Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors: Who's Really Behind Them

On the evening of May 3, WDW Pro from That Park Place posted on X what he called an exclusive: “Disney Executives Reportedly Ready to Reset Star Wars and Splinter the Sequel Trilogy.” Geeks + Gamers picked it up and published their own piece citing That Park Place as the source. By no coincidence at all, it was published on Star Wars Day, May 4th, and the Star Wars sequel trilogy rumor went viral. But, the “rumor” has no substance.

Let’s start at the source, WDW Pro’s article on That Park Place.

WDW Pro tips his hand before he begins. He writes:

“Before we get into exactly why one might believe such an oft-promised, never-yet-delivered, clickbait rumor once again…”

and goes on to repeat and publish the same narrative that he and others have been pushing for the past decade.

The first half of the article is fluff. Teen focus groups, box office tracking, park changes, merchandise strategy. All real, but none of it is insider information and none of it does anything to advance the headline claim. It is designed to prime the reader before a single source is cited.

WDW Pro then presents three main pieces of evidence that Disney is “branching off” the Sequel Trilogy:

A Disneyland performer playing Ahsoka
An unnamed former Imagineer criticizing the sequels
An anonymous source “close to Lucasfilm”

None of them establish the headline claim.

The cast member evidence comes not from WDW Pro’s own reporting but from a YouTube vlog channel called “Always Believe.” The channel filmed a cast member at Galaxy’s Edge explaining, in character, that the “World Between Worlds has been shattered, merging timelines.”

WDW Pro’s interpretation:

“What this means is that the rumors we’ve been hearing that Lucasfilm is about to actually use the ‘World Between Worlds’ is already happening and it’s being implemented first at the parks!”

A park employee delivering scripted responses is not evidence of a corporate decanonization strategy. Ahsoka was inside the World Between Worlds in Season 1 of her own show. A performer playing that character referencing it is not a leak. It is an actor staying true to already established canon.

The unnamed Imagineer source, quoted in full:

“Oh man. I have a strong bias for OG, and a deep adverse opinion for sequels. Even badly cast, it is all a better ‘product’ now (in my opinion). Star Wars is not as hard as Disney has made it. Good ol’ Bobby has damaged a lot of strong brands in his tenure. I am extremely hopeful that the fans will react in a positive way, and this will begin to set the course for correction? It is going to take time though.”

That quote was given in response to Disney introducing the original trilogy characters into the parks. The former Imagineer is reacting to Galaxy’s Edge adding Luke, Leia, and Han. “Even badly cast” is not a critique of the sequel trilogy films. It is a reference to the park performers playing original trilogy characters, meaning even if the actors portraying Luke and Han at Disneyland are not perfect matches, having them there is still the better product. The entire quote is about a park update.

WDW Pro clips it out of that context and places it near the source claim, where it reads as insider validation of something much larger than what it actually is, optimism for a new character meet-and-greet at Disneyland.

Now comes the actual source. The article repeatedly blurs the line between what the source allegedly said and what the author infers from conversations:

“The plan told to us is…”
“We have been informed…”
“We believe based on conversations…”

There are no direct quotes. No documents. No independently verifiable details. No concrete production information. The article never establishes precisely what the source claimed versus what WDW Pro extrapolated.

All he presents is one anonymous source with no direct quotes. A YouTube vlog and a former Imagineer’s personal hopes positioned around it to make it feel corroborated. Without a verifiable source or a single attributable quote, what WDW Pro published is indistinguishable from fan fiction and is unfalsifiable by design.

Darth Vader and Storm Troopers — © Disney

That brings us to the Geeks + Gamers article.

The future of Star Wars may be heading toward a massive course correction—and if a new insider report is accurate, Disney could be preparing to split the controversial Star Wars Sequel Trilogy off into its own isolated timeline and remove it from the mainline Star Wars storyline. – Marvin Montanaro (via Geeks + Gamers)

In October 2025, That Park Place and Geeks + Gamers announced they were combining operations. The Geeks + Gamers piece that went viral was written by Marvin Montanaro, listed as Managing Editor at Geeks + Gamers and Editor-in-Chief of That Park Place, the outlet his own article cites as the source. His dual role is disclosed only in his author bio, not in the article itself where he makes the citation. It was one editorial operation publishing a rumor and then citing itself as the source, a practice in journalism know as “circular reporting“. He hedged with “if a new insider report is accurate.” He is the editor of that report. He should know if it’s accurate.

The G+G article adds no new reporting, no new sources, no additional verification. What it adds is stronger framing. It presents the cast member response as proof that something is happening behind the scenes because, it asserts, “Disney Parks performers don’t improvise lore like this.” The disclaimer only comes after the conclusion has already been built: “Nothing about this rumor is confirmed. Plans can change.”

Now back to WDW Pro. His author page at That Park Place cites 87 percent accuracy in “revealing insider information” in 2020, better than 90 percent in 2021, and a third-party audit finding 92.5 percent accuracy in 2023. That audit, titled “Is WDW Pro a Liar and a Fraud?”, was conducted by @CultureCasino and @LornConner. Culture Casino is a frequent collaborator who appears regularly as a panelist on WDW Pro’s own YouTube channel. Lorn Conner currently has his own listing on the That Park Place staff page.

WDW Pro’s narrative playbook itself is at least six years old. In a December 2020 article (now deleted) at Pirates and Princesses, WDW Pro published what he called “the roadmap” for where Star Wars was headed, with the same framing, the same sourcing structure, and the same withholding language.

In 2020:

“I’m not going into detail here about it, as I think that would spoil the whole series…”

In 2026:

“We have been told more details, but are refraining from providing the info in order to not spoil possible future stories.”

The World Between Worlds framing is new. Everything else is the same article WDW Pro has been writing for years.

That same period produced the Lucasfilm civil war narrative. Kennedy’s faction versus Filoni and Favreau, with the sequel trilogy as the territory in dispute. That article was written by John Trent and leaned extensively on WDW Pro as its source. Trent later became an editor at That Park Place.

The sourcing has always been anonymous, the accuracy audits have always been internal, and the outlets have always been the same. Six years on, the only thing that changes is the fan fiction they write in their heads.

Ryan Gosling Star Wars: Starfighter first look image. — © Disney

Currently Disney has Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Gosling, in active production in the United Kingdom with a May 2027 release date. A studio decanonizing one third of its own franchise does not simultaneously produce a film set five years after the trilogy it plans to branch off and “make optional”.

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