Kathleen Kennedy leaving Lucasfilm... maybe in September

[Andrew NDB]

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by BartAllen

My tippy top most favorite sci fi character is Ellen Ripley. No one even approaches her level. The female characters that we're seeing in modern movies are ****ing trash. The modern female character are poorly conceived, poorly written caricatures. The problem isn't misogyny. The problem is BAD MOVIES. The fans are right to rebel.

Ripley was written as a man.
Ridley Scott made Ripley into Ellen Ripley because, “I just had a thought. What would you think if Ripley was a woman? She would be the last one you would think would survive—she’s beautiful.”
8 Great Female Roles That Were Originally Written for Men (vanity fair)

I'm not discounting the idea that bad movies exist, or that movies created using a checklist are soulless and dull.
I just think discounting misogyny out-of-hand as a factor is short-sighted, and in the case of Ripley...ubiquitous.

I mean, the creator of Alien did something UNHEARD of, he let a beautiful woman survive.

[Sumac]

AKSUALLY, all characters in Alien were supposedly written as unisex.
Link

CAST OF CHARACTERS

CHAZ STANDARD,
Captain.................A leader and a politician. Believes that
any action is better than no action.

MARTIN ROBY,
Executive Officer.......Cautious but intelligent -- a survivor.

DELL BROUSSARD,
Navigator...............Adventurer; brash glory-hound.

SANDY MELKONIS,
Communications..........Tech Intellectual; a romantic.

CLEAVE HUNTER,
Mining Engineer.........High-strung; came along to make his
fortune.

JAY FAUST,
Engine Tech.............A worker. Unimaginative.

The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.

[Candy Kappa]

I was under the impression that Martin Roby was originally meant to be a guy while the rest of the crew could be either men or women, guess I remember wrong then.

[Vegita-San]

this might also have something to do with the reason for her leaving. that is REALLY pitiful for a star wars release. if they where even lower in the ten million range, she'd probably be gone now.

so much for those bad reviews being just bot related, huh?

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Figures for US Blu-ray:

TFA (3 weeks): Total earnings $102,564,608
TLJ (3 weeks): Total earnings $45,052,396 >>

[Vegita-San]

hmmm....some good points.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31712...ls-ben-shapiro

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

hmmm....some good points.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31712...ls-ben-shapiro

Damn. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

Not at all written from an unbiased perspective, but damned if I don't agree with that.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

hmmm....some good points.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31712...ls-ben-shapiro

Not a bad article and I agree with most of it. He sort of lost me here, though:

"That’s because Kennedy had two choices upon being granted the helm of the Star Wars universe: (1) fast-forward fifty years, beyond the original characters, and reboot, losing the nostalgia of the original characters but gaining freshness; (2) recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off. Instead, in fully risk averse fashion, she chose door (3): leech off the nostalgia while introducing new characters a few years in the future. "

What? Why would #1 be one of the two only options? 50 years forward, like twice as long as between the first two trilogies? Why? #2, the opposite -- recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off... and have no gap at all between trilogies? Weird!

#3 was the soundest of the doors... she just needed to not do a remake and actually have at least a very basic plan for the trilogy, not made up on the fly.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Not a bad article and I agree with most of it. He sort of lost me here, though:

"That’s because Kennedy had two choices upon being granted the helm of the Star Wars universe: (1) fast-forward fifty years, beyond the original characters, and reboot, losing the nostalgia of the original characters but gaining freshness; (2) recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off. Instead, in fully risk averse fashion, she chose door (3): leech off the nostalgia while introducing new characters a few years in the future. "

What? Why would #1 be one of the two only options? 50 years forward, like twice as long as between the first two trilogies? Why? #2, the opposite -- recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off... and have no gap at all between trilogies? Weird!

#3 was the soundest of the doors... she just needed to not do a remake and actually have at least a very basic plan for the trilogy, not made up on the fly.

Agreed. #3 was a good plan, it has just been very poorly executed.

And everybody knew from Day One that Han Solo would be killed off... Harrison Ford wanted him dead in Return of the Jedi, how do you think Star Wars talked the man into returning to the series?

[Vegita-San]

maybe the author thought that at the time, there was no chance you'd get the big three to come back and was speculating options on what they could do? who knows.... considering they got rid of the old EU, recasting everyone and picking up where 6 left off could have been on the table.

you know what is odd about this tran thing as well....

first, the timing of the story. it's coming out just as all this stuff about KK leaving did. second, I haven't seen evidence of these tweets yet. usually these articles like to screen shot them and parade them around.

when the feig/jones thing happened, those tweets where plastered everywhere. (possibly not odd if in fact feig was actually writing them as the theory suggests). has any of these articles actually screen shotted the harassment? or did it all get deleted magically with her account?

[sdp]

We now have some details on what Lucas' version of the Sequel Trilogy would've been:




We can blame it on all the hate the media and fans gave Lucas over the prequels that we didn't see it. It sounds weird but it's different and new, not a rehash, I would've loved to have seen it.

These are not the only details, from the art books of TFA and TLJ we can see that some ideas of these two movies were in the drafts of Episode VII. So Disney just took some ideas, stretched it out over two films and rehashed the OT for good measure.

The whills are an idea George has had in Star Wars since the initial drafts and have made spontaneous appearances so it's not something new. Apparently there's actually a reference to the whills in Rogue One.

[Krutch]

Oooooooh, I get it. The Whill of the Force. I getcha.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Krutch

Oooooooh, I get it. The Whill of the Force. I getcha.

So, if Anakin were a child of the Force, if we were to meet his father, would his name be Whill I Am?

...

I'll just show myself to the door...

[Vegita-San]

george focused way too much on the hate. If he had focused on the things people loved about the prequals he would have had a far more fun time.

The music was amazing. the visuals where top notch . the jedi and sith elements where awesome. coruscsant was a blast.

there where really only a few minor tweaks needed to get these movies up to legendary snuff and I think they would have been as appreciated as the OT over time.

[BartAllen]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

george focused way too much on the hate. If he had focused on the things people loved about the prequals he would have had a far more fun time.

The music was amazing. the visuals where top notch . the jedi and sith elements where awesome. coruscsant was a blast.

there where really only a few minor tweaks needed to get these movies up to legendary snuff and I think they would have been as appreciated as the OT over time.

Personally, I still really love ROTS. I thought it was the best of the three prequels. I'd even say it's better than RTOJ.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

So, if Anakin were a child of the Force, if we were to meet his father, would his name be Whill I Am?

...

I'll just show myself to the door...

You are, yet again, a beacon of light in a very dark place.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

You are, yet again, a beacon of light in a very dark place.

I said that exact thing to my wife last night, and she told me to turn off the lamp and finish the book in the morning.

[Sumac]

Anything would have been better than rehashed Rebellions against Empire with Mary Sue and hysterical child as the leads of the factions.

And I like me some "mystical" out there stuff.

[Vegita-San]

what are the chances all of this backlash against the fans is because of the bidding war between comcast and disney for fox assets? un happy fan base and weak handling of properties puts disney in a less desirable position, so they go on the offensive and actively attack everyone?

supposedly some fake positive reviews are now popping up on RT's, trying to drive the score up. all 5 star reviews.

[Sumac]

I don't think so.
Sounds like a conspiracy.