David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away. It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit, Emmy Award-winning television series Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films. These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
johnny_ultimate wrote: » Based on some rudimentary arithmetic, no currently living person will be alive to see the release of the last currently planned Star Wars film, which is due sometime in the mid-2200s (compared to Marvel, which is currently mapped out until the turn of the millennium).
Falthyron wrote: » This image is how Disney views the Star Wars franchise. Apathetic, tired, unwilling to resist or complain - primed for milking and far, far, too easy.
Falthyron wrote: » I just wish it featured different characters, a different story-line, and a different time period.
david75 wrote: » Also you. Just a few hours ago.
Falthyron wrote: » Different context, David. My argument in this thread refers to oversaturation. Having two or three Star Wars films every year is a bad thing. It dilutes the magic of anticipation, excitement, and what I fear most of all will happen: the overall quality. Would you not prefer a more infrequent release schedule allowing you time to digest the previous one? Or do you want to be force fed one film after the other until they all become a giant blur? Are you unaware of the fatigue currently being experienced by film fans with the super hero films? Do you want people tired of yet another Star Wars film in conjunction with the planned live series, and how many other cartoon series, books, comics, etc. Too much of a good thing spoils what is good about it.
Foxtrol wrote: » The fatigue that has Black Panther with the highest pre-sold tickets for any Marvel movie ever? Marvel don't have a issue with superhero fatigue, aside from online moaning, because they've slowly and carefully built a characters and a world that the public care about and want to see. I have full faith Disney will do similar with Star Wars as it expands. I wouldn't call myself any sort of super fan but I do love Star Wars and read some of the old cannon books over the years. I looked at what was out there, and was in the pipeline, picked a series and read it. I didn't piss and moan that there was more books than what I could or interested in consuming. I don't see how the new cannon leveraging movie and TV in a similar fashion is any different. If you want to keep your anticipation of Star Wars then pick one of the trilogies and don't go to the others. It really isn't difficult. I also disagree on your concerns about quality and see it as increasing the chances of different takes and opportunities for different creative views and risks. What do you think will have more shackles put on it, a franchise that releasing a movie once every 2/3 years or one that releases twice a year?
Theboinkmaster wrote: » Taking IMDB score as example: Force Awakens 8.0 Rogue one 7.8 The last jedi 7.5 That's about right IMO and not a good trend, at the start....
pixelburp wrote: » Supposedly Bob Iger also revealed Disney were working on a whole bunch of Star Wars TV shows for their streaming app; no details yet but the whole streaming venture by Disney is a weird one. They have a HUGE catalogue to call on, but at the same time it's not exhaustive and the market is already massively bloated. There are bound to be some casualties in the whole Streaming industry, and I can't help but feel Disney & Apple are coming in too late in the game to make the kind of waves they're hoping for. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are the big 3 here. Apple in particular feels vulnerable.
