Yes, I think he'd be interested if he had a meatier role
There's also Dermot Crowley (General Madine)....he's currently in 'The Death of Stalin'....also in the Jackie Chan film 'The Foreigner' & on TV 'Luther'....excellent actor
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I guess he saw the script and thought this is c#@! - The signs were there all along.
I didn't say he disliked his involvement, I meant he had some dislikes and whatever reasons to advise Ewan against Star Wars. Just looked up, apparently he denied finding the TFA part "boring", he said it was schedule conflicts.I don’t think he dislikes his participation in the films, he does the convention circuit. I recall he just wasn’t motivated for a brief cameo in TFA.
1. It's not over for me. I'm really looking forward to seeing where things go next. I think the table is wide open to take the story in any number of other directions. I LOVE that it's not just following the established formula, and that the end isn't a foregone conclusion. Love it, love it, love it. I think the notion that there's "no story left to tell" is utter bollocks once you accept the fact that the overarching path of the prior films need not dictate the future of the franchise. I think there's TONS of story left to tell, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there are a lot of threads left hanging at the end of Ep. IX which will continue into an Ep. X and likely beyond. The First Order isn't just going to fold up the tent overnight, even if Kylo Ren is defeated. The future of the Force and those who wield it is wide open, with no (traditional) Jedi, no Sith, and the primary Force user apparently being Rey who seems like a real blend of what we've traditionally viewed as light and dark, dispassion and passion. We have no idea what the state of the galaxy will be at the end of Ep. IX, other than "Pretty disrupted."
2. I am quite certain it's not over for any of the people out there who continue to complain about how Ep. VIII didn't meet their expectations because there is no way they're going to stop complaining any time soon, at least if the last several months are any indication. That said, it'll end eventually, and they'll either make peace with the film, or just move on altogether. I went through the same thing with the prequels. Suffice to say that the story of the Star Wars franchise and the universe itself is far, far from over, and is going to continue to expand and evolve.
Call me easily emotionally manipulated by a movie and excessively sentimental but I loved the “Broom Boy” coda at the end and hope to see him back as a teenager in IX.
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Joking guys......I only want quality,....I just want LFL to work harder next time & not be complacent
...perhaps old news,....but Mark goes into detail on Georges plans,.....
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-...d-luke-skywalkers-death-in-episode-ix-a159012
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"George had an overall arc – if he didn't have all the details, he had sort of an overall feel for where the [sequel trilogy was] going – but this one's more like a relay race. You run and hand the torch off to the next guy, he picks it up and goes."
From that article.......
Does anyone else still get the feeling that Hamill is still not satisfied with TLJ, despite the turnaround? It feels like he's still torpedoing the production. Just far more subtlety now.
Trying to make a trilogy "Relay Race" style just seems like the dumbest way to go about it. Leaving the next guy to grab the baton, or in JJ's case pick up the baton that RJ dropped.
Bravo on GL for knowing which direction he wanted to go for all three movies.
I defiantly think Mark wanted Luke to make it to IX as a living character and I think coming from a working actor that desire is understandable.
I think GL's "plan" was always kinda vague. he had a very rough sense for "Basically, I want to end up here" but not a lot of details filled in on how to get there. The myth of him as the master-planner who "always intended" to do XYZ is put to rest by the twists and turns the films took from conception to creation. Vader as Luke's father, Leia as Luke's sister, Wookiees enslaved giving way to teddy bears, etc. You ask me, the most honest reveal about Lucas' creative process comes not from Star Wars but from Raiders of the Lost Ark. "I dunno! I'm makin' this up as I go!"
In seriousness, though, I think Lucas had rough plans, about where A was, maybe where E and M were, and where Z would end up being, and everything else kinda got filled in later. Which, I thought, was basically the case with this trilogy.
The thing about a relay race, though -- you know where the finish line is, even if one person isn't running the whole thing.
He had said that in another interview. He would just have shown his face, not having to do much or any real acting.Just looked up, apparently [Denis Lawson] denied finding the TFA part "boring", he said it was schedule conflicts.
There's no evidence of that for the sequel trilogy, in fact the evidence points to precisely the opposite (as in, they've pretty much stated outright that that isn't the case). Yes, things were shuffled and changed in the OT films, but GL started the journey with the overarching story, where things started and where they were going to end and yes perhaps he was making the rest up as he went, but point A and point Z were always the same. That's decidedly not the case with these movies.In seriousness, though, I think Lucas had rough plans, about where A was, maybe where E and M were, and where Z would end up being, and everything else kinda got filled in later. Which, I thought, was basically the case with this trilogy.
Ok, here's what I think is up.
I think, based on that, that these same folks have taken comments by Mark Hamill (and maybe others?) and focused heavily on the more free-form approach to telling the story of these films, all basically focused around the fact that "there is no plan." I'm not sure where this idea came from, whether it was solely Mark or someone else or some mix of comments from different sources, but I rather doubt that LFL has literally zero idea of where they want the story to end up. .
That's not what bothered me about the film,.....tonally, it didn't feel like a Star Wars film right from the start similarly how Alien 3 or Superman 3 doesn't fit in with their predecessors.... although there has always been humour in Star Wars (a lot better in the OT,....Jar Jar stepping in poo??),....but the humour or comedy moments are in a completely different style....which is kind of awkward & geeky
Right from the start of the film there was the Poe pranking Hux scene.....which everyone has picked up on,...there was also the BB8 scene where he goes into the inside of the X-Wing, where there was way too much space in there,....the multitude of appendages that came out of the droid?.....this was when my smile started to fade
The many times when there were 'earthly' sayings in the film took me out of the moment.....they were jarring.....A First Order Officer says "Bloody".....so he speaks in an English accent....& he swears with a mild English swear word.....In the real SW films swearing & cursing were in the SW universe,....Han about to be thrown into the Sarlac calls Jabba 'Worm ridden filth",....Leia calls Han a 'Nerf Herder"......other 'earthly' words or slang were "Chrome Dome",.....& Snoke teases Kylo by saying he was "bested" by a girl....."Bested???....it's not even a proper word.....could you imagine Obi-Wan, Palpatine or even Yoda......(Who says "page turner")...saying bested?.....it's just not in the Universe......would lingo like this even appear in the EU?.....This may sound as petty, but all the other films carefully kept you inside the SW bubble,....this is what made the films unique,....much like BattleStar Galactica with it's 'Frek"
Now either this is a conscious decision to move away from the SW lore, or RJ doesn't even know he's doing it,....which worries me more
The nonsensical plot has been mentioned umpteen times,.....as I said in a previous post,....a bit like Star Trek Into Darkness,....the film is like a rectangle,....starts at the bottom left corner (A).....goes up to top left corner (B),...along to top right corner (C),...then down to bottom right (D).....when you finish the film,....& can look back, you realise that going from A to D would have been much easier & the B to C was pointless
The arcs of Poe & Finn are not needed,....they proved themselves in TFA,...the two films don't gel
Yes I gelt that Luke got a lame death.....but by that point in the film I had already given up
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"Big assed door"
"*******!"
That is unforgivable. Johnson is such a hack - he is out of his depth.