From the Hollywood Reporter, which discusses many things like the future of the MCU, James Gunn etc.:
Many believe Disney should pump the breaks and not put out a Star Wars movie each year.
I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast. You can expect some slowdown, but that doesn't mean we're not going to make films. J.J. [Abrams] is busy making [Episode] IX. We have creative entities, including [Game of Thrones creators David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, who are developing sagas of their own, which we haven't been specific about. And we are just at the point where we're going to start making decisions about what comes next after J.J.'s. But I think we're going to be a little bit more careful about volume and timing. And the buck stops here on that.
There's a discussion weather or not he missed the films of Rian Johnson's and the stuff Jon Favreau is working on, or if they have been cancelled outright.
How about we slow all the way down to zero?
The problem isn't just that they're releasing too much too fast, though. Star Wars used to be one of my favourite movie series/settings, i was looking forward to seeing more of it...but I've pretty much lost interest in what they're doing with it now. That isn't solely because the amount of new stuff there has been, it's the direction they decided to take with those things and the quality of them that has had a most lasting negative impact for me.
All of that relates to timing tho, if it was spaced out and planned ahead then Last Jedi, Solo wouldn't of been so rushed and not great.
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No, keep releasing them each year, just stop taking the safe guaranteed-profit approach.
But that is the safe guaranteed profit approach.
I remember hearing rumours a while back that Lucasfilm were moving to try and focus on one project per medium at a time now (so Episode IX for film, Resistance for animated series, and Favreau's live-action series) which seems like the best option at the moment (TCW's revival kinda breaks the "one at a time" part, but IIRC Resistance is being animated by a third party whilst TCW is still in-house, so I can see how that could work for them.) Pinch of salt recommended as always.
Please don't embarrass yourself like this.
huh, it only took them what 5 years to burn that out.
TLJ's original release date was May 2017, a year before Solo, but it was delayed
How so?
One thing I do think has hurt the films a little has been how they've been jumping across the timeline in huge amounts. Like we've gone from The Force Awakens, which is around 30+ years after the OT, to Rogue One, taking place immediately before the OT, to The Last Jedi, immediately after TFA, and then to Solo, 10 years before the OT. I imagine a lot of the newcomers who aren't fully caught up on the original six films are really confused as to when the hell everything's meant to taking place.
I'd hope to see B&W and Rian's films push things just a little bit further on from the ST and play around in that general period more.
IIRC there were rumours that Lucasfilm wanted to adjust Solo's release date after Lord and Miller were taken off, but were forced to keep it in May.
Solo was indeed rushed, they hired Ron Howard solely because he is a fast filmer and director. He had almost no creative input on the film.
Giving EA the sole rights to star wars was a terrible idea, hopefully disney learns.
Let me rephrase that, it was rushed after L&M were fired, but when they started production it was normal pace.
I always read that he basically reshot the entire thing since the previous directors were filming dozens of takes of every scene and killing the whole production.
To be honest, the fact that the most recent mainline movie basically insulted the audience with that ending is telling they have zero fucking idea what to do with the property.
Disney as a whole needs to slow down. They're churning out films way too fast, and it's been made quite clear by the likes of Infinity War and the live action classics remakes that the quality has suffered.
I mean, yes they probably learned a lesson in that they shouldn't trust EA with their properties, but I don't think they know/care why their films are generally poorly received.
infinity war was good tho. marvel movies are kind of on the upswing after a few years of mediocre movies. the classic remakes can get stuffed though, especially Mulan what with the whole ripping apart the entire plot aside from Mulan and the emperor
I seriously don't get why they made this choice. Disney held all the marbles there, whoever they gave the Star Wars license to would make a shitload of money.
I guess EA paid them a LOT for it. Still dumb as hell in my opinion.
I like how he said "volume"- spoken like a true businessman
Solo wasn't completely terrible, but there was so little gravity (pun not intended) to every event. FIrstly, we knew Solo would get out alive, and then he was betrayed but not betrayed by the Emilia Clarke character , so it seems kinda pointless and there's no weight to any moment. I preferred Solo to The Last Jedi, a film I thought was a pretty boring mess. I definitely feel like a proper lightsaber battle would have been nice to see, rather than what we got too.
I know many people liked Rogue One, and there was certainly a darkness to it that I actually appreciate Gareth Edwards' for in terms of style, but it wasn't all that great either in my opinion. I did enjoy The Force Awakens a fair amount, but it was SO Marvelified to be honest.
The original films had a lot of really dark, poignant moments and, whether or not some people do take it too far, there were some identifiable themes that ran through the story. Whereas these new films just feel like the characters are all invincible and can just use magic to do anything, along with pottering about on a planet for 1/3 of the movie that ends up totally pointless.
Infinity War needed a lot more editing, it's just shy of three hours long and doesn't have an ending. It's quite clear that it was rushed out to keep up the breakneck acceleration Disney and the MCU are running at, and eventually this approach of making as many movies as possible in as little time as possible is going to crash hard.
I interpreted that as them leaving the ending open for Avengers 4, back when those two movies were originally "Infinity War Part 1 and 2". I wouldn't so much attribute that to rushed production schedules.
Rian Johnson was single handedly responsible for the amount of hate / backlash Star Wars has gotten since.
TFA was alright as a standalone film. It set up some great ideas moving forward. But then TLJ came out and we're in the same exact place we left off. It affected peoples mentality going into Solo (which was quite a good film imo) and hurt its numbers.
Thanks, now I can't agree or disagree with you.
I disagree completely. TFA was boring safe playing, TLJ was them actually trying to do something with the franchise and I think it was great. Solo flopped because they made some unpopular casting choices and a borderline nonexistent marketing campaign, I seriously saw more promo material for Solo after I'd seen the film than I did in what should have been the hype up period. They thought they could make their Star Wars Stories float without any marketing beyond brand reputation.
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