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

The sad thing is that when/if this film officially gets announced by Lucasfilm next month, it being cancelled within the year will be at the front of our minds. I won't be able to get excited for it.

 

I know it's easy to focus on the negative, but the latest update is that a new writer is on the project. The project is still alive and being developed.

Sometimes adding new writers to projects isn't a good thing, but also many films are developed this way, and it doesn't always mean bad.

 

Yeah im using milk toast with affection. He hates saying anything negative usually. He gave kathleen a million flowers and props b4 saying she needs to be fired lol.

 

To me there really is no debate, star wars went from a blockbuster movie printing money IP, to a popular Ip that just lives in television now. I like the shows, but miss the movies immensly.

 

I won't argue either that perhaps running a franchise isn't KK's strong suit. I have just started to question if Campea really knows anything about all this KK leaving Lucasfilm stuff. To me it almost just seems like he is throwing darts at the wall.

 

Considering Lindelof was credited as the original creator of this project, I doubt keeping the director means much.

 

They might simply just build off of whatever he started, who knows.

There's no doubt film development at LFL is having some issues, but we don't know if this one is done yet.

 

We'll see. Campea specifically said that the announcement of her stepping down/leaving would come around the time of the Indiana Jones release. If that comes and goes and Kennedy is still there I don't think any of us should pay an ounce of attention to people like Campea (who's main goal is just trying to bring attention to their YouTube channel).

Eventually Kennedy will leave but I have doubts that any of these people encompassing social media spaces knows when that will be.

 

Kennedy won't leave until there are no more big-name directors to file through the revolving door. We still need unofficial announcements and cancellations for Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars movie, Sophia Coppola, Guillermo Del Toro, Ryan Coogler, etc. She will be LFL president for another 10 years, easy.

 

It really is impossible to know the state of this project. Maybe it’s a dogs breakfast, maybe they’ve already got a solid framework laid out and they’re trying to get the script polished. None of us know, but we can hope for the best.

 

Successful film franchises are built on hope.

 

He really did not. It was ROTJ he ghost directed. If you do not see the difference in the directing style of ESB compared to ROTJ, then you should go back and watch the OT again.

 

I really don’t mean to be pedantic, and I am deeply sorry for this, but milk toast is food, not a figure of speech. It is milquetoast. That is the word you are looking for.

 

It is pedantic because milquetoast just means milk toast. Christ, people.

It's much more egregious to not know who directed ESB.

 

You people are sucking all the joy out of this thread.

 

They're absorbent milqueloaves.

 

The issue here is that this isn’t a one off… writers and directors walking away from Star Wars has become the absolute norm. And regardless of what actually makes them walk, that they have such a high turnover speaks to a broken or inadequate strategy/production model. By all accounts the script was submitted and shortly afterwards Lindelof walked. That to me strongly suggests that he received notes from Lucasfilm, and given he walked, he must have been diametrically opposed to them and unwilling to acquiesce. Without doubt, “something is rotten in the state of Lucasfilm”.

 

I actually really like Campea... I especially like Rob's take on most franchise's. I always find his opinion insightful.