Lucasfilm has confirmed Star Wars: Visions season 2 will release on May 4, 2023, with shorts produced by animation houses such as Aardman, El Guiri, and D'art Shtajio. The first season of Star Wars: Visions was a surprise hit, offering viewers the chance to experience a whole new form of Star Wars stories. Each animated short offered a fresh interpretation of Jedi, Sith, and the Skywalker saga as a whole, and Star Wars: Visions season 1 was praised for both the originality of its writing - unburdened by the complexity of canon and lore - and the beauty of its animated style. Nobody was surprised when Lucasfilm booked a second season.Available To Stream On Disney+Star Wars: Visions season 2 is expanding into new animated styles, and Lucasfilm has now officially confirmed it will release on May 4, 2023 - traditionally viewed as Star Wars Day. Lucasfilm has confirmed the titles of the nine episodes and the animation houses the studio has worked with for each one:
- "Sith," from the Spanish animation house El Guiri
- "Screecher's Reach," from Ireland's Cartoon Saloon
- "In the Stars," from Chile's Punkrobot
- "I Am Your Mother," from Aardman in the U.K.
- "Journey to the Dark Head," from South Korea's Studio Mir
- "The Spy Dancer," from the French company Studio La Cachette
- "The Bandits of Golak," from India's 88 Pictures
- "The Pit," from the Japanese company D'art Shtajio and Lucasfilm
- "Aau's Song," from the South African animation house Triggerfish
Star Wars: Visions Offers Beautiful Reinterpretations Of George Lucas' Franchise
The first season of Star Wars: Visions was a remarkable success, in large part because it abandoned questions of Star Wars canon and continuity, giving Japanese animation houses a chance to flex their creative muscles. "The reaction to the first volume of Star Wars: Visions blew us away. We were delighted that this project inspired and resonated with so many people," observed James Waugh, Star Wars: Visions executive producer and senior vice president, Franchise Content & Strategy, at Lucasfilm, in an official press statement. "We always saw Star Wars: Visions as a framework for celebratory expressions of the franchise from some of the best creators working today. Animation is in a global renaissance, and we’re constantly staggered by the amount of creativity pushing the medium forward." The most famous studio involved in season 2 is undoubtedly the award-winning Aardman Animations, best known for Wallace & Grommit and Chicken Run.
Star Wars Visions season 1 may not have been canon, but it felt like a beautiful way of paying homage to the concepts and ideas of George Lucas. That makes Lucasfilm's decision to release season 2 on Star Wars Day seem so very appropriate, and the episode titles are sure to leave viewers thrilled at the prospect of more creative reinterpretations of the Star Wars galaxy. Aardman's episode bears the title "I am Your Mother," inverting Darth Vader's classic line in the original trilogy - and presumably inverting some of the dynamics as well. It's possible this is a galaxy where Padmé Amidala fell to the dark side; not Anakin; tie-ins have confirmed Darth Vader always believed Padmé would support the Sith, and it's exciting to imagine that scenario playing out.
No doubt Lucasfilm will have still more announcements concerning Star Wars Day 2023 - but it's hard to imagine anything more exciting than Star Wars: Visions season 2. The first season was ground-breaking, and the second promises more of the same. Hopefully it won't be long before Lucasfilm release an official trailer, giving viewers a glimpse of the excitement to come.