In some shape or form, the Star Wars films have all been centered around the Skywalker family, even if indirectly. The furthest a film has gone from the bloodline was 2016’s Rogue One, the franchise’s first standalone. However, Garry Whitta, the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sat down with Coming Soon to talk about the film. When asked about the upcoming Star Wars narrative focus, he stated,
“The next spin-off is ‘Han Solo,’ that’s another familiar character, but I think increasingly you’re going to see…One of the thing things we really want to do at Lucasfilm is create a universe and not keep relying on old legacy characters. We’ve got Rey and Finn and Kylo Ren, they’ve already introduced a new generation of characters.”
Whitta elaborated that, “whatever kind of Star Wars films they’re making 10 or 20 years from now, I don’t think they’re going to be relying on the same legacy story elements as we have in the past.”
