Interesting reading, and some good cross overs with the ‘Revisionist Time Traveler’ thread in a few places.
henzINNIT said:
Never heard of this source before
https://www.darkhorizons.com/new-jedi-order-not-delayed-indefinitely/
So wait for the finale to stream is what they’re saying right.
A prequel trilogy where Anakin is going on Luke’s journey would work. Then his fall could be offscreen, keeping the twists intact.
Deepfake Luke is a horrible proposal because it will probably look like Indy 5, but it’s also inevitable I suppose. I wonder if it will actually go forward and be a movie though? It could end up like Boba Fett, Obi-wan or whatever is going on with Lando (if anything). It’s more likely to be a feature film than anything with Rey though, which could vanish like previously rumored projects.
It will also be interesting to see if anyone in the general audience is enthusiastic. After all, these properties are like Pixar movies now; streaming at home experiences first and foremost. Didn’t Bob Iger say something about not watering down the brands… but there are still all these titles in pre-production at the same time.
That is… weird. I will just wait and see if it actually makes it do production, like all this other stuff.
As the big climax to a great show? Sure. As one more story after season 3… eh.
I always felt like he chose clones vs robots so that a giant war full of casualties would be family friendly. Actual clone conspiracies or anything too sinister wouldn’t get the merch sales.
Hopefully it is great, yes I agree. I suppose the larger problem is that they’re not talking about the movie itself… because it probably won’t be anything new. There will be a rise and a fall, new disciples, new powers, some evil galaxy scale threat, whatever. Will another three films actually have any material worth seeing? The last three didn’t for the most part. When will Star Wars have relevance again? This generation have had the MCU instead. I mentioned GOTGV3 before not only as a financial success but as a sci-fi trilogy I felt was actually worth seeing all the way through. Problem is now the wheels have fallen off all the Disney owned franchises so where else is there to go…
Well it’s one thing to find inspiration in real life, but it’s another to bring that into a blockbuster franchise. Maybe she should have talked about how things she’s seen in the real world will help bring back depth and humanity to a series mired in lacklustre characterisation and shallow themes? Will the realism of documentaries be combined with the fantasy of Star Wars? I have no idea because that didn’t get addressed, as did any reason for her being hired.
Talking about herself so much just makes it seem as though the project at hand is a secondary concern. It looks as though all the films being produced have enough PR already if there are that many being made, I don’t understand the relevance. You’re selling out and signing your soul away to a mega-corp after all, like so many independent film-makers have done before (whether their movies actually made or not). It’s not some grand philanthropic endeavour.
Disney has a few options, regardless of your opinion on the political soapbox stuff that seems to come around any time somebody employed by them starts talking. One the one hand they should probably just be quiet.
Time works wonders for things like this, and in a few years there will probably be people clamouring to return to the saga. Some parts of the audience will develop total apathy, others will start getting nostalgic. So regardless of whether any of this is a good idea simply getting on with a project quietly should be their first priority. Announcing stuff, making a big fuss, then firing people and shifting it all around makes them look weak and foolish.
On the other hand they need to take action to improve their brand. The TV shows outside Andor have been a total mess in terms of tone and quality. A course correction based on The Rise of Skywalker is probably a bad idea. But if they’re going to do it, they should get on with it. Who is directing something, who is writing it, who cares. It’s STAR WARS. They need to get back into their heads what that actually means and deliver some decent output.
Behind the scenes they’re probably panicking because their only hit recently was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, the final note for a series that is essentially done despite all the filler post Avengers: Endgame. If their goal is to make money then they’re running out of people who are willing to spend any. Why they’re wasting time with all this talk is baffling. But then again so is most of their decision making in the past five years.
That would be pretty good actually.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1742306227143520688
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is directing Daisy Ridley’s new #StarWars movie about Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order. She’s the first woman to direct a “Star Wars” movie and says “it’s about time.”
“I’m very thrilled about the project because I feel what we’re about to create is something very special. We’re in 2024 now, and it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape a story in a galaxy far, far away.”
There’s not much to go on beyond basic hero’s journey stuff, unless you consider TLJ to be part of the rise/fall/rise cycle of the Excalibur/Lightsaber story. But since Ben Solo isn’t Luke’s child it doesn’t really fit in the usual sense. There are other vague parallels but the prequels decided to go with politics instead of magic and myth. A lot lot missed opportunities all round.
There is another…
This is good stuff.
Ah no? From the developers of the Star Fox chip… what the hell.
Tickets get sold for bootleg edits of SW movies all the time as far as I’m aware. A mega-corpo like Disney isn’t gonna waste their time trying to stop it.
If Ahsoka was on the same level as The Bad Batch it might have been good news, but alas.
I’m not sure which line change is worse, that one or the Luke “you don’t taste so good” being cut. Technically not a SE change but I still kinda hate it.
RIP legendary movie poster artist Roger Kastel - ESB, Jaws, Superman et al.
https://twitter.com/sw_holocron/status/1724784121832947811
Asaki said:
DOUBLE LIFE DAY
To be fair everyone’s decisions were inexplicably dumb.
That’s really interesting, as I remember the “A New Hope” name being a thing, but looking at the 1995 artwork for the Obi-wan/THX edition it’s only on the spine as a smaller subtitle. I guess it’s become habit, like how EPISODE ONE was everywhere instead of the movie name back in the day.
