Considering how massively as successful anything they make that is even remotely average, there is plenty of evidence for them to know that it's literally a money printing machine but they STILL refuse to make even the most minimal effort in the right direction. They're ACTIVELY trying to fuck everything up.

That's what happens when you hire for checkboxes, rather than talent.

I won't lie, if they make another Rey starwars it will be the first starwars I don't watch

Girrrrllllll Powwwweerrr 😂 she essentially made the NBA of ips into the wnba and now is living off handouts from Disney.

"is running" - I think you used the wrong tense, it's past tense - "has run" it into the ground

What utter garbage they blatantly and purposefully destroyed star wars and every franchise they touch

I have said this for almost 10 years now. They could have done the Thrawn trilogy, used Timothy Zahns books to write the script, each movie would have made over a billion dollars easily, and everyone would have been happy. It was pure pride on Kathleen Kennedys part that led to the situation Disney is now facing with Star Wars.

@@colewagner3435 This is what I don't understand. I'm no die-hard SW fan, but remember reading Zahn's Heir to the Empire. That included Mara Jade, who seemed a much more interesting character than the Rey they created. Apparently she was created by Zahn *because* the existing SW lore lacked strong female characters, yet here was one that was prepared earlier. I've no idea what rights issues there are around the extended universe, but as I understand it, anyone writing in that space had to give Lucasfilm pretty extensive rights.

@@brolohalflemming7042 you hit the nail on the head. Mara Jade was an already established and liked character that would’ve been the ideal addition to the Star Wars universe. She was already involved in the story for the Thrawn trilogy, and she has an amazing character arc across those three books. Not to mention that Disney could’ve also done a whole series around Mara Jade and what she did with the empire. And, since she’s a strong female character, everyone wins on all fronts. It’s astonishing to me that Disney literally has endless amounts of already made material to use in their shows and movies, and chooses to use none of them.

​@@colewagner3435 And if they use any of it. It to cherry picke and make a water down versions of it or ruining it and killed it off as fast as possible.

That is the equivalent of missing a lay up in basketball.

Yeah that was my biggest beef with the sequels. Just one scene with the original cast ffs. Absolute bunch of idiots…

@@brentninedorf6617 ...with a hoop that's 20 ft wide, and only 12 inches off the ground.

Palpatine, Yoda, Anakin, Obi-wan were not in the same room together in the OT. What are you babbling about.

@@jrus690 take Palpatine out(which is fine cause he's a villain that the younger generation was stuck facing) and you still get Yoda, Obi, and Ani in 1 place together at some point

I dunno, it's still one of the biggest franchises around. Star Wars was already reeling from one massive disappointment before Disney came along anyway.

I wouldn't even touch it with your barge pole let alone my own one. I have not watched any new star wars since TLJ.

@@primusstovis3704 At least check out Andor which is a Star Wars show for adults

This is all part of the message (plan) they want to undermine the cultural impact of things like starwars, really need to break our spirit. Trashing these great franchises and cultural heroes that stand up for what’s right, they can’t have people thinking this is how it should work.

Disney did that to many things.. especially vice and espn

And still people will suck the IP hard if they bring a somewhat okay-ish movie or series because people still love the franchise and have sooo much benefit of the doubt.

To be perfectly fair to SW, the downfall is George Lucas's fault.

That is Disney.. they did it to every single media group they've merged with, especially noticed since their big 2016 loss

Disney did that, since 2016.. to espn... starwars... comic book movies now... abc'snews.... i can name them all and most of them have some kind of idealogy they put into it, leaning to... the side of one party

I used to think this. But the wokeness is throughout Disney and Bob Igor had plenty of time to correct KK and he chose not to. I think it was a corporate culture in Disney that bled down into Lucasfilm.

