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Disney Scraps Plans For Further Star Wars Storys

Sure did.. I would run and hide if my Nads got nicked by the Cranky Purple Haired monster, and all the Female leadership too.
Yeah, for some strange reason, disobeying a direct order and causing the deaths of fighter and bomber crews and the loss of craft and materiel will get you demoted, reprimanded, and shut out of the loop. But, funnily enough, not castrated, as you're implying. That didn't happen to Poe in TLJ, either literally or figuratively.
 
There's no reason the fandom can't absorb one Star Wars feature per year.
That's a steady tempo... and I liked the seasonal, year end holiday flavor to it, but I guess that seems like too much Star Wars for some people?

Seems I'm always selling RedLetterMedia. They have an interesting idea about how the feature films could be rolled out only to hardcore fans (wink, wink) as an immersive, exclusive experience and charge $100 a ticket.

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It's not the craziest idea.
 
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Yeah, for some strange reason, disobeying a direct order and causing the deaths of fighter and bomber crews and the loss of craft and materiel will get you demoted, reprimanded, and shut out of the loop. But, funnily enough, not castrated, as you're implying. That didn't happen to Poe in TLJ, either literally or figuratively.
In the actual military, you'll find that most if not all lower ranking soldiers are rarely included on top secret information and disobeying orders and getting your fellow soldiers killed in the process isn't taken well. If anything Poe got it easy, if they weren't running for their lives he'd probably be courtmartialed if he wasn't immediately thrown into prison to await a trial.

You'll also find that this isn't an attack on manhood either, it's how shit has worked for centuries. I'm not sure where he got that idea.
 
Damnit.

Despite the box office, I freaking love SOLO. I wasn't excited for it, but it's probably my favorite SW movie since the '80s.

The stand-alone Anthology concept really works for me -- R1 was sweet too. It's a shame they're moving away from these.
 
Damnit.

Despite the box office, I freaking love SOLO. I wasn't excited for it, but it's probably my favorite SW movie since the '80s.

The stand-alone Anthology concept really works for me -- R1 was sweet too. It's a shame they're moving away from these.
I doubt they are. This is a rumor from a site that has bias against the Disney Star Wars films, it's almost certainly bullshit. Especially since Disney hasn't even responded to it. There are just a lot of people who take joy in that idea and are happy to push it because ruining Star Wars for actual fans bring joy to their lives.
 
There's no reason the fandom can't absorb one Star Wars feature per year.
That's a steady tempo... and I liked the seasonal, year end holiday flavor to it, but I guess that seems like too much Star Wars for some people

A big part of the appeal of Star Wars was the rarity. When (and if) new Wars movies came out, it was a once-in-a-generation event. They were special.

Disney took a once-scarce commodity, flooded the market with it, and the value dropped. Whoda thunk?
 
A big part of the appeal of Star Wars was the rarity. When (and if) new Wars movies came out, it was a once-in-a-generation event. They were special.

Disney took a once-scarce commodity, flooded the market with it, and the value dropped. Whoda thunk?
I get your point, but for the OT and the PT, movies were actually a thrice-in-a-generation event. Minor nitpick to your overall point. One film per year forever and ever would indeed represent flooding the market by comparison.
 
dare I say it Rian Johnson. Though once they come to terms with the fact that it was the backlash from his shitty movie that created this whole embarrassing debacle and put them in this situation in the first place, we'll probably be getting news about his departure next
I'm honestly curious about this backlash. I enjoyed The Last Jedi and struggle to see why so many people seem to have had an issue with it. Sure it wasn't the greatest movie but I didn't think it was that bad, especially given that Johnson had the challenge of creating the middle part of a trilogy with no idea what was planned for the end.
 
Do an Obi-Wan trilogy
What is there that is left to show us of Obi-Wan? We've seen the end of his training with Qui Gon, his time training Anakin, the Clone Wars, and his settlement on Tatooine. What else is there to see? Unless he settled on Tatooine to keep an eye on Luke and then left to have some other adventures before returning again. We've seen his entire story now and there's no need for anything more.
 
