The vacations are sprinting in direction of us quicker than the Millennium Falcon on the Kessel Run and Disney+ and Hulu wish to remind streaming devoted precisely what reveals and collection are on deck for the vacations and to ring within the new yr — particularly on the event of Disney+’s official fifth anniversary that fell on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
In between snippets of upcoming applications like “The Bear,” “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” “Good American Household,” “Chad Powers,” “Paradise,” “The Handmaid’s Story,” and MCU fare like “Daredevil: Born Once more” and “Ironheart,” this enjoyable sneak peek is absolutely injected with bits of recent footage from “Andor” Season 2, “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” and “Alien: Earth.”
“Andor” Season 2, which arrives on Disney+ on Apr. 22, 2025, delivers a first-look glimpse of this spinoff prequel collection that covers the final 4 years of Cassian Andor’s rise inside the Resistance.
Unwrapped listed here are peeks at Adria Arjona’s character of Bix Caleen recruiting for a pilot, Diego Luna’s Cassian suiting as much as fly an intimidating Imperial TIE Interceptor, Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael telling our titular hero to “assume like a pacesetter,” the Yavin IV base, and the return of Okay-2SO, the ex-Imperial enforcer droid voiced by Alan Tudyk from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
For creator Noah Hawley’s (“Fargo,” “Legion”) “Alien: Earth” TV collection coming to Hulu subsequent yr, the teaser reveals the ominous inside of a cramped spaceship bathed in blood-red lights, black-suited divers rising from a big physique of water with some form of cargo container, and a ultimate shot of our Huge Blue Marble mirrored within the shiny dome of a snarling xenomorph predator. “This ship… collected specimens from a faraway moon. Monsters,” states a somber voice.
And though “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” technically lands starting on Dec. 3, 2024, its eight-episode season will roll proper on into 2025, and right here on this particular anniversary sizzle reel Disney+ drops new pictures of the collection’ 4 star-lost youngsters and their Drive-sensitive guardian named Ja Nod Nawood (Jude Legislation) warning the pint-sized gang that “a crew of murderous pirates in coming.”
With “Alien: Earth” almost definitely the farthest out on the calendar and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” zooming in quickly from a galaxy far, far-off, we’re anticipating a full trailer for “Andor” Season 2 to seem anytime.
Nevertheless it’s nonetheless engaging to see this spectacular new lineup getting ready to launch on Disney+ and Hulu with seemingly one thing for each viewer’s specific tastes.