STAR WARS: RANGERS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC Disney+ Series Is No Longer In Active Development

STAR WARS: RANGERS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC Disney+ Series Is No Longer In Active Development

Rangers of the New Republic was among the shows announced by Lucasfilm during last year's Disney Investor Day, but it's now been revealed that The Mandalorian spinoff is no longer in active development...

By JoshWilding - May 21, 2021 02:05 AM EST
Filed Under: The Mandalorian
Source: Variety

Last December, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced a new wave of live-action Star Wars TV shows coming to Disney+. News of The Acolyte, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lando, AhsokaThe Book of Boba Fett, and Rangers of the New Republic all got fans excited, especially as the latter three are set to spin out of the events of The Mandalorian

Since then, Gina Carano has been fired as Cara Dune due to her habit of sharing controversial political opinions on social media (anti-trans and anti-masking comments were the biggest issues). 

She was expected to be the lead star of Rangers of the New Republic, but according to Variety, that series "is not currently in active development." That has to be a result of Dune no longer being part of the Star Wars Universe, especially as it's already been confirmed that there are no plans to recast the character. 

The plan was for these spinoffs to culminate in a "storytelling event," so who knows what the apparent cancellation of this series means for whatever Lucasfilm was building to. It's possible The Mandalorian season three will introduce a new character who can take Dune's place, but it is hard to imagine the show working without her given the history she has with the Republic.

This is disappointing news, but was probably to be expected all things considered. Hopefully, this isn't a sign that Lucasfilm's small-screen projects will be as disorganised as its big-screen output!

The Book of Boba Fett is set to arrive on Disney+ this December. 

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Ahhh
Ahhh - 5/21/2021, 2:35 AM
Did they seriously want Dune to headline a series. She's boring as [frick].
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 5/21/2021, 10:58 AM
@PsychoBatemen - and her acting? Oy! So bad
Crtdacct2say
Crtdacct2say - 5/21/2021, 2:36 AM
Dumb. There's more to the New Republic than whatever her character's name was.

nikgrid
nikgrid - 5/21/2021, 4:17 AM
@Crtdacct2say - Yeah should have used Timothy Olyphants Cobb Vanth.
Odin
Odin - 5/21/2021, 2:37 AM
Got to honest, not shedding tears over this. Out of all new live-action SW shows this one always seemed least interesting and necessary.
Ahhh
Ahhh - 5/21/2021, 2:42 AM
@Odin - Can not disagree more. Really? This is the most unecesserary? Exploring the new republic, building the universe, seeing more post last jedi world, and exploring how the new republic is doing?

It's way more needed than Lando and a goddamn droids show.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/21/2021, 2:41 AM
Wasn't big fan of the character anyway, so I'm not too bothered that it's not moving forward if she was the lead.

Instead, just get Hera as the lead. They're continuing Ahsoka in live-action (which I assume includes Sabine and Ezra), so why not have a show with Hera either?
Ace101
Ace101 - 5/21/2021, 6:39 AM
@bkmeijer - This
dracula
dracula - 5/21/2021, 2:41 AM
Thanks Gina, put hundreds of people out of their jobs.

Couldnt have just had her ship blow up on the way back to her job after helping Dinn?

Should have replaced her with Hera
InfinitePunches
InfinitePunches - 5/21/2021, 2:53 AM
@dracula - I agree. She shouldn't have fired herself.
nikgrid
nikgrid - 5/21/2021, 4:18 AM
@dracula - ...or Cobb Vanth.
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 6:15 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - "intolerant leftists" lol.
She's transphobic. If anybody is intolerant, it's her.

Private businesses like Disney can hire and fire as they please. I'd fire somebody that has a shitty personality too. ESPECIALLY if they are one of the faces of a big IP.

It's not the opinions of the "intolerant left" to want people to treat trans people like people, and to wear a mask to stop spreading a deadly virus, it's the opinion of people who want to take care of each other.

Drink some water, and lay of that Trump Train Kool-Aid.
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 6:49 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - I didn't say *anything* about not wanting private businesses to not make a gay wedding cake, nor gave my opinion on a gay wedding cake, so that's red flag number one.

Nobody is forcing anybody to live in fear, but science suggests it's beneficial in slowing the spread. Not listening to scientists that spend their entire lives researching this stuff is red flag number two.

She didn't rip masks off of anybody, and implying that the action of doing so is what puts it over the edge into dangerous is not only wrong, it's stupid as hell.

It can be just as dangerous to provide *false* information regarding a pandemic. False info falls into the ears of people like you, and since there is no real brain to process that information, it just leaks right back out of your mouth.

It's not pathetic to assume you've been drinking the Trump Train Kool-Aid, in fact, based on the fact that you used "intolerant left" in an article about Star Wars is what gave you away, pimp. Seems like you came in looking to fight about it. You wore it on your sleeve.

Also, you can't tell me that I'm so afraid that I listen to government propaganda, because the flip side of that argument also lies with you not only listening to propaganda laid out by the right, but being so scared of a changing world that you ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT! YOU'RE JUST AS MUCH A VICTIM OF PROPAGANDA AS ANYBODY ELSE!
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 6:51 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - Also, I love when you people on the right say "show us proof" like everybody else in this thread is behind you and you and your collective want proof, all at the same time telling everybody else to "do your research" on Covid.

One or the other, butthead.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/21/2021, 6:53 AM
@dracula - or maybe they could say she went looking for her people (other Alderaan survivors?), after having seen how Din found his people again.

