It is official: Season 2 of Ahsoka is in improvement.
Disney confirmed the information Tuesday morning while announcing that Jon Favreau shall be directing a brand-new Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu. Oddly sufficient, the affirmation is considerably buried within the Favreau announcement, with Disney including close to the top of it, “The Mandalorian & Grogu will lead Lucasfilm’s ongoing feature-development slate, together with movies helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who can be presently creating Ahsoka Season 2, amongst these within the works.”
Whereas it has been speculated {that a} second season of Ahsoka could be on the best way, particularly given Dave Filoni’s latest promotion inside Lucasfilm, that is Disney’s first official affirmation of one other installment.
Ahsoka Season 2 was final teased throughout a Vanity Fair profile that exposed Filoni’s aformentioned promotion as chief inventive officer at Lucasfilm. On the time, the profile merely stated he had been “exploring” a second season, whereas star Rosario Dawson added that Disney hadn’t stated something “formally” about it.
“For some time now, and particularly now with the strike and every part, nobody can say something,” Dawson stated again in November. “However he did say [Filoni] was engaged on a top level view. So, we’ll see.”
Star Wars’ Increasing Future
Tuesday morning all of the sudden ended up being a main one for Star Wars followers. Together with the Ahsoka Season 2 information, Disney additionally revealed Favreau’s brand-new Star Wars film just about out of nowhere. They famous within the announcement that it will go into manufacturing this 12 months, and also will be produced by Filoni and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
It is value noting that Favreau’s movie won’t change Filoni’s beforehand introduced film, which was revealed together with Obaid-Chinoy’s and Mangold’s tasks finally 12 months’s Star Wars Celebration. And with right now’s information of Ahsoka Season 2, it is exhausting to overstate how a lot of a inventive impression Filoni has on Star Wars’ future.
Star Wars stays fairly busy elsewhere on TV as nicely. 2024 will see the premieres of recent Star Wars exhibits The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, in addition to The Dangerous Batch Season 3 and Tales of the Jedi Season 2. The extremely anticipated second season of Andor, nonetheless, just isn’t on this 12 months’s schedule, probably resulting from delays with the writers’ and actors’ strikes.
For extra, take a look at my chat with Favreau and Filoni again finally 12 months’s Star Wars Celebration beneath:
Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, yow will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
