Rumors About The Next Era Of Star Wars Sound Very Intriguing

Earlier this week, Jason Ward of MakingStarWars.net (what many would probably consider the Star Wars news website) came out with a report that revealed some new information about the next era of Star Wars, and there was some really promising and intriguing shit in there. I'll let you read it...

Sources are saying the next Star Wars Saga is going to take place during an era called “The High Republic” era.  It sounds like the setting is 400 years before The Skywalker Saga. This new saga is set during a time that the Sith’s “Rule of Two” has been established by Darth Bane, and Yoda is a Jedi, but isn’t the old Jedi we know from the Skywalker era.

These new films will not make up a trilogy but rather a series of films which will be released in the same story era and interconnect. D.B Weiss and David Benioff were to make this series before moving onto a more lucrative deal. This method of storytelling was supposed to apply to the “A Star Wars Story” films, but they never got a chance to interconnect the two stories that they told with more material.

Ziro.hu ran an excellent scoop that elaborates on how Project Luminous will kick off with a video game and a lot of information that  corroborates the timeline information I have heard. They have heard some of the stories will have Jedi exploring the unknown regions. Make sure you check out their article as I feel my information is in direct alignment with theirs, and our stories support one another. For some time, I have heard that Project Luminous was a build up to the next film era which my sources are calling The High Republic era. It should be noted that I have very little reason to think that is going to be the title for the series itself.

Because of the volume of Star Wars stories set during The High Republic era, it is difficult to say which emerging characters they are going to spotlight in these upcoming films. While the series will have Jedi, it will also have heroes who are not Jedi.

While I cannot concretely define the aesthetic of this new era, it sounds like it is rooted in what D.B Weiss and David Benioff thought the Republic would look like. The designs are likely going to be grounded in the familiar, but also new, allowing for a fresh and fun feeling that Star Wars has not seen since George Lucas kicked off the prequel series at the end of the nineties.

Breaking that down, here's what it all means...

Star Wars is about to enter a completely new era of the franchise as we know it. From new movies, to new video games, to new books, comics, and beyond, we're going to be introduced to what the galaxy looked like 400 years prior to the Skywalker Saga. All of the content across the different mediums are going to be extremely intertwined with the help of Lucasfilm's story group and a team of writers assigned to "Project Luminous" in what sounds almost like a 'Shadows of the Empire' type rollout. 

This is a time period never previously explored in the Star Wars Universe, and it'll be called the "High Republic" era. Three new films are on the slate to take place during this era already, releasing in 2022, 2024, and 2026, and reportedly will NOT make up a trilogy from a storytelling standpoint. Instead, they'll be linked the same way movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe are, with small tie-ins and crossovers throughout. I think this is a great move, because now, if one movie fails, it doesn't hinder an entire series too much. 

I would imagine, based on context clues and (more than) a little knowledge on Star Wars lore, that this is a time period where the Jedi are thriving as peacekeepers while the Sith are waiting to come out of hiding, and we'll probably get a middle aged Yoda appearance or two, but I can't see the Jedi vs the Sith being a focal point again here. Maybe we'll get to see the Jedi vs the Mandalorians, if they wanna piggyback on the success of the show, but not Jedi vs Sith. 

Lucasfilm's decision to develop an entire new era of Star Wars canon instead of moving forward with some kinda 'Knights of the Old Republic' project - which fans have seriously been clamoring for FOR AGES - was an interesting one as well. That tells me they either think 'The Old Republic' could be their 'Game of Thrones' and they wanna slap that shit on television, or they're just taking a looooooong break from touching any property the Star Wars fans may hold sacred. I wouldn't blame em, considering nobody hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans.

I'm incredibly hopeful for the success of this new era, though, and I just wanted to share some of the details with y'all, because I think it's gonna be a hell of a decade in the High Republic. Can't wait.