In an appearance today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Disney CEO Bob Iger said they were being very careful in developing future Star Wars feature films stating “we’re going to make sure when we make one, it’s the right one.”
Iger said “disappointing” box office returns in 2018 for Solo, one of two stand-alone films integrated among three “saga” installments, “gave us pause” in terms of the feature pipeline. Executives determined that “maybe the cadence was a little too aggressive,” he added. Disney is “still developing Star Wars films,” Iger continued, but “we’re going to make sure when we make one, it’s the right one. So we’re being very careful there.”
Episodic series based on Star Wars mythology, including The Mandalorian, Andor and several others, have been “extremely successful,” the CEO noted.
