There is a new Star Wars spinoff in improvement, and the chief producer revealed why this story particularly is coming to Disney+ after making some very powerful choices. The Star Wars franchise has spawned quite a few movies and TV reveals through the years.
The launch of Disney+ in 2019 gave producers and writers the liberty to create much more tales than followers would not have seen in any other case.
The streaming service launched live-action reveals like The Mandalorian, The Ebook of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Ahsoka, The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew. The franchise has additionally debuted a number of animated collection, together with The Unhealthy Batch, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars Tales and Younger Jedi Adventures, in addition to a continuation of The Clone Wars to wrap up that present’s storylines.
The Ninth Jedi Is “Excellent Kickoff” After Making “Powerful Resolution”
Now there’s one more Star Wars present coming to Disney+, which will probably be a by-product of Visions, an animated collection that consists of 9 brief movies every season. The brand new present is known as The Ninth Jedi and will probably be based mostly on Visions season 1, episode 5, which was additionally known as “The Ninth Jedi.”
Throughout an Anime NYC 2025 roundtable, govt producer James Waugh lastly revealed (through Anime Trending) why it was so troublesome to decide on the subsequent Star Wars spinoff and why the group finally landed on The Ninth Jedi.
Kenji Kamiyama, who wrote and directed the fifth episode of Visions, had a really specific imaginative and prescient for persevering with the story he informed in that one episode, based on Waugh.
Whereas it was a really “powerful determination” to maneuver ahead with a by-product, because the producer likened it to picking a favourite youngster, Waugh finally felt The Ninth Jedi was the precise alternative as a result of it had a construction that lent itself to driving storytelling.
The franchise is ready to inform the story of rebuilding the Jedi Order that can make for the “good kickoff” of a brand new collection.
“Actually, it was [Kenji] Kamiyama-san’s imaginative and prescient of what he needed to do with carrying that story ahead. It was a troublesome determination. It’s like choosing your favourite youngster — it’s very difficult. However I believe that one had the inherent construction: we have to go put collectively the Jedi Order, [and] we have to discover these 9 Jedi to assist rebuild the Jedi Order to combat the darkness within the galaxy. That simply felt like the right kickoff for a collection. And Kamiyama-san had a really clear thought.”
What The Ninth Jedi Spinoff Means For Star Wars Franchise
Star Wars: Visions is a really distinctive TV present as a result of every episode tells its personal story impartial from the remainder of the season; it is also an anime collection, which is new territory for the franchise. Visions at present has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, proving that Star Wars can nonetheless create new and thrilling tales that followers and critics love.
The Ninth Jedi spinoff will enable Kamiyama to flesh out the exceptional story he created on Visions, which facilities round a personality named Margrave Juro, who makes an attempt to construct the Jedi Order again up, with the assistance of Ethan, Kara and Homen. The story takes place following the occasions of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Waugh made it clear that Kamiyamaha has a “very clear thought” for the collection, which implies viewers who liked “The Ninth Jedi” episode of Visions can have a lot extra to sit up for. If The Ninth Jedi season 1 is profitable, then the hope is that Star Wars followers will get to see a number of seasons of this spinoff.
Star Wars: Visions season 3 premieres Wednesday, October 29 on Disney+.