Another Day, Another "Star Wars" Movie Announcement

[tillychar]

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Here we go again: Lucasfilm's film department, which has been trying (and failing) to get a new Star Wars movie off the ground since the release of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, is taking another stab at it. Simon Kinberg has reportedly signed on to produce a new trilogy of movies. Kinberg was responsible for

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[inkstainedlips]

Let the series die! Kill it if you have too.

[firstknivesclub]

My only thought about this is that the government will make this into a whole fucking thing because these movies will be accused of appearing to be "woke" or be completely pushed by fandom to not be woke. idk what i'm trying to say here.

[ahkna]

The man whose movie X3 was so hated that he was given a completely new chance not only to write another version of the Dark Phoenix story but got to direct it this time too. And it was even worse?

White men stay failing upwards, holy shit

[queenursula]

His plan was for there to be two movies, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix and it would have been more faithful to the comics with the Hellfire Club and Shi'ar Empire. Then the studio forced them to make it one film and there were tons of reshoots as well.

[ahkna]

Or the guy is just not a good writer and an even worse director. His writing and producing history is basically "what's bad about Hollywood".

[queenursula]

There is no “or” here, in the case of Dark Phoenix it’s obvious at least in this case the studio fucked everything over late in the game. I doubt for example Jessica Chastain signed on to play some generic alien, she probably was going to be Lilandra.

I couldn’t care less about Kinberg but he also wrote the film X-Men: Days of Future Past as well.

[jojito]

This guy?
Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix and the 355... I guess that's a good enough resume for Disney.

[naeara]

Stop giving this flop jobs. But he’s a white man so of course he’s still getting work. 🙄