See, there is plenty of room to criticize Kennedy for her running of LucasFilm but this line of attack is more a "I hate her because she's a woman" attack. Fact is, over the top "wokeness" is a Disney wide problem and it's arguable that Star Wars isn't even close to the worst offender. I mean hell, Andor was pretty much devoid of "wokeness" (there were strong female characters but they weren't over the top girl bosses and were balanced with strong male characters)... when was the last time you could say that about a Marvel production?

Studios? You mean a whole political party, brother... it's Disney and they are on what side? Joe's... and not so much Joe as they are in the pocket of Xi

Xi and Joe run more than just disney studio now... it's actually at the peak of the military now here 🤐

"It's the first film written, directed, and produced by nonbinary people of color! The script? Who cares about that, you racist! You TRANSPHOBE!"

Prove it.

Nepotism hires using ChatGPT rule Hollywood since they destroyed screen writing after the strike

He did it to his former boss Michael Eisner too. Iger is ruthless.

You could argue that, or you could just state it as a fact!

Iger is the plumber who clogs the toilet on his way out the door

"I can't find the damn forrest with all these trees in the way"

Ironically Lucasfilm rips off the eu 24/7

Has to be something big! Any dirt on who she had to blow in the 70’s to advance in Lucasfilm with no talent or intelligence … will have aged about as well as she has. She must literally know where bodies are buried!

@themalcontent100 ....Nothing a properly planned, truly well-coordinated "accident" can't _fix_

@@alexfriedman918 She and Iger are narcissists without doubt. She raised Lucus ans speilburg up in order to rise her own renown. Narcissists are all about legacy. They will never admit fault and it is sad that they chose Disney to leech off.

nah, I just think that people in charge of Disney are "geniuses" and they think that KK is doing a great job only fans are ungrateful and they can't appreciated creative decisions made by brilliant Katty ! Plus there nothing to replace her. Just look at Paramount; for last 14 years they stubbornly refused to fire Kurtzman, even though he demolished Trek beyond repair and he is still doing this! Studios just refuse to make changes, unless they have knife on their throat - that make you think how bad is situation at Marvel that they decided to fire Victoria Alonzo.

She has got certain folks in compromised positions with certain *_"honeypot agents"._*

That’s what’s mind boggling about Disney’s handling of the IP: under Lucas it was an absolute money-printing machine, despite the movies. Under Disney it’s a white elephant _because_ of the movies.

I mean who the fuck wants an action figure of budget Ridley from alien.

​@@Ebalosus even if the prequels were bad, at least George didn't disrespect the characters. This key difference is why he was still able to make buttloads of money. I don't know how any executive at Disney or Lucasfilm could release TLJ; the project should have been halted at first draft immediately and then necessary changes be made. Yes, it made $1 billion which caused them to be blind for far too long.

Well Grogu was selling well...

Merchandise only sells when people genuinely love the material it’s based on.

It did. Not a single cent since I walked out of TFA wondering what TF just happened.

@@samblack5313 Same. TFA was where Star Wars died for me, I didn’t bother with the last one at all and at most I’ve dipped into Mandalorian. Haven’t bothered with the rest.

Yep. And one of those big stinky floaters too... not a nice compact and properly dense sinker. This one is only semi solid and still bubbling gas as it enters the pot....

@@hotfightinghistory9224 For me, its one of those turds that makes you bleed and is too big to flush. I dont really care about the smell because Im in pain and my bathroom is flooded.

It's more like the scene from Dumb and Dumber kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bKeGgMZ7xp2bgIE.html The toilet is out of order and Rian Johnson just unloaded a mud tsunami

Kathleen: Quick, get some glitter. This one needs to be out by December 2025

It’s absolutely depressing, tbh

Exactly.

It is a flaw with nature that quality and talent do not follow race, sex and mental health, (phobias)

Diversity is great as long as it's diversity of thought and perspective rather than shallow tokenism and nepotism towards those in your cadre.

@@alanrobertson8626 and then it’s worse when they pander a completely different set of ideals towards other national markets. It’s a foundation of pure lies and financial suicide.

