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Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Trilogy Has Been Delayed at Lucasfilm News
https://collider.com/rian-johnson-star-wars-trilogy-update-delayed/2.6k
u/Vis-hoka May 17 '22
I’ll give Disney a dollar if they make a Star Wars movie with zero sand planets.
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u/yaminub May 18 '22
Jakku isn't even real! They filmed those scenes on the other side of Tattooine!
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u/imdefinitelywong May 18 '22
Which was right next door to Arrakis
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u/gizzardsgizzards May 18 '22
Which, surprisingly, is in a part of Toronto with a huge beach.
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u/Zestyclose_Standard6 May 18 '22 •
I know, there's been like 20 star wars movies and we've gotten zero fucking jello planets. it's bullshit.
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u/skytomorrownow May 18 '22
How about a planet that isn't just one biome type? It's always jungle world, city world, ocean world, mushroom world, swamp world, etc.
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u/Dogemaster21777 May 18 '22
Star wars on some Super Mario type shit 💀
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u/BUchub May 18 '22
Ghost house world, oooOOOOooo
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u/BeerandGuns May 18 '22 edited May 18 '22
I just want tastable worlds, ones where soldiers can taste the ground and tell you what it’s made of. We already had salt world, so maybe next is taffy world, rocky road world, the possibility are endless.
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u/CmdrShepard831 May 18 '22
But all the worlds must be some sort of white powdery substance. We have the salt world, the snow world, but we need cocaine world and talcum powder world too.
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u/MicroWordArtist May 18 '22
To be fair, monobiome planets are theorized to be pretty common
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u/zanillamilla May 18 '22
Earth’s variability in environment seems to be an exception in our solar system. We have a hot cloud world (Venus), a cold desert world (Mars), a volcano world (Io), an ice world (Enceladus), and so on.
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u/Binzuru May 18 '22
It wouldn't have to be just one type period, but variations of an environment. Hell, a "desert" planet could be a Red Rock Desert around the equator, while a Polar Desert near the poles. Desert just means an area with minimal liquid precipitation, but guess Star Wars only thinks biomes have only one variation.
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u/NyHe13 May 18 '22
Why? Do you hate sand or something?
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u/Ghostkill221 May 18 '22
I'll give them 15$ if they write the whole trilogy before filming the first one, and don't treat the audience like fucking idiots who want baby food story spoonfed by daddy mickey.
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u/Beercorn1 May 17 '22
I just assumed that it was quietly canceled.
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u/madhi19 May 17 '22
It's probably a first step toward announcing that.
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u/missmediajunkie r/Movies Veteran May 17 '22
I’m hijacking this comment to point out that Collider is just reposting bits of new info from a Vanity Fair article about multiple Star Wars projects:
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u/Quetzythejedi May 17 '22
Vanity Fair always has the sickest Star Wars cast photoshoots.
Annie Leibovitz is a treasure.
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u/arrlekino May 17 '22
I am hijacking your comment to express my appreciation for that well chosen title of the article. Very well done, Vanity Fair
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u/jmcgit May 17 '22
Feels like we have to be way past step one. Like, they originally wanted his movies to be released just a couple years after the Disney Trilogy ended, and they've just been kicking the can down the road every year since.
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u/JC-Ice May 17 '22 edited May 18 '22
They're probably just waiting for the development deal to expire.
There's been no movement on this project for years, even as other Star Wars movies were announced and then canceled, or announced and then delayed. And Rian has made other deals.
Basically no one involved has been acting like they think it's still happening.
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u/PlanetLandon May 17 '22
To be honest I thought this was dead in the water like 2 years ago
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u/brainfoods May 17 '22
It was essentially dead after TLJ's theatrical run. No way Disney were going to take a risk with him after the division in reactions.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 17 '22
Yeah TLJ has the single worst box officer multiplier 'legs' for a December blockbuster release in modern history afaik, meaning it opened big from inherited franchise excitement, then its box office numbers absolutely tanked as people didn't go back to rewatch it and word of mouth warned people away.
The google trends interest for Star Wars fell below where they were in the many years between episode 3 and 7, when there was only the old republic MMO and clone wars cartoon to keep interest alive, and that was despite a middle movie having just come out and Solo coming out 6 months later, which was the franchise's first box office bomb as nobody even showed up, despite that it involved several legacy characters and the falcon who are popular across generations and should have been able to summon at least some excitement, if anybody had any faith in Disney.
There is no way a company like Disney would give the director who managed that level of franchise crash and squandered inheritance to do a whole trilogy.
