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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai

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§ ita § - Jan 25, 2013 5:16:47 am PST #23435 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?

Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2013 5:24:52 am PST #23436 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

There are other people out there besides Joss and JJ Abrams, folks!

Timur Bekmambetov's Star Wars V1!

Jessica - Jan 25, 2013 5:27:42 am PST #23437 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.

§ ita § - Jan 25, 2013 5:51:09 am PST #23438 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?

Gris - Jan 25, 2013 8:19:25 am PST #23439 of 30000

Hey. New board.

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.

le nubian - Jan 25, 2013 8:32:55 am PST #23440 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.

Jessica - Jan 25, 2013 8:37:14 am PST #23441 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.

Jon B. - Jan 25, 2013 8:52:02 am PST #23442 of 30000

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Someone travels back from the future and blows up Tatooine prior to Episode IV?

Typo Boy - Jan 25, 2013 12:03:08 pm PST #23443 of 30000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Matt Taibbi's review of Zero Dark Thirty. He thinks is was great as movie, but that it is bullshit to say it was a depiction rather than an endorsement of torture.

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I have not seen the film, so I will leave comments on this review to those who have.

erikaj - Jan 25, 2013 3:15:23 pm PST #23444 of 30000

"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Aw, damn, Matt Taibi--I really don't need to fancy you anymore, but you quote Philip Marlowe and I totally do. Bastard.

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