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Disney pulls Star Wars from its December 2026 theatrical slot
The untitled Star Wars movie intended for December 2026 has been replaced by... Ice Age 6?!?
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The Force’s awakening might happen a little bit later than anticipated.
Friday afternoon, Disney took the untitled Star Wars movie scheduled for a December 2026 release off its calendar, replacing the project in that slot with Ice Age 6, the latest installment in the animated series.
The move won’t leave 2026 without a Star Wars movie; The Mandalorian and Grogu — the big-screen spin-off from the popular Disney+ series — remains attached to its May 22, 2026 date, as of writing. But it does underscore the perpetually changing nature of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars plans; it was just last week that it was revealed that Simon Kinberg will be writing and producing an all-new trilogy of features for Lucasfilm expanding the saga even further.
Curiously, one of the rumors about Kinberg’s mystery trilogy is that it will actually act as Episodes 10-12 of the Skywalker Saga. When that rumor initially emerged, some doubted its veracity because Lucasfilm had already announced an entirely separate continuation of that saga in the New Jedi Order project announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, to be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and starring Daisy Ridley as Rey. That movie was believed to be the feature scheduled for the December 2026 slot now abandoned by Lucasfilm, a move that might make sense considering that the project lost screenwriter Steven Knight in October, having previously lost the writing team of Justin Britt-Gibson and Damon Lindelof.
While nothing is likely to be confirmed by Lucasfilm anytime soon — at this point, it’s a fair bet that announcements will be saved for next year’s Star Wars Celebration Tokyo, just months away — the obvious question is: is the New Jedi Order project with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy still in the works, or has it been replaced by Kinberg’s trilogy… and if it’s the latter option, which actors from the franchise’s past are likely to return for the new movies?
Stay tuned to Popverse for more on Star Wars’ ever-changing future as it develops.
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