The troubled Star Wars movie roster is being shaken up again. According to a, there have been some changes in the galaxy far, far away Report of Diversityincluding the shelves of Kevin Feige’s mysterious Star Wars film and Patty Jenkins’ rogue squadron. But not every Star Wars film is on hold. At least a few are still in development.
The two still on track, at least nominally, are Taika Waiti’s project, which he’s rumored to be starring in, and maybe even Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy, which has gone dark after 2017’s somewhat complicated response The Last Jedi – the sequel to the trilogy directed by Johnson.
The Patty Jenkins film was set to be next on the Disney release calendar, originally slated for release in December 2023 before being indefinitely delayed in September. So the next Star Wars movie in the series was supposed to be Taika Waititis, but there hasn’t been any real word on the progress of that movie since it was announced in 2020. But with news that the film is still in the works, it seems possible that it could yet be the next theatrical Journey to the Stars the franchise gets.
As for the even more mysterious films in the Star Wars franchise, it appears that Kevin Feige’s project, which has yet to have a script or director, has also been put on hold, reports Variety. Cowardly Star Wars project was first announced in 2019 and was alive and well last year, but it seems it has died in the meantime.
As for Rian Johnson, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy says the company still wants to work with him, but he’s still working on it knife out sequels and poker face for the moment, what might occupy him.
This leaves some big questions in the Star Wars calendar long-term. As of now, the next Star Wars release date Disney has set is December 2025, which could technically fit any film, even the first film in Rian Johnson’s trilogy, which is apparently still in the works.
At this point, it seems most likely that Waititi’s Star Wars film will fill the 2025 window, but that still leaves a six-year gap between 2019 The Rise of Skywalker and the next Star Wars movie. While Disney has consistently filled that void with a full stack of streaming series, it’s hard to ignore that Star Wars is a big-screen franchise at heart, even if it can’t find its way to cinemas.
