Lucasfilm Reportedly Taking ROGUE SQUADRON Back to the Drawing Board as a Disney+ Series
It looks like Lucasfilm isn’t ready to abandon Rogue Squadron just yet. The long-awaited Star Wars project, once planned as a feature film directed by Patty Jenkins, is reportedly being reimagined as a Disney+ series instead.
Back in December 2020, Lucasfilm made a big splash when it announced Rogue Squadron with an elaborate promo video showing Jenkins walking down an airstrip before climbing into a life-sized X-wing.
The filmmaker described the story as a high-speed adventure centered on a new generation of starfighter pilots, which is something that had Star Wars fans hyped for a fresh, adrenaline-fueled take on the galaxy’s epic dogfights.
But since that announcement, the project has gone through years of turbulence. Jenkins initially had to postpone work on the film due to scheduling conflicts with Wonder Woman 3 and Cleopatra, both of which later stalled.
By 2022, Rogue Squadron was officially put on hold, and by the following year, reports claimed it had been scrapped altogether. Later, the project resurfaced in “active development,” though it never received a release date and quietly slipped off Lucasfilm’s list of priorities, especially with Shawn Levy now developing Star Wars: Starfighter.
Now, according to a new report, the project is taking a new flight path. Insider @MyTimeToShineH claims that Rogue Squadron is currently being developed as a Star Wars TV series.
This potential pivot isn’t completely out of the blue. Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, previously hinted that Rogue Squadron could be reworked into a series format.
Considering the studio’s current focus on streaming projects, the move makes sense, especially since the only Star Wars show currently confirmed for Disney+ is Ahsoka Season 2.
That raises a major question: what does this mean for Jenkins’ involvement? The filmmaker addressed her complicated history with Rogue Squadron earlier this year, explaining how her plans shifted between projects.
“So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, I thought maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,” Jenkins said last March.
“So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, ‘Oh, we gotta finish this deal.’ We finished the deal right as the strike was happening.”
“So I now owe a draft of Star Wars, and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?” she continued. “It’s hard, they have a hard job in front of them, of what’s the first movie they’re gonna do.
“They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I’m back on doing Rogue Squadron, and we’ll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we’re both super happy with it.”
If the project does evolve into a series, Jenkins’ level of creative control remains uncertain. But the idea of exploring a squadron of starfighter pilots across multiple episodes could give the story, and its characters, the breathing room to soar in a way a single film couldn’t.
As described years ago, Rogue Squadron was meant to introduce “a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride.”
If Lucasfilm can finally bring that concept to life on Disney+, it could fill a much-needed gap in the Star Wars lineup and bring some classic space combat energy back to the franchise.
Of course, after years of development stops and starts, fans are understandably cautious. Rogue Squadron has had one of the rockiest journeys of any Star Wars project since Disney bought Lucasfilm. Still, if this latest report is true, the story might finally have found its new flight plan.