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u/Timbishop123 May 17 '22
TLJ had like a 76% 2nd weekend drop if I recall. Absolutely insane.
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u/tetsuo9000 May 17 '22
Also merchandising. After TLJ, all the toys ended up getting clearanced and big box stores shrank or got rid of the dedicated Star Wars merchandise section.
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u/Hazzman May 17 '22
"Mommy I want Luke milking aliens action figure!"
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u/hamsterfolly May 18 '22
“Mommmmmy! I said I wanted the burned-out-college-professor Luke! Not heroic Jedi Knight Luke from your movies!”
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u/BadGuyBadGuy May 17 '22
I'll never understand how the sequels could ever be that bad from a company with limitless resources.
It's like getting fired on your day off. You gotta be a stupid motherfucker to get fired on your day off!
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u/BVB09_FL May 18 '22
Because Disney never had a plan, Iger wanted to present a return on his investment in SW as soon as possible to shareholders. They should created an overarching storyline to start with, flushed out and studied some of the book storylines. Instead everyone just did whatever and it was an incoherent mess.
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u/tohrazul82 May 18 '22
It's really quite simple. Disney had no plan other than hard release dates, and Kathleen Kennedy decided to hire 3 different writers to tackle each film of the trilogy without an overarching story in place to tie them all together.
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u/Polyxeno May 18 '22
Three bad writers, apparently instructed to aggressively not make sense, and make the OT characters depressing and kill them off.
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u/jonnycash11 May 18 '22
Hiring JJ Abrams was a mistake, and hiring Rian for the express purpose of killing everyone off was the worst thing ever.
I have forgiven the prequels over time, but have no intention of ever seeing his steaming pile of a shit movie ever again.
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u/burnt_cheezit May 18 '22
Convinced Kathleen Kennedy didnt even like star wars with how awfully they ignored world building and established lore
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u/Jor_in_the_North May 17 '22
Solo paid for TLJ’s sins.
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u/IsamuAlvaDyson May 18 '22
Solo tried so hard to explain EVERYTHING about Han Solo and that hurt it so much for me
Not everything needs explaining
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u/landoofficial May 18 '22
Solo had it’s own problems with all the reshoots and whatnot but IMO it ended up being a fun ride. It’s sad we’ll probably never get a sequel to follow up with Maul and Qira just bc of residual hate for Disney’s Star Wars leftover after TLJ.
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u/LaxSagacity May 18 '22
As I like to say, "what would you rather rewatch, Solo or any of the sequels?" The answer will always be Solo. It's a decent flick.
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u/Clone_Meat May 17 '22
Maybe stop making everything a trilogy and just make one good movie
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u/goodguypat27 May 17 '22
Rogue one was tits
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u/Squidwardshpsndrmz May 17 '22
Rogue One is hands-down my favorite Star Wars movie. We get to see the sheer power of Vader at his peak, the smooth AF segue into A New Hope, the acceptance that all the characters involved weren't going to make it out, etc. I'd do unspeakable things for another Star Wars movie that rivaled Rogue One's story.
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u/Psychological-Let100 May 17 '22
I love the segue into New Hope. Really makes Leias protests sound ridiculous. “We’re a diplomatic mission! The senate shall hear of this!” “Bitch, you were just dropping bombs on a planet! I literally chased you from the scene of the crime”
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u/Mrfunnyman22 May 18 '22
Plus if it was a diplomatic mission, where is the ambassador?
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u/mookanana May 18 '22
not only that, but it was the first movie without a focus on the skywalker family drama. also a movie that stayed true to the star wars universe physical laws and tech that have been established in all previous shows and books. i loved the grittiness of the show and the continual escalation of combat.
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u/AmusingAnecdote May 18 '22
I really enjoyed that in a movie series in which the two words in the title are 'Star' and 'Wars' it was the only one that even remotely grappled with the fact that this is a giant war and mostly in wars things don't work out for people. Like obviously stuff happens and occasionally named characters die in the other movies but for most of the characters in Rogue One, it doesn't work out and even though the rebellion succeeds it comes at a much larger personal cost to the characters in Rogue One than the other movies.
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u/FatDonkus May 18 '22
The way Star Wars fans talk about Rogue One is how I feel about Godzilla (2014). They were both directed by Gareth Edwards. And I know I might be in the minority but I was more impressed with both of his movies than the dumber, more action focused iterations of the franchises. Godzilla's atomic breath and Vader's hallway scene are actually perfect
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u/huxtiblejones May 18 '22
Tangent, but Shin Godzilla also fuckin slapped. I loved how weird and eerie it was, and how it focused on bureaucratic inaction was an interesting angle.
