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A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com)
"Logan" director James Mangold is reportedly directing a "Star Wars" standalone movie centered on the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Variety reports: The untitled movie will be a part of the studio's Star Wars Anthology films, which are being spun off as origin stories. The first anthology film was 2016's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," followed by "Solo: A Star Wars Story," starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo. "Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million. Boba Fett debuted in 1980's "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and re-appeared in 1983's "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" as a mercenary for the Galactic Empire. Jeremy Bulloch played the character in the two movies and Jason Wingreen provided Fett's voice. Here's a video highlighting all the scenes starring Boba Fett in the Star Wars trilogy. Do you think it's wise to produce a movie around a character who's had such few scenes, relative to the others?
But the question is:
Is he a favourite because he had so few scenes, and fans 'filled in the blanks' to make him feel cooler than he is? Is he a character where 'less is more' should be the core idea?
He did seem to be well in with Darth Vader. (why the hell was a galaxy spanning empire hiring bounty hunters?) Maybe we can see more of Vader connected to Fett. Everyone loved the Vader part at the end of rogue one. Maybe we can see Vader at his height for a more extended view? Or maybe a Vader story should be left for that - SW has a long way to go.
Other bounty hunters would be a good place to start, rolling in the ones we saw. I want to see how a droid got to be one.
I wonder if we can see Empire from Fett's perspective. Get digital Lando and Han and Luke and Leia involved to see cloud city from Fett's eyes? I think that would work well, especially if we get to see the more about Jabba and Fett.
I wonder if we can get Fett as a more rounded character - maybe he owes Jabba, and 'A guys gotta do what a guys gotta do. Nothing personal, Han.'
I don't mind a Fett movie. I'll mind if it's done badly.
It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
His backstories already got fleshed out in the extended universe 20 years ago. Him, Solo, Calrissian, Dengar, Bossk, many major and minor character from the movies have at least one original story book on them. Some of them have trilogies. And that is not including one shots done for West End Games, or the various short story anthologies (including Boba Fett's origin story as being an exile from a planet where rule of law meant everything and his violent and messy tendencies lead him down the path of the bounty hunter. And the fact that other than the suit of 'scout armor' he was in no way related to the Mandalorians.)
Honestly, everything produced since the new millenium has been shit as far as Star Wars was concerned because people whose entire living was writing pulp 'science fiction/fantasy' had already fleshed it all out better than the Lucas properties ever did or could. Despite having dozens of people writing stories, there was far less retconning needed with the extended universe than just the prequels made necessary against ACTUAL STATEMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL MOVIES. Everything since has basically been a fuck you to the fans that allowed star wars to remain in the public consciousness while popularizing it in the same way as the comics have been: endless reboots and no real continuity to the characters other than rough archetypes or backstories and new actors every few years as they iterate.
Also: Ralph McQuarrie and the wizards who did props and effects had far more of an impact than Lucas, who just cribbed 'The Hidden Fortress' made it less japanesy then marketed it to an American audience, just like Disney did with Kimba the White Lion.
The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.
It should have shown the Rebels slowly becoming a new Empire.
But that is what we want to see.
Real life is complex they are no pure good guys and bad guys. There are just people doing things that I think they should be doing and doing things I think they shouldn't be doing and they are other people who thinks what they are doing in different ways.
A simple plot, written with likable characters paced at a good speed is often what we want after having to deal with the complexities of real life.
When life is good and little conflict going on then the more complex films are what people want to see because their lives are so easy and boring, being exposed to more mind expanding ideas and complex relationships is more appealing.
Normally you see a inverse relationship with movie complexities and the state of the culture.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
Let's say you're a SW fan. And you really liked the original movies, you tolerated the prequel movies. You read the occasional SW book because someone recommended it to you. You found out that there was a huge swath of lore, and you enjoyed it. One day you bumped into the Thrawn Trilogy, and discovered a series of books that not only had the feel of the original movies but tied them in directly and gave a great jumping off point into an even greater universe. You might have played some of the games if you were a bigger fan, you know it was Kyle Katarn that stole the death star plans and so on.
