A New Star Wars Film Slate: Daisy Ridley Returning
 

Obaid-Chinoy said her film “will tell the story of the rebuilding of a new Jedi order.”


That is what the sequel trilogy was about or at least why it wasn't.:roll: No Skywalker saga, no Star Wars. Sorry money leeching Disney Grogu's cuteness can only get you so far.

ugh why would you make more sequel era crap. most Star Wars fans hate it. I don't want more of Rey Palpatine

Disney has tried to double down on their Star Wars plans so many times now that I'll believe it when I see it. The number of announcements with fan backlash that have never manifested yet Disney held onto for years just to save face - Hedlund, Johnson's 'trilogy', etc. :roll:

I'll believe it when I see it, and even then - decide at that time whether it's worth giving dollars to.

Diversity hire director is a bit concerning. That's not just something you hand out. We'll see. Obviously not-so-Baby Yoda will be a part of this. You know, rub some Mandalorian on things so as to make them more palatable.

As a casual fan, I'll only get truly interested if they take some big swings with tone and direction. I like the idea of Star Wars more than I like Star Wars itself.

There's a lot to appreciate about it, don't get me wrong, but the story itself isn't usually able to pull me in. I may actually get around to watching "Andor" though because it sounds like that show may have taken some risks.

Serious question here, does anyone care about Rey? As in, does anyone care about the character herself and not some meta crap she represents or the temporary mystery of her backstory?

You know... I don't hate "Rey" as a character. And I like Daisy Ridley. And I liked The force Awakens - I thought it was great. But I gave it leeway because I thought 2 more movies of bridging OT characters would be coming and it dropped precipitously down hill from there.

But they dropped the ball on so much with Rey as well as that trilogy that it's hard to recover. Luke could've been a badass training her. She could've been a Kenobi and the sort of karma balance there would've been great. Han, Luke and Leia could've had their second trilogy and then Rey could have had theirs. It all went so wrong.

I don't mind Rey, but it's so far gone now that I don't care. Star Wars movies simply don't have any stakes anymore and the thing that kept the ongoing story interesting would've been the bloodline of the Skywalkers and not an adopted name that could've, poetically, been "Kenobi".

As they say, the thrill is gone. I don't care anymore.

Rey Sue...?
It'd take a lot to make her character seem good.

I mean, I hate to say it, but the only thing worse than all the surviving characters from VII-IX themselves is if nothing ends up becoming of them afterward. It would all just be a giant pit of waste then.

If the new SW films had any effect on me (and I've only seen VII and Rogue One), it's that I never want to see any Star Wars Films ever again apart from the original trilogy.

So, to hell with this.

I'd prefer to forget ST ever had happened.

Which most of us do, but that's not a recipe for longevity. People tend to think of stories in terms of their beginning, middle and end, and how the "end" ends up can taint everything else before it, no matter what cool little events they can make up around the Mandalorian times 5 years after RotJ. If they can make quality stuff after the ST that semi redeems the ST stuff, eventually the ST can just be treated as a hiccup in the bigger picture.

Of course, I don't have much faith in that happening in a Kennedy-led SW franchise. But it COULD, and that probably should be their focus. Not "well look at what happened 40 years before Episode I!" or "look at these other Jedi adventures 2000 years ago!"

Everything else aside, there is one thing about this that infuriates me about this above all else....

,,,, rebuilding the Jedi order was the responsibility that LUKE earned through his hero's journey and all his hard work and suffering in the original trilogy...

...it was LUKE'S legacy, in both Legends/the old EU and George Lucas's proposed sequel trilogy, rebuilding the jedi was LUKE'S achievement....

...to rip it away from him, make Luke a failure, and give the honor of rebuilding the Jedi to a new character, no matter who they are...

...it is the most scummy, underhanded, idiotic, trashy, worthless twist of storytelling I have ever wasted my money on.

The old EU/legends and George's story sequel trilogy story treatment (if it ever gets released to the public) are the only canon for me. I don't care how good the post-sequel trilogy media is, anything where Rey rebuilds the Jedi instead of Luke is worthless trash. I will never spend another dime on Kathleen Kennedy's self-insert Star Wars fanfic ever again.

Pretty much. They stripped away everything that Luke and company accomplished in the OT like within the first 30 minutes of episode 7, just so we can go right back to Smuggler Han and Millennium Falcon dogfighting TIE Fighters again. It's horrific. And that's even before getting into what 8 and 9 did!

I always knew they would bring Rey back for a new movie eventually, I just thought they'd wait 10+ years so the kids who grew up with the sequel trilogy would be nostalgic for it. This feels just way too soon. I looked at the actress and she doesn't even look that much older than she did when she played Rey.

I mean I know episode 7 came out way back in 2015 which is awhile ago but the last movie came out in 2019 so it was only 3 years ago. I don't know, I feel like they should of waited a good decade before making this. Rey could have had nostalgia going for her in another decade.

2019 was 4 years ago. And they filmed it in 2018. This new Rey movie probably won't even start filming for a year, year and a half, assuming it's even the first off the line. By the time it comes out it will easily have been 6, 7 or more years since IX. Light makeup and its fine.

IMO, longevity was out of windows, when they made ST whatever it is.
SW was living through the movies and all that TV guff is just a filler. Popular, yes, but it will be forgotten, especially, since Disney ***** out those series like a goblin with explosive diarrhea.

Movies had longevity, but were tainted by ST. And without new trilogy all they can do is to **** out spin-offs, which will be forgotten few years after being produced.

Unless someone competent will come in and clean their shithouse (like removing all the current writers and KK) and produce new competent big trilogy, I don't think SW will become true juggernaut again.