Schiff is also still onboard as an episode writer. Joining Gilroy in the writers’ room is his brother, Dan Gilroy, and House of Cards’ Beau Willimon.
Toby Haynes picked up the director chores alongside Ben Caron and Susanna White. He also serves as showrunner, replacing The Americans’ Stephen Schiff, although his plan to direct the first three episodes was curtailed by the pandemic.
The series was originally developed by Jared Bush, but Rogue One writer Tony Gilroy is credited as creator. And although Alan Tudyk was originally meant to reprise his role as K-2SO, the actor revealed in January of 2021 that the droid will not appear in the first season. Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, and Kyle Soller are along for the adventure, as is Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, a key figure in the Rebel Alliance that the actor has played in Star Wars media since a scene cut from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The first season will chart his progression from a cynical, lost refugee to a devoted Rebellion spy.
Finally beginning production in November of 2020, the 12-episode series will star Diego Luna as his Rogue One: A Star Wars Story character, Cassian Andor, in a story set five years before the events of the film. What We Know: One of two programs announced for Disney+ before the platform launched – the other being The Mandalorian – Andor has been long in the planning. Tell us which new Star Wars projects you’re most excited about in the comments.
Here we’ve gathered everything we know about every Star Wars movie and series coming to streaming and theaters in the next few years, and broken down how they fit into the emerging Star Wars galaxy. And, as you will see in this guide to Star Wars’s streaming and theatrical future below, that sense of canon and continuity is as important to the galaxy far, far away as the Force itself. The move was made to offer maximum freedom to the filmmakers involved in the Sequel Trilogy ( Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Rise of Skywalker), but it didn’t take long for “Legends” characters and ideas to seep back into programs like Star Wars Rebels and The Mandalorian. When Disney first bought Lucasfilm, they declared all previous Star Wars comics, novels, games, and cartoons (except for the long-running Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as non-canon “legends” of the Star Wars galaxy. They also hope the expansion of Star Wars content means there will be room for Jedi Knight protagonist Kyle Katarn to re-enter the canon.Īnd canonicity is a big deal for Star Wars. Of course, fans of Star Wars media already knew the fictional galaxy could fuel hundreds of films and shows. So yes, there is a ton of new Star Wars movies and new Star Wars series flying our way. In addition to its Disney+ roster, the company also intends to make at least three features by 2027. Lucasfilm stunned fans and investors in December of 2020 with an ambitious plan to produce as many as 10 television series for Disney+ in the next decade. Now numbering the ongoing live-action series The Mandalorian, animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the limited Obi-Wan Kenobi and the presumably limited The Book of Boba Fett - to say nothing of the extant feature films and animated series - these programs still represent the first footfalls into a larger world of Star Wars content on the service. The imminent arrival of Andor on September 21 is yet another step in Star Wars’s growing presence on Disney+. (Photo by © Lucasfilm Ltd, Twentieth Century Fox)