That’s honestly what they should have done from the start. They’d already erased all the EU, so they could have gone 500 years in the “future”, and made something entirely original.
But, like you’ve noted…these are the same people who greenlit a film with the exact storyline of ANH.
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That’s honestly what they should have done from the start. They’d already erased all the EU, so they could have gone 500 years in the “future”, and made something entirely original.
But, like you’ve noted…these are the same people who greenlit a film with the exact storyline of ANH.