ST Colin Trevorrow NOT directing Episode IX

George Lucas, the guy who wrote THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars, also wrote The Phantom Menace?

Noooo....

 

I don't know about you guys, but Star wars 9 is WAY too far away for me to start freaking out over. I already have my "Freak out list" filled to the brim (star wars 7, Captain America and Iron Man's divorce and their custody battle for Spider man *aka Civil War*, Beauty and the Beast, Moana, Rogue One, X Men: Poe Dameron goes crazy on everybody, Zootopia (aka Furries: The Movie), Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad, GOTG 2, and Justice League). Once those films are out of the way then I can worry about Star wars 9.

 

Every time people keep using JW being the third highest grossing movie of all time as a reason why it is good and Colin is a good director make me vomit in my mouth a little.

 

Oh dear.

Whilst it is *beyond* premature to have any sort of firm prejudices going anywhere near episode IX yet, I have to say I'm disappointed by the decision. I can't help but shake the feeling that all involved saw the $$$ signs when looking at Jurassic World Box Office mixed with a generally positive reception to the film.

As an enormous fan of the original Jurassic Park, I had high hopes for JW but they were quickly dashed - the potential was there but a rather soulless CGI-fest was unfortunately what followed.

Hopefully IX will give Trevorrow some meatier dramatic and thematic material to work with and it won't be so disappointingly slight and forgettable as Jurassic World. I just hope he can reign in his excesses a little more elegantly than he did with JW...

 

Generally High grossing films make a lot of money because people really like the movie and keep going back which mean the movie was well directed. It's Art, if it is well received It Is well made IMHO, Notice a trend with the star wars Directors? They are all Fanboys, and that can only be a good thing, It helps to love what you do and have a passion for It even if you are a rich Director.....

 

Jurassic World was okay, but the direction was very vanilla.

 

JJ on Colin

http://collider.com/star-wars-7-j-j-abrams-on-captain-phasma-colin-trevorrow-and-more/

 

Even if that's true isn't average still better than horrible? So long as the ST isn't a terrible mess of a train wreck I don't think I'll be too mad no matter how things turn out in the end.

 

Predicted it 17 days after Jurassic World's release

https://twitter.com/RichTPar/status/615309725836578816

 

No it means that people were
A. Bored with the rest of the choices at the theater
B.Were attracted by the marketing
C.Were anxious to see a sequel to a famous franchise that has not had a movie in over 10 years
D.Or the most likely one, that movie tickets nowadays are so expensive that as long as a movie has enough people coming to pay it will exceed the billion mark

Seriously I remember when a billion was a huge thing and now after Avengers it is possible for any big blockbuster to reach that as long as it has built itself up. There is a huge chance that TFA can get to that goal and even surpass JW if it hypes itself well enough so it is funny how people like you try to pretend that Colin is a great choice for this because he "made a great movie" when he was just lucky rather then skilled. By the time he even gets done with Episode 9 his JW movie will most likely not even be in the top 5 highest grossing movies by then.

All in all, there is nothing that has shown me that he was the right pick for this and that they could not get someone better to do it instead.

 

I know for a fact people on here saw the phantom menace up to 20 times or more because they loved it, the Phantom Menace was well Directed IMHO you don't see a movie that many times unless you like It, there were tons of great movies to see other then JW one being Inside Out, and I thought both Avengers movies were great, what can I say I am easy to please

 

Saw TPM 9 times at the theater...mostly because I couldn't get enough of the final lightsaber duel in the movie, and considering how much time I spent reading spoilers about the film over the previous year, didn't want that to be in vain.

 

I am against Trevorrow but mostly due to not having enough evidence to decide if he's up to it.

2 films, 1 good and 1 bad (but very successful).

 

>using the phantom menace like its a good example to convince me

Your not trying to sabotage your own argument are you?

An that is no reason why we should just call it a good movie because a few people just happen to do it. What next, twilight is a good movie because people watch it over and over?

And nothing else?

As just fun popcorn action flicks but none of them would convince me that Whedon could be a choice for the final chapter of a Star Wars trilogy( nor does anything else in his film archive)

Too bad some people have a thing called standards when it comes to a Star Wars movie. Standards that go above just " dumb fun action movie".

 

Such an uninspired choice especially after having the balls to get Johnson for Ep VIII. I just hope he doesn't have a hand in the script too. He had a really big hand in the JW script as he didn't agree to direct JW unless he could make the script changes he wanted.

 

Exactly. And that is such faulty thinking. None of JW's box office is due to Trevorrow. People wanted to see dinosaurs run amok no matter who was directing. 99.9% of people who saw JW have no clue who directed it unless they think that Spielberg did.

Maybe Trevorrow will make an incredible Episode 9, but if so, it's because Kennedy knows something about him that we don't know. Safety Guaranteed was a pretty good indie drama with a wink to Star Wars included in it. Jurassic World was a plug and play monster movie with 2 dimensional performances and a plot that I doubt Trevorrow had much creative control over (80% of that movie was probably pre-viz).

 

I'm not surprised at all. Haven't seen JW but hated Safety Not Guaranteed.

Still, I'm really not fussed as long as he's not writing.

 

Yeah, out of all the directors who have done amazing blockbusters over the last few years and instead you hire this dude? Basic as hell.

 

I disagree, all you have to do is look at the Transformers movies. They make tons of money and have great VFX, but that doesn't make them good films..

 

Colin Trevorrow? Why not? Jurassic World was far better than the previous two iterations. It served it's purpose. It was an updated version of the original Jurassic Park. We all new what was going to happen, but who gets tired of that?

I think Kennedy looks for someone who is relatively new, with an ability to handle a major production competently and who displays a familiarity with Spielberg's style and tone. Besides, it appears that Rian Johnson will be writing the story for Episode IX, for which the Story Group has already settled the major plot points, according to KK.

At this point I have no problem with Johnson and Trevorrow. In fact their appointment intrigues.

 

At least it's not Kyle Newman.

 

It might be okay because Johnson is writing it. I thought they should wait before already naming a director for it. If VIII is brilliant why would you not have Johnson direct again? I'm guessing VIII will be superior as ESB was superior in the OT.

 

The final shooting script was completely rewritten by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connelly, though the general idea of a genetically modified "fake" dinosaur came from Jaffa and Silver. From what I understand it was a page one rewrite with very few overlying characters and dialog. So if Trevorrow is in charge of the script I'd expect Derek Connelly too because he's called him his writing partner in the past.

 

Not high on this choice but I'm willing to trust KK.