If I may briefly put my artsy hat on again today, I discovered earlier that another Star Wars film has been commissioned. Now, I have nothing against franchises – in fact my favourite movies are franchise films. I ADORE Lord of he Rings, Star Trek and, of course, James bond, and you don’t get much bigger than the 22 film, fifty year 007 saga. Yet star wars is different: I just get the feeling that they are churning out new ones for the sake of it, or just to make money; it has nothing to do with art or story telling. The six films of he LOTR franchise will tell the tale of the finding of the one ring and it’s destruction; the bond francise is concerned with the exploration of bond’s character. It ask who is this lonely government assasin, examining his personality in many ways. You could have argued that the six existing star wars films can together be perceived as the tragedy of Anikin Skywalker. That has already been accomplished: we have seen his birth, rise and fall. I therefore wonder why the franchise needs adding to now the story has been told. It is like an artist going back to a painting and adding to it again and again, unti the canvas becomes a brown mess. It just seems a base money-making ploy to me, with very little artistic integrity.