‘Star Wars’ Reveals New Luke Skywalker After Lucasfilm Cancels Disney+ ‘Mandalorian’ Show
Lucasfilm is not bringing back The Book of Boba Fett for a second season on Disney+. Instead, the character’s next chapter is arriving in comic book form, as Marvel Comics prepares to launch a seven-issue adaptation of the original 2021 series, with issue #1 releasing September 9, 2026.
The series will retell — not continue — Temuera Morrison’s run as Tatooine’s newest crime lord, with each of the seven issues corresponding to one episode of the show’s first and only season. It is, in effect, a faithful translation of the Disney+ story to the page rather than a sequel to it, and it arrives at a moment when Lucasfilm appears to be quietly stepping back from several of its earlier streaming-era Star Wars projects.
Issue #6 Set to Feature a De-Aged Luke Skywalker
The clearest indication of how closely Marvel intends to track the original season comes with newly revealed cover art for issue #6, scheduled for release on November 25. The cover brings back a de-aged Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, depicted during his New Republic era — the same period audiences first saw him return in The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 8, “The Rescue,” in which he dispatched Moff Gideon’s Dark Troopers with a green lightsaber before later appearing in The Book of Boba Fett as Grogu’s teacher.
Issue #6 adapts the sixth episode of the Disney+ series, “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” which marked Hamill’s first and only appearance in the show. The episode was well received at the time, with fans crediting Dave Filoni’s creativity, some going so far as calling him “a god.”
Written by Rodney Barnes with art by Will Sliney, the issue will ship with two Luke-focused covers. The main cover, illustrated by Phil Noto, places Din Djarin in his Mandalorian armor and Luke Skywalker on opposite sides of Grogu — the beskar chainmail Din forged displayed in front of Grogu, and Yoda’s lightsaber positioned beside Luke, a visual nod to the choice Grogu will eventually face between the Mandalorian and Jedi paths. A variant cover from Mike McKone instead depicts Luke training Grogu in the swamp.
The decision to center Luke so prominently on the cover of issue #6 suggests Marvel is looking to highlight the character beats that generated the most conversation during the show’s original run, rather than producing a strictly panel-for-panel retelling of the season.
Why The Book of Boba Fett Isn’t Continuing on Screen
The Book of Boba Fett premiered in December 2021 and introduced Morrison’s Boba Fett — previously believed to have died in the sarlacc pit in the original trilogy, and revived in live action during The Mandalorian Season 2 — as he attempted to take over Jabba the Hutt’s former criminal territory on Tatooine.
The reception to the season was mixed. Critics and fans pointed to uneven pacing, a characterization of Boba Fett some longtime fans felt did not match the character’s established mythology, and a back half of the season that leaned heavily on Din Djarin and Grogu rather than its title character, to the point that several episodes functioned more as a lead-in to The Mandalorian Season 3 than as a continuation of Boba Fett’s own story.
Lucasfilm has never announced a second season, and Morrison has said he has not been contacted about reprising the role. Boba Fett was also absent from The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026), despite the film’s return to Tatooine-adjacent territory within the broader Mando-Verse.
The Larger Context: A Franchise Recalibrating
Boba Fett’s absence from live action arrives alongside a softer box office showing for the Mando-Verse overall. The Mandalorian and Grogu opened to roughly $82 million domestically over its three-day Memorial Day weekend — the lowest opening for a live-action Star Wars film since Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) — and closed its theatrical run at $345.3 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, against a reported $165 million budget. Globally, its opening weekend take of $165 million also marked the franchise’s softest start since Solo, which debuted to $171 million worldwide.
Andor has been widely regarded as a critical success for Disney+ Star Wars, but it has done little to settle the broader conversation about the direction of the platform’s franchise output. The Book of Boba Fett‘s stalled continuation, paired with the character’s absence from the newest film, points to a pattern of Lucasfilm pulling back from some of its earlier streaming-era swings.
The Book of Boba Fett comic is not the only such project this year. Lucasfilm also recently released a LEGO adaptation of The Mandalorian, retelling Din Djarin and Grogu’s story across the show’s three seasons while removing several characters from the narrative entirely.
For now, Boba Fett’s story continues on the page. Whether — and when — he returns to live action appears tied to how Lucasfilm reshapes its Star Wars slate following this stretch of underwhelming streaming and box office results.
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