Remember Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars film? Don’t fear, the Deadpool & Wolverine director continues to be making the movie — and we’ve even acquired slightly replace about it to reassure us, direct from the venture’s author, Jonathan Tropper.
“I’m [excited] too,” the scribe instructed Screen Rant concerning the future movie. “I hope it is on the way in which before you assume.”
The film is, at this level, largely an entire thriller. One of the one issues we actually find out about it up to now is that it’s set after The Rise of Skywalker. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy beforehand defined the movie’s place within the timeline. “That’s additionally sooner or later,” she mentioned of Levy’s movie in an interview with Deadline in February. “It’s all post-[the first] 9. Shawn’s is a standalone Star Wars story that’ll happen post-nine, possibly 5 – 6 years out.” That would make this movie the primary one to discover the post-Rise of Skywalker period.
In the identical chat, Kennedy additionally confirmed that the film would arrive after 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu. “I’m producing the Mandalorian film proper now, and I’m additionally producing Shawn Levy’s film, which is after that,” she defined. Finally, the final main element we find out about Levy’s venture is that Ryan Gosling is reportedly set to star within the movie.
Hopefully Tropper’s phrases are a superb omen that signifies issues are lastly on monitor for Levy’s movie. After all, it’s not going to return till not less than the final quarter of 2026, if not 2027 — so finally, we’ve lots of ready to do.
Disney hasn’t launched a Star Wars movie for the reason that universally panned Star Wars: Episode 9 – The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, nevertheless it has cancelled a number of movies in that point, comparable to one from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and one other trilogy from Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff. In November, a Star Wars film that had beforehand staked out a late 2026 launch date was pulled from Disney’s calendar.
At 2023’s Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm introduced three new Star Wars function movies: a Dave Filoni-directed New Republic movie set in his Mando-verse, a Dawn of the Jedi film led by James Mangold, and a New Jedi Order function directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy that is set to have Daisy Ridley reprise her position as Rey after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker.
That Obaid-Chinoy venture has gone by way of a number of adjustments, with screenwriter Steven Knight lately departing after taking on for Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Still, Rey as a personality continues to be apparently a serious precedence for Disney shifting ahead, with a current THR report saying that she’s set to seem in a number of upcoming Star Wars movies.
And, consider it or not, that is not even all Disney has on the Star Wars docket shifting ahead. It was revealed late final 12 months that X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is ready to write down a brand new trilogy that is not, opposite to preliminary studies, a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.
The subsequent Star Wars property to hit your display screen will probably be Season 2 of Andor, which is ready to premiere on Disney+ on April 22 with a jam-packed triple premiere episode.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
