Why Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Designed An Entirely New Planet

Over this past weekend at Star Wars Celebration, several of the people who have helped bring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge to life, spoke about the process, and while they apparently did consider recreating known locations in the Star Wars universe, in the end, the team realized that the new land needed to be new place in order to be the home to new stories, not the ones we’d seen before. As Chris Beatty, the Executive Creative Director of Walt Disney Imagineering explained, it had to be a new place because it had to be a different story…

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