Kathleen Kennedy, the boss of Lucasfilm has revealed what the future of Star Wars is going to look like. The films will not be trilogies and they will not “fit into a box.”
The Rise Of Skywalker will be the final film in the current trilogy. After its release this weekend (December 19), the franchise is going to take a new direction.
“What we’ve been focused on these last five or six years is finishing that family saga around the Skywalkers,” Kennedy told the Los Angeles Times. “Now is the time to start thinking about how to segue into something new and different.”
“I think it gives us a more open-ended view of storytelling and doesn’t lock us into this three-act structure,” she continued. “We’re not going to have some finite number and fit it into a box. We’re really going to let the story dictate that.”
So far, Star Wars has rigidly followed the trilogy structure. Deviating from this format will give the franchise an opportunity to explore other characters and delve deeper into the Star Wars universe.
It’s all very exciting.
