The 41-year-old franchise, with 17 feature films either released or currently planned, has seen white men form 96% of its leading creative voices – specifically as writers, directors, or otherwise taking creative lead on a film.
The only exception was Leigh Brackett, a white woman who had a screenplay credit on The Empire Strikes Back.
Calculated by Variety, 23 of 24 key creators were white men.
As Carey Mulligan pointed out to Variety: “If [Mudbound director and screenwriter] Dee Rees was a white man she’d be directing the next Star Wars.”