WTF is Kathleen Kennedy smoking? (claims no source material for good movies)
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MajesticLion
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Life is absurd. Lean into it.
I don't even like Star Wars and know this is a bullshyt statement.
How did they put her in charge of this series?
How did they put her in charge of this series?
Excuses, smh.
lol why even say anything. Kennedy and company digging themselves deeper and deeper.
It's obvious they were banking on nostalgia and extracting
from the SW brand as much (and as fast) as possible to re-coup the cost of buying lucasfilm. 
Which is why KK and Disney had no outline for episodes 7-9 and basically had no issue with certain directors doing whatever and now they scrambling cause the brand is sullied and money is drying.
lol why even say anything. Kennedy and company digging themselves deeper and deeper.
It's obvious they were banking on nostalgia and extracting
from the SW brand as much (and as fast) as possible to re-coup the cost of buying lucasfilm. Which is why KK and Disney had no outline for episodes 7-9 and basically had no issue with certain directors doing whatever and now they scrambling cause the brand is sullied and money is drying.
What's incredible is that they already had the blueprint on how to do this right with the MCU and they still fukked it up worse than Warner Brothers did the DCUExcuses, smh.
lol why even say anything. Kennedy and company digging themselves deeper and deeper.
It's obvious they were banking on nostalgia and extracting
Which is why KK and Disney had no outline for episodes 7-9 and basically had no issue with certain directors doing whatever and now they scrambling cause the brand is sullied and money is drying.
TheDarceKnight
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There’s definitely more bad movies than good ones.
I think a big problem is that (while I admit I’m not very familiar with the novels, games, comics, and non-canon EU) that it’s set in a giant galaxy but it’s a rather small scale story. The idea of creating a cinematic universe out of it in hindsight seems like an overly ambitious idea to say the least.
Also, I think they overestimated the public’s appetite. Star Wars is fun largely *because* it doesn’t drop a new film every year. Again, there’s not enough meat on the bone to warrant dropping annual Star Wars flicks.
If they were willing to actually take new chances and tell entirely new stories then I think they could make it work. But it’s too large a studio for them to take those kinds of creative risks.
TheDarceKnight
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I get your point. And they should’ve had a plan. But I still don’t think Star Wars lends itself to a cinematic universe in even close to the way that Marvel or DC does.What's incredible is that they already had the blueprint on how to do this right with the MCU and they still fukked it up worse than Warner Brothers did the DCU
DragonKnight
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I spoke too soon. I love mandorian
Lucas hired Kennedy weeks before Disney bought Lucasfilm lol
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
She was named Co-Chair of lucasfilm in May 2012...Disney bought Lucas out in Oct and promoted her to president.
this was lucas way of saying fukk you to all the star wars nerds who made youtube videos shytting on the prequels, basically I will take my ball and go home
the fans don't realize star wars was always trash and made zero sense, The Empire Strike Back is the only good movie in the franchise till this day, and lucas didn't write the script or direct it
but they at least followed his story treatments, which is all Disney had to do
the fans don't realize star wars was always trash and made zero sense, The Empire Strike Back is the only good movie in the franchise till this day, and lucas didn't write the script or direct it
but they at least followed his story treatments, which is all Disney had to do
It's not about having a cinematic universe it's about having a plan
For whatever nikkas wanna say about the MCU it's an astonishing feat in planning.
Disney HAD a plan with Star Wars, which was to try to shill empty rehashes of the og trilogy as an anchor for them to flood the market with Star Wars content.
Nikkas saw the game with TFA, the entire plan fell apart, and they've been freestyling ever since
They hit the lick, but now they're doing 120 and there's cash all over the freeway
TheDarceKnight
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i agree with this too. It’s the height of stupidity to plan on doing a new trilogy of movies and not plan the story out ahead of time
They definitely planned the trilogy out. It just didn't work
Disney and JJ went the super safe route and just remade A New Hope while trying to phase out the og characters.
Nikkas wasn't going for it
thats precisely why TLJ became the mess it did.
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TheDarceKnight
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They planned it out in the sense of a plan they were going to make it, but they didn’t plan how they wanted the trilogy to end ahead of time. They let JJ write the first one, and then they let Johnson write the second one, and then now they brought in JJ back to write the third one.They definitely planned the trilogy out. It just didn't work
Disney and JJ went the super safe route and just remade A New Hope while trying to phase out the og characters.
Nikkas wasn't going to it
But JJ and Johnson both had full creative control and was allowed to do what they wanted.
What I meant is like...on shows like Breaking Bad and Mr Robot the creators know pretty much how the shows are going to end ahead of time, or at least have a road map.
On the new Star Wars trilogy each director has just winged it based on how they thought the story should go.
There’s a reason they were even still filming for episode 9 here in November and it drops next month. Apparently they have 6 endings filmed and are testing them and no one is really feeling any of them.
My point is that you don’t need to film six endings for your final movie if you have a plan on how it’s going to end to begin with