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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Making a great movie every year is a huge endeavor. Peter Jackson and his production team took 15 months to write the scripts for the Lord of the Rings trilogy and he was using existing source material. The whole production of all three films took something like 7-8 years in total and they never had to deal with huge story problems since the outlines and story arc were already done for them; they just had to cast the films once, didn't have to find directors for each iteration, etc.
Obviously Disney/LucasFilm have huge amounts of resources but at some point the task becomes enormous. Also doing great things often times means taking risks, which they don't seem willing to do. If the audience (or more likely their shareholders) would tolerate some duds, I do think you'd have a better chance of getting something truly great and different. Don't think that's where they are headed. There's also some market pressures, that as Star Wars and the movie industry becomes a global phenomenon and you're selling movies everywhere from Cedar Rapids Iowa to Shenzhen China to maximize revenues, you have to sell a movie into all markets. That inevitably means 'dumbing down' to some extent the story, the dialogue, the characters, and upping the action -- stuff that can sell everywhere. It's why we see a big divergence now between commercially successful movies and critically acclaimed ones. Obviously things like some MCU movies and Wonder Woman are notable exceptions but even then artistic decisions are getting made that allow for the film to play in all 4 quadrants on 6 continents or whatever.
So think we are headed for consistent least-common-denominator movies into the future.
tl;dr if they plan to do one ever year, the quality will inevitably suffer or the storytelling bland/repetitive/formulaic, something you can repeat and iterate quickly
Yeah, they almost certainly view it as another MCU money printing machine.