Did Disney Make A Mistake by Giving Us Rogue One After TFA?

In 1997 during the exibithions of the Especial Edition I saw people came out of the theather complaiing that they were the same movie old movies...So, people are stupid and some of them dont expend five minutes reading or researching a little bit about the movie that they will see. It doesnt matter, they paid for the tickets anyways.

 

I can see your worry but I don't think it is going to hurt. The population in general, even the casual fans, has had 33 years to digest the ST and know that Darth Vader died and was redeemed. The PT solidified that a prequel trilogy could be made without confusing anyone.in I think RO should do ok. The commercials have shown the major characters which are not Rey, Finn, and Kylo. They have also show Darth Vader who is known to be dead and they are stealing the plans to the Death Star. IMO, I don't think there will be too much of a problem. I know there will be the usual that always have to complain about something, but as a whole, I feel it will do fine.

 

One of the primary reasons they showed Vader in the trailers was because of this very issue.

Even casual fans who watched TFA can conclude that he is dead. Then they see him alive in the R1 trailers. So they at least know this isn't a sequel to TFA.

Disney knows what they're doing.

The prequel comparison doesn't work here. They're generally hated because of what they themselves are. Not because of some release order issue.

If Rogue One is a fine film, things will be fine. Even if it's not, people will be hype for EpisodesVIII and beyond.

 

Or Lucasfilm does, an offshoot of Disney.

 

Oh absolutely

Just not enough for it to derail anything

 

The campaign really has me excited about the movie, but I do feel that they could have done a better job of explaining the timeline for the "regular" viewer. A simple "Before the First Order. Before the destruction of the Empire. Before there was A New Hope", tagline in the trailers. This would have been a simple way to explain the timeline.

 

I spoke about this on another thread can't seem to remember which one but yeah they're people that will go to the theater and think that Jyn Erso is Rey or wonder what happened to Finn? Nevertheless, if its a good movie none of that will matter. A couple of months ago a co-worker was surprised when I told him a new Star Wars movie was being released in December because he thought ep. 8 was a few years away. He is a casual Star Wars fan and he is now looking forward to R1. So if you know someone that likes Star Wars just break it down to them and all will be fine.

 

I wonder, though, if had they done that would people have instantly thought "ugh... another prequel?" Seems to me that they managed to balance a fine line, and now that we're super close to release and the hype has been built, they are really emphasizing how this is a precursor to the original.

 

I never thought it to be possible but in fact a few days ago a friend asked me why ep viii will be out 2016 instead of 2017! Then she told me how much she loves Star Wars and how excited she is..i told her what RO is and she was a little sad. So i agree with u.

 

Great and valid question mate. I know a couple of people who are a little confused about Rogue One in terms of where it stands in the story - but as someone else on here said; the fact that Vader is shown as alive in the marketing is probably one of the biggest giveaways that this isn't Episode 8.

I've also noticed that the whole tone in marketing is very different. It's more mature and dark. Disney and Lucasfilm have some of the best marketing talent in the world - I'm sure they've thought this through thoroughly and have anticipated different reactions - such as Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) stating that they know that Rogue One won't earn as much money as TFA.

Although there a lot of stupid or naïve people out there, I wouldn't underestimate film-goers. I think you'd be surprised how many non-Star Wars fans now understand that this is an anthology film.

However, my Final Thought is that I'm happy that we're getting a Star Wars film every year for years to come. But we know that this is for financial profit. It would make more sense to keep the trilogies together and have a year in-between each film and once the trilogy ends, make a series of anthology films. But Disney didn't buy Lucasfilm to make a couple of films. This is for the long haul. Rogue One is really going to shape the future of Star Wars.

 

I would have preferred getting first the ST and after this the anthology movies. I still think it may confuse people too much.

 

As the weeks go by I actually feel I'm increasingly less interested in Rogue One and more interested in Episode VIII. I think it is a massive mistake to put the anthology movies in between the saga movies. I'm not opposed to the concept of saga movies itself, but it feels a bit like an unnecessary midget in the shadow of a giant. But as you say, yes the trolling will only get worse, the more star wars movies come out, the more trolling we will see. Just see the comments under this recent video:

The ranking is reasonable, TFA #3, ANH #2, ESB #1 (I would place TFA on place #2, but never mind), the people who just instantly get triggered to ignore everything else and pour scorn and abuse on Star Wars latest installment is just hilarious. Because remember, people are very inclined to downgrade new over traditional. But in fact this group of actual die hard haters and trolls, the people who leave 1/10 reviews on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and even shops like Amazon, is actually very small. The problem is that they have a big voice. Many outlets conceive this big voice to be "reality" and general reception, but fortunately most of them don't. The influence of this small group of trolls is very small. It won't influence the critics' reception of any of the upcoming Star Wars films.

 

I worrie that were not gonna see standards set up in Georgs time, when we got epic storys like the prequels movies. I personally couldn't care am not interested in bounter huntys and smugglings.

 

Welcome to the cantina.

I don't think it was mistake, we need a new one every year.