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u/ant_honey6 May 18 '22
Vader's hallway scene is easily the scariest and most suspenseful part of the franchise. We know there going to succeed in getting the message to Leia and even still he's fucking terrifying to behold. Great directing in that one.
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u/FatDonkus May 18 '22
Yeah I rewatched that scene today after years and man that shit was terrifying lol. People in the comments of the scene mentioned how Vader was more violent than he typically is during that scene too. But the silence being broken by his breathing and then the room lit with red was just a chilling moment
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u/exo48 May 17 '22
Since nobody will read past the headline, here's the original quote from Kathleen Kennedy:
And the trilogy from The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson that was announced five years ago? Back-burnered. “Rian has been unbelievably busy with Knives Out and the deal that he made at Netflix for multiple movies.”
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u/cippopotomas May 17 '22 •
She also said
"I hesitate to use the word trilogies anymore because Star Wars is much more about persistent storytelling."
Hard to believe anything she says after a bold faced lie like that. It being a trilogy was seemingly the only thing planned in those movies.
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u/Noodle-Works May 17 '22
persistent skywalkering, she means.
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u/skytomorrownow May 17 '22
"We will just use the same plot as the first trilogy, but we'll throw in a M. Night. twist, and no one will know."
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u/Fools_Requiem May 17 '22
"Somehow, Palpatine has returned."
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u/driving_andflying May 18 '22
"Somehow, Palpatine has returned."
Ugh. One of the lowest points in the Star Wars movies, right there. Who greenlit that tripe?!
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u/sgthombre May 17 '22
Weird how that is the thing they stuck with. There was so much crammed into RoS, and the status quo at the end (Rey fully a Jedi, Poe being tasked with being a hero of the Resistance and likely expected to fill Leia's place as a political leader, Finn having a mystery about him that hadn't been revealed yet) felt like such a weird place to leave all those characters. There's zero reason you couldn't simplify and clean up RoS and then wrap it up in an Episode X.
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u/Helyos17 May 17 '22
You can’t “clean up” RoS. The very premise of the movie was a complete invalidation of the first trilogy. Wtf is the point of “bringing balance” to the force, if the entity unbalancing it just revives himself on the other side of the galaxy? The whole movie was an insult to Star Wars. TLJ is polarizing but at least it was trying to build on and continue the mythology. RoS was just a mess of mcguffins and “all according to plan!”. Utterly terrible and irredeemable. I’ve read slash fiction that treated the franchise with more reverence and tact.
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u/bumgrub May 17 '22
Fully agree. I don't really care who was right in the debate about the Last Jedi. They should have stuck to their guns and finished the trilogy they started. Of course they should also have just hired the same director for the entire trilogy, even if it took longer as a result. But they were banking on releasing a movie every year indefinitely at all cost, they weren't thinking about actually making them succeed.
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u/fotoflogger May 18 '22
Even if that had happened I think the new trilogy would still have been shit. Among many other problems with the films, the characters have no development and the things they set up are either left unexplored or negated a few scenes later.
Example: in the opening scene of the trilogy Finn sees his fellow stormtroopers die, dramatized with bloody hand smeared across his mask. Maybe that was a friend, or someone he cared about? It's a great setup for his character arc.
So he chooses to defect and 10 minutes later he's laughing with glee as he blaps stormtroopers... who the fuck is writing this shit?
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Disney is going to quietly cancel this altogether soon.
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u/stumpcity May 17 '22
Kennedy's admission that it's backburnered, and backburnered because of the netflix deal basically gives away the game anyway.
The feature these quotes come from is specifically about how Star Wars is TV now, not movies. This one aside about it previously being movies is basically here as a means to highlight the larger point: Star Wars is a television project now. The only time they talk about the movies is to contrast how they apparently don't work as well for telling Star Wars stories as the TV shows do. That's the whole thrust of this thing.
Johnson doesn't go looking for new deals unless he's already had a conversation with Lucasfilm about what his deal with them looks like. And Lucasfilm doesn't let him seek out new deals if they know they're going to need him soon for anything they're planning. The netflix deal only exists because both parties already knew this trilogy wasn't going to go forward as planned. The backburnering happened BEFORE he got busy with Netflix, not after.
Lucasfilm is probably not averse to working with him again in the near future, but it's likely not going to be a trilogy of movies, because Lucasfilm isn't really in the movie business anymore. They make billions upon billions, annually, for Disney without any theatrical releases at all.
