J.J. Abrams Admits the Obvious: Disney Didn't Have a Real Plan When They Made the New Star Wars Trilogy
www.esquire.com
“Having a plan I have learned–in some cases the hard way–is the most critical thing, because otherwise you don’t know what you’re setting up."

Thank you, Disney for continually reiterating that having money doesn't make one smarter, more creative, or more capable. Fucking hilarious shit.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    To be fair, it's not like Lucas had extensively mapped out an entire trilogy when he made the first movie either. He, Kasdan and all those other people were just mostly flying by the seat of their pants from movie to movie

    And it really shows in ROTJ

    • Lucas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      True. It's just having the intellectual property (hate this term so much), you would expect some level of planning.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Imagine how much better the media landscape would be if we went back to 17 year copyrights.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It just kind of lazily wraps everything up to get it over with. Anyway, my point was that these big franchise movies aren't generally planned that tightly unless they're Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings which were all made at the same time

        I do agree that Rise of Skywalker was a laughably bad movie though- I wonder how much it was just due to JJ's incompetence and how much of it was some ill-advised course correction due to fanboys collectively shitting their pants about TLJ

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Absolute champ Patrick H Willems just did a video on third entries in trilogies that touches on this

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRoorGEwM9k