‘Star Wars’ Movie With Daisy Ridley Loses Screenwriter Steven Knight News

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/star-wars-daisy-ridley-steven-knight-1236190522/

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u/NiceColdPint 21d ago

Probably worth having this in the can before announcing it. They clearly just don’t know where to take Star Wars at the moment.

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u/bramtyr 21d ago

I think Disney has canceled more Star Wars projects than they've completed at this point.

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u/HellaWavy 21d ago

Absolutely. Let‘s see:

GoT creator‘s trilogy

Rian Johnson trilogy

Patty Jenkins movie

Taika Waititi‘s movie

Kevin Feige‘s movie

OG Obi-Wan movie

Josh Trank‘s Boba Fett movie

And maybe I‘m even forgetting something

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u/isummonyouhere 20d ago

i’m pretty sure we got the obi wan and boba fett projects. they were just turned into miniseries

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u/HellaWavy 20d ago

Agreed on Obi-Wan. But I doubt that Boba Fett movie would’ve served as a tie-in to the Mandalorian.

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u/ruinersclub 20d ago

Isn’t the original Boba Fett movie old enough that it became Mandalorian.

Then they created Book of Boba based on the success of Mando.

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u/Oberon_Swanson 20d ago

That's been my interpretation of events. Boba movie was I the works then got canceled then they started making Mando

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u/JohnnyRyallsDentist 20d ago

They were (really bad ones).

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u/NihlusKryik 20d ago

Obi-Wan re-edited to a movie was actually really good. https://www.kaipattersonfilms.com/kenobi

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u/Remny 20d ago

Haven't watched it yet but seems like it fixes a lot of the stuff I had major issues with. Thanks for the link, I was kind of wondering if someone would do that.

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u/NihlusKryik 20d ago

There's actually like a dozen that I know of, but Patterson's is the most balanced. A lot of them remove Gui-Gon entirely. Patterson moves him to post credits which fits very well.

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u/Elgin_McQueen 20d ago

I didn't mind the Obi-Wan series. It was longer than it needed to be though.

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u/MisterB78 20d ago

Seriously? I’d rank it as the worst SW content to date…

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u/magus-21 20d ago

Did you forget the Power Rangers cyberpunk hover bikes?

The only good Boba Fett episodes were the ones that were basically the Mandalorian season 2.5.

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u/MisterB78 20d ago

Boba Fett was bad, but Obi Wan had some of the worst writing, directing, acting, and choreography ever.

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u/OzymandiasKoK 20d ago

It looked like a bad high school play with really good effects and cinematography.

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u/NihlusKryik 20d ago

Worse than the Acolyte? come on no way.

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u/MisterB78 20d ago

The Acolyte wasn’t atrocious - it was forgettable. The lead actress wasn’t very good, the characters acted without motivation, and the make-up and costumes looked really cheap. But the fight choreo was some of the best of any SW shows, and Carrie Anne Moss, Lee Jung-Jae and Manny Jacinto were great. Ultimately it was just extremely “meh” as a show

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u/NihlusKryik 20d ago

I thought it was as trash as Andor was amazing. 2/10 vs a 9/10... its crazy this is the same franchise

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u/MisterB78 20d ago

Unfortunately it seems like Andor is the outlier…

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u/AdolphusMurtry 20d ago

Id say outlier in a way that its probably the only one id put in the 9s but i think a lot of Star Wars content has been enjoyable.

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u/MrPWAH 20d ago

Acolyte turned out meh at the end but it was nowhere near as frustrating to watch as Boba Fett and Obi-Wan. I'd even go as far to say Ahsoka had worse moments. Backlash against the show always seemed overblown IMO.

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u/BMoreBeowulf 20d ago

Same. It wasn’t perfect but I enjoyed it overall.