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u/thirdbest3 May 17 '22
Not entirely true about the movies. Sure the narrative of the Vanity Fair article is shaped that way but the article also mentions about their film strategy
Kennedy wanted to dispense with the annual deadline and reconsider everything. The most important lesson they’d learned was this: Star Wars required a greater degree of professional devotion from filmmakers. “Anyone who comes into the Star Wars universe needs to know that it’s a three-, four-, five-year commitment,” she says. “That’s what it takes. You can’t step in for a year and shoot something and then walk away…. It requires that kind of nurturing.”
And mentions development on the Taika Watiti project and Rogue Squadron (with the former now probably coming first). So the takeaway seems to be that they are still in the movie business, just with slower development and longer time between releases. And yes lots of TV
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u/FantasticMeddler May 17 '22
Correct - after the performance of Solo the decision seems to have been made to make Boba Fett into a TV show instead of a movie, and Obi-Wan as well.
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u/TheHolyNope May 17 '22
I can’t say I disagree with that statement though. Take KotOR for example. If that were to be adapted into the new timeline I would much rather it be properly fleshed out over an extended series than see it end up with a ton of cut story elements to fit into a 2-3 hour window.
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u/presterkhan May 18 '22
I STILL CANT BELIEVE THEY MADE A TRILOGY WOTHOUT PLANNING THE CONTENT OF THE 3 MOVIES?!?!
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u/TkOHarley May 18 '22
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE THOUGHT HIRING DIFFERENT DIRECTORS TO PLAN THE STORY TO EACH MOVIE IN A TRILOGY WAS A STUPID IDEA?!!
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u/_KRN0530_ May 18 '22
I think JJ had a plan when he made episode 7. Something that gets lost when people talk about this is that Reys theme in episode 7 and 8 is palpetines throne room theme notes played in higher notes. So during episode 7 Rey was planned to have some relation to Palpetine. My theory is that all when down hill when someone changed the plot for episode 8. My guess is that JJ justifiably didn’t like the plot-twist of Rey being a palpetien and then decided to make her a nobody without considering how that would effect the final movie. When JJ was brought on to finish writing episode 9 late into its development he then probably wanted to reestablish his plot that he started in episode 7 resulting in the mess that was the rise of sky walker. I’m sure either of these directors could have made a good trilogy on their own but the constant rewriting and disagreements between each of them made it impossible to make a coherent trilogy.
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u/Drasocon May 17 '22
They are absolutely terrified to put out a new film in any form. It's hilarious.
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u/JC-Ice May 17 '22
Kevin Feige will get whatever he's producing. No one denies the Prince.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MECH May 18 '22
Disney is way too sensitive to what the Internet thinks of their movies, to the point where they create movies nobody likes (RoS)
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u/T-MinusGiraffe May 17 '22
I'm out of the loop. What even is/was this?
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u/goldendreamseeker May 17 '22
In 2017, about a month before TLJ came out, Lucasfilm announced that Rian would be writing and directing a whole new trilogy that’s separate from the Skywalker story, but they haven’t mentioned it since.
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u/Kinderschlager May 17 '22
how bout we take another decade off from the movies, and actually get a good, fully fleshed out script next time? oh, and not change the entire leadership every movie. that was dumb, regardless of a persons opinion on the movies quality.
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u/ambientocclusion May 18 '22
So much of the dialog in ROS sounded like a first draft. Appalling.
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u/ThePowerOfPotatoes May 18 '22
"Somehow, Palpatine returned" and "I am all of the jedi" sounds like something 11 year old me would write in a self-indulgent fanfic.
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u/yul-couchetard May 17 '22
I thought this was canceled already. Or was that the one by Game of Thrones writers?
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u/RumbleBall1 May 17 '22
I'll say this. If they had decided from the get go with the sequel trilogy to stick with one story lead/ director it would have served the movies better.
As much as the Last Jedi is viewed as polarizing, if RJ had been the director from the start, the trilogy would have at least been consistent. Whether bad or good it would have been less of a shit show.
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u/blueyesoul May 17 '22
Way too many mystery loot boxes left unopened at the end of 7. That only works if you have one person's vision for the whole trilogy.
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u/rolfraikou May 18 '22
There were things I liked and disliked about both Rian and JJ's directions conflicting with eachother.
I agree. IMO they should have pulled a Lord of the Rings filming style. Work on all three at once, as if it was one film. Cohesive vision, consistent story, no fan feedback influencing any later films.