I'm honestly curious about this backlash. I enjoyed The Last Jedi and struggle to see why so many people seem to have had an issue with it. Sure it wasn't the greatest movie but I didn't think it was that bad, especially given that Johnson had the challenge of creating the middle part of a trilogy with no idea what was planned for the end.

I'm not convinced there is a backlash, rather the impression of one create din the minds of a surprisingly small minority who insist that their own insecurities represent a collective view of the fan base, justifying it after the fact with faux intellectualisations.

I agree, the film wasn't bad at all.
 
I'm honestly curious about this backlash. I enjoyed The Last Jedi and struggle to see why so many people seem to have had an issue with it. Sure it wasn't the greatest movie but I didn't think it was that bad, especially given that Johnson had the challenge of creating the middle part of a trilogy with no idea what was planned for the end.

There is no backlash outside of a small pocket of the Internet that's pissed-off that Luke wasn't a Sith-slaying superhero and is intent on convincing the world that Rian Johnson hates Star Wars.
 
There is no backlash outside of a small pocket of the Internet that's pissed-off that Luke wasn't a Sith-slaying superhero and is intent on convincing the world that Rian Johnson hates Star Wars.
That's my impression too. People seem to blame this mythical backlash as the reason Solo hasn't done so well, but I suspect that has more to do with the sacking of the original directors and the significant refilming, as well as rumours of the need for an acting coach for the star. These have given a negative impression to people who have stayed away. It also probably wasn't helpful to have this released so quickly after TLJ, a gap of a year between movies would work better in my opinion.
 
It's also worth remembering that it's not just public-perception or marketing issues. Cost overruns on Solo due to the extensive reshoots, perhaps doubling the budget, raised the box office threshold for profitability, and that would have been true no matter when the film was released. Without a need for reshoots, it might easily have been successful, even released in May. Assuming they were needed, of course, something we can't really know.
 
That's my impression too. People seem to blame this mythical backlash as the reason Solo hasn't done so well, but I suspect that has more to do with the sacking of the original directors and the significant refilming, as well as rumours of the need for an acting coach for the star. These have given a negative impression to people who have stayed away. It also probably wasn't helpful to have this released so quickly after TLJ, a gap of a year between movies would work better in my opinion.

I don't think the gap itself was an issue, per se, nor does the moviegoing public at large care about director changes, but I've talked about this at length in other threads: The marketing for Solo was unbelievably bad and it was rather patently clear that Disney was seeing the movie as a sunk cost. Remember, we didn't see promo photos or a teaser until like three months before the movie was released.

Rogue One's marketing campaign was clear right from the start; this was a movie about the Death Star. With Solo, we were never given a reason to care.
 
There is no backlash outside of a small pocket of the Internet that's pissed-off that Luke wasn't a Sith-slaying superhero and is intent on convincing the world that Rian Johnson hates Star Wars.
I doubt it's even 10% of the fandom. Just a noisy minority with the delusion that they represent the majority. Episode IX will probably make over a billion dollars like TFA and TLJ. That's what this small group likes to forget, the great failure called The Last Jedi made $1.3 billion. What an embarrassment for Disney! It made slightly less than the most successful movie in history! These people are a joke.
 
Sure did.. I would run and hide if my Nads got nicked by the Cranky Purple Haired monster, and all the Female leadership too.
I must admit I got a bit of a cheap thrill at the end of Force when Luke turned around and it ended on all the promise of his story. A story that began with the very first Star Wars. The Last Jedi crapped all over that.
 
Luke turned around and it ended on all the promise of his story.
I never got that from TFA. I didn't think TLJ would be Luke's story. It was always going to be about Rey and the rest of the new cast. I never expected Luke to be anything other then the Obi-Wan (from the original trilogy) of this story. A bit player, nothing more. The fact that he got what I felt was a pretty awesome ending in TLJ was a bonus for me. But in reality, his story was done in the original trilogy.
 
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