Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a $2.07 million success story, but it set the franchise up for a massive fail. When Disney bought Star Wars back in 2012, the House of Mouse had a simple plan; to get the franchise back on the big screen again, with alternating anthology and sequel trilogy movies. It was an ambitious plan, not least because Lucasfilm had no development pipeline and George Lucas’ sequel trilogy scripts risked being as controversial as the prequels themselves.