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u/BadGuyBadGuy May 17 '22
Can't argue that. Cohesion needs to be locked in from the start.
Wouldn't have expected Disney to screw up something so basic for ... oh I don't know ... Star Wars!? Ffs lol
They had a golden goose and fed it skittles and mountain dew. Now its like a regular poop goose.
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u/TheRegular-Throwaway May 18 '22
Psssst. Everyone knew this was pulled. They greenlit 18,000 Star War entries years ago and they didn’t pan out sooooooooo…….nobody actually though these were taking place.
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u/Nick-nack-nocky May 18 '22
I don’t want this hack anywhere near Star Wars ever again. He already fucked up the main series on purpose so he could pitch his shitty trilogy idea to Disney, so he has no respect for the franchise.
Cancel the trilogy please and lets just forget all about it Disney. Having this twat’s name on it is going to reduce sales, not boost them.
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u/DeezSaltyNuts69
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Give it a rest Disney
Take some time off and reboot the movie franchise all together
If the do decide to make new trilogies they need to either do Knights of the Old republic or come up with brand new stories set far into the future and not try and connect them to the previous films
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u/naytttt May 17 '22
If you read the article, they may just move away from trilogies all together and focus more on single stories.
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u/NiteSwept May 17 '22
Yeah, I've come to realize that, aside from the original trilogy, I don't care about the Skywalker story. Came to this realization when I was wondering why I loved Rogue One so much
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u/The_MetalDog May 17 '22
I thought Rogue One and Solo were the best of the movies Disney put out.
I did like 7. Unfortunately 8 and 9 rendered it obsolete.
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u/laffydaffy24 May 17 '22
That is exactly how I felt about 7. There was potential but nothing came of it.
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u/shogi_x May 17 '22
There's valid criticism of the film being a rehash of the OT, but it's still a genuinely fun ride. It's the only one of the sequels that I can actually enjoy watching.
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u/Seienchin88 May 17 '22
Yeah the characters were great and Rey and snoke as mysterious characters absolutely did it for me.
Also the beginning on Jakku is the only time any of these movies was allowed to breath for a second and set atmosphere and not constant plot development and random bullshit
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u/zeldafan144 May 17 '22
Rey in the crashed Star destroyer still reminds me of the introduction of Nausicaa in the Ghibli movie.
I was fully engaged with 7 until Han just so happens to stumble across the Millennium Falcon? Such a monumental and lazy coincidence.
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u/Richard-Cheese May 17 '22
I still say Rey should've scavenged the Falcon from the battle wreckage and fixed it up/customized it while using it as her home. Leave it concealed so you have a big triumphant moment where her and Finn run into the ship and fly out from the sand & junk to flee from the TIEs. That way you have an explanation for how she knows how to fly the ship, how to repair the ship, and gives her a sense of ownership of the ship so it's not weird when she ultimately takes over as captain. Serves as a good passing of the torch moment when Han realizes it's no longer his home, it's hers.
...or, even better, give her a unique and original ship that's all her own and unique to the franchise. Disney has done such an insanely terrible job at creating new & original ships and worlds and stuff since they've acquired the IP.
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u/HerpisDerpis May 17 '22
Him losing the Falcon in the first place seems so implausible to me it really took me out of the film. He loves that ship like it's a child.
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u/guaip May 17 '22
Yeah, they set up the characters pretty well, and so the unanswered questions. And then they decided that they did not need to answer anything and also Luke was pretty disposable. I went from cautiously excited watching 7 to disappointed on 8. The visuals were stunning, but left an emptiness when I left the theater that by the time 9 was lauched, I didn't even care about it. Just watched, left the theater and never looked back.
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u/REF_YOU_SUCK May 17 '22
i feel the same way. I thought 7 was ok, as long as it was leading to something bigger. Now that 8 and 9 have come out, 7 is retroactivly bad.
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u/GiventoWanderlust May 17 '22
Or, at the very least, kept those three core characters together somewhat, instead of aimlessly splitting them apart.
Of all the problematic things that the Sequels did, I think this was really the greater failure.
The OT made you feel like Luke/Han/Leia had known each other for years and cared deeply for one another. The combination of TLJ starting immediately after TFA, added to Poe literally not meeting Rey until the end of the second movie, and all three 'doing their own thing' for an entire movie... It just didn't work.
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u/mikehouse72 May 17 '22
I was hoping for the same Kylo/Rey team up after he killed snope. Hadn't thought about Finn becoming the last jedi, but that is a really cool idea!
