Live updates on the future of Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ and more from D23 Expo

Unique footage, main bulletins and shock company are a number of the methods Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and twentieth Century Studios are anticipated to excite followers about the way forward for their respective franchises throughout Walt Disney Studios’ second panel presentation at D23 Expo.

Among the many marquee shows of Disney’s personal celebration of all the things Disney, the studio showcase Saturday morning on the Anaheim Conference Middle will see the present creatives behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Star Wars” and extra take heart stage to tease upcoming movie and sequence initiatives — and maybe verify or refute a couple of rumors alongside the way in which.

Disney already kicked the fan conference off in model Friday with its first studio showcase. In a presentation that opened with a efficiency of “When You Want Upon A Star” by “Pinocchio’s” Cynthia Erivo, Disney live-action, Pixar and Disney Animation shared information and photographs from movies together with “Hocus Pocus 2,” “Disenchanted,” “Mufasa: The Lion King,” “The Haunted Mansion,” “Snow White,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Elemental” and “Unusual World.” Amongst Pixar’s bulletins have been its subsequent function, “Elio,” an extra-terrestrial journey a couple of younger boy who makes first contact with aliens, in addition to the return of Riley and her feelings in “Inside Out 2.” To not be outdone, Disney Animation introduced that it’ll have a good time the corporate’s one hundredth anniversary with a brand new animated musical impressed by the studio’s signature wishing star. Then Ariana DeBose, who will voice the lead Asha in “Want,” closed out the presentation with a efficiency of a music from the upcoming movie, which can hit theaters in 2023.

Saturday, the eye will flip to Marvel’s portion of the presentation, which can seemingly hype the remaining initiatives of Part 4 of the MCU: “Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly,” in addition to an untitled Halloween particular and “The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular.” For the reason that studio laid out its plans for Part 5 and 6 throughout its panel at San Diego Comedian-Con in July, its D23 Expo presentation might embrace information of initiatives that weren’t talked about in Corridor H, such because the beforehand introduced “Armor Wars,” or information round sequels for “Shang-Chi” and “Eternals.”

With the premiere of “Andor” set for later this month, it’s seemingly the “Star Wars” sequence will likely be amongst these promoted in the course of the Lucasfilm portion. Whereas new footage of much-anticipated initiatives equivalent to “The Mandalorian” Season 3 and “Ahsoka” have been proven at Star Wars Celebration in Could, official trailers for the 2 exhibits have but to be launched so that they might be on the way in which. And past “Star Wars”-related teasers, the studio might additionally share information about its upcoming “Willow” sequence or the fifth “Indiana Jones” movie.

As for twentieth Century Studios, anticipation is excessive for something “Avatar 2.”

Observe alongside right here for dwell updates from the Marvel, Lucasfilm and twentieth Century shows at D23 Expo.

10:36 a.m. Grasp “Star Wars” storyteller Dave Filoni is launched, in all his cowboy-hatted glory. The franchise’s animated choices are first up, together with Season 2 of “The Dangerous Batch” (premiering Jan. 4, 2023) and “Tales of the Jedi,” a set of six shorts — three about Ahsoka, three about Dooku — out Oct. 26. (Filoni goes out of approach to categorical his love of Ahsoka.)

Charles Murray, who labored with Filoni on “Clone Wars,” was a contributing author on “Tales of the Jedi,” and Kennedy compares the standard of animation within the sequence to that of famed Japanese artist Hayao Miyazaki.

10:25 a.m. Kennedy calls “Willow,” the forthcoming TV adaptation of Ron Howard’s 1988 fantasy movie an “superb, magical journey,” earlier than introducing actor Warwick Davis, who performs the title character. “The pressure is powerful in right here,” quips Davis, who brings out the “Willow” solid. “Sorry, that’s certainly one of my different franchises.” The solid, together with Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman and Ellie Bamber, guarantees an abundance of sword fights and emphasizes the aggressive pluckiness of their characters. Cruz, for example, describes her character Package as “defiant, angsty” and “attempting to determine it out.”

Christian Slater, who additionally seems within the sequence, comes out on stage and calls Davis a “legend.” “I really like the fantasy, the sci-fi, simply attending to be part of this present was an absolute dream come true,” Slater says. He provides that “we got here up with stuff on the spot,” noting he was allowed to improvise fairly a bit in his position. He and Davis joke that the phrases of the writers weren’t all the time handled as sacred.

The trailer teases magix, swordfighting, and the group journey.

10:13 a.m. Lucasfilm is first up. President Kathleen Kennedy has taken the stage to “share what’s forward for ‘Star Wars’ and past” — beginning with “Andor,” certainly one of our most anticipated TV exhibits of the autumn, premiering Sept. 21 on Disney+.

After a recap of what the riot was up in opposition to earlier than hope was discovered (a spotlight reel of “Rogue One”), “Andor” solid members Diego Luna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kyle Solle and Adria Arjona hit the stage. “It’s in regards to the awakening of a revolutionary. … It’s about bringing change,” Luna says. Soller says it’s nice to affix the road of “Star Wars” villains you like to hate, and Arjona teases Andor and her character Bix’s “sophisticated” previous. Luna then introduces the ultimate trailer for “Andor” — it’s the primary time even the solid is seeing it.

10:08 a.m. After blasting “Hooked on a Feeling” — an indication of “Guardians of the Galaxy” information to return? Or Ally McBeal’s entry into the MCU? — the morning’s panel kicks off with a Disney 100 sizzle reel and opening remarks by Alan Bergman, chairman of Disney Studios Content material: “The largest movies ever launched have come from these three studios right here right this moment.”