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What directors do you want to see do future Star Wars films?

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Reagan's BR

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This being GAF, my first thought when I opened the tread was there will probably be a ton of Nolan and Scorsese posts because they are GAF's favorites.

But now all of the sudden I want a Scorsese directed film with Leonardo DiCaprio as an Imperial officer (with cape) hunting down jedi or something.

Also Alejandro González Iñárritu directing a Boba Fett film.
 
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TDLink said:
Why exactly???

He's been fantastic to the franchise.



And these are just some of the great visual shots...Many of his implemented storylines in TCW are fantastic and some of the best SW out there.
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Did you watch the same Clone Wars movie as me? Horrible.

And I watched the first three or four seasons of the show and thought it was pretty much all terrible. It was totally the wrong direction IMO. His ideas like Ahsoka were the worst. I'd like him to stay FAR away from anything Star Wars in the future. I enjoy pretty much everything Star Wars even the prequels to some extent but I detest anything by Filoni.
 
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Reagan's BR said:
First thought was get ready for the Nolan and Scorsese posts...

but now I want a Scorsese directed film with Leonardo DiCaprio as an Imperial officer (with cape) hunting down jedi or something.

Also Alejandro González Iñárritu directing a Boba Fett film.
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Scorsese could be neat but Nolan would make an even worse Star Wars movies than Blomkamp. It's just not his wheelhouse.
 
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Lynch was supposed to have directed Return of the Jedi. I cannot imagine what type of film that would have been. It might have been restrained, boring and devoid of either Lynch or a well made film. Or it could have been truly special.


It's like thinking about if Tarantino had been allowed to direct Casino Royale. Quentin has said in interviews that CR was made because of his interest in the novel. He is a big James Bond fan and had always wanted to do it. But the fear is always that Tarantino (like Lynch) has so much style it might ruin a franchise. For all the faults of the caretakers of either franchises it is difficult to blame them too much for not taking these visionary directors.


Strangely enough I think Joss Whedon has the right temperament. Firefly to me was a destillation of the Han Solo fantasy and the banter in that show reminds me of the best of times with the banter in the original trilogy. I'm not a fan of Avengers or Age of Ultron, but I think Whedon has the right temperament. I think he is more solid for Star Wars than Edwards.
 
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Davide

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10 Justin Lin (Star Trek Beyond, Furious)
9 Russo brothers (Civil War)
8 Jon Favreau (Iron Man)
7 James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy)
6 Steven Spielberg
5 Brad Bird (Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol)
4 Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) - a Boba Fett film
3 Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter, Gravity)
2 Peter Jackson - KotOR Trilogy
1 Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar)
 
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Did you watch the same Clone Wars movie as me? Horrible.

And I watched the first three or four seasons of the show and thought it was pretty much all terrible. It was totally the wrong direction IMO. His ideas like Ahsoka were the worst. I'd like him to stay FAR away from anything Star Wars in the future. I enjoy pretty much everything Star Wars even the prequels to some extent but I detest anything by Filoni.
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The Clone Wars movie (basically the pilot for the show) was not good, no. But at that point Lucas was still very much in creative control even if Filoni was the Director. Even in that movie there was still some good shot composition, but the budget and animation style was a lot more constrained than what the show would later evolve into.

Filoni was the Creative and Supervising Director from season 3 of the show onwards...the point where it notably stopped being a grab bag of bad and good and became consistently pretty damn great. Some of those later arcs (The Umbara "Vietnam" arc, The Mandalore/Darth Maul arc, The Fugitive Ahsoka arc, and the Clone Trooper Order 66 chip arc, to name a few) are absolutely phenomenal and positively expand the Star Wars universe and the prequel time period.

The Clone Wars basically single-handedly redeems the entire Prequel era from being total shit. And that includes the character of Anakin Skywalker, who as presented in the show makes complete sense as a character that would become Darth Vader, unlike in those Lucas films.

Above all, Filoni, like Lucas, pushes the boundaries of what Star Wars can be. He isn't content to just reuse ideas. He constantly wanted to do new things with the franchise within the confines of the series and it often had a positive outcome. And unlike Lucas he actually knows how to write well so that those good ideas are executed on properly.

Ahsoka was a rough character at first that was almost universally despised. But now she is very much the opposite, because Filoni did some fantastic things with her character and made her a truly memorable and strong part of the Star Wars universe.

I have no idea how you can find enjoyment in the prequel films but hate The Clone Wars series. It takes all of the ideas they generated and does so much more with them.
 
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Longshot hope would be Alex Garland. Following the Marvel/Lucasfilm approach so far, I'm sure they are talking to the likes of Daniels (Swiss Army Man), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope) who would all be pretty interesting. Based on the Bad Robot and/or current Disney/Marvel connection Dan Trachtenberg (Portal: No Escape short), Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl, upcoming Kolma starring Daisy Ridler and produced by J.J.), Ryan Coogler, and Ava DuVernay all seem like solid bets and would be exciting.
 
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Toothless

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Give me an Obi-Wan trilogy that goes James Mangold, Ryan Coogler, and Gore Verbinski for directors of each. All of them could make a neat somewhat gritty space western (well maybe not Coogler but he needs a Star Wars movie of some kind).
 
