Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread
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https://twitter.com/theericgoldman/status/1737263111072309448
None of the Star Wars stuff coming out in 2024 have dates yet.
None of the Star Wars stuff coming out in 2024 have dates yet.
A different spelling of Luke’s home…
https://theconversation.com/tatahou...-sheds-light-on-the-early-solar-system-220100
https://theconversation.com/tatahou...-sheds-light-on-the-early-solar-system-220100
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14824620/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
why isn't the above mention in the photo from Eric Goldman
why isn't the above mention in the photo from Eric Goldman
Isn't that a fan film?
sorry, I finally caught the bottom of the page that says "Budget $3K"
I know there's already a thread for the Mando/Grogu movie, but the announcement also included confirmation that Ahsoka is getting a second season, so I thought that was worth noting here.
Oh and I updated the list of projects in the first post of this thread, for those struggling to keep track of what's been announced already.
Oh and I updated the list of projects in the first post of this thread, for those struggling to keep track of what's been announced already.
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With us now getting R and TV-MA rated MCU production, do you think there's any chance we'll ever get TV-MA or R rated Star Wars? I know Star War is primarily thought of as PG or PG-13/TV-14 kind of franchise, but I would have said the same thing about the core MCU too before Echo and Deadpool 3.
I know the Netflix shows were all TV-MA, but those had been kind of off in their own little corner and weren't connected to the rest of the franchise the way Echo is.
I know the Netflix shows were all TV-MA, but those had been kind of off in their own little corner and weren't connected to the rest of the franchise the way Echo is.
It's not impossible, but I don't see LF being any hurry to cross that line. 'Andor' is likely as close as they're going to get anytime soon, and I'm fine with that.
Personally I think 'Star Wars' looses something when it strays a little too far from the fantasy fairytail of it all. The EU repeatedly tried to make the franchise more "edgy" and it never worked very well; the Vong, the whole Legacy thing, basically anything focusing on the clones or Mandos (pre-TCW). Mostly it just came off as shallow and puerile.
It's fine for Star Wars to use different tones and emphasis certain genre influences over others, but I feel going full on mature is anathema to what and who it's supposed to be for.
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Agreed. It doesn't work very well, and even when ROTS pushed for PG-13 it took it to a level that I felt was right at the line but not to go further.
Andor, similarly, pushed closer to that line, but it started to lose that fantasy appeal at times. It feels like it could easily be in our world in terms of pushing against a tyrannical government. It gets too close and then that magic is gone.
It's why Ahsoka appeals more to me than Andor in terms of characters. The characters are good, but I like the magic.
I think 'Andor' did a fine job of balancing it's tone. Yes, the political intrigue dial got cranked all the way up to 10 while the "Flash Gordon serial pulp" dial got turned down to about a 3, but to me it still felt like Star Wars. There were still the weird little quirky things like Bee, Vetch, the fishermen brothers, Niamos, that little alien bloke at the dispatch office, etc.
Compare that to 'Ahsoka' which had the pulp at about an 8, the politics down to like 5 and the "Kurosawa" & "Tolkien" dials at a 10. Or 'Mando' that has the politics all the way down to a 3, with the pulp and "John Ford/Sergio Leone Western" dial at about a 9. For 'The Acolyte' I fully expect it to have the 'noir' and 'Jedi martial arts' cranked all the way up.
It's all still Star Wars to me, just with different aspects and influences emphasised over others. But there's no "adults only" dial for Star Wars and there shouldn't be. It always just pulls all the joy out of it whenever anyone tries, and Star Wars without the joy it just a repulsive notion.
Compare that to 'Ahsoka' which had the pulp at about an 8, the politics down to like 5 and the "Kurosawa" & "Tolkien" dials at a 10. Or 'Mando' that has the politics all the way down to a 3, with the pulp and "John Ford/Sergio Leone Western" dial at about a 9. For 'The Acolyte' I fully expect it to have the 'noir' and 'Jedi martial arts' cranked all the way up.
It's all still Star Wars to me, just with different aspects and influences emphasised over others. But there's no "adults only" dial for Star Wars and there shouldn't be. It always just pulls all the joy out of it whenever anyone tries, and Star Wars without the joy it just a repulsive notion.
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Of course, SW has always done that on some level. The original SW was reflective of the Nixon/Vietnam era. And let's just say that TCW season 7 was a bit, er, conveniently timed, as it turned out. And there was the whole thing about liberty dying to thunderous applause... not that anything like that actually happened in the real world.
Of course.Of course, SW has always done that on some level. The original SW was reflective of the Nixon/Vietnam era. And let's just say that TCW season 7 was a bit, er, conveniently timed, as it turned out. And there was the whole thing about liberty dying to thunderous applause... not that anything like that actually happened in the real world.
Andor was more explicit.
I wouldn't go that far. The tone of "Part Two: Toil and Trouble" of Ahsoka meshes very well with the tone of Andor, in much the same way "Chapter 19: The Convert" of The Mandalorian does.
Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (aka EpIV and EpV) differ quite a bit in tone; it's like two different movements of the same symphony.
That's the type of thing I see here in Ahsoka/Mando/Andor overall. It's like different songs on the same album, hardly different genres.
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Sorry, brain glitch.