Star Wars Announces 3 New Films on Way

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed that two new Star Wars films will go into production, with more details about a third one to follow.

The two new movies will be managed by James Mangold, the director of Logan, and Dave Filoni, the co-creator of The Mandalorian TV series and director of the 2008 computer-animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Kennedy said that Mangold’s movie will “tell the tale of the first Jedi to wield the Force and harness it as a liberating power in an era of chaos and oppression.”

Meanwhile, Filoni’s film is about “the escalating war between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic” and will “close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and other Disney+ series”.

The third film, which will be announced at a later time, will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Lucasfilm recently announced that Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight replaced Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson as writers on that film.

At the same event, Lucasfilm confirmed a batch of new TV shows, including a second series of Andor and Mandalorian spin-off Ahsoka.