News Adam Driver tried to bring back Kylo Ren with the help of Steven Soderbergh

[Qonundrum]

I may not like it, but I guess if Ventress can come back, anyone can come back.

Or Darth Maul. ("Solo" had quite the development hell, but taking down some of the sophomoric humor late in the day while bringing in Maul as one hell of a hook could have gone somewhere. Maul was easily one of the best things about the 1997 prequel.)

 

[Set Harth]

Maul was easily one of the best things about the 1997 prequel.

The only thing we got in 1997 was a lousy special edition.

 

[Qonundrum]

Thank God for Disney nixing this idea. The last thing I want is Kylo Whine in another Star Wars production.

The sequel trilogy was a mixed bag. The new character archetypes were not uninteresting. Taking too many plot beats from the original trilogy was the first sign of things not being perfect. Not having a consistent plan for the three sequel movies was another, and "The Last Jedi" wasn't a total mistake either. TRoS was too busy wasting time in course correction and also did what should have been done for TFA in having death star technology now in star destroyers as the audience was already there and didn't need a spoonfed rehash but with super new abilities that Leia and Luke and Vader and Obi and the Professor and Mary Ann and the rest would easily have had (and would have come in handy with!).

Long story short after telling the long stuff as tangent, Kylo never had too much chance to get refined development and there are some scenes where he feels like an unpredictable menace - which I think was the intent behind his unexpected emotional reactions. There's a robust idea in that, and the sequel trilogy nailed the iconic look and tone of Star Wars in the way the prequels hadn't. The trilogy just didn't know how to really embrace and use the characters to the fullest extent, and scriptwriting isn't the easiest of things to do either... the fact TFA at least gave the characters something interesting was pretty huge.

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(Adam Driver nails the menace wonderfully in this scene. But that mask...)


Never mind that mask, which isn't a patch on Vader's disco original, didn't need to wear one either to make the character work, and didn't need to make a return for TRoS either. Looked like they nicked it from the Muppet Star Wars episode where Gonzo the Great wore it and he would be Vader's Muppet stand-in, natch...

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(Really, that nose is nothing to sneeze at.)

 

[Qonundrum]

The only thing we got in 1997 was a lousy special edition.

Oops, The Phantom Goodmovie was in 1999, wasn't it... my bad!