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Bob Iger confirms that first post-IX Star Wars film will be from D&D
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Unless they are doing back to back releases of two different trilogies at the same time, the RJ trilogy is far off. The more time it takes, the higher the chance he's gonna end up moving onto something else or Disney changes gears once again.
Any time you put roadblocks and extent how long till movies go into production, you are taking risks of creative teams falling apart and studios changing their minds. We've already had Disney make multiple changes to their Star Wars plans.
You mean like a pair of showrunners who have only ever been vaguely described as "working on star wars films" with no number of films specified as explicitly theirs outside of the next one, which will be followed by two vague placeholders, not to mention they've been a big cagey about what their roles will even be. I think they are probably hoping to turn it into something similar to Marvel. For all we know, they've decided to keep Rian in the fold and have everyone work together. We know nothing outside of some vague details so far though.
Honestly, I'm fairly certain they aren't sure what they are gonna do yet until they've hashed out a few details of how they want the universe to go. They've got a few years to work it all out.
The logic is that Disney has announced only 3 SW films coming in 2022, 2024 and 2026. If D&D are making a series of films and the first one they're making is the 2022 one then I would guess that their follow-ups will be the 2024 and 2026 movies. If they alternated between the two trilogies then that would mean that there'd be 4-year gaps between episodes and that's not gonna happen. Now, Disney might add more SW films to their summer slates but if they don't then RJs movie will come out in 2028 at the earliest, which indicates that his project has been put on the back-burner.
No I specifically mean a head honcho above all the writers and directors. Someone who can make sure if a new director comes in he/she doesnt change something that the previous director setup.
I dunno bout that. Restricting the vision of the director because it has to fit in with the rest of the movies sounds pretty bad to me.
Not changing what a previous director set up? That doesn't sound like Kevin Feige given how much has been shifted, dropped, and changed in the MCU. It's still cohesive on the macro level as well as certain threads, but plenty changes and adapts to make the individual films work.
I think you must be looking for a Kathleen Kennedy. :P
If that was the plan, why would Iger only confirm what the next movie is and not confirm that all three of them are from D&D?
She's great running Lucasfilm but she needs someone who reports to her whose purpose is to handle Star Wars.movies
Getting George Lucas back on contract would be.nice but he is too prideful to be anyone's underling
I swore I saw an article where they said that the MCU has had the overarching ideas for the specific phases laid out before hand. That is what Star Wars needs. It was clear going from the force awakens to TLJ that things were done more on the fly.
Yeah, it seems to be like the only plan Iger is offering is a very high level schedule. Lucasfilm has three years to figure out, creatively, how they want to shape it, and they've been given 2 years between films to continue shaping it. I'm sure they've been bouncing around ideas, but it's still too early to put it all on paper. It could be D&D do all three, could be they do one and drop out, could be they only end up sharing writing or producing credits. I don't think they actually have that all figured out beyond here's the date, and here is who is working toward it right now. They've been burned by coming out the gate with these sorts of early announcements in the past (Colin Trevorrow, almost Josh Trank), so why wouldn't they take a more conservative approach this time around?
There was real hate for the Ewoks defeating a legion of Stormtroopers even back then. The rest of this is hypothetical and dismissive of the real possibility that the current movies aren't telling a satisfying or interesting story.
I feel like this solidifies that D&D rushed the hell out of GoT to get to Star Wars ASAP. Especially since Rian Johnson started well over a year ago, and officially D&D weren't starting until after GoT finished.
So you don't care about all the actual in-depth critique people have on their story telling and character development lol
Because it gives them flexibility. They have changed plans many times already, no matter what they state, nothing is concrete. They are also in that case having RJ hanging around in the wings now for over 4 years before getting to start on his movie?
The RJ movies are still happening, but the more they get dragged out, the more likely they wont happen. RJ will move onto other projects, Disney give it to someone else, they scrap the project, etc etc.
Same folks fighting this idea (it's just an idea) are the same who were fighting the idea that the stories movies and solo projects for charaters were still happening.... yup not anymore apparently.
Maybe RJ will be the 3rd Disney+ show. As others have said I don't see them alternating D&D and RJ movies. I also don't see RJ and Disney waiting until late 2020s to launch his trilogy. Finally, Solo has pretty much given Disney a reason to pause and not have a SW movie every year.
People take different amounts of times doing film... Gunn finished the script to Guardians 3 and Suicide Squad within like a year of each other and Matt Reeves still hasn't turned in an approved Batman script.
Sure, but TLJ also had the quickest/smoothest production cycle of any Disney Star Wars, considering the 12-18 month head start, I always assumed it would be first. Hell, I assumed it would be 2021, but with no films slated until 2022, this means it's not until 2024 at the soonest?
Denial is an ugly thing.
It's obviously either not happening or not happening for a long time.
Nah. There are people in the past who have had to deal with the challenge of writing endings for TV stories without the book writers finsihing their work and doing much better than D and D did. The story beats for the original Full Metal Alchemist still worked very well inspite of the fact Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood with the correct ending because that team knew how to write and direct dramatic scenes and delivered on an ending that leaned into their strengths even though their ending was so drastically different from Brotherhood. D and D revealed they were even worse than some of the best fan fiction writers.
I have watched a couple of game of throne fan theory endings on youtube that blew my mind while D and D didn't show half the creativity.
Without being on the inside who knows which idea is further ahead or if RJ needs more time.
Solo wasnt a bad movie. People were just tired of SW at that point.
Where she fired the wrong people and got a really fun heist flick out of a mess on time?
It still bombed.
Which was still the first Star Wars movie ever to flop???
*googles*
Ok now this is sad. Even rereading this forum thread has better plot twists and dramatic tension than season 8 of Game of Thrones :[
Flop? Kinda, but I would go with underperformed personally.
If people on here can say Alita didn't flop then all bets are off.
And 1/4 that didn't make serious bank? Yeah she is total crap at this production lark
I beg to differ, the entire first act was horrible, contrived, and tried to do too much.
As people are rightly saying about D&D, you're only as good as your last project.
And her last was Solo.
Eh, FMA '03 still had plenty of questionable creative decisions, up to and including something that wouldn't have been out of place for D&D with
supporting character Rose having been raped and impregnated by State Military soldiers and left a mute, something that never happened in the manga or by extension Brotherhood.
Don't forget the disastrous production of Rogue One or the hiring and subsequent firings of Colin Trevorrow and Josh Trank.
Ugh, geez.
Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. It looks like they're hedging their bets by only announcing 1 film from them right now and not confirming a full trilogy or series for them, but still.
Benioff and Weiss do have some good and great original work under their belt, but it is the worst possible timing for this announcement.
Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. It looks like they're hedging their bets by only announcing 1 film from them right now and not confirming a full trilogy or series for them, but still.
Benioff and Weiss do have some good and great original work under their belt, but it is the worst possible timing for this announcement.