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Lucasfilm on the Future of Star Wars.

Discussion in 'General Movie Discussion' started by SWNN Probe, Nov 23, 2016.

  1. SWNN Probe

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    Like with their Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney is already setting up plans for Star Wars sequels well into the future. Entertainment Weekly has just run a piece discussing what the future of the franchise entails beyond Episode IX - and it confirms that the Boba Fett movie was, in fact, scheduled for a 2018 release window before it and the Han Solo movie swapped places.





    The article, written by the talented Anthony Breznican, covers a wide variety of topics concerning Lucasfilm's plans for the future. Here are six key revelations from it.



    There's more riding on Rogue One than you think.



    Do you like Star Wars experimenting with new concepts? If so, then you'd better cross your fingers and hope that Rogue One does well, because how well it does will help determine what kind of direction Lucasfilm will take the franchise going forward. Star Wars obviously isn't going anywhere, but whether or not they continue going forward with other trilogies or if they develop a number of spin-offs is up in the air at this point - and Rogue One looks to be the deciding factor in how they plan on taking their approach after 2020.
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    The Opening Crawl is seen as essential for the Saga Movies; not so much for the Anthologies.



    If you're worried that Episode VIII might buck tradition and forego the Opening Crawl format, then this should come as a relief - Kathleen Kennedy has insisted that the only movies that won't necessarily use the serial-esque format are the standalone movies.
    This shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but given that Episode VIII will take place immediately after The Force Awakens, some were concerned that the movie would immediately open on Ahch-To instead of featuring the classic Star Wars way of delivering exposition. Well now, you can put those concerns to rest, as the Opening Crawl is here to stay for the Skywalker Saga.



    Josh Trank was going to direct the long-rumored Boba Fett movie.



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    ...And had he not been fired from the project, then a proof-of-concept teaser akin to the one for Rogue One would have been shown at Celebration Anaheim. It's also presumably the reason why the character of Boba Fett has featured so little in the new canon thus far in spite of his importance in the Legends continuity.
    It's not really mentioned in the article itself, but the behind-the-scenes drama that happened with Fant4stic was the stuff of legend - Twentieth Century Fox ordered that most of the action sequences planned for the film would be cut shortly before filming began in order to save on budget, leading to hasty re-writes cutting the film's intended story into a third of what director Josh Trank had wanted to tell. With his creative vision impaired, coupled with the stresses of handling a much larger project (as the only other film he directed - Chronicle - was a low-budget, small-scale film), Trank broke down over the course of filming and became despondent to the film's cast and crew, and outright unresponsive to Fox when the time came for them to film reshoots for several months. Producer Simon Kinberg, who has done some work on Rebels, apparently threatened to leave the Boba Fett movie (and possibly Lucasfilm altogether) if Trank was not encouraged to skip out on directing the project, leading to the suspiciously-timed excuse that the director caught a cold and couldn't attend Celebration Anaheim.



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    Shortly after the event, Trank later 'left' the project altogether, which was subsequently delayed to a 2020 release window or later. By the time the intensely-negative reviews for Fant4stic came in, Trank was apparently so crestfallen that he threw the studio under the bus and blamed them for the state of the film, leading to the film bombing and dashing Fox's hopes of making an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover in the future, let alone another Fantastic Four movie. In spite of the debacle pretty much ending his chances at handling another major studio project in the foreseeable future, Trank still intends to move forward with his smaller films, such as Fonzo, a Tom Hardy-led biopic about Al Capone's descent into dementia-ridden madness after his imprisonment. It seems as though he may be the kind of director that creates much better work when he tells smaller stories, so we wish that his current project will help him turn his career around.



    A summit will be held in January 2017 to decide what other projects are developed.



    Trank's departure doesn't necessarily spell the end to the possible Boba Fett movie, but the people at Lucasfilm are still weighing out their options at this time.
    Again, because it's worth mentioning, the future of Star Wars depends on you, more or less. Sure, they'll make more, but continued support of the franchise decides what sort of creative risks they'll take and what decisions they will make down the road. The earliest possible time where we could hear about the results of this summit would be Celebration Anaheim, though a rollout on the scale of Marvel's Phase 3 announcement back in 2014 is not likely.



    The Anthology films were the brainchild of George Lucas.



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    If you're familiar about the development history of the Star Wars franchise, then you may know that George Lucas's vision for the Skywalker Saga at one point encompassed twelve movies - three trilogies and a series of unconnected spin-offs to add more texture to the Galaxy Far, Far Away. Eventually, Lucas cut the twelve movies down to nine, and further down to six, and that seemed to be that until he decided to hand the franchise off to a new generation of filmmakers. But before he retired from his position as Lucasfilm's CEO, he threw out a couple of pitches for movies that revisited his initial outline (since he knew that they were going to make a Sequel Trilogy regardless of whether or not he'd be the one to direct it).
    The idea for Rogue One as an idea came not from George Lucas, but from John Knoll, ILM's CCO. The first of George's ideas for spin-offs is the Han Solo movie, and presumably the Boba Fett movie was his concept, too. We won't be able to learn more about George's ideas for future filmmakers to take on until after they've been announced, but it's interesting to see that he invested some degree of involvement with Lucasfilm after his plans to retire.



    Finally, why Rogue One was used as the launchpad for the Anthology series.



    When asked about why Rogue One was picked to be the first Anthology movie, Kiri Hart - Lucasfilm's head of story development - said the following:
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    Which, of course, suggests that the more money Rogue One makes, the more Lucasfilm will go against 'playing it safe' in the future. The premise being so rooted in the original film actually plays to Rogue One's benefit for the people who know their stuff about Star Wars - the only problem here is that audiences unfamiliar with the setting might be confused about what happened to Rey making contact with Luke, or why Darth Vader is suddenly alive again. Still, the amount of hype the film has generated online suggested that the movie is going to overcome that pitfall rather easily.



    That's it for today, but Entertainment Weekly has promised that a piece on the music of Rogue One will be hitting soon. We'll be sure to cover it when it arrives.



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    Well I'm personally glad that Boba didn't happen...if that's truly what was gonna happen then I'm glad it did not...at the same time, I'm glad that these movies are the initial brainchild of GL
     
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    Is there a Boba Fett teaser floating around? I hope Disney puts it on the ep.9 blu-ray as a bonus... here's to hoping...
     
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    This is not the teaser you are looking for. You can go about your business. Move along... (obi-wan 4)
     
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    Star Wars has no future. Literally. Because of "A long time ago in galaxy far, far away. . . ."
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    It will always continue.
     
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    How is a movie set right before "A New Hope" going to affect the future of "STAR WARS" for the better? Someone stated that if the movie is financially successful, Lucasfilm and Disney will be willing to be more original in future movies. We'll see.
     
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    Disney has a proven record of being more than willing to drop serious money and commitment into projects that produce results. If what Disney has done with MCU is a guide to what they could do with the SWU I think most open minded Star Wars fans would say the future of Star Wars stands to be much better off, both wider and deeper and just flat out more of it existing. Granted there could be some stumbles as there has been with the MCU, I think the upside far outweighs the downside. Now there will be purist but they always have the option of not watching I suppose.
     
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    Rogue One is going to be the biggest spin-off film of all time... So I really do believe Disney will pump money into the Star Wars franchise to be more experimental and add more depth to A Galaxy Far Far Away.
     
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