Simply over every week after asserting a brand new trilogy of Star Wars function movies is in improvement with author Simon Kinberg, there’s one other element for speculation-crazed Star Wars followers to ponder. Disney has shifted an “Untitled Star Wars” movie from its upcoming schedule, slotting Ice Age 6 onto that launch date (December 18, 2026) instead.
Selection confirmed the date change. A few issues proper off the bat: that doesn’t imply the Star Wars movie isn’t occurring. It simply means there can be an extended wait to see it. It additionally doesn’t change the truth that the subsequent big-screen Star Wars journey, The Mandalorian & Grogu, is at present set to hit theaters Could 22, 2026. Disney additionally has yet one more Star Wars movie, equally untitled, nonetheless held on December 17, 2027.
Nevertheless, the schedule change does deliver up some attention-grabbing questions, particularly since Star Wars is in a second the place Lucasfilm is feeling rising stress to resolve what comes subsequent for the franchise. After Kinberg’s trilogy was introduced, io9 took a have a look at your entire upcoming Star Wars slate—together with confirmed initiatives, initiatives most likely coming however that aren’t but in manufacturing, and stuff that’s been form of drifting within the galaxy far, distant.
So what was most definitely to have been hovering over that December 18, 2026 spot? It’s a must to guess it had been put aside for one of many three options introduced at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023: Sharmeen Obiad-Chinoy’s story specializing in Daisy Ridley’s Rey and the New Jedi Order; Dave Filoni’s Mandoverse-adjacent movie rumored to include the Inheritor to the Empire novels; and James Mangold’s exploration of the earliest days of the Jedi.
With Kinberg’s trilogy now coming into the combination, it’s totally potential Lucasfilm wished to purchase extra time to resolve which of those films to launch first. Even past the scrutinized realm of Star Wars media, launch dates change in Hollywood on a regular basis—and there’s no arguing with the concept that taking extra time to get the film proper is best than dashing one thing to screens, irrespective of how impatient followers would possibly get.
At any fee, the man with the helmet and his little inexperienced buddy can be coming in a couple of 12 months and a half; perhaps by then, we’ll have a greater thought of what is going to observe it to screens. What do you hope is the subsequent Star Wars film after The Mandalorian and Grogu?
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