A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com)

"Logan" director James Mangold is reportedly directing a "Star Wars" standalone movie centered on the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Variety reports: The untitled movie will be a part of the studio's Star Wars Anthology films, which are being spun off as origin stories. The first anthology film was 2016's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," followed by "Solo: A Star Wars Story," starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo. "Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million. Boba Fett debuted in 1980's "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and re-appeared in 1983's "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" as a mercenary for the Galactic Empire. Jeremy Bulloch played the character in the two movies and Jason Wingreen provided Fett's voice. Here's a video highlighting all the scenes starring Boba Fett in the Star Wars trilogy. Do you think it's wise to produce a movie around a character who's had such few scenes, relative to the others?

Comments

Spoilers

[alzoron]

He's a clone.

Re:Spoilers

[Anonymous Coward]

He's a clone.

Just like everything else in Star Wars nowadays...

Re: Spoilers

[Topwiz]

Correct. The clones were of Jango and were given a growth drug so they would become adult age much faster. Jango asked his bosses to allow him to keep a clone as his son who would not be given the growth drug.

Re: Spoilers

[MightyMartian]

Precisely speaking, Star Wars isn't SciFi, it's fantasy with SciFi elements. More importantly, it's a business, and making movies about minor characters is part of the reason Disney laid out the big bucks. I agree that it would be cool to have a Star Wars film that went beyond the known characters, and to a large extent Rogue One did that (except for Tarkin who played a significant role). But it's not likely to happen. There's too much at stake from a financial perspective for Disney to ever take such a chance. Even Rogue One was recut because if didn't fit within Disney's parameters.

Re:Spoilers

[cheesybagel]

If they ever make a movie based on Bobba Fett, I think it would be up right there with other Star Wars classics, like the Star Wars Xmas special, Jar-Jar-binks, and planet Ewok.

Re: Spoilers

[OrangeTide]

Science Fiction has traditionally not been rigidly defined, and in literature there are many examples that blur the lines between Fantasy and Science Fiction. It shouldn't be the surprising as many SF authors were also writing fantasy, especially during the mid-20th century. And for some authors the genres becomes a bit jumbled and hard to strictly categorize, for example in Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars series.

Absolutely agree that Disney's priority is to make money.

Of course Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury were trying to make some money too. They wrote great stories and really put their heart into their work. But ultimately in order to sustain their book writing lifestyle, they asked to get paid for their work, went on tours to promote their books, and the usual things that one expects an author to do.

Star Wars fans

[Daralantan]

Do you think it's wise to produce a movie around a character who's had such few scenes, relative to the others?

He's barely in the movies but the fans love the heck out of him. There's tons and tons of stuff featuring Boba. Pretty sure he's fine despite not being a main star in the movie.

Re:Star Wars fans

[coofercat]

I'm sure Disney will do what they always do... make a good attempt of a film with some really weird, doesn't-fit-in-properly bit about three quarters of the way in that basically ruins it. Oh, and they'll make the good guys good and the bad guys bad - no shades of grey, and no occasioanl slip-ups here and there either.

So in short.. by the time the Boba-fans have seen this, they'll think a lot less of Boba than they used to.

High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Kunedog]

"Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million

Dream on. Foreign box office totals have been grisly so far.

A lot of people don't realize how severely The Last Jedi harmed the franchise as a whole by souring audience expectations (and it won't get fixed before this Boba Fett flick, if ever).

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[religionofpeas]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it

I don't hate it. Don't love it either. After the watching the stupidly boring Force Awakes movie, I have lost any remaining interest in the franchise, so I'm not planning to go see it.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[danbert8]

It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Nidi62]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.

I thought it was "meh". Pretty enough, but they keep rehashing scenes from the original trilogy-VII was almost a scene for scene rehash of IV, but VIII had a lot of V in it, with a little IV thrown in.

