
“We’re going very far back, we’re looking at the present, and now we’re moving 15 years after The Rise Of Skywalker. “What we’re exploring is the evolution of the Jedi,” Kennedy confirms.

It’s all about looking into the wider lore and legacy of the Jedi belief system. And Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will bring back Daisy Ridley as Rey, in a film set 15 years beyond the end of Episode IX. Dave Filoni will continue the Mando-verse era in a big-screen event. James Mangold is directing a film about the first Jedi and the discovery of the Force, set 25,000 years before the Skywalker Saga. “It’s much better to tell the truth,” she says, “that we’re going to make these movies when they’re ready to be made, and release them when they’re ready to be released.”Īs for what those films are about, they’re set across a wide span of the Star Wars timeline. We have to eventise this.” The simple answer is, nothing is likely to hit the multiplexes until at least 2025. I feel that was very important to Star Wars. “That’s every three or four years and there wasn’t this pressure to feel like you had to have a movie every year. “I’ve often brought up Bond,” Kennedy tells us at Star Wars Celebration. Now, it’s a question of when those three upcoming movies are expected to arrive – and, as Kennedy tells Empire, that’s simply a case of when they’re ready.

But plans are afoot for the galaxy’s glorious return to cinemas – Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently confirmed plans for three new films at Star Wars Celebration, with The Force ready to awaken on the big screen once more. The focus moved to hit streaming series like The Mandalorian and Andor on Disney+, and the birth of the High Republic era in a series of novels and comics. When Episode IX – The Rise Of Skywalker hit cinemas at the end of 2019, it marked not only the end of the Skywalker Saga, but also a hiatus for the movie side of Star Wars storytelling.


As Star Wars Day – aka May the Fourth – comes around in 2023, it’s now around three and a half years since a new Star Wars movie graced the big screen.
