Srogyy
Ancient Mariner
This is fucking insane (in the most positive sense)! I can barely contain my excitement. The best film-related news I've heard since the announcement of Ep VII. Rian Johnson is genious and at this point I'm already convinced The Last Jedi will be outstanding. Great call by Lucasfilm to keep him and utilise his talent this way. And on his part, it shows he loved working on Star Wars enough to jump right back into it and commit big time. That's very reassuring.
The announcement is super smart, because it's great publicity for The Last Jedi. And it comes from a company plagued with production problems. They MUST realise they can't risk another behind-the-scenes disaster and the fact they announced this new trilogy means they know they have the right guy and that this is going to work.
As for what it could be about, I think something set centuries before TPM is likely. I've never been an advocate of an Old Republic type of film, but having RJ doing it is a total game changer. An entire era created by him? Yes, please. Obviously I would expect the games to be disregarded completely. I love KotOR but its film potential is highly exaggerated by fans. Besides, you don't hire such a creative mind to do a video adaptation. I want his canvas to be as clean as possible. If this is a trilogy, it will most likely be centred around Force users. This is when Star Wars is at its best and I doubt they would risk three movies by doing something niche like a bounty hunter story.
The big question is: when? 2020 - right after Ep IX? Or 2022 - after one more standalone? I think they should do whatever they can to do the former. Strike the iron while it's hot. They can return to spin-offs in between the 3 films.
The announcement is super smart, because it's great publicity for The Last Jedi. And it comes from a company plagued with production problems. They MUST realise they can't risk another behind-the-scenes disaster and the fact they announced this new trilogy means they know they have the right guy and that this is going to work.
As for what it could be about, I think something set centuries before TPM is likely. I've never been an advocate of an Old Republic type of film, but having RJ doing it is a total game changer. An entire era created by him? Yes, please. Obviously I would expect the games to be disregarded completely. I love KotOR but its film potential is highly exaggerated by fans. Besides, you don't hire such a creative mind to do a video adaptation. I want his canvas to be as clean as possible. If this is a trilogy, it will most likely be centred around Force users. This is when Star Wars is at its best and I doubt they would risk three movies by doing something niche like a bounty hunter story.
The big question is: when? 2020 - right after Ep IX? Or 2022 - after one more standalone? I think they should do whatever they can to do the former. Strike the iron while it's hot. They can return to spin-offs in between the 3 films.
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