It doesn’t sound to me like it’s an OOT announcement at this point, but it also doesn’t seem like Force For Change would be a huge 40th anniversary announcement either. If memory serves, all the fanfare it got for TFA consisted of a few youtube videos of JJ standing in front of sets and props.
Ultimately this it’s just a bunch of corporate bs. Disney is going to cross promote something they own (Star Wars) on their very own network (ABC).
If the announcement tomorrow and the “surprises” later this week at celebration turn out to be nothing, can we all agree it was rather dickish of them to lead us on like this? They know damn well what we want and it’s the 40th Anniversary. This isn’t some trivial issue. The fans have been yelling about it rather loudly for well over a decade now.
They should at the very least address the issue. Is that so much to ask?