Court documents from a false advertising lawsuit filed against Lucasfilm Games and Aspyr over the failure to integrate a previously promised and popular fan mod into the Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 reveal something we didn’t know about: Lucasfilm was planning on making a KOTOR 2 remake. And it might still be happening.
In 2021, Lucasfilm and Aspyr announced that a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake was in development. Then the RPG was seemingly nuked from the internet in 2023, leading some to worry it was dead. Despite co-developer Saber Interactive saying the project was alive and well in 2024, there has been mostly radio silence about the remake of one of the highest-reviewed Star Wars games ever made. And now, court docs indicate that its sequel was, and maybe still is, getting a similar remake.
As reported by GameFile on December 8, court documents involved in a false advertising lawsuit against Aspyr and Lucasfilm include the mention of a “Project Juliet,” which is confirmed in a deposition with Lucasfilm Games vice president Douglas Reilly to be a KOTOR 2 remake. As pointed out by GameFile, the Switch port of KOTOR 2 was codenamed “Capulet.” Here’s what Riley had to say about the project:
“Juliet was the code name for a project where we were going to do a full remake of KOTOR 2 with modern art, modern gameplay, you know, keep the story and the characters and the general—the general content of KOTOR 2, but remake it for modern hardware and modern machines with updated graphics and all those kinds of things. It was something we were discussing with Aspyr.”
When asked by a lawyer if the plan was to remake content featured in the fan-developed KOTOR 2 Restored Content Mod, Riley confirmed that was indeed the plan.
Unfortunately, that’s all we got on this KOTOR 2 remake. GameFile’s Stephen Totilo can’t confirm the status of the remake as of December 2025. The deposition cited above happened in March. At that time, Riley explained that the KOTOR 2 remake was “technically on the road map” but that the plan was to start with a remake of KOTOR, as previously announced. Riley also said that Aspyr is no longer working on either remake and instead Saber-owned Mad Head games was or is now handling development.
All mentioned parties and companies were contacted by GameFile, but didn’t respond or declined to comment. That means that, for now at least, we don’t really know what happened to either remake. It sounds like they are both still happening in some form, but until Disney or Lucasfilm confirms either way, fans will be left waiting to find out more about what will happen to these remakes of two of the most popular Star Wars games ever made.
