The tracking number in those clickbait titles is 200 million. I would love to you spin how a 200m OW domestic is bad.
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D.B. Weiss and David Benioff no longer building new Star Wars trilogy, cites Netflix deal as reason why
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It wasn't that I know some people who didn't like it, but that I realised no one I know directly thought highly of The Last Jedi. I think it's a diamond in the rough but it was a sobering thought that everyone I know picked at it in some way that they generally wouldn't. Like even my old dad liked Solo and Endgame and generally likes any old crap but he's kinda indifferent to TLJ which is odd for me.
"We just felt that adding an Aslan rape scene would strengthen him as a character."
Oh that is bullshit and you know it. Since when is Filoni unreliable? He has consistently produced amazing content for Lucasfilm. Both Rebels and The Clone Wars are among the best shit Star Wars has ever produced and they're better than any of the movies to boot.
It's even more ridiculous to say Disney wouldn't let him make a movie because he's never done one before. Or did you forget that Benioff and Weiss never directed a movie before, either? Disney isn't quite as absurd as you when it comes to who they'll give a shot too.
Oh right, sorry, I forgot - we should just want Ryan Johnson to make Star Wars movies every other year and fuck anyone else having a shot at the franchise ever again.
I think he is just doing what he likes imo..
TCW season 7
He is practically co-showrunner with Favreau on Mando
New animated series with favreau
How is all this "tumbleweed". We are getting more Filoni than ever.
Producing and directing are different skill sets, though.
I'll never understand this "TLJ isn't divisive" argument defence force.
You liked the movie, and that's great. But if we spend hundreds of pages arguing "is it divisive" that makes it divisive in its own right.
Name a single other movie debated as much here, or online in general, in recent years.
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's good, everyone has their own opinion that they're entitled to. But saying the film isn't divisive and there's only actually one single reaction to it is completely disingenuous.
You liked the movie, and that's great. But if we spend hundreds of pages arguing "is it divisive" that makes it divisive in its own right.
Name a single other movie debated as much here, or online in general, in recent years.
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's good, everyone has their own opinion that they're entitled to. But saying the film isn't divisive and there's only actually one single reaction to it is completely disingenuous.
D&D didn't deserve to direct Star Wars either, but they did at least have live-action directing experience from a decade's worth of GoT. Filoni has never touched a live-action production in his life before the Mandalorian. And hopefully he's learned a good bit from it because I would definitely like to see him involved in a movie someday, either as a writer or director.
However, it's also an increasingly Bad Look to hire unqualified white men for these directing positions. Despite Lucasfilm's commitment to diversity, every single person they've hired and/or fired for a Star Wars movie has been a white man and many of them are white men with little to no blockbuster directing experience.
D and D weren't ever going to direct a Star Wars film. What are you talking about? They were hired to write and produce. They were never going to direct them.
yeah there were like four(?) people in all 14 pages who were sad...
I love both dearly and feel they're the best star wars has to offer.
Having marathoned Primal lately I want more Tartakovsky in anything and everything.
Yep, only person I'm confident to break the Skywalker chain.
Officially TFA went fine, but unofficially the production was a complete disaster, with a finished script being written only weeks before shooting started, writers getting hired and fired, massive rewrites and reshoots as late as a couple months before release, constant narrative changes, Harrison Ford's injury, and Abrams nearly quitting the project several times. TFA was almost as disastrous behind the scenes as Rogue One.
"We're thrilled by the fertile possibilities that opened up as soon as we added the special ingredient that CS Lewis's fantastical world of Narnia was always missing: bestiality."
Or if JJ wasn't a super boring director it also wouldn't have happened.
Well yeah that's another issue that I'd like to see addressed. For all the talk about diversity and feminism, we still haven't had a Star Wars movie directed by a woman and the first reaction anyone here seems to have is "let's replace two white dudes with another white dude".
My point was that I'd like to see Filoni make a movie at some point, not that he should be up for one next, but folks like Cheebo don't want that and don't believe he deserves an opportunity to make a movie. They just can't stop riding Rian Johnson's dick long enough to consider someone, anyone, else having a shot at making a Star Wars movie.
He makes one Star Wars movie they liked and suddenly he and Disney should just drop everything to appease them and make more. If it were up to them we wouldn't get legitimately good stuff like Looper or Knives Out from Johnson any more, just more bloody Star Wars.
Netflix paid them $200 million, not sure if we have seen any numbers that Disney and Warner Media offered them
RIP D&D's trainwreck, it would've been a wild fun hilarious ride.
Here's hoping Feige and Favreau get to next gig so they can blow us away with their solid 7 movie. I'd take that any day over another RJ one.
Here's hoping Feige and Favreau get to next gig so they can blow us away with their solid 7 movie. I'd take that any day over another RJ one.
You guys are embarrassing yourselves at this point.
Disney doesn't give a shit about the opinions of the self entitled fanboys who hate watched GOT. Neither does Netflix. And rightly so. Businesses should never pay attention to man children who all but scream "this show didn't end the way my fanfic did so I hate it."
They definitely pay attention to industry reactions to people and any associated financial risk, though! Remember when Josh Trank was supposed to make one of these movies?
C'mon you really think these two decided working for Netflix was more important than being signed to do a Star Wars trilogy? Disney got cold feet, just like they did with the other ten projects/directors they announced and then killed.
It's far more than "fanboys who didn't like Game of Thrones." The reaction to the final season of GoT was overwhelmingly negative on a massive level. It went beyond fanboys and into the mainstream viewing audience.
On top of that, they have made some very questionable comments recently as well.
We certainly can't say for sure if Disney pushed them out at all but it's ridiculous to tell someone they are "embarrassing themselves" for believing that might be the case.
Would you let him near a franchise after what he did with Fantastic Four? Plus he was working with Kinberg on that Star Wars movie, who we all know is a joke.
Josh Trank self sabotaged his own career.
I don't think you can compare him to two guys who turned an unfilmable novel series into a hit TV series... without the novels being finished.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "disaster in production" the story for nearly every Star Wars film? I remember watching a documentary saying all movies faced a significant amount of production trouble but it was in the view of Star Wars fans so it could have been biased.
I sincerely doubt any Disney execs are nodding along in furious agreement to some seething Reddit post about how badly D&D messed up Game of Thrones but you're kidding yourself if you think they aren't aware of the critical thrashing and total pop culture death of GOT after the finale.
Resuming my petition to get Justin Lin behind a Star Wars movie/ trilogy
Amen. So far LF's diversity only goes one direction.
Amen. So far LF's diversity only goes one direction.
