On This Date In Star Wars History: December 10, 2020

7 hours ago, Satam said:

They have a rematch in New Hope. Why make them have one in between? There are no stakes for it. It's not like Vader or Obi Wan is going to #$%&ing die early or something.

Yeah right. I really hate them rewriting continuity.

While I'm glad to see more Star Wars our there and well end up getting some cool new toys from these shows, I hope Hasbro doesn't forget about some characters from the previous movies and series.

2 hours ago, JayC said:

including "the rematch of the century, with Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader!

They have a rematch in New Hope. Why make them have one in between? There are no stakes for it. It's not like Vader or Obi Wan is going to #$%&ing die early or something.

During the 2020 Disney Investor Day event, Kathleen Kennedy presented the Lucasfilm segment, announcing a number of new projects and updating a few others.

Following last year's successful launch of Disney+ with The Mandalorian,fans can look forward to more series set in that era.

After crossing paths with

The Mandalorian, Ahsoka Tano, as portrayed by Rosario Dawson, will have limited series, written by Dave Filoni, and executive produced by Filoni and Jon Favreau. Airdte TBA

Executive produced by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, this series will tie into future storylines, leading up to a climactic story event.

The Acolyte, from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), is a mystery-thriller set during in the final days of the High Republic eraThere are two newly announced animated series in the works, A Droid Story which will feature C-3PO and R2-D2 introducing a new character. and Star Wars: Visions, "a series of animated short films celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the worlds best anime creators.Lando will join the previously announced Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rogue One's Cassian Anor, with their own series. Andor has just begun filming, The Kenobi series will begin Spring 2022 (including "the rematch of the century, with Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader!)There were two films announced, Rogue Squadron from Wonder Woman director, Patty Jenkins, slated for Christmas 2022, and an untitled film by Taika Waititi

27 minutes ago, Satam said:

Rogue Squadron helmed by Patty Jenkins sounds great as long as Disney doesn't fight tooth and nail to nerf it like they did Rogue One. And the Indiana Jones 5 paycheck will be a fantastic 80th birthday present for Harrison Ford.I feel a lot better about what I've heard and seen from Marvel Studios about their projects than Lucasfilm. No surprise there, I guess.

Rogue Squadron is the nice surprise of this whole thing, I'm actually disappointed is that is not a series because there's so much potential there. I agree about Marvel after I saw the news of Star Wars here I saw the Marvel lineup, now that's what I'm talking about.

Rogue Squadron helmed by Patty Jenkins sounds great as long as Disney doesn't fight tooth and nail to nerf it like they did Rogue One. And the Indiana Jones 5 paycheck will be a fantastic 80th birthday present for Harrison Ford.I feel a lot better about what I've heard and seen from Marvel Studios about their projects than Lucasfilm. No surprise there, I guess.

-Rogue Squadron sounds interesting, if they can get the same vibe from the books and comics. For the love of God, give me Baron Fel.

-Obi Wan Kenobi should be a 1 season thing as I don't see them getting much stories about his exile in Tattoine. While I'm glad that Hayden is involved I'd rather have a Darth Vader series or mini series involving the Jedi Purge and the rise of the Empire but I digress.

-As much as I love Ahsoka, I'm not really keen on getting her own series but we'll see how it goes.

-Rangers of the New Republic sounds like it has potential, I need to know more before I make up my mind.

-Never been a really a big fan of Lando so not really interested in his series but maybe this series will change my mind.

-Andor is one of the few projects I was curious about. I loved Rogue One and if they explore the early days of the Rebellion, it will be interesting.

-Star Wars as anime? Meh

-The Bad Batch: a series featuring Filoni's blah version of Delta Squad, more clones,Yay!!!

-No more Droid stories!

-Other Lucasfilm projects? Indiana Jones? Harrison Ford? I'll be surprised if he doesn't break a hip getting out of his trailer.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have oversaturation.

27 minutes ago, JayC said:

Yeah thats weird, is he going to voice Vader instead of James Earl Jones??? or will it be flashback scenes???

Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be dumb.

12 minutes ago, Satam said:

Well, they're already bringing back Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader for some dumbass reason, so there's quite a bit to be worried about with that Obi Wan series, Jay.

Yeah thats weird, is he going to voice Vader instead of James Earl Jones??? or will it be flashback scenes???