@@alanrobertson8626 diversity is great as long as it comes after meritocracy. The problem is diversity is now coming before it, which is why mostly everything out now is shit, for the most part ..

I honestly never thought Pixar would become as awful as it has, it was one of the last good things about Disney & it’s just as shit as the rest of Disney now.

Part of Iger's promotion to CEO in 2006 was to change the energy and culture at Disney. And the only way he saw to do it was to bring outside companies' in, ie. he took all the Pixar executives and put them in charge of Disney creative. Unfortunately, all this consolidation of power eventually broke the fighting spirit of said companies as they perhaps got too comfortable, too corporate, too political.

The only new film they've made i actually half way enjoyed was toy story 4. Incredibles 2 was a joke.

@@matthewgaudet4064 I thought Onward was pretty good, in spite of the forced lesbian reference. Haven’t any of the films since then. Most of their films seem to be struggling at the BO these days though.

@@zaryalace7475 Instead of creating they’ve been managing corporate divisions.

fail upward

hey, i want 3 cheeseburgers, 10 pancakes and scrumption. please pack it up, im in a hurry..

Funnily enough she is a monster very much of Disney’s own making, mostly because she was too conciliatory to them and they didn’t push back enough against her. If they had gotten the Harry Potter IP like they really wanted (SW was more of a consolation prize for them), even with Rowling telling them to fuck off and her controversies, they would’ve been making bank because the Wizarding World parks make bank, as do the books and ancillary merchandise. Instead they’re left with an IP that was an even bigger golden goose than Harry Potter and utterly ruined it.

Nah, she was pushing for diversity before the ink on her contract was dry. One of the first things she did was blast out those "The Force is Female" shirts. One has to wonder what the state of Star Wars would be if they gave the job to Rick McCallum...

I don’t think she ever cared about the shareholders. She only seems to have cared about her ego and pushing modern politics.

Remember Jurassic Park? In the original book by Michael Crichton, Tim is the older brother and the computer nerd, while Lex was the annoying jock. It's Tim who resets the park's systems, but for the movie they switched them to give the female sibling more importance. Also, in the book, after Malcolm says his famous line "God creates the dinosaur, God kills the Dinosaur", yadda yadda, everyone simply contemplates what he just said. Instead, in the movie, Dr. Sattler adds "The dinosaur eats the man. The woman inherits the Earth." Now guess who was one of the executive producers of Jurassic Park... 🙄

​@@franciscopina2899 the seeds of wokeism planted in the 90s.

Yes! They ruined established characters because the cant create anything new. Then when they do (like Snook) there's no back story. And who remembers the "story for another time" when Rey was handed Luke's lightsaber?? Never watched beyond TFA, too disappointed to go on

That was after Skynet went active in Last Jedi and wiped out most of humanity Of cours, Force Awakens, while the least terrible, did still build Skynet and deserves a share of the blame

@@InfernosReaper Force Awakens sucked just as hard - Han dead, Han and Leia split up, lame story, audience laughed when Kylo first took of the mask in my cinema lol - JJ Abrams hack job supreme. It was a success because it was the first and people have bought into the idea it was somehow ok - it wasnt it was pure suckage

@@poocrayon4588 It was not great, but *some* setbacks weren't too crazy and could have been accepted, *if* the story actually went somewhere interesting After all, in the first movie they blew up the super weapon but by the next one they're *still* hiding out in obscure locations with the Empire still going strong. Empire remnants isn't too crazy, but definitely weird that Han not only got the reset button hit with his life and abandoned the love of his life, but he also *somehow* lost his ship and *never* bothered going back for it? That's not as bad as Luke closing himself off from the force and wanting to go die, yet leaves a map behind and doesn't bother to ghost himself until he has *no* reason to.

