Star Wars Sequels Will Eventually Become as Beloved as Prequels 'in 10 Years' Time,' Says Man Behind BB-8

The puppeteer down Star Wars droid BB-8 has said Disney's divisive sequel trilogy volition yet go arsenic beloved arsenic the saga's prequels — successful astir a decade's time.

In an interrogation with Gamereactor, BB-8 relation Brian Herring compared the existent temper astir Disney's Star Wars sequels to the archetypal effect for George Lucas' prequels — which were wide despised by seasoned fans backmost successful 2000s.

Over time, instrumentality sentiment towards the prequels has softened somewhat, arsenic the young fans who grew up with Darth Maul and Jar-Jar present look backmost connected The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith with immoderate nostalgia (and the payment of different Star Wars projects acceptable astir the aforesaid clip play being released, which person helped to amended soma retired the films' characters and story).

This is simply a process that Herring present believes volition hap with Disney's sequels, which helium said had their ain "huge instrumentality base" of younger viewers who apt will, successful a decade's time, thrust a akin nostalgia for the adventures of Rey, Finn, and Poe.

"I deliberation the sequels are nary much polarizing than the prequels were erstwhile they came out," Herring said. "All the radical who are upset astir the sequels are excessively young to retrieve however upset the radical erstwhile the [prequels] came retired were, but they present person the internet.

"If the net had been astir to the grade it's astir [now] erstwhile the prequels came out, you'd person seen precisely the aforesaid worldly play out. And I deliberation successful 10 years' time, you're going to spot [the same] with the sequels, due to the fact that the sequels person a immense instrumentality basal and I conscionable them each the time, but they're each overmuch younger than the radical complaining connected the internet...

"It's perfectly fine," Herring concluded, "if you don't similar them, you don't similar them. Everything's not for everyone. And I conscionable deliberation that these things are each generational and I deliberation Battlestar Galactica said it best, 'this has each happened before, it volition each hap again.'"

Somewhat incredibly, it is present already implicit a decennary since the motorboat of 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the archetypal successful Disney's sequel trilogy. In a fewer years' time, it volition past beryllium a decennary connected from the accomplishment of 2019's Rise of Skywalker — our past glimpse astatine Rey (and BB-8) to date. Of course, Disney already has nebulous plans to proceed their stories, though erstwhile precisely this volition hap is inactive unclear. Perhaps the institution is blessed to hold until instrumentality sentiment towards the sequel trilogy wide has improved somewhat. Earlier this week Finn histrion John Boyega said helium had talked to caller Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni astir a imaginable return, suggesting the wheels are successful motion.

Exactly erstwhile the sequel trilogy characters volition instrumentality remains unclear, peculiarly aft erstwhile Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy failed to notation the previously-announced standalone movie acceptable to diagnostic Rey Skywalker successful her exit interrogation earlier this year. The project, revealed by Kennedy with fanfare astatine Star Wars Celebration 2023, was planned to diagnostic the instrumentality of Daisy Ridley, and uncover however her quality had started a caller epoch of the Jedi Order.

Lucasfilm is besides incubating a caller trilogy of movies from Simon Kinberg, the manager down the widely-panned X-Men movie Dark Phoenix and 2022 spy enactment flop The 355. These films, which are besides acceptable to diagnostic Rey, presently dependable the much apt to really happen. "[Kinberg] wrote thing that we work successful August, and it was precise good, but not there," Kennedy told Deadline backmost successful January. "We've beauteous overmuch upended the story, and past spent a large woody of clip connected the treatment, which helium finished virtually astir 4 weeks ago. And it's a precise elaborate treatment, similar 70 pages. And truthful helium is expected to springiness america thing successful March."

Before each of that, Disney volition tempt Star Wars fans backmost to theaters this twelvemonth with The Mandalorian And Grogu, owed retired connected May 22. Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter past arrives adjacent year, connected May 28, 2027.

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