7 Non-Canon Star Wars Projects We Want To See After The Ninth Jedi

While Disney/Lucasfilm continues to maintain the established Star Wars timeline and canon, recent years have seen a handful of non-canon projects as well. The most prominent is Star Wars: Visions, the anthology series where various anime studios create non-canon stories and characters inspired by the galaxy far, far away, but not beholden to its continuity. It's a fantastic series that has produced some fascinating stories, including the world of The Ninth Jedi and its upcoming spin-off series.

With Visions, there's no worrying about how these new stories fit into the established continuity, and creators have an impressive amount of freedom to experiment with visual styles, new Force philosophies, as well as original heroes and villains. Without question, the impressive result has been some of the freshest and most inspired Star Wars storytelling in years.

As The Ninth Jedi is set to evolve into its own full series in August, it's fun to think about what other ways Lucasfilm could make use of non-canon stories. From classic Legends stories to "What If...?" scenarios, here are some fun ideas for non-canon Star Wars stories we'd love to see adapted sometime in the franchise's future.

Star Wars: Visions Vol. 4

While it hasn't been officially confirmed just yet, the hope is that Star Wars: Visions Volume 4 is already in the works. Each previous season has introduced exciting concepts and characters, many of which couldn't exist in the official Star Wars timeline, which is exactly why the anthology series often works so well. It's a true celebration of the Star Wars mythology and its ability to inspire/generate new ideas and stories.

Whether it's the black-and-white galaxy of the Sith Ronin inspired by the Kurosawa samurai films that inspired George Lucas, or The Ninth Jedi and its unique lightsabers that change color and reflect their wielders' inner alignment, Star Wars: Visions continues to deliver with each new season of the anthology series. As such, there's no doubt that another volume of episodes could keep the inspiration and epic new concepts going.

While The Old Republic remains one of Star Wars' richest eras in Legends, the official Star Wars canon has barely scratched the surface with mere drops in the bucket. Of course, Lucasfilm could very well tell its own version of this period eventually for the current canon. However, it can certainly be argued that a non-canonical adaptation of the lore from the classic Knights of the Old Republic games and novels could be a great way for Lucasfilm to capitalize on the period with guaranteed success.

Characters like Darth Revan, Bastila Shan, Darth Malak, and Meetra Surik remain some of the franchise's most popular creations despite never appearing in modern canon (just a handful of references). That particularly goes for Revan, a powerful Jedi corrupted by the dark side as a Sith who eventually finds his way back to the light.

Presenting some kind of animated or live-action adaptation as a clearly labeled alternate timeline would allow Lucasfilm to stay faithful to the beloved games and comics without worrying about contradictions to current canon. Likewise, an adaptation like that would absolutely have a built-in fanbase. If Marvel Studios can make a massively popular series set in the old animated Marvel Universe of the 90s with X-Men '97, the same could theoretically be done for Knights of the Old Republic.

Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates

Few canceled Star Wars projects have generated as much fascination as Colin Trevorrow's original script and vision for Episode IX, before Disney replaced him with J.J. Abrams. Between leaked scripts, concept art, and story outlines, fans have gotten a surprisingly detailed look at the Star Wars: Duel of the Fates movie that might have been.

Kylo Ren wearing a Mandalorian mask, Rey wielding a double-bladed blue lightsaber, Luke's Force ghost haunting Kylo Ren, Finn leading a full stormtrooper uprising as the Resistance uses old Imperial hardware to lay siege to Coruscant, the Mortis Blade. So many great ideas that were unfortunately left on the table when Lucasfilm chose to massively pivot after The Last Jedi. Perhaps one day, an official non-canon Duel of the Fates comic or novel will be in the works.​​​​​​​

Star Wars Infinities

Not unlike Marvel Comics' alternate timelines with their What If...? stories, Star Wars once had Infinities from Dark Horse Comics, providing major reimaginings of each episode of the Original Trilogy.

What if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star? What if Darth Vader survived and fought alongside Luke and Leia wearing white armor? What if Leia became Yoda's Jedi apprentice instead of Luke? These exciting questions created wildly entertaining alternate realities on the page, and an animated non-canon series in the same vein could be fascinating for the franchise, just like Marvel Studios' "What If...?" animated series, which ran for three seasons.

What if Anakin beat Obi-Wan on Mustafar? What if Qui-Gon lived and joined Dooku? What if Jar Jar didn't give Palpatine emergency powers? So many fun possibilities Lucasfilm could take advantage of with its own "What If...?" series.

Seth Green's Star Wars Detours

No Star Wars project is more frustratingly complete (yet unreleased) than Star Wars Detours. Before Disney acquired Lucasfilm back in 2012, Seth Green and the creative team behind Robot Chicken produced 39 episodes of the animated comedy series, a unique parody of the Star Wars galaxy set between the prequel and original trilogies. Trailers for Detours were even released, featuring some truly hilarious moments, like Darth Vader awkwardly trying to recruit the youths: "Yo dudes, the Empire is pretty cool. You should like, join it or something..."

Even after all these years collecting dust, I have to believe that simply releasing the already completed episodes on Disney+ would be a pretty significant streaming hit for the Star Wars franchise.

Tag & Bink

A deeper cut here, but I love it, and I'm including it anyway (you can't stop me). Another great non-canon comedy option, it would be amazing if Lucasfilm one day adapted the non-canon misadventures of Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna. Created by Dark Horse Comics, the few issues of Tag & Bink saw the pair stumbling through the events of Episodes I-VI while accidentally influencing major galactic events, essentially being the Star Wars galaxy's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Interestingly, Tag and Bink were almost featured on-screen and are technically still canon. Versions of the characters were filmed as low-level Imperial officers for 2017's Solo: A Star Wars Story, as seen in behind-the-scenes images. However, the scene ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor (we were so close).

Death Troopers

Horror should absolutely be considered for non-canon Star Wars projects as well, with one of the very best Legends novels of all time being Star Wars: Death Troopers. Imagine an animated horror series like Marvel Zombies set aboard a derelict Imperial Star Destroyer.

Before they became an official trooper variant thanks to Rogue One, Death Troopers were literal zombies in Legends, the result of a mysterious virus transforming the entire cruiser's Imperial personnel into flesh-hungry monsters, trapping survivors aboard the massive vessel as they desperately tried to escape (including Han Solo and Chewbacca).

Even better, the official Star Wars canon has already introduced zombie-like undead with Thrawn's Night Troopers in 2023's Ahsoka, reanimated soldiers brought back to life via the Nightsisters' Great Mothers with their magicks. The series even had Death Troopers who became "Death Troopers." Just picture an animated non-canon Star Wars project that saw a wave of undead overtaking the entire galaxy. It'd be crazy.

All eight episodes of Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi are set to premiere August 5th on Disney+ and Hulu.