Mocata

JadedSkywalker said:

KK is not retiring

I knew it.

Looks nice, though I’m always against TIE Advance models appearing so soon in the timeline. The new release schedule is at least interesting, since they could have insisted the writers change the pacing. I really hope they stick the landing on this.

After all those click-bait style thumbnails over the years I’m still not convinced it’s true this time. They just changed fired to retired, and it’s already been reported as speculation. Who are Puck News?

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-exit-lucasfilm-1236319794/

She intends to retire after her current contract ends, according to a source with knowledge of her plans. A separate source close to Kennedy, however, dismissed the initial report by Puck as “pure speculation” and said nothing has been decided.

I have to admit it would be pretty funny if he saw someone’s random email and was like ‘oh okay, why not’.

Oh right, yeah they also did that for RoboCop some years ago.

When real production actually starts on one of these I’ll believe it.

Superweapon VII said:

Mocata said:

Apparently every species has the same blood, not just the human ones.

Ponda Baba’s blood looked more brown than red to me.

But somehow they all have perfect living conditions for the “M Count”…

JediUncut said:

This project is sadly cancelled.

I still don’t know what the project was, but this part was pretty funny.

Apparently every species has the same blood, not just the human ones.

act on instinct said:

Channel72 said:

It’s just so hard to take Star Wars seriously if Rise of Skywalker is actually a thing that happened. Where do you even go after “secret fleet of 10,000 Star Destroyer Death Stars” and “Palpatine magically returns and electrocutes the sky”?? I can’t take it seriously after that because we are now firmly in the Spaceballs Universe and only Mel Brooks should be allowed to direct from now on.

I have a suggestion but I am holding it for ransom from The Walt Disney Company.

The classic “it was all a dream” cold open?

It’s “better” than before but still looks bad and every time it’s used I think they should have not done it.

It felt more like he was throwing OOT fans his scraps, since it was such a low quality version and a “bonus feature” but I guess this is old news. Of course now time has passed and you have strange people that believe this laserdisc rip represents the quality of that theatrical cuts.

I like that 1995 artwork but the pan and scan stuff was always a bad idea. In fullscreen you couldn’t even see the sandpeople that Luke spots with his binoculars.

Yeah I seem to remember the GOUT version wasn’t a 1977 copy but just had the A New Hope title removed just so they could say ‘here you go idiots this is what you wanted right?’

Even David Fincher has made weird and pointless changes to the re-release of Seven. I guess this OCD stuff gets worse with age.

If you’re basing a movie on a comic series it might be wise to stay with it. Otherwise why bother? I guess he didn’t use much existing plot for Logan. But on the other hand this could be another Dial of Destiny.

You must be getting soft Anchorhead

Yeah but, y’know, jokes.

Andor S2 becomes the most expensive Star Wars project in terms of annual spending:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/andor-season-2-cost-over-291-million/

Thanksgiving is definitely a holiday that only the Emperor and his cronies celebrate.

You mean Life Day?

Because it’s dumb, and also because before 1999 it was obviously second and last name. Otherwise Ben’s former pupil could not be called Darth Vader. Pre-TPM other stories got the villain names right and they should have stuck with it.

JadedSkywalker said:

I liked how plucky and heroic to and idealistic Rose was, to almost a foolhardy degree. Everyone was screaming at me when I said I liked her character. And I very much disliked when JJ made her a nothing in episode 9. She was all but written out of the movie, in a seeming desire to erase The Last Jedi, and all the elements people complained about, were reversed/retconned. So Rise of Skywalker was a sequel to Force Awakens but not the last Jedi making a sort of duology and no trilogy, I feel like this was a huge mistake.

How do they move forward in the next movie, I have no idea where the story can go. But I’m sure that is why writers get paid to be creative.

Some writers seem to get paid for fail upwards.

Yeah exactly, what threat, they’ve shot themselves in the foot going forwards in time too far and wasting the viable ideas already.

Oh I didn’t even catch that part so who knows.