Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[JD]

I somehow doubt the new Trilogy would be PG-13. Considering the ages a lot of the people involved with these projects were when they saw them....10 years old (I was minus one day when I first experiance Star Wars...from the womb. I wanted out after that I am told). PG is likely because it is Star Wars. The massive, mega toy tie-in money maker. What studio would want to limit their money intake from children's parents by making it PG-13? Disney??

Pretty much all of the big blockbusters these days are PG-13. All of the Marvel movies have been PG-13 and Disney has had no problem marketing them to kids.
I'm pretty certain the new SW movies will all be PG-13, unless they decide to go for a something a lot more kiddie and go PG. If anything, I think going lower than PG-13 would be more likely to scare off some of the pre-teen and teen non-fans who aren't going to want to go to a kiddie movie.
These days most of their animated stuff is PG. Frozen, Wreck it Ralph, and Big Hero 6 were all PG.
At this point the G rated movies tend to be stuff geared at a very young audience.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

or how Luke and Leia were conceived.

There are people who can't handle not seeing how Captain America got from jumping out a window to his motorcycle without a scene. So of course there are gonna be some who need this spelled out for them. Because, Obi-Wan could be the father of the twins. There is no scene explicitly denying that.

 

[AgentCoop]

I'm about as non-prudish as anybody who posts in these forums but the idea of sex scenes in a Star Wars film "just because" isn't a good excuse to add it. We've gone almost 40 years without random sex thrown into these movies for effect and there's no reason to start now, and we won't anyways - especially now that Disney is running things from the very top.

This. I have absolutely no issue with hard-R content in the right setting, but Star Wars isn't it. Star Wars has shown that it's more than capable of exploring some pretty dark and mature stuff while still staying within the bounds of a PG-13 rating. Short of Quentin Tarantino deciding that he wants to remake "Seven Samurai" with Jedi, I can't really see any reason why that should change.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Latino Review rumor -- Disney wants JJ Abrams to direct episode 9

 

[cooleddie74]

If J.J. did an excellent job helming The Force Awakens and the movie's pretty good then I don't see why he shouldn't have a crack at directing Episode IX when the time comes. Lucas got to direct four of the first six movies in the Saga and even with all of his failings and shortcomings as a director those films turned out to be pretty okay when weighed as a whole.

 

[Ithekro]

I grew up with Star Wars, so maybe I have the odd vision of things. Unless the concept of PG-13 has changed (I don't go to movies much anymore), I'd rather Star Wars be PG as it appealed to the elementary school kids back in the early 1980s. Action figues for ages 3 and up. I'm pretty sure I had some at age 4 after the Empire Strikes Back came out (actually I'm pretty sure I still have them someplace...)

Even got into the old, old West End Games Star Wars roleplaying game at ten years old when it came out. We got it at Disneyland (of all places) after going to Star Tours.

So while I don't care for the films be overtly kid friendly, I would prefer them to be in a style similar to the original, based on 1930s science fiction serials of the Flash Gordon or Buck Rodgers era, or the old swashbucker films. All ages appeal movies without a child focused mindset. Nor needing to talk down to the audiance like they are children. Just and action/adventure space opera. There aren't all that many space operas anymore and Star Wars being the best known, it would make sense to keep that with a sequel.

(Were do all the old timey fans that come up with remakes and sequel ideas that must be "Buckets of Blood" levels of violence come from anyway?)

 

[cooleddie74]

It might be the studio heads more than anything. They see how graphic horror sells to audiences and in an age when there are what seems to be a dozen Saw sequels on DVD and Blu ray shelves at any given moment and those films make money no matter how craptastically bad the major studios think "remake + more blood, viscera and naked humping" equals box office success. Frankly, the all-time greatest remake of a classic suspense or horror film is the 1991 Cape Fear and Scorsese did it the right way without turning Max Cady into a chainsaw-wielding serial killer with his own franchise.

I blame the studio execs as much as I do the uninventive writers and directors who revive old films as slash-and-gore remakes.

 

[arch101]

If J.J. did an excellent job helming The Force Awakens and the movie's pretty good then I don't see why he shouldn't have a crack at directing Episode IX when the time comes. Lucas got to direct four of the first six movies in the Saga and even with all of his failings and shortcomings as a director those films turned out to be pretty okay when weighed as a whole.

Lucas "got to direct" because he owned the whole show. A studio would have fired him after ROTJ (which he quietly co-directed) if they owned the property, and certainly after TPM.
It's good to be the king.You can make great actors like Natalie Portman, Sam Jackson and Ewan McGregor turn in wooden performances and still have a job the next day.
JJ Abrams has bosses and they must like what they're seeing.

 

[DWF]

If J.J. did an excellent job helming The Force Awakens and the movie's pretty good then I don't see why he shouldn't have a crack at directing Episode IX when the time comes. Lucas got to direct four of the first six movies in the Saga and even with all of his failings and shortcomings as a director those films turned out to be pretty okay when weighed as a whole.

Lucas "got to direct" because he owned the whole show. A studio would have fired him after ROTJ (which he quietly co-directed) if they owned the property, and certainly after TPM.
It's good to be the king.You can make great actors like Natalie Portman, Sam Jackson and Ewan McGregor turn in wooden performances and still have a job the next day.
JJ Abrams has bosses and they must like what they're seeing.

