New Star Wars Ep 9 Images - Vanity Fair

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Due to some serious troubles behind the scenes, Lucasfilm delivered its first commercial disappointment with Solo: A Star Wars Story. That led to Disney changing its entire approach to the franchise and Kathleen Kennedy has now shed some light on what that means moving forward.

"I think there is a larger expectation that Disney has," she admits when asked about producing five Star Wars movies since the acquisition back in 2012. "On the other hand, though, I think that Disney is very respectful of what this is, and right from the beginning we talked about the fragility of this form of storytelling. Because it’s something that means so much to fans that you can’t turn this into some kind of factory approach."

"You can’t even do what Marvel does, necessarily, where you pick characters and build new franchises around those characters," she concluded. "This needs to evolve differently."

The Biggest Challenge Faced By J.J. Abrams

Rian Johnson made a lot of unexpected creative decisions in The Last Jedi and it's now up to Abrams to pick up where he left off. However, that's not the biggest challenge he faces with The Rise of Skywalker; instead, he needs to deliver a satisfying conclusion.

"That’s the challenge of this movie," the filmmaker explains. "It wasn’t just to make one film that as a stand-alone experience would be thrilling, and scary, and emotional, and funny, but one that if you were to watch all nine of the films, you’d feel like, Well, of course—that!" In other words, it definitely sounds like he's planning to bring things full circle with this movie.

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