Star Wars News Thread

[mr.negativity]

[jellydonut25]

hooray, now every time a Disney film gets announced that's not INSTANTLY recognizable as something else, the "is it a cover for Star Wars?" stories are going to happen

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]

[MekaGojira3k]

[lhb412]

[mr.negativity]

[MouthForWar]

[Rodanex]

[mr.negativity]

[quote="J.W. Rinzler"]
The long conjectured third Star Wars trilogy has kept fans guessing for decades, and may even have a few numerologists working on their mysteries. George Lucas’ shifting feelings about future Star Wars trilogies have consistently clouded the picture. Given the difficulties associated with the birth of Star Wars in 1977, it’s no wonder that Lucas’s ideas kaleidoscoped. When trying to get such a big undertaking up and running and out the door, visions of the future are understandably hazy. But, as of October 30, 2012, Episodes VII, VIII and IX have been announced as real and soon to be tangible — but they’ve existed as gossamer spirits for nearly 40 years.

On December 29, 1975, in conversation with Alan Dean Foster per the novelization of Star Wars, Lucas mentioned the prequel trilogy along with what would become Episodes V and VI: “I want to have Luke kiss the Princess in the second book. In the third book, I want the story just about the soap opera of the Skywalker family, which ends with the destruction of the Empire. Then someday I want to do the back story of Kenobi as a young man – a story of the Jedi and how the Emperor eventually takes over and turns the whole thing from a Republic into an Empire, and tricks all the Jedi and kills them. The whole battle where Luke’s father gets killed. That would be impossible to do, but it’s great to dream about.â€

[jellydonut25]

[mr.negativity]

From EW:

[Alpha OTS]

I enjoyed the Zahn trilogy when I originally read it. I didn't think some of it would translate all that well to film at the time. In particular, I still don't like the ysalamari "force bubble blocking" creatures.

[mr.negativity]

[ultrazilla2000]

[mr.negativity]

From LR:



From MarketSaw:

[MouthForWar]

Vaughn is a decent director, but I honestly don't think he's good enough for Star Wars... He still has A LOT to learn about things like tone and pacing. And even if he didn't have those problems, I don't even think he's fit for Star Wars. NOTHING about him says "Star Wars" to me. I simply don't think he's good enough OR a decent match as far as aesthetics go.

Let's face it, Star Wars has its own built in thing and they can't just get whatever the hot name is just because he's a hot name. Whedon is too self aware, Blomkamp is too inexperienced, Aronofsky is too outside the box, Spielberg COULD do it but I SERIOUSLY doubt he'd even consider it, and Vaughn just flat out ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH in my opinion.

That leaves us with Alfonso Cuaron, who is the only name on the list that I feel ok with. Honestly, every single other name that's been brought up has been a horrible choice for Star Wars.

[MekaGojira3k]

None of the names I've seen are particularly appealing. Although an Alfonso Cuaron Star Wars film sounds pretty interesting.

[MouthForWar]

Its not even like I'm a huge Cuaron fan or anything, but something about him just seems to fit Star Wars more than these other fellas.

[king_ghidorah]

[Rodanex]

[jellydonut25]

[king_ghidorah]

[The Real McCoy]

First, I'll say that I have a very minimal knowledge of the business world. Having said this, I don't like seeing Disney (or any big corporation for that matter) eating up other companies, but they do seem to generally care about what they acquire. I'm very interested to see what the future holds for this project.

Surely at the very least we won't be getting a special edition every three or four years with a bunch of junk being added to it for no reason.

[O.Supreme]