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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.
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
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.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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 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.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
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.
horror vacui
Sometimes being a stubborn jackass isn't a good thing. Qui-gon.
I remember saying right after Anakin killed off all the Jedi trainees, "well he did bring balance to the force." The people that I was with didn't think it was that funny then. I thought it was hilarious .
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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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