When Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 and announced that they would produce new Star Wars films, it was a moment of both anticipation and apprehension for fans. Although the Star Wars universe had lived on in novels, comics, cartoons and video games, the Star Wars films, under the purview of George Lucas, had fairly definitively wrapped up. New storytellers taking on his mythology would raise the question of what direction the series would go and what the new movies would even be about.
While all five films produced by Disney since the acquisition approach this question differently, they’re all unified by the core thematic idea of Disney having to introduce the property to a new generation, and how they would carry on the legacy of one of the most widely known franchises in pop culture history. In essence, they made the new Star Wars movies “about” making new Star Wars movies, and with their initial wave of films now concluded with The Rise of Skywalker, it’s time to look at all the Disney Star Wars films, and how the studio’s approach to this problem changed with each film they made.
Source: IGN.com Legacy in the Age of Disney's Star Wars