More Star Wars films confirmed in Disney’s updated movie schedule
The Rise of Skywalker might end one Star Wars trilogy, but Disney has plans for a new set of movies down the road.
In December 2019, Disney will wrap its newest Star Wars trilogy with The Rise of Skywalker. The journies for Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron and others will close, but that does not mean Star Wars films disappear from future movie slates.
In fact, Disney has not one, not two, but three more movies planned, per its updated movie schedule. It features the following dates:
- Dec. 16, 2022
- Dec. 12, 2024
- Dec. 18, 2026
The “every other year” strategy was used for for the most recent trilogy, with December 2015, 2017 and 2019 used as release windows.
What could fill the voids? Two known series are in the works. It’s just the matter of what makes it to the big screen first.
The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson and Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss were working on separate trilogies, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told Collider in April that Benioff and Weiss are “working very closely” with Johnson to design Star Wars’ future for the next decade.
Does that mean these trilogies will connect? Will they become different stories set in the past, present or future of the franchise?
The answers may not arrive until long after The Rise of Skywalker releases this winter, but if their trilogies differ, Benioff and Weiss’ films are rumored to start production first, per Star Wars News. It would transpire in the Old Republic and precede the Skywalkers by “hundreds of years.”
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Of course, nothing but releases dates, as of May 7, have been confirmed. Whether it’s Benioff and Weiss’ films, Johnson’s trilogy or a collaborative project, Star Wars has a big screen future beyond the end of the Skywalker arc, reaching unseen parts of this universe that only exists in comic books and novels or original content.