pretty sure we will have our first black lead if this project actually get developed.
yes I know about Boyega but yall know what I mean.
yes I know about Boyega but yall know what I mean.
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THR: New Star Wars movie by JD Dillard and Matt Owens, distribution undecided
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Bro, there's no way Deadline "confirmed" shit then. They looked at Hollywood Reporter's article, read it as fast as possible, and then wrote theirs. Super scummy of them.
Noooooo we don't need to see every god damn thing that happens. New stories, new characters, please!
There's limited bandwidth, both with LF and with audience tolerances.
I'm glad Kennedy hasn't totally retreated from trying to enlist young talent in the director's chair. Dillard looks promising based on the reviews for his two films, I bet he'd be a great pickup for LF. I'd certainly rather see his take than Feige's.
edit: And put it in theaters. Don't be babies cause Solo was a fucking tirefire. A new and interesting Star Wars movie will put asses in seats.
edit: And put it in theaters. Don't be babies cause Solo was a fucking tirefire. A new and interesting Star Wars movie will put asses in seats.
I was about to say it was working for them, but then I remembered Bird of Prey...
Feige would produce, not direct. So, they aren't even mutually exclusive, since Feige loves enlisting young talent as well. In fact, it's more his M.O. than Kennedy's.
BOP was decent it's just a movie nobody asked for, much like the Solo. I think they over estimated HQ's popularity. I think she's better as a supporting character and part of a bigger ensemble.
Aaahh sooo youre not worried about the quality but the boxoffice numbers?
not enough!
keep in mind, these companies rfp for treatments all the time. Does not mean they plan on going into production with all the pitches. They are soliciting ideas.
I mean, you don't think WB or Disney care far more about BO numbers than whatever the RT score is?
The latter is bragging rights, the former determines whether some people get paid or not. BoP's score is great, buts its box office numbers shows that audience interest just isn't there.
It sounds like they don't know yet either.
Bob Iger said that movies were possible on Disney+ and this could possibly be the first to take that approach.
It's Feige's pitch, so I expect it will be incumbent on whoever directs that project to deliver Feige's vision. If he's just producing then I'm not sure why Kennedy is even still there. That's her job.
You really think Iger is going to say "no" to a producer that just made the highest grossing film of all time when he expresses interest in making a Star Wars film?
Because that's not how things work. Kennedy oversees the entirety of Lucasfilm. JJ Abrams was a producer on all 3 films of the sequel trilogy. That doesn't circumvent Kennedy being a producer on the entire franchise.
That would be amusing.
Abrams didn't really produce TLJ, but that's not my point. My understanding is that Feige is involved in Star Wars in a creative capacity (not as a writer/director, I know) and I don't really care for the other projects he's overseen. I'm more interested in what someone like Dillard has to offer. There isn't much to it.
Abrams is listed as Executive Producer on TLJ, and would've been listed the same on Episode 9 regardless of whether or not he directed it.
To what capacity Feige is involved with Star Wars, nobody knows, maybe it is creative, maybe he just knows of some people he wants to put on a Star Wars film and wants to make that happen or maybe he just wants to put his name on a Star Wars product to say he did it, . Nothing has been said beyond "Feige wants to make a Star Wars". We'll probably find out at celebration this year or next year.
I mean, ROTS is a hella shitty movie especially when it comes to the character writing, so much so that the CW outright IGNORES a shit ton of the characterization of the characters the biggest example being Anakin ofc who is so different from the films that watching the ROTS after any episode of TCW is straight whiplash. No one would argue that CW is pointless even if it's a prequel series to an incredibly shitty trilogy finale in a ver shitty overall trilogy where you have to outright ignore execution and type out the premise to glean even an iota of genuine enjoyment. People love SW content when it's good.
It's much easier to work around bad character writing than it is to work around shitty plot writing. And most of the Star Wars fanbase is just fine with Episode III.
Most of the SW fanbase watched episode 3 as kids....and, Episode 3 did have a shitty plot.
You know what ... i think it's not "Star Wars" fatigue, really. It's "Skywalker Saga" fatigue that many people have. And anything that is just shoehorned "Skywalker-Saga-adjacent" fan-service (i.e. "Solo")
Give us new characters, new worlds, new conflicts. Just because things are set in the same universe doesn't mean everything has to be interconnected and one should be able to neatly put every single piece of media in a shared timeline. People are willing to do that with the MCU - mostly because that's a connected universe that almost exclusively moves forward (apart from origin movies like Captain America, Captain Marvel and the upcoming Black Widow)
Like, we don't really know how many years ABY The Mandalorian is set, because it really doesn't matter, because it's not some pre-sequel that needs to be shoved in between the movies. It's just set in the "post-Palpatine-pre-Snoke" era, that's all we need to know.
Similarly, we could and should get stories that are set in the pre-Anakin era, or post-First-Order era (where the big galactic conflict is merely set dressing and not part of the main plot)
Give us new characters, new worlds, new conflicts. Just because things are set in the same universe doesn't mean everything has to be interconnected and one should be able to neatly put every single piece of media in a shared timeline. People are willing to do that with the MCU - mostly because that's a connected universe that almost exclusively moves forward (apart from origin movies like Captain America, Captain Marvel and the upcoming Black Widow)
Like, we don't really know how many years ABY The Mandalorian is set, because it really doesn't matter, because it's not some pre-sequel that needs to be shoved in between the movies. It's just set in the "post-Palpatine-pre-Snoke" era, that's all we need to know.
Similarly, we could and should get stories that are set in the pre-Anakin era, or post-First-Order era (where the big galactic conflict is merely set dressing and not part of the main plot)
I'm conflicted about this news. It's interesting that newcomers are given a chance to do a new Star Wars movie, which will essentially be a beginning of a franchise new direction, but at a same time it's worrying. New director is unproven and has ties to JJ Abrams (which may question his talent over personal contacts), writer has credits on The Defenders and Luke Cage, which I wasn't a fan at all. But who knows, we will see how this will play out.
It's certainly be a way for me to be interested in the franchise again.
I just want new things. Finn and all the others can go suck an egg, I want new characters, new story lines, and no deserts
UPDATE:
www.thewrap.com
J.D. Dillard Star Wars Movie No Longer Happening
J.D. Dillard, the filmmaker behind Devotion, says his Star Wars movie is no longer happening, and he's no longer attached to a Rocketeer sequel.
www.thewrap.com