Also taking the stage in London was the cast of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which includes Jude Law, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, and Robert Timothy Smith. Star Wars masterminds Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni also confirmed the full lineup of directors for the series: Daniels, David Lowery, Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, Lee Isaac Chung, and Jon Watts (who serves as executive producer and writer alongside Chris Ford). The audience was further treated to the first trailer for the series, footage described by Empire Magazine as “Stand By Me meets The Goonies meets Star Wars.”

“I was six years old when this galaxy, this world gripped me, blew my mind,” Law said (via IGN). “And I feel like I’ve been in preparation ever since. It was a total pleasure, I think one of the highlights was working with the incredible, talented people working behind the scenes. It was a true dream come true.”

Star Wars Celebration attendees also got a first look at The Acolyte, starring Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae. The thriller series is set during the High Republic, “the furthest back in time we’ve been in live action,” creator Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) explained at the show’s panel (via IGN). “What I pitched to Kathleen Kennedy was Frozen meets Kill Bill. Shockingly, she didn’t kick me out of the building. … This is when the bad guys are outnumbered. They are the underdogs. I’m really excited for you guys to see things you haven’t seen in live action yet.” The show is slated for a 2024 release.

According to Variety, the series will explore “the emergence of the Sith.” Rounding out the cast are Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Charlie Barnett and Margarita Levieva (plus, Joonas Suotamo reportedly plays a Jedi Master Wookiee). The outlet reports that the footage includes a fight between Stenberg and Moss that recalls the latter’s Matrix moves, and, among other things, a Jedi temple and “a group of Jedis lighting up their sabers in unison.” While that footage hasn’t yet been released publicly, the cast was also on hand to tease the new series (above).

Showrunner Tony Gilroy, star Diego Luna, and more Andor cast members were present for a panel on the acclaimed series, which is shooting for an August 2024 release of the 12-episode second season. The panel also included plenty of looking back at the show’s first season, including showing off concept art of fthe eye-catching Eye Of Aldhani sequence, and lots of references to the show’s already iconic prison episode, “One Way Out.” (Including a whole crew of “prisoners” in Narkina 5 outfits chanting “One way out!”) “We can’t do a prison if we don’t do it better than anyone else ever did it,” Gilroy informed the crowd.

“It took him a year, and he climbed up out of the ditch,” Gilroy further teased of Cassian’s journey in the second season (via Empire). “He went through a number of life experiences. He’s been exposed to the rebellion. He’s led a mini-rebellion of his own in a prison. His mother has finally inspired him. He’s finally joined the rebellion. There’s no going back on that.”

It may not be Star Wars, but Lucasfilm took advantage of the event for a moment of synergy by sharing a new trailer for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny—plus the first six minutes of the upcoming fifth film. Stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen were on hand to introduce the footage. “Just being part of an Indiana Jones film is a dream come true,” gushed Mikkelsen, who plays the film’s villain.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Return Of The Jedi, once believed, by the naïve fools of the past, to be the “last” Star Wars film. To commemorate the occasion, Disney is putting the movie back into theaters for a limited run, its first official time returning to cinemas since the Special Editions rolled out back in 1997. The film will return to theaters (complete with a brand new poster) on April 28.

Although he doesn’t spend as much time working on the animated side of the franchise as he used to, Star Wars TV Guy Dave Filoni did have at least one treat for fans of the galaxy’s cartoon output: The announcement of a second season of anthology series Tales Of The Jedi on Disney+. The previous season of the show, which aired on the streamer in October 2022, fleshed out the backstories of two major characters from the Clone Wars era, tracking the fall of Count Dooku (played by Corey Burton in his animated form) and the increasing rebellion of Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein in all her cartoon appearances), including showing how she survived the infamous Order 66. No word yet on when the second season of the series will arrive.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a solid game with some stand-out annoyances, and thankfully the sequel looks like a step-up. One of the reasons for that, as teased in the final trailer, is that main hero Cal will get to visit an even wider array of Star Wars planets—including Coruscant, the Imperial capital and the place where a ton of Cal’s brethren in the Jedi order were slaughtered when he was a kid. Also in this trailer: Cal uses the Force to toss a Stormtrooper into the air and he smashes into a passing TIE Fighter, which is really cool.

The trailer for Disney+’s Ahsoka teased that fan-favorite villain Grand Admiral Thrawn would be making his first live-action appearance for the series, but the trailer notably did not mention who would be playing the evil blue guy. As it turns out, it’ll be none other than Lars Mikkelsen (continuing the family’s gradual Lucasfilm takeover) who provided Thrawn’s voice on Star Wars Rebels. Celebration attendees got to see a longer trailer with him all blue-d up, but the rest of us will have to wait a bit more.