Future and potential Star Wars films - news and speculation

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Any info on the storyline for the Obi Wan film?

No surprise on Johnson's stuff. But I thought the Jenkins thing was a goer. Maybe it's just as well, cos if rumours are correct and it was set in the new era, it was probably dead in the water. I'd say there were a lot of squeaky bums after the farce that was 'Wonder Woman 1984'.

Agreed. But they have also had a big hit with 'The Mandalorian', for all its faults, and they're looking at the generally good reception that their Boba Fett show is getting. I'd say that the ridiculous popularity of 'The Mandalorian' alone outstrips the reception they received for any cinema project they've done. Although, that may not have translated into money. So it's no surprise that Disney+ is where they are looking at for the present.

However, the Johnson stuff was probably canned years ago on the back of the reception to 'The Last Jedi' and they're just confirming it now, and the bad reception to WW1984 may have coloured their perceptions toward the Jenkins movie.

TBH, I don't think either are suited to Star Wars.

I wonder what the main narative thrust will be there. It's hard to see what kind of an expansive yarn they can spin that doesn't cut across Episode IV. Although maybe there's all sorts of exciting stuff going on beyond the Dune Sea that we have yet to discover...

The problem with quoting Star Wars dialogue is that it's like quoting the bible in that their is usually something else to disrupt a certain line of thinking. Vader says that he was "but a learner" the last time he met Kenobi, so that pretty much rules out any kind of face to face for me in the Kenobi series.

However, I wouldn't be adverse to Kenobi investigating just who this Darth Vader bloke is behind the scenes. That alone would make for an interesting one off TV show. There are options for it to explore. But they absolutely shouldn't meet. There's been enough damage done to the original films by prequel stories already.

BTW, I don't think anyone should be putting much stock in what the prequels showed. The were a bloody mess.

Yeh, my spidey senses got set off by that pic as well. But there's so much Star Wars concept art that isn't really reflective of the finished product, so I'll wait and see.

But I'm the same re: Disney. I've never thought that they were the right people to be in charge of the property.

Mmmmm, I'd still be against any meeting between them.

As for learner, no, I don't think he could be classified as that. 'The Clone Wars' cartoon (I wasn't a fan) had him teaching Ashoka or whatever her name was. You could interpret it as "Sith learner", but I think that might be over stretching things.

As said, we'll just have to wait and see how this thing is handled. There's some slight wiggle room for a one off story here, but for it to be any use it'll have to avoid all the trappings of the cheap SW fan service that has plagued Diswars so far.

She'll never publically admit that the sequel trilogy was a complete failure on a storytelling level and created disinterest for anything beyond TROS, so she's obligated to keep it alive by mentioning it from time to time.

Thought Finn was a stupid character and made no sense myself. A conditioned stormtrooper in a strict military organisation since he was a child, but somehow the whooping idiotic comic relief of the piece? That was just nonsense from the off. He really should have been a serious, conflicted, character dealing with his past and the things he did in it (yeh I know he cleaned toilets, but let's no go there). The massacre on the planet at the opening of 'The Force Awakens' should have been the last straw for him in a long series of massacres perpetrated in the name of the First Order and should have started his journey on the road to a redemption of sorts. The comedy, if there needed to be any really, could have come from a fish out of water situation with him trying to find his feet outside of the FO.

Instead the film makers just wanted a Han Solo stand in for the "new" characters, all of which were incapable of standing on their own two feet.

Frankly, I'd have switched actors for the roles of Finn and Poe. Have Issacc as Finn and have him be a darker, more troubled geezer (he could do that easy enough) and have Boyega as the mouthy, hot shot, pilot with the wise cracks, which he could also do with relative ease.

As for the sequels being irredeemable, I disagree Pix. They are just beyond saving at this point as is the whole of the ST universe. I also think Disney have realised this too, because everything they try in that sphere falls flat or is shelved/cancelled in favour of going back to what fans really want to see and the actual foreseeable future of Star Wars under Disney looks to be centred around that.

None of the ST "characters" had any where to go though.

I know, I just love that Bart 'pinpoint' meme. Probably more accurate to say this is the moment where Isaac is unable to prevent his disdain for the direction of the story from coming through on screen.

Here's how Lucas's plans for the sequels would have worked out much better than the dogs dinner we got