Beau Willimon is going back to that galaxy far, far away. Willimon (who also created the series House of Cards) shares writing credit with Andor creator Tony Gilroy on three episodes of that excellent series, including the unforgettable prison break episode “One Way Out.” Now he’s headed to a very, very different Star Wars era: The Hollywood Reporter has the news that he’s working with writer-director James Mangold on Mangold’s Star Wars film, which has the working title Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi.
The Mangold film was announced, like several other tantalizingly vague future Star Wars, at Star Wars Celebration last April. As THR explains, it will “will trace the origins of the Force and be set 25,000 years before any of the timelines and stories told by the movies and shows so far.”
Little else is known about the project, which has no release date. But one Star War is definitely coming to a theater near you on a specific date: Last week, Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu got the premiere date of May 22, 2026. Two other upcoming Star Wars films are still mysterious and undated: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film about Rey, which takes place some years after the sequel trilogy, and Dave Filoni’s film, which is intended to bring together all the post-Return of the Jedi plot threads from various Disney+ series.
Disney has two more dates on their calendar saved for Star Wars films: December 18, 2026, and December 17, 2027. These dates are so far in the future that they sound fake, but there are series to tide us over: The shorts collection Tales of the Empire arrives May 4th, and The Acolyte on June 4th.
