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J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com)
A week after Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow was ousted from the Star Wars: Episode IX director's chair, a familiar face has stepped in to replace him: J.J. Abrams, the man responsible for successfully rebooting the new trilogy in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From a report: Disney just pushed back the release of Star Wars: Episode IX from May 2019 to December 2019, Deadline reports. The news comes after an announcement today that J.J. Abrams is taking over from Colin Trevorrow as director of the movie. Episode IX, originally slated to premiere on May 24th, 2019, was supposed to be a return to May release dates for the Star Wars franchise. Back in 2015, The Force Awakens was also originally supposed to be released in the summer, but was moved to a December release after Abrams took over screenwriting duties with Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) and needed more time.
"Reboot" is the right word for The Force Awakens. Are there any writers left in Hollywood these days or is it just a bunch of guys rehashing old material? Though to be fair, I was (relatively) pleasantly surprised by Rogue One.
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As long as he stays away from star trek. Star Wars is just a logo people take selfies next to for imaginary internet points now anyway
JJ is famous for settings things up and then spectacularly failing to follow through. I enjoy his work until it all falls apart because he doesn't know how to finish/close a narrative and that does not bode well for a trilogy.
Rehash is fine as long as you do it well. I for one would love to see a try at Star Wars vs. Star Trek. The culture clash of the different viewpoints and problem-solving techniques could make for fun drama. The movie doesn't really have to waste time setting up the culture context because most the audience already knows both groups: it can jump right into the paradigm clashes.
Imagine Spock and Yoda conversing:
Yoda: "Vulcan logic and the logic of The Force, same thing are not."
Spock: "Logic is universal until proven otherwise."
Yoda: "Universal assumption, logical it is not. Test entire universe you cannot."
Spock: "I've never seen good logic fail."
Yoda: "Get out more, you need."
Spock: "I think I've met enough Yoda's already, thank you very much."
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Bannon turned down the part?
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Jar Jar is actually one of my favorite SW characters, but I know he's very unpopular, and I'd love to see all the fans sh8t their pants over him. Throw in Ewoks for good measure. Maybe if Binks is brutally and bloodily mauled by Darth Maul, fans would love it ... until he comes back as a glowing Force ghost.
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"Meesa besta, beleeba me! I knowa Forca better den Jedi Jedi and tall piles of Vaders. Ignore fakie forcy; bigly loser losers licky fakie forcy, so sadly. #MRGA!"
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Episode IX: We're Only In It For The Money.
I guess that's a start.
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As if millions of voices cried out in terror
Bannon's going to be in a different sci-fi movie:
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If his first star wars movie (or his second star trek one) is any indication of Jar Jar Abraham's ingenuity, I guess that Star Wars Ep. IX will go something like this:
In Ep VIII, Flinn was captured by some evildoer, so Rey goes to the bad guy's lair and pretends to be taken prisoner in order to free him with her Jedi Might, Cleansing the lair in the process by killing most of the evildoers and even making some of them be eaten by mighty giant lifeform.
Then we move to a new threat from the new order, a new spherical object of doom orbiting a sacred-forest-planet where a station is beaming a shield to protect it. A party composed of Flynn and pilot guy go there to deactivate the shield, and fins some utterly cute merchandiseable lifeform opressed by the new order, which help them deactivate said shield (and blow the unfinished evil spherical object of doom to smithereens), while Kylo Ren takes Rey to Face Snooke, resulting in redemption for Kylo and death for snooke...
If we are goin to recycle: Can I propose a better recycled idea for Ep IX?
Here it is:
While traveling throught the galaxy, the rebels encounter a planet, were they are attacked by a hermaphrodite local, are forced to kill this local using the force, orphaning his/her child named Fallom. They take Fallom with them.
After traveling some more, and arriving to a small planet with a single moon, RtwoDtwO speaks, not with beeps, but with a voice, reveals that his initials are RDO, that he is a telepathic robot created eons ago by Roj Nemennuh Sarton and Han Fastolfe, that he has been guiding the Galaxy behind the scenes, and that, since his positronic brain is failing, he needs to merge his consciousness with Fallom in order to continue guiding the Galaxy like a father figure, as he always has.
I mean, is at the same level of imagination as what Jar Jar Abrahams did in Episode 7!
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Why would they schedule the release for May 24th?
Rake. The word is rake. Unless you have a really grim view of Disney (you might, and you might also be entirely justified based on their Star Wars track record so far).
So he needed 6 months extra to write a completely crap script.... oh dear that doesn't bode well for the next installment. Hopefully this time it actually get's a good script which also fits better to the original trilogy and prequels as TFA was just awful storywise (yes it had some nice effects and scenese, but story/scriptwise it was utter crap).
Except the Sixth Sense maybe. But you are right. The writing is awful and simply revolves around setting up various special effects shots. The Star Trek films he was involved with were the same way, just awful.
