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'Iron Man' Director Jon Favreau Will Write And Produce a Live-Action 'Star Wars' TV Series For Disney's New Streaming Service (cnet.com)
From a report: Jon Favreau is going from "Avengers" blockbusters to a galaxy far, far away. The director, actor, producer and writer will take on a Star Wars starring role by helming a series destined for Disney's new streaming video service. While Favreau is multi-talented, his focus will be on producing and writing the unnamed show. Favreau is a bonafide Star Wars fan who voiced a character in the animated "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and also has appearance in the upcoming "Solo: A Star Wars Story."In a statement, Favreau said, "If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you. I can't wait to embark upon this exciting adventure."
Jon Favreau is a well-known SJW and will probably ruin the entire franchise by making the Empire the bad guys this time.
You are welcome on my lawn.
There were 3 Star Wars movies, they were released between 1977 and 1983. Get off my lawn with all this "Star Wars" (in name only but now we're about the superficial, virtue signalling empowerment narratives instead of creating decent characters) crap.
All of the EU Star Wars shit is crap. I don't care what Disney has canonized, or which shitty cartoon came in after the last canonical axe fell.
Star Wars canon is:
Star Wars
Star Wars: Holiday Special
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
The various Star Wars PSAs from the era of the original trilogy (drunk driving, immunization, etc.)
I'd even accept the prequel trilogies before I accept the shitty CGI cartoons and the Disney shit.
So you came here to shit on everyone's childhood memories?
Do you also steal candy from babies?
Star Wars is entertainment, it's not high art. It's a way for people to escape mundane life for a bit and watch some fictional characters have an adventure in a totally different sort of universe. Fans (fanatics) have built up a way to socialize their mutual interest in the series by going to conventions or dressing up as characters from the film. To me it seems harmless, and something to look forward to after working a 9-5 job.
Why do you want to suck the fun out of everything? Can't you find your own happiness?
I liked the first three Star Wars movies. Fun, clever writing for the era they were filmed in, explored ideas in a way that made sense for their circumstance without cheap drama, considering their inspiration of old serial films. Ewoks were annoying, but they didn't take up much time.
The prequels sucked. Basically they upped the cheap drama, placed an extra-whacky Ewok-equivalent front and center, and replaced the ideas with empty aphorisms and ... midiclorians.
The recent follow up movies suffered many of the same problems - cheap drama followed by ANGRY cheap drama, and that modern-sci-fi variant of stretching all ideas out into teases for franchises. Lots of spinning wheels, nothing to really take with you.
The whole point of stories is that they are shared dreams. I'm not seeing anything worth while being explored for the past several decades of this franchise with those dreams.
Well, at least with the films. Tie Fighter the game, and the old RPG KOTOR were really fascinating in their take on ideas they explored - but I'm not seeing any real follow up on that stuff. Just more empty drama with the recent games/multiplayer things.
If I see someone paste clips on youtube, I'll take a peek, but no a-priori fascination off the bat.
Ryan Fenton
Jar jar, the younger years. With baby wookies
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Will I be nickel and dimed by every movie studio and TV channel separately. I'm a cord cutter. I will use ONE service and one service only and it will be the one that has the most content and the one that most liberally allows me to use devices, apps and operating systems that don't track my every movement. That or I'll either do without or pirate. It's their choice. DRM has gone beyond a way to police content, it is now forced as a way to force you to use entire content delivery systems that they control.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
please... PLEEEEEEEZE?
If Favreau is given some independence, this might not be bad. He's actually made some pretty darned good films over the years in a number of different genres. Elf is one of my favorite Christmas films (not to mention one of the few Will Farrell vehicles I actually enjoy), and Zathura was a pretty worthy semi-sequel to Jumanji. My problems with Iron Man are more to do with the fact that I never particularly liked the character, but it was a well made film.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
There was some guy in a bathrobe, telling me:
"This is not the streaming service you are looking for."
> If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you.
And rightly so, because the Star Wars universe you knew at 11 years old (or 21 or 31) was first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories.
After having dismissed the Clone Wars and Rebels animated series for looking very childish, I have finally come around to binge-watching them, and I think they are great!
The Star Wars universe lends itself beautifully to TV series, because there are a gadzillion of little back-stories to tell and flesh out. It really makes the universe come alive even more.
That being said, the animation style takes some getting used to, but I didn't even notice it after a couple of episodes in. But something that does constantly cross my mind is "I bet they couldn't have done this battle sequence, or space combat sequence if it were live-action, so lucky us that they decided to do it in animation!"
So, a live-action tv-series will have to cut back on effects and complexity quite a lot. I would prefer them to go animated, again.
If the SJWs want to make their own Star Wars series, let them. They did that with Mass Effect Andromeda. Look how that turned out, Mass Effect is now dead. I don't want Star Wars to die, but it may prove the point. If the SJWs really want to have a sci fi property, then maybe they should make their own and see how well it does.
I don't get why everyone has to force their two cents into everything. Let people make what they want, if you don't like it, don't watch it.
In a statement, Favreau said, "If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you."
Jon, you're so money and you don't even know it.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Star Wars no longer exists in my reality. Whatever. I guess kids might enjoy it, if their parents are heathens.
The Force is so money.
-Styopa
Seriously the Han Solo/Lando Calrissian movie is just a comedic spoof of the original two Star Wars EU novel trilogies from the late 70s early 80s: The Lando Calrissian and the Han Solo trilogies revolving around the Corporate Sector Authority, the sabaac game leading to solo's ownership of the falcon, and yes even the robot duo that has not been rebranded as this retarded robot called 1337. Originally known as Blue Max (krang's metallic originating character) and Bollax (I may be getting this wrong, I don't have the novel handle to reference his name.) who was like the robotic version of the guy/suit robot that krang crashed around inside of for most of the original TMNT animated series from the 80s-90s.
It is pretty sad when creative works are being pilfered by people who demand licensing of their own, but shaft licensing their own derivative works with far more compelling storylines to make a cheap knockoff of a lovingly written knockoff of their own fictional univese. But hey, that has been the Lucasfilm derived Star Wars since The Phantom Menace came out, despite the LucasGames media franchise (until its closure) integrating with the broader licensed extended universe works to creative a galaxy far wider than the movies and tv shows that they had stopped producing by the 80s, leaving the market fallow for a decade and a half to build up aroudn other better quality creatives who made the universe what it was until mainstream culture and corporate ownership did the same thing to it that happened to Star Trek where a schism happened due to the motion pictures and tng diverging from the cultures laid out in TOS and Trek's extended universe until that point.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Three words: The Shannara Chronicles.
So if you're looking for someone to ruin your childhood memories look no further...
There's nothing works with Disney trying to make big profits from Star Wars. I just wish they'd do a better job of it. Make sense. Don't be stupid.
With the current state of Star Wars, combined with no desire to have multiple subscriptions, I won't be watching them.
To get this you'd need to sign up for disney's streaming service... Not going to happen. I don't subscribe to a service for one show. Was it CBS and that Star Trek show they offered on Streaming only? That didn't last. This won't either.
Dear disney. Do you want to get your shows pirated? Because pulling your content from netflix and starting your own service is how you get your pirated.
If Disney think I'm going to subscribe to yet another streaming service just for Star Wars, I've got some bad news for them. I'll binge them during my trial periods, each and every season.
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Disney has ruined Starwars.
Who's the leader of the cult that rules eternity?
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k-i-n
V-a-d-e-r
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.