The Walt Disney Company is set to get in on the streaming market later this year with Disney+, a new service which will serve as the home for much of the Mouse House’s library, as well as original content including movies such as The Lady and the Tramp and The Sword in the Stone, and TV instalments of the Monsters, Inc., High School Musical, Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
In the wake of Solo: A Star Wars Story’s box office underperformance and the reports that Disney and Lucasfilm had decided to pull the plug on future Anthology movies, it was rumoured that the planned Obi-Wan Kenobi film could find itself making the jump to Disney+ as an original production. However, Disney chief Bob Iger has now shot down that possibility during an interview with Barrons.
“We’re looking to invest significantly in television series on a per-episode business, and we’re looking to make movies that are higher budget, but nothing like that,” said Iger. “We wouldn’t make a Star Wars movie for this platform. When everybody goes out on the weekend and you have a movie that opens up to $200 million, there’s a buzz that creates that enhances value. We like that. And eventually the movies we’re making are going to [end up on] the service.”
While Disney+ won’t be getting any original Star Wars content, fans of the galaxy far, far away do still have plenty to look forward to, beginning with the live-action series The Mandalorian, which will be followed by another show revolving around Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s Cassian Andor.
