Officially Official: Disney Confirms Star Wars Spin-Offs

If there is anyone who can milk a cash-cow dry, it's Disney.

So when CEO Bob Iger made his intentions clear upon purchasing Lucasfilm last fall, we knew they meant business. They're going in the Star Wars business with a simple strategy. Make Star Wars movies. Lots of Star Wars movies. A new trilogy (The "Skywalker Saga") and a batch of separate standalone installments.

He reiterated those plans this afternoon to CNBC. Everyone is running across the hills pretending this is breaking news. Truthfully it isn't. This is old news. Save for one intriguing revelation. Their spin-off projects (under the collaborative eyes of Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg) are aiming for release concurrent with the new trilogy starting with the J.J. Abrams-directed Episode VII.

For the next six years (Assuming VII makes 2015, which Iger stated is still the plan), Disney wants a Star Wars film a year. They don't seem concerned with overexposing the brand-name. I get it. They're replicating the Marvel strategy. But that's apples and oranges. Those are individual films building up to one big event tentpole. Star Wars, the name it carries with it, is an event all to itself. 

The Adventures of Yoda and Zack Snyder's Seven Jedi may sound great on paper. But so did Star Wars: The Clones Wars. You can have your countless cartoons and live-action series (Don't doubt for a second that won't happen), Disney. Just stick with the trilogy for now.