TV Discussion The Future of Star Wars on TV

Casual audiences don’t know about, and therefore don’t give a lick about, the “Skywalker Saga.” It’s Star Wars to them, and that’s that.

 

Yes but the familiar get more views.

 

I think the person above you meant “stop the live action shows for awhile,” not all of Star Wars.

 

And they wont stop doing that. Even if only one show.

 

Its possible they might want to reduce the amount as they start releasing the movies again.

 

Sure but even then they will probably have 1 live action and animation show.

 

They need one or two tops high quality shows to focus all the budget to match a game of thrones style event.

Also. I’m still of the opinion that Book of Boba Fett should’ve been Mandalorian Season 3 and you can do things The Clone Wars style where you shift character perspectives for an arc. Or hypothetically speaking instead of having “Andor” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi” as separate shows you just have one show called The Dark Times and have it anthology style. And you just release each season with a new marketing subtitle, like American Horror Story/Crime Story.

For example, not talking about actual information or numbers here, but let’s say The Acolyte ends up being disappointing from a viewership standpoint or Headland just gets fed up with the online abuse and walks. They could’ve just called this show “Star Wars: Jedi” or something to that effect and each season has a new cast and time period and they’re not stuck in an awkward situation. Hell, season 1 could’ve been Ahsoka and Season 2 The Acolyte. I just think the oversaturation of the market with 20 different shows isn’t doing the property any favors

I believe DC was going that route prior to the James Gunn transition with a show titled “Strange Adventures” where Season 1 would’ve been Adam Strange, Season 2 is Mister Terrific, etc… True Detective style anthology.

 

Well Disney plus wont be HBO. We should accept that by now. And they wont do one big adult show like House of the Dragon. Disney plus likes their episodes short. You are wishing for something that wont happen.

 

Andor doesn’t have the short episode issue, and it’s also the longest of all the seasons, yet is probably the best looking out of all of them.

And yes, I’m aware of what to expect from usual Disney Plus fare, but that same model failed spectacularly for Marvel and I’m expecting some announcements in the near future regarding a similar retooling for Star Wars.

 

I think that the last episode of BOBF, that is 1 hour, and for many it's not good, makes them realize to put short episodes on disney plus.

 

It still has short episodes. They wont go fo sn hour but maybe 40 minutes.

 

It's true that familiarity could bring more views, but this wouldn't work as a defense for Disney.

If Ashoka and The Acolyte are equally expensive to produce, Disney would likely have similar expectatives for both shows. After all, if the studio doesn't believe The Acolyte would attract similar numbers than Ashoka, there isn't reason to invest similar money.


PS: I'm not sure how much money it's invested in The Acolyte, but it isn't cheap.

 

Ahsoka was around $100,000,000
Acolyte is around $180,000,000
Andor was around $250,000,000
Mandalorian was around $120,000,000

 

The majority are 45-55 minutes. Which is average for a network TV drama minus ad breaks.

And again, I’m aware of what’s in the past, this is a thread about the future though

There’s 100% a huge discrepancy between the budget of these shows and the final quality and I just feel like focusing efforts on one or two shows will do wonders

 

Sure, but like Dave Filoni has said he likes the episodes to be short and straight to the point and he will be involved in all tv shows in future.

 

Rogue Squadron. Duh.

 

Kathy said last year that they were thinking of doing that one as a show instead of a movie, tbf, but then a few months ago Patty referred to it as a movie still.

Johnson did also say he’d be open to doing a show instead of movie(s), so I guess that’s an option too.

So I guess that means if live-action Star Wars shows do indeed continue, they will be a dumping ground for ideas not considered good enough for movies.

 

I want a show that is structured as a war doc that is focused on one battle between ANH and Empire that we have never heard about. Lets use the TV medium and do something creative with it.

 

Its way to late to edit the above comment to add this. I want a more Robert E. Howard inspired Star Wars show. I think a Conan/Soloman Kane styled character would work well. Fighting left over Sithspawn from wars long forgotten.

 

I want a fun, swashbuckling 3 Musketeers style SW adventure show.

 

It would be great, but I think Lucasfilm has probably been scared off entirely from doing that by the internet in general.

 

The internet is not really going to scare people off from doing anything. What scares them off or not depends on the cost vs return. Believe me even if people would complain about a Rian Johnson Star Wars show chances would still be very good it would get a massive number of people tuning into watch it.

 

"Cost vs Return" is the most important, but there are complicated aspects.

The Last Jedi was a success in box office, but the reception was extremely divisive. Disney doesn't want that, since it would negatively affect their future Star Wars projects (they've already experienced that on MCU).

 

While that's true to an extent however online folk always try to exaggerate how important their opinions are. The simple fact is is that the biggest issue with the ST is that they rushed to get all those movies out (they were working on Episode VIII even before VII came out). If the online hate was really affecting them they wouldn't be doing a Rey movie.

 

Its why they take so long to make the Rey movie. To get it right.