Jedi: Fallen Order was a bigger hit than anyone anticipated, and the story of young Jedi Cal Kestis instantly resonated with Star Wars fans. As a result, the character has become a firm fan favourite, with the hope being that he will eventually make the leap to live-action.
While the adventure will continue for Cal in this month's Jedi: Survivor, the fact his story is set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope opens the door to him appearing in any number of future projects. That hasn't happened yet, unfortunately, and it seems he'll be confined to video games for the time being.
Still, there continue to be rumours online that Gotham alum Cameron Monaghan will bring his video game protagonist to the big or small screen and Lucasfilm President Kathleen weighed in on that during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.
"I've seen a lot of chatter online about that. [Laughs] It could be really interesting," she admitted. "It's not something that's front and center right at the moment, but what's interesting in the company that we do is that everybody across all these different lines of business, we all talk to one another."
"That often doesn't happen in situations like this, but because so many of the people at Lucasfilm, are used to working together, we're very transparent about what the storytelling is that's going on — whether it's in the streaming space or the movie space, or books, animation games, whatever it is. Eventually, it'll be some kind of immersive entertainment."
There are many things we talk about just in terms of how we use technology with ILM inside the company," Kennedy continued. "So this constant cross-pollination of ideas to determine just exactly what stories move into the movie space, what stories move into the TV space — you never know, because the creative process is very similar in all of those different spaces."
"And so you don't have a crystal ball. You see what works, and then if it does, you draw from that."
Kennedy certainly isn't dismissing the notion, and there have been rumblings about a Cal Kestis TV series in the past. Of course, we're not sure what that would mean for the video game franchise, though there's a chance the sequel will either wrap up his story or serve as a jumping-off point for something in the live-action realm.
Failing that, we still have Jedi: Survivor to look forward to and a surprise cameo somewhere can't be discounted given how many times we've been surprised by those on Disney+.
As always, be sure to stay tuned for updates as we have them.