Now, imagine that despite this. Disney decided that this was a shit idea, and all those millions of fans that loved SW, the force, jedi, sith, grey jedi and all the rest weren't the fan base anymore. The fan base was apparently a group of authors and directors screeching that "the force is female" and inserting a die-hard mary-sue that was even greater then Luke into a role, and handing everything to her on a platter was great. The character was such a great-force user that even when Luke was rebuilding the Jedi he never-ever-ever felt her in the force(despite that's according to the cannon what happens with great force users) Then, despite this you gave it another chance. And in their infinite wisdom, they took the savior of the republic fleet and shot him in the head. Replaced them with an absolute nobody with no tie-ins at all, and instead of holding even the most basic working relationship with the troops and soldiers under her believed that 'only her plan was best.' The entire plan was "shoot the spaceship through another space ship." This was then followed up by taking a possibly interesting new villain and...well pissing on him with a flat emo-kid, and oh that's the end of the movie. Also Luke instead of growing up, reverted to a pouty 9 year old that prefers temper-tantrums.
And I'm going pretty easy on it compared to hardcore SW fans. Oh and of course, one can't forget the people who might piss you off even more. If you didn't like it, you were a misogynist, sexist, hater, and two or three dozen things. Despite the reviews from fans saying how much they hated the movie, your response wasn't to be introspective and ask "why didn't they like it" the response was "it was the work of trolls and misogynists" that's why the moving-going public reviews are bad. That of course is all out of the ghostbusters 2016 reboot catastrophe, with the "attack the audience" approach. I will say, that if they wanted to kill the entire franchise they've done a pretty good job.
Om, nomnomnom...
One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.
The comment that Colin Trevorrow (the guy that originally was going to direct Episode IX) made on Film Crit Hulk covers most of my issues with the movie quite well:
I think this was just a dreadful time, and it's a shame because I was genuinely excited to see someone like Rian Johnson given free reign - "Finally," I thought, "A real film-maker at the helm." However, I left utterly baffled at the creative decisions made every step along the way here. There's a lot of things I agree with in theory, but were bungled in execution. (Spoilers ahead)
Having Rey be just some person, and not just another in a long line of Skywalkers/Kenobis/etc.? Great idea! But⦠it completely flies in the face of everything we were shown before. So all her phenomenal force powers and whatever-the-plot-demands skills come from nowhere then? She's the all powerful chosen one⦠just because? This is made even worse when Snoke says that she's the Light Side "equal and opposite" of Kylo Ren⦠so great, she's the pure and incorruptible champion of the Light side now, too. All that teasing that she may be tempted by the Dark Side, driven by a well-intentioned need for power to save her friends, is out the window and I guess never mattered at all.
And killing Snoke! I hated Snoke and thought he was a stupid, cliche plot device only good for his relationship to Kylo and Hux⦠but killing him off with no explanation is equally as bone-headed a move. You've introduced this character who is critically important to everything happening, who helped turn Kylo Ren, who somehow had the resources and wherewithal to support a splinter group of the Galactic Empire that's apparently as rich and powerful as the Galactic Empire, and then you just get rid of him without any explanation? What did he even WANT (besides just "power")? It was a decision that felt like it wanted to be "clever" but instead just flippantly undermined any sort of backstory or consistency in this new trilogy. (I will say, it was almost comical to hear Snoke prattle on about Kylo Ren lacking conflict while the camera kept cutting back to Adam Driver's goofy, L.A. Noire-esque conflicted expressions.)
Then there's Holdo. Sure, Poe's a brash, stubborn fly-boy (though really you could blame the destruction of those bombers on the idiotic pilots who thought it'd be a good idea to line up so close). However, there is no reason for Holdo not to tell him her plan; EVERYONE should have been told the plan. There's only 400 rebels left (apparently), and theyâ(TM)re all basically huddled together on the same ship. Even if she can't go into detail (despite the film giving us no indication that there is any concern of spies onboard), she makes no effort to at least convince Poe that there's a plan in motion, and instead acts in a way that only gives the opposite impression. Boy, is she lucky that Poe was kind enough not to shoot her fucking dead as part of his mutiny - that wouldâ(TM)ve been awkward!
I found Rose to be insufferable. I don't blame the actress, I don't think she was given a lot to work with, and in total fairness I didn't care much for Finn in this movie either, which is a shame as I thought he was one of the highpoints of TFA. Their entire sideplot is interminable, and the Casino planet/war-profiteering storyline is so absurdly on the nose it just adds salt to the wound. I love how Finn and Rose put the entire Rebellion in jeopardy because they canâ(TM)t be bothered to find a proper parking spot. The kids were almost prequel-esque and while I'm all for this idea of heroes finding hope and coming from anywhere, it was presented in a very ham-handed manner.
The Leia moment was an unbelievable, shark-jumping misfire. That's all I have to say about