Star Wars Visions to Tell Stories Before and After the Skywalker Saga

Although virtually all Star Wars media popping out proper now has to nestle itself within the ever-growing continuity of the post-Disney-acquisition reboot of its canon, Star Wars Visions is likely one of the uncommon new tasks that’s firmly and unequivocally outdoors of that canon to higher free its creators. That doesn’t make it any much less attention-grabbing to see how these new tales are knowledgeable by the Star Wars timeline, although.

At a latest occasion in Tokyo—reported on by IGN—a number of of the important thing administrators behind the shorts in Visions revealed a couple of extra particulars in regards to the collection. While most matched what we’d heard when Visions was not too long ago unveiled at Anime Expo Lite a couple of weeks in the past, apparently a number of administrators supplied particulars on when their shorts could be set—revealing that a few of the collection will inform tales that happen lengthy earlier than the Star Wars films, and a few will really be set after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker. Both of Studio Trigger’s shorts within the collection, “The Elder” and “The Twins” by Masahiko Otsuka and Hiroyuki Imaishi, respectively, will happen earlier than and after the saga, with Otsuka’s happening earlier than Phantom Menace, and Imaishi’s happening after The Rise of Skywalker. Imaishi will likely be joined by Production I.G.’s Kenji Kamiyama in that post-episode-IX timeline too, together with his quick, “The Ninth Jedi.”

It’s attention-grabbing that each Imaishi and Kamiyama’s tales, non-canonical as they’re, cope with the occasions left within the wake of The Rise of Skywalker’s story, as a result of they each search to wrestle with the concept of what turns into of Force customers throughout the galaxy within the wake of The Final Order’s defeat, and with Rey looking for her personal path as a Jedi with out essentially looking for to rebuild the construction of their fallen order. “I wondered, after Episode IX, has the galaxy settled into peace?”, Kamiyama requested on the occasion, teasing “The Ninth Jedi” and its story of a lightsabersmith encountering different practitioners of the Force. “We all love stories of the Jedi and lightsabers, but what became of the Jedi Knights after the movie series? My story is about that.” Meanwhile, Imaishi’s has much more attention-grabbing connotations given its place on the timeline—starring an Imperial remnant and two force-sensitive siblings, raised to wield the facility of the Dark Side.

Even if these tales aren’t canonical—and can, due to this fact, to some followers not “matter” as a lot as others—it’s nonetheless fascinating to see how they’re knowledgeable by the Star Wars materials that’s and the way their very own perception and perspective on the world of the galaxy far, distant will play out. And maybe, even when a few of the tales Visions tells aren’t one thing that can doubtlessly inform future Star Wars works that do happen within the canon, that they’re going to be a few of the first steps the franchise takes into detailing a world after The Rise of Skywalker (we already obtained the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special doing a lot the identical, in a dubiously canonical method) is hopefully an indicator that Lucasfilm is able to begin exploring the potentiality of that setting.

Star Wars Visions will stream on Dinsey+ from September 22.

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