They’ve been casting about for a movie that’ll work as the last few haven’t come close to expectations. Makes sense to leverage the most successful streaming show of all time (I think.)
I mean, (uhhhh spoilers ahead) most of it sucked but Boba riding that Rancor brought childhood dreams to life as I’m pretty sure I made him do that a few times. Admittedly, he had a lightsabers in 7 year old me’s version but nothing’s perfect.
Now that Dave Filoni is at the helm as chief creative officer for Lucasfilm, I feel a lot better about new movies. As long as they don’t bring back Jar Jar Abrams.
Good to see that Favreau is directing, not Filoni.
I like Filoni’s world-building - imho he “gets” the Star Wars universe in a way that other writers don’t… but I absolutely cannot stand his writing and directing. I remember watching his episode of Mando, the one where Ashoka fights in a Japanese-esque village, and the dialog was so awful I immediately googled to see who was making that awful ep and sure-enough it was him. I want him commanding the ship but not steering it.
He’s got a good sense of vision and a nice stable of continuous characters to carry forwards the franchise, but I can’t stand any of the shows he makes. Somehow they manage to be both tedious with infodumps of backstory while at the same time they make it feel like you’re missing most of the background because you didn’t watch a zillion episodes of his TV shows.
And while his capturing of the Star Wars “feel” is better than most, it’s still very prequel-y compared to others.
With him at the helm, even with good directors like Favreau involved, it will likely feel like the recent MCU films - okay-ish movies bogged down with too much CGI and too much continuity from previous entries that weren’t good-enough to deserve a follow-up.
Dave Filoni does seem to have a more unified version for where things should go. I’m looking forward to seeing where it may go, but I just don’t want to get my hopes up so I’m not let down.
Sounds like a sad attempt on Disney’s part because they couldn’t come up with a fresh new movie and instead are cannibalizing characters that should be focused on the tv side of the company.
Grogu is boring and played out, he should have been delivered to Jedi and that was it or been a single season character. Not that he is a character or anything at this stage.
God State Wars is so boring now, can’t wait to see what this movie sets up.
Fingers crossed that it isn’t mainly about setting up future movies and can put a wrap on the character’s journeys. It won’t surprise me if Grogu is in the rebuilt Jedi order movie with Rey. I’m also curious about Mangold’s film, but the most recent Indiana Jones movie has tempered my expectations a bit as well. When is Andor season 2 out?
All of the new Star Wars movies are so boring and played out. They should just stop making them, but they won’t because they have to extract every single dollar from their IP.
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