Everything Coming to ‘Star Wars’ In 2025

Happy New Year! We have left 2024 behind, and now it’s time to focus on 2025, a year that will bring a lot of Star Wars content (though perhaps not as much as recently) and one that will also, hopefully, pave the way for even more projects to be released after. We have listed everything we know so far that is coming out, but it’s possible some other stuff may get announced later, especially on the publishing front.

 

Live-Action Star Wars Series Coming in 2025

 

Skeleton Crew

 

The last two episodes of the new Star Wars series Skeleton Crew will stream this month. The series, inspired by The Goonies and other 1980s Amblin films, focuses on a group of kids who get lost in outer space after finding a wrecked spaceship on their remote planet. In their adventures trying to get back home, they run into pirates and a mysterious character played by Jude Law.

 

The first six episodes are currently available to stream. The last two, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and Jon Watts, respectively, will air over the next two Tuesday evenings (US time). You may check out our review of the latest episode here.

 

Andor Season 2

 

The critically acclaimed series from showrunner Tony Gilroy and star/executive producer Diego Luna is returning for a second and final batch of 12 episodes. Andor Season 2 will hit Disney Plus on April 22, just two days after Star Wars Celebration wraps. (It’s unknown if it will be a multiple-episode premiere, but we expect it to be.)

 

The story will bridge the gap between the end of Andor Season 1, which covered the first of the five years prior to Rogue One, and the 2016 film. Each of the four three-episode arcs will cover a set of events localized in time inside those remaining four years. A yearlong time-jump will happen at the end of each block.

 

Everyone involved with Season 1 in front of the camera is returning, including Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, and Kyle Soller. Season 2 will also feature the return of Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic and Alan Tudyk as K-2SO. The team of writers is returning too: Tony Gilroy wrote episodes 1-3, Beau Willimon wrote episodes 4-6, Dan Gilroy penned 7-9, and Tom Bissell drafted episodes 10-12. Ariel Kleiman (six episodes), Janus Metz (three episodes), and Alonso Ruizpalacios (three episodes) will take over directing duties this time around.

 

Animated Star Wars Series Coming In 2025

 

Young Jedi Adventures Season 2 Part 2

 

Young Jedi Adventures, the High Republic-era animated series aimed at preschoolers, is currently in the midst of its second season. The first half came out in August 2023, and it had been announced that the second half would debut at the beginning of 2025. No release date has been announced yet for it. More seasons could be on the way too, and that could also be revealed this year.

 

If you haven’t been keeping up, you might be interested in checking out our YouTube series The Timeline Show, where we are currently breaking down the first few episodes of Season 2, after having already gone through Season 1 last year. You may also read our thoughts on the first half of Season 2 here.

 

Visions Vol. 3

 

It was confirmed in November that Star Wars: Visions would return for its third season in 2025. We still don’t know when, exactly, but Lucasfilm did add that, just like in Season 1, it will be an all-Japanese slate of studios working on the series. Though it hasn’t been specified, it’s possible they will tie it to Star Wars Celebration Japan in April, given the relation between the series and the country that will host the convention.

 

Visions is an animated anthology series set outside of Star Wars canon, in which Lucasfilm allows different studios from around the world to pitch and execute their take on a story set in a galaxy far, far, away, without the constraints of having to be tied to anything that precedes them. Season 1 was entirely anime, while Season 2 broadened its horizons, with other countries contributing with their own shorts. Season 3 will feature once again some of the studios from the first season, which left the door open for potential follow-ups to some of its shorts.

 

Star Wars Celebration Japan

 

This may not be an individual piece of new content, but it’s the biggest event for Star Wars fans in the world. The convention took a gap year in 2024 but will continue its journey overseas in 2025. After visiting London, they are now headed to Tokyo, which will host Star Wars Celebration on April 18-20.

 

Tickets went on sale months ago, but some individual-day tickets are still available here. Some guests have already been announced for the event, which will likely focus on promoting Andor Season 2 (several members of the cast have already been confirmed), but with only three more months to go, we’ll likely hear about many more guests before the end of the month.

