Star Wars needs to take its own advice and let the past die
By Jason Burke
Photo Credit: [Star Wars: The Last Jedi] Lucasfilm
Is nostalgia worth the price we’ll pay?
But with Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Rogue One and the possibility of a Lando, Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi films, Lucasfilm shows that Star Wars may be suffering from another issue with time, its history.
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Is there an actual point to seeing Han’s beginnings when we just got finished watching him get run through by a lightsaber and dumped off a bridge by his own son?
Does a Boba Fett movie prove that he’s more than a suit and not the worst bounty hunter in the galaxy? Probably not.
Stuck in the same forty-year loop, alternate Star Wars media has provided a rich template of history for the franchise to rip from. Maybe more than time, Lucasfilm is having a self-identity crisis, shoehorning Vader and Darth Maul into feature films to keep the social media heads quipping.
Nostalgia and nods can grab a few more dollars but eventually, that feeling wanes until the characters are nothing more than the mummified remains of what easy money used to look like.
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The point is, Star Wars doesn’t need to stop making films or money–it needs to evolve and, maybe, slow down. A great movie every three years would help the momentum swell and make it what it once was: special.