Mocata

It’s new characters, it’s a new timeline.

What?

How long has it been since the initial reveal, 2 years? He was talking about it in January before A Complete Unknown released but I don’t see any news after that. Same rules apply; if they don’t enter real production we can assume nothing is happening beyond a kind of annoying marketing tease.

NFBisms said:

Do you really think within a genre certain themes and topics become verboten?

Maybe not themes explicitly but how they’re presented. Otherwise a lack of tonal consistency appears or you get something like Rebel Moon. People already started saying that the serious conclusion to Andor doesn’t fit with the adventure plot of SW77. Think about it another way; does it make sense for the material to jump from Jar-Jar ‘whoops I stepped in the poopie’ jokes, to man being burned alive screaming? There has to be some overall balance, maybe not the content directly, but in the execution.

Fruit672 said:

Ok, lets get one thing straight, George Lucas is the Creator of Star Wars and every other property he has created; He will always have a say and the final say. If he wants something to be X, it should be like X and honestly he’s been pretty kind considering how straight up evil the “fans” have been. The “Fans” at some point start to get this ridiculous idea that they know better than the creator and should have control over what happens with his creations.

You don’t think this is an odd thing to say, on here of all places?

I guess it’s about a time and a place. Is the discussion of the wealthy one-percent, animal cruelty, or war profiteering appropriate for SW? Probably not. Does it lead to anything useful in a story arc? Nope. Those animals will be captured later and the arms deals with continue as if nothing happened, nobody really learns or progresses as a result (though that’s potentially a TROS issue). That being said it’s one of those things that even in a well written script (aka Andor) it doesn’t gel with the space opera genre itself.

They should have tried harder to make the Vader costume look crappier.

Does woke mean anything these days? I use to think it was something do do with common sense being replaced by box ticking and messaging but it’s hard to say any more. Overall I still like TLJ but it’s odd if you break it down in any detail. Grifters complaining about Hollywood will say the Rose side-plot is forced but fail to say how beyond the basics of a lame non-romance. Would they be complaining less if Finn and Poe Dameron did this mission or is that too gay for them (or Disney)? Does it make sense Finn gets talked down to about how evil the First Order is when he’s witness to a massacre?

Elsewhere things like Luke being in hiding to avoid the circular nature of the conflict makes some sense. Some people say he shouldn’t be shown as an old grouch. But can the same old heroics go on forever, can these characters be simplistic and static? Which to me is the problem with Rogue One… it’s just so bland and has more fan service and CG action than personality. The sequels might not have much to say but RO is just ‘here’s Darth Vader, please clap’, and then people do.

Oh I meant like a fan passion project not an EA product, which current LFL might have some vague chance of replicating.

Broom Kid said:

Make it anime

Rip off Macross

Done.

That TIE Fighter short from some years ago did it successfully. Less than 8 minutes long… it’s impossible to imagine them achieving this vibe in 8 episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GRYa_3gno

Why? They don’t have a good track record on TV with characters that should be impossible to get wrong. Something like this would need much better writers than they have, and I’d have hoped for a movie budget.

Yeah… from a “Twitter scooper” that I’ve never heard of, and that seems to have the original post behind a paywall.

Why are they still talking about it as if there’s “one rare print” lying there like the ark of the covenant and Gareth Edwards caught a glimpse before it vanished into a bottomless pit, gimme a break. Like he saw “it” rather than he saw one of many prints that are around and always have been. They didn’t even reference BFI release never mind the new leaks. Utter tabloid crap.

That’s a lot of new bits but it’s still pretty odd, I feel like it still could vanish like that Mike Verta project.

Vladius said:

Initial thoughts:
Since they would be “hunting” for Ben Solo he wouldn’t actually be in it as much as the other characters, so it might have looked like the Rey movie they’ve already worked on and cancelled (twice?)
People liked him as a villain, and people generally didn’t like the last minute romance, so it’s hard to say that the popularity of the character would be there.

I missed this supposed title somehow. Would it be like The Search for Spock LOL

Latest George soundbite on SW:

I’ve moved past it. I mean, I’ve got a life.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/george-lucas-has-moved-past-star-wars/

Which I hope is true. Maybe that’s why the leaks of new material have come along recently? Then again it could mean absolutely nothing.

Just last year of course we were hearing this stuff:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/New-Lucas-interview-2-Insists-Unaltered-Versions-Of-The-OT-Will-Never-Be-Released/id/118589

I think a film belongs to its creator. When Michelangelo made the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he looked at it and said: I’m going to redo this part.

But I suppose both things could be true, he could be done with it all and still have power to veto a restored OOT release.

Now they’re saying David Fincher did the same thing, tried to pitch a movie post-TROS and got refused.
https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3m3twora7r22n

It worked for Palpy, Boba Fett, and Darth Maul.

Dagenspear said:

Is this a joke? Kylo? The guy who I think has no developed solidly origins, goals or motives, is written as a real character?

Compared to Rey and Finn? Lol.

I feel the shroud of the Dark Side around this whole thing.

If they can’t figure out what to do in six years then maybe it should just stop. Or at least have producing duties taken off them. Kylo being the one who lived and wandered into the desert was the obvious choice since he was actually written as a real character.

I came across this artwork and remembered “Star Wars: Eclipse” was a thing. The Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain) production. Then I wondered if it’s ever going to come out.

https://x.com/qdream_ru/status/1916749239201272081

They claim it’s still in development, but say they are also making a multiplayer game. Which lately has signalled the death of dev teams since the market for such things is basically full.

https://www.eurogamer.net/star-wars-eclipse-is-still-in-development-quantic-dreams-assures-alongside-new-competitive-multiplayer-game

Audio tracks should just be an option for the viewer, anything else is probably harder to avoid.

I said they art they used was lame, not his work.

Anyway, RIP to a legend.

Well if you’re worried about leaving breadcrumbs now is the time to clean them up before it’s too late… before someone claims everyone got fired and the project isn’t going to see the light of day. If you’re actually legit use some common sense.

It would be very funny if Vader gave up after less than a day searching, and the bounty hunters were all just available together that same afternoon.

Yeah, same for me.