May 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of Star Wars, George Lucas’ transformative space opera that changed the face of sci-fi, cinema, and pop culture as we know it. All those years ago, it’s unlikely anyone realized that one day we’d have all kinds of upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows. Yet, here we are, looking forward to so many adventures on the way.
In the coming weeks, months, and years, the list of best Star Wars movies and great Disney+ original shows will continue to grow deeper and richer as some of the most talented writers, directors, producers, and actors team up to continue the story first told “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.”
Star Wars: Visions Season 3 - October 29, 2025
Star Wars: Visions Season 3 will return to Disney+ near the end of the 2025 TV schedule when it premieres on October 29th. The third installment in the series of animated shorts by famed Japanese anime studios. None of the nine episodes have been announced at this point, but if this next set of adventures is anything like the first two collections, Star Wars fans are in for a real treat at some point in the very near future. But this isn’t the only set of new Visions episodes on the way.
The Mandalorian & Grogu - May 22, 2026
The two characters who kicked off the Disney+ Star Wars TV universe -- Mando and Baby Yoda -- will soon get their own big-screen project. In January 2024, it was announced that Lucasfilm was developing The Mandalorian & Grogu, a new film that will be directed by The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau. Right now, we're left with more questions than answers concerning the movie, but this could be the spark that reignites the franchise's cinematic output.
In April 2024, Variety reported that The Mandalorian & Grogu would be released on May 22, 2026, a little less than a month after one of the most anticipated Pixar films, Toy Story 5, hits the big screen. A little more than six months later, in November 2024, the Star Wars official website announced that production on the movie had gotten underway and that footage was shown for those in attendance at D23 Brasil.
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord (2026)
Darth Maul, admittedly one of the best characters since being introduced in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace more than 25 years ago, will soon get his own animated series on Disney+. During Star Wars Celebration Japan in April 2025, it was revealed that Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord will be coming out at some point in 2026 and follow the Sith lord after the events of The Clone Wars as he rises once again and leads underworld factions. According to StarWars.com, Sam Witwer, who portrayed Darth Maul in The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, will reprise his iconic role once more.
Star Wars: Starfighter (May 28, 2027)
One of the biggest reveals at Star Wars Celebration Japan in April 2025, Star Wars: Starfighter will soon bring one of the most in-demand actors to the “galaxy far, far away” when Ryan Gosling leads Shawn Levy’s long-in-the-works project. According to StarWars.com, the new original movie will follow Gosling’s still-unnamed character as he navigates the galaxy five years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. Details are mum at this point in time, but expect that to change as we get closer to the film’s Memorial Day 2027 theatrical release.
Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi (TBD)
Star Wars: Visions will be returning to Disney+ before the end of the year, but that isn’t the only anime-influenced show set in the “galaxy far, far away” in the near future. StarWars.com has revealed Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi, a new spinoff following the adventures of Kara and Juro from “The Ninth Jedi” in the show’s first season and the upcoming “Child of Hope” from Visions Season 3. The expanded series will allow writer and director Kenji Kamiyama to expand one of the most popular stories from Visions so far. Expect to hear much more…
Ahsoka Season 2 - TBD
With all the cliffhangers in the Ahsoka Season 1 finale, fans were hopeful they would get some closure at some point in the future, and that very well may happen. In January 2024, Variety reported that the show’s second season was in development at Lucasfilm with Dave Filoni once again leading the charge.
Though no premiere date, or even release window, has been announced, the show will reportedly enter production at some point in 2025, per THR. However, there have been no status updates since 2024.
Simon Kinberg’s Star Wars Trilogy - TBD
Simon Kinberg has been one of the busiest names in show business as of late with projects like The Running Man remake and that new Star Trek big-screen adventure in the works. And now, as reported by Deadline in November 2024, the writer and producer is working on a Star Wars trilogy of his own.
Details are limited at best at this point in the project’s development, and the aforementioned article mentioned that there is no confirmation as to whether Kinberg’s trilogy will be a part of the Skywalker Saga (Episodes I - IX) or the start of something entirely new. It also hasn’t been stated who’ll be directing the three pictures, but Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy is producing alongside the prolific writer. When speaking with Deadline in February 2025, Kennedy said Lucasfilm was “rolling fast and furiously” with the project and that more information should be available in June.
Untitled Rey Movie - TBD
Those who thought Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) story was over with the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ending should think again, as the character is getting her own movie. Originally, Lost and The Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof was writing a Star Wars movie with partner Justin Britt-Gibson, and Shareen Obaid-Chinoy, who directed several episodes of Ms. Marvel, had been tapped to direct the mystery project. However, by March 2023, Lindelof and Britt-Gibson departed the project, and shortly thereafter, it was revealed that Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight had taken over scriptwriting duties.
Several weeks after that, it was announced at the Star Wars Celebration that this movie will follow Daisy Ridley's Rey 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker as she rebuilds the New Jedi Order and confronts "the powers that rise to tear it down." There has been no confirmation, but the untitled Rey movie could very well be the project removed from the 2026 release schedule by Disney in late 2024, per Variety.
Untitled Dave Filoni Movie - TBD
After being arguably the most influential figure in Star Wars television for years, the time has come for Dave Filoni to leave his mark on the franchise's cinematic realm. It was announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023 as part of the latest update on the franchise's movie plans that he will direct a feature that covers "the escalating war between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic."
