The Star Wars Cinematic Universe

[Dogg Thang]

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.

[teddymeow]

Edit: should be noted that the balance thing was prequel nonsense introduced in the same film that gave us midichlorians.

The prequels also gave us Winky Winky Donkey.

[Dogg Thang]

The prequels also gave us Winky Winky Donkey.

I don’t know what that is but I feel whatever this is has to make the movies better, right?

[teddymeow]

I don’t know what that is but I feel whatever this is has to make the movies better, right?

It's what Nancy calls Jar Jar Binks.

[Dogg Thang]

It's what Nancy calls Jar Jar Binks.

Ah, of course! He is a bit of a winky winky donkey.

[Neon Ignition]

Also, as much as being sparing in new films has been the series trademark hook, Star Wars has suffered for sitting back and allowing a thousand immitators to come along in the following decades and therefore a lot of what the new films offer has been done before outside of the SW films. That and the MCU has the advantage of having a billion times more story potential than Star Wars. There's a clip from years back with Harrison Ford where he says the films aren't sci-fi, they're science fantasy and even then don't have any real science to them. Sword fights in space basically which means most of the worthwhile scenes are already done, Rogue One pulled some potential out by making a war movie out of the franchise which makes a lot of sense and has mileage but ultimate there's nothing new there which means creating new films for Star Wars is inevitably harmful to the brand because it waters down the audience thirst. Probably the best thing Disney could do is not make another film for another 10 years or so.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/star-wars-underworld-test-footage-online/

Test footage and tech tests for the abandoned live action series Star Wars: Underworld from Lucasfilm has released online.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/mandalorian-s2-set-as-disney-stats-arrive/

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 02 will launch in October 2020 and Disney are already considering a Season 03 as well as several spin-off ideas.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/j-d-dillard-developing-a-star-wars-film/

Director JD Dillard (Sleight) and writer Matt Owens (Luke Cage) have reportedly been hired to develop a new Star Wars movie. However, it's unknown if this will be a theatrical movie or one intended for Disney+

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-02-25-star-wars-big-new-story-era-announced-without-attached-video-game

Lucasfilm have announced Star Wars: The High Republic Saga

Worked on since 2018, this new saga is an era set hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga and spans the height of the Republic during a time of peace. The imagery will have an art deco inspired look and this will become the new setting for new comic book series, young adult novels and an adult novel to begin with as the franchise looks to leave the Skywalker era behind

[CMcK]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...hed-video-game

Lucasfilm have announced Star Wars: The High Republic Saga

Worked on since 2018, this new saga is an era set hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga...as the franchise looks to leave the Skywalker era behind

Err wasn’t that what The Last Jedi was for?

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/pegg-talks-the-star-trek-film-problem/

Simon Pegg suggests the films are at an end for Star Trek as they require a level of budgte cutting that isn't possible in todays market.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/skywalker-novel-reveals-another-clone/

The novel of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker has revealed that The Emporer survived his fall in Jedi by transferring his essence into a flawed clone of himself which is the one we see in the latest film (despite the obvious flaws with this). It's also revealed that Palpatine didn't actually sleep with anyone to have kids, Rey's father was in fact another failed Palpatine clone that managed to survive.

[Dogg Thang]

So in that case she isn't his granddaughter. Unless Palpatine also considers himself his own son and brother to that failed clone. And the failed clone just wandered off and had a family? None of that makes any sense. The movie made no sense. The attempts to patch the giant holes in the writing make no sense.

Time has not been kind to my memory that movie. It's a stupid, stupid, badly-written movie.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/mandalorian-wont-launch-in-full-in-uk/

Disney+ launches in the UK next week and with it Star Wars: The Mandalorian - however, Disney have just confirmed that only the first two episodes will be made available to view. Episode 3 will launch three days after launch and then each episode on a weekly basis so keep avoiding spoilers.