‘The Mandalorian’ Visual Guide Will Not Arrive This Year; Original Novel Not Moving Forward, Either
Apologies to fans ofThe Mandalorian, but we have some disappointing news from the publishing world.The Mandalorian Ultimate Visual Guide, a deep dive into the lore and minutiae depicted in Lucasfilm’s first live-actionStar Warsseries, has been canceled…at least for the time being. And that’s not all: an original novel set in the world of the show has also been scrapped. Read on to learn the reason why.
Due to the ever-expanding world of The Mandalorian, we will no longer be publishing The Mandalorian Ultimate Visual Guide at this time, as the story continues to unfold on screen.
— DK Books US (@dkpublishing)June 11, 2025
DK Books, the company that was poised to publish authorPablo Hidalgo’s deep dive into the foreground and background aspects of the series, announced today that they “will no longer be publishingThe Mandalorian Ultimate Visual Guideat this time,” citing the “ever-expanding world” of the show which “continues to unfold on screen.”
We love working with author Adam Christopher (@ghostfinder) and are already working with him on a different book. We’re excited to share details with you in the future.
— Star Wars Books (@StarWarsByRHW)July 21, 2025
Meanwhile, authorAdam Christopherwas slated to write an original novel set inThe Mandaloriantimeline, and that, too, has been canceled – or perhaps indefinitely delayed. As you may see from the tweet, Christopher is already hard at work on a differentStar Wars-related book from Del Ray, so hopefully fans of his won’t have to wait too long for more information about that.
Reading between the lines, these cancelations (or delays, or whatever they end up being) seem like a direct result of Lucasfilm’s decision to useThe Mandalorianas a jumping-off point for moreStar Warsshows set in a galaxy far, far away. At last December’s investor event, Disney announcedtwoMandalorianspin-offs: there’sRangers of the New Republic, which reportedly was going to star Gina Carano’s Cara Dune character before the company parted ways with Carano over her social media posts. And there’s alsoAhsoka, which will follow Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano character in live-action that’s set within the timeline ofThe Mandalorian. And don’t forget aboutThe Book of Boba Fett, whichdebuts later this year, andThe Mandalorianseason 3, which will drop at some point in 2022.
That’s an awful lot of story set in one relatively small period of time in that fictional universe. I imagineJon FavreauandDave Filoni, the architects of this corner of the universe, looking at the giant task ahead of them, glancing over at these books that were supposed to be published, and quickly waving them out of existence (at least for a while) because it’s not worth a canonical detail from these books potentially boxing them out of a specific story they want to tell a year or two down the line. Hopefully fans will get to see them at some point, but right now, it certainly seems like the shows themselves are taking priority.