@@jimmaurer8361 Ah yes "A good question ... FOR ANOTHER TIME!" I HATE when stories use that cliche, like anyone in that situation would say "no, say the basics on the way, I NEED to know". But JJ got to have his pandoras box of mysteries and intrigue ... Garbage.

No they didn't. Your childhood is your own memories. The fact that things you watched still exist now in original forms is just a bonus.

Spite. Exactly

Why do you look at it that way? For me STAR WARS will ALWAYS be the original movie from 1977. Everything that has come since has been a derivative work. There is no DOWNFALL for me. STAR WARS is and always will be one of my favorite films... even more enjoyable than The Empire Strikes back - whose special effects have not held up. The AT-AT attack on Hoth in particular looks very much like models filmed on fake snow.

It’s depressing but we still have the OT and PT.

@@kurtzahringer9750 Definitely will be. There were poor business decisions about when to release, what to release etc, but mostly it's just amazing how the writers consistently disrespected the previous stories EVERY TIME.

Same and Disney for that matter.

The tell-alls and memoirs about iger-era Disney are going to be incredible reads

There are quite awesome Star Wars books and games out there that have 1000000x better plot than any new Star Wars movie but they just do not care for some reason. They want to use the characters known by the mainstream audience…

@@cadenadelreino1442 but then at the same time they’re cherry picking elements out of the extended universe books & video games. I hate it

@@bruhdon4748 YES! They are just stupid af

@twentyfivedegeessouth2199 Because::... 1. Kathleen Kennedy is a talentless ((and thusly)) envious, spiteful, hateful bitch 2. Bob Iger is a car salesman who missed his calling (( and an utter dunce when it comes to political philosophy... I don't see him as an ideologue aka a "True Believer" in Neo-Marxism )) 3. And, with the noted exception of Nelson Peltz and Ike Perlmutter, it seems to have shareholders who by-and-large are either out-of-touch, cowards or a little bit of both

I'm guessing that Disney was scared of a Prequel-like backlash and distanced themselves from the Lucas' treatments. I'm also guessing that hack Jar-Jar Abrams immediately gave them a call after the IP acquisition and they went with him instead. It's still KK's fault.

They should do a miniseries.

From infinity War…. To infinite Flaw

It’s just crazy the shift in businesses, not just Disney, not wanting to make the best products possible for their customers so they can make the most money possible.

You mean “keep it down” 😉

Same here - I'm pointing at Disney and say ; HA, HA ! 😂

Maybe not. Some of us cut out early of the sequel trilogy. Most of the garbage they’ve been putting out becomes easily forgettable, pretty damn quick.

@@mikemontgomery2654 I watched half of the first movie in sequel trilogy and that was enough for me to know it was garbage, it obviously went off a cliff after that. I watched Rogue One and found that to be half decent but not until it had been out for a while and had past the smell test with trusted critics. Haven't watched any of the made for TV stuff because it all looks bland and uninteresting. They would have been better off just doing live action remakes of the cartoons, at leat then the stories would have been decent, though I wouldn't put it past Disney to totally screw that up.

Facts. No one trusts the brand anymore.

true I don't care if they spend billions on a movie I am not going to theater to watch a new star wars.

It cannot be fixed. Carrie is dead.

I actually agreed with the decision to not adapt from the books. If they stuck to the books they would have been locked in to telling a story that a lot of fans already knew. The blunder was that they didn't have an established outline for the new trilogy. They didn't know what was going to happen in episodes 8&9 before they started shooting episode 7. They had the easiest touchdown in movie history and they fumbled the ball.

Now add to that Keanu and John Wick.

And yet they STILL manage to make Maverick flawed (in a healthy way) - his love life is a mess, he's still haunted by the ghost of his dead friend (and his dead friend's wife, who asked him to fuck up his dead friend's son's career and keep the reason a secret from the boy, therefore giving him even more guilt to carry). And then the only other person he can trust dies, leaving him with a huge burden to carry (major props to Val Kilmer, who should have got a supporting actor Oscar, and to the way they chose to write Ice out). He's got a shitload of baggage on his plate; but damn, the man can still fly a plane.

