I was just rewatching the Red Letter Media TFA predictions. Rich Evans predicts exactly what Luke does in TLJ, two years before it came out.
About 9 min 55 sec......
https://youtu.be/oifhpT0HZ7Q?t=598
Rian Johnson does know about RLM and has mentioned them in the past. I wonder if he "got inspired" by watching this.
I'm reminded of their Guardians of the Galaxy VOL1 review. Mike mistakenly says "Gardens of the galaxy" (which is a joke that made the vol2 trailers) and Jay responds that he'd like to see a movie about people going from planet to planet planting gardens. Ego ends up putting a plant on every planet he visits.
Wow, the guy is not only a hack writer but a potential plagiarist as well. I`m going to bribe my nephew and niece to go through all the Harry Potter`s again and see what else he got from that saga apart from Broom Boy.
ADDITION. Not entirely his fault though, he took on something to make a name for himself with the big budget boys that he was clearly out of his depth with and was given an impossible deadline to get it done just to get a product out.
You know what I dont get about this movie that people dont think is weird, is how much the director has to explain himself about scenes,plot holes, logic etc, and how much supplemental material you have to read in order for the movie to not seem like crap.
Ep IX could be one or two things. Either an answer movie, or a continuation of these stories, that will end up like a TV series, that go back and forth, where people die and people take their place. I could imagine a GOT or TWD type story
You left out one, or a clean up operation.
LFL wanted RJ back for IX, but he turned them down.
JJ has his work cut out for him. As flawed as TFA was, it left me with questions I wanted answered. The biggest crime of TLJ to me is that we have wasted a middle trilogy film covering the 36 hour aftermath of the first film. And now... I don't care what happens in IX. Starkiller Base and the Supremacy have been destroyed, so Kylo is leading the crippled remnant of the FO against the 17 people left alive who made it out on the Falcon. Not sure if Kylo will have the balls to face any ship with a hyperdrive.You left out one, or a clean up operation.
JJ has his work cut out for him. As flawed as TFA was, it left me with questions I wanted answered. The biggest crime of TLJ to me is that we have wasted a middle trilogy film covering the 36 hour aftermath of the first film. And now... I don't care what happens in IX. Starkiller Base and the Supremacy have been destroyed, so Kylo is leading the crippled remnant of the FO against the 17 people left alive who made it out on the Falcon. Not sure if Kylo will have the balls to face any ship with a hyperdrive.
The Most Breathtaking Moment in ‘The Last Jedi’ Is Also Its Greatest Threat to ‘Star Wars’ Lore
https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/20/16800970/vice-admiral-holdo-maneuver-the-last-jedi
Couldn`t agree more. Let me tell you who else has no interest whatsoever in Episode IX. China.
http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/01/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-chinese-theaters-dump-92-percent/
The worlds second largest market has cut screenings of TLJ by 92% after only seven days, thats right, one week. WOW. Disney spent an absolute fortune on marketing for this wreck including a bucket full on China`s most popular pop star etc. Add this to the cost of re re shoots and anticipated failure of Solo, and it shows how quickly a bubble can burst.
Guess that Disney dont have the same kind of strangle hold contracts that they have with US theatre chains.
It's unclear if he was actually offered it or not. Here's an article that runs it down, but that's before they announced he was doing his own trilogy...What's the source on that?
Because Disney ran this whole franchise on a name. Buying a product, just because of the name, does not make it a good product. And the world is getting smart to it.
Hey maybe I can get more for my truck if I stick a big Nike sticker on it?
I'm sorry, but this is just a uniformed comment. Disney is the best franchise builder and media manager company in the world. From their own franchises developed internally such as Pirates of the Caribbean, all the Pixar films, to their purchase and handling of Marvel and now Star Wars they make the best film series products in the world. It's fine if you don't like them but you just can't make that criticism with any intellectual honesty.