With High Republic Disney introduced the next setting in the Star Wars universe. This setting is 200 years before Episode 1 – The Dark Menace. At this time, Jedi Knights like Wild West Sheriffs patrol the galaxy and are like King Arthur's Round Table.
This makes High Republic like a setting that was made for Cinema films and TV series seems. After all, we already know the theatrical releases of the next three Star Wars films, which will be released in cinemas in 2022, 2024 and 2026, while war-of-the-star series are being worked on for the Disney + streaming service.
There is no Star Wars film on High Republic (for the time being)
Wrong thought: Contrary to original expectations and speculation, the currently planned Star Wars films and TV series will not the high republic era rotate. Disney confirmed this in an official press release, emphasizing that fans can "only" count on various novels and comics for the time being.
How about it video Games in the high republic setting is not apparent from the press release and the unveiling of the new era. We currently only know that Respawn Entertainment is continuing a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, while publisher Electronic Arts saw off a spin-off to Star Wars: Battlefront 2 last year.
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What is the Star Wars film after Episode 9 about?
It's no secret that Star Wars takes a movie break after the disappointing earnings and reviews of Solo: A Star Wars Story and Episode 9 – The Rise of Skywalker. This was personally confirmed by Disney CEO Bob Iger (who, by the way, recently announced his resignation and hands over his job to Bob Chapek).
So it will only continue in two years with Star Wars in the cinema while we are Release dates already know of these Star Wars films:
- December 16, 2022
- December 20, 2024
- December 18, 2026
What these films are about is currently still a secret. The film, scheduled for 2022, was to be released by Game of Thrones' showrunners David Benioff and D.B. White come and are rumored to be adapting the The Old Republic era. However, Benioff and Weiss were released from Disney in October 2019.
In parallel to that Rian Johnson (Episode 8 – The Last Jedi) is still developing his trilogy, which is about a "whole new time" in a "whole new place" in the Star Wars universe. However, specific information has become scarce, and in the meantime Rian Johnson was no longer sure whether his project was successful.
There will also be a planned Star Wars film by the director J.D. Dillard (Sleight, Sweetheart), which does not necessarily start in the cinema, but maybe only on the Disney + streaming service. What this project is about is not known. We only know that Matt Dillon (Luke Cage) was hired as an author.
Last but not least there is the project by Kevin Feige: The boss of Marvel Studios and the mastermind behind the Avengers films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are also developing a Star Wars film. There is currently no official information on this.
When will there be concrete information about the next Star Wars films?
There will be an update to the next Star Wars films and the projects just mentioned for the Star Wars Celebration 2020, which from August 27th to 30th takes place. The biggest announcements regarding the Star Wars franchise are traditionally presented at this war for star fans.
In addition to concrete information about the upcoming Star Wars films, it could also be news about the next ones TV series such as Obi-Wan Kenobi with Ewan McGregor and the prequel to Rogue One with Diego Luna as Cassian Andor.
For season 2 of The Mandalorian, for example, there should be a trailer, as it already does in October on Disney + starts – with the Germany release of Disney + on March 24, 2020 also in this country.