Top Gun: Maverick starred man who jumped on Opera's couch 15 years ago/practitioner of Scientology but nobody cares anymore because its a man. Obi-Wan went from being man who was a Jedi/trainer/chopped Darth Vader's legs off to hermit guy who Luke has not seen a while.

Don’t insult the poor Bonobo. He doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the pack of idiots at Disney and Lucasfilm.

Not sure if you are watching Picard season 3 but it's amazing. No need to watch season 1 and 2 which I hear were terrible.

And the lost opportunities they had. We can now no longer have Lea, Luke, and Hans together on screen without the digital resurrection. All the goodwill they had, the potentially infinite amount of material they could build on, the potential of the franchise, all wasted to churn the continuous stream of content needed. Even ideas that they may have taken from the extended universe (Palpatine returns) didn't work or have rhe same impact. Say what you will in hindsight, but people were pretty excited after the Force Awakens and Rouge One, if they had even continued down the same path we wouldn't be talking about a dead franchise. At this point, Star Wars may need to disavow the sequel trilogy to move forward. Or hire Lucas, give him full creative license and a big check and see what happens.

@@bwill887 For me Force Awakens was OK but Rogue One got me thinking that if they can make a film like that then that shows they are thinking out of the box but after that it just went down hill and Im not even going to mention that it was because of the message its also due to bad writers not understanding the franchise and also being bad writers in general and also KK constantly falling out with directors and a sense of them not knowing what they are doing The Book of Boba Fett became The Mandalorian show and now The Mandalorian is becoming the Bo Katan show with Andor I saw that as them coming to their senses but that show didn't stand a chance due to how terrible the two previous shows where

@@davidsummer8631 I am thinking it is a combination of changes in the writing room, studio interference, and not understanding the source material or backgrounds (warping a space ship at Palpatine's planet would likely destroy everything, why not do that). I am not entirely sure where the Mandalorian was going for season 3, but given the ending of season 2, this isn't it and it is hard to say what a writer with a clear path will do if the studio doesn'tallow him to tell his story. The change in writers is what I blame for the broken plot threads in the sequel trilogy (Rey's parents being importnat at first, then not at all, then a key driver of the plot). The message is problematic but for a different reason, it has created characters with no real character, either being paragon of virtues that never struggle and always win, mustache twirling villains with no good in them, or a bunch of side characters that range massively from incompetent pieces that need saving to geniuses based on what the plot demands at that time. Weirdly, Ren was the most interesting character in the sequels but he never won against Rey or forced her to withdraw, an interesting character bud a bad villain and the films suffered as a result. Factor in the lack of consistency where no one ever grows and you have a problem. Good franchises get this, the characters have to grow, be humbled, become better (or worse if it's a villain) otherwise the story is just static. I am with you, Rouge One was great. Obvious issue is that you couldn't really build on it and a prequel show, especially after the bad content put out, and it doesn’t have a chance. Andor showed that, despite being a pretty good show in all honesty.

@@bwill887 The Mandalorian should have ended at the end of season 2 why they have continued is because they want to connect the show to the sequel films which have already been pretty much disowned by enough people already so that doesn't make any sense to me and they never had the key points of all the sequel films worked out before they started to shot so how can you build a character in one film when you dont know how they are going to be used in the next film.

They had all the resources and ingredients, they just couldn’t do anything with them due to inept leadership.

Fett is weird because it involved some of the same people behind Mandalorian and they couldn't even remember that Bob had no reason to futz with the Sarlac pit because he *knew* where his damn armor was by that point. I get wanting the spectacle, so just have him go there and blowing it up because *he wanted to* rather than *he is a moron*

They are focused on generating their next fortune to grab the broke woke feminist LGBTQIA2S4KTV+ fan base.