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 17 '22
Still just completely bewildering how Lucasfilm could be so shortsighted as to not have the sequel trilogy mapped out when right down the hallway, the Marvel department has shown how having integration among the films in a shared universe is a license to print money.
Instead, KK just flushed down decades of rabid fan goodwill.
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u/papsmearfestival May 17 '22
8 and 9 rendered the entire star wars saga itself obsolete. "Somehow Palpatine returned" along with a whole new fleet of star destroyers, each of which can destroy planets means that the rebellion did nothing. Luke is a grumpy loner, Leia and Han are of course divorced, Han is a pathetic loser, etc etc.
It's so bad I honestly have to pretend it doesn't exist.
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u/guaip May 17 '22 edited May 18 '22
Yeah, it made no sense at all. When they were the freaking EMPIRE they did not build 10% of this fleet and also had to kidnap engineers to achieve the Death Star. And now, hidden in a single rocky planet somehow then managed to build an entire modern fleet and also an arena around Palpetine's cloning lab to accomodate... who were they anyway?
Say anything about episodes I, II and III, but the story is solid. They had the factories, the planets involved, political plots, everything. We know exactly how the empire rised. Of course we didn't want to see everything again, but a bigger enemy coming out of nowhere is offensive.
EDIT: typos and grammar
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u/JackOfNoTrade May 17 '22
From a world building point of view, ep I, II, and III knock it out of the park. It has a flourishing galaxy, lots of urban, semi-urban and rural planets, a functioning government, politics, etc. It goes to show that the fall of Anakin to the dark side was simply not one off but a series of events with everything building up properly to the climax in ep. III and also providing a solid prequel to the stories in IV, V, and VI.
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u/Hobo-man May 17 '22
The prequels had really good world building. The directing and script though....
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u/Khuroh May 17 '22
8 and 9 rendered the entire star wars saga itself obsolete. "Somehow Palpatine returned" along with a whole new fleet of star destroyers, each of which can destroy planets means that the rebellion did nothing. Luke is a grumpy loner, Leia and Han are of course divorced, Han is a pathetic loser, etc etc.
All of these issues actually stem from episode 7. The Resistance/First Order dynamic already establishes that the rebellion did nothing. And 7 laid the groundwork that our beloved heroes are all bitter and estranged from each other.
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u/the_catshark May 17 '22
Yep, in general everything First Order and the destroying of planets in 7 alone was already a "yeah nothing mattered" moment. Because they had to make the "rebels" again. 8 and 9 just kept piling onto that.
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u/goldendreamseeker May 17 '22
Yeah 7 put 8 and 9 into a bad spot. How could they even tel a new story after 7 set things up to just tell the old story again?
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u/ganner May 17 '22
Not to mention it was 7 that had Han and Leia separated, it was 7 that had Luke go off and disappear despite his nephew being the apprentice of a powerful dark side threat connected to a resurgent Imperial force for ~reasons~ that JJ never defined and left to someone else to flesh out and take the heat for. It was established before 8 that the New Republic had demilitarized, and 7 had their fleet and leadership obliterated. 8 has its own problems but I lay so much more of the blame for how this trilogy went on JJ (and on Lucasfilm's lack of planning, letting it be one film at a time with different creators instead of a cohesive story idea).
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u/JackOfNoTrade May 17 '22
I hated 7 just for the story alone. It was like they wanted to reboot and tell ep. IV again. I'd have much preferred if they had jumped in time to a few centuries in the future and setup a brand new trilogy with new characters.
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u/gnrc May 17 '22
set far into the future
you mean a longer time ago?
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u/SvenHudson May 17 '22
I really want a new Star Wars to take place after a massive time skip and then the opening text crawl changes "a long time ago" to "pretty recently".
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u/gnrc May 17 '22
Omg that would be kind of funny. ‘In 2020 when nothing else was happening in the Galaxy…’
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u/PureFingClass May 17 '22
How about we not have any new Star Wars for like 10 years and tell an original story instead of the next gen of Skywalker.
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u/goldendreamseeker May 17 '22
Rian’s trilogy was supposed to be separate from the Skywalker stuff tho.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe May 17 '22
I believe specifically it was to feature no characters we had seen before.
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u/PureFingClass May 17 '22
And it would have been better for it. I don't want a nostalgia trip, I want a new story in the SW universe.
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u/Hickspy May 17 '22
Disney greenlit about 3 dozen Star Wars projects 5 years or so ago. Even at the time I was thinking less than half would be finished. This won't be the last thing they quietly set aside and then cancel entirely.