Unless they are dumb they have to (a) make it 10x lower price and (b) actually make it look like a SW location…
Thanks Harmy!
This seems like a nothing rumour but here it is anyway, no idea what kinda rep this site has tbh
https://twitter.com/GFRobot/status/1661051351584108545
Mark Hamill and Hayden Christensen will return as Luke and Anakin in the upcoming new Star Wars movie.
I think it goes back to the real problem that the 90s CGI effects weren’t there to improve things. Old elements that could have been improved or cleaned up were left because they didn’t intend to. It was just a way to do some proof of concept ideas (and money raising) for The Phantom Menace. Plus the marketing angle of course after the brand had become more associated with games and novels. 25 years of this crap just for a better box office in 1999.
I never understood all the praise Arrival got.
His style was a perfect fit for Blade Runner 2049, though.
This but reversed.
I want a complete version of the 6 SW movies without music. It would be interesting to watch, because in the real world there’s no music in the background.
Wait a minute…
who is Han Solo’s father if he has no surname
Rushed isn’t the word I would choose considering how it drags in the middle. They should have just done something better there; both in terms of Yoda and Endor scenes.
JF was exaggerating when he said he’d finished writing seasons 4 and 5?
You’re thinking about it harder than they did. The TFA voice over Easter Egg and that whole vision scene had no purpose so it’s kind of irrelevant.
It was more interesting to consider that Anakin and Luke were both faced with life on the boring dirt farm, but took different paths. Or that Uncle Owen’s poor fortunes were a result of the war. Or something interesting that isn’t The Phantom Menace.
Oh jeez you know I forgot that change was even a thing. What is wrong with George?
Unless there’s a game or an animated series the whole High Republic thing is a non-starter for me. I guess there’s something coming down the line but it should have been first before books and comics… not 3 years later.
Has it ever been explained why they don’t need droid control ships any more? In the old EU this was the whole reason nobody used droid armies - they relied on transmissions from a control point that could be easily jammed. But now in the other prequels and all the media that followed it’s never mentioned.
Please use a trigger warning before you post these kind of graphic images thank you.
Weird… the sky used to be really blue as well, so I think it’s just a contrast thing rather than any extra CGI detail.
Is that the same 1997 dewback or am I imagining things?
In Disney ad-speak it probably translates to a big cross-over story, with characters like Ezra and Asokha from across different shows joining up.
Luke would probably never have thought about leaving if a single port was so busy. There’s probably a thriving metropolis nearby if all that traffic came and went. Even the little CGI creatures ruin the idea that it’s a barren wasteland.
Have you ever seen Election and Election 2? Johnnie To not Reese Witherspoon that is. It has a very nuance power struggle with characters that are neither good nor evil, but are pushed towards power by personal circumstances and often just bad luck. Even if they don’t want it, each decision has a repercussion. Now that’s how you do a modern take on The Godfather arc. But since Anakin is barely a character in The Phantom Menace you’ve lost so much time. Really that plot could have been part of the AOTC crawl, then there should have been a movie before TROS like the Clone Wars show era. Ah well.
Since they decided she is ‘all the Jedi’ then logically she needs to become one with the Force or something.
I agree that the original version feels like a western setting. In fact the different area of Tatooine in the movie feel like a real place with not much of a spectacle, it’s my fave location. When you see the town after Luke sells the speeder it feels like there’s a maze of eerie streets and alleys just out of view, not a bunch of flashy big buildings. The new one is like generic sci-fi stuff with extra towers and domes everywhere. Like any boring city they visit in the animated shows, they usually look like that. Plus the 90s CGI textures look like crap. Like something out of any generic blockbuster of that time.
I’ve also heard they are continuing to shoot without anyone related to writing on the set. I would imagine that with or without him the production schedule has deadlines to meet.
Another problem with the Plinkett reviews is that they made people forget about the suppression of the original versions and think that the prequels were fans’ only grevience with Lucas, so Disney felt a lot of pressure to make sequels that didn’t resemble the prequels and no pressure to release the original versions of the movies. I wish Plinkett reviwed the Special Editions in additon to the prequels.
I don’t think we can be sure that the popularity of these reviews led to the ‘play it safe’ nature of the TFA. Mr Plinkett did state in his Star Trek 2009 review that J.J. should direct them though. Disney probably just read the general mood of the fandom at that stage. To test this theory he needs to do a 70-minute video about the state of the Special Edition changes, and we know he’s not a fan because of that interview with Alexandre Philippe.
But the whole reason they resonated so much with people is that they articulated very large problems with the films rather than nitpicks. Just look at the whole Jango Fett subcontracting meme someone posted recently. Or the way the Clone Wars is started under such incredibly weird and suspicious circumstances. The whole trilogy is like that; strange and massive logic holes. But each to their own, nobody has time to argue like it’s 2009 these days y’know.