New Star Wars Films to be written and produced by the creators of Game of Thrones

[TigerClaw]

Lucasfilm just officially announced that the creators and the Game of Thrones TV series are gonna be writing and producing a new series of Star Wars films. These new films will not be connected to the current trilogy or the new trilogy by Rian Johnson.
http://www.starwars.com/news/game-of...tar-wars-films

[CyberCubed]

Good. New Star Wars movies every year till 2030. What a time to be alive.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Holy crap.

You guys are gonna be SICK of Star Wars movies in another decade.

[CyberCubed]

What's weird to me is how much the general public says things like, "How can they make another Star Wars movie? What is there left to tell?"

Yet there's been like 30+ years of Star Wars comic books and novels that have told countless stories over the last 3 decades, then stuff like the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon that has 100+ episodes.

It's like a lot of people have no idea how big the Star Wars universe actually is.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

What's weird to me is how much the general public says things like, "How can they make another Star Wars movie? What is there left to tell?"

Yet there's been like 30+ years of Star Wars comic books and novels that have told countless stories over the last 3 decades, then stuff like the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon that has 100+ episodes.

It's like a lot of people have no idea how big the Star Wars universe actually is.

I started in on the EU novels just this week... reading the first book of the Thrawne trilogy. So far, I'm sucked in!

Not interested in Disney's take on Star Wars, though. Episode VII and Rogue One both bored me, and Episode VIII sounds even more boring/frustrating to me.

I'll stick to prose.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

I'll stick to prose.

Reminds me of an old thread...

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=55900

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Reminds me of an old thread...

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=55900

I completely forgot about that!

And unfortunately, now I DO get that reference. Erk.

[Autbot_Benz]

While I like the new stuff and please excuse my Vegita-San but kinda getting sick of the whole Women are strong and in charge while men are dumb hotshots messing everything up like Last Jedi Kinda had.

[Shark_Blade]

I expect many gratuitous rape and incestual sex scenes, in a galaxy far, far away.

But more Star Wars, yay.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

I expect many gratuitous rape and incestual sex scenes, in a galaxy far, far away.

I doubt Disney would allow any of that.

[Vegita-San]

Can i put in my own complaining hashtag before some other idiot does it?

it just seems like these lucasfilm people are jumping on all the latest trends.

first they had the lego people try to write a movie. Now Game of Thrones People. i'm waiting for the This Is Us writers to get a star wars movie.

[dl316bh]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Holy crap.

You guys are gonna be SICK of Star Wars movies in another decade.

I honestly wonder if it's even going to take that long. You can only really push a franchise on a schedule like this for so long before people lose interest or it stops feeling special. There are exceptions, but franchises typically shed audience and take over time anyway. Even Star Wars isn't immune to that, historically.

Yet there's been like 30+ years of Star Wars comic books and novels that have told countless stories over the last 3 decades, then stuff like the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon that has 100+ episodes.

It's like a lot of people have no idea how big the Star Wars universe actually is.

Lets be real here; the people who read the books and especially the comics were/are the hardcore fans, which may be sizable compared to other franchises but far from equals the audience of any given Star Wars film. A majority of the people who saw the original trilogy back in the day probably never picked up a single EU novel and came back to the films out of nostalgia, memories and attachment to those films. I've read plenty of the novels and comics, but if you ask most people they wouldn't know Mara Jade, Jacen Solo or Cade Skywalker from adam. You can also do more with that kind of media, because it's divorced of the expectations, budget restrictions and need to worry about drawing in the general population.

[Shark_Blade]

Disney bought the franchise pretty expensive, so let them churn out the milk cow to their heart content.

And the fans are happy, so win-win. Those are not, just steer away. Don't be a party pooper.

Sick of Star Wars? Please. How many James Bond films are there now? 24. Are people tired of it? Nope.

[Krutch]

So long as they're quality films, I'm golden.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, I mean... things were in a special place after the OT.

20 years of wondering, hoping "Will we one day get Episodes I-III???" then we got the (we'll call it a "mixed bag") wish fulfillment of that and it was a global event. 30 years of wondering, hoping "Will we one day get Episodes VII-IX... with Luke, Leia, and Han back??" and often times being flat out told "No"... the Disney sale happens and we actually get it and it was another global event. Though it turns out to be super polarizing, everyone we'd been waiting to see killed off or written out in unpleasing fashions.

There's nothing really exciting left to hope for or see. We got that prequel trilogy already. Against all odds, we got to see that one more Luke, Leia, and Han adventure (sort of). That's done now. Rey and Finn and Poe didn't connect with anyone like Luke, Leia, and Han did 30 years ago... nobody is going to be chomping at the bit to see what they're up to in any Episode X. And now we get a random Star Wars movie every year with no more waiting. We're getting the Han Solo origin nobody asked for and Boba Fett: The Movie is being revved up again. After that I'm certain if those movies even do middling box office, the MO will continue to be "Mine the OT!"

Pretty much we'll be hitting critical mass at Episode IX, which is only held up by (vain, probably) hopes that it will right the course on everything that didn't work or went nowhere in VII and VIII and redeem the trilogy. After that? *sigh* Who even cares? The magic is gone.

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

There's nothing really exciting left to hope for or see.

and that's the problem. all the hope and love that the other trilogy built up is trashed by the ST. so who cares what happens now?

[Shark_Blade]

The Last Jedi rakes in $1.3 billions (budget was $200m), not including future home media releases. Clearly the general public does care.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.for...tops-700m/amp/

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

and that's the problem. all the hope and love that the other trilogy built up is trashed by the ST. so who cares what happens now?

I guess all these people out there (loudly) hoping for "Knights of the Old Republic" movies that will never happen from the video games and old EU.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some moderate interest in seeing Yoda: The Movie while we still have Frank Oz, or Obi-Wan: The Lost Years with Ewan... but it's hardly some burning desire. I could not see those movies and be just fine.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

The Last Jedi rakes in $1.3 billions (budget was $200m), not including future home media releases. Clearly the general public does care.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.for...tops-700m/amp/

Of course people cared about "The Last Jedi." It's "The Big Luke Skywalker Return" movie. What does IX have going for it, beyond some lingering battered wife syndrome that's telling us the next one will be better? What is there actually to be excited for, this time out? "Maybe we'll get to see Luke's Force Ghost, if we're lucky!"?

[dl316bh]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

Sick of Star Wars? Please. How many James Bond films are there now? 24. Are people tired of it? Nope.

People have been tired of Bond several times in history. The franchise had to reinvent itself a couple times with new actors. Craig Bond in particular was the right approach at a time the franchise really needed it, which really brought it back to heights of popularity (even here in the US, where I remember people just kind of rolling their eyes at the whole thing by the tail end of the Brosnan era).

Bond also hasn't thrown a film a year at people since Moore, which is also considered one of the weakest Bond eras.

I guess all these people out there (loudly) hoping for "Knights of the Old Republic" movies that will never happen from the video games and old EU.

I still don't get why they didn't at least keep the KOTOR games in continuity. They're never touching that timeframe in film. Probably not in other media either (they seem hesitant to branch too far out of OT territory). It was probably the most inoffense, continuity-wise, of the old EU.

Who even cares? The magic is gone.

I suspect more people are going to be feeling this way over time. It's hard for something to feel special or magical when it's constantly happening.