The “Star Wars” universe is expanding on Disney+. Check out our guide to every upcoming series announced for the streaming site.
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Release date: May 4, 2021
Status: Completed
Picking up after the events of “The Clone Wars”, the new animated series follows an elite squad of experimental clones as they navigate their way through an ever-changing galaxy. “The Clone Wars” and “The Mandalorian” executive producer Dave Filoni will serve as showrunner for “The Bad Batch”.
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Release date: December 25, 2020
Status: Completed
After diving into the first eight episodes of season 1, “Disney Gallery” is getting a new one-hour look at the making of season 2. The episode will go behind the scenes with cast and crew to hear about what it was like bringing Boba Fett back to the screen and the live-action debut of Ahsoka Tano.
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Release date: December 2021
Status: In production
It’s the spinoff series no one saw coming. During the 2020 Disney Investor Day presentation, president of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy announced the “next chapter” of “The Mandalorian” saga would come December 2021. While most people assumed that meant season 3 of the series, it was actually a surprise tease for “The Book of Boba Fett”. Director Jon Favreau confirmed the announcement following the season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian” that saw Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) return to Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine in a post-credits sequence. Both actors will reprise their roles in the new series.
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Release date: December 2021
Status: Production begins March 2021
Rumours that season 3 of “The Mandalorian” would shift focus to Boba Fett were put to rest with the announcement of “The Book Of Boba Fett”. Pedro Pascal will be back behind Mando’s helmet but no word on whether the egg-loving Grogu will return.
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Release date: TBA 2022
Status: In production
“Clone Wars” fan-favourite character Ahsoka Tano made her live-action debut in season 2 of “The Mandalorian”. Played by Rosario Dawson, Jedi Ahsoka will get her own limited “Star Wars” spinoff from Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.
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Release date: TBA 2022
Status: In Production
One of “Rogue One”’s heroes, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), is getting his own prequel series. While we all know how “Rogue One” worked out for its heroes, “Andor” is described as a “tense nail-biting thriller” set during the formative years of the Rebellion that will chronicle the events that led up to the character’s introduction. The 12-episode series will also see the return of Alan Tudyk’s K-2SO and fan-favourite Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) while Stellan Skarsgard and Fiona Shaw join the cast.
"It is really cool to tell a story where you already know the ending," Luna previously told ET. "It is a different approach, because it's how things happen. It's not just what happens. It's not the typical way of approaching a story... You know the ending, but you don't know how it happened, and we have that challenge in front of us again, which is exciting."
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Release date: TBA
Status: Production to begin March 2021
Fans have been clamouring for Ewan McGregor to return to his prequel trilogy role as Obi-Wan Kenobi for years. At D23 in 2019 it was finally confirmed that the Scottish actor would return to the role as the Jedi Master for a new Disney+ series. But he’s not the only one returning: At the 2020 Disney Investor Day it was confirmed that Canadian actor Hayden Christensen would also join the series to reprise his role as Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a. Darth Vader.
Set 10 years after “The Revenge Of The Sith”, the series, Kennedy teased, would centre upon “the rematch of the century.”
The series was put on pause for “retooling” at the script level in early 2020 after early reports indicated that storyline felt too similar to “The Mandalorian”’s storyline of an experienced character taking a protective stance over the young.
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Release date: TBA
Status: Announced
“Rangers Of The New Republic” is yet another “Mandalorian” spinoff. Initially conceived to focus on Gina Carano’s Cara Dune who has been enlisted by the New Republic, the series will get a new spin following the actress' firing over racist comments.
"These interconnected shows -- along with future stories -- will excite new audiences, embrace our most passionate fans and will culminate in a climactic story event," Kennedy teased during Disney Investor Day.
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Release date: TBA
Status: Pre-production
“The Acolyte” will take viewers back in time to the golden age of the Jedi. Set hundreds of years before Luke Skywalker’s days, the series will reportedly feature a female protagonist and is described as "a mystery-thriller that will take us into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark sides in the final days of the High Republic era." “Russian Doll” showrunner Leslye Headland will write and executive-produce the series.
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Release date: TBA
Status: Announced
The galaxy’s smoothest and finest cape-wearing scoundrel is finally getting his time in the spotlight in a new Disney+ series developed by “Dear White People”’s Justin Simien. Described as an “event series”, it is unclear which Lando Calrissian we’ll get to see: the OG Lando originated by Billy Dee Williams, Donald Glover who portrayed a younger version in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”, or an entirely new actor.
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Release date: TBA
Status: Announced
“Star Wars” is recruiting the finest Japanese animators for 10 short anime films set in a galaxy far, far away. While details have yet to be released, the series will offer “a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to ‘Star Wars’,” according to Disney and LucasFilm.
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Release date: TBA
Status: Announced
“Star Wars” fans of the 1980s will remember Nelvana’s short-lived animated “Droids” series featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO. Now, the dynamic duo will get another shot in the spotlight in “A Droid Story”. A hybrid of animation and special effects will see the beloved droids guiding a new hero through the galaxy on a mission “known only to them,” according to Kennedy. In light of this new series, one can only hope for an eventual update of the ‘80s animated “Ewoks” series.