WHOOAA!
I feel little else besides apprehension about this.
i donāt see a point to make another trilogy, unless Disney REALLY wants to milk Star Wars for all itās worth.
You answer yourself.
DISNEY
That word alone should tell you everything.
At least itāll be ānewā content supposedly. Whether this will be Old Republic themed, some sort of adaptation of what the Visceral game was going to be, or whatever, at least it sounds like theyāll be trying new stuff and wonāt be making Episodes 10, 11, and 12, immediately after the current trilogy ends.
Also, thereās a live-action TV show in the works. Maybe this time itāll actually happen.
Neat, but Iād have to see The Last Jedi so I know what Rian Johnson is capable of. Once I know, Iāll be able to decide what I think about him having his own new trilogy.
geez, they havenāy even finished the sequel trilogy yet.
Hereās the thing with this new trilogy. First of all I couldnāt be more excited, for one: Rian Johnson is a fantastic writer/director (if you want proof go watch brick and looper they are excellent) and two: this means nothing but good things for the last jedi, if Disney and Lucasfilm are confident enough in that movie to go ahead and give him three more that means the last Jedi may be something really special.
Also this is going to take place completely separately from the normal saga, which means this could be anything, Iām leaning towards it being a knights of the old republic trilogy.
We also should talk about how the live action tv series is confirmed.
Iām of two minds.
ONE: Lucas himself tried to get a live-action TV series off the ground numerous times, only for it all to blow up because of budget reasons. Itās not going to be like any other show. There wonāt be many opportunities to shoot on-location, and even when there are, sets will have to be built there to make everything look right, which is the same with every other set. Not to mention special props, alien costumes, droids, spaceships to scale, other special effects, etc. EX-PENS-IVE. A sitcom revolving around Dexterās Diner wouldnāt be that hard to do, since they could reuse the same set every episode, but I doubt thatās what theyāre going for.
TWO: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. exists. While itās set in contemporary times, which eases the burden on the costume department, the show has lots of your typical MARVEL elements, and they make them work for the most part. Itās proof of a show that can work on a TV sized budget but still feel grant like itās movie counterparts.
We know itāll air on Disneyās 2019 streaming service, so that might give it more of a budget to work with than an ABC show, which means it could have more opportunities to go big. Since itās Star Wars, Disney may also just give the producers a blank check and say have fun. Doubtful, but possible.
Also, I wonder who the showrunner(s) will be? Iād love for Dave Filoni to head the series since Rebels is wrapping up, but heās very accustomed to the animation world, and whatās the LucasFilm animation team going to move onto next? Will they finish up the long-shelved Star Wars: Detours (they have like 30 finished episodes or somethingā¦)? Will Filoni and co. kickstart a new animated show? Itās been confirmed Thrawn survives past A New Hope, so maybe the next animated series could be called Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, and be an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Itād be set after the Aftermath books of course, with some toddler Ben Solo stuff, canon Mara Jade (if possible after The Last Jedi, who knows what Lukeās backstory will be like), and a big component could be Thrawn trying to reestablish the Empire while other remnants skulk off to form The First Order, and their clashes on how to proceed. That could all be interesting.
Iām not sure Iām excited or not for this, since weāve been promised a live-action show before and havenāt been given anything except whispers about what went wrong behind-the-scenes. Iāll need more information. Like with this new Trilogy, itās just something I have logged away in my head in the āOh yeah, thatās happeningā category with the Respawn game, the Bioware game, the Obi-Wan solo film, and Episode IX. Theyāre too far away at this point to think much about.
I think it would work well on a budget about the same as game of thrones maybe a bit more. And just saying I hope Star Wars detours stays shelved forever, like I love Seth green but I hope that thing never sees the light of day.
to me, it sounded more like the new trilogy would take place after the sequel trilogy. I kinda doupt that they would make a trilogy based on the old stories of the Republic or the Jedi order, as im feeling that they probably wish to tell stories that are set in this new Jedi and Sith less universe that they are building up.
