likely not being able to utilize anything from Trevorrow’s drafts because they would run into Writer’s Guild problems with crediting the story
Except they’re credited anyways (story by). The Writer’s Guild probably doesn’t care how many writers a film has, it just cares about them being credited. And I don’t see why Abrams and Terrio would care about sharing the credit.
But all things considered (production time, Trevorrow leaving, and Carrie Fisher’s untimely demise) it really could’ve been A LOT worse.
Yes, those factors made this film an absolute nightmare to produce, but that doesn’t mean they coped well. We got exactly what you usually get from such horrendously short deadlines. This might not be absolute rock bottom, but it’s close enough not to matter. If Iger had quit being so stubborn about the deadline maybe they could’ve cobbled together something more than half decent.
I just noticed that one of the mods changed the title to say “Abrams’ Vision” rather than “Abrams’ Lunacy”. Props to them for that, it sounds a lot more neutral and less confrontational.
Actually, that was my call as OP. I felt it was needlessly harsh and disrespectful.
He’s made bad movies before, and he made a bad movie again, this time to end the sequel trilogy.
Except having seen four out of five of his films I feel confident in saying he’s never directed anything that was more than okay. TFA is his best work, but it still suffers from being too derivative, a trademark of his entire catalog. Have you seen Super 8? It’s like a really forgettable Stranger Things before Stranger Things.
That and he’s infamous for never finding a landing he couldn’t not stick.
All I’m saying is bringing him back, especially with all the legal shenanigans it took, was a bad call on Lucasfilm’s part.