Disney signs a multi-year, multi-film deal with Cosm, and the 1977 original that started it all heads to the 12K dome for its 50th anniversary.

The Death Star trench run is getting a lot more room. Disney and Cosm announced on November 12 a multi-year, multi-film partnership, and its first title is the big one: Star Wars: A New Hope comes to Cosm’s Shared Reality format in March 2027.

The timing matches the film’s 50th anniversary. Cosm built the experience with Disney, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and the creative studio MakeMake, working from the 2019 version of the Academy Award-winning film.

From Tatooine to the trench run

Cosm is building the dome around the story’s biggest locations and moments. According to the announcement, guests will:

• Land on the desert planet of Tatooine
• Witness the destruction of Alderaan
• Meet the Rebel Alliance on the fourth moon of Yavin
• Step inside the Death Star itself
• Fly alongside the Millennium Falcon during the Rebels’ final trench run against Darth Vader and the Death Star

The pitch is that audiences join Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the fight between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, rather than watching it from a seat in front of a flat screen.

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How Shared Reality works

The film itself stays intact. A New Hope plays in its original 16:9 frame at the center of Cosm’s 12K+ LED dome. Around it, the rest of the dome fills with visual environments that shift as the story moves, so the audience is surrounded by the world on screen instead of looking at it through a rectangle.

That approach lets Cosm stage a classic without recutting it. Purists get the film as it is; the dome adds the scale.

Disney joins the lineup

Disney is now the third major studio working with Cosm Studios, after Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal. Cosm has produced five Shared Reality cinema experiences so far, including The Matrix, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Shrek, which debuts in December 2026. A New Hope will be the sixth.

Because the agreement covers multiple films, more titles from Disney’s library are expected to follow. Neither company has named them yet.

“The Star Wars franchise blazed the trail for cinematic fandom and has been the north star of the entertainment industry since the original film debuted in 1977,” said Alexis Scalice, VP and Head of Cosm Studios. “We’re privileged to work alongside our incredible partners to develop an experience that celebrates the film’s legacy and provides fans across generations an opportunity to step inside the beloved Star Wars galaxy like never before.”

Where and when

Star Wars: A New Hope in Shared Reality premieres in March 2027 at all four Cosm venues: Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale in 2027; Cosm hasn’t announced an exact date or pricing yet.

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Source: Cosm