Daisy Ridley's 'STAR WARS: EPISODE X - A NEW BEGINNING' will begin filming from September 2nd, 2024 in London, UK.
Daisy Ridley's 'STAR WARS: EPISODE X - A NEW BEGINNING' will begin filming from September 2nd, 2024 in London, UK.
I get that it’s past the Skywalker saga and they’re literally wanting “A New Beginning”, but that is the most flaccid, uninspiring title I’ve ever seen. Even “Attack of the Clones” seems a step above this.
Drat, quick let's think of something better... How about... uh... I got it! A New Hope! You know, because it's a new hope for Disney and the fans to see a decent- oh, already taken? Damn!
Do they have Ridley on contract still? I am legitimately surprised she's still interested in anchoring the franchise in some way. I could not imagine enduring the last decade's worth of fan toxicity and coming back for more.
it's the money, coupled with the fact she's had less than stellar success in her other cinematic endeavors makes it a slam dunk for her. why kennedy would subject the already fracturing fanbase with more garbage is beyond me, but it seems her and filloni are hell bent for leather and nothing is going to stop them until disney star wars is an irredeemable smoldering heap
Was the conversation something like this?
Interesting director choice. Though, I kind of wish they would pretend Ep 7-9 never happened. Rey could have been a much better character and the sequels could have been better than a rehash of Ep 4-6.
don't worry, 10 years from now people will be treating the sequel trilogy the way the prequel trilogy is now.
Disney always wins their molten torch forever burns.
EDIT :
To those disagreeing :
You're probably forgetting how badly the
originalprequel trilogy was percieved. here's a reminder :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPt1am18lR4&list=PL56E3EB1DFD4B64A2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYWAHuFbLoc&list=PLJ_TJFLc25JTwinvdLo4PP2rTFfTd9Uhz
see you in 4 and a half hours!
EDIT2 : I'm not saying anything regarding the quality of any of the trilogies (1-3 , 4-6 , 7-9) , people hated and adored them all for different reasons, but the inevitability of nostalgia or disney shills are inevitable.
EDIT 3 : My dad , in the 90s, seeing the 50s, 60s and 70s nostalgia themed stuff was talking about how there was no 80s nostalgia because the 80s sucked. You guys are probably aware of the avalanche of 80s nostalgia stuff from the past two decades, and 90s are coming back at the moment, albeit slowly.
Nostalgia is inevitable. With all the damn kids going to disneyworld's star wars section and the bb8 advertising on everything including oranges when the film came out, you can bet your ass that when those kids grow up, they're going to be nostalgic about star wars 7-9.
And you know what? I'm willing to bet 20 years after Star wars 10-12 comes out, not only are the kids that see it when it comes out will be nostalgic for it, I'm willing to bet they're going to hate on episodes 15-18.
I've been wondering about this for a while. Silly as the prequels were, they were still the result of one person's vision and tried to tell a story. The new ones are neither, theyre corperate and disconnected from each other. So will they be met with the same nostalgia and re-examination that the prequels got? I really don't know
No. The last movie ruined the entire trilogy. And I liked TLJ, but there was no overarching story to the trilogy and the whole thing was completely pointless, but mainly the last movie was so so fucking awful.
There is no fucking way anyone is going to appreciate them in 10 years. Sometimes movies just suck.
Does this imply that in Star Wars X, we will have a fight or convo with a contact in an arcade?
Must’ve been expensive to get the director of I Am Somebody and Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge.
She’s got a lot more credentials than that.
Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in my life. I really want to be excited about this. Really badly. But I'm just not. The title is awful, the last movie is awful. I'm not going to stop loving the Star Wars that exists, and every once in a while they have a happy surprise like Andor, but my excitement for new stuff is dead.
The people making Star Wars movies today don't understand the things that make it unique from everything else, so they make it garbage.
Gotta agree with you, unfortunately. I'm just not excited about the Skywalker story anymore. I watched 7-9 with giddy excitement and even left the theater each time thinking good thoughts, but it only took a few hours of reflection for reality to sink in afterwards, and it quickly became clear that Disney somehow managed to fumble at the goal line three times in a row (TFA being the best of the three). Andor and Mando are giving me hope that there's still room in that time period for good content development, but for the most part I'm shifting my attention to the high republic era and hoping that they can formulate a coherent hero/story arc from that timeline.
I think they should move onto different titles than X/XI/XII if the Skywalker Saga is over. And A New Beginning is worse than The Phantom Menace being called The Beginning in its early stages. I hope they change the title.
The Jedi Order has failed twice now. Each time those failures produced a person so powerful that it enslaved the galaxy. Maybe don't do that again.
Seriously, maybe start a movement that teaches the Force belongs to all, whether as powerful as a Jedi or as simple and every-day as just using it to grab stuff.
