Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Should've Existed This Weekend

Ever since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, Disney has struggled with getting more Star Wars movies off the ground. In the years since, Lucasfilm has had a nasty habit of announcing things for the series and then not making them, if they ever actually existed at all. And it all dates back to December 10, 2020, where Disney’s Investor Day livestream saw a plethora of new Star Wars projects get revealed.

In another galaxy, perhaps one not so long ago or far, far away, we’d be watching one of those projects right now. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron was revealed to be in the works during that stream, and with a release date of December 22, 2023. The film seemed promising at the outset: Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was said to be at the helm (this was weeks before Wonder Woman 1984 came out, mind), and the logline teased a film focused on a young crew of starfighter pilots in a “boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill ride” that would bring the franchise into “the future era of the galaxy.” As if that weren’t enough, it was borrowing the title from the beloved Rogue Squadron sub-series of games, even though it would be telling its own original story.

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Time will tell if Rogue Squadron becomes an actual movie we see, or at the very least an eight-episode Disney+ miniseries. Given how successful Top Gun: Maverick was last year, it’s not hard to imagine how thrilling it’d be to watch X-wing and TIE Fighter pilots go at it on the big screen. Until that day comes, there’s always Star Wars Squadrons.

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