Predicting The 9 Star Wars Movies Currently In The Works
9. Rian Johnson's Trilogy Explores A Whole New Corner Of The Galaxy
As far as Star Wars goes, everything tends to boil down to the foundations established in The Original Trilogy. There's the light side, and the dark; the good guys and the bad guys.
Things don't get much simpler than that, and yet, if The Last Jedi was anything to go by, there's a certain nuance to be had in that dynamic. Rian Johnson's film looked to push the franchise in a bold and exciting direction and, having managed to surprise pretty much everyone in doing so, it makes sense that he's been given the keys to tell his own kind of Star Wars story - one that's said to have little, if anything, to do with the Skywalkers, the Empire, or anything of the sort.
How far the director divests from the classic vision is still up in the air, but with the Star Wars universe being as long as it is expansive, Johnson's trilogy could head far and wide to tell something new, and that's without even mentioning the chronology of the timeline itself.