STAR WARS To Go On Hiatus From The Big Screen Following The Release Of THE RISE OF SKYWALKER This Year

@MrMartyMarvel -

@Origame - if they want huge box office returns, a hiatus is wise. While Star Wars is versatile and has enough history and content to pump out fresh and diverse stories endlessly (the Skywalker Sagais the tip of the iceberg for this franchise's potential, their spin offs are just thinking too limited by keeping them all close to the Skywalker saga still, Solo and Rogue One tie directly into the Skywalker Saga, there are stories that have nothing to do with those characters or that section of the Galaxy that are vastly more exciting and appealing). But even with those new stories being the breath of fresh air Star Wars really needs, the number of Star Wars movies being released would take its toll on the GA eventually. So a hiatus is wise.

@JonC - there is a reason only Marvel is successfully pulling off a cinematic universe. Its not as simple or easy as give fans what they want. Even making 1 hit movie is a game of chance and a perfect storm of things going just right. I'm not so sure the Marvel formula of creating the same origin movie 11 times would work for Star Wars. They merely paid homage to A New Hope in The Force Awakens and everybody lost their minds. The only way producing multiple sub franchises at the same time wouldn't kill Star Wars is if literally every one was vastly different than the other and all were high quality films with personalities of their own. Plus Marvel has existing properties with decades of content to pull from. Star Wars has history too but not nearly as much main stream appeal to them as a Comic Book Superhero. A Star Wars movie cant function at the same level and tone as a super hero movie unless that's specifically what that sub franchise is going for. But as far as giving fans what they want, most people dont know what they want from a Star Wars movie outside of the Skywalker saga. You ask 100 people what Star Wars movie they would want to see outside of the Skywalker saga, anyone who isnt an active Star Wars fan will likely pause to think for a while then you would likely get 100 different answers from those people. The Skywalker saga, yes... totally... give the fans what they want. That's easy. But for the other sub franchises, it's not as simple as give the fans what they want like Marvel does.

@MrMartyMarvel - It could have worked, but their biggest mistakes we
1.making it a yearly franchise
2.lack of creativity
These two things kind of go together, the fact is they arent doing anything really creative, they have been playing it safe, sticking to familiar territory, the Skywalker era and events surrounding it. There is only so much you can do in that timeframe, so each year, we arent getting anything new, it works for Marvel because there are so many different type of heroes and stories. Once they start it up again in a few years, hopefully they do something different, something either set in the far past, long before the skywalkers, maybe something about the the first jedi or Knights Of The Old Republic. They could do something far in the future when all the characters we know are gone and just tell a new story with characters who can stand on their own, set in the star wars universe

@Skateanddestroy88 - They have no way of knowing that will be the case. They can only do what feels right to them creatively and hope people react well to it.

@BlackBeltJones - Cool, now they're recycling villains too.

@BlackBeltJones - Yeah, I know what you mean. I'd like to see where his inclusion will lead to, but I'm just super-cautious about this film.