Lucasfilm has announced LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian, a new animated special releasing on Disney+ on Wednesday, September 2. The special will feature “your favorite stories and characters” from all three seasons of the show, and receive an early screening at the D23 event in Anaheim, California, on Saturday, August 15.
The news comes amid the announcement The Mandalorian and Grogu, the show’s continuation movie, will be released digitally on Tuesday, July 21, and on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on August 25. The film, which received mixed reviews, grossed $342.2 million worldwide (against a $165 million budget), making it the lowest-grossing Star Wars movie after 2008’s The Clone Wars.
The special was also revealed along with the schedule for D23, which will be held on the weekend of August 14-16. Along with all the programming, this year’s inductees into the Disney Legends hall of fame were announced, and they consist of:
- Chris Berman, ESPN commentator
- Jerry Bruckheimer, film producer (Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Susan Egan, actress (Hercules, Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast)
- Eric Goldberg, animator (Aladdin, Pocahontas)
- Anne Hathaway, actress (The Princess Diaries, Devil Wears Prada)
- Bob Iger, former Disney CEO (2005-20, 2022-26)
- Kim Irvine, former executive creative director of Walt Disney Imagineering Anaheim
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, actor (Moana)
- The Jonas Brothers (Kevin, Joe, and Nick), musicians (Camp Rock)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, polymath (Moana, Encanto, The Little Mermaid remake)
- Alan Tudyk, actor (every Disney Animation film since Wreck-It Ralph)
The inductees will be honored at a ceremony on Sunday, August 16.
In other news from the Disney empire this week, Deadline reports Adam Scott, Ezra Claytan Daniels, and Eli Jorné are developing Shifter (La passe-visage in French) into a Hulu series. The graphic novel by Koren Shadmi, which hasn’t been published in English yet, imagines a world where a banned cosmetic procedure has created an underground network of shapeshifters, who’ll take money to become anyone you want. Scott, Daniels, and Jorné previously worked together on the Apple TV series Severance.
The site also reports FX’s The Beauty is “on pause,” with all the actors’ contracts for the show having expired. The first season of the body horror series, adapted by Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson from the comic by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, premiered in January, and there had been no word on the show’s future afterwards. While the show’s premise allows any of the cast to be replaced by younger actors, its big budget and multiple locations, as well as how it was overshadowed by another Murphy series on FX, Love Story, means it is not a priority for the time being.
For more news from Disney and its subsidiaries, stay tuned to The Beat. In the meantime, the Star Wars anime The Ninth Jedi will be released on Disney+ and Hulu on Wednesday, August 5, and the one-shot comic The Mandalorian and Grogu: Danger in the Dark will drop on July 22. For other Star Wars news, click here.
