DrDre said:
I think the fact, that there’s going to be at least one Star Wars film every year, is going to change the way people view these films. Before you only had one film every three years at best, and zero for more than a decade at worst. Expectations were understandably enormous, as the next film had to be awesome. In the future there’s going to be a Star Wars movie for everyone, as there will be dozens to choose from.

The 19 month gap between Solo this May and EP IX in December next year will actually seem like quite a long one in contrast!

It will be interesting to see whether the ‘event’ aspect of a Star Wars movie does decline with more releases. The assumption is that it will, but then again media exposure and the general pace of life has accelerated an awful amount in the past decade that maybe even year long waits will seem like a long time.

The James Bond model of releasing a movie roughly every couple of years has still yielded high BO returns and buzz. The Marvel Universe model has successfully sustained an even faster release schedule.

I know some people see one SW film they don’t like and then say “that’s it - Im boycotting and quitting SW fandom, won’t watch any more” but I think time’s have changed and you have to accept that the upcoming films will each have different directors and different approaches. Like Bond and Marvel some will be fantastic and some will be ‘lesser’.