Today Anaheim, tomorrow the galaxy.
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Jenny Nicholson’s impact. Disneyland is rejecting modernity and embracing tradition, at least as far as Star Wars is concerned. According to the Los Angeles Times, characters from the original trilogy will start wandering Galaxy’s Edge, and John Williams’ score will replace the ambient spaceport noises piped throughout the land. So it’s ’til the spires to immersive worldbuilding, bright suns to getting selfies with your favorite guys from childhood.
Previously, the company was very invested in setting Galaxy’s Edge in a particular time and place — Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu, between Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi and Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. Now, to borrow a phrase from a different sci-fi franchise, Imagineering is getting timey-wimey with the chronology. Han will be posted up by the Milennium Falcon and/or Oga’s Cantina, Luke will be stomping his Chanel boots in the marketplace, and Darth Vader will be force-choking dads in Grumpy tees.
This news comes at a dicey time for Star Wars as a whole. Andor was a critical darling, but other shows and movies from franchise haven’t exactly been setting the galaxy ablaze. There are upcoming Star Wars stories (The Mandalorian and Grogu comes out this May, and Shawn Levy’s Starfighter next year) but the Skywalker-Rens may be dunzo. In October 2025, Adam Driver told AP that Disney had nixed a standalone Kylo Ren movie with Steven Soderbergh. “We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it,” Driver says. “We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.” Well Darth Vader is dead at the time of Galaxy’s Edge, so do we care about the laws of time and space or not at this company? “Not” seems like it could be more fun.
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