But which reason lead to the decision to continue with the Skywalker Saga instead of creating some other stories situated in another era of the galactic warfare?
Muito disso é coberto por uma < artigo da strong> Vanity Fair .
Antes da compra da Disney, a Lucasfilm tinha, nas palavras de Kathleen Kennedy ..
“There were a lot of things going on in terms of the infrastructure of the company so that we could shift strategically from what had really become a licensing model back to a production model.”
Essencialmente, como explicado no artigo ...
...in preparation for selling the company, which to some extent had been coasting on royalties from Star Wars toys and other merchandise, Lucas had decided to make more movies. He sketched out ideas for episodes VII, VIII, and IX, to be set initially several decades after Return of the Jedi, and approached Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill about re-upping.
Mas assim que o negócio foi concluído, a Disney decidiu seguir uma direção diferente.
Como citado por JJ Abrams
Lucas’s treatments had centered on very young characters—teenagers, Lucasfilm told me—which might have struck Disney executives as veering too close for comfort to The Phantom Menace and its 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker and 14-year-old Queen Amidala. “We’ve made some departures” from Lucas’s ideas, Kennedy conceded, but only in “exactly the way you would in any development process.”
Kennedy reuniu uma equipe de história e cortejou JJ Abrams para embarcar.
Ele diz ...
“I fully expected to gratefully pass on this movie,” Abrams said, describing his meeting with Kennedy. But he grew intrigued when she told him the picture was a blank canvas. Implicit questions tantalized him—“this idea,” he said, “of what’s happened in these past 30-something years. Where is Han Solo? What happened to Leia? Is Luke alive? These questions started to percolate, and I found myself thrown completely by this visceral hunger to be part of this world.” He added, The logic of why it was the wrong thing was overruled for me by the emotion of it.”
Uma vez que o esboço do roteiro estava no lugar embora Kennedy fez o ponto ..
Kennedy described the script’s mix of old and new characters in terms of audience expectations: “It’s sort of like going to a concert where you want to hear the new stuff that they’ve written, but really you want to hear some of the old songs. And we’re in a similar kind of thing: we’re getting the band back together, and we know that people are going to want to be reminded of the things they love, but they’re going to expect to have a new experience.”
A saga Skywalker é geracional para a família Skywalker. De Anakin para Luke ou Leia e para seus filhos.
Em resumo, uma combinação de razões financeiras, protegendo e estendendo o IP, e criativas para dar aos fãs um link familiar para a antiga franquia e, ao mesmo tempo, introduzindo novos personagens.