With Lucasfilm planning spinoffs like last year's Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo standalone, fans have been wondering whether the Star Wars franchise would try to move further outside the events and characters from the growing Star Wars saga.
Now, in an interview with Comic Soon, Rogue One co-writer Garry Whitta promises fans that the Star Wars universe willslowly move away from the legacy story.
"The next spin-off is ‘Han Solo,' that's another familiar character, but I think increasingly you're going to see…One of the thing things we really want to do at Lucasfilm is create a universe and not keep relying on old legacy characters. We've got Rey and Finn and Kylo Ren, they've already introduced a new generation of characters. Whatever kind of Star Wars films they're making 10 or 20 years from now, I don't think they're going to be relying on the same legacy story elements as we have in the past."
"I'm speaking purely as a fan. I obviously have no idea what their plans are for the franchise. I did my small piece of it, but it makes sense to me that you don't want to keep telling the same story over and over again. You want to tell new stories.
Whatever your thoughts were on 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens or last year's Rogue One, it's hard to deny that they relied an awful lot on OT characters both crucial (Han Solo, Princess Leia, etc) and periphery (Ponda Baba, Mon Mothma), and even a few Prequel characters (Bail Organa, Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan).
It is totally possible that 10 years from now many of the new characters being introduced (Knights of Ren, Guardians of the Whills, Saw Gerrera, Maz Kanata, et al) will be popular enough to warrant their own spin-off films, or possibly a movie with exclusively new characters, vehicles and planets could spring from the mind of a gifted filmmaker looking to reshape the brand. With the exception of a few occasional cameos, the show Star Wars Rebels has made a good case for how expansive the Star Wars Universe can be, and there are eras in the timeline totally unexplored in the movies, from the Old Republic to the post-Return of the Jedi/pre-Force Awakens period and even the post-Episode IX galaxy and beyond.
It makes sense to use familiar characters to transition into a bolder vision, but eventually the filmmakers will have to shift the paradigm in order to keep audiences excited."
While many treasure the different Star Wars Legacy characters and events, it's imperative to the growth of the franchise that the studio moves beyond these elements to explore the different stories and characters hidden in the Star Wars universe. A lot of fans have been hoping that Lucasfilm would explore certain parts of Legends and stories from the Old Republic. Though it seems like the studio is still taking small baby steps in shifting attention from the legacy story, Whitta's words provide fans with a little reassurance that in time, Lucasfilm will give them the films and television series that they've been hoping for.
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