Kathleen Kennedy bashing is deeply boring and unoriginal at this point, to put it mildly. That said, she's certainly not doing herself any favors by announcing projects that are SO early in the development process that they could easily fade away, as so many have already done. Better to keep a lid on any potential projects until they're in the actual pre-production stage.
Agree. Any complaints towards Kennedy should go to LFL because it's absurdist at this point. But, yeah, stop announcing projects until you have a release date.
I've just announced a Kino Loy vs. Snoke movie, but haven't asked Andy Serkis if he's even interested yet. I will randomly pick the writer and director from this thread.
While I think Kennedy is one of the best things to happen to the franchise, I do agree that she might be a little too quick to announce every project that they're working on\.
Some of this may be corporate politics. When they show up to the annual investor meetings they're expected to have *something* to show off or talk about. So it's either talk about what's already mid-production (which they generally don't like to do; LF has always been understandably secretive) or announce what's new in the development pipeline. I think the misunderstanding comes from the general audience not understanding that in this business, it's perfectly normal for some things to be in constant development cycles for years, while others steam right past them, and indeed for most projects to get cancelled and shelved before much of anything is done beyond some concept art and general pitch documents. You just tend not to hear about them because most Hollywood projects aren't Star Wars and thus not worthy of undue attention. Everything Star Wars is scrutinized, and there's always some reporter scrabbling for some scrap of "exclusive" information.
I think many fans forget the business side of Star Wars and film production, which causes this frustration. Things in Hollywood take time, talent and money and companies have to have something to show for their efforts to woo those things in to their fold. Welcome to business.
Fans universally loved his contributions to Star Trek Into Darkness, so this is a wise decision on the part of Disney.
All very true but I also think fans have been spoiled by the consistency and largely controversial-free (Ike Perlmutter's "no female or non-white led superhero films" mandate aside) rollout from Marvel with nary a cancellation, let alone so many missteps.
Oh there's been a few bumps along the way, but with such a long road a deep volume of successful titles it's easy to forget the failured and neverwere projects: - 'Marvel's Most Wanted' & 'Ghost Rider Series' AoS spin-offs were both cancelled. There's also the 'Black Widow' movie that was delayed for years. As was 'Ant-Man' after a falling out with Edgar Wright, then there's the messy parting of ways with Norton after the 'Incredible Hulk' that left it's multiple sequels cancelled and dangling plot threads left on ice for over a decade while the main character squatted as a side-character in other movies. Oh and who can forget the unmitigated disaster that was 'Inhumans' (unwarranted theatrical IMAX release and all) that had originally begun development as a movie. Indeed, so was 'Runaways' way back in Phase 1. All that's just off the top of my head. I'm probably forgetting a few, and I'm not even counting the various aborted X-Men & Spider-Man related projects announced by both Fox & Sony that never materialised.
Yeah, but most of those were on the televised side and were separate from the MCU film production line. Plus, Black Widow partially falls under the Ike bullshit mandate (and it couldn't help the COVID issues). But fair points about The Incredible Hulk (which was quite painful for me at the time) and Ant-Man (although most non-fans probably wouldn't have even noticed that happened). On the film series side, those are the only really big missteps, which are seemingly pale to the growing pains here. To be clear, I specifically mean the Feige-operated Marvel film series, especially after Ike was shuffled off to another section within Marvel.
I think SW under Disney suffered somewhat because there was a few too many movies churned out every year (likely contributing to Solo objectively tanking on the big screen and The Rise Of Skywalker ending the Sequels on a rather formulaic, disjointed note). That's why things have gone silent around the Sequel era and big screen productions for years now.
Well if they want to continue with at least some of the character. Rey still needs to restart the Jedi or similar organization again for Force users. There probably is a 80 or so year old Mandalorean Foundling out there that could use a refresher course of the Force after Order 66 and leaving Luke's school would make young Grogu rusty.
There's still plenty there. Like I said both 'Runaways' and 'Inhumans' were initially going to be on the movie side (the latter got a logo on the phase 3 announcement timeline graphic and everything!) They've supposedly been trying to develop a Namor movie for *years* with no luck (and they still technically haven't gotten one yet!) There's been word of a 'Ka-Zar' movie in development that went nowhere, same with a supposed projects for 'Captain Britain', 'Cable', 'Nighthawk' and I think there was event talk of a 'Vision' solo movie early on in Phase One (that probably morphed or got rolled into AoU.) Oh and in more current news it looks as if the 'Blade' movie is floundering. And that's just the stuff he heard about. Marvel Studios is even more secretive the LF in a lot of ways, so for every one that story that makes it out into the wild, there's probably 10 others that never got any further than a pith meeting and maybe a few drafts. That is how a franchise do. Which is kind of my point about this whole thing: it happens *all the time* in Hollywood and most people outside of the industry have no clue. Short of some huge scandal linked to a project, it's only in major franchises we really get to hear about *any* of it, and as I said, what we do hear about is the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah...but none of that was officially announced except Inhumans (and it was at the tail end of the planned timeline before it changed). As for Namor, the reason it never got off was because of years of very tangled rights issues. I'm guessing his inclusion in the Black Panther was possible the same way Hulk can appear in other films but not one with his name in the title. Everything else is just rumors, which is beside the point. Hardly messy or controversial.