What to Expect From Star Wars in 2025

by 4 January 2025044

With 2025 looming, Star Wars followers have an entire new yr’s price of content material to look ahead to. Sadly, 2025 isn’t shaping up to be the franchise’s greatest yr. With no new films on the docket and just one live-action collection confirmed for launch, the pickings are wanting a little bit slim.

However that’s not to say there’s nothing thrilling on the horizon. The discharge of Andor Season 2 alone is cause for Star Wars followers to rejoice just like the Rebels dancing on Endor. Let’s take a better take a look at what’s coming in 2025, and the various Star Wars tasks we hope to study extra about in the following 12 months.

Andor Returns for Season 2

That is the massive one. The Star Wars slate could also be a little bit sparse in 2025, nevertheless it’s arduous to complain an excessive amount of after we’re getting a sequel to what’s broadly considered the very best Star Wars mission Disney has launched to date. That’s proper, Andor Season 2 is lastly dropping in April 2025.

Season 2 chronicles the second half of this deep, introspective origin story for Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor. If Season 1 was the story of how a younger Cassian grew to become radicalized and joined the fledgling Insurgent Alliance, then Season 2 will present us the damaging missions he undertook main up to the occasions of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Fittingly, with the collection transferring nearer to the time interval of Rogue One, we’ll see extra acquainted faces from that film pop up in Season 2. Most notably, Alan Tudyk will reprise the position of Okay-2SO, as we find out how Cassian first met this eccentric Imperial murderer droid. We’re additionally wanting ahead to seeing Ben Mendelsohn don his cape as soon as extra as Dying Star mission supervisor Director Orson Krennic.

Followers can anticipate Season 2 to cowl a number of floor, with a number of time jumps unfolding over the course of the season and the ultimate batch of episodes set in the days leading up to Rogue One. In different phrases, don’t anticipate a Season 3. However do anticipate a Star Wars story that continues to discover the peculiar women and men who lit the spark of insurrection in a time of nice darkness.

Extra Star Wars: Visions

Extra Andor is nice, however what concerning the animated aspect of issues? With The Unhealthy Batch wrapping up in 2024, the one Star Wars animated collection confirmed to return in 2025 is Star Wars: Visions. As soon as once more, followers can be handled to an anthology of animated shorts that includes varied animation studios deciphering the mythology of Star Wars via their very own, distinctive lens.

Season 3 is alleged to convey Visions again to its roots as an anime anthology, whereas Season 2 took extra of a world strategy. The studios concerned in Season 3 embrace Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ Studio Set off and Assault on Titan’s WIT Studio, together with David Manufacturing, Kamikaze Douga, ANIMA, Kinema Citrus Co., Polygon Footage, Manufacturing I.G, and Venture Studio Q.

Will There Be Extra Star Wars TV?

Nonetheless a lot we’re wanting ahead to extra of Star Wars: Andor and Star Wars: Visions, there’s no getting round the truth that 2025 is wanting fairly skinny on the Star Wars TV entrance in contrast to earlier years. In 2024 alone we obtained two live-action exhibits in The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew and two animated collection in The Unhealthy Batch: Season 3 and Tales of the Empire. However in 2025, we solely have one confirmed live-action collection and one animated collection, plus the ultimate two episodes of Skeleton Crew.

Is there an opportunity Disney has extra exhibits deliberate we don’t learn about? Presumably, a minimum of on the animated entrance. Don’t overlook that we solely discovered concerning the existence of Tales of the Empire a month earlier than it dropped on Disney+ in Could 2024. It’s completely potential that they may pull the identical trick once more in 2025, asserting one other “Tales of” anthology collection to observe up Tales of the Empire and Tales of the Jedi.

There’s additionally the query of whether or not Disney has any long-form Star Wars animated tasks in improvement proper now. With The Unhealthy Batch wrapping up final yr, we’ve got to think about that Dave Filoni and others have been arduous at work crafting the following nice Star Wars animated saga. We in all probability received’t see that collection launch in 2025, nevertheless it’s potential we’ll a minimum of get an announcement and possibly even see some early footage. That might be one of many massive bulletins at Star Wars Celebration Japan in April.