Plus, I really don't get how, if at the end of RotJ, (in the special edition) they show worlds all over the galaxy celebrating the fall of the Empire, how the Rebels are still, well, rebels. It's like if the US, after winning the Revolutionary War, just sat around doing nothing waiting until the British re-invaded in 1812 instead of trying to form a government. The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[religionofpeas]

The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.

It should have shown the Rebels slowly becoming a new Empire.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Nidi62]

Well, yes, that would be a perfect plot point. The intrigue and drama of competing factions, one trying to keep the new government democratic, one wanting revenge on the remnants of the Empire and the planets that supported it and therefore becoming more and more draconian, more like the Empire. Basically an exploration of how, when you might so hard to gain power you have to fight even harder to use that power sparingly and justly, as well as how easy it is to justify the misuse of that power.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Wrath0fb0b]

This is explained in a few of the works in the interim. I won't do it full justice, but it goes something like: the New Republic is set up again, they fight for 5 long years and eventually defeat the Empire at Jaku. The Empire surrenders and and signs the Galactic Concordance.

At this point, the New Republic feared making the same mistake as the Old Republic (e.g. having a large military force that could be co-opted by a nefarious leader and turning into a New Empire) and demilitarize and decentralize. This allows the remnants of the Empire to violate the treaty and reorganize into the First Order, which in turn spawned the Resistance as a guerrilla group that was covertly supported by the faction in the New Republic that favored a more muscular military approach to the FO.

Of course, at the end of TFA, the FO wipes out the Senate and the NR, vindicating the folks that opposed demilitarization but also plunging them into a war where they are vastly outgunned. Of course that's the entire shtick of the series so it had to somehow be arranged that Leia leads a band of hopelessly outmatched soldiers.

In the end, it's actually a kind of rich counterpoint to the prequel trilogy's telling of the rise of the Empire. Moreso than you would expect from what is essentially a children's story. At least I liked the nuance of navigating between the danger of being so weak you succumb to tyranny versus being so strong you become a tyrant yourself.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Mashiki]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.

Let's say you're a SW fan. And you really liked the original movies, you tolerated the prequel movies. You read the occasional SW book because someone recommended it to you. You found out that there was a huge swath of lore, and you enjoyed it. One day you bumped into the Thrawn Trilogy, and discovered a series of books that not only had the feel of the original movies but tied them in directly and gave a great jumping off point into an even greater universe. You might have played some of the games if you were a bigger fan, you know it was Kyle Katarn that stole the death star plans and so on.

Now, imagine that despite this. Disney decided that this was a shit idea, and all those millions of fans that loved SW, the force, jedi, sith, grey jedi and all the rest weren't the fan base anymore. The fan base was apparently a group of authors and directors screeching that "the force is female" and inserting a die-hard mary-sue that was even greater then Luke into a role, and handing everything to her on a platter was great. The character was such a great-force user that even when Luke was rebuilding the Jedi he never-ever-ever felt her in the force(despite that's according to the cannon what happens with great force users) Then, despite this you gave it another chance. And in their infinite wisdom, they took the savior of the republic fleet and shot him in the head. Replaced them with an absolute nobody with no tie-ins at all, and instead of holding even the most basic working relationship with the troops and soldiers under her believed that 'only her plan was best.' The entire plan was "shoot the spaceship through another space ship." This was then followed up by taking a possibly interesting new villain and...well pissing on him with a flat emo-kid, and oh that's the end of the movie. Also Luke instead of growing up, reverted to a pouty 9 year old that prefers temper-tantrums.

And I'm going pretty easy on it compared to hardcore SW fans. Oh and of course, one can't forget the people who might piss you off even more. If you didn't like it, you were a misogynist, sexist, hater, and two or three dozen things. Despite the reviews from fans saying how much they hated the movie, your response wasn't to be introspective and ask "why didn't they like it" the response was "it was the work of trolls and misogynists" that's why the moving-going public reviews are bad. That of course is all out of the ghostbusters 2016 reboot catastrophe, with the "attack the audience" approach. I will say, that if they wanted to kill the entire franchise they've done a pretty good job.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Anonymous Coward]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.

