• suction@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    To be fair to John Jonah, he had to work around the director of TLJ’s narcissistic take on the 2nd episode of a trilogy, i.e. not giving a shit how the next director (whoever it was going to be at that time) could possibly come up with a good conclusion to two extremely disjointed prior movies. I mean it’s neither director’s fault, to be honest, it’s Lucasfilm’s, marketing this as “The next SW trilogy!!”, not just “three more movies from that universe you guys seem to enjoy so much”. Also he was too busy running a newspaper at the same time.

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      4 months ago

      “Maybe we should have planned the trilogy” - JJ after RoS

      Disney allocated a billion dollars to a trilogy of movies and didn’t even ask for outlines of scripts first. I know JJ is “mystery box guy” and all but the amount of hubris to think they could just wing it on the strength of the IP is staggering.

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        4 months ago

        Hey, that’s not fair. They weren’t winging it.

        They were doing the original trilogy again, but worse.