I started hearing whispers
about Thrawn’s return
as heir to the Empire.
Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie.
This is the way. Star Wars just announced
Three new movies all taking place in three different areas of the timeline.
So we'll break it all down,
revealing pretty much what the future of the franchise
is going to be the next couple of years.
So have you been wondering about where they're taking the franchise
outside of the Mando verse they've just told us in it all?
It takes place in very different parts of the timeline.
So if you're brand new to the channel, of course I'll do videos for everything.
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It's just the beginning of Star Wars celebration.
There's a ton more stuff they're going to reveal the next couple of days.
Like who's playing grand?
Admiral Thrawn I think we've already figured that out though.
And what's going on with the next two years of Star Wars just in general?
I in my operations here and for the rebels about peace by beings,
they they'll be the architects of their own destruction.
There were also a ton of brand new trailers
I just didn't Ahsoka trailer
so I'll link that at the end of this and down to the description below
because the first big movie that they announced and it's a really big
deal, is Dave Filoni directing the Mandalorian Thrawn movie
that will tie together all the overarching heir to the Empire
Grand Admiral Thrawn plots during this part of the Mando verse timeline.
They literally referenced Heir to the Empire,
the original Thrawn trilogy, during the Ahsoka trailer.
So my bet is right now early theory is that they'll call that Thrawn movie
heir to the Empire like star Wars.
Heir to the Empire.
This is Dave Filoni actually talking about that movie.
One of the terms we use is,
you know, the war between the New Republic and the Remnant Empire.
So we're going to see, you know, you need a conflict.
And I'm, you know, just kind of looking at a lot of the things that were written
over the years in various expanding universe projects, trying
not just to look at what John and I did, but we're looking at what was done
kind of historically in the time period as a guide, I think, for,
you know, generations of Star Wars fans before the era of,
you know, episode seven, eight, nine, that was what we saw.
As we turn to the Jedi era, when you're talking about
story and characters, I think, in the expanding universe.
So there's a treasure of things to to draw from,
not just within our own series, but in the bigger galaxy.
Notice how Dave Filoni is explaining that they're mining
a lot of the expanded universe that they set up in the nineties.
In that original Thrawn trilogy, The Heir to the Empire trilogy, basically
because when Disney bought Star Wars, they basically just turned everything
into legends and said, No, no, that's not Khan anymore.
All this expanded universe stuff,
we're going to skip over and do completely new stuff.
But if you were around during the very early nineties,
like a lot of us, you'll probably remember that we did not think that
there were ever going to be more Star Wars movies after Return of the Jedi.
We thought that that was it.
So when the expanded Universe came along the Thrawn trilogy,
that was basically our Star Wars sequel, and it is still an amazing story.
If you haven't read those books, I'd recommend you go back and you read them.
That all started long before George Lucas had ever announced anything
approaching the prequels.
He hadn't even started work on them yet.
So now in present day, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau are basically just taking
all that stuff and turning it into movies in a live action series.
It's all playing out in The Mandalorian, the Ahsoka Series, Skeleton
Crew, all the other connected series.
During this part of the timeline, we're calling it the Mando verse,
but the Thrawn movie is meant to be like their version of the Mandalorian endgame,
like the culmination of all the plots during this part of the timeline.
But it will not be the end of all the shows in this part of the time.
I don't continue, but it'll just be the culmination,
kind of like the way that Avengers endgame was a culmination for the MCU.
And then they continued making Marvel movies
after that ages that now with the announcement
of these different new movies, different parts of the timeline,
they're going to be branching out to other parts of the timeline,
which we assumed that they would always do.
So, for example, Ahsoka is a mandalorians spinoff.
I just did a trailer for that series.
That'll be the next place we see Grand Admiral Thrawn.
He was feature very prominently in the trailer,
or the back of his head was as I was making this video,
they literally confirmed all our theories that it is Lars MIKKELSON
coming back to voice the character he did the voice during Star Wars rebels.
He was fantastic.
He's already been a long time, fantastic actor in live action stuff.
Most of you probably remember him
from the Sherlock series with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Everything's available for a price.
You make me an offer, a Christmas Present.
And what are you giving me for Christmas, Mr. Holmes?
And yes, he is the brother of Mads Mikkelsen, whose character is constructing
the Death Star in a different part of the timeline.
Although his character would have been around
during that part of the timeline too.
But Thrawn didn't really have anything to do
with the construction of the Death Star.
He was working on different projects during that part of the timeline.
We'll be talking a lot about Thrawn
this year between The Mandalorian Series and what they're doing with him on Ahsoka.
Those episodes are coming out in August.
Of course, I'll do more videos for that.
When we get more footage, we learn more about the series.
But right now on The Mandalorian, because that series is connected,
they just screened Season
three episode seven a couple of days early in the last two episodes.
