Disney+ Plans 10 Star Wars and 10 Marvel Series Over Next Few Years

The Mandalorian, from creator Jon Favreau, has emerged as the banner carrier for Star Wars at a time when the franchise’s big-screen future has been in flux. Season two is airing currently, with other series known to be in development including an Ewan McGregor Obi-Wan series and Diego Luna’s Rogue One prequel.

Since The Mandalorian’s November 2019 debut, the breakout hit has helped power Disney+ to 86.8 million subscribers. The series has been a welcome balm for Lucasfilm, which had been rocked behind-the-scenes turmoil that saw a series of film directors fired or depart projects in various stages. Disney’s Bob Iger acknowledged that perhaps Disney had done too much, too fast in the features department and said that there would be a big-screen break following 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Little has been publicly revealed about those big-screen plans, but it is known that Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is developing a project as a producer, and that Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker Taika Waititi and Sleight director J.D. Dillard are developing Star Wars movies as directing vehicles. The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson has long been attached to his own trilogy.

On the Marvel front, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision is set to bow on Jan. 15, to be followed by series such as Loki and Falcon & the Winter Soldier.

More to come.