Vanity Fair Reporter: Benioff and Weiss Were Out from Star Wars Before Netflix Deal [UPDATE: Variety Reports That It Was After]
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Did them a favor. Star Wars is laaaaame. But so was their last season of GOT. Wish them luck at Netflix. At least it won't be more Star Wars.
JoAnna Robinson is an excellent reporter and I totally trust her judgment here. While I have no issues with KK's production of the sequel trilogy, Feige, for all his faults, is a known quantity and there's storm clouds over Star Wars right now. I'm hopeful this will lead to more people enjoying more Star Wars in the future.
theme park underperforming
Solo did poorly
the movies have performed extremely poorly in China (and always have to be fair but MCU had the same problem and turned it around)
toy sales have been bad (both Disney and Hasbro have said Star Wars toy sales are down significantly in the past 2 years)
In an island the franchise under her leadership is perfectly fine, a few misses and a few hits which is perfectly acceptable.
HOWEVER, when you put that up next to the MCU it looks not so great. There isn't really much of a 10 year roadmap, its a bit disjointed, a lack of "synergy" between all the Star Wars properties,on and on. It may not be fair but you can say that someone with infinite knowledge could have crafted a Star Wars roadmap comprising movies, shows, games, theme parks, toys, etc to rival MCU in terms of popularity and revenue and they didn't. KK isn't just a producer or mid level executive, she is supposed to be the one that has the overall plan as head of Lucasfilm.
Oh no my dream of a Star Wars movie with Brie Lairson as lead, D&D as writers, Rian Johnson as director, Kevin Feige as producer is RUINED.
Man all those people who said it was just scheduling issues...LOL.
And KK being Stealth fired/Feige put in to fix Star Wars has been the rumor for MONTHS now...
And KK being Stealth fired/Feige put in to fix Star Wars has been the rumor for MONTHS now...
They're gonna have Feige bypass Kathleen Kennedy and report directly to Bob Iger?
Yeah, this report seems...suspect.
Yeah, this report seems...suspect.
NO GOD NO!
That means nothing in business. If I'm the head of a department and the big boss says you can head a small project under my department but that you'll report directly to the big boss instead of me, the head of the damn department, I'd be a bit miffed.
im not sure how Kathleen Kennedy is to fault for Galaxy Edge when Lucasfilm wasn't responsible for its development
More power watched the 4th Resident Evil movie in theaters than Tron 2 and Bladerunner 2049 COMBINED
Welp, glad to have confirmation from their own mouths that they didn't understand the source material.
Especially since Galaxy's Edge specifically isn't under-performing, Disneyland as a whole is.
Galaxy's Edge in Florida, for example, is doing very well
Even as someone who thinks highly of the movies we've gotten out of Disney-era Star Wars, behind the scenes has definitely been a mess and continue to be it seems.
If Feige is reporting to Iger and not Kennedy on his Star Wars project, thats at the very least signaling she is not on steady ground.
If Feige is reporting to Iger and not Kennedy on his Star Wars project, thats at the very least signaling she is not on steady ground.
So I like how the story is the moment the GoT finale aired Iger, KK, et all collectively said "what the fuck have done?" and canned Dumb and Dumber's asses.
Why were they removed on the same month that disastrous season ended? Hmm I wonder.... 🤔
it's cute that some people think disney is satisfied with star wars making "over a billion dollars".
Meanwhile Jason Ward, one of the people who has leaked the whole plot of Episode 9 and was validated by the trailer (so has a fair bit of credibility at this point), says that the parting of ways was amicable and that Disney's beef is with Netflix.
So who the fuck knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So who the fuck knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Yeah but why did Daenerys burn the whole city instead of just attacking the Red Keep?"
"She was mad!"
"Ok but why was she talking about liberating cities when she just killed everyone?"
"She's delusional because Jon wouldn't sleep with her."
"...You're fired."
It's ever cuter some people think Iger is happy with KK after a Star Wars film made under her watch lost Disney $150+ million.
Hopefully Fiege can set the foundation for the next gen of SW while LF looks for and installs a creative head to take the reigns.
Was thinking he was getting the royal tour before taking over but it looks more like uncertainty/ lack of trust on where SWs goes after 9.
Was thinking he was getting the royal tour before taking over but it looks more like uncertainty/ lack of trust on where SWs goes after 9.
Iger stacked the deck by mandating a film a year but Kathleen Kennedy has had plenty of missteps and setbacks under her belt, including not having the vision or foresight for setting up the property to function as a yearly property or at high exposure.
I mean there's really nothing to support this. It's literally projection based on how you think Iger thinks. $150 million dollars compared to the previous three successful box office hits?
Yeah being the highest grossing movie of the year, being a critical darling, and having excellent Blu/dvd sales are the signs of a flip.
Iger is just as much to blame as KK, but he probably doesn't give a fuck since he's retiring soon.
if they made Luke a static character from where they left off in ROTJ, instead of a dynamic character with thirty years of offscreen development, the movie would have been loved despite its other faults