However on the live-action entrance, don’t anticipate any massive surprises in 2025. The Acolyte was formally canceled, and with The Mandalorian saga persevering with on the massive display, we don’t even know if The Mandalorian: Season 4 is ever taking place. That simply leaves Ahsoka: Season 2, and that collection isn’t returning till 2026 a minimum of.

The Finish of the Excessive Republic

If issues are wanting a little bit barren on the live-action Star Wars entrance proper now, the identical definitely can’t be mentioned for the publishing aspect of issues. Followers of the Star Wars books and comics can be consuming very effectively in 2025, notably these following Lucasfilm Publishing’s Excessive Republic saga. For the previous a number of years, these books and comics have been exploring the triumphs and tribulations of the Jedi tons of of years earlier than the Star Wars films, and all of it comes to an finish quickly.

Search for a number of main Excessive Republic novels to be launched in 2025, together with Charles Soule’s The Excessive Republic: Trials of the Jedi, Claudia Grey’s The Excessive Republic: Into the Mild, and Justina Eire’s The Excessive Republic: A Valiant Vow. Of those, Trials of the Jedi is the one most price keeping track of, because it serves because the climax of your entire Excessive Republic initiative. This novel will chronicle the ultimate battle between the Jedi and the Nihil and the Anonymous. Search for Trials of the Jedi to be launched on June 17.

Not to be outdone, Marvel Comics has fairly an formidable Star Wars lineup deliberate for 2025. In 2024, most of Marvel’s ongoing Star Wars comics have been exploring the interval between The Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi. Now that these books have ended, Marvel is casting a wider web and branching out to a number of Star Wars eras in 2025.

Kicking issues off, search for Marvel to wrap up the restricted collection Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku in January. This collection has been busy fleshing out the ultimate main battle between the dying Empire and the New Republic two years after Return of the Jedi, and we’ll see the climax unfold in author Alex Segura and artist Jethro Morales and Leonard Kirk’s The Battle of Jakku: Final Stand.

From there, Marvel is veering in two wildly totally different instructions with its latest ongoing Star Wars comics. First, author Marc Guggenheim and artist Madibek Musabekov are heading to the Prequel period in Star Wars: Jedi Knights. Set earlier than the occasions of The Phantom Menace, the collection will observe quite a few members of the Jedi Order, together with Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Mace Windu, and Shaak Ti. The collection even focuses on Rely Dooku earlier than his defection from the Jedi Order.

Elsewhere, Marvel is venturing deep into the period of the Sequel Trilogy for Charles Soule and Luke Ross’ Star Wars: Legacy of Vader. Set in between The Final Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, the collection explores Kylo Ren’s wrestle because the newly topped Supreme Chief of the First Order and his quest to recommit himself to the Darkish Aspect following his battles with Rey and Luke Skywalker. Soule beforehand fleshed out Ben Solo’s Darkish Aspect origins in 2020’s Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, so think about this a sequel of types.

We have now to assume these aren’t the one new Star Wars comics Marvel can be launching in 2025, because the writer has tended to publish 4 or 5 ongoing titles at any given time. Will Physician Aphra get one other solo collection? Will we see different books fleshing out the clean canvas that’s the post-Return of the Jedi period? Solely time will inform on that entrance.

The Way forward for Star Wars Video games

If 2025 is shaping up to be a comparatively quiet yr on the film and TV entrance, it’s not wanting any higher in phrases of online game releases. Actually, there aren’t any Star Wars video games confirmed for launch in 2024.

About all followers have to look ahead to in the intervening time is new DLC for Star Wars Outlaws. In accordance to Ubisoft’s DLC roadmap, followers can anticipate a brand new story marketing campaign referred to as “A Pirate’s Fortune” to launch in Spring 2025. This marketing campaign focuses on fan-favorite pirate villain (or maybe he’s extra of an anti-hero) Hondo Ohnaka as he bumps into Kay Vess.

