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I read he had ten months to make Rise of Skywalker. Its my opinion that its a very good film to be made in such a short amount of time.
Idk…I think Jurassic Park III is a great film, and they were literally writing the script during filming. Not that’s ever a good idea, but my point is can be done well.
Ten months sounds about right, though, as Abrams was revealed as director in September 2017, and principal photography began in August 2018. Apparently Lucas was brought onboard for story meetings around that time. I can only imagine his reaction went something like this:
It’s Disney’s fault for having such a tight deadline. When Carrie passed, they should have pushed it back a year. No one external forced the release date.
100%. Regardless whose vision the final film was, it sucked because they weren’t given the time to make something better.
None of the bad decisions he made were time-based though. He would have had an extra 6-10 months to try finessing his mountain of bad ideas, but they still would have been fundamentally bad. If anything, looking at how that movie was made, it just would have been packed full of even more - and newer - bad ideas than what we got on his deadline.
Fair enough. I suppose no matter how much time you gave him, Abrams would’ve still made an Abrams film. Which is why they should’ve picked someone other than Abrams. When has Abrams ever stuck a landing on anything? Really, though, the issue isn’t his directing, it’s his writing. So long as you keep him out of the writers’ room, there shouldn’t be any problem. Kinda makes you wonder what the Prequels would’ve been like with the same script but Abrams as director.
Point is, the most fundamental issue was the script, as with just about any bad film, and the way to solve that is to rewrite or get somehow else who can. Personally, I’d have gotten a rewrite of Duel of the Fates, but that’s just me. Oh wait, no, actually, that’s probably a lot of people’s take.