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View Poll Results: If you saw the Last Jedi in theaters will you see the Rise of Skywalker in the theate | |||
Yes | 54 | 58.70% | |
No | 38 | 41.30% | |
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12-18-2019, 06:13 PM | #1 | |
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12-18-2019, 06:18 PM | #2 | |
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Not one singular visionary like Lucas.
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12-18-2019, 06:22 PM | #3 |
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If I'm correct the Mandalorian has a new director for pretty much every episode, and yet it manages to follow a cohesive storyline. Just can't understand how these movies were made without at least a rough outline that needed to be followed.
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12-18-2019, 07:06 PM | #4 | |
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I think RJ was going to take it a different direction then it crashed and burned. So they made a hard left. I get what the last Jedi was trying to do. IV was a real hero-camp story. V was the dark turn. VI was overcoming the evil. VII was a carbon copy of IV, and it took a fair amount of hell for it. Then VIII comes along and says it's a similar situation, but all the shit that worked in the first film isn't how this is going to go. And rightly so, because it obviously didn't ****ing work. So VIII was all about finding a different way. I get all that. But it got crushed so they punted. I totally get that too. |
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12-18-2019, 08:15 PM | #5 | |
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But it’s all under the singular vision of Jon Favreau’s eyes.
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12-18-2019, 08:35 PM | #6 | |
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Dave Filoni is the Co-Executive Producer, co-writer and has directed two episodes out of eight. Favreau has directed any episodes to date while Filoni's role has been expanded in Season Two. Favreau came up with the idea, pitched Iger and KK, then began writing the story arc. And while Favreau pops in from time to time, he's not there on-set every single day. I don't mean to reduce his role in any way and he's most certainly the show creator. The LED tech that he first used for The Jungle Book is now being used for The Mando (and all upcoming Disney + TV shows), so he' certainly a huge part of the show but he has other projects that require his time and focus, so he's not really "The Showrunner" in the normal sense of the word. Favreau also understands that Dave Filoni has had great success with Star Wars TV series and trusts him implicitly. |
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12-18-2019, 09:24 PM | #7 | |
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Long story short: KK was hired, Episode VII and Rogue One were greenlit immediately, with plans for a Boba Fett and Obi Wan movie as their initial four films. Everything collapsed, writers and directors were hired and fired, the Boba Fett film was dumped because Josh Trank was a disaster, the Obi Wan film didn't have a focus and no one in town wanted to deal with Episode VII due to the huge shadow of the franchise. George had started his version of VII with Michael Arndt (which was rejected), which had some similarities with TFA (Kira was replaced by Rey, so Qi'ra was used for Solo) but once Abrams was hired after 7 other directors turned them down, he didn't like Arndt's story and sensibilities so he was fired. KK then suggested Abrams work with Larry Kasdan and they both decided to reboot the franchise while laying groundwork for VIII and IX. JJ made a huge deal out of moving to London and threatened to quit but was coaxed into staying on, but it messed with him so much emotionally that he dropped out of VIII and IX, then Rian Johnson was hired to "do his thing" for VIII & IX. Johnson was dumped from IX shortly after the divisiveness of TLJ and Colin Trevorrow was hired for IX to write and direct. Trevorrow didn't like the same aspects of TLJ that most Star Wars lifers didn't like and after requesting multiple times to have RJ make changes to TLJ so that Luke's story wouldn't end with TLJ, he was fired. Meanwhile, Lord & Miller were doing 50 takes a scene and angering the hell out of Larry Kasdan, who finally put his foot down and had them fired. Ron Howard did George a solid and was brought in to reshoot the entire film and partially recast it (George was on set quite a bit for Solo as well). Stephen Daldry was hired for the Obi Wan movie but since no one, and I mean no one, wanted anything to do with IX, KK went back to Abrams, then in an effort to oversee everything, decided that Obi Wan could wait and would work better as a TV series (and I wholeheartedly agree with that decision). People at Lucasfilm really hated what RJ had done with TLJ, so there was a collective sigh of relief and a feeling of "JJ's going to 'Right the Ship'" with Episode IX. From all accounts, he's done just that but how that plays with the audience is yet to be seen. There's a lot more to it than that but my time is limited. I'll be sure to add as much as I can after the holidays, which will give everyone who's interested a chance to see the new film, digest it and have questions that I will do my best to answer. |
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12-18-2019, 09:32 PM | #9 | |
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Lord and Miller are great, but just not the right fit for Star Wars.
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