Star Wars TV Status Report: The Latest on Ahsoka, Andor, Boba Fett and Others
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This list does not include but of is supplemental to any animated offerings, such as The Bad Batch (which unspooled Season 2 in January/February/March 2023), the animé anthology Visions (which will release Volume 2 on May the Fourth) and the upcoming Tales of the Jedi and Young Jedi Adventures series.
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AHSOKA
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Ahsoka follows the former Jedi knight (who made her live-action debut during Season 2 of The Mandalorian and subsequently appeared in The Book of Boba Fett) as she investigates an emerging threat to the vulnerable New Republic.
WHEN IS IT SET?: During the post–Return of the Jedi reconstruction era — same as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
CONFIRMED CAST: Rosario Dawson (as Ahsoka), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (as fan-favorite character Sabine Wren), Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Twi’lek rebellion member Hera Syndulla, Lars Mikkelsen (Star Wars Rebels) as Grand Admiral Thrawn, Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One, Andor) as Mon Mothma, Ray Stevenson (Black Sails) and Ivanna Sakhno as the Force-sensitive villains Baylan Skolland and Shin Hati, Diana Lee Inosanto as the Thrawn-loyal Morgan Elsbeth, David Tennant (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) voicing the droid Huyang… and a droid named Chopper.
WHO’S DIRECTING?: The line-up of directors includes Rebels creator Dave Filoni, Steph Green (Watchmen), Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mandalorian), Jennifer Getzinger (Westworld, Jessica Jones), Geeta Patel (House of the Dragon) and Rick Famuyiwa (The Mandalorian).
NUMBER OF EPISODES: 8
PREMIERE DATE: Season 1 will premiere in August 2023; watch trailer above.
STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Hailing from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and Spider-Man: Homecoming writer Chris Ford, Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. “Finding their way home — and meeting unlikely allies and enemies — will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined,” says the official synopsis. Yet while it stars and is about kids, Skeleton Crew is “as much for kids as The Clone Wars,“ exec producer Dave Filoni said at the 2022 Star Wars Celebration.
WHEN IS IT SET?: During the post-Return of the Jedi reconstruction following the Empire’s demise (same as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka series).
WHO’S DIRECTING?: Watts, The Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian), David Lowery (The Green Knight), Jake Scherier (Lodge 49, BEEF) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari, The Mandalorian) helmed the episodes.
CONFIRMED CAST: Jude Law (The Third Day), Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (#BlackAF), Kyriana Kratter (BUNK’D), Tunde Adebimpe (The Girlfriend Experience) and Robert Timothy Smith.
FILMING STATUS: Post-production was underway as of April 2023.
PREMIERE DATE: Sometime in 2023.
THE ACOLYTE
WHEN IS IT SET?: About 100 years prior to Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: From Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, this mystery-thriller will “take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era,” as a “former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”
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CONFIRMED CAST: Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) as the aforementioned Padawan, Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) as a Jedi Master, Joonas Suotamo (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as a Wookiee Jedi named Kelnacca, Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna) as Vernestra Rwoh, Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Margarita Levieva (Revenge), Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix).
FILMING STATUS: Four episodes were finished as of Star Wars Celebration 2023.
PREMIERE DATE: On track for a 2024 release date.
ANDOR (Season 2)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Andor in its first season followed the titular Cassian (again played by Diego Luna) as his murder (one accidental, the other cold-blooded) of two “corpo” guards led him on a path to meet Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), a key member in the budding Resistance movement. Cassian helped out with the major heist of an Imperial payroll, but even after escaping wound up imprisoned. Following a prison escape, Cass made his way home to Ferrix, for his mother’s funeral, and managed to elude capture by the many factions hunting him. As the season came to a close, he joined Luthen on his Fondor craft, ready to assist the Resistance further.
WHEN IS IT SET?: Season 1 was set five years prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and spanned one year. Season 2 will be another 12 episodes and span the remaining four years leading up to Rogue One.
CONFIRMED (OR AT LEAST ASSUMED) CAST: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly (as Mon Mothma), Denise Gough (Dedra) and Kyle Soller (Syril); possibly Forest Whitaker (Saw Gerrera) and Adria Arjona (Bix).
HOW MANY EPISODES: 12
PREMIERE DATE: On track for an August 2024 release date.
