It seems Star Warshas learned a critical lesson that Superman (2025) director and DC co-CEO James Gunn understands well, and that's why Star Wars' upcoming movies are actually going to work. It's true that Star Wars movies and TV shows have struggled over the years,

During post-production on Superman, writer-director James Gunn ran into a problem. “We found that people loved the movie but that they were confused about the world they were entering,” Gunn told io9 recently. And so, to fix that problem, late in the filmmaking process, he looked to another one of his favorite films for the fix.

When James Gunn was deep in post-production on Superman , everything was falling into place… except for one nagging issue… audiences were loving what they saw, but they weren’t fully grasping the world they were stepping into.