Without giving away
spoilers, our total bangers and they totally save the best for last.
A lot of people complaining about what the overarching plot in The Mandalorian
is during season three.
Well, we find out pretty quickly during episode seven and episode eight,
and they'll use those episodes
to push directly into this grand Admiral Thrawn plot that happens on Ahsoka
and then continues on the other series in future seasons and into the Thrawn movie.
So like I said, they're basically doing Star Wars
heir to the Empire with the Thrawn movie, but they're swapping
some of the characters in like Grogu who wasn't in the original Thrawn trilogy.
Here's the thing though.
That movie will probably be the last of the new three that they just announced,
just because they'll be so many more new seasons of Ahsoka The Mandalorian.
There's just a lot of story that they have to do,
and they just started to set up Thrawn, the actual first Star Wars movie
that's coming out.
It's supposed to be Christmas
2025 in the reports are that it will be the one Damon Lindelof was writing set
during the new Jedi Order 15 years after the rise of Skywalker,
they confirmed that it will follow Daisy Ridley's Rey, who is returning
15 years later.
She'll have become a Jedi master and is basically doing the same thing
that Luke Skywalker is doing right now.
On The Mandalorian, trying to create her new Jedi Order
with a little bit of help from the sacred text
which she joined when she left Luke Skywalker.
So those were not burned when Yoda burned the old Jedi tree.
When they start releasing footage for that
in the next year or two, when we started getting trailers for it,
we can start talking
about the fallacy of the Jedi Order and how it kind of grew stagnant.
In one of the reasons why Luke Skywalker's Jedi Order failed.
When they say Rey's new Jedi Order, I think the whole idea
that she's going to be basing it all on slightly different concepts,
it won't be the exact same thing just over and over and over.
If she were to do the exact same things, teach the exact same lessons
as the previous Jedi,
that just be repeating the mistakes of the past
and it would just lead to their downfall again.
Here's the thing though.
In a lot of you realize this immediately when they said this further forward
in the timeline,
Grogu would be close to the same age that Yoda was
when Yoda became a Jedi master, meaning
that Grogu would be hitting peak grogu you force powers around this period.
He would long since have become a full mandalorian.
He probably has some crazy beskar armor too.
He be as large physically as Yoda, and he could speak basically normally
like Yoda in Seattle, even though only Yoda spoke that backwards speech style.
If you didn't watch Tales of the Jedi, we got a whole bunch of Seattle back story
that explain what happened to her during the prequels.
The council is leaving for a new book.
The funeral is to be held and
she was voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard, who directs a lot of episodes.
That just implies that when Grogu
eventually starts speaking normally, he'll speak like everybody else.
The thing about Grogu appearing in movies further forward to the time
like an older grogu who Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have been very, very cagey
about whether they let Grogu appear in other people's movies
because that movie would basically drop
between seasons of Ahsoka the Mandalorian, like before the Thrawn movie comes out.
And if you see an older Grogu you just kicking ass
15 years after the rise of Skywalker just being a total badass,
it would kind of spoil what his fate is during this earlier part
of the Mandalorian timeline.
Remember Yoda's race lives for up to 900 years
and he wouldn't have even hit 100 when that new Jedi Order movie starts.
They didn't say they're bringing Finn back for any more force training or if Poe,
the other characters in the new trilogy, would return.
My assumption is that a few of them will, but mostly it'll be new characters,
and that's why they're setting it up for 15 years after the rise of Skywalker.
If that movie does well, like in Success, they'd set up a new trilogy
based on the new Jedi Order that would just follow those characters forward.
I think one of the reasons why the new trilogy failed
is because they didn't have a plan
going into it, like they didn't know how they were going to end the trilogy,
and it sounds like they'd fix that problem heading into the new Jedi Order movie,
where they know where the story's actually going before they start working on it.
One of the other more interesting new movies they announced is
they're planning on releasing a James Mangold movie about The Dawn of the Jedi,
that 25,000 years ago.
Originally, Dan and Dave from Game of Thrones,
you may remember we're developing a trilogy of movies
set during this time period, but then they left in disgrace.
So good riddance.
James Mangold picked up the concept and he announced he's going to write
and direct the movie.
So it'll be his original story that he's writing for the movie,
thinking about what kind of genre movie within Star Wars I'd like to make
and I thought about a kind of biblical epic
like Ten Commandments and a Dawning of the Force.
Where did the force come from? When did we discover it?
When did we know how to use it?
And the story just started developing.
And with the wonderful help of all the brilliant
candidates and brilliant
historians of Star Wars and the timeline, we came up with kind of
an incredible story to tell about the dawning of the force
25,000 years before before, before this guy made his appearance.
So it's an exciting story, and I can't wait to tell you
the idea of where it all started to make it kind of Star Wars zero, if you will.
