Discussion Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Star Wars Movie - NOT FILMING April 7th, 2024 (Blame Fredrik!)

Between February of 2024 and Christmas of 2025, it's almost two years of production, filming and post-production.

That's more than enough time. I am not worried that this film will be rushed. I am worried it will be bad.

 

Remember back when they were making good SW movies, they were 3 years apart. Two years is too fast.

 

I can see that will probably be the production timeline by the time they announce the new movie and the director casts everyone gets everything lined up to start shooting February 2024 - it's definitely not a rush.

 

Sure, and I agree. But technically the script process has already started, so now we are 3 years (minus 3 months) before the scheduled release of this movie. That's still plenty of time. When Lucas was making his Star Wars movies, he did indeed take 3 years between movies, and I think that should be the golden standard. There are many reasons that I am worried that this movie will not be good, but rushing the movie is not one of them.

 

Completely disagree.

 

Especially with a director who has never helmed a feature film. Although, at this point I believe I have a better chance of directing this movie than she does.

 

With the pre-production this film has undoubtedly had, that’s easily over 3 years. Christmas 2025 is fine.

 

Prediction: Doomcock and Mike Zeroh will have earned more money by 12/2025 with their Youtube troll crap than Disney/LF with SW movies.

 

LFL doesn't actually know what they want from Star Wars movies, this has been obvious going all the way back to TFA imo. We *might* get a movie from Taika in the near term, but it seems increasingly likely that there will be no new movies until LFL has a change of leadership.

 

Also with, frankly, most movies. You can easily spend this year getting the script written to a degree that everyone is comfortable with, spend however long you need in shooting the film in 2024 (likely about 4 or 5 months) while ILM gets a jump start on the digital effects, at which point you have like half of 2024 and all of 2026 to edit and finalize the movie. They have exactly 32 months and 29 days to do this. That's not rushing it. That's not unreasonable. It's only a problem if the script is still not ready to go this time next year.

 

Good god.

 

Well with Celebration just a few weeks away I'm going to wait until then to start talking about movies.

 

That another SW production is going smoothly. Its shocking.

 

Milk toast john Campea for the win lol.

 

I'm not worried. Lawrence Kasdan wasn't the first screenwriter for TESB and it was Kershner's first big-budget film and look how that turned out.

P.S. Kershner's first forays into cinematography and directing were with documentaries.

 

ESB was ghost directed by George Lucas.

 

I really hope this movie does not have TFA vibes. We need something fresh not a repeat of what came before without the great characters of the OT.

Honestly I don’t currently trust Lucasfilm in making a good Star Wars movie with a post TRoS setting. I’m not sure Rey could carry a new movie. Is she popular enough to do so?

While Disney has done a good job with the Empire era (Rogue One and Andor being great examples) ,no popularity of the Empire nor Sith (unless they bring them back.....) to lean on post TRoS.

If the reception of the ST causes them to do some “Second Order vs Rebels” route.....then Star Wars film wise is truly done.......

Anyone else here agree that jumping into post TRoS as the the next new era for Star Wars film, is a mistake?

 

Yes, because we all know there’s only one heroine left after IX for all time, and her name is Rey.

 

He ghost directed them both. He admits that on the ROTJ commentary track.

 

Campea is worth paying attention to when it comes to officially released material. He's able to share his thoughts about movie releases in an insightful way. However he's not nearly as knowledgeable when it comes to the scoop business or behind the scenes stuff. Infact I at times think he is just making stuff up when he starts trying to talk about those things. We'll see if anything he has said about Kathleen Kennedy ends up being true. People best not hold their breath though for any of his revelations to come to fruition.