The Star Wars saga is in second place as the highest grossing film franchise of all time.
The Star Wars franchise has managed to gross around $10.3 billion.
The Walt Disney Company acquired the “Star Wars” franchise as part of the conglomerate’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012.
Star Wars is being reshuffled, as the Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins movies have been cancelled, plus Taika waititi He is looking to star in his own movie.
It was recently revealed that lucasfilm was in talks about the next movies in the popular franchise of Star WarsHowever, the production company has made decisions to change with this idea.
The impact of Star Wars
Star Wars or also known as Star Wars was a creation by the famous American George Luke; however, today it is part of the collection of Disney. In 2012, Walt Disney Company acquired lucasfilm in the amount of 4 billion dollars. For said company, this would be the acquisition of its third franchise, after the animation studio pixarwhich he obtained in 2006, and the publisher marvel comicsin 2009, for which he paid 9 thousand and 2 thousand 800 million euros at the time.
According to data from the portalThe numbers“, the saga of Star Wars is in second place as the highest-grossing film franchise in history, only below the cinematic universe of Marvel which is also from Disneysince they have generated income of around 27 thousand 400 million dollars, this success It has been worldwide. Regarding the franchise stars Warsaround 10 thousand 300 million dollars have been raised.
It is evident that Star Wars is not only one of the franchises cinematographic most popular in the history of cinema, but it is also one of the most profitable. Although not all of his films did equally well, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” the least successful film date of 2018, it earned more than $390 million at the box office.
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Star Wars reorganizes and cancels films by Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins
According to a report from Variety, lucasfilm has shelved two projects that have already been discussed before, and that have in fact been highly desired by fans.
It is a film directed by Kevin FeigePresident of Marvel Studioswhich was already written by the writer of Doctor Strange 2 and which was a film that was characterized by being far from the central universe of Star Wars.
Also involved in this is a film directed by Patty Jenkinsdirector of Wonder Woman, called Rogue Squadron that it would be focused on a group of star pilots who were going to hunt down the most evil beings in the universe.
It should be noted that there is a project that lucasfilm has put on hold, the film of stars Wars directed by Taika waititi, the director in charge of directing the last two Thor or Jojo Rabbit films; However, waititi He not only wants to direct it, but also to be the lead in it.
The movie that will happen within the universe of #StarWars It will be directed by Taika Waititi.
It is expected to hit theaters in 2025. pic.twitter.com/Muc15ImLLe
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