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Rumor: Disney Resetting Star Wars

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
No no no, they failed because they weren’t woke ENOUGH.

Next time the force won’t be female, the force will be trans.

Disney is a corporation that likes making money by following trends. If their bean counters surmise that they can now make more money by not following the SJW agenda then they'll go right back to how they used to do things - business as usual.
 

Sleepydays

Banned
The possibility that so many huge players in Hollywood would willingly subject themselves to such a public humiliation...Iger, Kennedy, Abrahms - even Rian! - is beyond parody.

Even if you could make a case for it as being best for the long term of the franchise, or even just to appeal to the die-hards, those concerns are microscopic next to professional reputations and egos of those people.
 
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Weiji

Banned
Disney is a corporation that likes making money by following trends. If their bean counters surmise that they can now make more money by not following the SJW agenda then they'll go right back to how they used to do things - business as usual.

Yeah that’s why Splash Mountain has been rebranded black princess beastiality the ride.

Totally a bean counter move.
 

Darkmakaimura

Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
The World Between Worlds is canon but this isn't happening.

If anything, it may be a way to have Legends exist "canonically" as an alternate timeline.
 

cryptoadam

Banned
All they need to do is attach some black face or metoo to the movies and then they can censor them and say they will remake them but this time even more diverse.
 
Keep The Force Awakens and say the other two movies were "the bad ending."

Or sure, just reset it completely. The Force Awakens was fine, but nothing I would greatly miss.

Doubt it will happen, though.

IDK looking back there's a lot of plot threads I hate about TFA. The magical homing space laser that destroys Hosnian and the entire Republic fleet.

Adam Driver killing Han was completely unearned. In both of the following movies even the character doesn't seem to know why he killed Han.
 
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Neolombax

Member
With the amount of marketing and merchandising, I don't think they will reset it. At least not completely erase it.



In all honestly though, I really don't give a flying fuck anymore about Star Wars.
 

Scotty W

Member
If they do reset it, I suspect it won’t be the last.

I suspect we will be seeing a remake based on the Lucas outlines debuting in the early 2030’s.
 
If they do reset it, I suspect it won’t be the last.

I suspect we will be seeing a remake based on the Lucas outlines debuting in the early 2030’s.

I don't think they need to reset as much as place it 100 years ahead of the sequel trilogy. Make it to where all the systems are in disarray because of a lack of central government. Systems have formed their own governments instead of a galaxy wide collective government. Part of the problem with the ST is that it didn't even make sense that systems would be super on board to join a new centralized government after the empire fell when the Republic became the empire in the first place.

Most of the cast have acted like they're done with Star Wars after ST anyways. Placing it far into the future of the ST wipes the board clean and gives you creative control to do something different without being constrained to previous films.
 

MilkLizard

Member
I doubt Disney really gives a fuck about the opinion of some Internet Nerds. They made tons of money with these movies, so why even bother? We will get a new Trilogy at some point that'll probably plays hundreds of years before or after the events of the last 9 movies, so it hardly matters. Just my 2 cents.
 
I doubt Disney really gives a fuck about the opinion of some Internet Nerds. They made tons of money with these movies, so why even bother? We will get a new Trilogy at some point that'll probably plays hundreds of years before or after the events of the last 9 movies, so it hardly matters. Just my 2 cents.

Gary Whitta wrote Rogue One.
 

GV82

Member
Now I think about it In 2020, yeah I guess they have to strip out some stuff that’s considered non P.C now, so they will probably reboot the whole thing from scratch.


Star Wokes

Darth Vader to Obi Wan

“When I last met you were I was but the Learner. Now, I am in charge”


Darth to Luke

“You do not know the power of the Baddies side, I must obey my Boss”
 

theclaw135

Banned
I don't think they need to reset as much as place it 100 years ahead of the sequel trilogy. Make it to where all the systems are in disarray because of a lack of central government. Systems have formed their own governments instead of a galaxy wide collective government. Part of the problem with the ST is that it didn't even make sense that systems would be super on board to join a new centralized government after the empire fell when the Republic became the empire in the first place.

Most of the cast have acted like they're done with Star Wars after ST anyways. Placing it far into the future of the ST wipes the board clean and gives you creative control to do something different without being constrained to previous films.

Keeping the empire's collapse off screen was a mistake. The ST tells us very little about the central government's breakdown. The emperor was already aging and deformed when he took power, it's dubious his influence alone was what was held so many systems together. But I can buy that he was self-centered enough to not have a line of succession.
 

REE Machine

Banned
Keep The Force Awakens and say the other two movies were "the bad ending."

Or sure, just reset it completely. The Force Awakens was fine, but nothing I would greatly miss.

Doubt it will happen, though.
TFA started the trash pile to begin with by carbon copying ANH, seriously TFA awakens is trash because it didnt do anything original
 

Lady Bird

Matsuno's Goebbels
I don't see this being discussed in credible places dedicated to star wars leaks, and it is apparently well-known that comicbooks.com is trash in that regard, so this is definitely not happening.
 
True or not, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. The damage has been done, the canon has been altered, characters and actors have died, so whatever they do, it's too late. As a lifelong SW fan I was skeptical when TFA came out, I grieved when TLJ came out and I haven't cared since. They obviously don't know what they are doing and I doubt that will change.

How do you come back from decimating the EU, handing over all of your video game development to EA, undoing the end of Return Of The Jedi, rendering the entire OT pointless, divorcing Han and Leia off screen, killing Han, killing Luke, killing Leia, hiding important plot information in Fortnite, handing everything sacred that's left to Palpatine's granddaughter, and as the cherry on top, use the failure and divisiveness of these movies as an excuse to call your fanbase toxic, misogynist, racist, homophobic and 'too white and male'.

