Star Wars: The Disney+ Empire Strikes Again and Again and...

Well, a lot going on here.

Rangers of the New Republic, a new Original Series set within the timeline of @TheMandalorian, is coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/YKlWJpvhAW

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

Ahsoka, a new Original Series, starring @RosarioDawson and set within the timeline of @TheMandalorian, is coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/ZojpCkhPS7

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

“Everything I did, I did for the Rebellion.” Andor, an Original Series set in the Star Wars universe, is streaming in 2022 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/q2IT2qzEeR

— Star Wars (@starwars) December 10, 2020

Hayden Christensen returns as Darth Vader, joining Ewan McGregor in OBI-WAN KENOBI. The Original Series begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Revenge of the Sith, and is coming to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/9WR2npRUkk

— Star Wars (@starwars) December 10, 2020

A sneak peek at Star Wars: The Bad Batch, an all-new animated Original Series from Lucasfilm Animation, coming soon to #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/V0jQc4XNIe

— Star Wars (@starwars) December 10, 2020

Star Wars: Visions, an Original Series of animated short films, celebrates the @StarWars galaxy through the lens of the world’s best Japanese anime creators. Coming in 2021 to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/syUmiL7SdI

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

The galaxy’s favorite scoundrel, Lando Calrissian, will return in Lando, a brand-new event series for @DisneyPlus. Justin Simien (@JSim07) is in the early stages of developing the project.

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

Leslye Headland brings a new @StarWars series to @DisneyPlus with The Acolyte. “The Acolyte” is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

Lucasfilm Animation is teaming up with Lucasfilm’s visual effects team, Industrial Light & Magic, to develop a special @StarWars adventure for @DisneyPlus, A Droid Story. This epic journey will introduce us to a new hero guided by R2-D2 and C-3PO.

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

dear fucking god

Plus Taiki Waititi's thing and Patty Jenkins is doing this:

pic.twitter.com/e3N00xCr5i

— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) December 10, 2020

sadlol

All of the upcoming Star Wars/Lucasfilm projects #DisneyInvestorDay pic.twitter.com/ipP8uTxdbT

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 10, 2020

I'm skeptical they'll manage to give each of these a distinct feel rather than following the proven Mando formula. I think I'd be more excited if there was one or two series in development rather than a half dozen.

Remember when 15 or 16 years would pass without a new Star Wars thing, that was pretty tight in retrospect

Well, depending on the media. That Timothy Zahn book in 1991 kickstarting the run of novels and the various 90s computer games were keeping interest pretty high.

I remember as a young fan in the 80s/early 90s being convinced there'd never be another proper Star Wars thing...

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average convo in a Gen X household in Dec

"bought $100 worth of Star Wars toys"

"oh, the kids will love that..."

"right....the kids..."

I hope, completely and unironically, that the Rangers of the New Republic series does nothing but remake old CHiPs episodes, and somehow stars Estrada, Wilcox, Dorn and Chris Pine's dad.

Yyyyyyyyeah, mandalorian is one thing as a fun retro treat but fuck if I’m clearing out a fucking mall size space in my memory palace for this avalanche of trademarks.

misread one of the projects as Star Wars: The Bad Bitch

wait the Obi-Wan show is gonna have Hayden Christiansen as Darth?

wtf - JEJ is still gonna do the voice, presumably, so....are they just paying him to walk around in the costume?

xp Me too

Supposedly he's retired from doing the voice, but I don't know if that was just a rumor or not. At the least there's been no handoff as with Chewie yet.

oh god if Hayden does the voice

Darth "Stoned" Vader

this is a controversial opinion, but I think this is too much star wars

A Lando show is just too good, man i loved me some Solo.

Star Wars: The Bad Bitch

yeah gonna be a lot of demands for this now - Sy Snootles finally getting her due

this is like when as a teenager I went to a bookstore in the 90s and saw dozens of star wars books. Suddenly something I like becomes way too much and not something I want to keep track of.

