It’s a topic we broached on this weeks 66th studio episode of Making Tracks, whether or not an animated addition to the era of The High Republic could be on the cards, and Cinelinx, led by our pal Jordan Maison, bring their own report that suggests an animated series based on The High Republic could indeed be happening.
Over the last couple days I’ve heard from a handful of sources that three new animated series are currently in various stages of development, one of which would be set during The High Republic era. This January, Lucasfilm/Disney are kicking off a new publishing initiative that ushers in a brand new, unexplored, period of time in Star Wars.
It’s exciting, and been top on my “most anticipated” Star Wars endeavors ever since it was announced earlier this year. Being set a couple hundred years before the events of the films opens up a wide range of storytelling potential and I’m already in love with it. From what I’ve heard, this is definitely among their new sandboxes to play in for stories.
Despite being initially announced as a “publishing” project, I’d heard even last year that it was being considered as a “multimedia” project that would span other mediums as well. It’s already popped up in VR (as we scooped earlier this year), and this actually isn’t the first time I’ve heard The High Republic mentioned in terms of a TV show. I had heard whispers of a potential live-action series happening as well, but I’m not sure if that’s still in the cards or some wires got crossed and it was always about an animated project.
Sadly, I don’t have any specific details on what the series will include, whether it’ll include characters from the books/comics or not. From what I can gather, it’s early days of development, and lines up with what I’d heard a few months back about a new project entering the concept art stage (normally among the first steps).
With the hot word that tomorrow will bring news of future animated and live action Star Wars, hopefully we will have some meat for the bone within the next day or so.
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