Variety look at yesterday’s Disney quarterly earnings call, which threw up some interesting nuggets of information relating to the new Disney streaming service that launches fourth quarter 2019. It appears that only post-Episode IX Star Wars films will be on the platform, along with the returning seventh season of The Clone Wars and Jon Favreau’s live action Star Wars series which rumours say may focus on the Mandalorians.
Iger suggested that Disney’s streaming service might be a lower cost option to Netflix. He noted that the company’s pricing will reflect its “lower volume” of content. There will also be some notable omissions. Some of Disney’s biggest franchises, such as “Star Wars” movies released before next year, will not be available. They have been licensed to other distributors.
“The marketing will make clear that it’s not going to be on there,” said Iger. “But ‘Star Wars’ movies that come out in 2019 and later, you’ll find them there.”
With recent reports looking at the rights to the first two trilogies being held by TNT and the Disney era films with other organisations, it seems that Disney will have to wait to bring every frame of moving Star Wars property to their new platform.