They just need to avoid Star Wars movies for a while, TLJ and RoS were utter shit, while the tv series have been pretty good. They also have a lot of content they can draw from in the EU to make some fun, enjoyable shows.
Well I dont know if shes good at her job or not. The fact shes managed to become number one target for hate says shes doing something wrong.
But in terms of her career I see this brought up a lot how shes worked on so many great films.
Most of the films shes worked on was under industry veterans. I wonder how much input producers give the likes of Steven Spielberg and just how many great notes did she give him on Jurassic Park. Or was she born with a sliver spoon and just knew the right people like most successful people in hollywood outside of talent. And let them do their own thing. Which is deserving of praise too I guess.
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Zero chance of this happening.
Appreciate your time with friends and family while they're here. Don't wait until they're gone to tell them what they mean to you.
I think she is legitimately talented, there is a quip from Spielberg, who hired her as a secretary, but she was shit at that, but was exceptional at production duties, he almost immediately put her on as a producer. This was early 80s, she was only in her 20s. I think the body of her work, through the years, speaks enough that she isn't a hack.
They gave themselves a 30 year window between RotJ and TFA. Endless years before TPM and a completely blank slate after TROS.
So much room for so many stories. The OT actors have moved on or no longer with us. Recasting them is a bad idea - see Solo. Whoever started the reboot rumor must be bored or Disney actually lost their mind.
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TFA is just a reboot, hard to argue any of the blame of the trilogy rests on it since it's just a remake.
They should have just given RJ both movies or found someone like him. Even if people didn't like the tone or direction the trilogy would have distinct and cohesive. Bringing JJ back on was the worst thing that could happen. Not only was JJ full of his own ego, he isn't the best writer...yet they just gave him the entire project.
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What plan did Johnson throw out the window?
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SW is not going anywhere. They just started an original era (High Republic) and building up post RotJ.
I think the next trilogy, or whatever they do movie wise, is going to have more long term planning MCU. That's actually something Disney brought to the franchise that wasn't there before...except messing up TLJ - > TROS. Think that's going to be a lesson learned.
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JJ should have started with an actual addition to the franchise and not just a remake then.
If TROS was part of JJs outline then they did us a favor by not letting him have control over the entire trilogy. He probably would had a cliche 'Rey, I'm am your father" bit too.
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I swear, pretty much the entire hatred of Kennedy specifically with regards to Star Wars boils down to that one "the Force is female" comment. So many salty fanboys who got pissed that the Force doesn't have a big giant magic-penis for some reason.
It's a force of creation and life. Mythologically, those are almost always female, if they're gendered, dudes.
Kennedy's career and success rate speaks for itself. The Star Wars ST is a hiccup in that career at best. And really, I'd lay most of the blame on the shenanigans that went on with writing and directing; the way it played out wasn't the plan, Johnson was brought in when Abrams bailed on Ep 8 due to other interests.
Let's recall she's also the producer or executive producer for;
ET the Extra-terrestrial
Gremlins 1/2
The Goonies
Back to the Future 1/2/3
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Hook
Jurassic Park 1/2/3
Schindler's List
Bridges of Madison County
Twister
The Sixth Sense
And so on. Those are by no means the only films in there, just some of the highlights. She's been wildly successful at crafting films that make up a lot of our collective childhoods.
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I’m not against it.
The first 6 was a family space opera with a mythology undertone. The last 3 were shallow spectacles (mostly ignoring the first 6) with SJW undertones.
I legit lost interest in Star Wars after ep 9. and have zero faith in Disney. It’s pretty impressive how badly they screwed up the last 3.
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Which is probably the problem. Johnson probably got a script guideline with a lot of "Rey's parents: ???" and such. I doubt Abrams had an answer to anything when he finished TFA; he'd write those answers as he needed them. That's his "mystery box" approach. So there wasn't anything for Johnson to throw out; he just took hints of mystery and said "whoops, it's nothing."
Which isn't a bad thing. I think the films would have been better if Rey hadn't been someone's grandkid. If she's just some rando the Force said "yeah, you, you're the One" to. We know that can happen; the Force canonically impregnated Anakin's mom its own damn self to make a hate-baby to destroy the Jedi with. And she was the definition of a nobody; some random slave on a backwater planet.
Why should Rey's parents matter? It's silly. Better to just explore the character, rather than have her serve as a proxy, especially when we've already got Kylo doing exactly that in the same film.
Bascially Steven Spielberg liked working with her so shes attached to a bunch of great films.
One of which i wouldnt include hook. That movie is terrible. Robin Williams being a mopey drag for 2 hours so he can be "like a boy" for the final third.
Spielberg himself said he didnt like that film.
Anyway its the first time I've ever seen a producer be the target for the success or failure of a film. No one brings up the prequels producers which those films are divisive among the "fans"
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Yeah. And they would have kept the 2nd and 3rd film with only loose guidelines because the landscape of film changes over the years and they would have wanted freedom to react to audience reactions and focus on the popular story lines or drop ones not working because profitability of the IP was the priority over story telling
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yeah they should blame it on child actors like the good old days
I dont think young anakin ever worked again in film
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Disney needs to not attempt to run away from their mistakes. TLJ and RoS are apart of Star Wars now and should remain that way.
Hamill said he was done. Ford is pretty much done. Carrie is dead.
You cannot redo the sequels, you can't ignore the sequels. The only way to move beyond them is to set the next series after the sequel characters have died.
As bad as TLJ and RoS are, it is worse to retcon them at this point.
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Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
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It's not so much a reboot as it is a poor mockbuster. All JJ did was copy everything but "improve" it by magnifying its traits. BB-8 is smaller than r2, maz is even older and quirkier than yoda, Rey is even poorer then luke, death star more powerful, etc.. and by doing that he ended up ruining the entire franchise. The dude turned the victors from the original trilogy back into underdogs in less than 40 years and they ended up even worse off and with less power then they were in the originals. Then he created an even more powerful sun eating death planet that magic missiles the entire galactic government that could have possibly helped the resistance. Anything after that really had no choice but to be shit.
That list of movies just makes Kennedy look like a leech and it shows with the new trilogy when she was put in charge. How can you start a trilogy like that with no road map. That's what the whole trilogy comes down to, not having a plan. That is on Kennedy.
No. The real problem are the people who get upset if you don't like a movie and scream words like bigot over it.
You know? The kind of people who say a movie is for small children and shouldn't be critiqued but then gush about how this movie for small children is the most brilliant, deep themed movie ever.
I think they fall in the intended age group for a kids movie.
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Don't forget she's also attached to trash like Crystal Skull, Last Airbender and Fallen Kingdom.
If she's responsible for all the good movies, she's also responsible for the hot trash.