Official Star Wars Thread

[Farerb]

‘The Mandalorian’ Has No Ending Planned, Says Jon Favreau: ‘It’s Not Like There’s a Finale That We’re Building To’
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-ma ... 235534624/

[Ben]

Oh, joy. So it will just keep running, filling in time before it peters out and just ends without any kind of build up or satisfying resolution.

Didn’t Disney learn anything from the sequels not having a plan…!?

[Daniel]

The Meanderlorian.

[Bill1978]

Oh, joy. So it will just keep running, filling in time before it peters out and just ends without any kind of build up or satisfying resolution.

Didn’t Disney learn anything from the sequels not having a plan…!?

Didn't Disney learn from Lost? Which meandered for years until the showrunners decided to end it and then in course corrected as it had an end in sight and wasn't just spinning wheels for the sake of spinning wheels.

[Ben]

Well Lost was interesting since they did have a plan! The idea was three seasons, but then it became a huge hit and partway through Season 2 they realised it was going to run past three years. So S2 became a lot of filler, S3 was basically what S2 *should* have been, and then S4 was more filler, which basically killed it. It probably would have continued behind that, but by then audiences were all filler'd out and just wanted resolutions. It’s very roughly speaking, since of course stories overlapped and changed give the in-flux nature of the filler, but S5 became what S3 would have been, but by then it was too late and too many viewers had been, er, lost. So there *was* a plan, but the economics of success got the meddlers involved and spun it out of control. And, no, Disney clearly did not learn from this!

[Daniel]

Teaser for the documentary about the infamous Holiday Special:

[Ben]

Oh, cool! This might finally give the special itself a reason to exist!

If Disney was smart, they’d totally own this and buy it for D+. I’m not saying to make the special itself available (I don’t think certain things will happen until a certain maker is no longer with us), but this would be a good way to see it represented and for them to acknowledge and accept it happened, while keeping the mystery and "what IS this thing?" feel (which, to be honest, you still have after you’ve seen it anyway)!

(Bit cheeky of the trailer to suggest the above image itself comes from the special, though. There’s a few clips in there that are illustrative of bad 70s SW spoofs, not the special itself. Apparently there will be actual clips in the doc itself, but just clarifying we don’t get dancing stormtroopers! Although what there is is much, much worse…!)

[ShyViolet]

Happy Life Day!!

[Ben]

May the farce be with you!

[Randall]

A new Rey series?!?!? Could it possibly make up for the sequels?!?

https://www.starwars.com/news/swce-2023 ... wars-films
https://people.com/movies/star-wars-dai ... skywalker/

Plus, Dave Filoni to direct a film to close off the Rebels/Ahsoka story. That actually should be good.

[GeffreyDrogon]

The Rey trilogy is probably going to bomb harder than Solo.

[Bill1978]

Apart from Andor Season 2 - the news of a Rey film is the only thing on the Stars Wars horizon that I would be interested in watching.

[Ben]

Not sure where that has come from, but currently this is just one Rey film, not a trilogy. The two other films of this new three film announcement are unconnected. I guess if it does well we could see more, but it’s just one Rey film at the moment.

[EricJ]

The Rey trilogy is probably going to bomb harder than Solo.

No, Solo bombed because the idea of making "filler" SW movies for literally no other reason than December placeholders during non-Episode years was doomed from the start. Even if you liked Rogue One.
Oh, and yeah, it was goofy too. And, as one critic put it, the script that "read like a filmed Wikipedia page" didn't do much to live down the "No reason to exist" first argument.

In Rey's case, it's basically recognizing that we liked the character, and she deserved a better break than the tough mess she was handed in the Trilogy Gone Wrong.
Do-overs are always welcome, and those with a little foresight going in about what they actually want to DO with the character can only be an improvement.

[Ben]

The Lord/Miller version of Solo was so much more fun than what we got.

It bombed because Iger got greedy and put it out six months too early, which wasn’t much more than just six months after the last one, which no one liked anyway and left a sour taste for SW fans. Had we had more of a break and felt more like Christmas was the new time to receive the gift of Star Wars, I still think Solo would have made at least half as much again.