So, as of now, Disney/Lucasfilm has two dates officially secured for their next two Star Wars movies...
- December 19, 2025
- December 17, 2027
I've read a couple articles recently, and listened to the latest Ringer-verse podcast on all the announcements this past weekend, and in regards to the three movies just announced it sounds like...
- The Filoni movie is "six or seven years away," according to Kathleen Kennedy. Which would have it releasing in 2029 or 2030, after all season of The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, Skelton Crew, etc have come out on Disney+. In other words, they're going to milk this era for everything it's worth on Disney+ first, before finally doing their crossover, Avengers-style climax movie toward the end of the decade, one that will basically set the stage for The Force Awakens.
- While putting the finishing touches on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, James Mangold is currently writing - simultaneously - both Swamp Thing for DC *and* his Star Wars movie about the discovery of the Force. He said this past weekend that he doesn't know which one he's going to direct first, he's just going to see to see how the writing process goes for each and play it by ear. That said, either one will have to come after his next directorial effort, a Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothee Chalamet, which starts filming in August.
- Kathleen Kennedy is expecting the first draft of the Steven Knight script in the next six weeks (rewritten from the Damon Lindelof/Justin Britt-Gibson drafts), set to be direct by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and starring Daisy Ridley. Given that it's the furthest project along, if I had to guess...
- December 19, 2025 = Untitled Rey/New Jedi Order Movie
- December 17, 2027 = Untitled James Mangold/Dawn of the Jedi Movie
- December 14, 2029 = Untitled Dave Filoni/New Republic Movie
That said, a few other caveats...
- The Rise of Skywalker came out in 2019. If the Rey movie starts filming next year, for a 2025 release, only six years will have passed for Daisy Ridley between filming the two movies. However, her New Jedi Order movie is set 15 YEARS after The Rise of Skywalker, according to Kathleen Kennedy. So, while, yes, it'd be fairly easy to age Ridley up, or say she doesn't age as fast due to the Force, timeline-wise, it *does* make it an odd choice for the next movie in 2025.
- The Taika Waititi movie is still in play, and is apparently still being written, according to Kennedy. So that could eventually slide into one of these slots as well.
In other words, while three potentially awesome movies were announced this past weekend, we still have no real sense as to what's coming out when. And knowing how Lucasfilm operates under Kennedy/Disney, any of them are obviously subject to change or cancelation at a moment's notice.