Rosario Dawson is Ahsoka Tano in Lucasfilm's 'Ahsoka' for Disney+.

Both, though, appear to have advantages that “Solo” lacked, and the muscular trailer for “Ahsoka” spurred at least as much enthusiasm as the news pertaining to the next batch of films. We’ll never know how “Obi-Wan” might have performed as a movie, nor how “Ahsoka,” an upcoming live-action series starring Rosario Dawson, might have fared in that format. That prompted Lucasfilm to redirect another spinoff featuring a beloved character, “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” to Disney+, despite the fact that it had a direct connection to the movies with Ewan McGregor reprising the role. In hindsight, the lack of new movies can be seen as a reaction – and really an overreaction – to the box-office failure of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” the stand-alone prequel released in 2018. Notably, one will be largely original and the others will draw on existing personalities and properties, while reflecting the oversized role that animation, under the leadership of Dave Filoni, has played in stoking the fires of George Lucas’ creation. The gist of the announcements coming out of London, where the four-day gathering was held, involved something old (very) and two things relatively new. That appears to have changed with the news out of Star Wars Celebration, which charts a new course for that far-away galaxy. Since “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” concluded the latest trilogy in 2019, Lucasfilm has exhibited a kind of paralysis, making lots of television and several splashy announcements, but failing to pull the trigger on producing new movies.

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