Star Wars Megathread

[celedhring]

Anyway, no more new Star Wars until 2021 IIRC? The Kenobi and Andor shows won't start shooting until summer this year.

Whenever I watch Rogue One, "I want to see more of Cassian Andor" is not what comes up in my mind, but given that Mandalorian (as Rogue One itself) was great I'm kinda itching for it.

[The Larch]

Anyway, no more new Star Wars until 2021 IIRC? The Kenobi and Andor shows won't start shooting until summer this year.

Whenever I watch Rogue One, "I want to see more of Cassian Andor" is not what comes up in my mind, but given that Mandalorian (as Rogue One itself) was great I'm kinda itching for it.

Season 2 of The Mandalorian is currently being shot and IIRC will hit screens by the end of the year, so I guess that'll be the official SW fix for 2020.

The future trilogy to be helmed by Rian Johnson is slated to begin in 2022, AFAIK.

[celedhring]

Anyway, no more new Star Wars until 2021 IIRC? The Kenobi and Andor shows won't start shooting until summer this year.

Whenever I watch Rogue One, "I want to see more of Cassian Andor" is not what comes up in my mind, but given that Mandalorian (as Rogue One itself) was great I'm kinda itching for it.

Season 2 of The Mandalorian is currently being shot and IIRC will hit screens by the end of the year, so I guess that'll be the official SW fix for 2020.

The future trilogy to be helmed by Rian Johnson is slated to begin in 2022, AFAIK.

Is that trilogy still happening? It was never cancelled but I doubt it's being worked on anymore.

Didn't know that Mandalorian S2 was happening this year. That's awesome.

[The Larch]

Anyway, no more new Star Wars until 2021 IIRC? The Kenobi and Andor shows won't start shooting until summer this year.

Whenever I watch Rogue One, "I want to see more of Cassian Andor" is not what comes up in my mind, but given that Mandalorian (as Rogue One itself) was great I'm kinda itching for it.

Season 2 of The Mandalorian is currently being shot and IIRC will hit screens by the end of the year, so I guess that'll be the official SW fix for 2020.

The future trilogy to be helmed by Rian Johnson is slated to begin in 2022, AFAIK.

Is that trilogy still happening? It was never cancelled but I doubt it's being worked on anymore.

I believe they reiterated recently that the Rian Johnson trilogy is still going ahead. It is rumoured that it's meant to be set during the Old Republic.

Didn't know that Mandalorian S2 was happening this year. That's awesome.

Apparently they have been filming since november already, so I guess that it was the plan all along, and didn't wait for the reaction to season one before ordering a second.

[Syt]

Isn't the new Clone Wars season also coming this year?

[Barrister]

Isn't the new Clone Wars season also coming this year?

February 17 apparently.

[Habbaku]

Paradoxical as it may seem, I am actually really looking forward to the next major Star Wars film. I'm cautiously optimistic that it will be quite good since it will no longer be creaking under the weight of expectations or previous lore.

[Valmy]

Paradoxical as it may seem, I am actually really looking forward to the next major Star Wars film. I'm cautiously optimistic that it will be quite good since it will no longer be creaking under the weight of expectations or previous lore.

I mean I thought that about The Force Awakens. I think all their films are creaking under the fact that they don't really have an artistic vision or story to tell.

[The Minsky Moment]

I kind of think this film isn't as good as a film.

No dispute there.

I can sort of see the point that they needed some enemy from the past and then there's an adventure where you run to get the thing and then go off to do something etc - and on a level it's fine. My issue is I think there's another franchise that's doing that type of film better - and I think other films in this franchise have done it better.

MCU had a LOT more space and time to work with - a dozen or so films spaced our over 15 years where each major character got a full background.  The 7-9 trilogy suffered from the rush to monetize.

[The Minsky Moment]

The main lesson learned from Star Wars is this - if you are going to fight in a climactic battle to save the universe from tyranny, do not climb into your X-wing fighter with facial hair.
Every pilot should be issued a razor.

[Admiral Yi]

The main lesson learned from Star Wars is this - if you are going to fight in a climactic battle to save the universe from tyranny, do not climb into your X-wing fighter with facial hair.
Every pilot should be issued a razor.

  Fat boys don't do too well either, do they?

[Habbaku]

Poor Porkins. 

[The Minsky Moment]

  Fat boys don't do too well either, do they?

Messes up the drag coefficient. 

[Syt]

At least Temmin "Snap" Wexley had a singing, dancing murder droid when he was a teen:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mister_Bones

[Berkut]

OK, so here is what I don't get.

WHO is in charge of creating the actual story? I mean, JJ Abrams is a director. He is good at directing (at least theoretically). There is no reason to suppose he has the kind of imagination necessary to craft a good story.

I don't see why they would not go out, for something like this, and hire someone proven to be good at crafting great stories (or several someones for that matter), pay them a bunch of money, and say "Give me a three movie arc about the next generation of the SW story". Hell, have ten people do it for half a million each, and pick the best one.

We saw from GOT that just because people are good at turning a great story into great cinema, does not by any means mean that they are any good at coming up with the story to begin with.