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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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There was some guy in a bathrobe, telling me:
"This is not the streaming service you are looking for."
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.
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.
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It seems to me Lucas and Disney and an entire army of shitty fan fic / EU "writers" shat on everyone's memories (childhood or otherwise) with the release of everything after Return of the Jedi.
Did you like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Did you jerk yourself off when watching Chris Pratt be smart enough to train raptors, but not smart enough to use a human sized door to enter a giant dinosaur enclosure in Jurassic World?
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"SWINO"... I like it! That's really what it is. Star Wars in name only. I really enjoyed Iron Man and that's about the last thing Favreau has been involved in beyond playing "Happy Hogan" that I've cared about. This is just more "The Force is Female" bullshit. Can't wait to see their next Mary Sue. Pity they didn't leave him one of the big three original trilogy characters to shit all over but I guess he'll have to settle for Chewie, C-3PO, and R2-D2.
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> 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.
The saddest thing is that you may actually believe this. Star Wars has always been about making money. The first hint should be that it was a movie released in theatres. You do understand, don't you, that they do that to make money? I was kid during the original Star Wars trilogy. There were tonnes of toys to cash in one the movies and there were people just like you telling everyone (whether or not they wanted to hear it), how the Empire Strikes Back and later Return of the Jedi were doing the same thing to the original Star Wars movie, that it had been "first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories".
Face it, Star Wars has always been a space opera, they're exciting action movies with a little bit of mysticism thrown in. Now I'll agree the prequels are truly terrible because they are poorly made movies, with too much bad CGI, they were poorly shot, poorly acted and had pretty bad dialogue and pacing. The sequels, however, have been much better.
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The Force is so money.
-Styopa
The difference is in the 70s, you had to make a good movie to make money. Today you can just churn out turd after turd and people will pay for the nostalgia and special effects.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
Mass Effect died when they made a sequel that took the franchise from an RPG to a FPS...
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Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Three words: The Shannara Chronicles.
So if you're looking for someone to ruin your childhood memories look no further...
I think that view is a bit cynical. Lucas strikes me as someone who actually enjoyed being a story teller and film maker (especially playing with new technologies). He was just smart enough to realize he could make a buck doing that, then used that as a way of getting funding to continue doing what he liked.
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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'm actually on my second play-through of ME:A at the moment. I really just don't see anything particularly SJW about it. I see that as almost-surprising, given the shoe-in they had for showing some controversy regarding whether the Andromeda Initiative would count as colonialism. This really could have been done very well if there was a third race in Heleus besides the nearly-angelic Angara and the one-dimensional, conquest-driven Kett. It also was a near-perfect setup for there to have been an AGW angle to it - a planet where a vault was necessary because the Angarans had caused climate change through industrialization again would have been easy pickin's for such a topic.
I saw none of it. Really, I didn't. Both Scott and Sara have male and female love interests, but homosexual love interests have been a part of Mass Effect ever since Femshep caught a glimpse of Liara's sideboob.
No, the reason ME:A was a bust was because they did a whole lot of design-by-committee. Lots of open world quests that were simple time sinks which take away from the otherwise-fairly-short main quest, loyalty missions that were generally pointless, political issues on the Nexus that were used as plot devices rather than actually-explored the way they should have been, a story that thoroughly contradicts itself throughout the narrative, a combat system that's ultimately very good but an incredibly jarring difference for players who wrapped up ME3 the week prior, dialogue choices which seldom impact more than the NPC's next line of dialog, and characters that are either direct copy/pastes from ME1 (Drack), poor copy/pastes from ME1 (Vetra), or just outright abysmal (Liam). Ironically, the one thing they did reasonably well was give it a solid ending sequence.
No, ME:A has lots of issues with it, but though I keep hearing the "SJW BS" line, I'm open to examples because I was hard pressed to find many of 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.
Star Wars has always been a space opera
Small correction, its space fantasy. You got mystic knights with swords that cut through anything. There are space wizards through around magic space lightning.
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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.
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The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
If you look at the inflation adjusted grosses here
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/f...
You see
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Return of the Jedi
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
So the first film made a tonne of cash, then you see the first films of the reboot and first film of the prequels, then the sequels to the original, then the sequels to the reboot, then the sequels to the prequels.
What's probably happening here is that if you reboot something people remember from their childhood they'll go along to see if its any good. Once they realise it isn't they'll just wait for the next reboot.
Solo : A Star Wars story will be fairly fair down in that list I predict, somewhere beneath Rogue One and Attack of the Clones. Same with Episode 9.
Of course all these films are still profitable which means they'll keep making more of them. However it looks like a clear case of diminishing returns. Mind you a reboot would help - look at how Star Wars: The Force Awakens did much better than the last two prequels.
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Amusingly enough, Star Wars is one of the examples given on the Wikipedia and TV Tropes pages for Space Opera. I do agree that it is science fantasy, again according to the definitions on Wikipedia and TV tropes, but I don't think they are mutually exclusive categorizations but rather space opera defines the type of story, and science fantasy describe the world (or universe) the story is set in.
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That's most likely true, the point isn't that Lucas is a terrible person, rather it's that not much has changed. I'm pretty sure the people making the new Disney Star Wars movies love what they are doing too. Heck, I think even Michael Bay loves what he does, but I never want to watch another movie that he's worked on again... And the same type of people are complaining about Star Wars selling out now that were complaining about it 30 years ago. It's just now those people have the internet so they can broadcast their opinions a lot further and more frequently than they could before.
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