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News Boba Fett Movie in the Works With James Mangold

I feared this would happen with Disney. They’re going to really milk the cow, and I worry about the future of Star Wars. We already know that Rian is doing a whole another trilogy. So not counting IX, they already have four movies announced for the future and I guarantee they won’t stop there.

Remember the days when a Star Wars movie was an actual event? *sigh*
 
I feared this would happen with Disney. They’re going to really milk the cow, and I worry about the future of Star Wars. We already know that Rian is doing a whole another trilogy. So not counting IX, they already have four movies announced for the future and I guarantee they won’t stop there.

Remember the days when a Star Wars movie was an actual event? *sigh*
No one's forcing you to see these movies if it bothers you.
 
No one's forcing you to see these movies if it bothers you.

Did I ever say in my post that I’m boycotting?

My point is this: the general public may grow fatigued with Star Wars at this rate. It happened with Trek as we are all too familiar with. It may also lead to a decline in storytelling. That would not bode well for overall health for the franchise. And as all of us are Star Wars fans, I’m sure none of want the franchise to return to a dormancy because of diminishing returns.
 
Did I ever say in my post that I’m boycotting?

My point is this: the general public may grow fatigued with Star Wars at this rate. It happened with Trek as we are all too familiar with. It may also lead to a decline in storytelling. That would not bode well for overall health for the franchise. And as all of us are Star Wars fans, I’m sure none of want the franchise to return to a dormancy because of diminishing returns.

Thursday preview numbers for Solo were a little low for a Star Wars movie. Depending on how the rest of the weekend goes, we may already be at diminishing returns. I'm concerned with this coming six months on the heels of TLJ. I don't think it was the best decision. LFL has had a great turnout releasing their movies in December. Let me just say I'm sad, but not surprised to see this dropoff. I hope the year and a half between Solo and Ep9 will help a little with this. I think they need to go back, at least, to a movie every two years. Star Wars movies used to be something special. Let's not make them a dime a dozen.
 
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It'll be interesting, assuming Fett doesn't take his helmet off, who will they cast as the voice? Temuera Morrison or Dee Bradley Baker? Morrison shouldn't be difficult to get a hold of, he still does Star Wars video games so I doubt he'd be too difficult to bring back for a movie. But in all honesty, because of Clone Wars and Rebels, I actually prefer Baker's voice as Jango Fett clones.

Dee’s voice feels too cartoony for live action IMO.

Depending when they set the movie they could use Daniel Logan as a young Boba

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People didn't get fatigued with Star Trek because there were too many shows or movies. People got fatigued with Star Trek because the shows and movies declined in quality.

Marvel releases three movies a year, on top of multiple ongoing TV shows spread across several different networks, and people are clearly not fatigued with them. They won't become fatigued with Star Wars just because they're putting out one movie a year plus an animated TV show (and eventually a live action one).
 
I feared this would happen with Disney. They’re going to really milk the cow, and I worry about the future of Star Wars. We already know that Rian is doing a whole another trilogy. So not counting IX, they already have four movies announced for the future and I guarantee they won’t stop there.

Remember the days when a Star Wars movie was an actual event? *sigh*
Yes. And it was beyond frustrating to wait and wait for years and decades, hoping beyond all hope that they might possibly make a new Star Wars movie someday.

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Did I ever say in my post that I’m boycotting?

My point is this: the general public may grow fatigued with Star Wars at this rate. It happened with Trek as we are all too familiar with. It may also lead to a decline in storytelling. That would not bode well for overall health for the franchise. And as all of us are Star Wars fans, I’m sure none of want the franchise to return to a dormancy because of diminishing returns.
It happens. I grew up with just three films and a handful of toys. My daughters already have more to explore with Star Wars than I could imagine, and at a younger age.

Even if dormancy happens (and it does-such is the nature of things) there is a new generation exploring and creating.
 
Disney is going to squeeze that fruit till there's nothing left. I probably will see Solo when it's on Amazon. Probably.
If they base the Kenobi movie off the John Jackson Miller novel, I'll look forward to it greatly. It was easily my favorite Star Wars book, and it's just a timing mistake of a few months that had it be part of the EU cut-off.
 
People didn't get fatigued with Star Trek because there were too many shows or movies. People got fatigued with Star Trek because the shows and movies declined in quality.

That’s rather subjective, and I feel it’s because of the constant churning out of Trek media in such a short time period that writers were spread thin, studios wanted to play it safe with returns, and this the show suffered. By Trek’s end (late Voyager, Enterprise and Nemesis) it was churning out bland and mediocre stories. And thus the general public grew weary. Whether it was because they couldn’t keep up or because of quality decline from too much Trek cant be stated definitely.

