During an interview with the Awards Chatter podcast for The Hollywood Reporter, Kevin Feige, chief creative of Marvel Studios, has spoken about exploring new people and places for his Star Wars film and the theory of Star Wars fatigue.
“I love that world and I love the notion of exploring new people and new places in that universe,” Feige explained. “But that’s sort of all that can be said for now.”
While he wasn’t willing to address any details about his plans, he did speak about the theory of “Star Wars fatigue” and the franchise being warn out with fans. Given the success of the franchise, Feige doesn’t agree with the idea that the Star Wars movies have warn out their welcome with audiences.
“Well they’ve made about five movies in about five years and it’s made over five billion dollars, so I think they’re doing just fine with Star Wars. And Rise of Skywalker looks incredible to me,” Feige said.
There’s no word yet on when Feige will start to film his Star Wars film, let alone release it. With the recent departure of Game of Thrones show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and little news on the proposed Rian Johnson trilogy, it seems the future of Star Wars films on the big screen is being kept a closely guarded secret by Disney and Lucasfilm although the next film is still scheduled for release in 2022. We don’t expect any news this side of the release of The Rise of Skywalker either.
