How The Star Wars Standalone Films Will Be Different, According To Kathleen Kennedy

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens arriving in theaters next week, fans aren't that hyped about the upcoming standalone "A Star Wars Story" films yet, but fans will soon shift their excitement for Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars film due next year, after they see Episode VII.

Speaking to SlashFilm at last weekend's The Force Awakens conference, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy talked about the standalone Star Wars films, and how they will be different from what Marvel is doing. Here's what she said about the standalone films:

"The standalone films can be a wide variety of genres inside the Star Wars universe...It is definitely [similar to Marvel Studios' approach in] the genre thinking but Star Wars is very different than Marvel in that they basically build their stories around characters, and then they seed those characters in different stories. Star Wars, you know, is a place, it's a universe, so those stories are constructed a little differently than Marvel.

They are really being designed as standalone movies, which is fantastic for the filmmakers we bring in, and the actors we hire, because it's a different sensibility. [The standalone movies] are not being designed to necessarily build new franchises" [and will] "very definitely have a beginning, middle, and end."

Kennedy also said that all standalone films don't necessarily have to be prequels or sequels involving characters already introduced in the saga films. It would be exciting to see how the standalone films will explore new characters and settings. So what kind of stories would you like to see in the standalone Star Wars Story films?

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