Next month will make history for Lucasfilm on television thanks to a pair of pivotal Star Wars releases. The month of May has always been a special time for the galaxy far, far away, with the pre-Summer slot typically home to big-screen Star Wars releases and also housing May the 4th, aka Star Wars Day. This May is set to be extra special as it brings not one but two new Star Wars projects.This year, Star Wars will release not only a new animated series, Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, but also its first theatrical film since 2019's Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, in The Mandalorian & Grogu. What's even more exciting is that these are both May releases, with Maul - Shadow Lord releasing its final episodes on May 4 (syncing up with Star Wars Day), and The Mandalorian & Grogu arriving a couple of weeks later on May 22. This will make May 2026 a historic month, specifically for Star Wars television, as it's the first time in the post-COVID era that episodes of a Star Wars Disney+ TV series release in the same month as a Star Wars movie. This has happened only once before, in 2019, when new episodes of The Mandalorian premiered on Disney+ in the same month as The Rise of Skywalker was released in cinemas. Read full article on The Direct.