That was kind of a plot they had used in one of the Jedi Academy games that was effectively the explanation as to why you could use dark side and light side powers. Basically Luke thought that shielding from either side would obviously make the taboo subject way more enticing, so his whole concept was balance in all things, including knowledge of dark and light.
Blind faith in organizations claiming to protect our long held traditions makes us vulnerable to fascism?
I don't like to jump to conclusions. I'm going to give it a few more films to see if the pattern holds. Lol.
You know how in adventure video games the side quests are always more interesting and poignant than the main world-ender quest? I think Star Wars is gonna be like that now. Some weird episode in some cartoon series written by some guest scifi writer is gonna contain the best story.
That's already kind of the case. Has been for a while, actually.
A NU START!
Title crawl:
A NEW BEGINNING
After Palpatine returning, somehow, and being defeated, the NEW NEW REPUBLIC is established. But not much has changed, because not enough time has passed.
Anyway, REY, along with a redeemed BEN SOLO, have become the sole JEDI MASTERS of the entire galaxy and decided that the time was ripe to begin training a new generation of JEDI
Among the first pupils, the young TALTAPINE shows great promise, but dark clouds loom over the JEDI once more...
Pregnant in Tatooine
There was no father.
The emperor is back, somehow!... again!
Woof. Different production team than nine? That was the trashiest trash I have seen in a very long time.
The emperor’s new shoes
I'll be cautiously optimistic. Daisy Ridley deserves a second shot at Rey and hopefully Disney learned something from their mistakes in episodes 7-9.
Rumor has it the new movie will feature a large moon-sized planet-destroying space station. There will also be a desert planet with a young naive yet promising force user. Someone will wield a lightsaber with a design we haven’t seen before. Space bombers will have to fly “over” an enemy ship in space in order to “drop” bombs on it. One of the new creatures will have eyes that look like anuses, or a mouth that looks like a pussy. The main antagonist will be annoying and act like a man-child. There will be doubt that someone can “train up” in time to fight a bad guy. Someone will survive the vacuum of space. A new force trick will be shown. Someone’s face will be replaced by AI. A previously unseen type of droid sidekick will be unveiled. A possession belonging to someone from the original trilogy will be mentioned and displayed with reverence. Something that has never needed explaining will be explained. Something that has long needed an explanation will be glossed over in a confusing way. An interesting new character will have nearly all of their scenes cut. The emperor will return.
I’m not sure optimistic is the right word exactly… maybe hopeful. Sadly I don’t really think it’s gonna be great but I hope it is. 100% agree about Ridley. I know Boyega burned some bridges but I would otherwise put him in the same category.
Going for episode 10 rather than the prequel approach of spamming the market with adjacent media feels like they haven’t learned from their mistake
God damn...
Nope, not optimistic. Damon Lindelof is one of the writers. Therefore, safe to assume JJ is still involved in some capacity. it's DOA.
IMO Lindelof redeemed himself with The Leftovers and Watchmen. Kurtzman and Orci would be worse.
No? Just because they make shitty movies for 25 years?
I totally agree about the EU, some of the finest pieces of Star Wars fiction are still not considered canon, and that kills me 😅. To put a point on my thought about Lucas's contributions, while he didn't write the finest of Star Wars, he did create the fertile soil it could grow in. It was his strange mixture of Taoism and science fiction that intrigues me so much, and I think it created a rich environment for storytelling and a very visually engaging struggle between the light and dark of humanity. Plus, he would actively draw in EU content that he liked, which is actually where the idea planet of Coruscant came from. Not only does Disney actively restrain and manage star wars third party storytelling, it also (generally) has drained the soil of it's imaginative and creative inspiration. I can't imagine much fiction being inspired by the characters and plots of the sequels, but I actually haven't actually looked, maybe I'm wrong there.
Speaking of visually engaging, Ralph McQuarrie's artwork for the original trilogy is incredibly inspiring.
me no likey
Is it this one?
Yep, 'New Jedi Order' was the working title.
Okay cool, thank you!
lol
Really looking forward to see Star Wars move forward again. Getting bored with the story going nowhere lately. They got a prequel to the prequels on TV now FFS. Gee... I hope Yoda doesn't die LOL.
If they ignore the vocal internet fans and make a fun action adventure movie it should be good. They torpedoed the ST be listening to the Mary Sue whiners and making her support character in TLJ.
Rey Skywalker is back and I'm down for it. Rey's lightsaber looked like it was the same at both ends so it might be a double bladed lightsaber. That would be fun. It'd be cool if Oscar Isaac and John Boyega could come back.
I'm sure the vocal internet Star Wars fans will hate it. Whatever, they got like 10 seasons of TV shows set in the past.