Guys, Lucas is neither a good scriptwriter nor a good director. He injects next to no energy into his scenes, can't block a scene worth a shit outside of 'casually walking down a hallway' or 'frantically lightsabering down a hallway,' doesn't use the camera in any dramatically motivated way and clearly doesn't have the ability to draw specific nuanced emotions from his actors. And if he has done any of these things, he hasn't done them in forty years.
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Colin Trevorrow Exits Episode 9
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Guys, Lucas is neither a good scriptwriter nor a good director. He injects next to no energy into his scenes, can't block a scene worth a shit outside of 'casually walking down a hallway' or 'frantically lightsabering down a hallway,' doesn't use the camera in any dramatically motivated way and clearly doesn't have the ability to draw specific nuanced emotions from his actors. And if he has done any of these things, he hasn't done them in forty years.
DerZuhälter
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Why would you want George back as director? He's great in terms of worldbuilding but I wouldn't want him to write dialogue or characters.
Oh shit I did!
The hell is The Wall?
Oh shit I did!
The hell is The Wall?
Lifejumper
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He doesnt need any convincing. He said he loved to do another one. Scheduling is going to be the main issue imo. Rian Johnson is a writer- director so he probably want to rewrite the script. I don't think lucasfilm is going to move the date.
True Savior
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Robert Rodriguez about to save "Star Wars".
IlGialloMondadori
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Christ please not JJ Abrams.
FutureLarking
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I hope to fuck it's not JJ, but it's possible because he has nothing on his director's slate right now. I really didn't like the direction he went with Force Awakens (or Into Darkness)
I'd be on board with this.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yikes. True.
CassidyIzABeast
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Is Rian going to explain all that force vision/dream nonsense that JJ had in TFA or is that just mystery box horseshit?
TheSkullPrince
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-Patty Jenkins
-Kathryn Bigelow
-Alfonso Cuaron
-Guillermo Del Toro
Fun Pick: Robert Rodriguez
-Kathryn Bigelow
-Alfonso Cuaron
-Guillermo Del Toro
Fun Pick: Robert Rodriguez
WadiumArcadium
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Isn't Guardians 3 supposed to be coming in 2020 or somewhere around there? I doubt he'd have enough time. I'm sure those movies are more than enough to handle and he'd prefer to keep control of the characters he introduced than inherit existing ones.
soundscream
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Peter Jackson with some a dat hot 48fps 3d goodness!
WhiteRabbitEXE
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What about the vision was "nonsense mystery box horseshit"? Like 95% of it was literally just two flashbacks, one of Rey being abandoned as a child, which is central to her character, and the other of Kylo and the Knights of Ren destroying the new Jedi Order, which is the event that kicks off the entire story of the trilogy.
The rest was a brief premonition of Rey's fight with Kylo on Starkiller from the end of the movie, little sound bites of Obi-Wan reaching out through the Force to support her, and a shot of the interior of a First Order base that could just be Starkiller.
#1 defender
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Man just no. Apart from the movies taking place in space, they're not even the same genre. GOTG isn't at all what Star Wars should be.
I think Gunn is a decent director and the movies he's making now fit him like a glove, but letting him make Star Wars isn't going to do anyone any favors.
WadiumArcadium
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The Knights of Ren flashback was actually them killing some kind of clan, not Luke's Jedi. In the script the man Kylo kills is referred to as the 'clan leader'. An earlier version of the story had them fighting for Luke's lightsaber when that was the MacGuffin.
The shot of Luke and R2 is definitely from the academy attack though and that's going to be expanded upon in The Last Jedi anyway.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Ah, I think I actually remember that now that you mention it. Thanks for the correction.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
No, I hope JJ stays as far away from Star Wars as possible.
How isn't it Star Wars ?
GotG 1 feels like A New Hope in so many ways.
Star Wars is ultimately about a group of likeable characters having adventures in space defeating evil.
(Death Star = Infinity Stone + Ronan)
(Quinn = Luke Skywalker)
(Rocket & Groot = Han & Chewie)
(Gamora = kinda Leia ish)
Lifejumper
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Aye creative movies just like JW and Book of Henry amiright?
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
No mate.
http://www.cbr.com/ways-guardians-of-the-galaxy-is-star-wars/
http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/how-guardians-of-the-galaxy-is-like-star-wars.html
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/5-guardians-of-the-galaxy-star-wars/
If people can't see it, then you've probably forgotten what Star Wars is.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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There are similarities, and the influence is definitely there, but Guardians plays more like an actual comedy than an action-adventure with humorous elements.
I don't really trust Gunn to keep a straight face long enough, especially after Guardians 2 cranked up the humor to the extent where it actively made the movie less enjoyable for me.
Yes that's the joke.
Lifejumper
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My bad. My sarcasm meter is broken because of these Star Wars threads.
WadiumArcadium
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I'm sure he'd recognise that the humour would need to be scaled back a bit. The action scenes would be more of a concern for me. I like both Guardians films - especially the original - but none of the action stood out to me like the lightsaber duel in TFA or the Scarif battle scenes in Rogue One.
Stairouais
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After Ant Man, I doubt he'll ever work with Disney/Marvel again.
Bubble Walrus
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I have a feeling Rian will be coming back.
Hopefully the same wouldn't be true with Lucasfilm.
Nah, judging by the female characters in 'Baby Driver' he shouldn't get near a character like Rey.
He'd probably want too much creative control, one of the reasons he left Ant Man was that they wanted to bring extra writers on for the script.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Talk about hijacking a convo into a new direction.
Bubble Walrus
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It's weird hearing Johnson talk about how he had loads of creative control on 8, and then seeing all these directors shown the door from Star Wars projects because of 'creative differences'.
Has Johnson just had much more agreeable ideas?
Honestly i would like to see another Lucas helmed Star Wars movie happen. At this point it does not really matter to me what happens to the franchise.
And thank God for that. Snyder is not remotely compatible with Star Wars. I can't fathom you guys shitting on Trevorrow for months, and then come up with Snyder as a replacement, lol.
Brad Bird or Andrew Stanton would be ace, but Bird is held up by The Incridbles II, so he's probably a no-go. Maybe they'll get JJ back. Johnson is to busy in post with VIII, even when they decide to move IX to december 2019.
I'd love to see Jenkins do it, but she's busy too with WW2.