Star Wars: Donald Glover's Lando transitioning from Disney+ series to full-length movie

After months without any updates, Disney finally announced that the Han Solo spinoff featuring the adventures of Lando Calrissian will no longer be a series but a feature-length movie.

Donald Glover's portrayal of the iconic Star Wars character was one of the few highlights of the 2018 box office disaster Han Solo movie directed by Ron Howard.

Lando's journey to the big screen

The popularity of the character led to the studio greenlight a spinoff series back in 2020, but there were no updates other than the news that showrunner Justin Simien was let go from the project and that Donald Glover and his brother James are working on the show.

This was followed by months of silence on the project, which led many to speculate that the project had been dropped but thankfully that is not the case and it will now be a big screen experience, however, the project is still on hold due to the WGA strike.

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Is Disney taking a break from streaming?

The announcement that Lando will be a feature film instead of the originally planned series comes fact the recent revelation that the CEO of Disney Robert Iger wanted the studio to concentrate on big-screen experiences as the company was not happy with the underwhelming performance of their streaming platform Disney+.

Fans will have to wait till the WGA strike comes to an end to get more updates on the Lando movie, meanwhile, the latest Star Wars show streaming on Disney+ is Ahsoka starring Rosario Dawson in the lead.

The series has been receiving praise both from critics and Star Wars fans alike and is one of the top shows on the platform.

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The show will focus on Ahsoka Tano's search for the young Jedi Ezra Bridger, who allowed himself to be captured alongside the series' main antagonist Grand Admiral Thrawn in the series finale of Star Wars Rebels.

The full cast of the series includes Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Stevenson, and Ivanna Sakhno.