It's official: Season 2 of Ahsoka is in development.
Disney confirmed the news Tuesday morning while announcing that Jon Favreau will be directing a brand-new Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu. Oddly enough, the confirmation is somewhat buried in the Favreau announcement, with Disney adding near the end of it, "The Mandalorian & Grogu will lead Lucasfilm's ongoing feature-development slate, including films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who is also currently developing Ahsoka Season 2, among those in the works."
While it's been speculated that a second season of Ahsoka would be on the way, especially given Dave Filoni's recent promotion within Lucasfilm, this is Disney's first official confirmation of another installment.
Ahsoka Season 2 was last teased during a Vanity Fair profile that revealed Filoni's aformentioned promotion as chief creative officer at Lucasfilm. At the time, the profile merely said he had been "exploring" a second season, while star Rosario Dawson added that Disney hadn't said anything "officially" about it.
"For a while now, and especially now with the strike and everything, no one can say anything," Dawson said back in November. "But he did say [Filoni] was working on an outline. So, we’ll see.”
Star Wars' Expanding Future
Tuesday morning suddenly ended up being a major one for Star Wars fans. Along with the Ahsoka Season 2 news, Disney also revealed Favreau's brand-new Star Wars movie pretty much out of nowhere. They noted in the announcement that it'll go into production this year, and will also be produced by Filoni and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
It's worth noting that Favreau's film will not replace Filoni's previously announced movie, which was revealed along with Obaid-Chinoy's and Mangold's projects at last year's Star Wars Celebration. And with today's news of Ahsoka Season 2, it's hard to overstate how much of a creative impact Filoni has on Star Wars' future.
Star Wars remains pretty busy elsewhere on TV as well. 2024 will see the premieres of new Star Wars shows The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, as well as The Bad Batch Season 3 and Tales of the Jedi Season 2. The highly anticipated second season of Andor, however, is not on this year's schedule, likely due to delays with the writers' and actors' strikes.
For more, check out my chat with Favreau and Filoni back at last year's Star Wars Celebration below:
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.
