Disney Confirms A New 'Star Wars' Series Is Coming to Disney+

Disney Confirms A New ‘Star Wars’ Series Is Coming to Disney+. According to an exclusive report from Variety, Executive Producer and co-creator for Netflix’s Russian Doll, Leslye Headland, has been tapped to produce and act as showrunner for a new Star Wars series that will stream exclusively on Disney+.

Disney confirmed the news this week via StarWars.com and through social media. Disney also confirmed Taika Waititi has been tapped to direct a new Star Wars feature film with Krysty Wilson-Cairns set to co-write the script along with Waititi.

Another transmission, Emmy Award winner @LeslyeHeadland to write, produce, and serve as showrunner for new untitled Star Wars series in development for #DisneyPlus: https://t.co/o3Exz8ndy9 pic.twitter.com/NM8uIJBGez

— Star Wars (@starwars) May 4, 2020

Though an exact plot for the series has yet to be revealed, the source did claim the new series would take place in a new part of the Star Wars timeline, but it is unknown exactly when the story will take place. The series is also rumored to be female-centric, but no other details have emerged at this time. The new series has no formal attachments other than Leslye Headland at the time of writing.

Currently, there are two other new projects for Disney+ underway at Lucasfilm including the untitled Obi-Wan Kenobi Series with Ewan McGregor set to reprise his original role as Obi-Wan and another untitled series about Cassian Andor from Star Wars: Rogue One starring Diego Luna. Details on the series and release dates have yet to be determined.

Lucasfilm is also beginning pre-production for the newly ordered Season 3 of pop cult phenomenon, The Mandalorian. Season 2 of The Mandalorian is scheduled to premiere in October 2020 exclusively on Disney+, with Season 3 projected to premiere in October 2021.

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Source: StarWars.com

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