Discussion ROGUE SQUADRON - Patty Jenkins Film Potentially Back On

Rogue Squadron: The Rogue Waldo Pepper

 

I liked Wonder Woman 1984 personally like it was fun and it felt fresh. I would love to see what patty could do with a Jedi story.

 

So, the short story “Rendezvous Point” by Jason Fry, a chapter in the ESB “From a Certain Point of View” focuses on Wedge’s Red Squadron, and is absolutely great. The writing of the pilot banter (and pranks) is hilarious and realistic, and it’s just really well done. Hopefully it’s being held up as a model for how to write funny but realistic humor into this kind of story. I’m betting Jenkins and her Lucaafilm partner on the movie have read it.

 

First trailer for Rogue Squadron is released already. It looks very retro.

 

Rogue Squadron: The Wonder Women

 

Jenkins was the main screenwriter on the movie. She was the driving force behind the entire project...and she ended up driving it into a mountain.

 

Huh. Oh dear.

 

It sounds like the script is already mostly written, and not by Patty, she is hinting that the scriptwriter is a well-known name: When asked who was writing the script for Rogue Squadron, the director demurred, teasing that "I want him to have his own proper announcement, so I'm going to wait until that comes out." But it does sound like they're fairly far along.
Rogue Squadron Director Patty Jenkins on Her New Star Wars Movie (collider.com)

 

That’s a good sign. The script of WW84 bordered on disastrous. I wonder if Jason Fry or Gary Whitta are writing. Fry’s pilot dialogue (and pranks) for Red Squadron in “Rendezvous Point,” a short story written for the TESB anniversary book, was absolutely spot on and hilarious.

 

I didn't see anything wrong with the WW84 Script it was an 80's homage kind of like Stranger Things it was supposed to be campy dialogue plus an homage to the TV Show which was 70s 80s ...

 

Yeah Wonder Woman was so fun !!! It reminded me of Buffy like that kind of thing we need more of campy fun superhero movies I’m tired of grim dark let’s switch it up I thought it was good.

 

The world isn’t made up of two opposing campy and grimdark sides. At least, I hope it’s more complicated than that...

 

This actually is relevant in her artistic career.

With her military family, punk rock was less likely- that has a way of making you look a way that upsets strict parents. However, what was punk rocker-lite back in those days (I am within a year of Patty, so we are exact same time) was called a New Waver- they were in the larger punk rock culture, and listened to a lot of cool music in their new wave genre, like Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds and Thompson Twins. They didn't look as radical as punk rockers, although they looked unusual (kind of like the guys in those bands dressed in videos).

So I think she was either a New Waver or a Metalhead. She may have gone through stages of both, which myself and others of that generation often did. That's why we are Gen X, we couldn't decide what we were.

 

So far i have only watched the 1st WW movie and, well i don't know what the fuss was about. A very mediocre movie IMO. And now the word is WW84 is even worse..so i'm not that much optimistic about this SW movie. But who knows, maybe with the quality of lucasfilm production value and a good script, i might be pleasantly surprised. After all, i never really appreciated Favreau's movies, but the Mandalorian turned out fine.

 

lol How 70's is this look? I mean, this could be the fashion poster for you typical 70's dude. The haircut, the sideburns, the vest over the open top shirt with the hairy chest showing (gold chain necklaces often accompanied this aspect back in the day). You might run into this guy outside a disco!!!


I say- capitalize on the Top Gun nostalgia; fashion and hairstyles should be 80's in this movie.

Female pilots in RS should be made in these images:

 

They should all have a Beru haircut

 

It is set in the future of the rise of sky walker though.

 

Are we sure about this?

 

It makes me feel unspeakably old that this needs to be explained.

 

Well all I know is I was born in 1981 I am Generation X I googled it once and it said on Wikipedia that generation x is from end of the 60s to around 1982 I think that's what it said. To be a milenium you have to have grown up after the year 2000 so by the year 2000 I was already an adult I grew up in the 80s and 90s! Just to give you guys an idea my first video game console was Atari and my first TV was a Quasar that had two dials one for network TV one for UHF no remote control you had to get up and manually change the station and then play with the antenna to get the picture to come in.

 

Millenials are actually older than people think. Usually from 1980 to 2000. People born from 2000 onwards are Generation Z. Wikipedia says so.

 

Well, those generational benchmarks are sort of arbitrary, and they shift around a lot as the use of the terms settles in. Like the term "Generation X" that was essentially codified by Douglas Coupland's book about people who had already graduated from college in the '80's, but ended up being applied popularly applied to kids who graduated after the book was published... so it started off as a pretty good description of people my age, but went on to mean people significantly younger. And it's still happening that way; my kids are basically "Zoomers" but they have a lot of foundational memories of stuff like flip phones and VHS tapes etc. that are pretty foreign to most Zoomers. It kinda seems like tech is often really definitive.

Funny thing is that even outside of this fandom my generation is best defined at the OT Generation, people who saw ANH in theatres in its first run as kids. The generation before us had the Beatles, we had Star Wars. That's really how I look at it.

 

yah I don't know where Gen X ends and Millennials begin, it seems to change frankly. I've seen early 80s births described as X-nnials which is a good as any since it's all arbitrary.

Anyway, maybe Rogue Squardron will be about a generational divide between different eras of Rogue Squadron? Why not!

 

Anyone know what era this movie is going to take place? (That will obviously effect my desire to see it).

 

Although the little announcement video Patty Jenkins posted featured an OT-era X-Wing flight suit, and helmet, and the logo itself (which is probably a temp logo) features that design, the official website gave this logline:

"The story will introduce a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy."

The arguments have amounted to whether that's literal in respect to the story/era, or figurative in respect to the franchise itself.