These Upcoming Star Wars Movies Have New Official Release Dates… Supposedly
Disney announced a few key film pushbacks, including Star Wars. But honestly, I’m not holding my breath that we’ll see them at all.
Disney recently announced a number of release film date pushbacks, including Marvel, Avatar, and Star Wars titles. But with these release-date shakeups come new official release dates. So we should still feel pretty secure knowing that these projects will definitely see the light of day, right? Unfortunately, I’m dubious.
The Projects and the Pushbacks
As of right now, there are three feature films Star Wars on Disney’s galactic calendar. The first yet untitled project had a release date of December 19th, 2025, and has since been pushed back to May 22nd, 2026. That’s only about a six-month shift and not terribly concerning so far.
The other two projects are also untitled, though. One is scheduled for a December 18 2026 release date with the other set to follow up about a year later on December 17th, 2027.
In the grand scheme of recent Disney reschedules, this is all pretty minor and on its own would hardly be a blip on my radar. After all, Avatar 5 is getting a multi-year delay and won’t be released until 2031. Oof. Sorry, Avatar fans.
What are These Movies Even Going to Be?
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At this point, so many Star Wars projects have been floated, promised, announced to much fanfare, and then shelved and seemingly forgotten forever. What happened to Rangers of the New Republic? What about Rogue Squadron? It’s hard to get excited about a movie when it seems all but guaranteed and then never even makes it into production.
As for these currently upcoming movies, we know that the Taika Waititi Star Wars project is in pre-production and set to begin filming in 2024. And after that, a brand new movie, starring Rey as she attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order, was announced this year at Star Wars Celebration in London. Kathleen Kennedy promised that particular movie was already well underway- which to me says being written, cast, etc. Another movie almost exactly a year after that?
Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. Maybe a sequel to the Rey movie? Maybe Mando and Grogu will be taking the big screen. Who knows.
But this was all before the writer’s strike. And until these giant corporations decide to start paying the people who make their stories what they’re worth, those stories may be on indefinite hiatus. Let’s hope they decide to start paying up soon.
Disney Doesn’t Always Seem to Know What to Do With Their Franchises
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Sometimes I still think of the earlier MCU films and wonder when everything fell off. There just used to be a higher concentration of better movies that hit harder and made more sense. And now we have to sit through a Quantumania in hopes that the next thing will be a little more watchable.
Unfortunately, it’s not hard to see the same issues in Star Wars. Some projects will be incredible, like Andor. And others feel like they floundered around with no real plan. At the very least, we deserve to see some amount of planning and forethought within trilogies. For all of their issues, at least Marvel has a plan.
So it’s hard to feel excited about movies that may never see the light of day with plots, themes, and even time periods that we can’t begin to nail down or guess. And now with these pushbacks, it’s even harder to get excited because, with a history of indefinitely shelving projects, the little voice in the back of my head whispers, “Those movies aren’t happening.”
Which of the recent Disney film pushbacks are you most upset about? Least? What do you think the three announced upcoming Star Wars projects will be? If you could write your own Star Wars film, what would it be about? Let us know in the comments!
May the Force be with you, adventurers!
