Star Wars Movie Release Dates & Disney+ TV Release Dates
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“
Star Wars
! Nothing but
Star Wars
!
Give me those
Star Wars
! Don’t let them end…” Just as
Bill Murray said it in 1978,
we’re still saying it today.
Star Wars
is
everywhere these days
, with multiple movies and
TV shows
in the works from Disney and Lucasfilm. This article will give you the most up-to-date
Star Wars
release dates
so you know exactly when every new
Star Wars
movie or
Disney+ show
will arrive.
What are the next three movies? What TV shows are coming up? Have any TV shows or movies been canceled? We’ve got you covered.
This post was last updated on 5/11/2023.
What’s the next
Star Wars
movie?
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io9/Germain Lussier
Sharmeen Obaid-Chioy’s New Jedi Order Film Film
Release Date: TBD, but December 19, 2025 or December 17, 2027 (In Theaters)
At
Star Wars
Celebration 2023 in London,
Lucasfilm announced that three
Star Wars
movies are now in the works.
-
James Mangold
(Indiana Jones 5)
will direct a film 25,000 years before any known
Star Wars
timeline about the first Jedi to use the Force. -
Dave Filoni will direct a film that’s kind of the
Star Wars
Disney+
Avengers
, telling the story of a climactic event meeting the stories of T
he Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka
and more in the time between
Return of the Jedi
and
The Force Awakens.
-
And Sharmeen Obaid-Chioy will direct a film set 15 years after the events of
The Rise of Skywalker
following Rey (Daisy Ridley) as she creates a New Jedi Order.
This last one, we think, is the film that Damon Lindelof
(Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen)
was
co-writing
with Justin Britt-Gibson before departing the project.
Steven Knight is now reportedly writing.
A week after the news of these films first broke, it began to seem like the Rey project by Obaid-Chioy
could be the first one out of the gate
.
Current
Star Wars
Projects
Star Wars Visions
Season 2
Release Date: Out Now On Disney+
(Watch here)
It’s official. On May 4
Star Wars Visions
will return for season two. It’s an international season with episodes coming from the U.S., Japan, Chile, the United Kingdom, France, South Africa, South Korea, India, Ireland, and Spain. Earlier this year, we got a rundown of the animation houses and the episode titles,
which you can read in full at this link
, but they include Aardman (
Wallace and Gromit
), Cartoon Saloon (
The Secret of Kells
), 88 Pictures (
Trollhunters
), Studio Mir (
The Legend of Korra
) and others.
Disney
then released the first trailer
at Star Wars Celebration 2023.
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
Release Date: Out now on Disney+
(Watch here)
As fans wait for more live-action, Lucasfilm gave them this kid-oriented, but still canon show,
set during the era of the High Republic
following a bunch of younglings training to be Jedi. And while Yoda does make an appearance,
it’s all about Nubs.
Upcoming
Star Wars
release dates
These shows and movies have all been officially announced and are in various stages of production, even if we don’t know when they will definitely come out.
Star Wars: Ahsoka
Release Date: August 2023
(On Disney+)
The first full live-action Ahsoka Tano show from co-creator Dave Filoni has finished production and is coming soon. Rosario Dawson is, of course, returning. And
our first look at footage confirmed
that
actress Natasha Liu Bordizzo has been cast as Sabine Wren
; more recently, Eman Esfandi
was confirmed as Ezra Bridger
. At Star Wars Celebration this year we learned Mary Elizabeth Winstead is playing Hera Syndulla, Lars Mikkelsen
is playing Grand Admiral Thrawn
and Wes Chatham
is his right-hand man
.
What does that all mean? Well,
in the first teaser trailer
, you can see she’ll make good on
the
Star Wars Rebels
finale
and go after Thrawn. And what about the fact she knows Luke Skywalker now? And how does
Ray Stevenson’s lightsaber-wielding character
fit in?
Recently,
Filoni told io9 that he’s “very pleased”
with the show and excited for fans to see this sequel to
Rebels
in live-action.
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Lucasfilm
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Release Date: 2023 (On Disney+)
Created by
Spider-Man Homecoming/Far From Home/No Way Home
director Jon Watts along with writer Chris Ford, this mystery Star Wars show is now currently in development. The title for the show was released during the
Star Wars
Celebration
, and was previously internally referred as “Grammar Radio.” Celebration also revealed its headlining star,
Jude Law
.
