ep 9: girl jedi goes rogue, must come back to the force
Episode IX could well be the end of the Luke Skywalker era. New movies made after that, whether part of a trilogy or not, will feature the Rey girl, and other new characters of a new generation. The whole Jedi storyline will continue; this First Order group of bad guys will rise and fall, new villians will show up, etc. etc.
Star Wars may never end, they will just keep introducing new storylines and new characters, based on good guys vs. bad guys.
Making more movies after Episode 9 would only be milking the tit dry. They seem to be on track to give Luke's story a fitting conclusion. They should let it end with that.
And besides, there is 25,000 years of Star Wars history to play with. They haven't tapped into that yet. A trilogy set thousands of years before or after the Empire? That could be fun.
This is the problem with telling a story in a trilogy format, and it’s not unique to Star Wars. LOTR had the same issue.
Keeping Mark Hamill from groveling in
the public ashtrays on the sound stage set?
The real problem they have is expanding the scope of Star Wars. It has a huge universe explored to a degree in the old Expanded Universe books (restarted with the new books after the old EU was tossed out as non-canon by Disney), but the truth is that Star Wars has always been Rebels fighting the Empire. They’re trying to restart that now, but will it work? Is there anymore to it? Even in the excellent “Knights of the Old Republic” comics and games, it was the Republic fighting against the Sith Empire, which was just the Empire with a few more Dark Jedi tossed around.
They can only re-hash the original concept so many times before people lose interest, but Disney will have to take risks with a flagship property they paid billions for.
Will there be yet another Death Star or planet destroying weapon to wipe out?
“How can a movie successfully provide closure when everyone involved knows that the story isn’t actually closing?”
The author is missing the obvious. If everyone knows this “isn’t the actual closing” then no firm closure is needed. They just want to see this particular chapter story closed (i.e. several questions will be or should be answered - such as “Who is Snoke?”).
Their biggest problem - -
The Title IX folks accused them of cultural appropriation.
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.
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.
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.
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...
The biggest problem is that with everyone related to everyone, how do you avoid incest?
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.
Anyone would be just fine skipping the 1 2 3 reboots and watch Mr. Plinkett’s reviews at Red Letter Media. Just finished Rogue One on redbox. Was pretty fun. I will wait for the next one.