Production Weekly lists this film as Star Wars: New Jedi Order and says it’ll start filming in April. They also shared a synopsis that says the film will be about Rey training a boy and a girl and that the girl has extraordinary abilities and “is destined to become the future leader.”
Release date just announced as 12/15/2026.
The new schedule is a movie for May 2026, a movie for December 2026, and a movie for December 2027. But we don’t know which movie is which yet.
Dave Filoni’s new Star Wars movie will feature a mash-up of different sources and characters
Get ready for an Avengers-style meetup on the big screen.
https://ew.com/movies/star-wars-movie-dave-filoni-jon-favreau-interview - with a 3 minute video of both talking about the film
“We’re in the right area code,” Filoni says. “We are definitely in the right space. I think it’s going to be a clamoring of characters saying, ‘How do I get in this picture?’ And that’s what Jon and I have been figuring out.”
“I think for a long time, as I’ve learned to work in this galaxy, it’s a long play,” Filoni says. “And if things go right, you get to do more of your story. Things I think have broken in a good way for us, and people have enjoyed the characters that we’ve been making. So certain opportunities came up the further we went along.”
“When I was younger, we didn’t have movies, but there were comic books, there were novels, things that are encompassed in the [expanded universe] or Legends,” Favreau says. “Clearly, there are decisions that have to be made to fit it all together, but for us, I think one thing we’re in agreement about is that the characters — as special as they are — the story has to drive what characters are.”
“We joke that it’s like we’re playing with action figures, like, ‘What’s in the box? Let’s play with what’s in the box!’ And that’s what you do when you’re playing and you’re a kid.”
Uh. I have a bad feeling about this. More use and twisting of the EU, for which they’ll be happy to take the credit, without actually crediting the original creatives. And more “it’s like we’re playing with action figures”, something repeated when they explained what they were doing for seasons 2 and 3 of the Mandalorian.
I hope I’m wrong, I hope it is a hit. With a good story, emotional weight and payoffs, all done with quality and a little bit of magic. Something more akin to Manadalorian season 1, and not later Mandalorians or Book of Boba Fett. Maybe we’ll get more insight for this with the Ahsoka series.
You can definitely tell that all of The Mandalorian so far, for better or worse, has just been them “playing with action figures.” At least they’re self-aware, I guess… And yeah, they’ve pretty much confirmed my suspicion that this new film will be the SW knockoff version of Infinity War. We’ll see how that goes…
Kinda surprised the season finale got such mixed reception tbh. I thought they did a good job taking classic Star Wars movie tropes and remixing them in a fresh way.
So I decided to end my Star Wars “hiatus” and binged thru the rest of bad batch season 2 and all of Mando season 3 this weekend. Both were good, but not perfect.
I finally binged thru the second half of Bad Batch Season 2 and all I can say is WOW! Why is the animation side of Star Wars always so much better than the live action side?
Yeah I checked out ages ago. Didn’t finish bad batch season 2 and didn’t even bother with Mando season 3. Sounds like I didn’t miss much…
Not sure if this has been discussed here yet but right now LFL is hoping to have the Rey movie ready for 2025 and the Filoni movie for 2026 and the Mangold movie for some time later (after he finishes his Bob Dylan movie):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-wars-lucasfilm-rey-movie-mangold-filoni-1235371547/Just to clarify, we don’t have any indication whatsoever right now as to when Filoni’s film will get made. 2026 was only listed in the context of the original plan circa late 2019.
Disney was going to alternate Avatar sequels and Star Wars movies on Christmas of odd and even numbered years respectively starting with Avatar 2 in 2021, but then the pandemic pushed everything back a year and Lucasfilm didn’t get anything ready for the big screen quickly enough.
2026 will be a crowded year for Disney as it is, with Avengers: Secret Wars in May and Avatar 4 at the end of the year. That doesn’t mean they can’t put out something some other time of the year, but I don’t know why they wouldn’t just wait lest they get a repeat of Solo.
Cameron already said that Avatar 4&5 might get delayed, and reports are saying that the MCU is about to enter a “slowdown” phase. I think we’re about to see a major reshuffling of the whole Disney schedule tbh.
