While we patiently wait to find out when The Mandalorian and Grogu will be available with a Disney+ subscription, we're keeping tabs on all the movies and TV shows coming from the Star Wars franchise over the next weeks and months. To say that the franchise has been a little chaotic recently is an understatement. It was just a few years ago that a huge slate of projects had been announced, but very few of those have come to full fruition
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Star Wars being released, and there is exciting news on that front below, as well as what we can expect before and after that hallowed date. There is also a brand new adventure starring Ryan Gosling coming next year and a handful of small-screen adventures, so there is at least some excitement for fans of the franchise.
In the coming months and years, the list of best Star Wars movies and great Disney+ original shows could grow deeper and richer as this highly anticipated theatrical release from Gosling and company, new streaming shows, and more come our way.
Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi - August 5, 2026
Star Wars: Visions Season 3 hit Disney+ towards the end of 2025, and the follow-up is dropping on Disney+ in August. StarWars.com 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. The expanded series will allow writer and director Kenji Kamiyama to further explore one of the most popular stories from Visions so far.
Star Wars: A New Hope (February 19, 2027)
Fans who have been begging for Disney to re-release the original version of Star Wars will get their wish when the 1977 film that started it all returns to the big screen for a short time on February 19, 2027.
Nearly 50 years after George Lucas changed the world, moviegoers will get to see the director’s original, unaltered vision for the first time in decades, meaning all of the CGI and additional scenes from the 1997 “Special Edition” won’t be included.
Though Disney and Lucasfilm have yet to announce if The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi will receive similar treatment in the years to come, let’s cross our fingers and hope it happens. That said, it would have been cool if the full Original Trilogy was re-released in theaters like it’s the spring of 1997 all over again.
Star Wars: Starfighter - May 28, 2027
The biggest date on the upcoming calendar was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Japan in April 2025. Star Wars: Starfighter will bring one of the most in-demand actors to the galaxy 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 starfighter as he navigates the galaxy five years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. It will hit big screens about a year from now, on May 28, 2027.
This may be Gosling’s first franchise film, but he's no stranger to being a hero in space, as he's coming off the heels of the wildly successful Project Hail Mary this spring. In terms of plot, we still don't know anything, but we do know that production wrapped back in December 2025. So far, we've only seen the briefest of teasers, which revealed only the name and release date. Keep your eyes on this space for the full trailer when it's released!
Ahsoka Season 2 - 2027
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 is going to happen...at some point, though we still don't know exactly when.
There had been talk of Ashoka Season 2 arriving on Disney+ at some point on the 2026 television schedule, but it's since gotten a release window for early 2027.
According to ScreenRant, new details about the upcoming season were revealed at Star Wars Celebration 2025, including the return of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker and Lars Mikkelsen’s Grand Admiral Thrawn. There’s also the debut of Game of Thrones alum Rory McCann, who is taking over the role of Baylan for the late Ray Stevenson. Bryce Dallas Howard, who directed two episodes of the upcoming season, called the new chapter “beautiful,” “thrilling,” “adventurous,” and “romantic.”
And that's it, weirdly. That's all we know for sure that is coming from the Star Wars universe. That doesn't mean there aren't other projects that could be on the way, so we'll get into those next.
Star Wars Movies And Shows With Unknown Statuses
As I mentioned, there has been a great disturbance in The Force recently in the Star Wars universe. When there had been what seemed like a dozen projects at various points of pre-production, that list has dwindled to barely a handful. Head honcho Dave Filoni did confirm that Maul: Shadow Lord Series Season 2 is confirmed, but the timeline for that is anyone's guess at the moment.
There is still the possibility that Filoni himself is still working on a movie set in the Mandalorian corner of the galaxy, but with him taking over from Kathleen Kennedy, that project seems very much up in the air right now. There have also been very few updates on previously announced projects from directors Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi, James Mangold, and Simon Kinberg. There have also been lingering reports about a new Lando movie from Donald Glover, but we've still heard nothing officially about that in many months.
We'll be honest here, everyone, including us, is in the dark about most of these. The same can be said about TV shows that had been announced, like the one from Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse and his son, Nick Cuse.
We will continue to be on the lookout for more information about these and other yet-to-be-announced projects in the coming weeks and months.
