New Star Wars Movie From Indiana Jones Director Gets Another Update

Director James Mangold just released Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and one of his next big projects is a Star Wars movie. Not much is known about it, but it's been confirmed that the director's project will go back in time to the origins of the Force. Mangold spoke a little more about this in a recent interview with Variety.

Mangold recalled that in a conversation with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, he observed that the newest Star Wars movies pushed further into the future but he wanted to go backward.

The movie Mangold pitched to Kennedy was a "a Ten Commandments about the dawning of the Force," he said. "It is basically, for fans, a kind of religion. What is it to have found this power and not even understand what it is?"

Kennedy liked the idea and remarked in the interview that Mangold moves "pretty fast" and already has a basic treatment for the film laid out in his head. He is not writing anything down right now due to the ongoing writers' strike. But when that gets resolved, Kennedy said, "He has every intention of wanting to move this forward very aggressively, and we want to support that."

Mangold's Star Wars movie was one of three announced in April, with Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel, Saving Face) directing another and Star Wars veteran Dave Filoni attached to the third. Each feature takes place in a different era in the Star Wars universe.

Mangold will be going way in the past to the dawn of the Jedi, with Filoni being able to wrap up the stories he and his team have been telling in the Disney+ TV series The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Book of Boba Fett. Obaid-Chinoy's movie brings back Daisy Ridley as Rey.

The Rey movie is expected to release first, on May 22, 2026, followed by the other films in December 2026 and December 2027, according to Disney's official release slate.

While we wait, the next Star Wars TV series, Ahsoka, releases in August. For more, check out the latest Ahsoka trailer.