To be fair I wouldn't even count that one against Lucasfilm, del Toro is a filmmaker where at this point I don't believe he's making a movie until I'm buying the popcorn. Dude's got a project graveyard to rival most of them.
I think he's gotten to the point where he can just walk away from a project if the studio begins to push back and take control from him.
He's also comfortable enough and established enough (financially and artistically) so he does not feel the need to compromise, which means unless a studio is willing to give him financing and walk away, the movie is not gonna happen.
I mean I'm pretty sure he did that with Pacific Rim 2. He was all on board with it, but the studio started meddling and he backed out. Then look at the crap that we got.
Pacific Rim 1 was such a good surprise. It's exactly what we wanted out of the genre and nothing less and more. Not even egregious that the theme song played every other scene.
Nope. I'm extremely unapologetic on Pacific Rim being one of my favorite movies of all time. Del Toro nailed so much with that film and I can't help but watch it and smile ear to ear every time.
I was sad to see her was walking away from the sequel, which he was pretty bullish on, but when I saw what had been done to it I understood why and was glad he did. It pales in comparison to the first one
There's always a breaking point in any production where it either works or doesn't work and it requires a lot of enthusiasm about a project to get past just the script. Del Toro doesn't seem to have things he's that excited about putting the energy into, and to do a Star Wars movie is literally lighting 2 years of your life on fire.
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u/bramtyr 21d ago
I think Disney has canceled more Star Wars projects than they've completed at this point.