New Star Wars game coming from ex-Naughty Dog creative Amy Hennig’s studio

A new Star Wars game is in development at Skydance New Media, the interactive studio founded in 2019 by game director Amy Hennig, Lucasfilm Games and Skydance announced Tuesday. It’s a return to the Star Wars franchise for Hennig, who had previously worked with the franchise at EA’s Visceral Games on an ambitious (but ultimately canceled) project set in a galaxy far, far away.

Skydance New Media describes its untitled Star Wars project as a “richly cinematic action-adventure game featuring an original story,” but did not reveal specifics. No title, release date, or platforms were announced.

“I’ve often described how seeing Star Wars in 1977 essentially rewired my 12-year-old brain, shaping my creative life and future indelibly,” Hennig said in a news release. Hennig stated that he was thrilled to work with Lucasfilm Games to create interactive stories in the galaxy I love .”

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Hennig co-founded Skydance New Media, a division of the production company best known for its work in film and television, with Julian Beak, a veteran of EA whose credits include Battlefield: Hardline, Need for Speed, and Visceral’s Star Wars game. The studio revealed that it wanted to reach “gamers and non-gamers alike” via “new story-focused […] interactive shows “. It will use state-of the-art computer graphics, which provide the visual fidelity and cinematic experience of TV, while putting the viewer in control .”

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According to Tuesday’s press release, Skydance New Media now includes “developers, artists with decades-long AAA experience in adventure and action gaming as well as diverse teams of creative consultants coming from television, film and games .”

Skydance New Media launched its first game last fall, an untitled Marvel title. Hennig’s team described the project as “a narrative driven, blockbuster action adventure game featuring an entirely original story and approach to the Marvel Universe .”

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Hennig’s untitled Star Wars game joins at least five others in development with Lucasfilm Games. These include Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse ; a Star Wars open-world adventure by Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment. Respawn Entertainment also has three games: a continuation to Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order , and a strategy-game co-developed and developed with Bit Reactor (a former XCOM developer).