'Star Wars': The Impossible Task Facing 'Episode IX'

Hollywood Reporter ^

[shibumi]

"having the Jedi knights dress as, well, futuristic knights. The Force would have remained spiritual — and not biological. The Empire would have been established decades, if not centuries earlier. Lord Vader would have been an actual Lord in the feudal sense. Han Solo would have had a more detailed backstory."

In other words - "Dune."

[tet68]

I’m waiting for Valerian and maybe Space Tripping.

Star Wars...meh.

[Defiant]

It made sense that ObiWan would dress like an Arab on a desert planet.

Was he reprising his role in Lawrence of Arabia?

[BenLurkin]

Wrong Brit, old chap.

[Defiant]

But I thought that I read that Lucas had an outline of 9 movies in his head at the time of the first one, had been thinking about it for years as he absorbed the samarai movies while in film school. Maybe that was just myth.

[yarddog]

Star wars was fun the first time I saw it and so was “The Empire Strikes Back”. Then it started going down hill.”Return of the Jedi” seemed to start out OK then sort of fell off the rails.

I can’t even begin to name all the rest but I thoght the ones with Padme were not that bad. Not sure why everyone seemed to be down on them, Oh yes the Midichlorians were stupid. I am not sure how to spell them either.

The last one I saw was probably the worst, The one where the Black storm trooper turns good. Weren’t they all clones of Boba Fett’s Father? How did a Black one get in?

None of the movies have been awful but they really are going the wrong way. It doesn’t much matter tho. As long as they are not just awful the fans will watch and discus every little thing.

[BenLurkin]

Near as I can tell Lucas was going all out for awful in the prequels. Like it was some kind of personal quest.

[Defiant]

Check again, my young jedi.

[BenLurkin]

Good one!

You are 100% correct.

[Williams]

Right Brit.

[Williams]

Lol the black Storm Trooper is like the random black sperm guy in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex.

Btw Force Awakens royally sucked.

[lmr]

I am tired of the main series Star Wars movies. It's time for it all to end.

Would love to see more Star Wars anthologies like Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo flick.

Would also like to see different timelines in the Star Wars Universe. Knights of the Old Republic should be made into movies. That would be awesome.

[BenLurkin]

Indeed

[Captain Peter Blood]

Frankly I could care less. What started out as a nice escapism action-adventure movie ended up morphing into a huge business on one hand and then birthing a cult that borders on the ridiculous.

The last 8 years have seen a explosion of Comic book, fantasy fueled CGI films. I have just about gotten to the point of burnout with this stuff. Star Wars and Star Trek included.

I really can't get excited about any more of them, the ones coming out, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Justice League just are not that exciting to me. And I am tired of remakes and the such. I just haven't seen anything that compelling to really want to see. By the way I saw Fate of the Furious and frankly I think they have gone as far as they can take that franchise. They probably should have stopped at Furious 7 when Paul Walker died. That's my worthless two cents worth.

[DakotaGator]

'Star Wars': The Impossible Task Facing 'Episode IX'

Don't care. All Disney has done to the franchise is PC feminize it and crank up its merchandising game. There has been zero creativity and no marvelous new special effects. Audiences can look forward to a string of tired "Love Bug" type sequels.

Wasted my money on the lame "The Force Awakens". Not going to waste any more.

[Defiant]

He was so good as an Arab king. He sure felt like his career had hit bottom when he had to play a weird sci-fi role with a light saber and a bunch of sand monkeys skittering about.

[sargon]

Star Wars will simply become a serial production that never actually ends.

Every couple of years, a new movie set in the Star Wars universe will be released, and each time it'll be lucrative—certainly sufficient to keep the ball rolling.

Star Wars has become a perpetual self-sustaining franchise...

[Telepathic Intruder]

The biggest problem is that with everyone related to everyone, how do you avoid incest?

[yawningotter]

One day we will probably see an “American Jedi” type movie. I saw a snippet of it in a dream once, but I doubt Disney goes that way. They won’t use my idea of a Jedi Master either. R. Lee Ermey would break the mold.

[DoodleBob]

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