More Star Wars? Yes, please.
Rian Johnson trilogy canceled
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I want them to play around with different genres. The Mandalorian does this with westerns. Really explore what can be done with the franchise, that’s what makes the Marvel movies interesting they’re all different genres that all happen to exist in the same universe and it’s full of superheroes.
Exactly. The Star Wars universe is vast. I am hoping that moving beyond the Skywalker saga will open up a lot more possibilities.
I want a Star Wars horror film. The EU had zombies. They don’t have to go that far, but stick someone on a planet full of scary creatures and they have to fight their way off.
I'm all for exploring different genres. The one thing I want Star Wars to keep is it being special. I don't think the four movies a year that Marvel is about to get to makes sense for this series. Let's keep it at one every other year or something. There is such a thing as oversaturation.
Sure they are. Propaganda can mean all sorts of stuff, from morale boosting to misinformation campaigns to, yes, virtue signalling. You're saying that because you don't like the way the term is currently being used, those two words have no meaning when used together. When the BTK Killer, who was not a government, went to church for decades, was he not virtue signalling? Etc. Point is, you're not a grand arbiter on the English language.
If more women had been involved in the writing and directing of TFA/TLJ, they might not have been so terrible.
Then don't say I'm being smug. If you can't take it, don't dish it.
And I find that argument to be completely absurd. Even if you feel, as I do, that TFA/TLJ were wretched rehashes of the OT, and that Kennedy has made a creative mess out of the first four years of her tenure by overseeing two terrible movies, two mediocre animated shows, and two passable prequels to ANH, none of which have laid any solid storytelling groundwork for the future of the franchise, finding a future for the Star Wars franchise, with Disney's resources and paychecks, is one of the most enviable tasks on the planet. It's creative control, production capability, and a loudspeaker to a massive and overwhelmingly supportive fan base without equal in the entertainment world.
As Kennedy herself noted in the Rolling Stone interview, the storytelling possibilities ahead are endless. Sure, that was also true when Disney took over four years ago, and now Luke and Han are miserable and dead, and Carrie Fisher has passed away, but, as you say, what's done is done. If Kennedy privately feels she's stuck in an "unenviable task" - which I don't believe she does, and which she publicly denies - she's under no obligation to stick around.
BTK was a psychopath and not a good example of the average human being. A psychopath by definition does not feel empathy or emotions like the rest of us. You’re trying to apply the thought processes of psychopaths to the entire species which is worrying.
I’ll just ignore your attempt to be condescending.
ETA: If you pick up a history book, you’ll also see that being religious isn’t a sign of nonviolence. It’s quite the opposite and commonly used as a justification for murder.
No, it's not, because the fan base will turn on them the moment one thing is out of line. So much so that it drove Lucas out of the business. It is not enviable.
Possum, perhaps you're right about this term. I probably haven't thought nearly as much about it as you have. Very well, I concede the point, and apologize for being an ass. 
The fact that many of Hollywood's most esteemed and powerful people continue to flock to the franchise suggests otherwise.
Agree to disagree. This fan base has become so negative that I wouldn't blame them for not wanting to do it.
I like SW but there is no excuse for treating these content creators the way they have been.
Possum, perhaps you're right about this term. I probably haven't thought nearly as much about it as you have. Very well, I concede the point, and apologize for being an ass.
Ugh, the ONE time you have a point, and you give in...
That's certainly true, and I have a good deal of sympathy for Kelly Marie Tran, and the harassment she's endured. As for the likes of Lucas and Kennedy, however... well, Lucas is an oddball and always has been. I have no idea to what extent fan outrage genuinely wounded him, or to what extent he may be using it as a cover for his reticence to do the stressful work of filmmaking. As for Kennedy, I don't know her at all - unlike George, I haven't spoken with her for a fleeting moment - but, I'd be surprised if she cares about trollery from people she'll never meet. She's from a generation that's older and tougher-skinned in a lot of ways than our perpetual grievance culture, and has earned her stripes in the business; I'm sure she's faced down far worse in person than whining, vituperative YouTube rants.
I'm not perfect!
This is what they needed to be doing from the start, and it's why I always thought the 'side-movies' were an absolutely necessary step forward for the franchise (albeit, perhaps too much, too soon, and building one around Han Solo without any involvement from Harrison Ford was a very questionable decision). It never made any sense to me how much people were obsessively against the very idea of a story about some rogue agents stealing important information because 'it's just a book story' (as if that movie in the modern world rather than Star Wars wouldn't be a completely normal action movie). Or why Boba Fett was somehow fundamentally unworkable even though he's basically a total blank slate character with a really cool look and the potential for an entirely different kind of story (bounty hunting and so forth).
The more this franchise is willing to expand into that wider universe, the more likely I am to become a fan of the franchise as a whole, rather than a few specific movies/characters.
The novel Death Troopers was awesome. And zombie Chewie slaughtering his family during Life Day celebrations is exactly the kind of legitimizing the Holiday Special I think everyone can go for.
The stuff from Clone Wars with the witches on Dathomir could be perfect for setting a horror movie vibe.
I suppose it would help if I clarified, that was a dream. Brought on after Chewie was infected by the zombie virus, which reacts differently to Wookiee biology. His body is able to fight it, but while it does, he's plagued with dreams in which he is a zombie slaughtering his family on Life Day.
Creepy. AF.
I would watch a remake of the Holiday Special. Cover Poe in so much makeup he’s unrecognizable, Rey looks visibly annoyed that she’s there and Finn does a lot of drugs and sings a song. They can hire Betty White too. We’ll need a comedian to not be funny in three roles and some actor who used to be famous.
There's a story going around that a director other than Rian Johnson has been hired for a new Star Wars movie coming out in 2022. They've already said that Lucasfilm won't be officially announcing their next movie until January 2020, so they haven't said anything.
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