All The Massive Information You Ought to Know

Star Wars Celebration 2023 kicked off on April 7 in London and already, only a few hours into the big weekend-long occasion, Lucasfilm has revealed a load of recent details about upcoming Star Wars motion pictures and initiatives. Don’t fear about looking round for all of the information, as we’ve collected all the large, cool Star Wars information right here.

A brand new Star Wars movie set after the Sequel Trilogy starring Daisy Ridley

Maybe the most important information to return out of Celebration to this point is the affirmation that Daisy Ridley is coming again to Star Wars. Disney and Lucasfilm introduced that The Drive Awakens actress will return as Rey in a sequel to the latest Star Wars trilogy. It is going to be set roughly 15 years after the occasions of Rise of Skywalker and might be about Rey’s journey to deliver again the Jedi Order.

This new movie starring Rey might be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with a script written by Steven Knight. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy mentioned the brand new movie might be about Rey on the lookout for contemporary Drive-sensitive recruits as she types a brand new Jedi Order.

“I’ve all the time been interested in the hero’s journey and the truth that the world wants many extra heroes,” mentioned Sharmeen.

“My coronary heart is pounding,” Ridley mentioned on stage on the occasion. “I’m very thrilled to be persevering with this journey.”

Plus two extra Star Wars movies are within the works from Dave Filoni and James Mangold

Lucasfilm didn’t simply announce one Star Wars movie. It introduced three. And the different two Star Wars motion pictures are set in completely completely different eras than Rey’s returning movie.

One of many motion pictures is ready throughout the identical time interval as latest Disney+ exhibits The Mandalorian and E book of Boba Fett and is from Rebels and Clone Wars creator Dave Filoni. In keeping with a weblog submit from Lucasfilm, Filoni’s live-action Star Wars movie will “deal with the New Republic” and can “shut out the interconnected tales informed in The Mandalorian, The E book of Boba Fett, [and] Ashoka.”

Lastly, a 3rd movie from director James Mangold (Logan) can also be in improvement and might be set in a really completely different time interval of the Star Wars galaxy. Mangold’s movie will reveal the “Daybreak of the Jedi” and might be set 25,000 years earlier than the prequels.

“Once I first began speaking to Kathy about doing certainly one of these footage, what occurred to me was fascinated by what sort of style of film inside Star Wars I needed to do,” Mangold mentioned. “And I thought of a Biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, concerning the dawning of the Drive. The place did the Drive come from, when did we uncover it, when did we learn to use it?”

No launch dates got for these movies or an order by which to count on them. And contemplating what number of Star Wars movies have been introduced and canned over the previous couple of years, I’m undecided all of those will see the sunshine of day. However I’m enthusiastic about this method. Three new movies set in three completely different eras looks as if a wise strategy to deliver Star Wars again to theaters and offers the franchise and creators extra flexibility over the place to go subsequent.

The primary trailer for the brand new Ahsoka sequence seems to be wonderful and teases Thrawn

We’ve recognized for some time that Lucasfilm has been engaged on an Ashoka present, with teases and hints being given for nicely over a yr now. Nevertheless, in spite of everything that teasing, we lastly acquired our first correct trailer for the upcoming present starring Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka, a former Jedi who first appeared within the Clone Wars animated present and later in Rebels and The Mandalorian.

Final we noticed her, she and Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren had been getting collectively to go discover their buddy and Jedi-in-training Ezra Bridger who saved the day by utilizing house whales to shoot himself and Grand Adrimal Thrawn off into the void. It appears this new sequence will choose up that storyline, with different Rebels characters returning too, like droid Chopper and pilot Hera Syndulla.

The Ashoka sequence additionally acquired a launch date. It’ll begin streaming on Disney+ this August.

First footage of Star Wars Acolyte revealed to Celebration attendees

Whereas it wasn’t formally posted on-line, Lucasfilm did exhibit the primary footage of its upcoming present Star Wars: The Acolyte. This Disney+ sequence from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) is ready on the finish of the Excessive Republic period about 100 years earlier than Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace and can discover the Darkish Facet of the Drive.

Apparently, Headland appeared on stage with a Wookiee Jedi performed by Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo. She additionally defined that she initially pitched the present to Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy as “Frozen meets Kill Invoice.”

“Shockingly, she didn’t kick me out of the constructing,” Headland mentioned. “It’s Excessive Republic close to the start of the prequels and an thrilling a part of the timeline. That is when the dangerous guys are outnumbered. They’re the underdogs. I’m actually excited for you guys to see belongings you haven’t seen in live-action but.”

Some footage was proven to the gang and you possibly can learn io9’s breakdown of the footage. No particular launch date for this one past 2024.

Andor season 2 coming Summer time 2024

Throughout the present’s Star Wars Celebration panel showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy, together with a number of of the hit present’s writers and star Diego Luna, offered the primary have a look at the upcoming second and closing season of Andor. The footage was launched just for people within the room and hasn’t been formally launched on-line.

Gilroy says the brand new season will premiere in 2024, presumably in August. Right here’s how io9’s Justin Carter described the preview footage of season 2.

Footage proven at Celebration teased the return of key characters, together with Insurgent cell members Vel Sartha and Luthen Rael (out and in of his disguise as an antiquities seller), in addition to Syril Karn, who seems to have gone up on this planet, and been thrust into a better class of Imperial citizenship.

Scenes additionally confirmed Mon Mothma slowly constructing alliances, making an attempt to deliver her disparate senatorial and rebellious worlds collectively as dissent grows throughout the galaxy. A number of pictures confirmed a protest being policed by Stormtroopers, the place violence breaks out with numerous explosions and many chaos.

However on the coronary heart of all of it was footage of Cassian, each skulking via hallways and seemingly coming into his personal as a Insurgent spy. The trailer concluded with Luthen echoing his remark from season one—“Don’t you wish to struggle these bastards for actual?”—over a shot of Cassian, dressed up in a elaborate go well with along with his hair slicked again, in some sort of fancy bar.

First have a look at Star Wars Skeleton Crew starring Jude Regulation

In new footage launched by Jude Regulation throughout right this moment’s Celebration occasion, audiences had been proven a trailer that options youngsters residing on an unnamed forest world. They do boring youngsters stuff like go to highschool and all that, however need extra. They need journey. They usually discover it.

Right here’s how io9 described the footage they noticed:

The youngsters seem to have discovered their means aboard a mercenary starship. There are pictures of them encountering bizarre creatures, holograms of their dad and mom again residence begging for them to return, and the youngsters being menaced by pirates

The youngsters discover themselves on the run from blaster hearth in what seems to be like a pirate base and flying away on their new ship earlier than the trailer concludes with them locked up in a jail cell carved out of a cave.

A hooded determine approaches, floating the important thing to their freedom in entrance of the youngsters with a whimsical show of the pressure. “He’s a Jedi!” One of many youngsters exclaims because the determine lowers their hood to disclose that it’s Jude Regulation’s mysterious character.

Skeleton Crew was introduced final yr and can discover the world of Star Wars “via the eyes of youngsters” however its creators are clear to level out that it’s not a child’s present “despite the fact that it stars youngsters.” The sequence will observe a gaggle of children from a tiny planet who get misplaced within the galaxy and have to seek out their means again residence. On the Star Wars timeline, Skeleton Crew is occurring across the identical time as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. It’s premiering someday this yr on Disney+.

And that’s it for now. Nevertheless, with Star Wars Celebration simply beginning, it’s very possible extra information about what to anticipate subsequent from the most important sci-fi franchise on this planet might be revealed all through the weekend.