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Star Wars boss says they “don’t overreact” to fan criticism

Disney CEO Bob Iger has shared his trustworthy opinion about fan criticism surrounding Star Wars.

Following a lower than enthusiastic response from some viewers to each The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story, there are already fierce fan debates about The Rise of Skywalker – and it is solely been out just a few hours, if that!

So after enduring one thing of a backlash in current occasions, how does this have an effect on the studio’s future plans, or does it select to disregard all of it?

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Addressing this negativity, Iger lately instructed Variety: “We do not overreact, we respect followers of Star Wars, that is actually necessary to us, to Lucasfilm, to the franchise.

“But we do the very best job we are able to, we expect we had a really onerous job in bringing this ahead, The Force Awakens, satisfying the normal followers and concerning themes and characters and locations they have been acquainted with, however introducing the brand new locations, new tales, new characters.”

He continued: “I feel over the three that we have produced, these three, we have completed a extremely good job of threading that needle, strolling that nice line.

“We know we’re by no means going to please everyone on a regular basis, and we see that with Disney movies, with Marvel movies. So I do not imply to recommend that I’m dismissive of it as a result of we respect our followers, however we do not overreact both.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out now within the UK and on Friday, December 20 within the US.