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT (Season 2)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In Season 1, which debuted Dec. 29, 2021, the legendary, eponymous bounty hunter (played by Temuera Morrison) and mercenary Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) navigated the galaxy’s underworld when they returned to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
WHEN IS IT SET: Save for flashbacks/”memories” set shortly after Fett’s seeming demise in Return of the Jedi, most of the action took place during the same timeline as The Mandalorian.
COULD THERE BE A SEASON 2?: There were zero indicators at Star Wars Celebration 2022, but…. “There’s no official word just yet,” series lead Morrison told our sister site Variety after the show’s panel Q&A. “They filmed it like it could just be a nice book and we’ve read the book.”
UPDATE: The final two episodes of The Mandalorian Season 3 is said to “resolve” the events of Boba Fett Season 1. Also, a feature film directed by Star Wars Rebels creator and The Mandalorian EP Dave Filoni will deliver a “culminating event” for The Mandalorian, Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka series.
THE MANDALORIAN (Season 4)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Given the events of The Book of Boba Fett Episode 5 — where Din Djarin was told by the Armorer that he “is a Mandalorian no more,” because he had removed his helmet/shown his face to others — and judging by the trailer above, Season 3 of Disney+’s flagship Star Wars series will find Mando, with Grogu in tow, zipping around in his Naboo N-1 starfighter and aiming to reclaim his status by visiting the “living waters” in the mines under Mandalore. Something which Bo Katan might not be too keen about!
CONFIRMED SEASON 3 CAST: Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Carl Weathers, Emily Swallow, Amy Sedaris and Giancarlo Esposito
PREMIERE DATE: Season 3 premiered on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
WILL THERE BE A SEASON 4?: Franchise boss Jon Favreau said in February 2023 that he had already written Season 4 — and that won’t necessarily be the end, either. “I love for these stories to go on and on…,” he told Total Film. “I’m looking forward to doing much more.”
LANDO
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: “The galaxy’s favorite scoundrel” is all that was said when the series was announced to be in early development in December 2020. Justin Simien (Dear White People) is creating the “event series.”
WHEN IS IT SET: TBA
CONFIRMED CAST: Donald Glover, who played a young Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, seeeeemed to confirm his involvement during a March 2022 visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live. “Am I [working on the series]?” he responded to Kimmel’s fishing expedition with a big grin. “No, yeah, I have a lot of things [going on]…. I have like a ton of stuff I’ve been working on.”
Then in April 2023, Glover said (in the video above, at the mark), “We’re talking about it,” before adding: “That’s as much as I can say without [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy hunting me down.”
RUMORED CAST: Billy Dee Williams, who of course played the role in Star Wars Episodes V, VI and IX, and Solo star Alden Ehrenreich.
FILMING STATUS: “You need to ask Donald. He’s the one that holds all the cards here,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told CinemaBlend at Star Wars Celebration 2022. “But there’s no movement. I will say that honestly. But it’s not for lack of trying.” Kennedy alluded to Glover’s other commitments, adding that Lucasfilm is “patiently waiting.”
PREMIERE DATE: Very much TBD
OBI-WAN KENOBI (Season 2)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In Obi-Wan Season 1, after spending a decade keeping a low profile on Tatooine while covertly checking in on wee Luke Skywalker, the titular former Jedi master (played by the prequel trilogy’s Ewan McGregor) risked exposure/execution in order to rescue a kidnapped, pint-sized Leia Organa (Waco‘s Vivien Lyra Blair).
WHEN IS IT SET?: Season 1 was set 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.
SEASON 1 CAST: McGregor, Blair, Hayden Christensen (as Darth Vader), Moses Ingram (Reva/Third Sister), Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars), Bonnie Piesse (Beru Lars), Kumail Nanjiani (Haja), Indira Varma (Tala), Rupert Friend (Grand Inquisitor), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (TBD), Sung Kang (Fifth Brother), Simone Kessell (Breha Organa) and Benny Safdie (Nari)
COULD THERE BE A SEASON 2?: Nothing has been officially announced. McGregor has repeatedly said he is open to it, while chief creatives as well as Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy have said there would need to be a compelling reason/story.
UPDATE: Lucasfilms’ Kennedy told Variety in April 2023 that Obi-Wan Season 2 “is not an active development. But I never say never, because there’s always the possibility.”
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