It appears Star Wars' Rangers of the New Republic series is truly dead.
"We'd never written any scripts or anything on that," Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy told Empire magazine. "Some of that will figure into future episodes, I'm sure, of the next iteration of Mandalorian."
Rangers of the New Republic was announced during Disney's Investor Day presentation in December 2020. While little was known about the project at the time, it was expected to spin out of The Mandalorian and star Gina Carano's Cara Dune. However, after some social media controversy involving Carano in November, it was said that the previously reported Cara Dune spinoff was scrapped, making it unclear whether Rangers of the New Republic -- announced one month later -- was the same project at all.
To further muddy the waters, it was reported in May 2021 that Rangers of the New Republic was no longer in active development, with many once again positing that this was the Cara Dune project after all and that it was axed due to Carano.
Following the aforementioned social media controversy from 2020, which centered on voter fraud in the Presidential election, Carano drew further ire in February 2021 when she shared a post suggesting the struggle of being a Republican in the United States today was tantamount to being a Jew in Europe during the Holocaust. Shortly after, Lucasfilm issued a statement saying, "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."
In the time since then, several of Carano's Mandalorian co-stars have come to her defense, including Armorer actor Emily Swallow and Migs Mayfeld actor Bill Burr.
Carano, meanwhile, quickly lined up her next gig in the form of a film for The Daily Wire. "I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob," Carano said at the time. "I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can't cancel us if we don’t let them."
Source: Empire magazine, via Imgur