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Star Wars has officially set the stage for Cal Kestis to make his live-action debut in the franchise. As one of Star Wars' increasing number of Order 66 survivors, Cal Kestis is the protagonist of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
Both Star Wars Jedi games and the sub-franchise's tie-in novel, Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars by Sam Maggs, are considered official canon under Disney's rules. Cal isn't exactly in hiding during the Empire's reign, either. His face is plastered on wanted posters throughout Coruscant. He faces multiple Inquisitors, survives encounters with Darth Vader, and becomes an integral member of the Hidden Path, the smuggling network first introduced on-screen in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Still, aside from a clone of his companion droid, BD-1, appearing in an episode of The Book of Boba Fett, Kestis has yet to be acknowledged or introduced in Star Wars' live-action movie, TV, or animated canon. That may soon change, however. Cal Kestis did have a brief cameo appearance in the non-canonical Disney+ series LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy - Pieces of the Past in 2025.
On May 12, 2026, Star Wars published a new spinoff reference book titled Star Wars: Secrets of the Jedi: The Chronicles of Luke Skywalker by Marc Sumerak. This is an updated version of Sumerak's previous Secrets of the Jedi book, acknowledging all Star Wars movies, shows, books, and games released since 2019.
As the title suggests, the book is written from Luke Skywalker's perspective and offers a detailed guide to the history of the Jedi Order, its allies, and some of the franchise's most important light side characters. One of the most significant reveals in Star Wars: Secrets of the Jedi: The Chronicles of Luke Skywalker is that Luke knew Cal Kestis survived Order 66 as a Jedi .
Given how far apart their stories are set within the Star Wars timeline, this could have major implications for Cal's franchise future. How Cal Kestis Can Join Star Wars' Live-Action Canon In-universe, Luke will have written this book after the events of the original Star Wars trilogy. This is a long while after Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's story, which takes place in 9BBY.
That's nine years before Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star in the original Star Wars movie, later retitled A New Hope, and 13 years before Luke redeems Vader in Return of the Jedi. While Luke may have merely heard of Cal's exploits through someone else or during his research into the Jedi's history, there's also a significant chance Cal himself is still alive in the aftermath of the Empire's destruction.
Cal was still a young Padawan when Order 66 wiped out the Jedi, so he's relatively young in both Fallen Order and Survivor. Age-wise, his still being around during the New Republic era isn't an issue, just as Anakin Skywalker's former Padawan Ahsoka Tano is still kicking around during this Star Wars era. In fact, Cal appearing in the Mandalorian sub-franchise would make the most sense.
That way, his presence wouldn't interfere with the events of the original trilogy, and he could meet like-minded Jedi such as Luke, Ahsoka, and Ezra Bridger from Star Wars Rebels. With Luke attempting to rebuild the Jedi Order during the New Republic era, he could use some extra advice and influence from Jedi who grew up under the Order's tutelage.
Perhaps Cal hears about Luke's efforts and seeks him out himself; in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal's entire mission revolves around saving a list of Force-sensitive children from the Empire. Cal is all about preserving the galaxy for future generations. He'd probably be honored to help Luke in any way he can. There's also the Nightsister connection.
One of Cal's closest companions is Merrin, one of the last surviving Dathomirian Nightsisters, Force-sensitive witches from the planet Dathomir. In Ahsoka, which also takes place during the New Republic era, Ahsoka Tano and her friends come in close contact with the Nightsisters. Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn even brings a trio of some of the most powerful Nightsisters back to Dathomir from Star Wars' secondary galaxy. Perhaps Merrin is the key to connecting Cal with Ahsoka and/or Luke.
If Merrin becomes involved in Thrawn's operations on Dathomir, she could call on Cal for help, leading them to Ezra Bridger, Hera Syndulla, and even Ahsoka. The Book of Boba Fett established that Ahsoka and Luke were already in contact. This would bring everything full circle. What's more, Cal could even show up in Star Wars' upcoming theatrical return, The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Cal despises the Empire even more than Mando does. If anyone could help the dynamic duo prevent the Empire's return to power, it's him. ScreenRant.com | SW Holocron Archive Interactive Quiz ScreenRant/ Movies/ Star Wars/ Trivia A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away · Eight Questions How Well Do You Know Star Wars?
“The Force will be with you. Always. ” 🗡️Jedi OrderLight-side guardians ⚡The SithRule of two ⚙️The RebellionA new hope 🪓Bounty HuntersThis is the way 👑The EmpireOrder 66 PUNCH IT! → QUESTION 1 / 8A NEW HOPE 01 The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be.
In which year did it premiere? A1975 B1977 C1979 D1980 ✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.
NEXT → QUESTION 2 / 8THE CREATOR 02 A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him. ASteven Spielberg BGeorge Lucas CFrancis Ford Coppola DIrvin Kershner ✓ Correct!
George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi , then directed all three prequels . He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope.
Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.
NEXT → QUESTION 3 / 8THE TWIST 03 In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father. ” What relationship does it confirm?
AVader is Luke’s uncle BVader is Luke’s father CVader is Obi-Wan’s brother DVader is Han’s father ✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it , and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context.
The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist. ✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin becomes Vader after his fall.
Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth. NEXT → QUESTION 4 / 8THE GREEN MASTER 04 Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him. AJim Henson BFrank Oz CSteve Whitmire DBrian Henson ✓ Correct!
Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today.
Yoda is Frank Oz’s. NEXT → QUESTION 5 / 8THE DISNEY DEAL 05 In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?
A2009 B2010 C2012 D2014 ✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel . 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.
NEXT → QUESTION 6 / 8THE MANDALORIAN 06 The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” . What is the Mandalorian’s real name? ABoba Fett BCobb Vanth CDin Djarin DBo-Katan Kryze ✓ Correct!
Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet . The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff . Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff.
The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin. NEXT → QUESTION 7 / 8ORDER 66 07 Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film? AEpisode I: The Phantom Menace BEpisode II: Attack of the Clones CEpisode III: Revenge of the Sith DRogue One ✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith .
Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened.
The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III. NEXT → QUESTION 8 / 8ANDOR 08 Andor is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.
ATony Gilroy BRian Johnson CJon Favreau DDave Filoni ✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene.
Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton . ✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi .
Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse . Andor is Tony Gilroy’s. REVEAL MY RATING → The Force Has Spoken · Final Tally Your Galactic Standing 🗡️ / 8 Jedi Master — or moisture farmer on Tatooine?
⤴ ANOTHER GO A third Star Wars Jedi game is currently in development, but it's unclear when it will take place in the Star Wars timeline. Presumably, given the five-year jump between Fallen Order and Survivor, the third installment will creep nearer to the events of the original trilogy. If he survives, Cal's future during the New Republic era remains possible. Rumors about Cal Kestis' live-action debut have been circulating for years now.
Some even theorized that Cal would be the Jedi to save Grogu in The Mandalorian's season 2 finale, rather than Luke. This new Luke Skywalker connection, however, certainly makes Cal's crossover feel more realistic. If any current Star Wars character deserves to make the jump to live-action, it's Cameron Monaghan's Cal Kestis .
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