Set after the events of
Return of the Jedi
,
Skeleton Crew
is described as an adventure in the mold of Amblin adventures of the 1980s. The show will be about seeing the galaxy through the eyes of children (but it is not a kids show), and will follow a group of children who get lost in the galaxy and try to find their way home. Jon Watts explained that the series will take place during the same time period as the upcoming
Ahsoka
series and
The Mandalorian
.
Filming on the series began in 2022 and ended in early 2023. And though not much is know about what happens on the show,
it has been revealed that
The Daniels, the Oscar-winning directors of
Everything Everywhere All At Once
,
directed an episode
. Ditto
David Lowery
, who did the film T
he Green Knight
.
Read more about the show here
.
io9 saw the first footage at
Star Wars
Celebration 2023 and
you can read about it here
. Three of the main stars of the show are played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, and Robert Timothy Smit. Rumors suggest it could debut in November or December 2023.
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Lucasfilm
Star Wars: The Acolyte
Release Date: 2024
(On Disney+)
Russian Doll
co-creator Leslye Headland will be the first person to bring the excellent
High Republi
c timeline into live-action with this show, long
rumored to star Amandla Stenberg
before an actual confirmation
finally arrived at San Diego Comic-Con 2022
—one of few
Star Wars
bits of news to emerge from the convention.
In an
interview in 2022,
Headland revealed the show would be about 100 years before the events of
The Phantom Menace
. “A lot of those characters haven’t even been born yet,” she said. “We’re taking a look at the political and personal and spiritual things that came up in a time period that we don’t know much about. My question when watching
The Phantom Menace
was always like, ‘Well, how did things get to this point?’ How did we get to a point where a Sith lord can infiltrate the Senate and none of the Jedi pick up on it? Like, what went wrong? What are the scenarios that led us to this moment?”
In an
interview released
later, Headland spoke about
her goals for the series
. For Headland, above all else
The Acolyte
is a mystery, and that mystery is figuring out what is going on in this peak period. It was also suggested that
The Acolyte
will bring more elements from the Expanded Universe to canon, but what parts that will be incorporated will remain to be seen.
In September 2022, both
Jodie Turner-Smith
and
Squid Game
’s
Emmy-winning
Lee Jung-Jae
joined the cast, with
an official announcement in November
adding Carrie-Anne Moss, Manny Jacinto, and others to the roster. The first image, which you see above, was released in November and
you can read about the first footage here
, which was shown at Star Wars Celebration 2023.
Andor: Season 2
Release Date: August 2024 (On Disney+)
Season one
of
Tony Gilroy’s
Rogue One
prequel
starring
Diego Luna
showed an excitingly different side of
Star Wars
. Season two will reportedly be
spread across the four years leading up to
Rogue One
, with four episodes covering each year in Cassian Andor’s life until that fateful point. Filming began in late 2022.
At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Gilroy announced the show should be out in August 2024 and showed fans the first footage from the season.
Read about it here.
Plus,
t
he final episodes of the season/series
will take place just days before
Rogue One, leading right into that story.
One minor hiccup though, due to the Writer’s Guild strike, showrunner and head writer Tony Gilroy
left his duties
show in May 2023
. He’s unlikely to return until the Writer’s Strike is over, which could cause a delay.
Star Wars: A Droid Story
Release Date: TBD (On Disney+)
Lucasfilm Animation is teaming up with Industrial Light and Magic for this streaming show that will “introduce us to a new hero, guided by legendary duo R2-D2 and C-3PO.” We don’t know anything beyond that.
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Star Wars: Lando
Release Date: TBD
(On Disney+)
We haven’t heard much on the
Lando
front in a few years, but when it was announced we learned that
Dear White People
creator Justin Simien was developing an “event series” about the character. Not much has been heard since but,
in an April 2023 article
, Donald Glover hinted that he’s still interested and it’s still possible in the works. In
a May 2023 interview
, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed it’s still in the works.
Untitled Taika Waititi
Star Wars
Movie
Release Date: TBD
In May 2020, news broke that Oscar-winning director of
Thor: Ragnarok
would be helming and co-writing along
with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. “Taika’s approach to
Star Wars
will be fresh, unexpected, and … unique,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said. “His enormous talent and sense of humor will ensure that audiences are in for an unforgettable ride.”
