Star Wars: Disney Era

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Name: Star Wars
Abbreviation(s): SW, Wars
Creator: George Lucas
Date(s): Disney Era content
Medium: Live-Action Film, Animated Film, Animated TV Series, Live Action TV Series, Comics
Country of Origin: United States
External Links: IMDB
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Star Wars is a space opera film series with a huge worldwide fandom and a massive impact on pop culture. The films spawned many spinoff comics, books and TV series, and in 2014 it was rebooted when LucasFilm sold the property to Disney. This created two continuities: Legends (everything pre-2014) and Canon (everything post-2014).

The Disney Era (2014-present)

In 2012, it was announced that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm and it's properties including Star Wars for $4.05 billion. Production began on many new productions within the series. Following the Disney purchase of 20th Century Fox studios and HULU, in November 2019, the Disney+ streaming service premiered with "The Mandalorian", a new Star wars television series.

Canon

Animation

Movies

  • A Droid Story (yet to be released)

Television/Streaming Series

For details see the individual pages, or the Wikipedia page

Micro-Series and Shorts

For details, see the Wikipedia page

  • Blips (2017) - animated micro-series created to promote The Last Jedi.
  • Forces of Destiny (2017–2018) - series focussing on the female characters of the whole franchise.
  • Galaxy of Adventures (2018–2020) - a the series of shorts reimagining key scenes from the saga, leading up the release of The Rise of Skywalker.
  • Roll Out (2019–2020) - shorts depicting the main characters from the franchise as ball-shaped, similar to BB-8, and utilizing a kid-friendly cutout animation style.
  • Galaxy of Creatures (2021–2023) - shorts depicting the droid SF-R3 ("Aree") as he journeys across the galaxy learning about various wildlife.
  • Galactic Pals (2022) - A spinoff of the adventures of the droid SF-R3 ("Aree") in Star Wars Galaxy of Creatures, Galactic Pals joins M1-RE ("Miree"), another member of the Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts, as she looks after and studies ornery Ortolans, fussy Hutts, scavenging Jawas, and more creatures and aliens aboard the Youngling Care Space Station.
  • "Zen – Grogu and Dust Bunnies" (2022) - hand-drawn animation featuring Grogu and the "dust bunnies" from My Neighbor Totoro.

Live Action Movies

For details, see the individual pages or the Wikipedia page.

Live Action Series

For details, see the individual pages or the Wikipedia article

Books

Comics

Dark Horse Notable works

  • Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir (2014)
  • The High Republic Adventures: Quest of the Jedi (April 2023)
  • The High Republic Adventures Free Comic Book Day 2023 (May 2023)
  • Star Wars Rebels (August 2022)
Marvel Notable works
  • Star Wars (2015) #1–75, four Annuals (2015-2019)
  • Star Wars: Darth Vader #1–25, one Annual (2015-2016)
  • Star Wars: Darth Vader (vol. 2) #1–25, one Annual (2017-2018)
  • Star Wars: Darth Vader (vol. 3) #1-present (2020-ongoing)
  • Star Wars: Kanan #1–12 (2015-2016)
  • Star Wars: Poe Dameron #1–31, two Annuals (2016-2018)
  • Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1–40, three Annuals (2016-2019)
  • Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (vol. 2) #1-present (2020-ongoing)
  • Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #1-present (2020-ongoing)
  • Star Wars: The High Republic #1-15 (2021-2022)
  • Star Wars: Han Solo and Chewbacca #1-present (2022-ongoing)
  • Star Wars: Princess Leia (2015)
  • Star Wars: Chewbacca (2015)
  • Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin (2016)

Video Games

Fandom

Reception by fans

The reception of the Disney Era (particularly the Sequel Trilogy) also encouraged fandom re-evaluation of the Prequel Trilogy.

[haltraveler, 2020 Tumblr post]
The cast of the Original Trilogy had cliched, boring character concepts that were executed wonderfully enough for it not to matter.

The cast of the Prequel Trilogy had interesting concepts that were executed poorly enough to make them seem utterly stupid.

The cast of the Sequel Trilogy had amazing, thought-provoking concepts that were executed in the town square and put up on pikes as a warning to others.
[eizneckam reblogged haltraveler]
This is actually probably the best summary of star wars I’ve ever seen [1]

Shipping

See also List of Star Wars Relationship Names

Fanworks


External Links

AO3

References

  1. ^ The Internet Archive link to post. Posted 19 January 2021. Archived 14 June 2021.