Baby Yoda on the Big Screen: What to Expect From Star Wars in 2026

2025 proved to beryllium a reasonably quiescent twelvemonth for the Star Wars franchise, though it’s hard to sniff astatine thing arsenic large arsenic Andor Season 2. Still, it’s harmless to accidental fans are jonesing for caller Star Wars contented similar decease instrumentality addicts. Fortunately, Lucasfilm seems poised to present successful 2026.

2026 promises to beryllium a overmuch much progressive twelvemonth connected the Star Wars front. For 1 thing, we’re yet getting a caller live-action Star Wars movie, 7 years aft The Rise of Skywalker landed successful theaters. And with a steadfast lineup of caller shows (both live-action and animated), comics, and adjacent a game, there’s a batch to look guardant to successful the adjacent 12 months. Let’s interruption it each down.

Star Wars Returns to Theaters

Again, it’s been a amazingly agelong clip since there’s been a caller Star Wars movie successful theaters. The reasonably frosty reception to The Rise of Skywalker decidedly has a batch to bash with that. But if anyone tin reverse Disney’s fortunes connected the large screen, it’s Mando and his cute small son.

Disney volition merchandise manager Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu successful theaters connected May 26. This caller movie is simply a continuation of the Disney+ bid The Mandalorian. In fact, each signs constituent to it efficaciously being The Mandalorian Season 4 successful a much condensed form. Once again, we’re going to spot Pedro Pascal’s Mando and small Grogu judge a ngo connected behalf of the New Republic. They’ll again bash conflict with the remnants of the Empire and clash with each mode of scum and villainy.

While we’ll spot immoderate acquainted faces from the bid instrumentality (including co-creator Dave Filoni’s quality Trapper Wolf and Steve Blum’s Zeb Orelios), the movie volition present respective caller players successful the Mando-verse. That includes Sigourney Weaver arsenic New Republic operative Col. Ward, Jonny Coyne arsenic an Imperial warlord, and Jeremy Allen White arsenic the oddly buff Rotta the Hutt (whom you mightiness retrieve from the archetypal Clone Wars movie).

The Mandalorian has decidedly been 1 of the large successes of the Disney Star Wars era, but does it person the powerfulness to propulsion successful moviegoers successful this progressively fickle theatrical market? We’ll see, particularly aft the somewhat mixed absorption to Season 3. At slightest Disney nary longer has to interest astir releasing successful the aforesaid play arsenic Grand Theft Auto VI.

Beyond The Mandalorian and Grogu, we’re expecting that Star Wars fans volition get a sensation of Disney’s 2027 theatrical slate arsenic well. Production precocious wrapped connected Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, truthful we’re astir guaranteed to get a trailer for that movie astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026 (perhaps successful clip for Star Wars Day?).

We besides cognize that the long-running rumors are existent astir Disney releasing the classic, non-Special Edition versions of the Original Trilogy successful theaters. Those 3 restorations volition deed theaters successful 2027, but hopefully we’ll spot trailers for them good up of clip and get an thought of conscionable what this remastered footage looks like.

Star Wars connected Disney+

The Star Wars lineup connected Disney+ this twelvemonth isn’t rather arsenic stacked arsenic it was successful 2023 and 2024. Lucasfilm is decidedly pulling backmost a spot with caller streaming releases. Still, determination are respective cardinal projects to look guardant to successful 2026.

While not definitively confirmed for a 2026 release, we’re hoping to spot Season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka astatine immoderate constituent successful the second fractional of the year. Season 2 volition prime up close wherever the archetypal near disconnected successful 2023. Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo’s Sabine Wren are marooned successful different galaxy, portion Lars Mikkelsen’s Grand Admiral Thrawn has returned to assistance the dying Empire successful its combat against the New Republic.

Like the first, Ahsoka Season 2 volition dwell of 8 episodes, each written by creator Dave Filoni. Fans tin expect astir of the Season 1 formed to return, which besides includes Ivanna Sakhno’s Shin Hati, Eman Esfandi’s Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Hera Syndulla, and Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker. The 1 large objection is that Rory McCann volition regenerate the precocious Ray Stevenson arsenic fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll.

Again, Lucasfilm has yet to corroborate a 2026 release, though filming connected Season 2 did wrapper up backmost successful September 2025. We’re expecting this amusement to beryllium a cardinal portion of the studio’s Star Wars strategy going forward, arsenic it’s astir apt going to straight acceptable the signifier for Filoni’s live-action Star Wars movie.

