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I think my nerd rage for all things Star Wars-related was exhausted by the special editions (and continued changes to the various home releases) and the prequels. I can't drive myself to more than "meh" about this.
I'm sure it will be very pretty and action-packed. I have no idea if it will be a good Star Wars movie.
There are other people out there besides Joss and JJ Abrams, folks!
So much this!!
Also, as much as I love JJ's complicated-plot-but-don't-worry-we're-not-paying-attention-to-the-details-haha-aren't-we-cheeky style of storytelling, I don't really want it in Star Wars. I don't think that franchise needs another auteur. (Why not pull in a screenwriter from their current stable of licensed paperback writers? Grab a director from Clone Wars?)
Edgar Wright.
Why not pull in a screenwriter from their current stable of licensed paperback writers? Grab a director from Clone Wars?
You'd pick a screenwriter directing it over Abrams? Is he really that hated?
I admit, I have seen a lot of genre fans up in arms, but I also haven't seen anyone claiming they know for sure. Me, I'm just so relieved it seems to be that Lucas isn't directing, I feel everything is an improvement over the last three.
But I don't even think the big problem was Lucas directing (although he did decent actors no favours for the reels), but rather his writing. And people seemed to like Toy Story 3, right?
There are other people out there besides Joss and JJ Abrams, folks!
Timur Bekmambetov's Star Wars V1!
You'd pick a screenwriter directing it over Abrams? Is he really that hated?
No, to write it - they've hired the guy who wrote Little Miss Sunshine and I fear that the hip irony quotient may overwhelm the entire enterprise.
I don't think that franchise needs another auteur
But it's not getting an auteur. It's getting the guy who also wrote Toy Story 3, which I thought was very popular. He supplemented Brave, and is also writing Catching Fire, as well as another sci fi movie I don't know anything about.
Why is Little Miss Sunshine what's being held against him when his resume leans so strongly towards genre--were those other movies rife with inappropriate hip irony?
I can't drive myself to more than "meh" about this.
This. If the writing is interesting, I'll be happy. And I'm sure JJ will direct it with nice spectacle. But as mentioned earlier, the entire concept of Episode VII messes with my mind because that canon already exists in the Expanded Universe. Which until now has mostly been able to deal with the movie additions, but will likely be completely contradicted by any post ROTJ movie additions. Unless the screenwriter is a big fan or something, which might mean we get some Grand Admiral Thrawn or Kyle Katarn, which would actually make me pretty happy.
I am in the camp of actively DO NOT WANT. I will see the film of course, but I don't want it to exist so casting news, writing news, director news - none of it makes me happy. All my enthusiasm about the franchise is gone and I don't think it will come back.
the entire concept of Episode VII messes with my mind because that canon already exists in the Expanded Universe
Yeah, I don't know how they're going to deal with that.