TPM made a billion dollars, you don't get fired if you're a success. If anything had the first movie been a failure it'd might've been a different story, but Lucas bought the rights early on.

But as to Ep. IX, I'd like to see a different director for it just to see what somebody else will bring to the Star Wars movies.

 

[fireproof78]

If J.J. did an excellent job helming The Force Awakens and the movie's pretty good then I don't see why he shouldn't have a crack at directing Episode IX when the time comes. Lucas got to direct four of the first six movies in the Saga and even with all of his failings and shortcomings as a director those films turned out to be pretty okay when weighed as a whole.

Lucas "got to direct" because he owned the whole show. A studio would have fired him after ROTJ (which he quietly co-directed) if they owned the property, and certainly after TPM.
It's good to be the king.You can make great actors like Natalie Portman, Sam Jackson and Ewan McGregor turn in wooden performances and still have a job the next day.
JJ Abrams has bosses and they must like what they're seeing.

TPM made a billion dollars, you don't get fired if you're a success. If anything had the first movie been a failure it'd might've been a different story, but Lucas bought the rights early on.

But as to Ep. IX, I'd like to see a different director for it just to see what somebody else will bring to the Star Wars movies.

To be fair, they already have a different director for Ep. VIII, so there is probably a part of Disney hedging their bets on Abrams again, in case Rian Johnson doesn't do as well as they are wanting.

This first trilogy will likely be more tightly controlled until they reestablish the brand under Disney's name and then directors will be given a little more freedom.

 

[cooleddie74]

One can dislike the story and characters of The Phantom Menace as much as one wants but Lucas directed a record-setting global blockbuster that did get mixed reviews, not universally terrible ones. He probably wouldn't have been fired even if higher ups could have done so. He made a ton of money for both himself and 20th Century Fox.

 

[theenglish]

Lucas intention in the OT was to produce movies that felt old fashioned. This is the reason they had the grand score and screen swipes AND that they were family friendly. There are several quotes of him talking about how worried he was that the first movie would be rejected by the public because it was too reminiscent of an earlier era of films.

These are defining traits of the Star Wars franchise as much as the characters and the story, perhaps more so. I want to see a new and original take but there is much to the character and style of the films that need to remain intact in order for the films to actually be STAR WARS.

 

[Corran Horn]

Lucas intention in the OT was to produce movies that felt old fashioned. This is the reason they had the grand score and screen swipes AND that they were family friendly. There are several quotes of him talking about how worried he was that the first movie would be rejected by the public because it was too reminiscent of an earlier era of films.

These are defining traits of the Star Wars franchise as much as the characters and the story, perhaps more so. I want to see a new and original take but there is much to the character and style of the films that need to remain intact in order for the films to actually be STAR WARS.

There's also a part in the TPM making-of docu where Lucas admits it'd be financially smarter to make Episode I more like Episode II was - he knew a child Anakin would be a tough sell.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Lucas intention in the OT was to produce movies that felt old fashioned. This is the reason they had the grand score and screen swipes AND that they were family friendly. There are several quotes of him talking about how worried he was that the first movie would be rejected by the public because it was too reminiscent of an earlier era of films.

These are defining traits of the Star Wars franchise as much as the characters and the story, perhaps more so. I want to see a new and original take but there is much to the character and style of the films that need to remain intact in order for the films to actually be STAR WARS.

There's also a part in the TPM making-of docu where Lucas admits it'd be financially smarter to make Episode I more like Episode II was - he knew a child Anakin would be a tough sell.

I've seen that doc many times When did he say that?

 

[DarthTom]

Latino Review rumor -- Disney wants JJ Abrams to direct episode 9

I haven't heard. Does JJ have any future commitments to Star Trek?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

What is Star Trek?

LOL, Star Wars is everything. I watch Trek every day, but this new timeline felt shallow and gimmicky overall... I don't care as much what happens in it.

 

[Set Harth]

I'm about as non-prudish as anybody who posts in these forums but the idea of sex scenes in a Star Wars film "just because" isn't a good excuse to add it. We've gone almost 40 years without random sex thrown into these movies for effect and there's no reason to start now, and we won't anyways - especially now that Disney is running things from the very top.

No one wants to see how Luke and Leia were conceived.

Remember that scene in the Tartakovsky CW cartoon where the lights went out in Anakin & Padme's bedroom? That was HOT!!!

 

[Doctorwhovian]

So Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm want people to forget Episodes I-III?


What's this then?

http://www.comicbookresources.com/comic-previews/darth-vader-3-marvel-comics-2015

 

[Timby]

Latino Review rumor -- Disney wants JJ Abrams to direct episode 9

I haven't heard. Does JJ have any future commitments to Star Trek?

Only through his ownership of Bad Robot.

 

[cooleddie74]

So Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm want people to forget Episodes I-III?


What's this then?

http://www.comicbookresources.com/comic-previews/darth-vader-3-marvel-comics-2015

Yeah, the haters can ignore the Prequels all they like (and I've given the films my share of criticism and eyerolls over the years) but they're canon, they're part of the continuity and they're not going away. The comics aren't my thing most of the time, anyways.