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Hollywood insider denies Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 4 rumours

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A reliable Hollywood source has dismissed rumours surrounding a major change to Season 4 of Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

Reports emerged earlier this month that Lucasfilm was floating the idea of condensing the next season of The Mandalorian into a feature-length movie, in efforts to temper delays incurred by the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes. If the strikes were to continue into 2024, Making Star Wars claimed, the plan to make a Mando movie would have been ‘the leading preference on the table’.

Hollywood insider and Collider Senior Film Reporter Jeff Sneider has now debunked that rumour on the latest episode of his podcast The Hot Mic, stating categorically that The Mandalorian Season 4 will continue ahead as planned. “Season 4 of The Mandalorian? No, it’s not true,” Sneider said in response to co-host John Rocha flagging the rumour. “It’s definitely a season of television and not a movie.”

Sneider’s track record is fairly reliable – he leaked news on this year’s Star Wars Celebration announcements, including Dave Filoni’s new Mando-verse movie, ahead of time – but it’s worth remembering that even his contribution there is still just a rumour, too. It could be that he simply hasn’t spoken to the same sources as Making Star Wars, who says that the alternative plan arose from fears that Mando Season 4 and Ahsoka Season 2 wouldn’t air in time for Filoni’s theatrical film.

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At the moment, the Star Wars cinematic landscape includes three different movies: Filoni’s culmination of the New Republic-era shows, James Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi, and a New Jedi Order movie focusing on Rey’s rebuilding of the Jedi 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker. Those are pencilled in for May 22, 2026, December 18, 2026, and December 18, 2027, though a specific order has yet to be confirmed.

All new Star Wars content (beyond that already filmed) is essentially on hold as a result of the writers’ and actors’ strikes, so those dates could also end up being pushed further down the line anyway. And The Mandalorian Season 4 doesn’t even have a release date at the moment, so there’s plenty of time for Lucasfilm to figure out the strategy it wants to pursue – whether as a movie or TV series.

Whichever path it takes, you can bet there will be LEGO sets to accompany it. But with one eye on the product launches for the sequel trilogy films, putting Mando in cinemas might give the LEGO Group an even bigger excuse to push new sets. For now, we’ve at least got Star Wars: Ahsoka to look forward to, which debuts with a two-episode premiere on Disney+ on August 23.

The show’s tie-in LEGO sets – 75357 Ghost & Phantom II, 75362 Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle and 75364 New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati’s Starfighter – debut on September 1.

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Chris Wharfe
I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

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