But it wouldn’t be odd for Lucasfilm to bump it forward, since both The Force Awakens and Rogue One have done miles better in their December slots than any other Star Wars movie has.
Disney and Lucasfilm sure weren’t, though, as The Force Awakens raked in that holiday box office cash, topping every Star Wars movie before it in less than twelve parsecs.
Summer releases for Star Wars movies had become something of an unspoken tradition, so the holiday release had some feeling a little perturbed.
The shift from summer to Christmas for The Force Awakens came as a bit of a shock to Star Wars fans, who were so used to seeing the earlier installments of the first two trilogies hit theaters in the warmer months.