Today word came that Disney CEO Bob Iger believes his plan to release a new Star Wars movie every year was “a little too much, too fast” and that fans can expect “some slowdown” in the studio’s output of films set in that galaxy far, far away. From where I’m sitting, this is a good thing -- for Disney as well as for fans.

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Much has been made about the box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, so there’s not too much point in re-litigating that here, but suffice to say that the film’s worldwide theatrical take clocked in at $393 million. Meanwhile, the other Star Wars Story standalone, Rogue One, made just over $1 billion. For two Star Wars films that were only released two years apart, that’s a big difference.Was the discrepancy due to Star Wars fatigue? Audiences’ reluctance to accept a new version of beloved character Han Solo? A decline in quality? Or something else entirely? Who knows, but Iger’s move to slow the release of Star Wars films certainly seems to give some credence to the idea that the Disney brass at least think the fatigue factor is partially at play (Solo had arrived only five months after the divisive The Last Jedi, after all).Here’s the thing, and let me take you for a spin in the “back in my day” machine, but it used to be that you had to wait three freaking years for a new Star Wars movie. And you only got three of them in total! In the years that passed between films, fans would find other ways to get their Star Wars fix -- comics, action figures, cartoons, EU books (Splinter of the Mind's Eye FTW), and so on -- while also theorizing and dreaming up and arguing over whether stormtroopers were robots or not, or how Han was gonna get out of that carbonite, or why Darth Vader lied to Luke about being his father (!), or why Lando was wearing Han’s clothes! The huge fandom of Star Wars was only intensified by the wait for a new movie, and by the shared love of the series.After Return of the Jedi, the hope of George Lucas’ much-discussed prequels and sequels ever happening seemed to fade as the years passed. And then, miraculously, the mastermind behind the franchise actually did return some 16 years later and make Episodes I, II and III. Whatever your feelings about those films may be, again it was a three-year wait between movies, and that allowed for unbridled excitement and anticipation to build for each installment.I remember seeing Revenge of the Sith and thinking, “This is the last Star Wars movie.” A sad thought to be sure, but it also made sense that this thing should finally end. Even getting the prequels had seemed so unlikely for so long that there was a feeling of “count your blessings” to it all. The theater was buzzing that night at my Sith press screening in New York, and indeed various NYC celebs also seemed to show up for the show (Bill O’Reilly sat behind me and argued with my buddy about the Mets).Cut to the announcement in 2012 that Disney had acquired Lucasfilm and that new Star Wars was coming, and it seemed to be too good to be true for fans. And now, it has started to feel like it has been exactly that: too good to be true.From the lackluster reception of Solo to the forces of toxic fandom that have awakened (ahem) in recent years and even to the way (if you’ll forgive a bit of inside-baseball here) that Disney has chosen to roll out some of the new films to the press, not even allowing reporters to screen the full film before interviewing the cast and filmmakers, there has been an increasing sense that Star Wars-itis is beginning to set in.So let’s take a little breather then. We’ve waited for these movies before. It won’t kill us to not have a new Star Wars film in 2020.It’s still too early to say exactly what Iger’s “slowdown” will really mean for the franchise, but not getting a new film in 2020 seems a safe bet. J.J. Abrams’ final installment in the Skywalker saga, Episode IX , is expected to be released in December of 2019. That would make 2020 the first year that we don’t get new Star Wars since Abrams’ The Force Awakens restarted the whole thing in 2015. Hey, that’s five Star Wars films in five years! Don’t say Disney and Lucasfilm never gave you anything.But now Iger and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy can take a step back and really figure out what their next move should be once Rey and Finn and Poe and Kylo’s story is done. This likely means some of the standalones we’d been hearing about or that were rumored, like the Obi-Wan movie, could be on hold. Logan director James Mangold was reportedly taking on a Boba Fett movie, though after Solo’s performance reports have indicated that film could be scaled back -- if it’s even still happening (and the director kind of threw cold water on the chatter as well on Twitter). When talking about the next step for Star Wars films in today’s report, Iger did say that Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss “are developing sagas of their own,” so that project, which Lucasfilm revealed this past February, appears to still be on track. There was no mention by Iger of Last Jedi director Rian Johnson’s standalone trilogy that was announced last year, but Johnson stated on Twitter this month that he’s still working on it. Oh, and then of course there’s still Star Wars TV in the works: the animated series Resistance, a new season of The Clone Wars, and the live-action series that will debut on Disney’s streaming service.All of which is to say, there’s still plenty of Star Wars in the works. So if Disney and Lucasfilm need to hit pause for a minute and make sure they’re mapping out the beloved galaxy’s big-screen future correctly, then more power to them. Besides, you can be sure the Emperor has foreseen this anyway.

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