The comment that Colin Trevorrow (the guy that originally was going to direct Episode IX) made on Film Crit Hulk covers most of my issues with the movie quite well:

I think this was just a dreadful time, and it's a shame because I was genuinely excited to see someone like Rian Johnson given free reign - "Finally," I thought, "A real film-maker at the helm." However, I left utterly baffled at the creative decisions made every step along the way here. There's a lot of things I agree with in theory, but were bungled in execution. (Spoilers ahead)

Having Rey be just some person, and not just another in a long line of Skywalkers/Kenobis/etc.? Great idea! But⦠it completely flies in the face of everything we were shown before. So all her phenomenal force powers and whatever-the-plot-demands skills come from nowhere then? She's the all powerful chosen one⦠just because? This is made even worse when Snoke says that she's the Light Side "equal and opposite" of Kylo Ren⦠so great, she's the pure and incorruptible champion of the Light side now, too. All that teasing that she may be tempted by the Dark Side, driven by a well-intentioned need for power to save her friends, is out the window and I guess never mattered at all.

And killing Snoke! I hated Snoke and thought he was a stupid, cliche plot device only good for his relationship to Kylo and Hux⦠but killing him off with no explanation is equally as bone-headed a move. You've introduced this character who is critically important to everything happening, who helped turn Kylo Ren, who somehow had the resources and wherewithal to support a splinter group of the Galactic Empire that's apparently as rich and powerful as the Galactic Empire, and then you just get rid of him without any explanation? What did he even WANT (besides just "power")? It was a decision that felt like it wanted to be "clever" but instead just flippantly undermined any sort of backstory or consistency in this new trilogy. (I will say, it was almost comical to hear Snoke prattle on about Kylo Ren lacking conflict while the camera kept cutting back to Adam Driver's goofy, L.A. Noire-esque conflicted expressions.)

Then there's Holdo. Sure, Poe's a brash, stubborn fly-boy (though really you could blame the destruction of those bombers on the idiotic pilots who thought it'd be a good idea to line up so close). However, there is no reason for Holdo not to tell him her plan; EVERYONE should have been told the plan. There's only 400 rebels left (apparently), and theyâ(TM)re all basically huddled together on the same ship. Even if she can't go into detail (despite the film giving us no indication that there is any concern of spies onboard), she makes no effort to at least convince Poe that there's a plan in motion, and instead acts in a way that only gives the opposite impression. Boy, is she lucky that Poe was kind enough not to shoot her fucking dead as part of his mutiny - that wouldâ(TM)ve been awkward!

I found Rose to be insufferable. I don't blame the actress, I don't think she was given a lot to work with, and in total fairness I didn't care much for Finn in this movie either, which is a shame as I thought he was one of the highpoints of TFA. Their entire sideplot is interminable, and the Casino planet/war-profiteering storyline is so absurdly on the nose it just adds salt to the wound. I love how Finn and Rose put the entire Rebellion in jeopardy because they canâ(TM)t be bothered to find a proper parking spot. The kids were almost prequel-esque and while I'm all for this idea of heroes finding hope and coming from anywhere, it was presented in a very ham-handed manner.

The Leia moment was an unbelievable, shark-jumping misfire. That's all I have to say about

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Anonymous Coward]

It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.

It broke something for you because it ruined almost all of the characters, both old and new. It turned your childhood hero into a pathetic, sniveling coward instead of giving him the treatment he deserved, or barring that, they could have at least concocted a halfway believable story for him to go from who he was in ROTJ to where he was in TLJ. A single scene where he's about to murder his innocent nephew (that he's known since birth) in his sleep isn't believable when you're talking about a guy that risked his life and the lives of his friends to redeem his super evil father that he'd met on only one previous occasion. Finn as a character went back to where he started in TFA (a coward that's running away instead of turning around to fight for what's right), Poe was made a fool out of (though his actions were always reasonable given his information, minus the yo mamma joke), Hux turned into a cartoon villain, and the backstory that was hinted at for Rey turned out to be a nothing burger.

