Is Star Wars Done With The Skywalkers?

Lucasfilm caused a flake of stir this calendar week when they nonchalantly dropped the news program thatStar Wars : The Last Jedidirector Rian Johnson is working ona trade name new trilogy ofStar Warsfilms . Much remains unknown about these films , but Lucasfilm ’s promulgation described the trilogy as being , " from a corner of the Galax urceolata that Star Wars lore has never before explored . “So , it ’s a unexampled slate of films set in a clock time or place within the vast coltsfoot far , far away that no one has ever hear of before . Your guess is as good as ours .

While it ’s unclear what theses film will be about and how they ’ll fit within existingStar Warscanon , Lucasfilm was very absolved to maneuver out Johnson ’s trilogy , " is disjoined from the episodic Skywalker saga . “This trilogy is notEpisodes X - XII , and apart from likely being the first , second , and third chapters in whatever crazy Modern story Johnson has cooked up , they are n’t even really Episodes . In fact , with Disney / Lucasfilm already producing standalone pictures ( Rogue One , Solo ) , there ’s no reason to assume Johnson ’s trilogy is even a sequential storey - it could be its own anthology of vaguely connect tales fix within a similar fourth dimension or property . This early on , nobody outside of Johnson , his collaborator Ram Bergman , Kathleen Kennedy , and the Lucasfilm Story Group know what ’s really kick the bucket on with this raw trilogy .

But the fact that today ’s annunciation boldly states these picture show will not be part of the Skywalker saga has us wonder - after a story span ( when complete ) nine film as well as countless Holy Scripture , cartoon strip , and TV installment - isStar Warsleaving its regal family behind ?

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To which the only sensitive answer is … no . utterly not .

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Whether through films unaffiliated with Johnson ’s trilogy or in other medium , the Skywalker family and legacy is sure to continue . Lucasfilm is n’t throwing away characters as lucrative as Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader , or anyone who can claim to be of their lineage . As of the moment , practically everythingStar Wars- and especially everything considered official canyon in the class since Disney ’s culling of the Expanded Universe - is in some way connected to that nine movie saga . There are certainly exception , but they are very few . By and expectant everything being bring about by Disney has made certain to include a clear link back to those core films and the Skywalker clan .

What ’s being done with this new trilogy , however , is an enlargement of theStar Warsuniverse in a agency no one has ever done before . If Johnson ’s photographic film truly are go under in a unexplored niche of theStar Warsuniverse , then the possibilities are endless . These movie couldbe set centuries beforeAnakin was ever magically conceived ; they could feature an entirely different lodge or civilisation , one that ’s so far on the outskirt it ’s never even hear of Jedi and is untouched by the Galactic Civil War ; it could be set in a far - flung future where the threats of the Empire and First Order are relics of the past tense ; and there ’s even the chance these films will have a smaller compass than ' the fate of the extragalactic nebula hangs in the symmetry ' , in which face , Johnson ’s narration might just be unlike anything ever order within theStar Warsuniverse .

As of now , we sleep together next to nothing about this raw trilogy ofStar Warsfilms . But there wo n’t be any Skywalkers or any friends of the Skywalkers and there probably wo n’t even be anyone who hung out with a Skywalker . And really , though we do n’t yet know for certain , Episode IXcould very well finish the Skywalker line of descent . The only remaining Skywalkers ( that we have a go at it of ) are Luke , Leia , and her son , Ben ( AKA Kylo Ren ) , which signify that unless Luke has undercover child , Leia had a child in secret , or Kylo is redeemed and lives long enough to have children of his own - each of which , though not impossible , vary in their likelihood - then the Skywalkers would stop to be , live on only in legend .

Whether the Skywalkers become flat out withEpisode IXor not , Johnson is clearly more concerned in charting a fresh line through theStar Warsuniverse - one that ’s liberal of any Skywalker baggage and open to all sorts of new possibility . If Disney and Lucasfilm really are fit to makeStar Warsfilms from now until long after we ’re all dead , then the population involve to be cracked astray open . A film series that does n’t rely on recognizable type or recycled tale pulsation , but can still conquer the awe and wonder we make out to expect from a beetleweed far , far out , could ensure thatStar Wars- in at least some shape or form - will be here for generations to add up .