2023 has made me more optimistic than ever about the future of Star Wars
Opinion |ꦜ I've never been more excited about the future of the ga♔laxy far, far away

There's never been a better time to be a💎 Star Wars fan.
Okay, granted, I wouldn't mind hopping through the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:World Between Worlds to watch the original movie on opening night. But, since that's unlikely to happen anytime soon, I'll focus on the here and now.&n⭕bsp;
This year's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Celebration – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:which I was lucky enough to attend – was jam-packed with exciting announcements. The atmosphere in the Celebration Stage was palpable when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new 🅰movie all about Rey was announce🅷d, and Daisy Ridleꦫy stepped out to huge cheers.
Then there's a film set to explore the origins of the Force from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Indiana Jo🍨nes and the Dial of Destiny helmer James Mangold, as well as – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:my personally mo𒆙st anticipated p🎀roject – a film from Ahsoka architect Dave Filoni that will tie together the Disney Plus shows. Th𓂃ese three announcements gave the Star Wars movie slate the sizzling shot of energy it so sorely needed after most of the previously announced projects seemed to be languishing in development hell. And, as it turned out, this was only the beginning.
Lightspeed ahead
Looking back, I'll always see this as the year of Filoni. His 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:🎃recent promotion to chief creat💝ive officer has me thrilled; it's hard to imagine anyone who knows Star Wars better than Filoni, besides George Lucas himself – which makes sense, since Filoni was essentially Lucas's Padawanꦫ. Filoni has more than proved his creative chops, with each of his projects pushing the galaxy far, far away in🌠to fascinating new directions; just look at all the lore introduced in The Clone Wars and Rebels, including mystical Loth-wolves and the ethereal realm of Mortis, and you'll know that the galaxy can only get richer under Filoni's direction.
It's also reassuring to know that someone is in charge of overseeing the massive franchise, which will hopefully streamline storytelling and help hold that ginormous canon together. A common criticism leveled at the sequel trilogy is that each film seems to disregard the one before; with someone in the captain's chair, it's unlikely that could happen again.&nbꦑsp;
I also loved Filoni's Ahsoka so much it's shot straight to the top of my Star Wars TV ranking – it gave us the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:ultimate veﷺrsion of Anakin Skywalker, shed a whole new light on who can wield the Force and become a Jedi through 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sabine Wren, and reintroduced a big bad for the ages with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Grand Admiral Thrawn (more reasons I'm so excited for Filoni's movie). The dramatic finale, which saw Thrawn's ominous return to the galaxy, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ezra Bridger sneaking his way back to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hera Syndulla, and Ahsoka and Sabine stranded on Peridea, with 🔥澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:𓃲Baylan Skoll on an enigmatic mission of his own, is also an exhilarating launchpad for the future, whether the plot lines are tied up in Filoni's movie, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mandalorian season 4, or a potential 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ahsoka season 2.
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Speaking of Mando, this year brought with it 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mandalorian season 3, which featured its own seriously intriguing set-ups for the future: those 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Moff Gideon clones, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mythosaur awakening, the Mandalorians reclaiming their home world, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Din Djꦦarin adorably adopting Grogu as his own are threads I can'🎀t wait to see p🐻icked up in The Mandalorian season 4 and beyond.
A bigger galaxy
More generally, this year has made it clear that there's something for everyone in Star Wars's latest output. The prequel renaissance lived on through Hayden Christensen's appearance in Ahsoka and Coruscant's prominence in The Mandalorian season 3. There was also plenty for sequel trilogy fans to pore over, with The Mandalorian continuing to bridge the gap between the original trilogy and the sequels with those clone teases (Snoke, anyone?) and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a cameo from Brendol Hux, father of General Hux (played by Domhnall Gleeson's real life brother, Brian Gleeson, no less). And of course, for the original trilogy lovers, there was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a cameo from C-3PO and reference to Leia in Ahsoka. Visions Volume 2 also reminded us of the breadth of storytelling possibility in the galaxy far, far awa🌜y.
There's even more to come, too, which will blast us to broader horizons. The highly anticipated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Andor season 2 will take us back to the gr🏅itty, political corner of the galaxy so many fell in love with precisely because it was like nothing else in the saga, while The Acolyte will be set in the High Republic era, which has never been depicted in live-action before. Then there's Skeleton Crew, which will give the saga a dose of Amblin energy. Teasers for all three projects played at this year's Star Wars Celebration, and we're undoubtedly in for a treat when they arrive.
The future, then, is looking brighter than Tatooine's twin suns &n🍰dash; and that's why I've never been more excited as a Star Wars fan.
Keep up to date with everything the galaxy far, far away has in store with our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:u꧋pcoming Star Wars movies💫 and TV shows.