cboath
Master Member
Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
I know - but, Kirshner and Marquand were not give free reign to do whatever the hell they wanted either. They were given a script and told - direct this. Changes likely were made and guaranteed they had to be approved by George. Today, they seem to be turning everything over and there's no one for central approval of story. The story group should be setting the story and director's executing it. It should not be director's making up whatever they want to and the story group just massaging into the line so the it's somewhat coherent for the next section.
In broad strokes, a Trilogy is a single story with subplot that are broken up into three films. You shouldn't finish act II and have absolutely no clue what happens in act III. It's basic story structure. Yes, the OT skews that a bit in it's first part, but that was strictly because there was no guarantee they'd make more. They had the guarantee of ROTJ when working on ESB and the whole of the prequels were guaranteed before a scene was shot as is the case with the ST.
There's zero excuse to start the ST without a broad stroked layout of all three parts and it's clear there wasn't. It was you do part 1, this guy will do 2 based on your one this guy does three off his 2. No planning, no collaboration. And it's flat out the wrong way to go.
Actually George was only writer and director for 1,2,3, and 4. For 5, 6 he only wrote the story, with the screenplays and directing responsibilities going to other people.
I know - but, Kirshner and Marquand were not give free reign to do whatever the hell they wanted either. They were given a script and told - direct this. Changes likely were made and guaranteed they had to be approved by George. Today, they seem to be turning everything over and there's no one for central approval of story. The story group should be setting the story and director's executing it. It should not be director's making up whatever they want to and the story group just massaging into the line so the it's somewhat coherent for the next section.
In broad strokes, a Trilogy is a single story with subplot that are broken up into three films. You shouldn't finish act II and have absolutely no clue what happens in act III. It's basic story structure. Yes, the OT skews that a bit in it's first part, but that was strictly because there was no guarantee they'd make more. They had the guarantee of ROTJ when working on ESB and the whole of the prequels were guaranteed before a scene was shot as is the case with the ST.
There's zero excuse to start the ST without a broad stroked layout of all three parts and it's clear there wasn't. It was you do part 1, this guy will do 2 based on your one this guy does three off his 2. No planning, no collaboration. And it's flat out the wrong way to go.