Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread
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I have no idea how the business side of any of this works. I had thought someone like her would just set aside so much money for some many movies or shows or whatever, and then the more specific stuff would go to the other producers or whoever were working on those individual projects.
From some of the other comments it sounds like she is a bit more directly involved in the individual projects than I thought.
One comparison I was just thinking about that I do find interesting, is that Star Wars has a whole series of record breaking, $1,000,000,000+ movies, and record breaking streaming series, and she's a massive failure and the worst thing to happen to the franchise and needs to be fire, but Kevin Feige over at Marvel has had a whole string of legitimate failures, and the only reaction is that people hope he can turn things around and that the next movies will be more successful. It's really kind of odd.
From some of the other comments it sounds like she is a bit more directly involved in the individual projects than I thought.
One comparison I was just thinking about that I do find interesting, is that Star Wars has a whole series of record breaking, $1,000,000,000+ movies, and record breaking streaming series, and she's a massive failure and the worst thing to happen to the franchise and needs to be fire, but Kevin Feige over at Marvel has had a whole string of legitimate failures, and the only reaction is that people hope he can turn things around and that the next movies will be more successful. It's really kind of odd.
I have some thoughts on that concerning a key difference between Kevin Feige and Kathleen Kennedy...
Is it the hat?
Well obviously! What else could it possibly be?
I'm amazed that we've been getting Star Wars comics published by Marvel for 9 years, and we haven't gotten a Marvel Univers/Star Wars crossover. It seems like a total no brain, I mean who wouldn't want to see Darth Vader fighting the Avengers, or Luke Skywalker vs Doctor Doom.
I doubt that a story like that would be approved by Lucasfilm.
Thankfully.
N̈ot even a "what if"????
Perhaps a Lego movie.
Now that I'm actually surprised they haven't done yet.
The major difference is that the Disney era's productions (including all of the bad) are all supposed to be an official part of the in-universe narrative, a contrast to the Lucas years, where the Ewoks & Droids cartoons and the Holiday Special were never considered canon, so being failed or misguided productions did not damage the reputation / perception of the OT in the way so much of Disney/LFL's SW output is an official part of the in-universe narrative, weakening the overall effect (or perception) of this era of productions.
Ah, that's a good point, I didn't think about Lucasfilm. I just figured with all of the crazy comic crossovers we've been getting the last few years, that would fit right in with the rest of them. I mean hell, Star Trek even got in on the action with Planet of the Apes, Green Lanter, Legion of Superherioes, Doctor Who, and Transformers. But I guess Lucasfilm does tend to be a bit more protective of their property than a lot of the other companies are.
Disney era Lucasfilm has done a few non-canon productions, like the LEGO specials, and Visions, so they're not totally against releasing some intentionally non-canon stuff.
The LEGO stuff seems to weirdly operate in a canon grey-zone. The general philosophy seems to be that they treat them as if they're LEGO adaptations of canon Star Wars stories, that just so happen to not actually exist . . . but they *could* (even 'Visions' takes a very similar approach.) Even at it's wackiest they still keep true to the spirit of Star Wars, all the while having fun with it. Indeed, for the 'Freemaker' show, they even went so far to design the main characters as actual people in Star Wars, and reverse engineered the mini-fig designs from there.
So yeah; while I could see Star Wars characters and the like to show up in other LEGO movies/specials with an emphasis on franchise cross-overs (as they already have done), I don't think that's a two-way street so far as LF is concerned.
So yeah; while I could see Star Wars characters and the like to show up in other LEGO movies/specials with an emphasis on franchise cross-overs (as they already have done), I don't think that's a two-way street so far as LF is concerned.
Has Star Wars ever crossed over with another franchise? I mean full on crossovers, not just silly cameos. The closes thing I can think of right now is the Star Wars episode of The Muppet Show, which had 3PO, R2, Chewie and Mark Hamill as both himself and Luke. I'm not counting the Family Guy episodes, since they were Family Guy adaptations of The Original Trilogy, not crossovers with the two casts interacting.
