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An unseen, unaired, Star Wars show (with Weird Al) had an episode leak - Star Wars Detours
- Thread starter Syriel
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There was a reason why this cancelled and now I know why. Heh. Very neato. Hope they leak a few more for curiosity.
Reddit link save or whatever. Links are not lasting long with the disney nukes.
I remember seeing commercials on TV for this a long time ago. I just remember the stormtroopers in that art style being kind of adorable, like a walking Funko. Maybe there is hope for this. I know there is a lego star wars holiday special coming soon, so I wonder if Disney might allow the sillier star wars stuff.
Oh yeah... I remember seeing clips/ads of it. It didn't look good then so not surprised it got buried.
Well it was mostly cancelled because it was in development right around the time Disney bought Lucasfilm.
So what is crazy is that the 40 something episodes of this show is fully finished... and yet it's completely unreleased. I was lucky enough to see a few myself and honestly it would have been a fun time.
Was wondering if something would leak from this one day. This isn't one of the episodes I've gotten to see tho so shame I missed it while it was up...
Was wondering if something would leak from this one day. This isn't one of the episodes I've gotten to see tho so shame I missed it while it was up...
No one's every really gone.
But this will probably stay about as gone as anything can.
It was also cancelled because it's terrible, though.
But this will probably stay about as gone as anything can.
It was also cancelled because it's terrible, though.
Rogue One isn't terrible, it's just mediocre. But regardless, the answer is that there was no time on either of those movies to judge them, because the cycle of promotion and distribution demands that films come in hot. By the time they knew Rise of Skywalker (or Rogue One, or Solo, or whatever you prefer) was terrible it was too late, a release date was locked in, contracts were signed, distribution deals were immutable, marketing was long in play. Detours was done and in the can already, with no promotion or public commitment made, so it was easy to watch it, ID it as the biggest Star Wars cringe since the Holiday Special, and quietly shelve it forever.
ah i was just taking the easy shot at those.
maybe it would have been an absolute nightmare for everyone involved, but i wonder why they didn't just... delay tros like cameron's done with avatar and its sequels. to a certain extent, i think the fanfic-y star wars films had too many true believers involved at higher levels of power.
It's some of that but it's also that the one aspect of the new films Lucasfilm couldn't control was their release dates. Lucasfilm has creative autonomy, but Disney is still the distributor and has final word on when stuff comes out, so if they said they want that Star Wars revenue in December 2019, that's when it's gotta happen. As you say, the people calling the shots (including Bob Iger) probably considered Star Wars as bulletproof as the MCU, but without a Kevin Feige equivalent helming the ship, that just wasn't true. And so we got what amounts to a panic-written trainwreck from Abrams and Terrio, to the eternal detriment of the franchise.
There is pretty much a 100% chance that when production ramps up on new Star Wars films, Favreau and Filoni will be the Kevin Feige of Star Wars for the foreseeable future.
Unless the fridge got thrown hundreds or thousands of feet in the air they kinda missed the point.
It -is- kinda crazy that nearly 50 of those were produced and yet never saw the light of day, even if they were pretty bad (from what I've seen). That said, considering the quality of this leak, I have to imagine this may have been an intentional upload on someone's part in an effort to garner interest and get Disney to put it up on Disney+ or something... not unlike the Deadpool situation.