This year, after a nearly seven year hiatus, Star Wars returns to the big screen . Its the third largest window ever between live action films in the franchise, with the two longer ones being the 16 years between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace and the 10 years between Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens. To put the current seven year wait in context, we must look to the past. The reason those two longer windows were so long is that, in both cases, Star Wars was basically over....
