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Grand Kirby posted...

I think it's clear you need someone like Kevin Feige to make it work like the MCU. All the other cinematic universes that have crashed and burned is proof of that.

Of course, having blueprints for a trilogy isn't as hard as creating a massive universe, so I only assume they didn't feel like the movies needed a strong overarching direction because they felt Star Wars fans would eat it up no matter what. And they were half right...

When The Force Awakens came out, the MCU was getting backlash over the films supposedly feeling overly "made by committee", with it not helping that there had been a number of high-profile clashes between the directors and Marvel Entertainment. So the whole deal with Star Wars was that each director would have creative freedom. Once Marvel got its stuff back together it became plainly obvious that this approach was not going to work for Star Wars.

The other big blockbuster films of 2015 aside from The Force Awakens were stuff like Jurassic World, Furious 7, Age of Ultron, and Minions, then there were also flops like Terminator: Genisys, Fant4stic, and Pixels. The previous year's biggest hit was Transformers 4, and other big hits from that year included Hobbit 3 and Maleficent. Oh my freaking god what an awful decade for blockbuster cinema.

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