Disney Already Planning Star Wars Spin-Offs

Every week, let alone day, is a new revelation. George Lucas is selling the Empire to Disney. They're making new Star Wars movies. Wait, it's a new trilogy. Strike that, a new trilogy and more! Lucas gave Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher a head's up. Hamill and Fisher are coming back! Eh, they're probably coming back! Harrison Ford awoke from his decade long coma! He said he's game too! So on, and so forth.

And then there's the mountain of directors. Some by choice said, "Don't look at me!" Others cornered into an answer. Whether or not, any were realistic candidates to begin with.

Amid the chaos, what is certain? Michael Arndt writing Episode VII. The Oscar-winning Pixar scribe was the first big announcement following our shell-shocked reaction to new Star Wars pictures. Then the news Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg would serve as writers and producers for Episodes VIII and IX.

THR, realizing things haven't been confusing enough, are here to fix that:

"But now insiders tell THR that while Kasdan and Kinberg have indeed been hired to work on the Star Wars franchise, they will be writing separate projects (hence the reason why they also would receive producer credits), not necessarily Episode VIII and Episode IX.

Their scripts could turn into official 'Episodes' in the main Skywalker storyline, or they could form the basis for spinoffs focusing on side characters. Disney CEO Robert Iger said the goal is to release a Star Wars movie 'every two to three years,' and some could easily focus on other pieces of the expansive mythos (similar to Marvel’s Avengers universe). Disney and Lucasfilm declined comment."

The profit Disney earns from Episode VII alone will come close to the $4 billion they spent purchasing Lucasfilm. Take your sweet time and focus on the sequel trilogy. Each film at a time. Then start playing the spin-off game. Your current plan is a bit... much.