There was also a lot of social commentary added to movie (evil arm dealers, animal rights, etc.) that might have worked well if it hadn't been treated ham-fistedly.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[dbrueck]

Totally understand, but IMO you skipped the wrong one - for me, Rogue One is far and away the best of the new SW films.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[danbert8]

Even when I go to the opera, they manage to not break the 4th wall... I want to be lost in the fiction, be it science based or pure fantasy. TLJ could have been a movie made by cosplayers on Earth for how much I felt in a galaxy far far away.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[danbert8]

I don't know that I was that married to the original characters. Yes, I'm not happy with Luke's motivations or behavior in the movie. Yes, I'm not happy with how Leia survives an explosion, decompression, and floating in space while Ackbar just dies without note (that upset me a bit).

They introduce new characters that don't add anything to the story either... Rose is just there to tell the audience how horrible deserters, arms dealers, and horse racers are I guess? Except that makes her kind of horrible because she's in the Resistance who shouldn't be using tazers to prevent people from leaving almost certain death... The resistance also supports these arms dealers by buying their wares. WTF is horse racing doing in Star Wars again? Was pod racing not the only cool thing from Episode 1?

What the hell is Holdo doing? What kind of resistance leader keeps everyone in the dark about what their fate is and how they are going to keep resisting? Nope, just keep on getting bombarded and losing ships troops. Trust me, I have colored hair... I don't recall any other scene where Ackbar or Mon Mothma was like, we are going to send the entire fleet to the Death Star in what looks like a suicide mission, but we aren't going to tell anyone about the secret plan to send a team to disable the shields on Endor. We aren't even going to bother writing in a line about being worried about a mole so there might be SOME motivation for withholding the plan.

Also, I close my statement with Space Monte Carlo. SPACE FREAKING MONTE CARLO. Wait no, one more... Battering Ram Cannon? BATTERING FREAKING RAM CANNON? It's like they didn't even try to be creative or figure out what might be reasonable in the Star Wars universe.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Anonymous Coward]

They're designed to get normal people in to watch them, not commit hundreds of millions to fellatiate a small number of fans.

In the 70s Star Wars spread like a wildfire and everyone just had to go and see it, so it's always been geared towards normal people, but let us not forget that Lucas made his fortune off of merchandising and most of the merchandise is sold to that relatively small number of fans that's being alienated. Pretty much every toy store has mountains of TLJ merchandise that's just gathering dust, whereas from the 1970s to the 2000s it was hard to find a lot of the toys.

It's hard to sell action figures when there's no longer a single relatable or likeable character in the new movies.

Kylo - an emo child
Rey - a mary sue
Finn - a coward that fights for good... that then tries to run away again
Poe - a hot shot pilot that literally gets everyone killed
Luke - a hero that ran away from his problems
Han - another hero that ran away from his problems
Snoke - the seemingly all-powerful person responsible for turning Kylo to the dark side and founding the all-menacing First Order.. that dies due to his incompetence
Hux - a cartoon villain
Rose - a preachy imbecile
Holdo - a leader that can't or won't communicate with her underlings (i.e. a bad leader)

There are pretty much no redeeming qualities in the characters, and they either accomplish their goals without any effort (Rey) or fail miserably due to incompetence (Poe/Finn/Rose) and/or a lack of trying (Luke).

popular character

[Anonymous Coward]

He is a popular character. The fact that he has so few scenes means he is a blank canvas for the writers.

Could be amazing, could be garbage. Time will tell.

Re: popular character

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me help you: it will be garbage.

Boba Fett debuted in the SW Holiday Special!

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Boba Fett debuted in the Star Wars Holiday Special, not in Empire Strikes back!

That was on 17 November 1978.

It was during a "cartoon" part of Holiday Special.

It was the only part of the Holiday Special that didn't make you want gouge out your own eyes :)

He is a fan favourite.....