Killing her off is only gonna make her a martyr for anti-Disney propaganda.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/21/2021, 6:55 AM
also, this thread:

McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/21/2021, 7:15 AM
@dracula - Kathleen put them out of jobs. All Gina did was post a pic on Instagram about how the Nazis stirred up hate amongst the people causing neighbor to turn on neighbor. Wasn’t anti Semitic unless you legit can’t grasp the allegory she was making. Would I have posted a allegory comparing the right to the Jews in Nazi Germany? No. But I also wouldn’t ever fire someone for making a post that wasn’t hateful or racist or anything of the sort. It was not a great move but it’s not her fault she got fired the jobs are on KK
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 8:08 AM
@TyrantBossMedia -

You seem like the type that wears a leather duster without a shirt on.
You think you're the hero of your story with "facts" and "logic".

It's cringe, bro. You're cringe.
Bet you follow Ben Shapiro on social media.
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 8:38 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - My original reply is stuck in processing right now. We'll continue our argument about how much you love transphobes in just a moment when it posts. Until then, warm up a cup of your Kool-Aid and wait. Be patient. #StopTheSteal
FoiledCranium
FoiledCranium - 5/21/2021, 8:38 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - lol. I shouldn't have even read all that.

I'll get some bullet points together.

1.) "It is a publicly traded business therefore it is no longer private in the general sense."

Plenty of people called for her firing because she's a transphobe. I don't care how many ways you want to defend it, instead of trying to be educated on the issue, admit to effecting some people's lives, she got defensive and made it everybody else's fault. The public called for her job, and the public informed the business, and they made a decision from there. So, private business or publicly traded, it all ends the same.

2.) "Notice how you tried to dodge that point. I caught you"

I didn't dodge anything, they can refuse service, I don't care. Same-Sex wedding cakes can be made anywhere. If they refuse, go somewhere else. This is a non-issue that you're blowing up because you get hard on "owning the libs"

3.) "274,000 were hospitalized. 60.8 Million were infected and there was nary a mention in the media. Why?"

um.. because we didn't have a gutted pandemic response team. Your lord and savior Donald Trump gutted them because in his eyes, it was a waste of resources. People remember where people stand in those situations, and that informs votes for next election cycle. People aren't one dimensional, you fool.

I don't know if you know this, but we're looking at 588K covid deaths in the US alone. This is apples and oranges.

4.) "The "flatten the curve" excuse died after the "15 days to flatten the curve" which is now FAR over a year of fear porn."

We couldn't flatten the curve because there are people like you who don't want to even entertain the idea that scientists could be right. If they were right, then daddy Trump was wrong, and I'm willing to bet you wouldn't like that.

5.) "Why don't they mandate that we only eat healthy food and go to the gym regularly because heart disease kills more annually than Covid"

I don't know. Why don't they? Maybe it has something to do with money in the wrong hands and pockets.

5.) "So other more serious health conditions are ignored over a virus that has a 99.8% survival rate and a 1 in 10,000 chance of being passed on a surface."

That's you projecting. Seeing a doctor was never as illegal as you think it is. Video calls were and are something you can make happen.

6.) "and a 1 in 10,000 chance of being passed on a surface." and "Because I love to stand behind a plexiglass barrier to "avoid contact" while the cashier handles all of my groceries that I have to take home and eat." are sentences that shouldn't be so close together if you didn't want to look dumb as hell.

7.) "And sheep like you willingly give up your freedoms because they said so"

Hear me out.
Let's say there's a big powerhouse that wants to control everything, and it depends on sheep to stay in line so they can harness more wealth and power. Why would they want to manipulate and possibly kill "Sheep" like us when we're the ones that will listen to anybody in power? Wouldn't they want to eradicate people that are less likely to fall in line? i.e people like you? Why would they be giving us ways to survive it if they wanted us dead?

8.) "Oh...you mean like when the CDC and Dr. Fallacy have admitted now that they were wrong and provided false information"

Okay, so lets break down what science is.
Science - the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
New things are learned every day regarding this virus.
Are you implying that this was all known before hand, and sprinkled out a lie, just to admit they lied, and change the rules? C'mon, dude.

9.) "That is Fascism guy. You don't even realize it, but you are taking part in it and perpetuating it."

The exact same can be said for you. The only difference is that one of us gives a shit about the collective human race, and the other only cares about the select few private citizens that wear MAGA hats.

10.) "And I have proof to back it all up"

ThEn ShOw uS pRoOF

11.) "I am following the science as you Leftists always proclaim....that is until the science deviates from the propaganda that you value much more."

This is the most edge lord thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
You're as edgy as Shadow The Hedgehog.

love the "Pathetic" at the end. You seem so above me like an anime villain.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/21/2021, 9:30 AM
@FoiledCranium - I’m a leftist. By far. Refusing to bow down to a Twitter
mob by not adding pronouns to your Twitter bio, and then adding robot noises instead does not, I repeat, does not equate to being afraid of trans people, nor does it equate to hating trans people. Your not doing your side of the aisle any favors by taking such short cuts and drawing such conclusions. She has never spoken I’ll of trans people period. Now if she does speak I’ll of trans people down the road, we can revisit this. It’s like all the morons who heard about her getting fired and they go on to play telephone by saying “she was fired for her anti Semitic Instagram post”. LOL either these people are so dense they missed the allegorical point of her post or they know it wasn’t anti Semitic and are simply okay with spreading said falsities nonetheless. We don’t have to agree with her allegory, but let’s try and not join the mob of the ill-informed
TheEpicJuicebox
TheEpicJuicebox - 5/21/2021, 10:40 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - please go outside lol. This is a comic book movie website ffs
Himura
Himura - 5/21/2021, 1:57 PM
@dracula - imagine starring in your own Star Wars show on Disney+ and blowing it cuz you couldn’t keep your mouth shut
RivalSpy
RivalSpy - 5/21/2021, 2:44 AM
Just because It’s not in active development does not mean it’s still not coming eventually. Are we taking one line as fact it’s cancelled?
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