 

The screening of the first few episodes of Andor Season 2 might be in the cards, since it will start streaming only a few days later. The first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu could debut there as well, though whether it makes its way out of the convention floor is anyone’s guess. More announcements could include new live-action and animated series, some specifics for Ahsoka Season 2, which will start shooting around that time, and also new tidbits on the future of Star Wars films beyond The Mandalorian and Grogu. Other announcements could even include a new publishing initiative now that the High Republic is coming to a conclusion.

 

Panels celebrating the 10-year anniversary of The Force Awakens and the 20-year anniversary of Revenge of the Sith are also to be expected, though we’ll learn for sure once the schedule is released a few weeks before the event kicks off. Stay tuned for more information on this. If it’s your first time at Celebration, fear not. We’ll also be providing you with some instructions on how to make the best of your time there.

 

Besides splashy announcements and long lines to meet your favorite actors, the convention also features plenty of smaller panels celebrating all sides of Star Wars, some even hosted by the fans. A convention floor selling everything you can imagine related to Star Wars is also one of the main attractions of the weekend.

 

New Books Coming in 2025

 

The High Republic

 

The High Republic publishing initiative that started in January 2021 is coming to an end this year.

 

The list of books part of that final wave includes Claudia Gray’s Into the Light, the final young adult novel in the initiative that will be out on April 1; Justina Ireland’s A Valiant Vow, the last middle-grade book from the High Republic, which comes out on May 6. The story will conclude with the final adult novel, Charles Soule’s Trials of the Jedi, which will be released on June 17. Elsewhere, the second part of the audiodrama Seeds of Starlight, by George Mann.

 

The Acolyte: Wayseeker

 

Justina Ireland is writing one final story for Vernestra Rwoh. Wayseeker has been branded as an Acolyte tie-in novel. It’s set 20 years before the events of the Leslye Headland series and will feature Vernestra and Master Indara. The writer confirmed on social media recently that this novel, along with A Valiant Vow, both releasing on the same day, will be her final contributions to Star Wars. The novel, while set in the High Republic era and featuring a character that was a major part of other novels from that time period, is not technically a part of the initiative.

 

The Crystal Crown

 

Also set in the High Republic is Tessa Gratton’s Yord and Jecki young adult novel, The Crystal Crown. It will also be a prequel to The Acolyte, and will feature the two characters  in a team-up adventure while Yord was still a padawan and their masters were busy elsewhere.

 

The Mask of Fear

 

This will be the first in a new trilogy of novels dubbed Reign of the Empire that will bridge the gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Alexander Freed is writing the first installment, out on February 25, while Rebecca Roanhorse (Resistance Reborn) and Fran Wilde (From a Certain Point of View) are taking over the follow-ups, scheduled for 2026 and 2027, respectively. The trilogy will focus on Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, Saw Gerrera, and a cast of original characters.

 

The Bad Batch: Sanctuary

 

Few details are known about this title as of yet, but according to an updated listing from Penguin Random House UK, Lamar Giles is writing a new Bad Batch novel titled Sanctuary that will come out on August 5. We are still mising official confirmation and plot details, so stay tuned.

 

Comics Coming in 2025

 

The High Republic

 

The story of the High Republic is also coming to an end in the comics. The miniseries Fear of the Jedi kicks off in February, from Cavan Scott. The High Republic Adventures will continue its run, with a special annual issue coming out in January. Its spin-offs, Echoes of Fear and Dispatches from the Occlusion Zone, are also set to wrap in January. The High Republic mangas The Edge of Balance Vol. 4 and Premonition are also set for release this year.

 

Comic Series Concluding In 2025

 

The Battle of Jakku series will wrap in the first quarter with its final three issues, while the Ewoks miniseries releases its final issue in January. The Ahsoka adaptation has two more issues to go.

 

New Comic Series Coming in 2025

 

Marvel will kick off the year with a one-shot comic celebrating their 10 years of writing Star Wars stories. Starting in February, Charles Soule’s Legacy of Vader comic series will bridge the gap between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker for Kylo Ren.

 

Set before The Phantom Menace, the new Jedi Knights comic series will have each of its issues focused on a different Jedi, including Yoda, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, among others. There is also a new Bad Batch comic run on the way titled Ghost Agents, and set during the Clone Wars. There are also new Hyperspace Stories issues focused on Qui-Gon, Mace Windu, and General Grievous on the way.