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Disney decision on Star Wars Franchise
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Gatsby77

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2 hours ago, Jaydee said:

 Rian Johnson will never get a Decent --script again and doesn't deserve one.  

Umm...Rian Johnson will never get a decent -script again?

You realize he wrote all five of the movies he's directed right?

That's:

Brick (80% postive RT)

The Brothers Bloom (68% positve RT) 

Looper (93% positive RT) 

The Last Jedi (91% positive RT)

Knives Out (forthcoming)

The only major projects he's directed that he *didn't* write were three episodes of Breaking Bad, two of which are considered among the series' best.

He, of all people, doesn't *need* a "decent -script" -- he'll just write one.

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9 hours ago, Broke as a Joke said:

Rather big reveal in the latest issue of Darth Vader by marvel.  The emperor manipulated his birth and these things are canon.

Lucas included that info in his first draft of Episode 3(the Opera scene) but decided to take it out so things would be kept more ambiguous.

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On 12/21/2018 at 7:55 PM, TwoPiece said:

I think that The Force Awakens was the perfect mix of nostalgia and new characters/content. I think that The Last Jedi completely disrespected the history of Star Wars.

I rather enjoyed The Last Jedi. I didn't like The Force Awakens since that was a movie I had already seen. Rogue One was fantastic and Solo was pretty good.

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NewEnglandGothic

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The Star Wars movies have always been a little derivative since "Return of the Jedi" with yet another Death Star to blowup.  Heck, even in "The Phantom Menace," a young hero had to blowup a space station at the end.

As long as the movies aren't as pandering as the "Ewok adventure" movies, I am good with the new ones.

I come from the generation of the "Star Wars Christmas Special," so I have seen truly bad from this franchise.  When I was a kid all we had was "Droids," on Saturday mornings and "Willow", with anticipation of a new prequel trilogy, that would come and disappoint, in my adulthood.

These new ones are what I have been waiting for as I approach 50. :) 

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Gatsby77

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3 hours ago, Oddball said:

I rather enjoyed The Last Jedi. I didn't like The Force Awakens since that was a movie I had already seen. Rogue One was fantastic and Solo was pretty good.

This.

With the exception of the casino planet scene running ~10 minutes too long, and our not seeing Adm. Ackbar's death, I loved The Last Jedi.

It dared to expand the story beyond the expected and showed real character growth for Luke, Leia, Poe, Finn, and Rey.

The trumped-up #nerdrage over it because it didn't fit y'all's headcanon is hilarious. Even more hilarious?

That it's been proven Russian bots helped amplify the fake rage to sew dissension about a film most critics and viewers loved.

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8 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

This.

With the exception of the casino planet scene running ~10 minutes too long, and our not seeing Adm. Ackbar's death, I loved The Last Jedi.

It dared to expand the story beyond the expected and showed real character growth for Luke, Leia, Poe, Finn, and Rey.

The trumped-up #nerdrage over it because it didn't fit y'all's headcanon is hilarious. Even more hilarious?

That it's been proven Russian bots helped amplify the fake rage to sew dissension about a film most critics and viewers loved.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi/

45% is most viewers?

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On 12/21/2018 at 6:26 AM, Chuck Gower said:

Click Bait. Let's do some actual journalistic editing!

 

Disney Resetting Star Wars (Misleading title - their not resetting anything.)

Following the poor performance and reception of Star Wars: The Last Jedi  (Uh.. once again it's one of only 8 movies to ever break half a million domestically and it's the 11th highest grossing film in the world EVER. No matter how many times they say it performed poorly, they are wrong. And critics and fans loved it.)   as well as Han Solo (Yeah, it didn't do well. The most retro, classic styled film of the new movies didn't do well.), Disney has placed the movie franchise on hold (Uh no - IX is filming right now), and now it is said they are resetting Star Wars (online nerds are saying that - not Disney)and giving fans time to heal. (Yeah, like they care about your pain.)

The news comes as a result of it learned that Disney (Please learn sentence structure)has now canceled LEGO Star Wars Day (completely unconfirmed - based upon the rumor of one person online who has no verifiable proof), the popular annual event held during the Spring at LEGOLAND California.

The Star Wars fan site, Rebel Scum, offers that LucasFilm stated "2018 would be the last year they do" LEGO Star Wars Day. (LucasFilm has not, that I can find, made any such statement.)

In addition, the site reports "an unnamed source at Disney (Ha ha ha)has suggested that the motivation was to refocus expenditure and limit Star Wars exposure to reset the franchise and allow fans to heal." (Mmm hmmm)

The LEGO fan site, The Brick Fan, further offers that a reason Disney also canceled LEGO Star Wars Day is to shift focus to The LEGO Movie 2. (Yeah sure - because Disney just doesn't have enough funds to do two movies at once. Duh.)

It's also said while there could be a chance for LEGO Star Wars Day to return at some point in the future, that in its current form, "it’s done for." (LucasFilm has not, that I can find, made any such statement.)

News of Disney canceling LEGO Star Wars Day and potentially resetting the franchise doesn't come as that much of a surprise, which is due to the huge failure of Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. (Uh.. once again it's one of only 8 movies to ever break half a million domestically and it's the 11th highest grossing film in the world EVER. No matter how many times they say it performed poorly, they are wrong. And critics and fans loved it.)

In the wake of The Last Jedi's failure, (You know) which subsequently saw the Han Solo movie as the worst performing Star Wars movie ever, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the Star Wars movies will be slowed down, (He said that, but not for the reasons you're implying.)and it is also known a new movie or franchise, thought to be from Rian Johnson, has been placed on the backburner or canceled. (Uh no, he did NOT say that.)

While the films are on hold, (IX is currently filming) Disney is now focusing on the Star Wars TV shows for their upcoming Disney+ streaming app, which includes the Jon Favreau The Mandalorian series and a Rogue One prequel starring Diego Luna reprising the role of Andor. (Yes, it appears one thing Disney IS doing that coincides with their company plan is bringing franchises into house for their OWN distribution and presentation.)

Star Wars: Episode IX gets released in December 2019 (correct!), with no new films in active development.(incorrect! Let's look back at Bob Iger's quote from September:)

“I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast. You can expect some slowdown, but that doesn’t mean we’re not gonna make films. J.J. [Abrams] is busy making [Episode] IX. We have creative entities, including [Game of Thrones creators David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, who are developing sagas of their own, which we haven’t been specific about. And we are just at the point where we’re gonna start making decisions about what comes next after J.J.’s. But I think we’re gonna be a little bit more careful about volume and timing.

 

(In other words, a completely erroneous and misleading article on yet another click bait site.)

I want to publicly thank you for saving me a LOT of time because I was about to do the same thing. 

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mattn792

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13 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

This.

With the exception of the casino planet scene running ~10 minutes too long, and our not seeing Adm. Ackbar's death, I loved The Last Jedi.

It dared to expand the story beyond the expected and showed real character growth for Luke, Leia, Poe, Finn, and Rey.

The trumped-up #nerdrage over it because it didn't fit y'all's headcanon is hilarious. Even more hilarious?

That it's been proven Russian bots helped amplify the fake rage to sew dissension about a film most critics and viewers loved.

I especially enjoyed Luke’s “character growth”...

 Wha’evah Maury!  I don’t gotta be some Jedi!  I do what I wahnt!  

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Catwomancomics

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6 hours ago, I like pie said:

Regardless of how much TLJ made, if it wasn't a horrible SW film, it would have double. That's why I consider it a failure.

That said, the article the OP posted is hot garbage.

I agree it would’ve made more. I saw TFA 3 times with different friends but TLJ just once. 

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