Not the Streaming Deal ‘Star Wars’ Fans Are Looking For

Walt Disney’s streaming service could have a troublesome absence when it launches late next year

From AT&T and Time Warner to the hot pursuit of 21st Century Fox and Sky, media mergers are in full swing. Why now? WSJ's Amol Sharma answers all your questions about the forces driving media deals.

This deal is getting worse all the time.

Walt Disney Co. has bet its future on a streaming service that will allow it to deliver its incomparable content library right to customers. But the Netflix competitor may be missing a big piece of that library when it launches in late 2019.

The rights to all “Star Wars” films released so far are already...