STAR WARS: DO IT! Lucasfilm’s exciting plans for the future!

Lucasfilm plans to release two live action Disney Plus streaming series and one film per year with no more standalone films.

All future films will connect to the next saga.

All future series, including both animated and live action, are going to be set in the New Republic era.

and be oriented toward Andor and the Mandalorian series.

And we'll go through and break all of this down on the show this week.

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is going to be focusing on seeking out emerging talents 18 to 25 in order to establish a continuous and long-term production process.

Disney wants the new Star Wars movies to take epic risks, establish new worlds, and follow clear protocols similar to what Star Wars Starfighter will be.

Now, there's a lot to unpack here.

First off, let's just establish some of what we know so that we can have the proper contextual context about what this means for the future of Star Wars going forward and why it has me absolutely thrilled and watching the prequel films this weekend.

So...

You've got about 22 to 25 years that we have not seen in terms of storytelling between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

So we'll start off with the Disney Plus streaming show live action aspect of this and then relate that to the sequel trilogy and then what's happening beyond the sequel trilogy.

So there's 30 years between Episode 6 and 7, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

The Mandalorian, that storytelling takes place about nine years post-Return of the Jedi.

It's six to nine.

So you have a few more years added in there for the three seasons of The Mandalorian.

I imagine that what we saw in The Mandalorian and Grogu takes us up to the current season.

the farthest into the timeline of the Mandoverse.

So again, you're looking at about 22 to 25 years worth of storytelling that can be accomplished here.

And with that, you can get into how the First Order came to prominence.

You can tell stories about Exegol.

And how the Sith Eternal ended up as far away from the rest of the First Order as they did.

You can establish your offshoots for whatever the emerging threat is going to be post-Return of the Jedi.