Not sure if this has been discussed here yet but right now LFL is hoping to have the Rey movie ready for 2025 and the Filoni movie for 2026 and the Mangold movie for some time later (after he finishes his Bob Dylan movie):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-wars-lucasfilm-rey-movie-mangold-filoni-1235371547/
If they’re smart, they’ll do it essentially like a soft reboot, in that all the questions fans have about Palpy, the Force Dyad, Rey’s power-level, etc will be secondary to basic facts and there will be no expectation that you need to have seen the Numbered Episodes recently to follow the story. Basic facts would be:
- Rey is seeking to establish a New Jedi Order
- After the events of the last few movies (and please, don’t watch them again because I’m sure Disney would like to sweep TROS under the rug), there is no dominant political power in the galaxy
…that’s it, I thinkAnd then, if they’re smart, they’ll never make another Numbered Episode again
I agree that the best way to go would be to make this one feel as standalone-ish as possible, in that you don’t really need to see what comes before or after to get what’s going on here. Then again, I feel that way about almost everything.
It’s nice to see Star Wars finally getting a “creation myth.”
Glad this is getting renewed! Hopefully they branch out a bit.
I like Ridley. Glad she’s back. I still think there’s interesting things they can do with the character of Rey.
As interesting as these new movies sound to me, I’m still not sure if I’m gonna go see them. When it comes to Star Wars, I like to try to be as neutral as possible, but I’ve realized recently that the only way to really be neutral on something is just to not watch it at all.
I’d say I’m equally intrigued by all three of these.
Sneider was on Rocha’s show again just now and clarified that Knight’s script will basically be a full-blown rewrite. He claims LFL wasn’t happy with Lindelof’s draft. He also reiterated that three new films will be announced at Celebration. He also said that LFL was told to only focus on star wars from now on.
What do I think of the PT, you ask?
Used to be underrated and now it’s overrated.
Lindelof’s replacement announced:
Apparently the plan is still to reveal info about the movie at Celebration.
If true, then I don’t know who will be crying over Lindlelof being taken off a SW product.
Yeah I don’t even care anymore, at this point. This is all just funny now.
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1623777434796716032?s=20&t=-G5dzHX4O8NK-wABrQWW6w
Watch out Rebels, a new contender for creepiest-looking Yoda portrayal has emerged!
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures premiering on Disney+ and Disney Junior May 4.
The blue teddy bear with the wittle fangs is cute tho!
PT: Nute Gunray, I guess. Just because he’s basically the main villain of TPM and gets a lot of screentime and he just sucks, and not even in a fun way.
OT: I hate to say this, but if I had to choose, it’d be Chewie in Empire. Just cause his roaring starts to grate on you by the end of the movie.
ST: Maz Kanata. She’s supposed to be this venerable, wise character, but she never actually says anything of value, as far as I remember.
These are all good points, actually.
I think I might change my PT answer to Padme… Natalie Portman’s acting in RotS specifically was a whole new level of cringe…
The protagonist is the most annoying character in each trilogy.
“Yippie!”
“But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!”
I’ll leave it to someone who bothered to finish the ST to supply an appropriate Rey line.
“I bypassed the compressor!”
In all seriousness, these are my picks:
PT: Mace Windu (SLJ is a good actor, but he cannot pull off stoicism)
OT: The Ewoks (particularly Wickett)
ST: Poe Dameron (he should’ve died in TFA as planned)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...talks-star-wars-future-indie-film-1235315782/
As many speculated, that “hint” from THR the other day was just in that new indie film she has coming out soon. So that’s the end of that.
In the Prequels, we learn that Darth Vader created C3PO.
This doesn’t contradict anything.
It is NOT a continuity error at all.
Nothing in the OT is contradicted by this.
But…
But…
But…
But… like, we learn that Darth Vader created C3PO!!
Surely that disqualifies the Prequels from counting as actual movies, right?
Not if you talk to the dumb zoomers running rampant on Reddit these days…
Luke - medal ceremony outfit (yellow jacket)
Han - ESB blue jacket
Leia - Medal ceremony dress or slave outfit (depending on my mood, if you catch my drift)