Where was the force born?
To me, a movie always has to have a question to answer some singular thing
that you can say.
It's about not just connecting plot of who built this,
when and who's going to defeat, but what's it about.
And to me, this is about discovery.
He just finished doing Indiana Jones five Trial of Destiny, so he'll probably
talk more about the Dawn of the Jedi movie after Indiana Jones comes out.
It'll take him at least three years to get that movie out.
So at current pace, I think that's why Star Wars
is finally releasing a movie every two years
that gives them until 2027 to release this first Dawn of the Jedi movie.
They have covered that part of the timeline extensively before in the Legends
canon and there have been references to the original Jedi in the new canon
during the Mandalorian,
the sequel trilogy, even during Star Wars Rebels, which they're now doing in live
action during the Ahsoka series, Everybody hoping to see the band do show up.
If you look at the new official Star Wars timeline, the symbol for that part
of the timeline where all those movies and those Disney Plus series will take
place is the same symbol that was on the floor
of the very first Jedi Temple on Oct two that Luke Skywalker had been living.
And the picture is of the being who was the very first Jedi in the black
and white coloration on him.
Dividing him was meant to represent
the concepts of the light
in the dark side of the force in how those first Jedi believed in a more
Ben do like practice of the force where they will did both the dark
side in the light side
face.
I feel like
I have a dark
and it enabled them to wield the force in a more complete way,
be way more powerful than the modern light side Jedi or the modern Sith.
But that Dawn of the Jedi franchise, if we're talking about villains,
is probably going to be more like a Jedi Civil War type of franchise.
If they do sequels to it
and they start doing Disney Plus series set in
that part of the timeline, essentially they would become their own main villains.
What happened in that part of the timeline
is there was a schism in that original order,
and out of that
the light side practitioners broke from the dark side practitioners.
They fought a bitter civil war. A bunch of people die.
Eventually they both retreated to different parts of the galaxy
and just fully developed their own practice of the force,
only wielding either the light side or the dark side in the new canon.
Not talking about legends.
The very first Jedi Temple was on Oct two.
After that you have the schism, the Civil War,
the dark side, the light side, break off and go different ways.
The light side practitioners continue calling themselves the Jedi Order and move
the Jedi Temple to Titan, which we saw on The Mandalorian.
That's where Grogu,
who use the ruins of the temple to contact Luke Skywalker through the force,
I believe for a brief period.
The original Jedi Temple was also on Titan in the legends
canon too, while the Jedi Temple was still on Titan.
They moved some of the temple to the planet office,
which is also from the legends canon as well,
where they kept the Great Jedi Library and they used the planet
just as a Jedi retreat.
That's where
right now in the timeline, Luke Skywalker chose to create his new Jedi Academy.
We saw during the book of Boba Fett where he was training Roku.
Eventually, we know Kylo Ren destroys it with the Knights of Ren years later.
Then, about 4000 years ago, at the end of the Great Sith War,
right at the tail end of the Old Republic era, the Jedi moved the main
Jedi temple to course on where it remained until Revenge of the Sith.
Fun fact two after Order 66 and Revenge of the Sith,
the Emperor turned the old Jedi temple into his own personal residence.
There's just his twisted sense of humor right now.
It seems like the release plans for the new movies are.
They're doing the new Jedi Order movie in 2025.
Then the Dawn of the Jedi movie after that.
Then the Mandalorian Thrawn, heir to the Empire movie at some point after that.
That's why I say they're going to continue
to have seasons of the Mandalorian Ahsoka Skeleton Crew, other spinoffs.
Before we do the Thrawn heir to the Empire movie,
they could always speed up their release plans
for the movies and do one movie per year.
But I think when they start out like right at the start here,
it'll be one movie every two years.
They might ramp up a little bit later in success if things go well.
We're taking baby steps right now.
They've had a lot of successes with the different Star Wars series.
So I think they want to lean more heavily on that
and then ease themselves back into doing Star Wars movies.
But for those of you that wanted them to cover
earlier parts in the timeline, like the Old Republic Era Do series
set during that period, set during the Dawn of the Jedi era,
it sounds like they do have plans to do that. Eventually.
There were a whole bunch of other trailers and teasers that dropped,
so I'll do videos for those as soon as possible.
This weekend there was an acolyte trailer.
There was a Star Wars Skeleton Crew trailer,
which is also a Mandalorian spinoff.
There was also an Andor Season two trailer as well to My full Mandalorian Season
three Episode seven video We'll post next Wednesday
after they release it for everyone publicly.
Please don't post spoilers for that.
If you did get a chance to watch it early, everyone click here for my full Ahsoka
trailer video and click here for my Mandalorian Season
three Episode seven Video Added the link as soon as I post that.
Thank you so much for watching.
Everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys for the next one!