I like the old EU a lot, and obviously the Stackpole and Zahn books.
Nobody's taken my copies. I'll still read and enjoy them.
Nobody's taken my copies. I'll still read and enjoy them.
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens
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The thing is, without the internet to tell us that JJ is keeping things a secret, we wouldn't even know he was keeping things a secret.
All of this.
It's a new Star Wars movie. You're going. Why do you need to know anything at all in advance?
There's already lots of merchandise out there, from all three eras: PT, OT, and (shall we call it) NT. It's a Star Wars world out there.
I don't like the idea that Star Wars sells itself, even the prequels had several trailers. Disney doesn't seem to understand marketing, the MCU movies are under Marvel and they promote their movies, but Disney's own movies like Tomorrowland, The Lone Ranger and John Carter were marketing disasters and they too should have been to sell themselves.
My dislike of Chewie's death is twofold:
1. Chewie is one of my favorite characters in all of Star Wars. Regardless of HOW he went (even though I did think it was a little over the top), I was very sad to see him go.
2. His death was rendered meaningless as the reason he died, saving Anakin Solo, was negated just a few books later with the young Jedi's death.
I had more or less tuned out after Vector Prime but Star by Star was the last book I purchased until the reboot.
Seems to be a theme here.
ST (Sequel Trilogy)
Is Marvel doing any books that will cover post-The Force Awakens?
Works for me!
John Carter didn't suck, not remotely. It just didn't have name recognition. (Why they didn't call the movie Barsoom-something, which does have name recognition, I've no idea.)
I assume they will. Right now they're doing post-prequel trilogy (Kanan, the Last Padawan), between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars, Darth Vader, Princess Leia and Lando) and post-original trilogy (Shattered Empire).
ST (Sequel Trilogy)
Is Marvel doing any books that will cover post-The Force Awakens?
We do kind of know why they didn't call it John Carter "of Mars": Hollywood still assumes that putting the word Mars in your title means box-office poison, having gotten the wrong message from the failure of Mars Needs Moms.
There are also weird rules that govern how many trailers a studio can release to theaters to run before films. There are certain time frames, lengths and number of trailers that can be run at a time. I know this because my wife was constantly waiting for the next Hobbit trailer.
Also, Hollywood seems to have gotten over it's fear of Mars with a movie like "The Martian." John Carter failed because the director thought it had more name recognition than it actually did. Also, the rules of the world were kind of weird.
All that aside, I there will be much more as December approaches.
Also, Hollywood seems to have gotten over it's fear of Mars with a movie like "The Martian." John Carter failed because the director thought it had more name recognition than it actually did. Also, the rules of the world were kind of weird.
All that aside, I there will be much more as December approaches.
ST (Sequel Trilogy)
Is Marvel doing any books that will cover post-The Force Awakens?
I have a feeling if they're going to do post-TFA stuff they'll probably wait and announce all of that kind of stuff after the movie comes out. We also have at least two more movies after TFA in this period, so there is a chance we might not even do books or comics or anything directly after TFA just in case Episode VIII ends up taking place right after TFA.
Works for me!
I think I prefer "NT," only because "ST" on this particular board already means something.
Agreed. I loved John Carter.
I've been calling the new movies the Sequel Trilogy ever since Episodes VII, VIII and IX were first announced. Prequel, Original and Sequel. It sounds good rolling off the tongue.
