With the Skywalker Saga over, the focus has been on the small screen for the past few years with The Mandalorian, which just finished airing it's third season, The Book of Boba Fett, The Bad Batch, Andor and the upcoming Ahsoka. Three new live-action films were announced by Kathleen Kennedy who confirmed that they are all "pretty far along" in development, and are spread out across the timeline.
James Mangold, director of Logan (2017) and the upcoming Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, is directing a film that will take audiences back to the dawn of the Jedi some 25,000 years to deliver "a kind of Bible movie". Since the Disney acquisition of the Star Wars brand rebooted decades of stories, some set in the High Republic era, this is the first time that a story will be told outside of the fifty years or so explored currently.
Dave Filoni, who is the architect behind The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch and the current 'Mando-verse' on the small screen, will direct a film set in the era of the New Republic as a sort of culmination of the events he is currently exploring with Jon Favreau.
The third film announced is directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and will see Daisy Ridley return as Rey building a new Jedi Order fifteen years beyond The Rise of Skywalker. Ridley received a warm welcome to the stage and revealed that she's "very thrilled to be continuing this journey."
Footage was shown of The Acolyte, a series set in the High Republic era starring The Matrix's Carrie Anne-Moss and Amandla Sternberg. Director Leslye Headland described the show as "Frozen meets Kill Bill" and confirmed a 2024 release. Empire Magazine described the footage as "bearing the wide scope, earthy grit, and more adult tone of Andor".
Previously flying under the radar of these previous major announcements is Skeleton Crew, which is about "a group of kids who are about ten years old who get lost in the Star Wars universe" according to No Way Home director John Watts who joined a slate of directors including David Lowery, Bryce Dallas-Howard and Lee Isaac Chung. Among the confirmed cast for the show is Jude Law, who recently featured as a young Albus Dumbledore in the 'Fantastic Beasts' prequels. Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong were introduced as the child stars of the series.
For the ongoing series, it was confirmed that the third season of The Bad Batch would be it's final. The second season has been airing simultaneously with the third season of The Mandalorian. Footage was also shown for the second series of Star Wars: Visions which released onto Disney+ on May 4th, and has been described as more "stylistically varied".
Perhaps the biggest unveiling was for Ahsoka, revealing a trailer online. The show sees Rosario Dawson return as live-action Ahsoka Tano and Lars Mikkelson return as Grand Admiral Thrawn having previously done the voice for him in Star Wars: Rebels. The Ahsoka series is very much a continuation of Rebels, as the trailer gave audiences their first looks at Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren as well as a live-action Chopper (who featured as a cameo in 2016's Rogue One). The show has been confirmed to begin streaming in August, but no specific date has been mentioned.