Star Wars: Rogue One - 10 Crazy Rumours You Should Definitely Believe

5. It's Starting A "Two A Year" Release Model

The release method for the previous Star Wars movies looks incredibly antiquated now. Each Episode was released a whole three years apart, a time-gap that would now be long enough to warrant a reboot. Add to that a whopping sixteen years between trilogies and it's a wonder fans didn't lose interest (no wonder the EU took off). Thanks to the likes of Marvel, the process has completely changed. The superhero juggernauts have been making two films a year for a while now, and are set to bump that up to three in 2017, inspiring D.C. and X-Men to follow suit (there's three X-movies next year alone). Star Wars looks to be getting in on the act too; Rogue One hits in December 2016, with Episode VIII arriving only a few months later in May 2017. If that tact is followed through, this could be the start of us getting two new movies ever year from the franchise for the foreseeable. Of course, not all of these will be fully-fledged episodes (Disney must know that'd be overkill), but with the distinction between them and spin-offs getting blurred that shouldn't be much of an issue in terms of building hype. Suddenly you can see how Disney are expecting to make back the $4.05 billion they shelled out for Lucasfilm.