I feel like everything’s riding on the Mandalorian movie, a lot of things could just be scrapped if it doesn’t pan out commercially. I mean they could be scrapped before then too… as is the case with so many other things they announced.
Recent George soundbite where he says why Yoda talks that way.
"He was basically the philosopher of the movie, so he was talking about all the things. I had to figure out a way to get people to actually listen, especially 12 year olds.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/yoda-speak-george-lucas-explains-1235326334/
However, just a few years earlier Frank Oz said it was his own idea based on one line in the script:
“It’s funny you ask about that because I was just looking at the original script of The Empire Strikes Back the other day and there was a bit of that odd syntax in it, but also it had Yoda speaking very colloquially. So I said to George ‘Can I do the whole thing like this?’ And he said: ‘Sure!’ It just felt so right.”
Basically zero hope (ironically) of anything new happening unless the BFI, who have a copy and also distribute plenty of classics on Blu-ray, somehow get to cut a deal.
The rumour mill suggests that Bix will be the next item on Disney’s content list to be uh… milked.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/disney-has-plans-for-bix-from-andor/
Well the Special Editions exist as a way of testing vfx and raising money for the prequels, so perhaps they would never exist. Or maybe they would as a way of getting funds for a sequel trilogy starting in 1999…
I haven’t played it but I think the gist of it was that it’s yet another Ubisoft title full of basic A-to-B quests and glitches that needed patching out over time. I thought Jedi Survivor was pretty good apart from the storyline towards the end.
Oh that’s been done ages ago:
Oh sure, if not unfinished then perhaps “just for a sizzle reel”. Like they got Henry in quick, already had the set all built anyway, and captured the footage right there just for that purpose, never intended to be part of the movie.
Of course if you want to over-think it there was once a version of the movie without CGI Tarkin at all, where ILM decided not to go there, and he’s only ever seen from behind like that. But they decided to go down the stupid path.
Trailers are often put out without finished effects, and Rogue One is notorious for missing scenes and sequences only ever seen in promo materials. If there’s a “why” it’s probably just internal production troubles and budget. Some said get a trailer out by certain date, someone else say “good enough” to the unfinished shot.
There are a bunch of threads here already, plus one of our members made this site you can check all the many things that were chopped and changed:
I watched Rogue One too. Still tepid as ever. Still strangely edited with odd tonal shifts and bland characters. The idea that one piece of media improves another just isn’t the case in my experience. I think it’s a Gareth Edwards problem, since despite the input of other writers and studio interference it feels a lot like his Godzilla and The Creator. Nice to look at but damn they are lacking charisma. Jyn’s response to seeing the hologram is where I knew there was a problem; this and the other “emotive beats” are just them going through the motions rather than having real feeling. Oh well, I gave it an honest chance.
As always they need to be able to sift out all the tiny bits of gold from the last 10 years, understand why it works, understand why a lot of it doesn’t, then move forward. Anything can be good as proven by Andor; a project I had no faith it. Anything can be bad as proven by top branding icons like Obi-wan and Boba Fett. Can they achieve this? Probably not.
Yeah the Saw fuel heist thing went nowhere, beyond filling in his change in personality from prequel era to Rogue One. I thought the stolen gas would appear later somewhere.
Bix ending was fine though she could have been used more earlier, however the PTSD and drug use was obviously no go, removing herself from the equation makes some sense. Not sure about being on that same farm planet was a good idea though.
Lonni and the other guy plot was just there to lead into Bix being taken on the revenge mission; he used the guy to get info for Luthen. Somehow he never got caught afterwards and the ISB didn’t think it was suspicious.
slow clap
Now, where’s the Jyn and Saw prequel series?
Yeah the cancelled re-release of their earlier games I remember, never heard of this one. Which is odd when these kinds of SW starfighter games were being made by other studios at the time, so there was a market.
A prototype of an unreleased game called Star Wars: Dark Squadron has been found.
Dated June 30th 2004, it was being developed by Factor 5 for Xbox.
LOL whatever you say.
Hm I hope so, but at this stage I’m still not a Rogue One fan. Mostly because it centers around Jyn who’s still a nothing character.
I don’t understand; how is it “missing” if they rewrote the episodes after they realized that episode had to be cut?
But it would have made far more sense if the droid followed them onto a ship because it was relentless, rather than the re-write where it was just randomly picked off the ground during a massacre.
This perfectly explains my nitpick; missing sequences.
Gilroy On Scrapped “Andor” Horror Episode
https://www.darkhorizons.com/gilroy-on-scrapped-andor-horror-episode/
The Disney metal reflections thing looks like a bootleg even before the actual words STAR WARS appear in that stupid knock-off t-shirt style font.
I feel like any text at the start of the story should the same blue on black. The way Solo did it. This way even without the big numbered movie style crawl there would be some consistency. Like, why did Ashoka use red text for no reason and some others just never bothered.
The different remixes of main theme were all quite good.
Wait what. No actually I do not remember this hah wow.
Well I get that line of thinking but the circumstances were super high stress and threat of death was high, so like I said that will be my nitpick.
Not sold on the “oh wait we gotta bring this horrific thing along with us so it’s in RO” part, but that’s just me, could have been more natural. There’s my nitpick.
At the start of Season One, we’re told that Cassian’s modus operandi is stealing Imperial Tech - the plot ramps up because he has stolen an ‘Imperial Starpath Unit’.
This episode he’s just about to get on his ship out of Ghorman and there’s a KX Droid just waiting to be stolen, he needs a hand lifting it but an opportunist like Andor has got to take it!
I dunno he hasn’t done much like that on screen and a lot of years passed. A line about what use the nightmare murderbot serves would have been nice.
Disagree.
I hope she’s irredeemable and gets worse because she doesn’t want to feel those kinds of emotions.
Oh yeah there are plenty of timeless classics and all time faves that have wide appeal. But when it comes to say The Wizard of Oz it’s the opposite for me. Like I didn’t care for it before, but today I’d say that’s a great movie. I’d like to say this was the case for the prequels, but nope.