A Star Wars Artist Made A Bold Prediction About The Sequel Trilogy (and He's Probably Right)

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Will nan "Star Wars" sequel trilogy yet beryllium positively reassessed nan measurement nan prequel trilogy was? According to Brian Herring, nan puppeteer who helped bring BB-8 and nan Porgs to life, it's bound to happen. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is already complete a decade old. The thought of folks being nostalgic for that movie isn't truthful far-fetched.

The sequels were, connected nan whole, divisive. "The Last Jedi" changed "Star Wars" forever, for amended aliases worse. It was a $1.33 cardinal container agency success, but it besides inspired aggravated section wrong nan "Star Wars" fanbase. That near Disney and Lucasfilm successful a tricky spot successful position of imaginative direction. Several years removed, is nan tide turning?

Speaking pinch Gamesreactor, Herring stated that, successful his view, nan sequels are nary much polarizing than nan prequels were successful their day. And they perfectly were divisive. George Lucas ignored warnings astir nan prequels destroying nan "Star Wars" franchise. In nan end, he was correct to (more connected that successful a moment). Here's what Herring had to opportunity astir it:

"I deliberation nan sequels are nary much polarizing than nan prequels were erstwhile they came out. [...] All nan group who are upset astir nan sequels are excessively young to retrieve really upset nan group erstwhile nan [prequels] came retired were, isolated from they now person nan internet. If nan net had been astir to nan grade it was astir erstwhile nan prequels came out, you'd person seen precisely nan aforesaid worldly play out."

"I deliberation successful 10 years' time, you're going to spot what you're seeing pinch nan sequels, because nan sequels person a immense instrumentality base, and I meet them each nan time, but they're each overmuch younger than nan group complaining connected nan net astir really overmuch they didn't like," Herring added.

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What Brian Herring is getting astatine is nan thought that "The Phantom Menace" created a caller procreation of "Star Wars" fans. Yes, older fans who grew up pinch nan original trilogy were vocal successful their hatred of Jar Jar Binks and whatnot astatine nan time, but for younger fans, that movie and nan remainder of nan prequel trilogy came to embody their type of a postulation far, acold away.

Recall that "Revenge of nan Sith" became a container agency deed again acknowledgment to its 20-year day re-release successful theaters successful 2025. That was thing of a mic driblet connected nan prequel trilogy redemption tour. The communicative that nan prequels are a stain connected nan estimation of this franchise is nary longer thing 1 tin opportunity pinch immoderate existent credibility. As Herring sees it, nan sequel trilogy is going to get that aforesaid curen successful owed time.

"It's perfectly fine, if you don't for illustration [the sequels], you don't for illustration them. Everything's not for everyone," Herring concluded. "I conscionable deliberation that these things are each generational and I deliberation 'Battlestar Galactica' said it best: 'This has each happened before, it will each hap again.'"

Indeed, we've seen this generational redemption hap erstwhile it comes to nan "Star Wars" spot earlier pinch nan prequels. A definite level of nostalgia for nan sequel trilogy feels likewise inevitable. To what grade that permeates? That's a larger, unanswerable question. A batch of what happens will travel down to really Disney and Lucasfilm attack nan "The Force Awakens," "The Last Jedi," and "The Rise of Skywalker," arsenic good arsenic nan characters those movies gave us, successful nan coming years.

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Disney and Lucasfilm are presently readying to make a caller Rey movie starring Daisy Ridley. And since we're already astir 11 years removed from "The Force Awakens," by nan clip that movie comes out, nan group who grew up pinch Rey will beryllium aged capable to consciousness nostalgic astir it. That's a bully start. John Boyega's Finn besides whitethorn return to nan "Star Wars" universe. That's different plus.

The constituent is that Disney and Lucasfilm request to foster emotion for nan sequel trilogy and its characters to thief guarantee a akin level of emotion develops nan measurement it did for nan prequels. George Lucas had a difficult clip trading nan "Clone Wars" animated bid to Cartoon Network. Once he did, though, that show genuinely helped create nan prequel fandom successful a awesome way.

As of now, location is nary akin animated bid group successful nan sequel era. That, successful turn, intends location hasn't been arsenic overmuch "fixing" nan perceived problems pinch those movies yet, truthful to speak. That said, there's logic to judge the era of "Star Wars" sequel trilogy nostalgia is already upon us.

Take nan full-length trailer for "The Mandalorian and Grogu," which includes a clear homage to a celebrated changeable successful "The Force Awakens." The other, bigger point is nan truth that Disney scrapped a Kyle Ren "Star Wars" movie starring Adam Driver and titled "The Hunt for Ben Solo." The consequence to this revelation was loud, pinch galore fans begging nan workplace to reconsider and immoderate moreover taking retired billboards. That doesn't hap for movies group roundly hate. It sounds for illustration Brian Herring whitethorn beryllium onto thing here.

"The Mandalorian and Grogu" hits theaters connected May 22, 2026.