Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

No less notable, though this news had already appeared:

Currently in production, The Mandalorian is written and executive produced by Jon Favreau, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode and serving as executive producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson. Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).

I will definitely be interested to see how Filoni handles live action, since he's done a very good job with animation.

I also can't wait to hear Giancarlo tell Boba Fett he'll fuck him up quick, two times.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) December 12, 2018

Okay, I've just discovered that I can instantly make myself laugh by imagining any line of SW dialogue as uttered by Werner Herzog.

have zero faith in Favreau (so weird that this is where his career went) and I can't imagine Werner's role will be enough to make this interesting tbh

but it is intriguing

I want Herzog to narrate the opening crawl.

Hell maybe the whole project should be like one of his documentaries and he's just narrating the action as it happens.

"from...my point of view...it is the...Jedi...who are evil"

"I ask one of the Jedis if it is possible for a droid to go insane"

If you had told me back in the day that Monica's chubby, MMA-obsessed boyfriend on Friends would be shepherding part of the future of the Star Wars franchise 20-odd years later, I'd have laughed in your face.

“The Force is not with you. Nothing in this broken universe is with you. The sound of a TIE fighter’s ion engines are a mournful scream sent into an uncaring void. We are all chained to Jabba.” https://t.co/Z10KpZiOsA

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 12, 2018

The internet is totally going to ruin this in like a day's time, but I'm enjoying it while it continues to be enjoyable.

whoops missed it, too late for me

Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates)

read that as (Dolemite)

lol at Dolemite

Would watch

solo was good, agreeably small scale and the better for it

uncanny how they got a guy to be such a ringer for liottas han

Thought it was rank rotten

fuck me, if deems likes it I may actually have to subject myself to this

Emilia Clarke is v wooden.

Done the thing these star wars movies do and explain backstory that was better off unexplained (kessel run, Solo actually having been a good guy and not just a selfish thief prior to a new hope).

Glover's Lando way more compelling than what's-his-chops' Solo but still mibbe too much of a Billy Dee Williams impersonation.

Woody decent as usual.

Darth Maul at the end? Fuck off

i kept my expectations low but yeah this is better than fine.

granted if you havent resolved yr issues with backstory references going in youve wasted yr ticket money so yknow caveat empire but standalone it did what rogue one managed (not to as strong an effect for the obv reasons that the ending to that wasnt available) in keeping it sw, keeping it fun and a nice tight job with the character beats

plot didn't get in the way of my fun. all i ask.

emilia clarke is vvvvv pretty and did just fine. i liked the obvious arc i mean jesus i left a gf waiting twenty minutes while i went to the bar once and she had done worse on me by the time i got back cmon han buck wise up

nah this is still hot garbage from the jump

u have a dilemma tombot

Agree this film is fun enough to watch at least once. Didn't like Glover in it as much as many do though. As for Clarke, well, she doesn't deserve any more stick than Bettany.

idk that i want to boost this movie all *that* much but bettany is better than fine in this role

Solo was fine and entertaining enough and nothing was particularly bad about it except maybe the basic premise of trying to retrofit some kind of explanation of what the Kessel run is

I liked what they did with droids in this movie and the whole idea of sentient droids basically being treated as slave labor is something I'd like to see addressed more in Star Wars movies

Feel like that was sort of hinted at in the original movie with contrast between Jawa's treatment of droids vs Luke's.

the angle that droids arent just tools is obviously comfortably the worst thing about this movie but the actual droid character pushing it was good

enjoyed it as a nice sly dig at that type tbh it was good

Okay so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOC8E8z_ifw

Looks good!!

So this is happening.

Watch EWAN MCGREGOR confirm his return to Obi-Wan. THE ENERGY IN THIS ROOM! #d23expo @disneyplus pic.twitter.com/sBVptBYUOD

— Tiffany Mink (@minkus) August 24, 2019

Well, I'm glad Werner got paid.

https://youtu.be/yCm3ar5uw64

I’m more interested in this than 9

Well well

https://deadline.com/2019/10/star-wars-setback-game-of-thrones-duo-david-benioff-d-b-weiss-exit-trilogy-1202771184/

Yeah had a hunch that wouldn't pan out.

"So anyway, Ms. Kennedy, like we said at the panel, it turns out we weren't remotely qualified or ready and they gave us $6 million an episode anyway!

. . . we'll show ourselves out."

Maybe they were talking about taking out all the space and force and Jedi stuff, and the producers got nervous.

They did a decent enough job after an uneven start of making a fantasy swords and sorcery series into some real HBO bait. Not a very good record of working with a larger writing team or coming up with original material, which is about half of the Star Wars job.

Uh, original material as in plots that aren't pre-written. There's... not a lot of original other material being added to Star Wars.

The only thing that bums me out about this is watching all the keyboard nerd rage warriors tweeting out "WE DID IT!!!", "WE WON!", etc etc ad infinitum.

avoid those comment sections imo

obvs, but those tweets kept popping up in the middle of otherwise reasonable takes on the announcement.

I'm wondering how much synergy they're going to build between the Clone Wars cartoon final season they're dropping after many years that'll include the *drum roll* Siege of Mandalore and the flashbacks to the title character's past in The Mandalorian. Might be some of the same scenes!

they obviously knew they were toast re: Star Wars before the netflix deal came up.

So first they were going to do 'Confederate', but that never got off the ground. Next they were going to do a Star Wars trilogy, but they've given up on that as well. Now they are at Netflix doing... things? People probably need to stop giving these guys money. Oh, and also, how's it going with those seventeen GoT prequel shows?

I thought they were bringing in other showrunners for the GoT prequels, but it's been pretty quiet on that end.

I'll be definitely curious to see what they do for Netflix.

I figure if they adapt a finished book or series, there's a chance it will be good.

Yeah, I mean despite all the rage about the ending, they did do a pretty damn good job of building out Westeros for the first 4-5 seasons.

I'm not sure they'd want to dive back into fantasy already, but I was thinking I wouldn't mind seeing them work with Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive (tho that's dangerous water with a so-far unfinished book series).