With the new schedule released by Disney, multiple Fox and Disney titles, it looks like fans of Star Wars films will just have to wait a while longer.
Three untitled Star War movies have been rescheduled, unscheduled and revealed.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will conclude the nine-picture saga that began with the original 1977 film but what arrives next remains a mystery.
Disney has scheduled three untitled Star Wars films that hints at the franchise’s future on the big screen. The movies are set for December 16, 2022; December 20, 2024; and December 18, 2026.
Though it is not clear yet what the upcoming Star Wars films will deal with plot-wise in detail, it is revealed that The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson is working on a trilogy whereas Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are writing one of their own.
Since 2015’s The Force Awakens, there has been at least one Star Wars film each year but Disney has suggested that after Rise of Skywalker, it will take some time for the next movie as Lucasfilm is focusing on a series for the upcoming Disney+ streaming service.
Last month, at the Star Wars celebration in Chicago, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy told The Hollywood Reporter that she was plotting out the future of Star Wars on the big screen in consultation with Johnson, Benioff, Weiss and Favreau.
“We are looking at the next saga. We are not just looking at another trilogy, we’re really looking at the next 10 years or more,” she said.
Besides, James Cameron’s Avatar 2 and its follow-ups have been delayed again. The first in the sequel films has been pushed back by a year. Avatar 3 has been moved back two years, while Avatar 4 has been delayed by a year and Avatar 5 has been shifted back two years. This isn’t a new thing for The Avatar sequels; they have a long history of being delayed with filmmaker James Cameron saying he needs more time to refine the technology for the films. “Busy on set, so no time to hang around but just dropping in to share the news — Sivako!,” Cameron tweeted on Tuesday after the news broke.
As far as Marvel Studio is concerned, New Mutants, an X-Men film that was shot under the Fox regime, is moving from August of this year to April 3, 2020. The horror-tinged project has been delayed multiple times in the past and was originally slated to open on April 13, 2018. Sources have said the film needs reshoots before being released, and it has been speculated that Disney, led by Bob Iger, would forgo a theatrical release and instead put it on its Disney+ platform. Tuesday’s news suggests Disney is moving forward with a theatrical release.
Other big date changes include Ad Astra, James Gray’s sci-fi feature starring Brad Pitt, which was originally scheduled to unveil on May 24. The movie has been moved to September for a possible awards play.
-With information from The Hollywood Reporter
