I’m almost at the point where I will have no use for the community at all. I hope that guy gets paid by the word.
I’m not even sure that guy is part of the community. He seems to be writing about film in general, but I share his view, that Star Wars has become a franchise, that doesn’t go forward, because it’s obsessed with looking in the rearview mirror.
Funny, I thought TLJ moved to new territory and broke the pattern. And Solo should be fun, not epicly serious.
I seriously wonder if we will ever get a Star Wars film, that isn’t in some way a remix of Lucas’ greatest hits. What’s wrong with just telling a story about a new smuggler type character (or any other new character for that matter) set in the Star Wars universe, where we don’t know where all the characters end up? How about getting people to view your film simply on the merit of telling a good original story with good original characters, rather than relying on the classic characters, story tropes, nostalgia, and fan service to draw people in for another deja vu experience.
Well, this is the just 2nd Standalone film so far - and it seems Lucasfilm/Disney will be making more, so I’m not questioning why they haven’t made a ‘wholly new’ Star Wars film yet. I didn’t know most of the R1 characters, and I didn’t know most of the Solo characters either - and was quite happy to let the story tell me about them.
There are two new Star Wars trilogies in the pipeline - which may be set past the events of the Sequel Trilogy, or may fill in in the gaps between the OT and ST, again maybe with new characters - who knows - as yet?
I’m patient enough to wait until we have a couple more releases before all new characters and stories after 2 films (and understand why the 2 standalone films covered familiar ground before hopefully branching out into fresh ground - though I also wouldn’t mind a Kenobi film or a Jedi Purge film before newer stories are released - or that of the long past (perhaps KOTOR timeline-ish).
Though again, this topic is probably best suited to a more relevant thread outside of this, the ‘Solo - review and opinion’ thread.