Then last week came the surprise news that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will produce separate Star Wars movies that are also unconnected to the Skywalker saga.
That pattern might start to change once these new Star Wars series start coming out, the first of which was announced last November, a month before The Last Jedi hit theaters.
At the moment, the Star Wars movie series follows a simple pattern.
Release one of the “main” movies one year, release a standalone “story” the year after, rinse and repeat.