The speech also offered some interesting insight into Disney’s position on this year’s Rogue One; Iger revealed the studio aren’t expecting the film to do numbers as big as last year’s The Force Awakens and that, essentially, the film is “an experiment, of sorts”.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits UK cinemas 16 December.
Indeed, as the first of the planned Star Wars anthology movies – which aren’t directly continuing the main Skywalker narrative – it’s inevitably somewhat of a risk for the studio.