Like almost all news about Star Wars outside of official channels, take the following news with a grain of salt, but it sounds like 2025 could mark a big year for Lucasfilm to finally start filming Star Wars movies This is not a scaled-down TV season.
The Mandalorian and Grogu began filming a few months ago and should wrap up principal photography soon, but this is an already-announced project back Three larger “event movies” unveiled at Star Wars Celebration 2023. Dave Filoni’s New Republic crossover, James Mangold’s Jedi Origins epic, and Daisy Ridley and Sharmeen Obaid’s -Chinoy). While Filoni’s movie is still a long way off (he has to oust Ahsoka Season 2 first), the other two appear to be closer to production.
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The latest news about the Dawn of the Jedi (as we’re calling it for now) movie reportedly comes directly from James Mangold (via World of Reel ), who discussed his upcoming film in the latest issue of Dawn of the Jedi Bob Dylan biopic “Total Unknown”. Empire Magazine. As always, things could change, as the folks at Lucasfilm are very picky when it comes to greenlighting new big-screen movies after the largely disappointing 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, but Mangold says, Current plans are to continue his Star Wars prequels in 2025, set thousands of years before the Skywalker Saga.
While Mangold was originally announced as the film’s sole writer, Andor’s Beau Willimon, who was responsible for the first season’s most acclaimed storyline, joined him earlier this year. Now it sounds like at least some progress is being made on the writing front. only Enough to get into pre-production next year. This also means that Mangold will stay in the Lucasfilm camp for more than two years. forward Swamp Thing could be filmed for James Gunn’s DC Studios.
As for the follow-up to the Rey Skywalker-centric divisive sequel trilogy, the latest update comes directly from Daisy Ridley, who recently attended a screening of her film Magpie and spoke to Collider’s History Q&A moderated by Steven Weintraub. The clip in question appeared on r/StarWarsLeaks.
“Things are moving forward. I’m still very excited. There will be an update soon,” Ridley said. The actor has said for months that she hasn’t read the script, but that may have changed. Currently, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight remains attached to the project as a scribe. When will the “update” arrive? Since we’re guessing she’s talking about official channels or events, it would be logical to focus on D23 Brazil or the new Disney Investor Day.
Otherwise, we shouldn’t expect new announcements from Lucasfilm and Disney directly ahead of Star Wars Celebration 2025. For a while, it was rumored that the new Jedi Order-themed movie wouldn’t be shot until 2025, and things could change. Towards the end of 2024, we started lining up.
Currently, “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 22, 2026. Lucasfilm and Disney also recently locked in a release date of December 18, 2026 and December 17, 2027, but that is still to be determined. Find out if the aforementioned movie will be ready in time. Additionally, the two Star Wars movies released in less than 12 months have not performed well in the past.
