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A Star Wars movie that had previously staked out a late 2026 release date has been pulled from Disney’s calendar.
As reported by Variety on Friday, the film has been removed from the previously announced Dec. 18, 2026, date, which will now see the release of Ice Age 6 instead.
That doesn’t mean we’re not getting any Star Wars in 2026, however. As it stands now, The Mandalorian & Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau, is still slated for a May 22, 2026, release.
It’s unclear what specific Star Wars movie was set for that December date, but Disney has a number of projects in the universe in development. At last year’s Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm announced three new Star Wars feature films: a Dave Filoni-directed New Republic film set in his Mando-verse, a Dawn of the Jedi movie led by James Mangold, and a New Jedi Order feature directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy that’s set to have Daisy Ridley reprise her role as Rey after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker.
That Obaid-Chinoy project has gone through several changes as of late, with screenwriter Steven Knight recently departing after taking over for Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Still, Rey as a character is still apparently a major priority for Disney moving forward, with a recent THR report saying that she’s set to appear in several upcoming Star Wars films.
And, believe it or not, that’s not even all Disney has on the Star Wars docket moving forward. It was revealed just earlier this month that X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is set to write a new trilogy that isn’t, contrary to initial reports, a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.
Ice Age 6, meanwhile, was officially confirmed at D23 Brazil last week. When it releases, it’ll mark 10 years since the most recent mainline entry in Ice Age, 2016’s Collision Course, although spinoff The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild came out in 2022.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
