emanswfan said:
Well considering how much I liked Godzilla,
I'm on for this!
Whoa! Just...whoa!
Yesterday there were rumors that the working titles of the upcoming spinoff films had been leaked by Hasbro. (The working titles were
Boba Fett, Solo and
Red Five.) When I read that, I thought, "They may actually not even get any spinoff films off the ground at this rate. Any actual news items have been such small crumbs."
And then -- this!
Thoughts in no particular order:
--I'm in favor of any news about the spinoffs, so this is good.
--I thought the spinoff might get bumped to summer '17, with Ep. VII coming in summer '18. But now it seems like Disney has claimed Christmas permanently for Star Wars.
--I'm always a little bothered by mostly untested directors getting these gigs, though. Seriously, Gareth Edwards has one big-budget film to his name.
One. It made money, but it was heavily marketed and based on an iconic property. How is it going to do at the box office on the
second weekend? What's the actual word of mouth on the film?
What happened to all the awesome names that were bandied about for the director's chair when Ep. VII was announced: Joe Johnston, Brad Bird, etc.? These filmmakers actually had a proven track record.
Nonetheless, I haven't seen Godzilla and it may in fact be quite good. I'm not saying that Edwards
will be bad, only that it seems like jumping the gun with this choice.
--As for Gary Whitta, I really really loved
The Book of Eli. People seemed to hate
After Earth, though, but that may be due to M. Night Shal's direction. And he also wrote for
The Walking Dead video games...Wait. Can this guy write anything that
isn't set in a post-apocalyptic future?
--The other article, the one about the spinoffs (sorry, I don't remember where I read it) said that the creative team was having trouble cracking the script for
Fett. If they are, it seems strange that they would set a date like this. But maybe that was just a rumor.
--If they
are having trouble with the
Fett script, I can tell them why. They're probably trying to restore the mystery and coolness factor of this character, but making him the lead means that he'll probably have to have a lot of dialogue. The actor playing Fett will probably also want some screen time with the mask off, which is another idea that works against Fett.
Meanwhile (if the rumors are true), Disney is also developing a Han Solo film (a solo Solo film?). That's two spinoff films likely set pre-Ep. IV with an amoral bounty hunter/smuggler anti-hero. One of those films could be cool; two films sounds kind of boring.
My solution for both problems (which I probably mentioned in the past at some point): Put them together in the same film. Have them both going after the same bounty. Then we can root for Han against Boba. And Boba can remain a somewhat cool, mysterious figure.
Anyway, again, it might be just rumors after all.
Regardless, I'm overall very excited about this news!