It’s not unusual for the worlds of entertainment and betting to collide. Forget for a moment the fact that there are a lot of movies and TV shows with betting in them – which there are – we’re talking here about the ability to bet on entertainment markets. This can be incredibly basic, with bettors placing wagers on the outcomes of competition-based shows such as The Voice, America’s Got Talent or I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!. It can also involve proposition bets on storyline events, such as the market to bet on who would end up on the Iron Throne. Sucks for anyone who had their money on Daenerys, amirite?
And as we’ve seen before, Star Wars and its universe are not immune to the existence of bets on their hypotheticals. Anyone looking to use betting sites not on Gamstop to bet on what happens in the movies or TV shows around the universe will find that there are always ways to speculate in the hope of accumulating. Below, we’ll look at some of the potential markets that you could explore in 2022 in a galaxy far, far … yes, OK, I’ll stop.
Who will appear in the upcoming Star Wars series on Disney+?
There is going to be plenty of Star Wars content on Disney+ for the foreseeable future, and one popular betting market involves predicting which beloved characters might appear in them. Some of these characters are at fairly short odds, demonstrating that it’s easy to see an in-universe reason why they might crop up. Others, not so much. Odds are very long on Princess Leia turning up in Ahsoka, for example, because she’d have to be crowbarred in there and you kind of just hope it never happens.
Will there be a Mandalorian movie?
The question has been asked, and if you ask Google right now you have to plow through a lot of SEO-tweaked non-answers to get to the actual answer. Which is … seemingly not any time soon. There’s enough to be dealing with, given the large expansion of the universe through the serialised shows on Disney+. But at any given time, you’ll find a bookie ready to take bets on whether there will be a movie in 2023, or 2024, or whenever. This is a market that could run and run, because there will be people asking until there actually is a Mandalorian movie. Which, as we’ve covered, there isn’t going to be any time soon.
Events in upcoming seasons
Game of Thrones fans will know all about these markets, as the battle between the Hound and the Mountain was something you could bet on long before they ever ran into one another as Kings Landing (and the narrative structure) crumbled into dust. They also exist for the Mandalorian, with the above “beloved character appears” market joined by speculation such as “How often will Mando appear without his mask in Season 3?”. You’ll be pleased to know the over/under on that is 2.5, by the way.