Future and potential Star Wars films - news and speculation

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not heard of any of these

I'm wondering if this is due to the successes of the star wars shows on disney+, I was pleasantly surprised by most of them and shows that there is a bit of interest in the lore behind the series but if I'm being honest, I think star wars just works with a TV format, trying to squeeze enough story into a single movie, designed to be part of a trilogy just feels so done and dusted with star wars.

I will say though, I did quite like Daisy Ridley, but I think having another Jedi protagonist is just going to make this feel too familiar, I'd argue this is why rogue one was so well received

Should have specified, I meant that there was another movie.

I believe, like you, that it was always a matter of when, but I'm not yet massively convinced on the potential success

Rey being "nobody" was a brilliant twist and Rey and Kylo worked really well together even when everything around was meh.

Retuning the Jedi to being a royal bloodline in The last movie was absolutely stupid.

I don't understand why these clowns explode when their fan theories don't come through. Should you not welcome the surprise.

3 new films were announced

The three new films will be set across the Star Wars timeline, with James Mangold covering a period 25,000 years before the events of the saga, Dave Filoni covering the New Republic vs. the Imperial Remnants in a story between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Most exciting, perhaps was the news that Daisy Ridley will be reprising her role as Rey in a new film set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker

https://collider.com/new-star-wars-movies-announced/

Mangold sounds like the best one.

I assume Filoni's movie will star one of the many Jedi who survived Order 66. Fek sake way more than enough survived it seems to take on the 2 Sith. No idea why they were waiting on Luke.

I already know the plot of this new film. Darth Vader will live alone on Skellig Michael, he will have to build a kayak and catch fish, and he will also catch and eat wild gulls and puffins. Rest of the time he will spend meditating, doing yoga, practicing karate including stick fighting, w@nking and sleeping. He will sleep late most days. This will occupy the first 2hrs and 30mins of the film. Then in the final 15mins he will kayak to the irish mainland, get a Ryanair flight from Kerry airport to the Death Star, and fire off a nuclear missile that will blow up the entire universe, hence killing all good and bad guys including himself. This will be the very last Star Wars movie and will sweep up all awards at the Oscars, similar to what happened with the final LOTR film.

Star Wars needs a clean break from the 'Skywalker Saga' (i.e. everything Lucas created). Mangold's movie has the most potential for that reason.

This. All this. As a non-Star Wars fan, I agree that holding to this time/era is a bad move. I just don't get the love of them. Rogue One was the best film, by far, and I think that's mostly because it was it's own little film set in the universe, and while tied to the main ones it really can be watched separate of them without losing anything.

I've an interest in the SW world, but the Skywalker stuff is terrible and brings the films down. There's massive scope for something amazing, and the prequel one sounds like it has the most potential.

The Rey film is going to bomb at the box office, go girl power on steroids.

The director is a Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy who Wikipedia descibe as " a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and activist known for her work in films that highlight the inequality for women"

No thanks

🤣 A Rey movie.

Let's hope these new movie announcements go the same way as the Patty Jenkins one.

Why won't Disney just fucking learn?

I'd be willing to put money on the largest demographic for Star Wars being 40 year old saddos trying to relive the magic of the cinematic wonder they saw as kids. And sure, Disney is interested in new blood as it were, especially girl blood - hence Rey being this ridiculous character that trounces all the boys etc.

But surely, they've been taking notice at the sheer rejection of their sequel trilogy and the mostly lacklustre response to the bulk of their TV fare?

I cannot imagine that anyone, anyone, was clamouring for a Rey movie, especially on the back of the bad taste that the sequels left in everyone's mouth.

Like yourself, I'm not interested. But I may have been more warm to the idea had Rey actually been a good, well written, character. Or at least something beyond "Great, can and will do anything and everything cos whatever".

Into the bargain, I think it might be fair to say that a lot of people have rejected this era they keep trying to push as well. Disney shit the bed with the state of the galaxy, as it were, and created (and I use that word lightly) a half assed "universe" which made no bloody sense. I have no faith that they can salvage that even if this thing is supposed to be taking place 9 years later.

In any case, as I said, fingers crossed this will end up being memory hole'd like a lot of other announced Star Wars projects.

Grogu's biggest draw was probably "women of a certain age". For the first time ever I saw middle aged women talking about Star Wars and that was purely down to the Baby Yoda show. They're most likely the ones forking out for merch backpacks for the tykes too. Jesus my own Mrs was asking when the next Mandalorian episode was out during S01 and she never gave a tinkers cuss about any of this crap before.

But the core audience is still probably blokes and it always will be, whether they're 18 or "grey heads". Sure, Disney need to find new blood as I said, but pushing a characterless nothing supergirl like Rey is not the way to do it. If Disney had been smart they'd have just quietly dropped the sequel era and its wretched "characters" and moved on to something else. They've shown that when they puts the minds to it they can produce great material, like 'Rogue One' and 'Andor', both of which have received (almost) universal praise from the fanbase, as far as I've been able to gather. While everything else has run the gamut of terrible to mediocre and has divided fans in the most palpable way.

As for Rey being rewritten to placate anyone, I've never really bought into that TBH. If the case truly was that Disney rewrote anything because of a noisy online retort, then they would probably just have dropped the character altogether after the sequels whimpered to a halt. But here we are with a Rey movie of all things. I think what really happened was that Disney had no story and no characters for their trilogy and were floundering around, making things up on the fly. Plus if they really thought that making Rey a relative of Palpatine (WTAF?) would placate angry fans, then that only solidifies what I've thought about Disney's custodianship in that they just simply do not have the faintest idea what to do with this thing.

I'm not sure the art-style. I do recognise parts that I'm pretty sure remind me and feel like a Wallace and Gromit appearance.

Looked pretty evenly split to me (with a few random indistinct aliens who could've been either).

looks like even the media are turning against the show, not good for the Flagship series

Favreau is the main showrunner and writer, not Filoni. Filoni has co-written a couple of this seasons episodes, sure, one of those we have yet to see, but he has only solo written two episodes previously, The Gunslinger from season one and The Jedi from season two. Filoni's efforts in animation are also quite good overall, so I can't agree that Filoni is overly affecting anything anyone is currently seeing in the live action series.

They just seem to love losing money.