Marvel releases three movies a year, on top of multiple ongoing TV shows spread across several different networks, and people are clearly not fatigued with them. They won't become fatigued with Star Wars just because they're putting out one movie a year plus an animated TV show (and eventually a live action one).

Apples and oranges; Marvel already had a vast, rich universe for material to pull from and had dozens of recognizable characters and villains to build a cinematic universe. They also have literally been attempting something-never done before, with 70 years of material to pull from that many have literally waited decades to see on screen.

Disney is literally working a blank slate besides the first six movies, as their “vast rich universe” the EU, was wiped out. For many reasons, most of them agreeable to me. It needed to be done. But that means they started from scratch in some ways. One might say that Disney could do the same as Marvel by pulling stories from EU novels and rebooting them; but many disagree saying the casual fans can’t follow that; yet that’s exactly what Marvel is doing; they take comic book fans favorite arcs (see for instance Civil War), some that casual fans may never have even heard of (see Extremis for example; I never knew about that arc before IM3) and then adapt them and retool them to make them box office friendly.

I also think MCU is lightning in a bottle, one of them being is that somehow they’ve produced mostly quality films with real few dogs, if any at all. I rarely see dissension for MCU films, mostly acclaim.

Star Wars meanwhile has had quite a divided reaction from the fan base and just like you argued that a decline in quality was the reason for Trek’s hiatus, could it be the same for Star Wars if that happens? Depends on who you ask. But if Solo diminishes in returns, I’ll be very interested to see the box office for Episode IX next year.
 
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They really ought to set this in the time between The Clone Wars and the "Classic Trilogy" era and, as noted, get Daniel Logan to star in it.

Otherwise, I don't see the point or the appeal.
 
2019: Episode IX
2020: Boba Fett: A Star Wars Story
2021: Rian Johnson Trilogy 1
2022: Obi-Wan: A Star Wars Story
2023: Rian Johnson 2
2024: Jabba the Hutt: A Star Wars Story
2025: Rian Johnson 3
2026: Jawas: A Star Wars Story
2027: Episode X (because Disney won't be able to resist)
2028: Lobot: A Star Wars Story
2029: Episode XI
2030: Jerjerrod: A Star Wars Story
2031: The Cantina Band: A Star Wars Story
2032: Episode XII
2033: The Goddamn Mouse Droid on the Death Star: A Star Wars Story
 
But Jesus, we really are going to get a new Star Wars movie every year until the heat death of the universe. Solo was a bad enough concept, but now we have to have a stand-alone movie about a plot device with like six lines of dialogue in one movie, and then in the next gets swallowed by a giant sand vagina monster because a blind guy with a stick booped his backpack. Yet he's loved by the Internet because ... I don't know, growing up with the toys or something? I mean, fuck, he's not even a character, he's just a cipher or a cudgel; he has cool armor and a reputation for disintegrating his bounties, I guess?

And I say that as someone who has loved essentially everything James Mangold has done in his career.

We're going to get The Cantina Band: A Star Wars Story in twenty years, at this rate.
I was going to write about my sheer apathy towards the character but this post sums up my feelings about the project exactly.

Meh.
 
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You think they'll stick with just one a year? How quaint. ;)
Yep. I'm thinking something more along the lines of...

2019: Episode IX

2020:
Boba Fett: A Star Wars Story

Summer 2021:
Princess Leia's Diaries: A SW Story (starring Millie Bobbie Brown)
Christmas 2021: Rian Johnson Trilogy 1/3

Summer 2022:
Obi-Wan: A Star Wars Story
Christmas 2022: Rian Johnson Trilogy 2/3

Summer 2023:
Jabba the Hutt: A Star Wars Story
Christmas 2023: Rian Johnson Trilogy 3/3

Summer 2024:
Jawas: A Star Wars Story
Christmas 2024: D.D. Weiss / David Benioff Trilogy 1/3

Summer 2025: Lobot: A Star Wars Story
Christmas 2025: D.B. Weiss / David Benioff Trilogy 2/3

Summer 2026: Chewbacca Origins: A Star Wars Story
Fall 2026: Scoundrels: A Star Wars Story - Part 1: Lando
Christmas 2026: D.B. Weiss / David Benioff Trilogy 3/3

Summer 2027: The Cantina Band: A Star Wars Story
Fall 2027: The Untitled John Favreau Dexter Jetster Movie (Favreau is fired half way through, replaced by Kevin Smith)
Christmas 2027: Mouse droid v. Lobot: Dawn of a Star Wars Story
 
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