Ubisoft has but to reveal what, if any, new Outlaws content material is deliberate past “A Pirate’s Fortune.” Are there much more adventures deliberate for Kay and her motley crew, or do the lukewarm gross sales numbers spell doom for Outlaws’ ongoing future? We’ll have to anticipate future bulletins to study extra.

Past that, all we will do is hope that 2025 brings with it information about different upcoming Star Wars video games. We all know EA is creating a 3rd sport in the Star Wars Jedi collection. However with there being 4 years between the discharge of 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, it’s in all probability an excessive amount of to hope the brand new sport will truly launch in 2025. At finest, we would see early footage of the sport and get a greater thought of when in the Star Wars timeline it takes place.

We’re additionally crossing our fingers for information on the oft-delayed remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic. Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch confirmed in 2024 that the sport remains to be in energetic improvement, regardless of rumors to the opposite. However what state is the sport in proper now, and when will we see footage of the remake in motion? Hopefully, 2025 brings with it some excellent news on the KOTOR entrance.

And let’s not overlook Quantic Dream’s Star Wars: Eclipse, one other title that was introduced after which seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth. Will 2025 be the yr Eclipse lastly rears its head once more, or will it go the best way of so many different canceled Star Wars tasks?

What Concerning the Star Wars Films?

2025 received’t ship any new Star Wars theatrical releases, which at this level is nothing new. On the theatrical aspect, the franchise has been dormant because the launch of The Rise of Skywalker again in 2019. However that’s not to say Lucasfilm hasn’t introduced loads of new Star Wars films in current years. It’s price taking a look at what’s presently in the pipeline and the way possible we’re to get an replace in 2025.

The Mandalorian & Grogu

First, there’s the lone Star Wars film that’s truly in manufacturing proper now, The Mandalorian & Grogu. This big-screen spinoff of The Mandalorian continues the shared story of the 2 heroes after the occasions of The Mandalorian: Season 3. Co-creator Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which is presently slated for launch on Could 22, 2026. Hopefully, we must always see a teaser trailer for the movie sooner or later in 2025, presumably as early as Star Wars Celebration Japan.

Dave Filoni’s Mando-Verse Film

Not to be outdone, Favreau’s companion Dave Filoni is directing his personal live-action film, one anticipated to tie collectively characters and threads from The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, The Guide of Boba Fett, and different tasks from that period. Don’t anticipate a lot information on this film in the foreseeable future, nevertheless, as Filoni has to deal with Ahsoka: Season 2 first.

James Mangold’s Star Wars Film

Logan director James Mangold is helming a film set in the distant previous of the Star Wars universe, revealing the origins of the Jedi Order and reportedly that includes a “Biblical” scope. Lucasfilm could announce a author for the film in 2025, however don’t anticipate extra updates than that.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s New Jedi Order Film

Daisy Ridley is reprising the position of Rey Skywalker in a brand new film set 15 years after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker. Ms. Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is directing. Hopefully, we’ll see some updates concerning the movie in 2025, nevertheless it’s unclear the place in the pipeline it presently falls.

Simon Kinberg’s Star Wars Trilogy

X-Males producer Simon Kinberg has been tapped to oversee a brand new trilogy of Star Wars films. Regardless of early rumors the trilogy will instantly proceed the Skywalker Saga, IGN was in a position to affirm it’s as an alternative meant to deal with a brand new storyline. It’s nonetheless early days on this mission, so we’re not anticipating to hear a lot about Kinberg’s trilogy in 2025.

Taika Waititi’s Star Wars Film

Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi is seemingly nonetheless set to enterprise into the Star Wars universe, although it’s been years since we’ve gotten any substantive updates on this mysterious mission. Will that lastly change in 2025?

And that’s what you may anticipate from the Star Wars franchise in 2025. It’s a comparatively quiet yr, however there are nonetheless some very cool tasks for followers to look ahead to in the brand new yr. What Star Wars story are you most excited to expertise in 2025? Tell us by voting in our ballot and posting down in the feedback.

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