[Crookdotter]

But the question is:

Is he a favourite because he had so few scenes, and fans 'filled in the blanks' to make him feel cooler than he is? Is he a character where 'less is more' should be the core idea?

He did seem to be well in with Darth Vader. (why the hell was a galaxy spanning empire hiring bounty hunters?) Maybe we can see more of Vader connected to Fett. Everyone loved the Vader part at the end of rogue one. Maybe we can see Vader at his height for a more extended view? Or maybe a Vader story should be left for that - SW has a long way to go.

Other bounty hunters would be a good place to start, rolling in the ones we saw. I want to see how a droid got to be one.

I wonder if we can see Empire from Fett's perspective. Get digital Lando and Han and Luke and Leia involved to see cloud city from Fett's eyes? I think that would work well, especially if we get to see the more about Jabba and Fett.

I wonder if we can get Fett as a more rounded character - maybe he owes Jabba, and 'A guys gotta do what a guys gotta do. Nothing personal, Han.'

I don't mind a Fett movie. I'll mind if it's done badly.

Re:He is a fan favourite.....

[Anonymous Coward]

> (why the hell was a galaxy spanning empire hiring bounty hunters?)

The same reason I get paid as a consultant. Individual experts can be *much faster* and much, much more effective than bureaucracies at many tasks. Can you imagine the sheer *paperwork* generated by a Death Star? That giant laser wasn't designed to destroy planets, it was designed to shred peperwork if the rebels ever fired a Freedoom Of Information Act request!!!!

Re:He is a fan favourite.....

[thegarbz]

Is he a favourite because he had so few scenes, and fans 'filled in the blanks' to make him feel cooler than he is? Is he a character where 'less is more' should be the core idea?

You're asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking is: "'Should we milk our $4bn investment by making a shitty movie about every character in the known universe and ignoring lore as we go?"
And then answer yes.

I don't mind a Fett movie. I'll mind if it's done badly.

You'll mind. About the only starwars movie that was even remotely interesting of late was Rogue One.

Welcome to the world of the Rat

[Virtucon]

Disney is thoroughly destroying the franchise. Capitalism for the win!

Boba Fett did not debut in Empire

[skam240]

Sorry but Fett did not debut in Empire.

https://www.starwars.com/news/...

Here's the actual premier if you want to watch it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

It's part of a larger Christmas special and is pretty terrible for those not familiar

Re:Boba Fett did not debut in Empire

[freeze128]

In "A New Hope - Special Edition", we see the missing scene where Han Solo confronts Jabba the Hut in docking bay 94. Jabba is now a CGI worm instead of a fat guy in a shaggy vest, but the rest of the actors are still there. That scene ends on Boba Fett turning to the camera.

I saw Solo last night

[guruevi]

Quite honestly the story is predictable from beginning to end. It's Star Wars but Disneyfied. It's far from a "good" movie, it's got some forced humor predictably out of the droids like the previous backstory movie, a princess story like the previous backstory movie, some explosions like the previous one, distressed youth like the previous one, some minor predictable plot twist like the previous one. The only difference/problem is that it doesn't wrap up the characters neatly like the previous story - it creates a potential new story line into the existing movies which should have people wonder "where is she in the old movies" and unless she turns out to be jar jar, it's going to cause some continuity issues. It's no Harrison Ford and George Lucas movie and it shows. The story is very shoddy.

Next up in the Star Wars origins series

[clickety6]

2 and a half hours of watching C3PO being put together on an assembly line...

Fans may also spot some cameo roles by other Star Wars characters - Darth Vader as factory owner, Luke Skywalker as the Union foreman who leads the strike , Princess Leia as the tea lady bringing relief to the workers, R2D2 as her tea-filled samovar ...biddly boo-boop... one lump or two... and Jabba the Hut as the unflushable thing left behind in the third toilet cubicle from the right.

Re:Next up in the Star Wars origins series

[thegarbz]

2 and a half hours of watching C3PO being put together on an assembly line...

