Star Wars: Live-Action TV Series Coming to Disney Streaming

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Star Wars: Live-Action TV Series Coming to Disney Streaming Service

Disney and Lucasfilm are moving forward with a live-action Star Wars TV series that will be released on the upcoming Disney-owned streaming service. According to Variety, the streaming service is expected to kick-off in late-2019, though a launch date for the Star Wars show has yet to be revealed.

Disney’s Bob Iger also announced that there are series in the works based on Pixar’s Monsters Inc., the Disney Channel’s High School Musical franchise and an original series from Marvel.

The news comes just as it was revealed Rian Johnson will be creatively overseeing a new trilogy of Star Wars films — the first of which, he will write and direct. “We all loved working with Rian on ‘The Last Jedi,’” Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, said in a statement. “He’s a creative force, and watching him craft ‘The Last Jedi’ from start to finish was one of the great joys of my career. Rian will do amazing things with the blank canvas of this new trilogy.”

Opening Dec. 15, Star Wars: The Last Jedi features returning cast members Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma and Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, joined by franchise newcomers Kelly Marie Tran as Rose, Benicio del Toro as “DJ” and Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

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The Star Wars Live Action TV Series Should Star Doctor Aphra

When Disney announced that it had purchased Lucasfilm and planned a new trilogy of Star Wars films starting with Episode VII, we always knew that this would only be the beginning. Such a massive and lucrative undertaking would surely go beyond the basic idea of a new trilogy. Once The Force Awakens was released to financial and critical acclaim, the movie managed to rekindle the Star Wars flame, showing people that they could trust in the franchise again. This gave Disney the green light, as well as the confidence, to march on ahead with all of their plans.

Anthology movies would soon follow, in the form of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, and quite a few others to come featuring various characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Then, yesterday brought more news of Disney’s plan. Not only was it announced that The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson would spearhead another trilogy in the Star Wars universe detached from the main Episodes, but also that a live action series would be produced to be released on Disney’s very own streaming service, tentatively dated for 2019.

While we’ve had eight Star Wars movies, various video games and quite a few cartoon series, this will be the universe’s first foray into live action television. Not only is this an unprecedented and already highly-anticipated project, it’s also filled with possibilities. With the Star Wars universe as big as it is, there are so many directions the series could potentially take. While there is always the chance that Disney will opt to start a brand new original story, there is actually a character already in their arsenal that would make for the perfect character for a television series… and her name is Doctor Aphra.

Doctor Aphra was created by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Larroca, and first appeared in the 2015 Darth Vader comic book series published by Marvel Comics. While the book starred the titular Dark Lord, Aphra first appeared in issue #3 and essentially became to co-lead of the series, before being spun-off into her very own solo comic book series, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. Among the very successful line-up of Star Wars comics by Marvel, Aphra garnered an incredibly strong following, to the point that, to some, she just might be as important a female character as the likes of Rogue One‘s Jyn Erso and The Force Awakens‘ Rey.