I'm glad we dodged this bullet. Now, let's just put the whole franchise into the trusty hands of M. Night Shyamalan
J.J. Abrams Turned Down Directing New Star Wars Movies
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I though the same thing. Death star blasts would be so bright the first five rows of viewers would become translucent.Remus said:
I don't know about this Wes Anderson, but it's been proven that Star Wars, as near perfect a property as it gets, can be fumbled fantastically by even it's creator. To be honest I find it impossible to get excited about anything Star Wars. The new trilogy murdered my childhood fondness for the series then had it's way with the carcass in strange and unnatural fashion.
Let's be silly and suggest some fun directors an imagine their vision. How about Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Side Rises" or M. Night Shyamalan's "The Wookie"? I'd
I feel pretty glad about this. I don't hate JJ Abrahms but after watching how he devolved the Star Trek premise I feel like he wouldn't get Star Wars. I'd like to see them hand it to the Thor director and writer personally. They took retro designs and story of the original Thor and made it cool again while still finding an audience. Star Wars does not need more action and crazy flashy light saber duels to please its fan base.
Good riddance if you ask me. But I disagree on hiring someone like Tarantino or Anderson. They should get someone who's competent but doesn't have such a poignant directing style. Inasmuch as Tarantino's take on SW might be funny it would be more of an amusing thing than anything else. And I think at this point we need our faith on the saga renewed rather than turn it into something merely amusing o interesting.
Abrams had nothing to do with Lost after the first season or so, and Star Trek was great. Likewise, the new writer just needs to be a good fucking writer; experience in the genre is entirely secondary to that requirement.
I am totally with the Wes Anderson vote, though.
I am totally with the Wes Anderson vote, though.
Bloated and irritating, I imagine.BoogieManFL said:
Can't we just let the corpse of Star Wars lie in peace without digging it up and raping it every decade? I loved IV - VI inclusive, loved them like a fat kid loves jellybeans. (Apropos enough, since I was that fat kid, but I digress.) I was ready to love the prequel trilogy as well, but three straight attempts to recapture the old magic were pissed right down the drain, leaving me the cynical and indifferent lump I am now. I'm not even angry about all this forced nostalgia; it's just sad to me that our society has become so gun-shy that spinning out a franchise where every nuance has inextricably wormed its way into the American zeitgeist -- a franchise so shackled by its success as to be enslaved by its own consumer base -- is not only seen as a good idea, but one brilliant enough to be attached to the names of every vaguely important person in Hollywood. Why is everyone so excited?
So go ahead and make VII - IX if you want, Disney. Go ahead and make all the gaiden-spinoffs of the expanded universe that you like. I may even watch them if I'm bored enough.
(I did see Moviebob's "defense" of Episode 1, before you ask. He raises a few valid points, but they don't excuse the fact that the screenplay was deeply flawed on many levels.)
So go ahead and make VII - IX if you want, Disney. Go ahead and make all the gaiden-spinoffs of the expanded universe that you like. I may even watch them if I'm bored enough.
(I did see Moviebob's "defense" of Episode 1, before you ask. He raises a few valid points, but they don't excuse the fact that the screenplay was deeply flawed on many levels.)
The new Star Trek film basically WAS Star Wars, only shit.
So we know exactly what his take on the series would be like anyway. I'm glad he's staying away from it.
Also I have no desire to see Tarantino turn Star Wars into a talkie talkie 3-minutes-of-action-in-the-whole-movie experience.
So we know exactly what his take on the series would be like anyway. I'm glad he's staying away from it.
Also I have no desire to see Tarantino turn Star Wars into a talkie talkie 3-minutes-of-action-in-the-whole-movie experience.
That could work.Sewa_Yunga said:
In the end we find out...... The prequels never happened.
deep.
That sounds like the original Star Wars movie (aka A new Hope).Squilookle said:
Of course he would turn it down, he's too busy making Star Trek more like Star Wars anyway. He stated he wanted to make Star Trek more like Star Wars, there was even a section on the special feature of the Star Trek dvd saying so.
Oh, but it would have been so fitting!
A man who gets way too much credit for stuff he had nothing to do with (LOST), directing movies from a series created by a man who gets way too much credit for the good installments in said series!
A man who gets way too much credit for stuff he had nothing to do with (LOST), directing movies from a series created by a man who gets way too much credit for the good installments in said series!
Mostly, the story made little sense (as another poster pointed out). Destroying Vulcan is beyond stupid, the lens flares were out of control, Nero was really just Shinzon, the Spock/Uhura thing was unwanted.erttheking said:
It was fun on it's own (the first time) but as a Trek movie, it simply doesn't measure up. The new timeline really comes down to this movie not meaning anything in the end. Which lore would a Trekkie prefer, the one with Vulcan that has been established over 4 decades or JJ's timeline? You can't have both.
I am surprised Leonard Nimoy agreed to be in this movie.
It didn't seem that bad in terms of making sense. Guy with grudge against the federation travels into the past and starts blowing up planets. The lens flare aren't really that bad, I don't see the connection between the two, and I actually kinda liked that.Crono1973 said:
It feels like a fresh breath, and I don't see why both be canon. Isn't this the Star Trek universe where they go to the mirror dimension every five episodes? Can't it run on the DBZ time travel rules?
"Guy with grudge wants to kill everyone" is a bad Trek story. Even JJ Abrams admits that the lens flares were out of control.erttheking said:
http://io9.com/5230278/jj-abrams-admits-star-trek-lens-flares-are-ridiculous
Trek has always used a reset button to make it clear which timeline is the correct one, this movie is in conflict with the canon. No, mirror dimension episodes are pretty rare in the grand scheme of hundreds of episodes.
I looked it up, there are 9 Mirror universe episodes out of 694 total episodes. Of the ones I remember, there is never any question of which timeline is real and which one isn't.
Even if I was the geek cred havingest awesome sci-fi directingest most "One of us" directors who ever lived I still wouldn't want to direct the new SW movies.
And not out of spite...just mean that the project has career ender written all over it. People are going to strut into that theatre out for blood.
And not out of spite...just mean that the project has career ender written all over it. People are going to strut into that theatre out for blood.
I liked the new Star Trek movie. It may not be true to the original Star Trek movie but they didn't intend to do that, they even said that it's not going to be like the old Star Trek. It wasn't aimed at Star Trek fans.
Anyway, at this point I have no idea at all whether it's going to be a good movie or not. It can't get much worse than the prequels and there are many director who could at least make a decent sequel but if he doesn't feel like he can, then that's fine. To many the franchise is dead anyway and I doubt that there are a lot of fans who have much hope in this, unlike back then with the prequels.
I'm just really curious what Disney exactly intents to do with the franchise and how the movie will turn out.
Anyway, at this point I have no idea at all whether it's going to be a good movie or not. It can't get much worse than the prequels and there are many director who could at least make a decent sequel but if he doesn't feel like he can, then that's fine. To many the franchise is dead anyway and I doubt that there are a lot of fans who have much hope in this, unlike back then with the prequels.
I'm just really curious what Disney exactly intents to do with the franchise and how the movie will turn out.