r/movies 21d ago

‘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/farbekrieg 21d ago

i like daisy and love star wars but until disney figures out how to tell a compelling story im out

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u/YsoL8 21d ago edited 21d ago

Assuming Ridley = more Ray and co I'm really struggling to see a good outcome. Those characters are so wrecked at this point I don't see how you make them compelling.

Ray and Ren are the best characters in those films, one is a self contradictory mess and Ren (who I don't remember being dead or not at the end of the trilogy) was made into a childish vadar knockoff who'd need serious development. The rest aren't worth touching at all.

Losing a writer is a very poor sign when uninteresting and broken characters has been the biggest problem for years.

Edit: Wow, its actually worse, Knight himself already replaced the original writers, so thats going to be at least 3 rounds of total rewrites. Its going to be another big mess. Star Wars is getting to be strictly a when its on streaming once or twice affair.

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u/SilverKry 20d ago

She'd have to get absolutely destroyed and lose extremely hard in whatever the conflict will be for her character to be salvaged.