book Of Boba Fett was met with mixed reviews, with the show mostly being used to set up the events of The Mandalorian season three. There’s been no official word on a second season, but it seems the characters will at least be involved in the upcoming Mando-verse film.
What Star Wars films are in development?
A trio of films was confirmed in 2024 as well as a new trillgy
- The Mandalorian & Grogu (May 22, 2026)
- Star Wars: Starfighter (May 28, 2027)
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s new Jedi order movie (In Development)
- Untitled Mando-Verse movie (In Development)
- James Mangold’s Dawn Of The Jedi movie (On hold)
- Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie (On hold)
- Simon Kinberg’s new Star Wars trilogy (In Development)
- Lando (Unknown)
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Unknown)
- Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy (Unknown)
- The Hunt For Ben Solo (Cancelled)
Following the events of season three of The Mandalorian, it was confirmed at the start of 2024 that Baby Yoda and Din Djarin would be making the jump to cinemas with The Mandalorian & Grogu. Production is due to start in August 2024 ahead of a 2026 release date. “I have loved telling stories set in the rich world that George Lucas created,” said director Jon Favreau. “The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the big screen is extremely exciting.”
At 2025’s Star Wars Celebration event, Shawn Levy’s long-rumoured project was finally unveiled. Starfighter will feature Ryan Gosling and is set five years after the events of 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker. However Levy has described it as a “standalone” film rather than a sequel. “It’s a new adventure. It’s set in a period of time that we haven’t seen explored yet.”
Gosling added: “The reality is that this script is just so good. It has such a great story with great and original characters. It’s filled with so much heart and adventure, and there just really is not a more perfect filmmaker for this particular story than Shawn.” It has also been reported that Anora Oscar-winner Mikey Madison passed on a supporting role in the film.
During 2023’s Stars Wars Celebration event, Kathleen Kennedy announced a trio of live-action Star Wars films. Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny director James Mangold will create a film that goes back to the dawn of the Jedi, while Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film will be set after the events of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, as Daisy Ridley’s Rey sets out to builds a new Jedi Order.
Rounding out this trio of films, Dave Filoni will direct a movie that close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book Of Boba Fett, Ahsoka and more.
“As you can see by all the television we’ve been doing, we’re exploring a lot of different storylines. This really spawns from what George Lucas said years ago, that he created Star Wars to move forward and backward along a mythological timeline,” Kennedy said at the time. “Now we’re looking to broaden that timeline, building a rich future, expanding upon the present, going deep into the past to tell our stories, and we’re thrilled to be working with some of the best and most passionate filmmakers on projects that will span the past, the present, and the future.”
The Daisy Ridley-starring film was due for release December 2026, with another Star Wars film set to follow in 2027 but that 2026 movie has now been removed from Disney’s upcoming list of releases and been replaced by Ice Age 6. No new release date has been confirmed yet.
During her exit interview as Star Wars boss, Kennedy confirmed that James Mangold wrote “an incredible script” that “breaks the mold” but the project is currently on hold.
Another new trilogy is also reportedly in the works, from X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg. Not much is known about the project but according to rumours, it’ll be set after the events of 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker. Despite Kennedy stepping down, Kinberg’s new triology is still going ahead.
Taika Waititi has been talking an untitled Star Wars project for a number of years now. Kathleen Kennedy previously stated it would be released in 2023, but obviously that didn’t happen. Speaking to TheWrap in June 2022, Waititi said he’s “still trying to figure out what the story is”.
The following year, he said in an interview with EW that he was still developing the project alongside Lucasfilms. “Like me, they have a lot of projects going on. I think they’re gonna push it until I finish these other projects. I’ve got about four other scripts that I’m trying to finish. My thing is I want to take my time with that and get it right. I don’t want to rush this movie.” Kennedy recently confirmed the project is “somewhat alive” and she’s read a script that’s “hilarious and great”.
A TV series for Lando Calrissian, originally played by Billy Dee Williams and later by Donald Glover in Solo: A Star Wars Story, was also announced back in 2020 from director and writer Justin Simien (Dear White People). Since then, Donald and Stephen Glover have replaced Simien on the project, which is now being developed as a feature film. There hasn’t been much in the way of updates but it’s another project that is “somewhat alive” and Kennedy has seen a finished script.
Rogue Squadron, set to be directed by Patty Jenkins, was originally supposed to be the first Star Wars film following 2019’s Rise Of Skywalker. However, it was taken off Disney’s release schedules in September 2022 after it was put on hold the following year to allow Jenkins time to focus on Wonder Woman 3. After that project was cancelled though, Jenkins returned to Rogue Squadron. Speaking to the Talking Pictures Podcast in 2024, she confirmed she was currently working on a script. “We’ll see what happens,” she added. “We need to get it to where we’re both super happy with it.”
Following the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017, Lucasfilm announced director Rian Johnson would lead a new trilogy of films with a “blank canvas”. Seven years later, the films have yet to materialise.
In 2023, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed she was talking with Johnson “all the time” but they weren’t “actively involved” in anything, due to his busy schedule with Knives Out. “He really wants to step back into the space. It’s a big commitment of time, so that’s really on him.” It echoes what Johnson said in a 2023 interview, adding that he “hopes” we will see the trilogy at some point.
“Once he made the Netflix deal and went off to start doing the Knives Out films, that has occupied a huge amount of his time,” Kennedy said in early 2026. “And then I do believe he got spooked by the online negativity. I think Rian made one of the best Star Wars movies. He’s a brilliant filmmaker and he got spooked.” However Johnson has denied that he got spooked.
In late 2025, Adam Driver made headlines after revealing in an interview that he and director Steven Soderbergh had written and pitched a new film in the Star Wars Universe, titled The Hunt For Ben Solo. The story would have brought his character Ben Solo, aka Kylo Ren, back from the dead.
Driver called it “one of the coolest scripts” he had ever been a part of and while Lucasfilm were excited about the project, executives at parent company Disney turned it down. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that” he explained. However fans have demanded those execs change their minds.
What Star Wars projects have been cancelled?
The force wasn’t strong with these
Star Wars: Rangers Of The New Republic, a spin-off from The Mandalorian, has seemingly been cancelled. While there hasn’t been any confirmation, Kennedy told Empire Magazine (via IGN) that ideas from that show were being used in future episodes of The Mandalorian. “We’d never written any scripts or anything on that,” Kennedy said, adding that “some of that will figure into future episodes, I’m sure, of the next iteration of The Mandalorian.”
A key project that has been cancelled is the Star Wars films from Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who walked away from their deal with Lucasfilm back in 2019 to commit to planned Netflix projects.
J.D Dillard and Matt Owens were also working on a Star Wars film, reportedly set on the Sith planet Exegol but after Shawn Levy’s project was confirmed, the pair announced their movie was “unfortunately no longer a thing”. Late in 2023, MCU head Kevin Feige announced his Star Wars film was also no longer going ahead after it was first confirmed in 2019.