We've got that one, It's called "The Phantom Menace".

Re:Nope

[Layzej]

Plus he rides a space dinosaur in his 1978 debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The problem is:

[Anonymous Coward]

His backstories already got fleshed out in the extended universe 20 years ago. Him, Solo, Calrissian, Dengar, Bossk, many major and minor character from the movies have at least one original story book on them. Some of them have trilogies. And that is not including one shots done for West End Games, or the various short story anthologies (including Boba Fett's origin story as being an exile from a planet where rule of law meant everything and his violent and messy tendencies lead him down the path of the bounty hunter. And the fact that other than the suit of 'scout armor' he was in no way related to the Mandalorians.)

Honestly, everything produced since the new millenium has been shit as far as Star Wars was concerned because people whose entire living was writing pulp 'science fiction/fantasy' had already fleshed it all out better than the Lucas properties ever did or could. Despite having dozens of people writing stories, there was far less retconning needed with the extended universe than just the prequels made necessary against ACTUAL STATEMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL MOVIES. Everything since has basically been a fuck you to the fans that allowed star wars to remain in the public consciousness while popularizing it in the same way as the comics have been: endless reboots and no real continuity to the characters other than rough archetypes or backstories and new actors every few years as they iterate.

Also: Ralph McQuarrie and the wizards who did props and effects had far more of an impact than Lucas, who just cribbed 'The Hidden Fortress' made it less japanesy then marketed it to an American audience, just like Disney did with Kimba the White Lion.

Re:another spin off?

[jellomizer]

But that is what we want to see.
Real life is complex they are no pure good guys and bad guys. There are just people doing things that I think they should be doing and doing things I think they shouldn't be doing and they are other people who thinks what they are doing in different ways.

A simple plot, written with likable characters paced at a good speed is often what we want after having to deal with the complexities of real life.

When life is good and little conflict going on then the more complex films are what people want to see because their lives are so easy and boring, being exposed to more mind expanding ideas and complex relationships is more appealing.

Normally you see a inverse relationship with movie complexities and the state of the culture.

Re:Nope

[GoTeam]

I watched the entire hour and a half long special without the aid of drugs or alcohol. I'm not sure if that is a badge of honor or a sign of mental illness...

Solo, Boba, yet still missing the gaping hole

[yodleboy]

What I want to see is the gap between Empire and Jedi where Luke becomes a full Jedi. He's a whining, one handed Jedi wanna be at the end of Empire. At the start of Jedi, he's a bad ass in black pants. What exactly happened? How long did it take? Did he have to complete "the trials"? What the hell are those anyway?
 
Yes, I'm sure this is explored in the countless books and comics, but I think it deserves a movie.

Re:Boba only had a Couple Scenes?

[Dragonslicer]

Prequels? What do you mean? There weren't any prequels. I didn't hear anything about any prequels and I certainly didn't see any prequels. I don't know what you're talking about. No sir. That would be as bad of an idea as Highlander sequels. Which didn't happen and I didn't see either. So yeah, no idea what you're talking about.

You know what movie they should have made a sequel to? The Matrix. It would have been so awesome if they had made a sequel to The Matrix.

Re: another spin off?

[Anonymous Coward]

The entire franchise WAS those things. Now it's just SJW bullshit.

Re:Star Wars is over. That didn't take long either

[JudgeFurious]

I disagree completely here. Marvel has managed to maintain a decade long 2-3 movie per-decade level of quality that most studios would kill for. There's not a truly "unwatchable" movie in the bunch and the worst Marvel film is better than anything Disney has managed to squeeze out of Star Wars so far. I think that what Marvel has done has fit their source material well. Maybe comic books just lend themselves better to that kind of pace but even one Star Wars movie per year is tiresome and seems like it never goes away. It's almost like the franchise needs that time in between films to build up anticipation for the next one. I know they throw "Episode ___" in front of the main series films but really the Marvel movies are much more like true episodes than Star Wars.