For those who were a little uneasy after EA picked up the rights to the Star Wars video game property, perhaps a deep breath is in order.
In an interview with Forbes last week, Andrew Wilson -- EA's CEO since last September -- shed a little light on what EA plans to do with the rights to one of pop culture's most storied franchises.
"What Warner Bros. did with Batman was take the core roots of that IP and manifest that inside the walls of Gotham City and delivered an interactive experience that had real ties to what you would see in the films and what you had read in the comics, while having its own life because it could provide such deep and more immersive storylines," Wilson told Forbes. "When we look at the Star Wars properties that's how we're looking at it. We're not trying to build a game that replicates the storyline of any particular film."
If EA had to pick on franchise to model itself after, the Batman series is probably about as good as it gets. After a number of swing-and-misses on games based around the caped crusader during the PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation, developer Rocksteady took the reigns and has released three fantastic Batman games, with Batman: Arkham Knight on tap to complete the trilogy on Xbox One and PS4 this fall.
The biggest question now would seem to be, who could be Star Wars' Rocksteady? For fans of one of the best Star Wars games to ever be released, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, gamers can only hope that an old friend might be on tap. There is also, of course, the Star Wars: Battlefront reboot on the way from Battlefield's developer, DICE.
Which studio would you like to see head up the Star Wars renaissance with EA?
