Court docket paperwork from a false promoting lawsuit filed in opposition to Lucasfilm Video games and Aspyr over the failure to combine a beforehand promised and common fan mod into the Change port of Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic 2 reveal one thing we didn’t learn about: Lucasfilm was planning on making a KOTOR 2 remake. And it would nonetheless be taking place.
In 2021, Lucasfilm and Aspyr introduced {that a} Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic remake was in improvement. Then the RPG was seemingly nuked from the web in 2023, main some to fret it was lifeless. Regardless of co-developer Saber Interactive saying the challenge was alive and effectively in 2024, there was largely radio silence in regards to the remake of one of many highest-reviewed Star Wars video games ever made. And now, court docket docs point out that its sequel was, and perhaps nonetheless is, getting the same remake.
As reported by GameFile on December 8, court docket paperwork concerned in a false promoting lawsuit in opposition to Aspyr and Lucasfilm embody the point out of a “Venture Juliet,” which is confirmed in a deposition with Lucasfilm Video games vp Douglas Reilly to be a KOTOR 2 remake. As identified by GameFile, the Change port of KOTOR 2 was codenamed “Capulet.” Right here’s what Riley needed to say in regards to the challenge:
“Juliet was the code identify for a challenge the place we have been going to do a full remake of KOTOR 2 with trendy artwork, trendy gameplay, you realize, preserve the story and the characters and the overall—the overall content material of KOTOR 2, however remake it for contemporary {hardware} and trendy machines with up to date graphics and all these sorts of issues. It was one thing we have been discussing with Aspyr.”
When requested by a lawyer if the plan was to remake content material featured within the fan-developed KOTOR 2 Restored Content material Mod, Riley confirmed that was certainly the plan.
Sadly, that’s all we acquired on this KOTOR 2 remake. GameFile’s Stephen Totilo can’t affirm the standing of the remake as of December 2025. The deposition cited above occurred in March. At the moment, Riley defined that the KOTOR 2 remake was “technically on the street map” however that the plan was to start out with a remake of KOTOR, as beforehand introduced. Riley additionally stated that Aspyr is now not engaged on both remake and as a substitute Saber-owned Mad Head video games was or is now dealing with improvement.Â
All talked about events and firms have been contacted by GameFile, however didn’t reply or declined to remark. That implies that, for now no less than, we don’t actually know what occurred to both remake. It appears like they’re each nonetheless taking place in some type, however till Disney or Lucasfilm confirms both approach, followers will likely be left ready to seek out out extra about what is going to occur to those remakes of two of the preferred Star Wars video games ever made.
