Movies & TV / News
Disney+ Announces Ahsoka Series, Lando Event Series, More Star Wars Shows
Image Credit: Disney+
Disney is bringing a lot more Star Wars to our screens in the next few years including an Ahsoka Tano series, a Lando show and much more. During Thursday’s Disney Investor Day presentation, it was announced that 10 Star Wars series will launch on Disney+ over the next few years.
Among those Star Wars shows are the previously-announced Obi-Wan and Andor, the Rogue One prequel series starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor. Disney also announced several new shows including an Ahsoka Tano spin-off from The Mandalorian, Rangers of the New Republic, a Lando event series, and more.
The Ahsoka Tano series will be a live-action series that stars Rosario Dawson, who reprises the role she played in a recent episode of The Mandalorian. The series will be set during the time of The Mandalorian. Also arriving and set during that timeframe will Rangers of the New Republic. No details on characters have been announced for that, though as a Mandalorian spinoff it may well involve Cara Dune (Gina Carano).
The announcements also included Star Wars: Visions, an Original Series of animated short films that “celebrates the Star Wars galaxy through the lens of the world’s best Japanese anime creators” that will arrive next year, and Lando, which is in the early stages of development from Bad Hair filmmaker Justin Simien. Finally, Leslye Headland is shepherding The Acolyte for the service, described as “a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.”
There are plenty more announcements coming from the Disney Investor Day presentation as well.
Ahsoka, a new Original Series, starring @RosarioDawson and set within the timeline of @TheMandalorian, is coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/ZojpCkhPS7
— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
The galaxy’s favorite scoundrel, Lando Calrissian, will return in Lando, a brand-new event series for @DisneyPlus. Justin Simien (@JSim07) is in the early stages of developing the project.
— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
Lucasfilm Animation is teaming up with Lucasfilm’s visual effects team, Industrial Light & Magic, to develop a special @StarWars adventure for @DisneyPlus, A Droid Story. This epic journey will introduce us to a new hero guided by R2-D2 and C-3PO.
— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
