Upcoming New Star Wars Movies and TV Shows: 2026 Release Dates and Beyond

There are a clump of large Star Wars projects successful the works, similar the Jon Favreau-directed The Mandalorian & Grogu movie, the confirmation of Ahsoka: Season 2, and a caller Star Wars movie starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy. It's wide that determination are inactive plentifulness of stories to archer successful a postulation far, acold away.

From scoundrels to Jedi masters to bounty hunters, we've cooked up a database featuring each the upcoming Star Wars TV shows and movies. While immoderate are locked and others are conscionable manufacture reports that haven't been confirmed by Disney, 1 thing's for definite - determination are passionate plans successful the works to springiness america a batch more of Star Wars, whether it's a communicative centered connected beloved characters oregon an wholly caller cosmic adventure.

Click close done the scruffy-looking slideshow beneath to spot what's coming, and a mates of "maybes" too...

What Are the Next Star Wars Movies and TV Shows Coming Out? 2026 Release Dates

For those keeping track, here's the afloat lineup of upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows:

• Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian & Grogu Movie (May 22, 2026)
• Maul: Shadow Lord Series (2026)
• Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi (2026)
• Star Wars: Starfighter (May 28, 2027)
• Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 (In Development)
• Taika Waititi's Star Wars Movie (In Development)
• James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi Movie (In Development)
• Dave Filoni's Mando-Verse New Republic Movie (In Development)
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's New Jedi Order Movie (In Development)
• Simon Kinberg's Star Wars Trilogy (In Development)
• Carlton & Nick Cuse's Star Wars Series (In Development)
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Movie (Status Unknown)
• The Mandalorian: Season 4 / The Book of Boba Fett: Season 2 (Status Unknown)
• Star Wars: Lando Movie (Status Unknown)
• Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic TV Series (Presumed Canceled)
• Untitled J.D. Dillard/Matt Owens Movie (Presumed Canceled)
• Rian Johnson's Star Wars Trilogy (Presumed Canceled)
• Kevin Feige's Star Wars Movie (Canceled)
• David Benioff & DB Weiss' Star Wars Movies (Canceled)

Here are the Star Wars projects that are closest to becoming a world (or astatine slightest look to be) astatine the moment...

The Mandalorian & Grogu Movie (May 22, 2026)

Lucasfilm turned heads with the announcement of a Mandalorian spinoff movie abstracted from Filoni's Mando-Verse New Republic crossover film. Dubbed The Mandalorian & Grogu, this movie volition beryllium helmed by The Mandalorian co-creator Jon Favreau. It's assumed the movie is taking the spot of The Mandalorian: Season 4.

Filming wrapped astatine the extremity of 2024, meaning this volition upwind up being the archetypal Star Wars task to deed the large surface since 2019's The Rise of Skywalker. The Mandalorian & Grogu has a May 22, 2026 merchandise date.

Maul: Shadow Lord Series (2026)

The Star Wars franchise volition stay successful the post-Clone Wars, pre-A New Hope epoch for its adjacent animated series, which focuses connected the erstwhile Darth Maul arsenic helium seeks to rebuild his transgression empire successful the property of the Empire. Lucasfilm teases the bid volition showcase Maul "plotting to rebuild his transgression syndicate connected a satellite untouched by the Empire." Sam Witwer volition reprise his relation arsenic Maul. Look for it to debut connected Disney+ successful 2026.

Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi (2026)

The animated anthology bid 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: Starfighter (May 28, 2027)

The adjacent Star Wars movie hitting theaters aft The Mandalorian and Grogu is Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy and starring the Driver himself, Ryan Gosling. The movie is acceptable astir 5 years aft the events of The Rise of Skywalker, putting it further down the Star Wars timeline than immoderate movie oregon amusement to date.

There are fewer details connected what the movie would beryllium about, but Levy has been processing the task with scripter Jonathan Tropper since 2022. Tropper antecedently worked with the manager connected This Is Where I Leave You and The Adam Project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the prospective movie would beryllium unrelated to the Skywalker Saga and would beryllium a standalone story.

Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 (In Development)

When Ahsoka: Season 1 ended connected a cliffhanger, it was unclear whether those escaped ends would beryllium picked up successful a 2nd play oregon provender straight into Dave Filoni's Mando-verse movie. But Lucasfilm has present confirmed Ahsoka: Season 2. There's nary merchandise model yet, though the bid apt won't instrumentality earlier precocious 2025 astatine the soonest.

Taika Waititi's Star Wars Movie (In Development)

Disney has confirmed that Thor: Ragnarok's Taika Waititi has been tapped to nonstop a live-action Star Wars movie. Waititi is besides co-writing the movie alongside 1917's Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Nothing other is known astir the movie yet, including erstwhile it's acceptable successful the Star Wars timeline oregon what merchandise day it'll extremity up claiming. In 2021 Waititi revealed he's cracked the communicative for his movie, but the existent publication is inactive successful its aboriginal stages. In May, 2022, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that this would beryllium the adjacent Star Wars movie released, portion successful March, 2023, Variety reported that this could beryllium the task that snaps up the presently bare December, 2025, merchandise day connected Lucasfilm's slate. In February, 2025, however, Kennedy confirmed that she inactive hasn't seen a finished publication from Waititi, saying “if we ever bash get a publication from Taika, it’s going to beryllium fantastic.”