One amusement that is simply a fastener for 2026, though, is the animated bid Maul: Shadow Lord. Like Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Shadow Lord is simply a Clone Wars spinoff acceptable successful the aboriginal days of the Empire’s reign. Having precocious escaped Republic custody, Maul is determined to rebuild his transgression empire. The bid volition amusement america however Maul came to beryllium wherever helium is successful 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, though we’ll person to spot however overmuch of the timeline it yet covers.

Sam Witwer volition reprise his relation arsenic Maul, portion the bid is enforcement produced by Filoni, Brad Rau, Athena Yvette Portillo, and Matt Michnovetz.

Also connected the animated Star Wars front, Star Wars: Visions is getting a miniseries spinoff called Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi. As the rubric suggests, this bid volition beryllium a continuation of Production I.G.’s “The Ninth Jedi” shorts from Visions Season 1 and 3. It’s a earthy choice, arsenic there’s intelligibly acold much communicative near to archer successful this bleak yet adventurous instrumentality connected the Star Wars mythos.

Star Wars Games: Now This Is Podracing

2025 was beauteous quiescent connected the Star Wars gaming front, with the lone notable merchandise being immoderate DLC and a Nintendo Switch 2 larboard for Ubisoft’s Star Wars: Outlaws. The bully quality is that we tin expect astatine slightest 1 large caller merchandise successful 2026. We anticipation you similar podracing.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is the spiritual successor to 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: Racer and 2002’s Star Wars Racer Revenge. It’s an arcade racer wherever players instrumentality power of those deadly machines successful high-stakes contests crossed the galaxy. And arsenic the trailer reveals, the crippled adjacent features Sebulba trying to reclaim his crown, truthful determination whitethorn beryllium much of a crippled this clip around.

Galactic Racer is developed by Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode. That’s a bully thing, arsenic Fuse Games is made up of respective ex-Criterion Games developers. The crippled volition merchandise connected PC, PS5, and Xbox astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026.

Beyond that, it remains to beryllium seen if we get immoderate caller Star Wars gaming contented successful 2026 extracurricular of the mobile world. We’re crossing our fingers that we’ll astatine slightest larn much astir the aboriginal of the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was precocious revealed astatine the Game Awards. That crippled whitethorn beryllium excessively acold retired for different trailer adjacent year, but you ne'er know. And reports suggest that remakes of the archetypal 2 games are inactive successful development, truthful it’s ever imaginable we’ll get a trailer for 1 of those.

What’s Up With the Star Wars Comics?

Normally, Marvel’s Star Wars enactment is 1 of the much dependable sources of caller contented each year. But there’s a large question people hanging implicit that country of the franchise heading into 2026. Despite launching respective caller ongoing bid successful 2025, it looks similar Marvel is abruptly ending them successful the aboriginal months of the year. Star Wars writer Alex Segura precocious confirmed that his bid is ending with contented #10, cutting abbreviated this saga of a post-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. The Kylo Ren-focused Star Wars: Legacy of Vader is besides ending with contented #12 successful January.

That leaves lone a fistful of smaller projects connected the books for 2026. We cognize that Marvel volition people Star Wars: Shadow of Maul, a miniseries that serves arsenic a prequel to the upcoming Shadow Lord cartoon. There’s besides a Jar Jar Binks one-shot co-written by nary different than histrion Ahmed Best.

Art by Phil Noto. (Image Credit: Marvel/Lucasfilm)

But beyond that, we’re not truly definite what to expect from Marvel connected the Star Wars front. We presume the steadfast has thing successful caput to capable the void near by books similar Star Wars and Legacy of Vader. The franchise mightiness not beryllium rather the chart-topper it was 10 years ago, but they’re not going to simply signifier retired publishing Star Wars comics. Will they proceed to soma retired the Sequel Trilogy epoch oregon determination elsewhere successful the timeline? Hopefully, we’ll larn much sooner alternatively than later.

But if you similar novels to comics, the aboriginal is looking a small rosier. Random House has respective caller Star Wars novels hitting adjacent year. That includes writer Mike Chen’s Outlaws: Low Red Moon, a prequel to the crippled starring Jaylen Vrax and ND-5, Madeleine Roux’s Legacy, focused connected Rey’s Jedi training, and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Reign of the Empire: Edge of the Abyss, the 2nd publication successful the trilogy that traces the aboriginal origins of the Rebel Alliance.

And that’s what to expect from the Star Wars franchise successful 2026 crossed film, streaming, games, and books. Which Star Wars task are you astir looking guardant to this year? Vote successful our canvass and fto america cognize what you deliberation successful the comments below.

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