Star Wars Episode 7 will be out in 2015 (Picture: AP)

A Disney executive has revealed that the planned Star Wars spin-offs will be origin stories as Ewan McGregor claimed that he was still waiting for the call for Episode 7.

Chief financial officer Jay Rasulo reconfirmed to Variety that a trilogy film or spin-off would be released every year, starting with JJ Abrams’s Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015.

He said that ‘this is not a new franchise for kids’ and added that the priority would be to ‘to put out a great film first’.

After box office flop Lone Ranger, he said there needed to be a ‘cap’ on budgets.


Ewan McGregor wants to be in the new Star Wars film (Picture: Getty Images)

‘Going forward, we will see a cap on spending on those movies,’ he said.



A Han Solo or Yoda spin-off has been rumoured although no announcements have been made yet.

Meanwhile, Ewan McGregor has revealed that he has not been approached yet to appear in Star Wars Episode 7.

The Trainspotting star is keen to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi but film bosses haven’t been in touch yet.

He told E! News: ‘They haven’t phoned me yet. I’d be up for it [if they ask].’