In other words, it will close out the connective threads established in shows like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and Skeleton Crew, i.e. the stories taking place in the immediate years after Return of the Jedi. It's unclear if that also means those shows will end or if they'll keep going afterward, but Filoni will once again be joined by producer Jon Favreau. It should also be noted that Filoni described the development as a “balancing act” when discussing his many projects with Collider in April 2025.
Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi - TBD
James Mangold is hard at work on a long-in-the-works Star Wars project. The A Complete Unknown director is set to helm Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, a movie that will take place roughly 25,000 years before any of the previous stories in the franchise that have been chronicled on film and television. The filmmaker described this project as a "Biblical epic" that takes a Ten Commandments-like approach to showing the origins of the Force.
In June 2023, Kathleen Kennedy told GamesRadar+ that Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi project and the untitled Rey film will complement each other, despite taking place thousands of years apart from one another. And in April 2024, The Hollywood Reporter reported that House of Cards creator Beau Willimon would be co-writing the movie with Mangold. As of May 2025, there is no word on a cast or release date, though.
Taika Waititi Standalone Movie - TBD
It has been more than four years since it was first announced that Taika Waititi was working on a Star Wars movie after first directing The Mandalorian Season 1 finale. But nearly a half-decade after word began to spread, we have no movie and no idea what it’s about. There have been smaller updates over the years, like the one about 1917 writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns penning the script, but nothing big has come out in a long time.
This should be taken with a grain of salt, but in September 2024, Daniel Richtman posted on his Patreon that the project was put on an indefinite hold. When asked about the movie in April 2025, Kathleen Kennedy told ScreenRant that “Taika is on Taika time” and that when he’s ready to devote time to it, so will they.
Star Wars Movies And Shows With Unknown Statuses
Though there are a great number of upcoming Star Wars movies and shows with release dates, or at least updates from the past year, there are several others whose status is up in the air. Not quite canceled, here are a few projects that are vague for now.
A Droid Story - Disney+ - TBD
A Droid Story was one of the main projects unveiled in that consequential December 2020 investor call, but there has been next to nothing said about the show in the nearly four years since. All those questions we had about the animated special back in 2021 remain unanswered nearly four years later, unfortunately.
The Mandalorian Season 4 - Disney+ - TBD
In February 2023, showrunner Jon Favreau revealed that he'd finished writing all of the episodes for The Mandalorian Season 4 and that the next season would connect with Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew. Taking into account the Dave Filoni-helmed movie now in development, we are not fully sure when the next installment in the popular series will premiere or what kind of story it will tell once the show does return.
This also brings into question the status of The Book of Boba Fett Season 2, which hasn’t been officially announced at this point in time. It remains to be seen if we’ll see Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen’s characters again, but never say never with this franchise.
Lando - TBD
Those holding out for a show based on the exploits of one of the galaxy’s coolest scoundrels are in for some good news and bad news. The good news first… Lando, which was first announced back in December 2020, is still in the works. However, it’s reportedly no longer a show, but a full-fledged movie. Okay, that’s two scoops of good news, don’t hate.
We’re starting to know more about Lando, including the fact that Donald Glover and his brother, Stephen, are behind the project, which was originally developed by Justin Simien. In September 2024, Glover told the Wall Street Journal that he wanted “it to be fun,” but didn’t elaborate on the status of his return to the Star Wars universe.
Rian Johnson Trilogy - TBD
There was a great deal of backlash following the release of Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but the franchise is far from done with him. Prior to the release of Johnson's 2017 film, Lucasfilm announced that their collaboration with Johnson would continue with the development of an entire new trilogy of movies. Johnson was quick to shoot down rumors about the mysterious project in December 2019, and there hasn’t been much news on the project since.
With Johnson projects like Poker Face Season 2 and his upcoming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery it’s going to be some time before we have any major updates on this highly-anticipated project.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron - TBD
In December 2020, it was announced that Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins would be leading the charge on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, an upcoming movie that will follow the famed group of X-Wing pilots featured in various Star Wars books and video games over the years, a group that until the big announcement, had yet to be featured in any film or television property in the franchise.
Though it seemed like the movie was put on indefinite hold after years of development, it appears the project isn’t dead just yet. In March 2024, Patty Jenkins told the Talking Pictures podcast (via Variety) that she was once again working on a script for Rogue Squadron after Wonder Woman 3 plans fell apart. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.
Star Wars Movies And Shows No Longer Happening
While there are a great number of Star Wars projects in the works, there are several others that have fallen by the wayside and cancelled. Here are the movies and shows that fall into that category.
Kevin Feige-Produced Standalone Movie
When it was first announced in September 2019, the untitled Kevin Feige-produced standalone film was one of the most anticipated projects in the galaxy far, far away. Sadly, it also appears to be a movie that is no longer happening.
Untitled J.D. Dillard Standalone Movie
J.D. Dillard, the filmmaker responsible for Devotion, and one-time receptionist at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot, was selected to direct his own Star Wars movie penned by Luke Cage writer Matt Owens. The news was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter in February 2020, but few details were available at the time, which remained the case for a couple of years until the director told TheWrap in November 2022 that he was no longer involved with the project. Until there's an announcement saying otherwise, it doesn't look like this one's moving forward, either.
As we’ve learned in the past, things can change rather quickly in the Star Wars universe. That said, be on the lookout for more information about these and other yet-to-be-announced projects in the coming weeks and months.
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