Lucasfilm is reportedly weighing up whether to turn Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 4 into a movie, amid ongoing strikes in Hollywood and pressing timelines for its other projects.
Making Star Wars claims that a plan is ‘being floated internally’ at Lucasfilm to condense the fourth season of The Mandalorian into a film, in an attempt to counter delays brought on by the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes. Whether it will actually happen is apparently contingent first and foremost on when the strikes end, but if they continue into 2024, MSW says the plan ‘could come to fruition’ and is ‘the leading preference on the table’.
This alternative strategy has apparently arisen from fears that showrunners Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni will not have time to complete both The Mandalorian Season 4 and Ahsoka Season 2 in time for Filoni’s theatrical film, which will serve as the culmination of the current New Republic-era Star Wars shows. MSW reports that both of those seasons are ‘prerequisites’ for Filoni’s movie.
Seemingly to avoid pushing that film further down the line, Lucasfilm execs are now rumoured to be considering editing the central story of The Mandalorian Season 4’s scripts into a single feature film. This would arrive on screens after the upcoming New Jedi Order movie, which will focus on Rey’s attempts to rebuild the Jedi 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker.
The writers’ and actors’ strikes mean that effectively all new Star Wars content is on hold for the time being (at least beyond Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew, which are both already completed or in post-production). The Mandalorian Season 4 had no release date yet anyway, but the three Star Wars movies announced at Celebration this year are currently scheduled to premiere on May 22, 2026, December 18, 2026, and December 18, 2027.
If The Mandalorian Season 4 is indeed condensed into a movie, it would need to take an additional slot beyond those three release windows. Note that MSW admits having ‘no idea’ whether that might actually happen, but that the ongoing strikes do make it seem ‘more possible’. Either way, the LEGO Star Wars team is likely going to arrive at a tricky juncture in 2025, when the first effects of the strikes will likely be felt – and new movies and TV shows perhaps begin to dry up, if only temporarily.
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