Actor Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader in the movie "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith".
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The force is with the fans of the saga!
Invited to the Disney Investor Day conference this Thursday in the United States, Kathleen Kennedy, president of LucasFilm, the company behind the legendary saga launched in 1977 and bought by the world number one in entertainment, announced a new feature film of the saga and no less than ten “Star Wars” series, which will soon be available on Disney +.
Goal ?
Boost subscriptions to Disney +, which already has 86 million members.
A woman at the controls of an X-Wing (finally)
Rogue Squadron will
take place in the "future of the galaxy" and will follow "a new generation of space pilots, who will earn their badges and risk their lives", revealed Kathleen Kennedy.
Patty Jenkins, the director of
Wonder Woman 1984
, will be the first woman to direct a feature film in the franchise.
Rogue Squadron
"will hit theaters for Christmas 2023".
The filmmaker formalized the announcement on Twitter by settling in the cockpit in X-Wing.
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- Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) December 10, 2020
The president of LucasFilm has not given any new information regarding the other Star Wars feature in the works, the one to be directed by Taika Waititi (
Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok
) and written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, announced on May 4. latest.
"Ahsoka", a series centered on Ahsoka Tano
Unsurprisingly, Jon Favreau's series
The Mandalorian
has been renewed for a season 3. As for Kathleen Kennedy, she has announced two new series that will take place in the same time frame as
The Mandalorian
:
Ahsoka
, a series centered on Ahsoka Tano and carried by Rosario Dawson, where we should follow the Jedi in her quest for Ezra Bridger (
Star Wars Rebels
), and another titled,
Rangers of the New Republic.
Finally, still on the series side, LucasFilm has unveiled an enticing teaser of
Andor
, centered on Cassian Andor, one of the main characters of the film
Rogue One: a Star Wars story
will be released on Disney + in 2022.
“Everything I did, I did for the Rebellion.”
Andor, an Original Series set in the Star Wars universe, is streaming in 2022 on #DisneyPlus.
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- Star Wars (@starwars) December 10, 2020
More is also known about the
Obi-Wan Kenobi series
, which centers on the legendary Jedi: the events of the series take place ten years after the events of
Revenge of the Sith
.
This series marks the return of Hayden Christensen in the "Star Wars" saga.
The interpreter of Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, will find Ewan McGregor.
For her part, Leslye Headland, the co-creator of the
Russian Doll
series
on Netflix, is developing a series called
The Acolyte
, a thriller set in the troubled period of the last days of the Republic.
Lando Calrissian will have his own show
After making a resounding comeback in the film
Solo: a Star Wars story,
Lando Calrissian, the most popular scoundrel of the original trilogy, will also be entitled to his own series, soberly titled "Lando".
Lucasfilm Animation is working with the visual effects teams from Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic to develop
A Droid Story
, the epic of a new droid, which will be guided by the well-known R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Note that Disney also unveiled the first teaser of
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
which follows a group of clones that appeared in the seventh season of
The Clone Wars
.
This animated series will be directed by Dave Filoni, currently at work in
The Mandalorian.
Star Wars: Visions, an Original Series of animated short films, celebrates the @StarWars galaxy through the lens of the world's best Japanese anime creators.
Coming in 2021 to @DisneyPlus.
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- Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
And to conclude, LucasFilm is developing with the cream of the Japanese anime creators a series of animated shorts called
Star Wars: Visions.
The series will be available on Disney + in 2021.
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