Answer: you don't. Especially when you go on to say stupid shit like:

“There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. we don’t have 800-page novels, we don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. We go through a really normal development process that everybody else does.”

It would be like going to my favorite childhood restaurant, that recently got a new owner, and being served a plate of shit. Then, after I complain, they rinse off my plate with water, and tell me that a new meal is coming that won't taste like shit. Like, sorry, but I still have the taste of shit in my mouth, so I think I'll pass.
 

JimiNutz

Banned
True or not, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. The damage has been done, the canon has been altered, characters and actors have died, so whatever they do, it's too late. As a lifelong SW fan I was skeptical when TFA came out, I grieved when TLJ came out and I haven't cared since. They obviously don't know what they are doing and I doubt that will change.

How do you come back from decimating the EU, handing over all of your video game development to EA, undoing the end of Return Of The Jedi, rendering the entire OT pointless, divorcing Han and Leia off screen, killing Han, killing Luke, killing Leia, hiding important plot information in Fortnite, handing everything sacred that's left to Palpatine's granddaughter, and as the cherry on top, use the failure and divisiveness of these movies as an excuse to call your fanbase toxic, misogynist, racist, homophobic and 'too white and male'.

Answer: you don't. Especially when you go on to say stupid shit like:



It would be like going to my favorite childhood restaurant, that recently got a new owner, and being served a plate of shit. Then, after I complain, they rinse off my plate with water, and tell me that a new meal is coming that won't taste like shit. Like, sorry, but I still have the taste of shit in my mouth, so I think I'll pass.

This is a brilliant post and I agree with everything but Battlefront 1 was decent and Battlefront 2 is currently brilliant.

I hear Fallen Order is good too and Squadrons looks promising. EA were fucking slow to get going but at least the games weren't a disaster lol
 
This is a brilliant post and I agree with everything but Battlefront 1 was decent and Battlefront 2 is currently brilliant.

I hear Fallen Order is good too and Squadrons looks promising. EA were fucking slow to get going but at least the games weren't a disaster lol

Yeah I can agree with that. Battlefront 2 had a PR nightmare of a launch but ended up being a great game, and I've heard good things about Fallen Order.

What I meant was that previously, the Star Wars license was open to many different developers, so you got a large variety of games in different genres and eras from many different studios. I loved games like KOTOR, Tie Fighter, Jedi Knight and Empire at War, just to name a few.

I much prefer that approach over handing the license over to the biggest and arguably one of the most greedy publishers in the world and standing by as they barely release any games, cancel the ones that are in development, and generate record-breaking controversy.

It's just another example of the franchise being mismanaged, and of opportunities being squandered. (Although it doesn't change that BF2 and FO ended up being good games).
 

JimiNutz

Banned
Yeah I can agree with that. Battlefront 2 had a PR nightmare of a launch but ended up being a great game, and I've heard good things about Fallen Order.

What I meant was that previously, the Star Wars license was open to many different developers, so you got a large variety of games in different genres and eras from many different studios. I loved games like KOTOR, Tie Fighter, Jedi Knight and Empire at War, just to name a few.

I much prefer that approach over handing the license over to the biggest and arguably one of the most greedy publishers in the world and standing by as they barely release any games, cancel the ones that are in development, and generate record-breaking controversy.

It's just another example of the franchise being mismanaged, and of opportunities being squandered. (Although it doesn't change that BF2 and FO ended up being good games).

Yeah again, I entirely agree.
There should have been more games from more developers, giving it all to EA was probably a mistake.

Since all of these Star Wars games have sold well for EA I assume they are going to have multiple studios working on multiple Star Wars projects now and maybe we will end up getting a new KOTOR (or just a good Star Wars RPG in general). I'd like to see a new Republic Commando game. I don't like EA in general but they probably do have enough resources available to them to pump out some more quality games while they still hold the license.
 

Ememee

Member
The bloke who leaked this also leaked the entire story of the Rise of Skywalker, scene for scene and was 100 percent right, as an fyi

Oh, I know. DC right? Yeah, he leaked TROS through sources but that included a George Lucas Cut and a secret skywalker version of the film which I also very serious doubt.

Maybe it’s true. But it’s ballsy and retroactive. Which is why I don’t see Disney doing it.
 

Goro Majima

Kitty Genovese Member
True or not, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. The damage has been done, the canon has been altered, characters and actors have died, so whatever they do, it's too late. As a lifelong SW fan I was skeptical when TFA came out, I grieved when TLJ came out and I haven't cared since. They obviously don't know what they are doing and I doubt that will change.

How do you come back from decimating the EU, handing over all of your video game development to EA, undoing the end of Return Of The Jedi, rendering the entire OT pointless, divorcing Han and Leia off screen, killing Han, killing Luke, killing Leia, hiding important plot information in Fortnite, handing everything sacred that's left to Palpatine's granddaughter, and as the cherry on top, use the failure and divisiveness of these movies as an excuse to call your fanbase toxic, misogynist, racist, homophobic and 'too white and male'.

Answer: you don't. Especially when you go on to say stupid shit like:



It would be like going to my favorite childhood restaurant, that recently got a new owner, and being served a plate of shit. Then, after I complain, they rinse off my plate with water, and tell me that a new meal is coming that won't taste like shit. Like, sorry, but I still have the taste of shit in my mouth, so I think I'll pass.

Yeah but didn't you like having your expectations subverted?
 
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