Respawn wants to turn Star Wars Jedi into a trilogy

Star Wars Jedi director Stig Asmussen said the plan with Lucasfilms was always to make a trilogy out of the space games

Respawn’s Stig Asmussen said the team wants to turn Star Wars Jedi into a trilogy, and not just because the space game sold well originally. He told IGN the initial talks with Lucasfilm before Fallen Order released in 2019 always looked beyond the first story.

“We were already talking about the second game,” Asmussen told IGN. “I mean, frankly, we were talking beyond. And these are conversations that, when we’re breaking this story with Lucasfilm, it’s like: ‘Well, where are we going with the second game?’”

Asmussen said he always wanted to turn Jedi into a trilogy and already had ideas about how to structure Survivor, the tone of the sequel, how protagonist Cal Kestis could learn and grow, and even what might happen beyond that point.

Star Wars Jedi Survivor launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on April 28, 2023. While Respawn and parent company EA haven’t announced a third Star Wars Jedi game, Asmussen said if it does happen, the team will likely build it using Unreal Engine 5, the same engine CD Projekt RED is using to rebuild The Witcher from the ground up.

Asmussen said the process would be difficult, though.

“I’m not going to say it’s going to be easy, he said. “I mean, we have a lot of proprietary things that we’ve warped the engine into doing what it does for Jedi right now, and we would have to retool some of that to get it to work on any new engine.”

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF