I mean even if you hate the new movies we have The Mandalorian, Jedi Fallen Order, Kenobi Series and TCW season 7 coming. It's the best time for SW fans if they stop bitching about every single thing.
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D.B. Weiss and David Benioff no longer building new Star Wars trilogy, cites Netflix deal as reason why
- Thread starter JehutyRunner
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Star Wars wasn't ruined for GOT. They've been saying since 2013/2014 that GOT would only be 7 seasons long which they lengthened to 8 seasons.
Good. After these pretentious douche bags bastardized George's characters in the TV series once they ran out of source material, they revealed themselves to be the hacks they truly were all along.
If you went by this forum, Skyrim, Fallout 3/4, and Call of Duty are all terrible games that nobody enjoys. In reality, those games are some of the most loved in gaming and universally enjoyed by normal people.
To be fair, the same thing is happening, to a lesser extent to female indy directors these days, so I believe that's more about studios wanting control. It just so happened that up until recently, there was far more indy dude directors for sexist reasons.
good riddance if you ask me. Youre only as good as what you did last and what you did last sucked hard.
As for Kennedy calling them "great story tellers"....oh please. Without the books, they aint nothing.
As for Kennedy calling them "great story tellers"....oh please. Without the books, they aint nothing.
I can see how they would prefer to work on their own stuff and their interest in doing SW after the hell they are getting over GoT and how divisive the SW fanbase has become anyway could make them want to skip this. It's the right choice for them. For SW, who knows.
If it were up to Benioff and Weiss, they would've given you a fanservice ending that people would've liked.
Instead, they gave people GRRM's ending but not well-executed and conceptually, GRRM's ending was always going to cause an uproar.
Yep, made the best Star Wars film after the original trilogy and he has an excellent filmography.
Knives Out is going to kick ass
Let's hope you are right. Carte blanche for Feige and Favreau to start something new would be fantastic.
I NEED to hear some insider gossip about D&D because I would love to know what their reputation is like behind closed doors in the industry. Publicly all of the big names from GOT have played nice, but there is no way that everyone is happy with D&D. Mostly I would love to know what execs at HBO think about D&D and the end of GOT. My gut tells me that the execs have got to feel pretty burned, to the point where I wonder if they'll ever let a creative team run so freely ever again. Now with this breaking news, you can't tell me that D&D's stock in Hollywood isn't dropping.
You know every time you type this no one believes anything you say in the entire post
Now the thread has moved to speculation about D&D's sexual relationship...
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I wouldn't really say he's mediocre, but Favreau is already working on Star Wars stuff like Mandalorian and a sequel to Jungle Book - y'know, that billion dollar movie he directed.
yeah thats why i said he's a big disney staple. and mediocre as fuck. dude obviously has a lot of goodwill at the company due to his billion dollar hits churning out these animal movies and giving us RDJ as Iron Man (which is a big deal for sure). but god damn less movies from the guy.
Meh, it's Star Wars not Shakespeare. You don't necessarily need a genius running the show.
I can't really judge that one since I haven't seen it but apparently it made way more than any Star Wars movie not called The Force Awakens so I'd say that only makes the point even clearer.
Favreau ain't mediocre.
This.
Guys, you need to be smarter and not just consume the fans' bullshit about why things sucked.
Yep and some random guy on the internet saying he is, thankfully ain't the one greenlighting things at LFL.
They're not. Do not trust JJ to give you a good conclusion to this trilogy.
okaaay.....all you guys are talking about here is box office gross lol. I just think it would be nice to see this franchise given to people capable of making somewhat more interesting movies. Last Jedi for instance.
Hell, even Abrams consistently puts out better shit than Favreau tbh. The latter feels like a basic studio man at this point. but he's caking off of it so good for him.
I don't think they were "fired fired", I think it probably went down more like this:
- Disney became more "hands on" after the GoT final season back lash.
- That kinda rubbed them the wrong way.
- The idea of another nerd back lash towards them if the Star Wars thing didn't go well either made D&D also start to re-evaluate things. Did they want to deal with another shit storm on their hands?
- The scripts they had were OK to good but not great.
- Both sides decided to amicably step back from each other. D&D can take on less pressure and do as they want with their Netflix deal, Disney got out and signed up Fiege. KK left the door open for them to come back and try again some day once the GoT backlash has cooled some.
- Disney became more "hands on" after the GoT final season back lash.
- That kinda rubbed them the wrong way.
- The idea of another nerd back lash towards them if the Star Wars thing didn't go well either made D&D also start to re-evaluate things. Did they want to deal with another shit storm on their hands?
- The scripts they had were OK to good but not great.
- Both sides decided to amicably step back from each other. D&D can take on less pressure and do as they want with their Netflix deal, Disney got out and signed up Fiege. KK left the door open for them to come back and try again some day once the GoT backlash has cooled some.
How does it not? Whether or not you believe it, it's clearly framed in the article as them choosing to leave in order to focus on their Netflix project(s). That's not being fired, that's quitting/resigning.
Surfinn gotta call you out on this buddy...in the past, when people speculated deeper meanings into things happening at LFL, you had no problem taking it at face value and admonishing people for speculation.
Why the change here?
Maybe. I think they still cut themselves short with too few episodes even if the ending was gonna be some Jon + Dany on the throne ending.
If you're going to call me out, why don't you provide an actual example instead of just firing blindly? I'm saying it doesn't seem like they simply stepped away, because of the HWR source contradicting the original article (that Netflix had known and essentially made room for their SW projects)?
I mean, sure, maybe they just realized they couldn't manage both things? That's perfectly possible. But they've also been embarrassing themselves with questionable decisions and commentary in regard to GoT, so I wonder if LF just decided they're not worth the baggage.
-sigh- This wasn't the point of that. This part comes from GRRM but it's about how we cheer on tyrannical methods as long as they're directed at the right people but there's nothing that says these methods won't be directed at the wrong people. If they're her enemies, Daenerys is completely merciless so what happens when the people are her enemies rather than slavers?
This was a good quote on it:
Totally agreed. Favreau is like the most boring choice possible.