The Next Series of STAR WARS Films Are Rumored To Be Set During The High Republic Era
An intriguing new report has surfaced from Making Star Wars that tells us when the next series of Star Wars films will be set. According to their sources, the next film saga in the franchise is going to be set during, what is called, The High Republic era.
They go on to explain that this era is set 400 years before the events of The Skywalker Saga. It’s explained that this “new saga is set during a time that the Sith’s ‘Rule of Two’ has been established by Darth Bane, and Yoda is a Jedi, but isn’t the old Jedi we know from the Skywalker era.”
Ok, if this is true, it would be a pretty awesome setting for the series of films! I’m especially excited about seeing Yoda in his prime! Yoda has such a long history and I’ve always wanted to see a story told that focuses on him in his younger years, so this could be super cool!
The report goes on to explain that these films will not make up a trilogy of movies, but instead will be a series of films that will be set in the same era and will interconnect with each other. Similar to what Marvel Studios has been doing. “This method of storytelling was supposed to apply to the “A Star Wars Story” films, but they never got a chance to interconnect the two stories that they told with more material.” These were the new Star Wars films that D.B. Weiss and David Benioff were working on before they split with Lucasfilm.
Ziro.hu also ran a report that supports these rumors and also adds that the plot of the films “would involve a group of Jedi setting out to explore the then-unknown regions of the Galaxy (Timothy Zahn’s Outbound Flight might come into mind, which also deals with the Jedi exploring what lies outside the edges of the Galaxy). According to our informant, the Jedi would get involved in numerous adventures and conflicts with three different types of enemies, the darkest being ancient evils, Sith gods of some sort.”
This is also said to be a multiplatform story that will connect and tie into Project Luminous and that our first introduction to this High Republic era will come in the form of a video game that will most likely be released in 2021. There’re a lot of great things that could come from this, a lot of new and interesting characters to introduce and explore and it’s kind of exciting to think about.
This is all just a rumor for now because Lucasfilm obviously hasn’t confirmed anything. But, if it is true… if this is the direction that Lucasfilm is looking to take the future Star Wars, what are your thoughts on it? What would you like to see come from it?