There was a time when this was
likely to be the next Star Wars film but,
after Star Wars Celebration 2023
, it seems like it’s now on the back burner. That was confirmed by
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy who said
the Oscar-winner is still
working on the film,
it’s just going
slowly.
In the past,
Waititi has discussed some broad ideas of what he wants to do with his upcoming film. Read those below.
Untitled Dave Filoni
Star Wars
Movie
Release Date: TBD
We mentioned this one above but, at some point, Dave Filoni will be directing a film that is meant to be a climactic event wrapping up stories that have begun on shows he’s involved with such as T
he Mandalorian, Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, Skeleton Crew
and others.
Untitled James Mangold
Star Wars
Movie
Release Date: TBD
This was one of the three films announced at Star Wars Celebration but, like Filoni’s, isn’t likely to be next. This one is set 25,000 years before the original trilogy and tells the story of the first person to use the Force.
We love this idea so much we even wrote about it.
Star Wars
Movies and TV Shows That Are Currently Unscheduled and Haven’t Been Officially Announced, But We Think Are Still Happening
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Lucasfilm
The Mandalorian
Season 4
Release Date: TBD
With
The Mandalorian
Season 3 now in the books
, all eyes look ahead to season 4. However, the season has not yet been officially announced. Unofficially though, series creator Jon Favreau
said he’s already written a fourth season
which he probably wouldn’t have done just for fun. It’s coming. It’s just a matter of when.
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Lucasfilm
The Book of Boba Fett
Season 2
Release Date: TBD
(On Disney+)
The Book of Boba Fett
season one
ended with the implication that we’d see more of these character in the future
. But alas, there has been no official announcement… yet. D
ive into the
making-of season one
while we wait and ponder the words of executive producer Robert Rodriguez
who said he knows when the character is coming back
, but he can’t say when.
Untitled Shawn Levy Movie
Release Date: TBD
Shawn Levy, the
prolific director and producer
behind
Stranger Things, Night at the Museum
, and
Free Guy
is gearing up to develop a film in a galaxy far far away
. He’ll focus on that after completing
Deadpool 3
, which
stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
Star Wars
Movies and TV Shows That Are Currently Unscheduled and Probably NOT Going To Happen
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Lucasfilm
Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic
Originally announced alongside shows like
Obi-Wan Kenobi
, Ahsoka
, and
Andor
,
Rangers of the New Republic
was rumored to be Cara Dune’s show which would tie into
The Mandalorian
and
Book of Boba Fett
. However, with actress Gina Carano no longer a part of
Star Wars
,
word on the street is this will no longer be happening. Nothing is official though.
Untitled Rian Johnson Trilogy
Let’s be honest. Do we think this is happening anymore? Probably not.
Rian Johnson has moved on to other things
. But, until we hear otherwise (and no one is officially saying), we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that before the divisive release of
The Last Jedi
,
Lucasfilm officially said Johnson would make his very own trilogy
. It hasn’t officially been canceled yet but, in a new interview, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy suggested that
it’s been placed on the back burner
as Johnson does other things. With Johnson’s next film,
Glass Onion
, set for release in late 2022 though, he’s
been quoted saying he still hopes these movies happen
. So do we.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
For several years,
Wonder Woman
director Patty Jenkins’ film about pilots in the Star Wars universe has been earmarked as the next film. Well, that’s no longer the case.
After months of rumors suggesting it might move off its 2023 release date
, Disney officially took it off the schedule. On
December 13
2022, Jenkins said the movie is still in “active development”
but recent news suggests it’s dead.
Lucasfilm p
resident
Kathleen Kennedy disagrees, saying in May 2023
it’s still on the books.
Untitled Kevin Feige Movie
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is best known for helping create the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But as much as he loves Marvel, he loves
Star Wars
even more. And so
it was exciting to hear that he was producing a
Star Wars
movie
and even recruited
Loki
and
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
writer
Michael Waldron to help him
. Feige doesn’t like to even acknowledge this project though and
in a 2022 interview
, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy also tiptoed around the project’s existence. Then, a few weeks before Star Wars Celebration 2023,
we learned the project is likely dead.
For more, check out
io9’s list of every canceled (or re-worked) Disney
Star Wars
project
.
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,
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, and
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