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Call it the “Rebel Spies Trilogy.”
Pinning it to a request from higher-ups at Disney, who felt that the non-mainline Star Wars shouldn’t warrant the franchise staple, he was initially reluctant to ditch the thing but ultimately conceded with the following rationalization: “The reason we exist is because of a previous crawl” — referring to the line “Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s weapon, the Death Star” in A New Hope ’s opening text — “so it feels like this infinite loop that will never end.” On the one hand, I get what Edwards is saying: Hollywood’s insistence to make countless spinoffs and sequels off existing IP has become quite the morass. Taken as its own narrative arc, these projects come to tell a story of rebellion and revolution that feels true to life: Challenging an overwhelming power structure is a process that requires many hands and passes from one person onto the next. How could he have known at the time Star Wars would become an epochal hit that will spawn sequels, prequels, interquels, spinoffs, and an endlessly sprawling fictional universe with a fandom that exercises near-religious exegetical devotion to its texts?
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