“To me, the really important aspects are the freedom to make something new,” he said. George Lucas’s storytelling pattern for Star Wars was meant to be “like poetry,” giving it structure and depth. Mangold apparently wants to defy this traditional method to work in “something original,” as he put it.

Not that it matters, SW has no lore. We've already replace the force (that is female) with the thread and anyone can become a Jedi now. Also no need for weapons because we can just use ftl crafts as space nukes.