The Star Wars franchise should just be non-stop announcements of things that are never delivered.

every single one of these things is going to feature a puppet baby version of a preexisting character

Baby Palpatine

I can't believe this shit

Man, even as a huge fan of Star Wars, this is too much. And I really miss the days when this was all slowly revealed, not spat out in one massive investor call data dump.

Baby Jabba

Baby Palpatine

This would ... rule?

I'm pretty cool with just continuing to treat the pre-Disney material and the Filoniverse as the only SW stuff worth paying attention to. Granted, wrt the latter that would still have me on the hook for half of these new shows.

I feel like there's a very real chance "The Acolyte" will have baby Sheev.

there's gonna be a movie about how Sheev conceived his son

called Palp Fiction

*Friction

Sheev's Gotta Have It

Droid Six

The Emperor's New Groove

Imperial Bedroom

Sidious Kinky

holy shit a+

Why would anyone come onto a thread to express negative thoughts about Disney properties

http://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/3f/33/c63f33f578bb17f7be8f96d6f9822b61.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix_9g_Ob74

Kind of interesting article (with a minor spoiler about future plans, if you haven't finished The Mandalorian yet): https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/disney-star-wars-marvel-studios-1234866986/

I'm just going to post this now because I can see that I'm going to get a lot of requests -

Yes, Rian's SW trilogy is still on. No dates or timelines because he has other projects going on, but it is happening.

THAT IS ALL I KNOW ABOUT IT. 😁😁😁

— Sariah Wilson (@sariahwilson) February 16, 2021

Not sure where this goes (it’s not tv or movie related, but relevant): https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/star-wars-high-republic-novels/2021/02/22/adbb4338-72e3-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html

The incredible cast includes Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie. pic.twitter.com/VltHs5Aw6r

— Star Wars (@starwars) March 29, 2021

that is a pick names out of a hat cast there

Hayden C. unrecognizable in that pic

Both Boba Fett and Obi Wan are especially terrible because not only are they bad in and of themselves, but their stories actively pull the rug out from previous films and make them worse too.

The gap between my inner old 8-year old self absolutely GEEKED about the mere existence of an ENTIRE SHOW dedicated to Boba Fett and the actual enjoyment I felt while watching it could be measured in parsecs.

otm

Perhaps an unhelpful frame of reference that sometimes leads me to be more charitable to some of these shows than I should otherwise be, but I frequently try to imagine someone telling me back in 1983 that one day, in the distant future, there would be not only one but multiple Star Wars shows to watch, any time I wanted, with just the push of a few buttons. My damn head would have exploded all over my Kenner collection.

It's a much smaller level (thankfully) but this is kinda how my podcast cohosts and I feel about Tolkien adaptations these days -- both Warner Bros and Amazon still trying to chase the original Jackson trilogy high and just not getting there, where back in the 1980s if you had told me "Multiple films and a TV series?" I would be so onboard.

I groaned at the Supervisor voice tbh

i just looked it up & omg of course! duh i knew i knew it when i heard it but my brain would not cooperate lol

feel like the fact the pirate guy who masterminded the way to get to At Attin years ago only appearing in a glitched out holograph might be a thread they come back to, or maybe a cute misleading bit

Great final episode. If they want to do another season, I’m for it, but it’s a fun fillip as it stands.

yes! really great. and the restraint in not explaining the whys of everything was such a good choice.

Exactly. No unexpected last minute cameo/bigger connection or anything, just using the template and running with it to a great conclusion.

Yes, when Jude Law started talking about his jedi master, I was just waiting for him to say something dumb like "and her name... Ahsoka Tano!" Thankfully he never did.

also really want to re-read Treasure Island again now <3

Speaking of reads

https://ew.com/star-wars-skeleton-crew-creators-inside-finale-future-of-show-8774862

And while we wait on more Andor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkywNANueew

Meantime, vaguely watching the Star Wars Celebration stream and the Shawn Levy/Ryan Gosling film is going to be called Star Wars: Starfighter and the setting is post-Rise of Skywalker. So, guess we'll see.

