Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Considering we've had a movie in recent years with "Unobtanium" in it I think you can be forgiven.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII And at least he was more creative than the lame ass writers in ST who pawned the word, 'tritanium' from titanium as if adding the word, 'tri,' makes it some kind of upgrade.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Huh, now this is odd. My understanding was the spin-offs were for the in-between years of each the trilogy's main releases. For example, the pattern would go: 2015: Episode VII 2016: Spin-off 2017: Episode VIII 2018: Spin-off 2019: Episode IX The spin-off directed by Gareth Edwards is confirmed for 2016, which that article even mentions. Is Disney already selecting a director for a 2018 film? Or are we actually going to end up with multiple Star Wars films in the same year? Not unheard of, Disney and Marvel do two movies a year set in their Avengers shared universe. That's going to oversaturate the market. Disney should learn the lesson of Rick Berman's mistakes.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII That's fantastic. It just reminds me of how Star Wars really channeled our imaginations as kids, and you never know what crop would spring such fertile soil!
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII But, as you say, Marvel's been doing two a year. Doesn't seem to have hurt them.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Not yet, anyway. Although, since Winter Soldier is so far the top opening weekend of the year, they do seem safe bets, I guess.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Yeah it does seem a little early to announce a director for a 2018 film. But there's also been talk of there being three spinoffs and not two, which suggests that one of those would have to be released the same year as one of the Episodes. As for over-saturation, I agree it's a risk. But as long as the quality is good I don't think we'll have to worry too much. The problem with Trek towards the end was you had a couple of lackluster movies being released alongside a couple of tired and generic TV spinoffs. It would have been hard for people not to feel worn out by that point. Lol
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII True, it wasn't exactly the most original thing to name a substance - but it's still a hundred times better sounding and just one-millionth as stupid-sounding as "unobtainium." Tritanium....yeah, it sounds like an unimaginative play on a real substance but unobtainium sounds like a dumbass vitamin supplement for octogenarians who can't pass stool.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Funny thing is - This is what Lucas originally wanted to do - have lots of other people do Spin-offs while he was busying making "serious" films. The reference "there is another" was (according to some) was a line about one of the characters in a spin-off film rather than Leia.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII I'm really not at all excited about the spin-off films.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII If they could make each of these spinoffs feel truly unique let the directors bring a very different (and perhaps harder-edged) style to them, I think they could be really cool. But unfortunately it's doubtful Disney would ever give them that much freedom, since they'll still want these movies to be as family-friendly as possible.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII I'm actually more excited about the spin-off films. I'd ratehr watch a crime drama set in this galaxy's underworld than the story of the Skywalkers.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII I still think that leaves a lot of room for directors to try some things we've never seen in a Star Wars movie before. I suspect Disney will be willing to take a few more risks with the spinoffs.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII I'd love to see a Boba Fett movie be as dark as they can make it and still feel comfortable with a PG or PG-13 rating and carrying the Disney corporate name. I realize Boba's an antihero who only looks good because most of the people and creatures he faces off against are even worse than he, but there's room to make a very atmospheric and dark bounty hunting and crime film with a space twist if they write and film the thing just right and remember that - even though we know based on the Prequels who Boba really is and his origins - the character himself deliberately surrounds himself with an air of mystery and few words in order to spin his reputation and he squares off against a galaxy of fellow bounty hunters, criminals and smugglers who don't share his particular code of honor and ethics.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII ^I think that's a great take on it. Fett is ruthless and even cold-blooded...but he's not evil. He's just doing business.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII He has his own code and limitations he imposes upon himself. He's ruthless, but he's not the vile scum that so many other bounty hunters of that galaxy are. By most of our standards he'd be a bad guy, but when juxtaposed with many of the rogues, criminals and killers of that universe he's, like his father once described himself, just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe. He's good at what he does and he makes no apologies for it, staying true to himself and his own principles.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII BTW, when I donated to the Star Wars charity contest, I got an email that in addition to being entered into appearing in the movie, people who enter in the first two weeks are ALSO entered in a contest to win a free trip to the Star Wars Celebration convention!!! And it said that there will be other similar bonuses given out for donations in the future.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII That's an EU interpretation. It might all go out the window.
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII I thought they were for the in-between years too, but I was expecting the trilogy to follow the old "three years between" pattern: 2015: Episode VII 2016: Spin-off 2017: Spin-off 2018: Episode VIII 2019: Spin-off 2020: Spin-off 2021: Episode IX
Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII Maybe. Maybe not. They'd be smart to retain and build upon it because it makes Boba a more interesting and textured character than just a cloned, one-dimensional bad guy who hunts bounties or the cool guy in the background who wears neat body armor and rarely speaks. Those might be more than enough criteria to make ten or more action figures of a character, but a movie character that you want to watch for two hours or longer on the big screen and enjoy probably needs just a little bit more.