I really think it's the chemistry between her and Iger. Feige doesn't seem to be pushed to hit dates like Kennedy is and in general seems like he's allowed to do what he wants whereas there are stories of Iger not liking the creative of TROS and not budging on dates. If he was just a little bit more flexible, JJ would've done the whole trilogy
Nah this is dumb as hell. TLJ did more for canon than anything since Return. This is still kinda-maybe fucked. Shortening is appreciated if necessary. But The Mandalorion proves they can do it. I just want any good SW after Return. Mando's final episode helped.
People don't bring her up because everything else SW-related is a dumpster fire so it looks to be more the exception. It's really easy to A/B Lucasfilm and Marvel right now and see how fans treat and hold accountable certain executives for certain franchises. Feige probably gets more credit than he deserves just as she's probably get more blame than she deserves. That's part of being a leader.
Laugh it up. KK's management of SW has been thoroughly mediocre. Force Awakens was okay but merely a soft reboot. The spin offs were unnecessary, forgettable cash grabs. TLJ was competent but had a truck load of creative decisions which were reviled by fans. ROS was putrid garbage and completely irredeemable. The only positive thing I can say is at least the ST wasn't as bad as the prequels. That's not setting the bar very high though.
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A job running a studio and shepherding projects in a big series from creation to release is very different from what she was doing in the 80s and 90s. She didn't have to develop the idea for E.T., go through multiple writers, and find Spielberg in like a year while trying to set up six other movies.
To be fair, it was initially a vague reasoning from Collider.
Yeah if we avoided this it's a positive. I never want to see Muppet Babies Luke.
Am I allowed to blame her for the sequels having no cohesive vision? We had two directors telling two completely different stories within a single trilogy.
You're allowed to blame JJ and Chris Terrio for not sticking the landing and doing their own thing with a revision of a script from the former director. TFA--TLJ WAS cohesive. TROS was and is the only film with major issues with coherence and themes.
The rumor had been that the show was cancelled, which isn't what's happening, so.
I would say that letting directors "do their own thing" at the cost of narrative consistency is plenty worthy of blame.
Iger is likely not involved in the day to day production on but he does set the release dates, which is what makes those productions so aggressively fast moving. Iger is the one who set the annual release schedule, Iger is the one who wanted TFA out in 2015 when Kennedy and JJ were fighting for 2016, and Iger's the one who - after Solo stumbled out of the gate - relented and accepted KK's request for a three-year pause on the movies. You can question her management decisions on making those release dates, but at the end of the day a far less aggressive release schedule would've made a world of difference on most of these movies and that falls on Iger.
I'm not sure she expected the two of them, after working with JJ specifically, who made TFA which as a reminder got critical acclaim and 2 billion, to completely ignore and/or misunderstand the themes of the TLJ. The last thing we need to storytellers being hampered and being told what to do every step of the way, that doesn't magically lead to better stories. However, the issue is still the following, 2/3rds of the ST are coherent. The intro, and middle. Are incredibly coherent. For the majority of people there was NO issue with TFA---->TLJ and it's revisionist history/living in a bubble of toxic narratives from "fans" to state otherwise.
B-b-b-but Kennedy is the head of Lucasfilm. Therefore everything you just stated is her fault.
Yea Iger definitely should get blame for the release dates, those have caused a huge chunk of damage in terms of everybody being rushed.
You're talking about this right?
But Ewan's not leaving tho.
You're talking about this right?
But Ewan's not leaving tho.
I don't think we're gonna get a "Dawn Of Justice" cut of TROS.
It's an account to fool everyone except journalism majors with good enough media literacy.
I sort of agree with you here, or at least I would have as of TLJ's release. Disregarding authorial intent, those two films work wonderfully with each other. But in a post-ROS world it's pretty clear that JJ and Rian had wildly different ideas about what TFA was meant to set up. Honestly, I like both of their ideas, they just don't mesh with each other. The trilogy needed a singular voice guiding it from beginning to end, in some form or another. The fact that it didn't is a failure of the person in charge of the brand.
I will make whatever should have been made in hindsight.
Did you like the part where Leia floated through space like the Silver Surfer? Apparently being force sensitive means you can survive the vacuum of space.
I mean yea, they're two different people from two completely different walks of hollywood so they inherently had different ideas about the sequel. HOWEVER, JJ's thoughts about where to go after TFA is exactly the issue, nothing about that should've ever been relevant. It should've been aboiut where to go after TLJ and ONLY TLJ. And honestly, it's quite telling that JJ and Chris didn't work as closely with the LF story group as RIan reportedly did. And ofc there are other factors outside of their control that affected the film too, namely, Carrie Fisher's death and the shorter production cycle as a result of the release date.
Again, this has no bearing on whether or not the majority of people liked the film. And yes, being force sensitive does indeed mean that you can survive the vacuum of space, Leia wasn't the first time. Here's a blind jedi doing it.
