Star Wars TV Status Report: The Latest Updates on Ahsoka, Andor, The Acolyte and Others
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To help you keep tabs on the double-secret officially announced facts
as well as some of the stronger rumors, TVLine — at the cost of exactly zero Bothans’ lives! — has compiled this handy database of the live-action series that have debuted or been announced thus far, and where each one stands with casting, filming and scheduled release dates.
This list does not include but of is supplemental to any animated offerings, such as The Bad Batch (which began unspooling Season 3 in February 2024), the animé anthology Visions (which dropped Season 2 in May 2023) and the Tales of the Jedi and Young Jedi Adventures series.
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STAR WARS: 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.”
CONFIRMED CAST: Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) as Mae, the aforementioned Padawan; Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) as Jedi Master Sol, Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) as Jedi Master Indara, Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna) as Mirialan Jedi Vernestra Rwoh, Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials) as the half-Theelin/half-human Jedi Jecki, Joonas Suotamo (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as the Wookiee Jedi Kelnacca, Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Margarita Levieva (Revenge), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones).
PREMIERE DATE: Tuesday, June 4 (with first two episodes); watch trailer.
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.
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 Skarsg?rd), 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 Skarsg?rd, 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: Filming wrapped in January, but the series is not currently on Disney+’s 2024 release schedule.
AHSOKA (Season 2)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Ahsoka Season 1 followed 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 investigated an emerging threat to the vulnerable New Republic: the long-gone, not-forgotten Grand Admiral Thrawn.
WHEN IS IT SET?: During the post–Return of the Jedi reconstruction era — same as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
CAST: Rosario Dawson (as Ahsoka), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (as Sabine Wren), Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Twi’lek rebellion member Hera Syndulla, Lars Mikkelsen (Star Wars Rebels) as Thrawn, the late 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, Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One, Andor) as Mon Mothma and David Tennant (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) voicing the droid Huyang.
WILL THERE BE A SEASON 2?: Sure looks that way, since Season 2 was announced as officially in development as of January 2024.
THE MANDALORIAN (Season 4)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Season 3 of Disney+’s flagship Star Wars series found Mando, with Grogu in tow, zipping around in his Naboo N-1 starfighter and aiming to reclaim his Mandalorian status by visiting the “living waters” in the mines under Mandalore.
WILL THERE BE A SEASON 4?: Franchise boss Jon Favreau said in February 2023 that he had already written Season 4 — and that it 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.” But first… The Mandalorian & Grogu will jetpack into the Cineplex, in a feature film expected to start shooting in 2024.
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.
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. Then in April 2023, Glover said, “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.
PREMIERE DATE: Actually, the term you’re looking for is “release date,” seeing as Lando now is apparently a film. Stephen Glover, who was tapped to co-write the Star Wars offshoot with brother Donald (replacing Justin Simien), confirmed in a September 2023 Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast that Lando is “not even a show,” adding, “The idea right now is to do a movie.”
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?: In a word? Unlikely.
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: A feature film directed by Star Wars Rebels creator and The Mandalorian EP Dave Filoni promises to deliver a “culminating event” for The Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Ahsoka, if not other live-action series.
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