What is the future of Star Wars movies?

polygon.com:

Always in motion is the future for Star Wars, especially when it comes to the franchise’s movie business. On Thursday, Lucasfilm and Disney updated Star Wars fans on a development that felt inevitable: The Patty Jenkins-directed dogfighting film Star Wars: Rogue Squadron isn’t happening, at least, not by that project’s planned December 2023 release date. It may not be happening at all, ever.

Star Wars fans who long to see the franchise return to movie theaters will have to wait until December 2025, at the earliest. That’s when Disney theoretically plans to release an untitled Star Wars film, with no clear indication of what it’s about or who’s making it. Another untitled Star Wars movie is on the books for 2027. Same story.

News of yet another Star Wars movie vanishing from Disney’s schedule now feels routine. Projects set in a galaxy far, far away are announced, often with marquee directors and writers attached, only to fizzle out or frustratingly go missing in action. While the Disney-owned Marvel Studios offers clear direction on its theatrical slate stretching out to 2025, spanning at least nine feature films, Star Wars fans don’t know when, or even if, the franchise will ever realistically return to theaters.

Currently, Star Wars fans’ best hope seems to be the planned Star Wars theatrical project from writer-director Taika Waititi, who’s coming off the tepidly received Thor: Love and Thunder, a potentially worrying bellwether. In-development projects set in the Star Wars galaxy from filmmakers Josh Trank, Colin Trevorrow, Patty Jenkins, and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been scrapped or fizzled out after those directors’ respective Hollywood misfires. (Fantastic Four, The Book of Henry, Wonder Woman1984, and