Star Wars Celebration 2023: Every project and update from Lucasfilm's big event

Star Wars Celebration attendees also got a first look at , starring Amandla Stenberg and . The thriller series is set during the High Republic, “the furthest back in time we’ve been in live action,” creator () explained at the show’s panel (via ). “What I pitched to Kathleen Kennedy was meets . 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 , 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, and Margarita Levieva (plus, Joonas Suotamo reportedly plays a ). The outlet reports that the footage includes a fight between Stenberg and Moss that recalls the latter’s 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 (above).

Showrunner Tony Gilroy, star Diego Luna, and more 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 , and lots of references to the show’s already iconic prison episode, (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 the crowd. “It took him a year, and he climbed up out of the ditch,” Gilroy further teased of Cassian’s journey in the (via ). “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 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,” , 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, , 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.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a solid game with some , and thankfully the sequel . 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, (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.