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Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins is Directing a Rogue Squadron Movie
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If only there was a show being made that was set during the High Republic era, with a mystery/thriller theme and a focus on what the Sith were up to in the centuries between Bane and Sidious. They could even call it 'The Acolyte", or something like that!
Oh wait, there is!
Oh wait, there is!
No need to get personal.
I know, I know...I'm trying my best to manage it...
Isn't that what the Yuuzhan Vong was in the Expanded Universe? Complaints about too much rehashing on 'imperial remnants and the empire knock-offs' So they introduced a wildly different culture, with different goals and a way to combat the force.
the problem with the Yuuzhan Vong wasn't that it was a new concept, it's that it was a BAD new concept. New ideas are all very well and good but the execution still has to have merit.
The High Republic are certainly trying some new things that I think land much better. This way it's not really about some big threat (threats do happen, but those are just window dressing), but it's about how a civilization reaches it's peak, and despite the best of intentions begins to slide into degradation.
The Yuuzhan Vong conflict wasn't really *about* anything. It was just a bunch of scary monsters to make everything awful and angsty.
Yes, but it was so poorly done.
I did stop reading the EU books for the most part in the middle of the YV arc. One there were no way too many books coming out at the same time, and I was starting to work full time and having less energy to read books and the new Internet when we finally got something that wasn't dail up.
I hated the Vong, but I was curious how they would have been portrayed in Clone Wars if that episode had been made.
From what little we know, they would have not been immune to the Force since that would have gone against George's concept of the force.
The story itself would have been a X-Files style alien abduction story of the Vong testing the Republic's stregnth.
Filoni had some sketches, but that doesn't mean that's how they would have looked in a hypothetical final episode
From what little we know, they would have not been immune to the Force since that would have gone against George's concept of the force.
The story itself would have been a X-Files style alien abduction story of the Vong testing the Republic's stregnth.
Filoni had some sketches, but that doesn't mean that's how they would have looked in a hypothetical final episode
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Even when they did the Alphabet Squadron novels, which kind of seem like the post-Disney version of Rogue Squadron, at least on the basic level of a novel series focused on a fighter squadron, they set them fairly shortly after Endor.
Isn't that enough? The only way I could see another large scale war on that level working is if we jump way back to the war between the Jedi/Republic vs the Sith, and even that isn't really new, since it was established a long time ago, and has been covered quite a bit in the Legends EU.
Well 'Alphabet Squadron' wasn't really about the war, or even really the mop-up operation as a whole; it was about a very small intelligence taskforce chasing down a very specific elite Imperial unit that was part of Operation Cinder and presented an ongoing clear and present danger to the galaxy at large. Less 'Top Gun', much more 'The Fugitive' but from the other side.
Even then the *actual* focus was how the character Yrica Quell coped with the guilt of what she'd done as part of the Empire and how she struggled to make up for it. It's the story of a repentant sinner.
The strikes are delaying projects left and right.
I bet Disney really wish they had a Rogue Squadron movie in the can by now. Or at the very least a completed script, for which they could be filming and animating the dogfights during the strike, with cockpit actor shots to be quickly and easily shot later.
Doin' a heckuva job, Lucasfilm!
I bet Disney really wish they had a Rogue Squadron movie in the can by now. Or at the very least a completed script, for which they could be filming and animating the dogfights during the strike, with cockpit actor shots to be quickly and easily shot later.
Doin' a heckuva job, Lucasfilm!
With who?
The strikes are delaying projects left and right.
I bet Disney really wish they had a Rogue Squadron movie in the can by now. Or at the very least a completed script, for which they could be filming and animating the dogfights during the strike, with cockpit actor shots to be quickly and easily shot later.
Doin' a heckuva job, Lucasfilm!
Yeah, because doing the effects work before live action is totally how filmmaking works.
In that particular case, yet. Post-production isn't when you need all the CG ready to project on an LED screen on your set.
Yeah, but without a script you can't storyboard the thing, and without that visualization you'd have a devil of a time trying to pre-produce the vfx shots.
You either end up having to redo a lot of that work, or try to shoehorn a story / script into the work that has already been done, and I don't see any director being keen on tackling that can of worms.
You either end up having to redo a lot of that work, or try to shoehorn a story / script into the work that has already been done, and I don't see any director being keen on tackling that can of worms.
Looks like someone does.
It wasn't a bad novel but it didn't really engage me as much as the Stackpole novels.
