Star Wars Celebration 2023 kicked off on April 7 in London and already, only a few hours into the big weekend-long occasion, Lucasfilm has revealed a load of recent details about upcoming Star Wars motion pictures and initiatives. Don’t fear about looking round for all of the information, as we’ve collected all the massive, cool Star Wars information right here.
A brand new Star Wars movie set after the Sequel Trilogy starring Daisy Ridley
Maybe the largest information to come back out of Celebration up to now is the affirmation that Daisy Ridley is coming again to Star Wars. Disney and Lucasfilm introduced that The Pressure Awakens actress will return as Rey in a sequel to the latest Star Wars trilogy. It will likely be set roughly 15 years after the occasions of Rise of Skywalker and will probably be about Rey’s journey to deliver again the Jedi Order.
This new movie starring Rey will probably be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with a script written by Steven Knight. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy stated the brand new movie will probably be about Rey searching for recent Pressure-sensitive recruits as she varieties a brand new Jedi Order.
“I’ve at all times been interested in the hero’s journey and the truth that the world wants many extra heroes,” stated Sharmeen.
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“My coronary heart is pounding,” Ridley stated on stage on the occasion. “I’m very thrilled to be persevering with this journey.”
Plus two extra Star Wars movies are within the works from Dave Filoni and James Mangold
Lucasfilm didn’t simply announce one Star Wars movie. It introduced three. And the different two Star Wars motion pictures are set in completely completely different eras than Rey’s returning movie.
One of many motion pictures is ready throughout the identical time interval as latest Disney+ reveals The Mandalorian and Guide of Boba Fett and is from Rebels and Clone Wars creator Dave Filoni. In accordance with a weblog publish from Lucasfilm, Filoni’s live-action Star Wars movie will “give attention to the New Republic” and can “shut out the interconnected tales instructed in The Mandalorian, The Guide of Boba Fett, [and] Ashoka.”
Lastly, a 3rd movie from director James Mangold (Logan) can also be in improvement and will probably be set in a really completely different time interval of the Star Wars galaxy. Mangold’s movie will reveal the “Daybreak of the Jedi” and will probably be set 25,000 years earlier than the prequels.
“After I first began speaking to Kathy about doing certainly one of these footage, what occurred to me was fascinated about what sort of style of film inside Star Wars I wished to do,” Mangold stated. “And I thought of a Biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, concerning the dawning of the Pressure. The place did the Pressure come from, when did we uncover it, when did we learn to use it?”
No launch dates got for these movies or an order by which to anticipate them. And contemplating what number of Star Wars movies have been introduced and canned over the previous couple of years, I’m unsure all of those will see the sunshine of day. However I’m enthusiastic about this method. Three new movies set in three completely different eras looks like a sensible technique to deliver Star Wars again to theaters and offers the franchise and creators extra flexibility over the place to go subsequent.
The primary trailer for the brand new Ahsoka sequence seems to be superb and teases Thrawn
We’ve recognized for some time that Lucasfilm has been engaged on an Ashoka present, with teases and hints being given for effectively over a 12 months now. Nevertheless, in spite of everything that teasing, we lastly acquired our first correct trailer for the upcoming present starring Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka, a former Jedi who first appeared within the Clone Wars animated present and later in Rebels and The Mandalorian.
Final we noticed her, she and Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren have been getting collectively to go discover their buddy and Jedi-in-training Ezra Bridger who saved the day by utilizing area whales to shoot himself and Grand Adrimal Thrawn off into the void. It appears this new sequence will choose up that storyline, with different Rebels characters returning too, like droid Chopper and pilot Hera Syndulla.
The Ashoka sequence additionally acquired a launch date. It should begin streaming on Disney+ this August.
First footage of Star Wars Acolyte revealed to Celebration attendees
Whereas it wasn’t formally posted on-line, Lucasfilm did showcase the primary footage of its upcoming present Star Wars: The Acolyte. This Disney+ sequence from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) is ready on the finish of the Excessive Republic period about 100 years earlier than Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace and can discover the Darkish Aspect of the Pressure.
Apparently, Headland appeared on stage with a Wookiee Jedi performed by Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo. She additionally defined that she initially pitched the present to Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy as “Frozen meets Kill Invoice.”
“Shockingly, she didn’t kick me out of the constructing,” Headland stated. “It’s Excessive Republic close to the start of the prequels and an thrilling a part of the timeline. That is when the unhealthy guys are outnumbered. They’re the underdogs. I’m actually excited for you guys to see belongings you haven’t seen in live-action but.”
Some footage was proven to the group and you possibly can learn io9’s breakdown of the footage. No particular launch date for this one past 2024.
Andor season 2 coming Summer season 2024
Throughout the present’s Star Wars Celebration panel showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy, together with a number of of the hit present’s writers and star Diego Luna, supplied the primary take a look at the upcoming second and remaining season of Andor. The footage was launched just for people within the room and hasn’t been formally launched on-line.
Gilroy says the brand new season will premiere in 2024, probably in August. Right here’s how io9’s Justin Carter described the preview footage of season 2.
Footage proven at Celebration teased the return of key characters, together with Insurgent cell members Vel Sartha and Luthen Rael (out and in of his disguise as an antiquities seller), in addition to Syril Karn, who seems to have gone up on this planet, and been thrust into a better class of Imperial citizenship.
Scenes additionally confirmed Mon Mothma slowly constructing alliances, attempting to deliver her disparate senatorial and rebellious worlds collectively as dissent grows throughout the galaxy. A number of pictures confirmed a protest being policed by Stormtroopers, the place violence breaks out with plenty of explosions and many chaos.
However on the coronary heart of all of it was footage of Cassian, each skulking by means of hallways and seemingly coming into his personal as a Insurgent spy. The trailer concluded with Luthen echoing his remark from season one—“Don’t you wish to struggle these bastards for actual?”—over a shot of Cassian, dressed up in a flowery swimsuit along with his hair slicked again, in some form of fancy bar.
First take a look at Star Wars Skeleton Crew starring Jude Legislation
In new footage launched by Jude Legislation throughout at the moment’s Celebration occasion, audiences have been proven a trailer that options children residing on an unnamed forest world. They do boring children stuff like go to high school and all that, however need extra. They need journey. They usually discover it.
Right here’s how io9 described the footage they noticed:
The children seem to have discovered their approach aboard a mercenary starship. There are pictures of them encountering bizarre creatures, holograms of their dad and mom again residence begging for them to return, and the children being menaced by pirates
The children discover themselves on the run from blaster fireplace in what seems to be like a pirate base and flying away on their new ship earlier than the trailer concludes with them locked up in a jail cell carved out of a cave.
A hooded determine approaches, floating the important thing to their freedom in entrance of the children with a whimsical show of the drive. “He’s a Jedi!” One of many children exclaims because the determine lowers their hood to disclose that it’s Jude Legislation’s mysterious character.
Skeleton Crew was introduced final 12 months and can discover the world of Star Wars “by means of the eyes of kids” however its creators are clear to level out that it’s not a child’s present “despite the fact that it stars children.” The sequence will comply with a bunch of youngsters from a tiny planet who get misplaced within the galaxy and have to search out their approach again residence. On the Star Wars timeline, Skeleton Crew is going on across the similar time as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. It’s premiering someday this 12 months on Disney+.
And that’s it for now. Nevertheless, with Star Wars Celebration simply beginning, it’s very possible extra information about what to anticipate subsequent from the largest sci-fi franchise on this planet will probably be revealed all through the weekend.
