2025 proved to be a reasonably quiet 12 months for the Star Wars franchise, though it’s onerous to sniff at one thing as nice as Andor Season 2. Nonetheless, it’s secure to say followers are jonesing for brand spanking new Star Wars content material like death stick addicts. Fortuitously, Lucasfilm appears poised to ship in 2026.
2026 guarantees to be a way more energetic 12 months on the Star Wars entrance. For one factor, we’re lastly getting a brand new live-action Star Wars film, seven years after The Rise of Skywalker landed in theaters. And with a wholesome lineup of recent exhibits (each live-action and animated), comics, and even a sport, there’s quite a bit to look ahead to in the subsequent 12 months. Let’s break all of it down.
Star Wars Returns to Theaters
Once more, it’s been a surprisingly very long time since there’s been a brand new Star Wars film in theaters. The pretty frosty reception to The Rise of Skywalker positively has quite a bit to do with that. But when anybody can reverse Disney’s fortunes on the massive display, it’s Mando and his cute little son.
Disney will launch director Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu in theaters on Could 26. This new movie is a continuation of the Disney+ sequence The Mandalorian. In actual fact, all indicators level to it successfully being The Mandalorian Season 4 in a extra condensed type. As soon as once more, we’re going to see Pedro Pascal’s Mando and little Grogu settle for a mission on behalf of the New Republic. They’ll once more do battle with the remnants of the Empire and conflict with all method of scum and villainy.
Whereas we’ll see some acquainted faces from the sequence return (together with co-creator Dave Filoni’s character Trapper Wolf and Steve Blum’s Zeb Orelios), the movie will introduce a number of new gamers in the Mando-verse. That features Sigourney Weaver as New Republic operative Col. Ward, Jonny Coyne as an Imperial warlord, and Jeremy Allen White as the oddly buff Rotta the Hutt (whom you may keep in mind from the unique Clone Wars film).
The Mandalorian has positively been one in all the massive successes of the Disney Star Wars period, however does it have the energy to pull in moviegoers in this more and more fickle theatrical market? We’ll see, particularly after the considerably blended response to Season 3. A minimum of Disney now not has to fear about releasing in the similar interval as Grand Theft Auto VI.
Past The Mandalorian and Grogu, we’re anticipating that Star Wars followers will get a style of Disney’s 2027 theatrical slate as effectively. Manufacturing not too long ago wrapped on Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, so we’re virtually assured to get a trailer for that film sooner or later in 2026 (maybe in time for Star Wars Day?).
We additionally know that the long-running rumors are true about Disney releasing the traditional, non-Particular Version variations of the Authentic Trilogy in theaters. These three restorations will hit theaters in 2027, however hopefully we’ll see trailers for them effectively forward of time and get an thought of simply what this remastered footage seems like.
Star Wars on Disney+
The Star Wars lineup on Disney+ this 12 months isn’t fairly as stacked because it was in 2023 and 2024. Lucasfilm is unquestionably pulling again a bit with new streaming releases. Nonetheless, there are a number of key initiatives to look ahead to in 2026.
Whereas not definitively confirmed for a 2026 launch, we’re hoping to see Season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka sooner or later in the latter half of the 12 months. Season 2 will decide up proper the place the unique left off in 2023. Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo’s Sabine Wren are marooned in one other galaxy, whereas Lars Mikkelsen’s Grand Admiral Thrawn has returned to assist the dying Empire in its struggle towards the New Republic.
Like the first, Ahsoka Season 2 will include eight episodes, all written by creator Dave Filoni. Followers can anticipate most of the Season 1 forged to return, which additionally contains Ivanna Sakhno’s Shin Hati, Eman Esfandi’s Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Hera Syndulla, and Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker. The one main exception is that Rory McCann will substitute the late Ray Stevenson as fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll.
Once more, Lucasfilm has but to verify a 2026 launch, although filming on Season 2 did wrap up again in September 2025. We’re anticipating this present to be a key a part of the studio’s Star Wars technique going ahead, because it’s most likely going to immediately set the stage for Filoni’s live-action Star Wars film.