James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi Movie (In Development)

At Star Wars Celebration 2023, we learned that Logan manager James Mangold is directing a movie astir the precise archetypal Jedi Knights. Little is known astir the movie, different than that it's acceptable astir 25,000 years earlier the different films and volition beryllium "biblical" successful scope.

Dave Filoni's Mando-Verse New Republic Movie (In Development)

Dave Filoni volition marque the leap from Star Wars shows to the large screen. Filoni is directing a movie acceptable aft the events of Return of the Jedi. The movie is said to necktie unneurotic shows similar The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's New Jedi Order Movie (In Development)

Ms. Marvel's Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is directing the archetypal Star Wars movie acceptable aft the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Daisy Ridley volition instrumentality to reprise the relation of Rey Skywalker, with the movie focusing connected Rey's efforts to rebuild the Jedi aft the last conflict with Emperor Palpatine. It's expected that different actors from the Sequel Trilogy volition besides return.

At assorted points successful its development, Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, and past Steven Knight, were attached to constitute the film. However, each person since near the project. Still, reports bespeak that Rey arsenic a quality is inactive a large precedence astatine Disney. In January, 2025, George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum) was the latest writer hired to publication the film.

Simon Kinberg's Star Wars Trilogy (In Development)

Deadline reports that X-Men shaper (and Star Wars Rebels co-creator) Simon Kinberg has been tapped to oversee a brand-new trilogy of Star Wars films. Kinberg volition constitute the trilogy and nutrient alongside Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy. Deadline's sources springiness conflicting reports arsenic to what the trilogy volition really beryllium about, though. It whitethorn beryllium a nonstop continuation of the Skywalker Saga, efficaciously making Kinberg the designer of Episodes X done XII. However, others assertion the trilogy volition absorption connected a caller storyline, coexisting alongside different in-development projects by James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Dave Filoni. IGN has since confirmed that the second is the case.

Carlton & Nick Cuse's Star Wars Series (In Development)

Variety reports that Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse is processing a streaming Star Wars bid with his son, Watchmen and The Leftovers writer Nick Cuse. That's virtually each we cognize astir this mysterious project, arsenic there's nary connection connected the plot, timeline, characters, oregon different communicative details yet.

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Status Unknown)

Wonder Woman manager Patty Jenkins was fixed the reins of a Star Wars theatrical film, which was primitively slated to deed theaters successful Christmas of 2023. Kathleen Kennedy teased, "This communicative volition present a caller procreation of starfighter pilots arsenic they gain their wings and hazard their lives successful a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill ride. The fable of Rogue Squadron has been agelong beloved by Star Wars fans, and volition determination america into a aboriginal epoch of the galaxy."

However, arsenic of November 2021 the movie was nary longer connected the accumulation docket portion Jenkins reportedly focused connected Wonder Woman 3 (which has since been cancelled). Industry insider Matthew Belloni reported the movie was the latest successful a agelong enactment of Star Wars projects hampered by "creative differences." And successful March of 2023, Variety reported that a root has stated that the movie is nary longer successful progressive development. In April of that year, Kennedy told IGN the following: "Rogue Squadron, that decidedly is thing that we inactive speech about. Whether it's a movie, oregon whether it ends up being successful the bid space, that's decidedly something."

The Mandalorian: Season 4 / The Book of Boba Fett: Season 2 (Status Unknown)

There's presently nary connection connected a 4th play of The Mandalorian oregon a 2nd play of The Book of Boba Fett. The announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu whitethorn mean the erstwhile bid has ended its small-screen run, and we're not holding our enactment for much The Book of Boba Fett astatine this point.

Star Wars: Lando Movie (Status Unknown)

While Lucasfilm seems to person nary plans for a sequel to 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian was expected to get his ain live-action bid astatine 1 point. The task was announced successful December 2020, and was being developed by Dear White People's Justin Simien. However, Simien yet departed the project, with Glover and his member Stephen Glover taking implicit arsenic writers. And successful the autumn of 2023 Stephen revealed that Lando is present expected to instrumentality signifier arsenic a movie alternatively than a show.

Amidst a bid of large delays astatine Disney, the merchandise dates for the adjacent 2 Star Wars movies present basal astatine May 22, 2026 (The Mandalorian & Grogu) and December 17, 2027 (title unknown). Additionally, a Star Wars rubric primitively planned for December 18, 2026, was replaced by Ice Age 6 successful November 2024.

Lucasfilm has besides said determination are respective unannounced films successful development. What could they be? Only time... and the Force... volition tell.

Which Star Wars task are you astir excited for? Let america cognize successful the comments!

Star Wars Movies and TV Shows Released successful 2024

• The Bad Batch Season 3 (February 21, 2024)
• Tales of the Empire (May 4, 2024)
• The Acolyte (June 4, 2024)
• Skeleton Crew (December 2, 2024)

Note: This communicative was updated connected 12/23/2025. It was primitively posted connected 7/29/2021.

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