Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy, speaking at an Andor Season 2 event in London, indicated that Disney is working on a Star Wars horror project.
Gilroy was asked a follow-up to a quote he gave back in March to SFX Magazine saying he’d like to see “a three-camera sitcom in ‘Star Wars’ or a horror movie.” In London, on Thursday, Business Insider asked if he would do a Star Wars horror project. His response:
“They’re doing that. I think they’re doing that. I think that’s in the works, yeah.”
Tony Gilroy attends the UK Sneak Peek Event of Lucasfilm’s ‘Andor Season 2’ at Lightroom, London on April 10th, 2025. (Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited)
There was no indication that Gilroy would be working on this project, unfortunately. He has spent the last 6 years working on Andor and several years prior to that with his involvement on Rogue One, and has expressed a desire to move on to other ideas. Speaking on the future of the franchise post-Andor, Gilroy said:
“The right creator, and the right moment, and the right vibe … you can do anything. So, my hope is that the show connects, and then we can pass along the favor that we were given from Mandalorian, and we can pass along a good healthy backwind to someone else who wants to do something else cool.”
Lucasfilm has announced many projects that have not come to fruition, let alone the ones they haven’t announced so this is something that seems very preliminary at this time, or possibly a misunderstanding entirely.
The only Star Wars film with a scheduled release date is The Mandalorian and Grogu, premiering May 22, 2026. This movie was filmed in 2024 and is currently in post-production. There has been escalating talk regarding a potential Shawn Levy film, staring Ryan Gosling. The writer of that film, Levy collaborator Jonathon Tropper was recently quoted by Screen Rant saying:
“I’m really not going to be able to talk about this. So yeah, you know, we’re still working on it. Yeah, it’s our fourth project together. It’s the first one since The Adam Project.’”
“I am [excited] too. I hope it’s on the way sooner than you think.”
The next Star Wars film was initially thought to be a Rey focused “New Jedi Order” film where she would train a new generation of Jedi. However, that project has gone through multiple writers and as of now, a script has yet to be completed. George Nolfi was recently announced to replace Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Kathleen Kennedy was speaking recently about her pending exit as president of Lucasfilm and indicated that Shawn’s movie would be coming after The Mandalorian and Grogu:
“We’ll probably make an announcement months or a year out, and I have every intention of sticking around to help that person be successful. I’m already producing the Mandalorian movie, and Shawn Levy’s is after that.”
Other films announced officially include a Dawn of the Jedi movie by James Mangold said to be a “biblical story about the first Jedi. Then there is a MandoVerse movie by Dave Filoni that purportedly would bring together the characters from the series The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. However, there have been minimal updates on either film. Kennedy has also hinted at a Simon Kinberg trilogy and still mentions a Taika Waititi film.
With no dedicated Lucasfilm Showcase panel at next week’s Star Wars Celebration, upcoming film or TV show announcements are possible, but not expected.
Gilroy’s Andor Season 2, which will be featured prominently at the convention, starts streaming April 22.
In 1977, Rob waited on line with his older sister for Star Wars and he has been experiencing and dreaming about the franchise ever since. A lifelong New Yorker, he is married with two grown daughters. And he anxiously awaits for that time once again, when the houselights dim and those magic words appear: “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”