And we know that The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal is keen to see the masked bounty hunter make it to the big screen. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been saying for some time that all of the above could eventually build up to some kind of climactic event, a la Marvel’s The Avengers. Sign of things to come? … The Mandalorian. We can also expect a third season of The Mandalorian in February. Ahsoka, about the Jedi warrior Ahsoka Tano, will arrive in 2023, with Skeleton Crew, about a group of children lost in space following the events of Return of the Jedi, debuting the same year. Starring Diego Luna in the title role, the show begins five years before the events of the excellent Rogue One, and is created by the Bourne saga’s Tony Gilroy ( who turned Rogue One around in a sort of high-end, hands-on executive producer role in 2016). Next up (next week) is Andor, which Disney revealed at D23 this weekend will run to at least 24 episodes across two seasons. And there’s always another Disney+ show just around the corner to whet the appetite, in any case. Even when these new Star Wars shows are not quite up to the standard of The Mandalorian – as with the nostalgic but disappointing Book of Boba Fett or the mercurial Obi-Wan Kenobi – the very fact that we get several-episode deep dive on each character means the disappointment will never be on the level of, say, the insipid Solo. ![]() Suddenly nobody is all that interested in the legacy of the Lucas era – and if they are, it’s pretty easy to get your fill of Luke, Leia, Obi-Wan and Boba Fett when they turn up on the small screen. Meanwhile, an entire universe of interlinked Star Wars TV shows is emerging on Disney+, thanks to the ongoing success of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian. It is as if the entire thing has been quietly swept into the Sarlacc’s throat, never to be seen again (unless it is revived in desperation in a few decades’ time, a la Boba Fett.) ![]() People have even forgotten how cute they once thought BB-8 was. Disney’s sequel trilogy and the associated nine-film “Skywalker Saga” is complete, and thanks to the fact that 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stank harder than a Tauntaun’s guts, there is no appetite whatsoever for spinoffs, prequels or sequels featuring recently introduced characters such as Daisy Ridley’s Rey, John Boyega’s Finn or Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron. How strange, then, that there is no Star Wars movie currently in production and no real date for when we will next get to see the saga in multiplexes. It could be argued that Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, released two years earlier, was the first film to really get those queues snaking round the block, but the first instalment in George Lucas’s long-running space opera triggered Hollywood’s love affair with mass same-day openings, high-octane marketing and the sense of a major movie “event” happening across the globe. S tudents of film history will be well aware that before 1977, and the release of Star Wars, the modern summer blockbuster was very much in its infancy.
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