[Movies] Star Wars Ep. VIII has a name...
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If Star Wars was a Monty Python production...
But that was in a whole other galaxy.
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Looks like Disney greenlit a new trilogy: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16630902/star-wars-new-trilogy-rian-johnson-disney-lucasfilm
A non-Skywalker series would be welcomed. I don't want to see Yoda's origin. I don't care where Solo came from. Give us new struggles and new villains! I really liked Looper and Brick so I'm excited to see what he has in store.
I feel like this was already expected. Disney didn't spend a bajillion dollars buying Lucasarts to -not- make star wars movies to the end of time.
Jesus fucking christ, just make Knights of the Old Republic already. Fuck.
The story was developed by Bioware, and only approved by Lucasarts, who licensed the star wars trademarks and universe elements to bioware. Disney doesn't own the rights to the kotor story, and would have to license it, no doubt at great cost to disney. They'd have to haggle not just over movie rights but tie-ins, characters, toys, etc.
They'd rather pour their money into a movie where they get most of the profit by owning most of the IP.
Chances of ever seeing it on the big screen are approximately nil.
A long, long, long, long, long, long long time ago...
In a galaxy that was pretty close by back then.
Eh, Phantom Menace proved that Earth is in the same damn galaxy.
Perhaps, but as the owners of the Star Wars IP, Disney has enormous control over the negotiation of said rights. They could simply hint that EA's continued control of their Star Wars license could be in question if they didn't play ball... and why wouldn't EA play ball? -ANY- amount of percentage on said films and merchandising would likely equal hundreds of millions of dollars and that's not including money they'd get for KOTOR properties they would inevitably be developing at the same time. It's win-win for EA and Disney, who are already looking to expand Star Wars beyond it's current focal point.
That's not even getting into Disney just outright buying EA. Disney's already circling FOX; EA is chump change compared to that.
The E.T.s in the Senate. E.T.s can go to Earth, and E.T.s can go to Coruscant. QED
Over the long, long time since the Galactic Senate, they must have figured out intergalactic travel!
Sure, but they just renewed their ten year license agreement. Perhaps the agreement allows disney movie license for the IP, but again - why would disney produce that story when they could produce another story and not have to license it at all?
It could happen, I'm not saying it can't, and perhaps it's even in the works. But the universe is large, they can produce a lot of profitable movies before using material that's already explored in other mediums.
They're not E.T.s, they're an example of convergent evolution. Or, for some of us, of the Creator running short on ideas.
That has been obvious since the end of Return of the Jedi.
And R2-D2 was on the underside of an alien spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
Also he and C3PO were on the wall of an Egyptian Crypt.
Also he and C3PO were on the wall of an Egyptian Crypt.
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I don't think this spoils anything, but people are saying they do some really uncomfortably weird stuff with
[DOUBLEPOST=1513181719,1513181251][/DOUBLEPOST]I still think this movie is about to confirm the headcanon I've had going since TPM came out.
the Force.
Luke (or Rey) will fulfill the prophecy, combining light and dark, and bringing balance. Qui-Gon started it. Obi-Wan knew about it, but was firmly a Jedi. Luke tried, but it backfired with Ben. Rey will accomplish it. What's more, I still think Lucas planned this from far back. Even in the OT, Obi-Wan tells Luke his feelings do him credit, which is a bit uncharacteristic of a Jedi.
I feel like the underlying message of the movies has always been that the Jedi are wrong
