Star Wars News Round-Up: July 2021

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Star Wars Visions Trailer Released

Excitement for the Star Wars Visions project went up several notches this month when the First Look trailer was released at the LA Anime Expo on 3rd July, watch the trailer here. The trailer featured a stunning variety of styles, graphics and concept art, and revealed that the series will begin streaming 22nd September along with the episode titles and studios working on them.


Studios & Story titles:

Kamikaze Douga “The Duel”

Geno Studio (Twin Engine) “Lop and Ochō”

Studio Colorido (Twin Engine) “Tatooine Rhapsody”

Trigger “The Twins” & “The Elder”

Kinema Citrus “The Village Bride”

Science Saru “Akakiri” & “T0-B1”

Production IG “The Ninth Jedi”


Also this month the cover art and synopsis for Emma Mieko’s Candon’s tie-in novel, Ronin: A Visions Novel was revealed by Del Rey and starwars.com.



The Mandalorian Receives 24 Emmy Nominations 


On 13th July The Mandalorian received an amazing 24 Emmy nominations including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor for Giancarlo Esposito, and Outstanding Guest Actor for Timothy Olyphant. See the full list of nominations here.


On the same day it was also revealed that there will be a new episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian coming to Disney+ on 25th August focusing on the season 2 finale and how Luke Skywalker was brought back to life.


And finally in an American Cinematographer article on Stagecraft technology it was revealed that The Mandalorian season 3 is now in production. Fantha Tracks report here.


No EA Game Reveals until 2022

On 15th July there was much disappointment but not much surprise that EA announced via Twitter that there would be no Star Wars game announcements at EA Play 2021, and indeed no news until 2022. Although Jedi: Fallen Order was well received and Battlefront 2 became a great game, there has been a lot of criticism of EA’s lack of Star Wars games during their exclusivity period, we need more games!


High Republic Wave 3 Revealed

The third wave of High Republic publications was revealed during an entertaining SDCC At Home panel on 23rd July, the wave will be released around January 2022 and will be the last releases of phase one of the project. Watch the full panel here, the most exciting reveals for me were Claudia Gray writing the adult novel and Charles Soule writing a 2-part 60+ page comic about Marchion Ro.

Wave 3 Announcements 

Daniel José Older - Midnight Horizon (Young Adult Novel, 14+ yrs)

Justina Ireland - Mission to Disaster (Middle Grade Novel, 8-12yrs)

Charles Soule - Eye of The Storm (Marvel Comic)

Claudia Gray - The Fallen Star (Del Rey Adult Novel)


Galactic Starcruiser Hotel Updates

The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel and immersive experience is due to open at DisneyWorld next spring and Disney Parks Blog just shared a conversation between the Imagineers responsible revealing what guests can expect, watch it here.


The imagineers, led by Scott Trowbridge, discuss just how immersive the experience will be from your arrival, to lightsaber training, and live performances in the restaurant.

There will be aliens, droids, Kylo Ren and Rey in conflict, and it will be your story, how that story plays out will depend on who you meet and the choices you make and feed into the experience you have on Batuu. This sounds like a phenomenal 2 night experience, that although I have been to Galaxy’s Edge myself, I doubt I will ever be able to afford to do, but I can’t wait to see the guests YouTube videos!


Jonny O


Check out my Spoiler Review of Cavan Scott’s The Rising Storm here.

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