Star Wars, Ranked
Star Wars is back in theatres! It’s been seven years since the mainline Star Wars series came to a close with The Rise of Skywalker. By the time Episode IX rolled into theatres in late 2019, I was quite accustomed to a yearly cinematic outing in the galaxy far, far away. At that time, it seemed like Star Wars could not be stopped. Lucasfilm’s then-president Kathleen Kennedy had been greenlighting a string of feature film projects, including a Donald Glover-starring Lando Calrissian spin-off; a trilogy from Rian Johnson; a trilogy from Game of Thrones showrunners D. B. Weiss and David Benioff; a film from Taika Waititi; a film from James Mangold about the origins of the Jedi Order; a Laeta Kalogridis-written film based on Knights of the Old Republic; and a Adam Driver-starring, Steven Soderbergh-directed spin-off about Ben Solo. But it’s been seven years, and none of those projects have yet to manifest. Some of them are still “in development,” others have been cancelled outright, and...
