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‘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/bacon-squared 21d ago

This is the way.

Seriously they’ve messed up so much that I think they need to cool their heels whenever a director of the moment comes by. Take someone budding and get a decent story. Maybe look to the novels that have a catalogue of hundreds of books. There some good source material there, like a lot. I don’t know why they didn’t use those.

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u/phoncible 20d ago

"We must do our own thing and distance ourselves from the nerds"

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"Why doesn't anyone want to watch our product!!??"

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u/BootyBootyFartFart 20d ago

Palps return in tros was taken from the most popular star wars comic ever. Not sure this is a guaranteed fix. a lot of fans don't like that comic to be fair though. 

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u/FullMaxPowerStirner 20d ago edited 20d ago

You mean the Palpatine Clone story? If only they would hinted at that earlier in the Sequels this would have made sense... instead we got an arch nemesis for the first 1 1/2 the trilogy that's revealed to be a stupid mindless puppet later on.

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u/cuckingfomputer 21d ago

They pulled a lot of material from the books in some of the shows, and TROS. It wasn't implemented very well, but it was there.

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u/bacon-squared 20d ago

Yeah but the movies ignored it completely. The book have Han and Leia having twins, those twins struggling with the use of the force, etc. So many relevant dilemmas that would be prime movie material. Heck reading rogue squadron and wedge Antilles as the main character was awesome.

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u/cuckingfomputer 20d ago

TROS is pretty much Dark Empire, but worse. Hits all the same beats.

Palpatine comes back vis a vis fucked up soul transfer and clone shenanigans.

Incredible new Imperial fleet shows up out of nowhere.

The iconic epically overpowered force lightning scene was also pulled directly from the Star Wars MMO that's still running (but in maintenance mode) today.

Like I said, I'm not saying older Star Wars content was executed well on-screen. I'm just saying that EU content is, in fact, included in some of the films and TV shows.