Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The Return of the George?

Is Kathleen Kennedy out at Lucasfilm? Will George return to save the Star Ward dumpster fire at Disney?  Will we ever see that Lucas cut of The Rise of Skywalker? Will we ever see it? Hollywood Vlogger Doomcock discusses these questions and more in his latest videos.








Just think George, if you hadn't completely botched the prequels.....


24 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Mouse ain't what it used to be...Not even the one eyed ex- Mouseketeer name Snake could Escape much less survive NY as it is today...

Anonymous said...

The problem with Star Wars is that it is homogenized corporate entertainment for children (and manchildren) which has been injected with unnecessary wokeness.

The best part of Star Wars are the hundreds of novels written by people completely detached from the films. What the Disney folks call the Expanded Universe.

See that's where the best sci-fi and fantasy will always be, in novels.

And do people really think the guy that made the The Phantom Menace is going to "save" Star Wars?

Anonymous said...

The rule of "get woke, go broke" is once again confirmed.

Transforming the franchise into "Mary Sue's Multicultural Space Adventure" didn't appeal to the core Star Wars audience and failed to attract a diverse new audience.

Steve said...

I hope they all go bankrupt.

Anonymous said...

Wokeness is just the most visible symptom of focus-grouped inoffensiveness.

When hundreds of millions are being spent, and billions are at stake, you're really not making art or telling stories. You're creating theme park rides designed to deliver a predictable regimen of sensations, with as little controversy or objection as possible.

Corporate wokeness just reflects a calculus about who is most likely to complain, and how to most efficiently blunt criticism that might distract from a smooth product roll out.

Anonymous said...

It's amazing how Kennedy managed to bungle a 4 billion dollar franchise. I can't believe someone didn't object strenuously to the axing of the expanded universe. And then have Kennedy turn around and unironically spout that they didn't have any more source material to draw on.

As much as I don't care for Marvel, at least they have Feige leading who is a Marvel fanboy.

Anonymous said...

You don't need George Lucas. Just give people what they want to see and not some hamfisted 'woke' political statement. What do they want to see? Male heo archetypes like Harrison Ford, Alec Guiness, Ewan McGregor, and Liam Neeson. Sorry if that aint progress.

Kingfish said...

Problem is Lucas made those crap prequels and oh yeah, he is the one who insisted on Disney placing Kennedy in charge when he closed the sale.

The best episodes were when Kurtz was on the team. He left halfway through Return of the Jedi and you can see everything going downhill from there. I just post these for fun. I gave up on it a long time ago. Haven't even seen TROS. Forget SJW crap, just plain bad writing and plot devices. Same disease that struck GOT final two seasons and Westworld this year.

Anonymous said...

I beg to differ Kingfish. Mandolorian is so good because they focused more on an ethnically ambiguous badass Male. The cringe was still there with the She hulks they injected into the plot. But the core attraction was Mando Badass and lots of shootouts.

Kingfish said...

People can handle female leads just fine. I liked Rey. just make it make sense. Instead of treating Rey as they did Luke, they turned her into the baddest, natural force user every who needed no training. Some of it got downright laughable. Look at GOT. Arya was the favorite character of many as was Dany until she went mad (another case of really bad writing.). It's not that she was a she, it's the use of her and writing was so bad.

Replacing Akbar with some clown looking woman just for the sake of it is bad writing. Throwing out the whole Canon is bad writing. Creating snoke then tossing him overboard with no backstory is bad writing.

Kingfish said...

And Kennedy didn't have her mitts on it either. She created three damn movies and I hate to say this, not even any merchandise sales worth noting. Meanwhile, Mandalorian produced Baby Yoda. First time in decades Star Wars produced something that became part of the culture.

Anonymous said...

It's not that people can't handle female leads. But obviously nobody wants to pay for a ticket to see it. Remember the Ghostbusters reboot? Wait for the new Bond.

Anonymous said...

People can handle female leads just fine

Tell that to HRC. Lol

Anonymous said...

Get a load of Kingfish trying to argue that Star Wars wasn't ruined by shitty feminism by blaming an individual shitty feminist!

Anonymous said...

George is a great idea man. But Star Wars would have been an absolute disaster if his wife Marcia and Paul Hurst didn't fix it in the editing.

Kingfish said...

I said it was. That and bad writing. Difference between me and you is you blame all of the problem on politics and I blame it on politics and bad writing.

Anonymous said...

The problems with the Skywalker Saga is trash writers and trying a trilogy out of order. It didn't help that Rian Johnson took a big shit in the middle of the trilogy. I think he rightly earned the monicker "Ruin Johnson" for his handling of SW. Though the moniker has no real meaning outside of SW.

Kingfish said...

Kurtz: The Rest of the story

Once he left, everything declined.

Anonymous said...

You will always be disappointed if you expect anything of value from the MSM. Much better off enjoying audiobooks.

Anonymous said...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk

Anon-E-Mouse said...

Kennedy rolled the dice on Carrie Fisher and lost when she, not Hamill or Ford didn’t die.

Who freaking cares. 7 was a retold story of the first one, now 4).

They, Disney, will milk it until they get their billion back.

Eye see said...

Just another casualty of progress.

Anonymous said...

If my kid ever told me he liked star wars I would whip his ass. Everyone
I knew in school that was obsessed with star wars was a weirdo. None of them ever had girlfriends. I'm trying to raise a man not a dork.

Anonymous said...

I'll never forget seeing the trailer to the first film at Deville Cinema. I was blown away !

I even spilled a large coke and a jumbo popcorn when the big ass space ships flew over the audience.

1976 or 1977 maybe ?

In all honesty, the bong hits at Parham Bridges Park (before the movie) may have had something do with my reaction.

With that said, Lucas screwed up when he focused on the little dog creatures . . . Ewos or something ?

If he had only required a quick "neck'id scene" with a young Carrie Fisher.









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