New big-screen Star Wars Rey movie announced at SW Celebration 2023
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Paul Andrew
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I find that the shows provide some emotional and plot context, and the fact that they came after doesn't hurt anything for me.No amount of backfill fixes the movies. Plain and simple. They screwed up with the way the did it by not filling in the blanks so to speak. They were done assuming what they gave at that time was good and enough and it wasn't. Using stuff like the clone wars or possibly the mandalorian stuff to fill in those blanks doesn't do anything to improve the movies as they were made. It's simply telling more stories and trying to fix the narrative they were going for.
If you have to watch the clone wars for PT to be good for you, or all the mando stuff plus whatever else they fill in that gap with to make the ST good for you, then they failed at their jobs and nothing fixes that.
Now...that sounds like i hate everything not OT and that isn't the true at all. There some bad and some good in the PT and ST...those levels vary per person, just stating that other shows can't fix what came before. It's like building a crappy bridge across a canyon. If you do a terrible job and someone else comes along an fixes it later on, you still did a terrible job and your bridge sucked. If someone tries driving across your version, they plummet to their deaths in fiery crash.
kalkamel
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JPH
Sr Member
B...but she identifies as a Skywalker.
I can visualize it now:
REY ....Rey... rey
SKYWalk....skywalk...skywalk
ER....Er...er
Rey, visibly pregnant, holding a wailing infant, slaving over a boiling pot, uses the Force to break a handfull of spaghetti in half before dropping it into the water. She opens a half-used jar of red sauce, sniffs it, wrinkles her nose and pours it out revealing green and brown chunks of mold and *something* down the sink. Kids of not-too-seperate ages, filthy and wearing rags are running around, breaking stuff, teasing each other, screaming, trashing the place.
Cut to Kylo, sprawled out on a couch, wearing a multi-stained wife-beater, pot-bellied, surrounded by drained beer cans and old, used spaghettii plates. He scratches himself and burp-shouts, "REYYYY!"
JPH
Sr Member
WHo shot O Bi.
Agreed, and all I can think… what the HELL are
they thinking? Do kids love the sequels so much they want it continuing because they have doubled down on theme park attractions? There has to be some business rationale to this.
Well…turns out all the media is wrong.
Mike Zeroh has delivered a MAJOR scoop.
It turns out that George Lucas is coming back to rescue the franchise!
Why is no one else reporting this MAJOR news??
Mike Zeroh has delivered a MAJOR scoop.
It turns out that George Lucas is coming back to rescue the franchise!
Why is no one else reporting this MAJOR news??
Wolfsburg
Master Member
I'm curious about the other two movies that haven't had much discussion. Mangold's "First Jedi" movie set 25,000(?!) years ago and Filoni's movie, which seems to be the finale of the "Mandoverse" from what I understand. I find that strange because I thought Favreau had said recently they had no ending in mind and would basically keep making new Mando seasons for the foreseeable future.
Going way back in time is the only sensible option to me. Total clean start.
Here's a quote from an article on James Mangold's upcoming projects...
"James Mangold’s movie will go back to the dawn of the Jedi, while Dave Filoni’s will focus on the New Republic, and close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and other Disney+ series. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film will be set after the events of Rise of Skywalker, and feature Daisy Ridley back as Rey as she builds a new Jedi Order."
Here's a link to the article, including the news that he's writing & directing a SWAMP THING film...
UPDATE! James Mangold Confirms He's Writing His Own 'Star Wars' Film, Set in New Era With New Characters - Star Wars News Net
James Mangold has revealed some early details on his Star Wars film about the dawn of the Jedi, including that he's writing it too.
www.starwarsnewsnet.com
Wolfsburg
Master Member
A "Biblical epic" exploring the origins of the Force and the Jedi has the potential to be incredible if handled right. There's a part of me that wishes George Lucas could provide some input but I know that's highly unlikely. If I recall correctly, one of George's abandoned ideas for the earliest days of that era had the first Jedi being known as "the skywalker", I assume someone that could fly, levitate, etc. Presumably Luke was originally to be descended from this person all these generations later. I had always hoped the Force could be explored more although when it was explored in TCW and Rebels, admittedly Filoni's handling of most of it was too goofy for me.
I have to respectfully disagree. It sounds like a great idea on paper but I've found that with Star Wars, the more you expand on the lore, it tends to muddy up the simplicity of that universe as was the case with midichlorians for example or the "Whills" should they introduce it. Just keep the Force as a mysterious spiritual energy. No need to expand further. Let our imaginations fill in the blanks.
Thankfully I can go back to my Star Wars safe place... the ice cream truck outside our elementary school selling Star Wars Bubblegum cards. There was only one movie, one Star Wars, one obsessed out of our fool little minds fandom.
Wolfsburg
Master Member
Well I'd still argue it comes down to execution though I do agree I haven't really liked what explorations there have been thus far. I'll concede it might be best left alone but I still think it *could* be neat, however unlikely it actually will be. I wouldn't necessarily want the Force "explained" but it would be neat to see how it was first discovered or employed.
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