Filming in the spring of 2019 could mean a release date as early as the summer movie season of 2020.
However, Disney just did a pretty significant reshuffling of its release schedule, and it just set Maleficent 2 in the Memorial Day Weekend window that Solo: A Star Wars Story had this year, and previous Star Wars films had been once set to have.
The other reason that an April 2019 start to production feels early, however, is that it’s not clear where Disney might be planning to release it.
While it’s possible that the schedule could see another shakeup down the road or that Lucasfilm has decided, following Solo’s performance, not to release Star Wars movies that weekend, Disney already has a lot of 2020 scheduled out so there isn’t a lot of room in the release calendar, unless Disney wants to wait until December, and bet that James Cameron’s long-delayed Avatar 2 will be delayed once again.