Posted on 05/07/2019 1:14:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney announced its upcoming movie slate on Tuesday, stretching out through 2027 and revealing the dates for the next three Star Wars movies. The next Star Wars film, the first new one after the conclusion of the nine-episode Skywalker saga, will hit movie theaters on Dec. 16, 2022.
That means there will be a three-year gap between Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Lucasfilms next Star Wars movie. Two additional Star Wars films are slated for Dec. 20, 2024, and Dec. 18, 2026.
All three Star Wars projects are untitled, and its not clear yet whether those films will be a new trilogy, a series of stand-alone Saga-style films, or something else altogether.
Lucasfilm and Disney have two announced series of Star Wars movies in the works. One is being overseen by Rian Johnson, the writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That will be a new trilogy of films, the first of which will be written and directed by Johnson.
Johnsons trilogy will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored, Lucasfilm and Disney said in 2017.
Lucasfilm and Disney are also working on new Star Wars films with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The parties involved havent specified the scope of that series of films they havent committed to a trilogy, in other words nor have they provided details on what aspects of the Star Wars universe they plan to explore.
In terms of timing, it seems more likely that Johnsons films will come first. Johnsons trilogy was the first of the new films to be announced, and the directors current project, Knives Out, will hit theaters later this year, freeing him up to get back to Star Wars. Benioff and Weiss said they planned to get started on their Star Wars project as soon as the final season of Game of Thrones is complete, which means the end of May.
Disney has said that the Star Wars franchise will pause and reset after The Rise of Skywalker. CEO Bob Iger said in April that the film franchise will go on a bit of a hiatus after the release of five Star Wars movies from 2015 through 2019.
But Star Wars fans still have plenty of new content to keep them entertained through 2022. The Mandalorian, the live-action television series coming to exclusively to the Disney Plus streaming service, will arrive in November. Disney has also committed to a seventh season of animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Disney Plus. A new video game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, hits consoles and PC this fall. And Star Wars: Galaxys Edge, a new land at Disney theme parks, is slated to open in 2019.
All of the original cast and possibly the director will have passed on by the time this ‘serial’ ends
Graham Norton said the other day, while boosting the show, that 17 million people watched the last episode. I suppose that seems like a lot in the UK, but in its heyday, Fox’s American Idol pulled in 30 million.
If Kathy K is gonna oversee these films they won’t be worth watching.
yup. feminist sjw twits.
You probably haven't missed much. Star Wars II (1980) was a bomb. Star Wars III (1983) was better, but far inferior to the original Star Wars.
I saw the 1996 Star Wars film, the first in the series since '83, but I was so disappointed that I never saw any of the follow-ons.
Star Wars is the only film they should have made. There should never have been any antecedents or sequels.
Fortunately, Luke Skywalker is dead.
I wonder if Rey will be in them. She is a force user and saved the journal of the whills.
It is no longer STAR WARS but SPACE CR@P...
Actual Star Wars movies released, as of today, 10.
He’ll be in the next one as a force ghost.
Then, along came Star Wars. It was space cowboys fighting Nazi stormtroopers, all the good stuff that had gone missing. But it was set in space in a galaxy far, far away, so the PC crowd couldn't find anything wrong with it. It was a great ride for the first three movies.
Then Lucas lost his touch with the next three. And now, Disney has squeezed all the life out of the franchise, with ponderous plots and characters we don't care about. What back in the day was a fun night at the movies is now dull . . .
A break of 30 years would go along way ...
You mean, New movies loosely based on the legacy Star Wars canon that may or may not resemble anything close to a Star Wars movie, coming in 2022, 2024, and 2026.
STAR WARS is D E A D; Kathleen Kennedy and her SJW sycophants killed it.
Our entire family were die-hard Star Wars fans, no more, we won’t be giving Disney Rat a penny to watch their dreck no matter how often they release it.
Three I won’t bother seeing.
Me too, never seen one, never will.
That will be called the "Men Suck" Trilogy. Presumably it will explore the LGBTQ corner of the galaxy.
I don’t like what Rian Johnson did with The Last Jedi. Hopefully, these will be better.
Star Wars is now Social Wars.
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