(Release date May 2027.)

Owen Lars and the Real Droid

Mikey Madison turned down a role in it? Madness

Next SW film should be a Sean Baker joint anyway

Appreciating the jokes that it’s just Drive but in space

My first thought was "surely there's a house rule that says you can't call something Star Wars: Star Something", because it sounds clumsy. I mean, imagine writing "Ryan Gosling stars in Star Wars: Starfighter as starfighter pilot Starr Krendo".

But there was a Star Wars: Starfighter video game in 2001. It was called Star Wars: Starfighter. So perhaps it's okay.

In fact I learned something! Google used to give you exact results if you enclosed something in quotes. But now it doesn't. However if you enclose the string in quotes and click tools -> all results and switch it to verbatim, it does it back again! I learn that there was also Star Wars: Star Pilot, which was a Phantom Menace tie-in book by Dorling Kindersley. And an officially-licensed boardgame from 1987, Star Wars: Star Warriors. So it's not forbidden, just uncommon.

Famously Dorling Kindersley had the official licence for Star Wars books in the late 1990s but lost a fortune because no-one was particularly keen on Phantom Menace tie-in media. Somewhere out there is a tribe in Africa dressed from head-to-toe in unsold Phantom Menace pyjamas that were unsold and eventually donated to charity.

depressing to see Gosling in a Star Wars movie

I can not lie i saw shawn levy and assumed it was ryan reynolds

“Yes i can see why the girl from anora would not want to be in a movie with ryan reynolds…” i nodded to myself.

Meantime new animated series incoming next year:

https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/star-wars-maul-shadow-lord-swcj-hero-container-mobile_81561452.jpeg?region=0,0,1600,900&width=960

depressing to see Gosling in a Star Wars movie

Literally saw this the day after learning he was attached (as producer) to a "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" reboot.

started out in the mickey mouse club, aged into the star wars club

Enjoy an updated map!

https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-galaxy-map

https://jasonfry.substack.com/p/about-that-new-star-wars-galaxy-map

Wait, we're getting Jaxxon this time out? Bring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr2UMWHgNqk

More casting news for the Gosling movie

https://deadline.com/2025/08/star-wars-starfighter-cast-1236500048/

Honestly a black and white film would kinda rule.

i have a hard time getting excited about this? not to be a snob about Levy bc I like some of the stuff he’s done … but idk if I’m really clamoring for his take on SW

it just feels more like a cynical swing into “ok fine lets get the popcorn movie guy”

What are the odds a special colour cut gets released two months after it tanks?

It's not literally going to be in black and white. As cool as that might be, there is no way Disney is going to greenlight a black and white Star Wars flick at this point in history.

Looling forward to seeing Simon Bird as a rugged rogue sassy smuggler wait no I mean neurotic droid.

Shawn Levy is popular w actors bc he lets them do whatever the fuck they want

Reads boring af castwise. Sorry (?)

the Starfighter thing was written by the guy who did the tv show Banshee? lol

whaaaat? i loved that show!

it's perhaps the most entertaining unserious performative masculinity show I've seen, having watched it this year, and I mean that completely positively

what if this movie is Drive but with the tone of Banshee

then i will watch the hell out of it!!

Banshee is basically just a prestige tv version of Billy Jack — my platonic ideal of pulpy genre tv. so good

I don't think I would say Banshee is prestige, but it's definitely a serial story. It's prestige if, like, Oz counts as prestige

maybe thats the wrong word, i meant “boutique streaming service”

you guys say you like genre, you say you like pulpy, you say you want a lowbrow entertaining starwars well Solo exists and it’s GREBT

i liked Solo!

🙂‍↕️🪇

Meantime...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuOQbmC9PQk

cancelled my sub innit

but yes there are ways