There are a lot of very easy answers to that one. Disney inherited 6 canon films. Unlike the Marvel films, they all essentially told just one story. Marvel have decades and decades of material to pull from, much of it material that contradicts the other material so there is no canon - they had total freedom to tell the stories any way they wanted and make them work for individual movies. Star Wars material, on the other hand, begins with the movies and all branches out from there with ultimately the movies themselves being the main source. So there is canon and new material basically cannibalises the previous material. It’s too rooted to a single story with a small set of characters. Marvel, on the other hand, has the approach of individual movies about individual characters, and it has a crazy amount at this stage. It can mix and match and it feels right because that’s the core setup. It’s a lot more free to be whatever it needs to be at any given moment.
So even before you look beyond the material to the creatives involved, there are lots of reasons why these are two very different situations.
So even before you look beyond the material to the creatives involved, there are lots of reasons why these are two very different situations.
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