Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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This will be good news to many.
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have exited their planned Star Wars series over 18 months after Disney and Lucasfilm first announced they were joining. "We love Star Wars. When George Lucas built it, he built us too," Benioff and Weiss said in a statement. "Getting to talk about Star Wars with him and the current Star Wars team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted to the saga that changed everything. But there are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects. So we are regretfully stepping away."
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@Bovidae said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
This will be good news to many.
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have exited their planned Star Wars series over 18 months after Disney and Lucasfilm first announced they were joining. "We love Star Wars. When George Lucas built it, he built us too," Benioff and Weiss said in a statement. "Getting to talk about Star Wars with him and the current Star Wars team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted to the saga that changed everything. But there are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects. So we are regretfully stepping away."
Probably as good news as Johnson probably losing his trilogy too.
With the Star Wars crowd bringing in Kevin Feige it’s starting to feel like a course correction.
At least the Marvel movies do what they say on the tin, entertaining well made action/kids movies. Non offensive fun, like what Star Wars should be.
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
At least the Marvel movies do what they say on the tin, entertaining well made action/kids movies. Non offensive fun, like what Star Wars should be.
You get the feeling that the big difference between the first 3 films and the rest is that the original trilogy were essentially simple childrens/fantasy/sci fi films. Lucas got far too clever with 1,2 and 3. These latest 3 have been pretty polarizing
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@canefan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
At least the Marvel movies do what they say on the tin, entertaining well made action/kids movies. Non offensive fun, like what Star Wars should be.
You get the feeling that the big difference between the first 3 films and the rest is that the original trilogy were essentially simple childrens/fantasy/sci fi films. Lucas got far too clever with 1,2 and 3. These latest 3 have been pretty polarizing
Yep, look at most Marvel films. Simple hero stories, like Star Wars used to be. K.I.S.S.
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I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Also Baby Yoda..
Yeah. This is where Filoni is clever. He found an avenue for exploration that even the multitude of fan fiction has hardly touched. We have only ever seen or heard of one of Yoda's species. In fact, up until this it was 'species unknown'.
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@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
I know that Filoni directed two episodes, but the Mandalorian is Favreau's baby. He's the creator and wrote the episodes.
Both are rumoured to have a larger role in Star Wars movies in the future. Hopefully Favreau gets to direct one.
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
I know that Filoni directed two episodes, but the Mandalorian is Favreau's baby. He's the creator and wrote the episodes.
Both are rumoured to have a larger role in Star Wars movies in the future. Hopefully Favreau gets to direct one.
Favreau is so fucken money
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Soooo was that Boba Fett at the end we see walking to the killed bounty?
Cobb Vanth is the more likely. He is current canon (from the Aftermath novels), lives on Tattoine, and wears Mando armour that he got from some Jawas that found it. The theory is that the Jawas found Boba's armour after the Sarlacc spat it out.
He is known as 'The Sheriff' which ties in with the episode title 'The Gunslinger'
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Caught the 12.01 screening of Episode 9 lastnight
Will have to watch again to digest it all.
Overall enjoyed it, felt the Leia scenes were show horned in, didn’t always work. Fast paced all the way through, lots of fan service.. lots of fan service.Definitely an improvement on episode 8
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@Virgil was just reading somethign saying is has been slayed by critics, putting it almost as low as Phantom Menace...
I often think it is just cool to think stuff is crap, I'll take the boy and make up our own minds.
