Disney and Lucasfilm, owners of the Star Wars brand, presented their plans for this Thursday. Galactic franchise that will add four new television series ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, ‘Andor’, ‘Ahsoka’ and ‘Skeleton Crew’but it will leave it parked, at least for now, its return to the big screen.
Behind The big success of ‘The Mandalorian’Fiction that has become the flagship of the Disney+ platform, the studio entered a race to launch a series set in the universe that George Lucas started in 1977. The lucrative franchise is these days celebrating Star Wars Celebrations, hosted by Southern California. The collection brings together thousands of fans of the saga to shop for costumes and meet some of the in charge of this amusement factory firsthand. Among the news, a main course will come this friday Along with the return of Ewan McGregor as the character ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ who has become a Star Wars fan favorite.
After the — more discreetly — premiere of ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘The Book of Boba Fett’, ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ will attempt to entice the public with a conspiracy that Disney has kept extremely secret and invaded. most of the work presentation. Scottish translator Ewan McGregor told EFE in an interview: “It’s a much longer film than a series, but it has its own essence and both the director (Deborah Chow) and I are very happy with the result.”
Later on, 31 August, another actor from the Star Wars universe will unleash his character in his own fiction: ‘Andor’, played by Mexican Diego Luna who played Cassian Andor in ‘Rogue One’ (2016). “Diego Luna represents Cassian in an incredible way,” said Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, who introduced the actor on stage at the convention, where he was greeted with enthusiasm by hundreds of people. Before the trailer for the 12 first-episode series was shown, Luna said, “They won’t recognize the character at the beginning of the series, it’s so selfish,” and another batch of 12 additional episodes has been confirmed.
Jude Law joins Star Wars
Another of the great innovations is that the British Jude’s Law He will lead the cast of another television fiction set in Star Wars and starring four children lost in the galactic universe. Titled ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’, the series will feature commercial cinema heavyweights such as Jon Watts and Chris Ford, who were responsible for the blockbuster ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming (2021), and John Favreau, who directed the new film. ‘The Lion King’ (2019) version.
Filming for this bet will begin this year and is currently scheduled for release. 2023Viewers will also learn about the outcome of ‘Ahsoka’, a format derived from ‘The Mandalorian’ and starring Puerto Rican and Cuban-American actress Rosario Dawson.
‘The Mandalorian’, for its part, will launch its third season in 2023.
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Despite the title list, neither Lucasfilm (Star Wars producer) nor Disney (rights owner) have elaborated on the future of the brand on the big screen. there is epic Booked a release for Christmas 2023But according to the studio’s latest plans, which has yet to decide, what will be the first story to hit theaters after the original movie saga of new movies released between 1977 and 2019 ends.
At first, rumors pointed to ‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron’ directed by Patty Jenkins, the person in charge of ‘Wonder Woman’, but the company realized the movie wasn’t ready. There are three more projects in the pipeline, possibly led by Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson and Kevin Feige, but none of them intend to materialize any time soon.