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Toxi

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Drewton said:
Did you watch the same Clone Wars movie as me? Horrible.

And I watched the first three or four seasons of the show and thought it was pretty much all terrible. It was totally the wrong direction IMO. His ideas like Ahsoka were the worst. I'd like him to stay FAR away from anything Star Wars in the future. I enjoy pretty much everything Star Wars even the prequels to some extent but I detest anything by Filoni.
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Can't disagree more when it comes to the latter seasons of Clone Wars. Ahsoka's final scene in the series is one of the most powerful and well-executed moments in Star Wars as a whole.

That said, I think Filoni works better with longer serial storylines, so I don't think he's a good choice for a movie.
 
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Ishida

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George Lucas.

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TDLink

TDLink

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Toxi said:
Can't disagree more when it comes to the latter seasons of Clone Wars. Ahsoka's final scene in the series is one of the most powerful and well-executed moments in Star Wars as a whole.

That said, I think Filoni works better with longer serial storylines, so I don't think he's a good choice for a movie.
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Any one of those 4 episode TCW arcs are basically the minimum for feature length. He'd be fine.
 
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Davide

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TDLink said:
I have no idea how you can find enjoyment in the prequel films but hate The Clone Wars series. It takes all of the ideas they generated and does so much more with them.
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It gave the clones more personality. Actually too much personality, in my opinion. It was just unbelievable to me how the Anakin of AOTC and ROTS could have had an apprentice. The heroic depiction of him in the show didn't even seem consistent to me with the film version of him, the guy who killed a whole village of sand people. Some of the worst elements of ROTS were the battle droid humour and how terrible Grievous was and they were just as bad or worse in the show. I actually enjoyed a few new and out-there ideas like Mortis, kind of, but I'm not sure I wanted it to actually be canon.

But even the Boba Fett episodes were bad. Dooku Captured as horrible. The Jar Jar episode was horrible. Maul with spider legs. I did not like Obi-Wan's relationship with Satine, the Mandalorian with the dark saber was stupid. I didn't watch the final season, which looked interesting to me, but it was a struggle to get through the first few seasons for me. It didn't show a realistic Clone War like I wanted, I just hated the whole direction. The micro series was better. The Dark Horse comics were WAY better. I can't understand why anyone who dislikes the prequels would like TCW so much more. Filoni pretty much ruined that era for me, wiping out the actually good Clone Wars stories which did much more interesting things than the show and the prequels.
 
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Kinyou said:
It's actually Gareth Edwards. Gareth Evans is the one who made the The Raid movies. I confused them initially as well.

Speaking of Gareth Evans, somehow I'd like to see him give it a go, though im also not sure what I'd actually expect.
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as long as he utilize the raid actors properly (looking at you TFA)
 
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Drewton said:
It gave the clones more personality. Actually too much personality, in my opinion. It was just unbelievable to me how the Anakin of AOTC and ROTS could have had an apprentice. The heroic version of him in the show didn't even seem consistent to me with the film version of him, the guy who killed a whole village of sand people. Some of the worst elements of ROTS were the battle droid humour and how terrible Grievous was and they were just as bad or worse in the show. I actually enjoyed a few new and out-there ideas like Mortis, kind of, but I'm not sure I wanted it to actually be canon.

But even the Boba Fett episodes were bad. Dooku Captured as horrible. The Jar Jar episode was horrible. Maul with spider legs. I did not like Obi-Wan's relationship with Satine, the Mandalorian with the dark saber was stupid. I didn't watch the final season, which looked interesting to me, but it was a struggle to get through the first few seasons for me. The micro series was better. I can't understand why anyone who dislikes the prequels would like TCW so much more.
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Well you're right, the TCW character is completely inconsistent with the AOTC and ROTS character. But the AOTC and ROTS character is terrible, while the TCW version is actually very good and gradually goes more towards Vader, as he should. This is why I said TCW basically redeemed the character of Anakin. Yes it's at odds with the movie version...but how is that bad? The movie version was comically awful.

Those fresh ideas you mention do a lot to better develop the universe. Stuff like Obi-Wan's relationship with Satine adds so many more layers to his character than what is presented in the films...and that's a good thing. That entire Mandalore plotline was a great story that was very well executed, and they even made Darth Maul coming back for it as an antagonist make sense.

The Gendy Tartakovsky micro series was also good but relied way more on action (it was even mostly silent) than telling any kind of real story with character development.
 
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TheXbox

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Will we ever find out why Joss wasn't tapped for Ep IX? Age of Ultron got him jaded? I remember hearing he would've absolutely directed VII if he wasn't already making the Avengers.
 
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My pick is already doing Episode VIII, so I'm pretty happy. But I would also be down for Villeneuve and Nolan. If the Russos can pull off Infinity War than I would like to see them tackle Star Wars next.

Acutally Bong Joon-Ho would be a great choice too.
 
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UnemployedVillain said:
Man, fuck JJ for that. And the worst part is that they won't even be able to be in any future SW movies either
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I don't think that's true. Do you even clearly see all of their faces? They can easily reuse them. Even moreso if they use make up and prosthetics in some way.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Zack Snyder will direct Man of the Force followed up by Light Side Vs Dark Side and will then destroy Star Wars as we know it with the final movie.
 
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