One present that may be a lock for 2026, although, is the animated sequence Maul: Shadow Lord. Like Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch, Shadow Lord is a Clone Wars spinoff set in the early days of the Empire’s reign. Having not too long ago escaped Republic custody, Maul is set to rebuild his felony empire. The sequence will present us how Maul got here to be the place he’s in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, although we’ll have to see how a lot of the timeline it in the end covers.
Sam Witwer will reprise his function as Maul, whereas the sequence is government produced by Filoni, Brad Rau, Athena Yvette Portillo, and Matt Michnovetz.
Additionally on the animated Star Wars entrance, Star Wars: Visions is getting a miniseries spinoff known as Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi. As the title suggests, this sequence shall be a continuation of Manufacturing I.G.’s “The Ninth Jedi” shorts from Visions Season 1 and three. It’s a pure alternative, as there’s clearly way more story left to inform in this bleak but adventurous take on the Star Wars mythos.
Star Wars Video games: Now This Is Podracing
2025 was fairly quiet on the Star Wars gaming entrance, with the solely notable launch being some DLC and a Nintendo Change 2 port for Ubisoft’s Star Wars: Outlaws. The excellent news is that we will anticipate a minimum of one main new launch in 2026. We hope you want podracing.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is the religious successor to 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: Racer and 2002’s Star Wars Racer Revenge. It’s an arcade racer the place gamers take management of these lethal machines in high-stakes contests throughout the galaxy. And as the trailer reveals, the sport even options Sebulba attempting to reclaim his crown, so there could also be extra of a plot this time round.
Galactic Racer is developed by Fuse Video games and printed by Secret Mode. That’s factor, as Fuse Video games is made up of a number of ex-Criterion Video games builders. The sport will launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox sooner or later in 2026.
Past that, it stays to be seen if we get any new Star Wars gaming content material in 2026 outdoors of the cell world. We’re crossing our fingers that we’ll a minimum of study extra about the way forward for the Knights of the Outdated Republic franchise. Star Wars: Destiny of the Outdated Republic was not too long ago revealed at the Sport Awards. That sport could also be too far out for one more trailer subsequent 12 months, however you by no means know. And studies recommend that remakes of the first two video games are nonetheless in growth, so it’s all the time doable we’ll get a trailer for a kind of.
What’s Up With the Star Wars Comics?
Usually, Marvel’s Star Wars line is one in all the extra reliable sources of recent content material every year. However there’s an enormous query mark hanging over that nook of the franchise heading into 2026. Regardless of launching a number of new ongoing sequence in 2025, it seems like Marvel is abruptly ending them in the early months of the 12 months. Star Wars author Alex Segura not too long ago confirmed that his series is ending with issue #10, reducing brief this saga of a post-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. The Kylo Ren-focused Star Wars: Legacy of Vader can be ending with subject #12 in January.
That leaves solely a handful of smaller initiatives on the books for 2026. We all know that Marvel will publish Star Wars: Shadow of Maul, a miniseries that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Shadow Lord cartoon. There’s additionally a Jar Jar Binks one-shot co-written by none aside from actor Ahmed Greatest.
However past that, we’re not likely certain what to anticipate from Marvel on the Star Wars entrance. We assume the writer has one thing in thoughts to fill the void left by books like Star Wars and Legacy of Vader. The franchise won’t be fairly the chart-topper it was 10 years in the past, however they’re not going to merely part out publishing Star Wars comics. Will they proceed to flesh out the Sequel Trilogy period or transfer elsewhere in the timeline? Hopefully, we’ll study extra sooner fairly than later.
However when you desire novels to comics, the future is wanting slightly rosier. Random Home has a number of new Star Wars novels hitting subsequent 12 months. That features creator Mike Chen’s Outlaws: Low Purple Moon, a prequel to the sport starring Jaylen Vrax and ND-5, Madeleine Roux’s Legacy, targeted on Rey’s Jedi coaching, and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Reign of the Empire: Fringe of the Abyss, the second guide in the trilogy that traces the early origins of the Insurgent Alliance.
And that’s what to anticipate from the Star Wars franchise in 2026 throughout movie, streaming, video games, and books. Which Star Wars undertaking are you most wanting ahead to this 12 months? Vote in our ballot and tell us what you suppose in the feedback under.
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