Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019
2019
Big Year for movies:
Marvel = DEAD
Star Wars = DEAD
Game of Thrones = DEAD
2019
Big Year for movies:
Marvel = DEAD
Star Wars = DEAD
Game of Thrones = DEAD
"So how many SW panels is this for you, Lieutenant?"
"38, live-streamed."
"How many Celebrations?"
"Uh two, including this one."
"Huh-oh man."
2019
Big Year for movies:
Marvel = DEAD
Star Wars = DEAD
Game of Thrones = DEAD
Don't worry, they'll make more.2019
Big Year for movies:
Marvel = DEAD
Star Wars = DEAD
Game of Thrones = DEAD
The time line for episode nine just came to me. JJ had only 2 years to make a script, film and create FX for a Star Wars movie that last ended in basically no direction. Is JJ that good?
I wasn’t supposed to be there. I wasn’t the guy, ya’ know? I was working on some other things, and I had something else that I was assuming would be the next project, if we’d be so lucky. And then Kathy Kennedy called and said, ‘Would you really, seriously, consider coming aboard?’ And once that started, it all happened pretty quickly. The whole thing was a crazy leap of faith. And there was an actual moment when I nearly said, ‘No, I’m not going to do this.
To have no script and to have a release date and have it be essentially a two-year window when you’re saying (to yourself), you’ve got two years from the decision to do it to release, and you have literally nothing . . . . You don’t have the story, you don’t have the cast, you don’t have the designers, the sets. There was a crew, and there were things that will be worked on for the version that preceded ours, but this was starting over.
It was a completely unknown scenario. I had some gut instincts about where the story would have gone. But without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on seven before we met. So he was taking the thing in another direction. So we also had to respond to Episode VIII. So our movie was not just following what we had started, it was following what we had started and then had been advanced by someone else.
So there was that, and, finally, it was resolving nine movies. While there are some threads of larger ideas and some big picture things that had been conceived decades ago and a lot of ideas that Lawrence Kasdan and I had when we were doing Episode VII, the lack of absolute inevitability, the lack of a complete structure for this thing, given the way it was being run was an enormous challenge.
Strangely, we were sort of relentless and almost unbearably disciplined about the story and forcing ourselves to question and answer some fundamental things that at the beginning, I absolutely had no clue how we would begin to address. I feel like we’ve gotten to a place—without jinxing anything or sounding more confident than I deserve to be—I feel like we’re in a place where we might have something incredibly special. So I feel relief being home, and I feel gratitude that I got to do it. And more than anything, I’m excited about what I think we might have.
Don't worry, they'll make more.
Yep. Every version.
1977 Star Wars
1981 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1983 Return of the Jedi
1986 Star Tours Disney Ride
1997 Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition
1999 The Phantom Menace
2002 Attack of the Clones (film version where Padme doesn't take Anakin's hand at the wedding ceremony)
2002 Attach of the Clones (digital version where Padme does take his mechanical hand)
2005 Revenge of the Sith film version (screen wipe to crispy Anakin on the side of the bank)
2005 Revenge of the Sith digital version (hard cut to crispy Anakin)
2008 The Clone Wars
2011 New Disney Star Tours (and *I* was the Rebel Spy, lol)
2012 The Phantom Menace 3D
2015 The Force Awakens
2016 Rogue One
2017 The Last Jedi
2018 Solo
Actually it looks like the one and only version I ever missed on the big screen was the 2002 AOTC IMAX cut which from everything I've heard was vastly superior to the full length version.
I'd be shocked if GOT spinoff/prequel and the next phase of the MCU maintained the quality of the previous works. But I'm excited to see what's next, especially for GOT.Yeah but we'll always remember 2019 as the end of the line for some major franchises.
Especially for end of the 1st 10-year-plan (movies) and the best series ever (television)
Except for Phantom menace in 3D and the Clone Wars movie, I was at the theater for all of them as well.Yep. Every version.
1977 Star Wars
1981 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1983 Return of the Jedi
1986 Star Tours Disney Ride
1997 Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition
1999 The Phantom Menace
2002 Attack of the Clones (film version where Padme doesn't take Anakin's hand at the wedding ceremony)
2002 Attach of the Clones (digital version where Padme does take his mechanical hand)
2005 Revenge of the Sith film version (screen wipe to crispy Anakin on the side of the bank)
2005 Revenge of the Sith digital version (hard cut to crispy Anakin)
2008 The Clone Wars
2011 New Disney Star Tours (and *I* was the Rebel Spy, lol)
2012 The Phantom Menace 3D
2015 The Force Awakens
2016 Rogue One
2017 The Last Jedi
2018 Solo
Actually it looks like the one and only version I ever missed on the big screen was the 2002 AOTC IMAX cut which from everything I've heard was vastly superior to the full length version.
Marvel ain’t dead. They got xmen and ff back.
I'd be shocked if GOT spinoff/prequel and the next phase of the MCU maintained the quality of the previous works. But I'm excited to see what's next, especially for GOT.
I didn't realize there were differences in episode 2 and 3. I knew about the imax version of episode 2 but that's it.
Except for Phantom menace in 3D and the Clone Wars movie, I was at the theater for all of them as well.
Did you actually see the Clone Wars movie at the theater, or are you just talking about the show?
Phase 4 just won't be like Phase 1 - 2 - 3
There won't be a grand plan. They'll just be feeling their way around for while. That doesn't have the makings of good things to come.
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