Can't be rushed. Do more experimental stuff on D+ and look for and appoint a creative head to steer the ship to the next era of SWs
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Bob Iger: "Following 'The Rise of Skywalker,' Star Wars will go on hiatus"
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they're doing subtle marketing for his upcoming film but getting their knives out.
The prequels and the TCW animated movie left you wanting for more?
whew.
I expect in 3-5 years when the next slate of movies are announced there will be people wondering why they took a break to begin with with theories and conspiracies around artificial inflated demand and Disney vault effect etc.
It's strange so many of pop cultural narratives are variations on hot takes about what happened most recently than a considered approach to the topic
I think Star Wars Movie fatigue is a thing and it's probably good they give it a rest for a bit. It's not like there won't be anything star wars to watch. I for one can't wait for the ObiWan series
It's strange so many of pop cultural narratives are variations on hot takes about what happened most recently than a considered approach to the topic
I think Star Wars Movie fatigue is a thing and it's probably good they give it a rest for a bit. It's not like there won't be anything star wars to watch. I for one can't wait for the ObiWan series
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It's obvious with hindsight that Disney overestimated the market's appetite for Star Wars content, but at the time they announced Force Awakens, there had only been one Avengers film, and I doubt even their wildest predictions had the MCU becoming the pervasive juggernaut it has. No other blockbuster franchise stands a chance.
I might think Rogue One is the best of the new crop of Star Wars films, but I think you have to admit that if they hadn't been facing down a slate of Marvel movies, the new core trilogy would have fared even better than it has - and been more enduring.
I might think Rogue One is the best of the new crop of Star Wars films, but I think you have to admit that if they hadn't been facing down a slate of Marvel movies, the new core trilogy would have fared even better than it has - and been more enduring.
Yup. I enjoyed most of them. They were far from perfect but I watched them a lot more than I have these movies that's for sure.
The whole hook of the sequel trilogy was that "they won't be shitty like the prequels".
Now Star Wars is just transitioning into "just another film franchise", which was inevitable.
Well I guess I didnn't know what exactly was meant by "cinematic universe" there, but 3 years doesn't really seem that long tbh lol
Should go on a decade long hiatus. SW under Disney hasnt been very good. Rogue one was good, and TFA was a good 6.5/10. TLJ was just bad... Like a 2/10. Unwatchable fanfiction.
I mean it's all a silly discussion when there will be straight up more minutes of live action star wars content released in the "interim" than currently even exists. Also even the article in the OP points out this is basically just a reiteration of what was already the case.
The mass audience really doesn't care about the old republic. I'll be very surprised if that go back to that well.
Yeah I think this is spot-on. Imagine if Rogue One was a show instead. Could've developed the characters way more so you actually cared about their inevitable end.
They can make it a cinematic universe but they need to expand beyond the core story and core characters. Who really wanted to see a movie about Han Solo without Harrison Ford?
They have to recognize that the opportunity to cash in on Luke, Leia, Han and the rest is past and make bad ass stories about new people.
They have to recognize that the opportunity to cash in on Luke, Leia, Han and the rest is past and make bad ass stories about new people.
Agreed... I'd hate to see a second massive disappointment trilogy after such genuinely decent films these past few years. The prequels should be the first and last to fit that bill.
Hope future movies will be more marvel like.
I am sure that will reunite the fans.
FEIGE SAVE US.
edit: throw in some post credits scenes! Leave us wanting for more!!
I think fans have to be somewhat realistic as well ... you're never getting the OT again. That's a once in a life time lightning in a bottle fluke that isn't happening again.
If the expectations are always there or "something close to that", odds are you're going to be continually disappointed.
Honestly, I am all for this. Spend 10 years making Disney + shows and take your time before figuring out a new trilogy or whatever direction you decide. I know they aren't waiting 10 years before another theatrical release, but wishful thinking.
2023 I think is probably more realistic. D&D's project getting scrapped and someone new (Fiege/Favreau?) will need at least 1-2 years to come up with a new concept/script. Then 6-8 months to shoot it. Then a few months for pre-production and post-production factored into that.
See I keep seeing this but in the face of the MCU the only reason there is fatigue is that the creative direction isn't up to par. We get 3-4 Marvel movies a year but Fiege has been able to wrangle enough creative visions that the MCU hops genres and is diverse enough to remain fresh. SWs hasn't, thus creating that fatigue.
Star Wars fans gonna learn the hard way that Star Wars isn't Marvel.
You can't turn an event movie franchise into something that's yearly.
Even the OT, if they had released them 1977, 1978, 1979 ... there would have been fatigue by the third film easily.
Marvel is a unique phenomenon which lends itself to many, many stories and characters due to the genre-bending universe that the comic books established for 70+ years.
2023 is Avatar, they have to release something in 2022 unless they want to fuck their schedule up until 2027.
Either they give 2022 to RJ, who has had a trilogy announced since 2017, or they're gonna quickly rush out a trilogy.
It's really annoying. Why can they just move the release date up to next Christmas? What's Disney's 2020 Xmas movie anyway?
In the mean time can they finally relax and let the EU move on from being stuck in OT adjacent hell?
Won't mind actually, should be pretty awesome. Heck make him Kyle katarn, too bad given fucking trash like TLJ Kyle can't have those cool scenes with Luke anymore.
I don't disagree here. Star Wars needs a larger universe to play with and they are trying to build that now. I think EP7 and R1 success blinded Disney
Pretty sure it's gonna be Favreau/Fiege, that's just my guess. Think Rian they will put on hold for now. Talented director, but Disney is all about being safe and I think there was a bit too much heat on TLJ than they would've liked.
They couldn't replicate the MCU's cinematic universe success because Rogue One and Solo served no purpose in pushing any overarching story forward. People feel compelled to see every MCU film, even Ant-Man, because each film builds off the last towards an Avengers event film. They need to see them all so they know what's going on in the next one. Rogue One and Solo were meaningless prequels that answered questions nobody was asking. After RO people caught on that they didn't need to see the Story films to follow along with the Skywalker saga. If those two films had taken place between TFA-TLJ and TLJ-TROS, they would have been just as successful as the saga films. As they are they're just narrative wastes. But I think Disney has learned the wrong lesson here.