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Because I don't recall any girl becoming a Jedi master in Rogue One.
I do have to wonder if in The Force Awakens, Rey had been male instead of female if everyone's panties would be all bunched up about becoming a Jedi so quickly.
I actually didn't mind TFA that much. It was somewhat of a reboot, but it kind of needed that after all the other garbage Star Wars movies. (and by that, I mean everything since Empire Strikes Back)
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My favorite part of the movie was where two anonymous Storm Troopers are walking down a corridor, and they hear Darth Teenage Angst having a fit in the next room, one signals to the other, and they immediately head in a different direction...
Why I like it:
1) Even with zero dialog it is hilarious
2) Typically in the past Storm Troopers were pretty much put in the movie to die, they are just hero cannon fodder, adds some humanism to them. Probably why they just went with Robots in the prequels.
3) I like to think with the story line of the ex-Trooper hero, that this was also done intentionally as a further device to show that Storm Troopers are individuals and not just clone robots, or brain washed cannon fodder.
That said, when the ex-Trooper goes rogue for his sensibilities about killing people, he does a pretty good job of mass murdering a lot of his comrades in arms on the way out and after...
Also on an somewhat unrelated note, I thought the plot device of the Super Death Star was a bit silly and anime. I mean what can we expect in the next one? A Super Duper Death Star twice as big as the last?
I'll pay a writer 100$ if they can sneak in a line for when the hero's scan the new Super Duper Death Star, when a screen starts flashing increasing numbers beyond 9000, that says something to the effect Ray: "This Cannot Be!. ... It's over 9000!" Luke: "No... no... that's not true!... that's impossible!"
Rey not only duels Darth Teenage Angst, she beats him, in a single movie.
(First, small disclamer : I actually like the Darth Teenage Angst in this movie. I find that Adam driver's Kylo Ren would have been a much better Episode III teenage Anakin that what we ended up with)
The duel outcome isn't what disturbed me the most.
When you look at the details :
- Chewbacca has upgraded his weapon at some point of time between the 2 trilogies.
- This new version is so much better that even Han Solo is impressed when we borrows it, even if he's used to shoot at things (first).
- (I think we might see a few storm trooper recoil from the energy blast a some point in the movie. Though I am not sure about this).
- THIS is the weapon with which Kylo Ren is shot (moments after dispatching Han Solo).
So at the moment they are duelling, Kylo Ren is badly shot with an extremely powerful weapon, is probably a little bit disturbed by the fact he went dark to the point of killing his own father, in addition to being a general mentally unbalanced ball of nerves.
(And in his mental weirdness, he keeps punching his own wound).
The duel was actually heavily one sided-stacked in favor of Rey.
But still even in this state, despite the above handicap, Kylo manages to wound Finn, and even if defeated manages to escape alive and with no much additional harm (beyond what he suffered from Chewbacca).
Also Rey, being more or less a street urchin surviving on her own should have some decent self-defense capabilities (with any random weapon she manages to grab) if she's survived successfully to her age.
(In the same way, her knowledge about ship should also not be a surprise given her day occupation - her being an ACE pilot is what I found stretching it too much.)
(Similarly - I can understand that the writers want to have her as a powerful natural force users who start to discover her latent power - it is her being able to *control* the force so fast without any formal training that prevents my suspension of disbelief - I would have expected a more haphazard random stream of accidental force uses, a bit reminiscent of X-Men mutants discovering their powers).
On the other hand Luke is a farm boy with a hobby of flying ship.
- One would expect him to be good at flying and shooting thing with a gun.
- One would not expect him to be able to successfully use other weapons that aren't found on a farm.
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Yes, he is funny. Goofballs can be really entertaining. It's like watching Barney Fife or Trump or a mashup of the two. (I wouldn't want them on my team, though.)
The Force is channeled through his goofballery. The Force uses his misdeeds as an opportunity to do its work, and he gets into key places more serious characters can't because others don't take him seriously. It's similar to how Colombo got his clues: people think he's too stupid to catch on and so let their guard down. However, Colombo plans that, while Jar doesn't.
I should write "The Art, Science, and Religion of Goofballery".
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except when he scratched Kylo Ren's side with the glancing shot.
I interpreted the scene differently :
- Chewie was not aiming to kill (couldn't bring himself to kill his "bestfriend's son almost godson")
- Kylo is so badass he withstood the (non-letalla aimed) explosive ammo without even flintching (but still left him wounded enough to be at disadvantage against the young untrained wannabe Jedi)
But yeah, I see your point : ... blabla)
- Chewie chose an ammo not to kill (couldn't bring himself to exploding his
- Kylo got a minor scratch from a glancing regular ammo (and somehow, even if he's not finished his own training, managed to get his ass whooped by an opponent even less well-trained than him)
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