A Star Wars film that had beforehand staked out a late 2026 launch date has been pulled from Disney’s calendar.
As reported by Variety on Friday, the movie has been faraway from the beforehand introduced Dec. 18, 2026, date, which is able to now see the discharge of Ice Age 6 as an alternative.
That does not imply we’re not getting any Star Wars in 2026, nonetheless. As it stands now, The Mandalorian & Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau, remains to be slated for a May 22, 2026, launch.
It’s unclear what particular Star Wars film was set for that December date, however Disney has a lot of initiatives within the universe in growth. At final 12 months’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 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker.
That Obaid-Chinoy venture has gone by way of a number of modifications as of late, with screenwriter Steven Knight lately departing after taking up for Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Still, Rey as a personality remains to be apparently a significant precedence for Disney transferring ahead, with a current THR report saying that she’s set to look in a number of upcoming Star Wars movies.
And, imagine it or not, that is not even all Disney has on the Star Wars docket transferring ahead. It was revealed simply earlier this month that X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is about to jot down a brand new trilogy that is not, opposite to preliminary stories, a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.
Ice Age 6, in the meantime, was officially confirmed at D23 Brazil final week. When it releases, it’s going to mark 10 years since the latest mainline entry in Ice Age, 2016’s Collision Course, though spinoff The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild got here out in 2022.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, you will discover her studying fantasy novels or enjoying Dungeons & Dragons.