I think itāll be an old Republic story, probably about the Mandalorian War or some variation of that, and that itās narrative purpose will basically be to counteract the prequels.
If you read the press release itās states it will be completely separate from the episodic films in an era not yet explored by the new canon. Iād be fine if it took place in the sequel era though and it was just a separate story in that era.
they never said era. just that it would be in a different corner. Plus with the statment that it would be a āblank canvasā i doupt that they would use materials from the older stories that has been told, like with KotoR or any of the other media that takes place before the clone wars.
Yeah I was wrong about that, sorry. And I would like it more if they did do something completely new and different, because there is so much they could explore in this universe.
I have mixed emotions about this. Part of me says that they shouldnāt do any more movies and stick to other stuff, and another part of me wants to see how this turns out. Rian Johnson seems like he could really do some great things with The Last Jedi, but the thing is that movie isnāt even out yet, and I still have a few reservations about the movie. So Iām not sure if I like the idea of him doing a new trilogy after this or not. The more positive side of me says that Disney has that much faith in TLJ and Johnson as a director, but who knows, we might not react the same way. That being said Old Republic, would be pretty cool.
This is what Iām also guessing.
Iām hoping after they are done with the sequel trilogy, we get more Pre-TPM stuff. That was always my favorite part of the EU canon. Theyāre lacking stuff on that in the new canon, so I am anxious to see how they handle it (or if it even happens at all).
Definitely a bold and unexpected bit of news. I expected continued stand-alone films for now, but a quick move into an all-new trilogy probably shouldnāt have surprised me. I am personally hoping for an Old Republic Trilogy, as it has been long-desired by the fans, and has great potential to be an epic series. I also want Disney to truly keep their word and separate this trilogy from the Skywalker Saga in its entirety. Part of the appeal of Star Wars is that while its main story is focused on a central narrative, it exists in a wide mythology and a universe that has limitless potential. That universe should be explored, to the extent that we see stories in places and eras of the Galaxy that we have never seen before.
As for the TV show, Iām open to a lot of things. Hopefully it will be as good as some of my hopes.
And this is where Disney has finally lost me. Disneyās Star Wars has strayed far from Lucasā original goal of telling the tale of the Skywalker family and I am simply not interested in the stories they tell anymore. And yes, I know, Ben Solo is technically a Skywalker by blood, but I donāt like that character and therefore choose not to engage with it.
Iāll continue to be entertained by the merchandise and small side stories, but Iām really just kind of done throwing my money at the movies, because they cannot fool me three, or more, times.
And Iām exactly the opposite. I love the Skywalker saga, like 99% of Star Wars fans, but Iāll accept any story they give me as long as itās good and entertaining. Old Republic? Awesome. Different stories of smugglers hanging out and doing stuff while trying to make their name among the Hutt Cartels? Sounds cool, Iāll give that a watch or a read. A Han Solo movie? Ehh, might not be necessary, but Iāll bite.
Iām so far down the Star Wars rabbit hole at this point I donāt think Iāll ever come out, even if the quality of the stories start to tank.
That said, I wonāt render judgement on anything until itās released. If something ends up being bad, then itāll be bad. So far Disney has been pretty good so far. Of all the stuff thatās come into canon since the reset, Iād say only one piece of media is actually ābadā, which I think is Heir to the Jedi. That book has a ton of problems.
But why should Disney and Lucasfilm restrict themselves to the story of one family (a powerful one, yes, but still ONE), when there is an entire galaxy out there waiting to be developed. Besides, even George Lucas strayed a big from his own vision when producing the Clone Wars, whichāwhile it did revolve around Anakin Skywalkerābranched out into unknown territory quite a bit, having many episodes where the Skywalkers were not even featured.
I understand the affinity for the core story, and I love it, too. But Star Wars has a lot more to offer, and to ignore all of that potential by focusing on one story out of an infinite number is actually a disservice to what Lucas has created, in my mind, rather than respect for it.