Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Star Wars Celebration Convention Brings Updates on Star Wars Projects

This weekend Star Wars Celebration 2022 was held this weekend in Anaheim, California. With it came new trailers and updates on various Star Wars projects. The next few years, the Disney+ will become stuffed with TV shows from the franchise. Movie plans are in the works but the convention provided little information on that front. Without further ado, here is a quick summary of everything.

Star Wars: Andor - Below is the first teaser trailer for the series. The show is set to have 2 seasons of 12 episodes each. The first season begins five years before Rogue One and the shows course will follow the character over the five years right into his introduction in Rogue One. The first episode is set to premiere on August 31, 2022.


Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 - New season is currently set for a premiere in Feburary 2023. Carl Weather will return and will also direct an episode. Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) will return and appear in more episodes. Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) also has a role in the film. Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) also has a role, likely involving Din's ownership of the Darksaber. Really not much is known about the season except for this casting news as Disney remains tight lipped on all things plot about Star Wars.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - New show announcement. The series will star Jude Law (Fantastic Beasts) and set during the same time period as The Mandalorian (so five or so years after Return of the Jedi). The all ages series will explore the galaxy from the perspective of lost 10 year olds trying to find their home. This is the series that a Vanity Fair article referred to as "galactic version of classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s". The series will be headed by director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home).

Star Wars: Ahsoka - The series is currently filming for a 2023 release. Brief footage was shown at the convention but not released to the public but it did confirm that Star Wars: Rebels character Sabine Wren will be in the series along with her droid Chopper. Sabine will be played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 - Below is the teaser trailer for the second season of the series that will hit Disney+ on September 28, 2022.


Light & Magic - A six part documentary series about Industrial Light and Magic. If there is a breakthrough in special effects in the last 45 years, chances are ILM created it. Directed by screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back), the series will mostly focus on the companies work on the Star Wars franchise.

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures - New animated series set during the High Republic era (so hundred and more years before Phantom Menace). The series focuses on a group of Younglings under Master Yoda's tutilege as they learn how to help people at different locations throughout the galaxy. Series is aiming for a Spring 2023 release.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - An animated anthology series of 6 episodes of around 15 minutes each that will be released in Fall 2022. The series will focus on different Star Wars characters with Ahsoka Tano, Count Dooku, and Liam Neeson voicing Qui-Gon Jinn.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - On the video game front, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a sequel as follow the continuing adventures of Cal Kestis tries to protect Force sensitive children despite the Empire trying to hunt him down.


Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 - The anime series of short films from creators around the world will return in Spring 2023.

Willow - Not Star Wars news but still worth knowing. Below is the official teaser for the series that is a continuation of the classic film.


Indiana Jones 5 - Last but not least is a brief update on this movie. The movie remains set to come out on June 30, 2023 with James Mangold (Logan) directing the film instead of Steven Spielberg. Other than a rumor the plot will involve Nazis, nothing is known about the plot. All we currently have to go on is the image below.


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