Older fans are useless.. what, you get 20-30 years out of them before they die? You need to target newborns for 70+ years of wallet milking potential.

Have you seen rings of power. Even when using the source material these arrogant artists are such sycophants to their own egos that they will try to improve the stories with modern morals and thereby ruin all of their beauty until they blend into the amorphous grey mass called "content".

Older fans, that have kids and grandchildren themselves. Guess what those older fans are not going to show them? Or buy merchandise from?

''K. Kennedy being fired soon'' is like GRRM saying that he's making progress, finishing Winds of Winter...

F1 has been trying to get Audi and Porsche to join since 2014, they’re so desperate for new engine manufacturers. Context: F1 switched to hybrid engines in 2014 in an effort to attract manufacturers but all this resulted in was Honda joining.

F1? Never heard of her.

I didn’t realize it until reading your comment, but yeah, Ahsoka is about the only show I’m holding out hope for. I’ll keep watching Mando and Bad Batch unless it takes an Areoverse nosedive..but yeah. I guess I’m just kinda done. And as good as Andor was, I still forget it exists.

Filoni and Favro have done their own share of ruining the lore

They used to be sacred. People would wait on line for them for days. Can you imagine anyone caring about the next set of Star Wars movies enough to camp out overnight?

Im surprised that the drinker quotes anything that guy says, even the little platton roasted doomcock.

My theory: Doomcock is controlled opposition and his secret "inside source" is Kathleen Kennedy herself.

@@Wonderboywonderings Lol. That would be a genius grift, to be fair; if it was true.

@darthrevan1281 learn how controlled opposition works, and why.

And it's not even must-see TV.

@@rbowdenscipio3408 damn that's even worse

As long as you have at least one strong empowered Mary Sue that can do no wrong, a white man who is a laughably incompetent bumbling fool, and several token minorities including a transsexual robot, I'm sure they'll accept your script right away.

Go for it. Even if it's something that no one else sees. If you redraft once then you'll be doing better than Rian Johnson, and he writes "professionally." Maybe you'll find that you really like writing :)

he probably needs to play knights of the old republic games and that Old republic MMO to bring himself up to speed with the existing Lore.

​@@ALeCoq112He probably should ignore the MMO

@@genyatus Possibly. I know nothing about it's story, so can't really give an opinion on it. I have played the knights a lot though. Great games and story.

@@ALeCoq112 Certain parts of SWTOR really retcons or ruins the Kotors, especially Kotor 2 and the Exile. There are high points here and there, but the MMO is indicative of BioWare's issues with good writing.

@@genyatus Damn, I liked kotor 2 more than the first one and hearing that is infuriating.

Maybe George could buy back LF for a discount at 1 Billion, cancel all new stuff and make new movies? :)

They did even better than that. I came to the point I don't really care. Probably will never watch anything new from star wars, currently I am more interested in reviews about how bad it is, it is much more entertaining than TFA and TLJ. Since TLJ I am not interested in watching any SW.

@@matejerdos8878 disney has become the soulless embodiment of the machine. its almost comical how much of a trope they are.

@@matejerdos8878 Even "better" they've retroactively killed my interest in everything that came before. _I_ didn't think that was possible, not for me anyway, but here we are. Now everytime I look at Star Wars I just get sad. I was a big EU nerd in my teens; like I was practically a historian for a galaxy far far away. The quality was up and down, sure, but really that's every major media franchise (it's why I didn't buy for a moment that the "new" EU would have better quality control. From _Disney._ yeah okay). Losing 30 years of collaborative history, a _consistent_ history (which again wasn't always perfect, but even works penned by a single author can sometimes have continuity flubs. I think the hierarchy system that was put in place was the best way to go, because errors are inevitable and the hierarchy accounted for that, rather than relying on the naive belief that every error will be caught if you try hard enough), that _really_ killed a lot of my interest. The idea that 99% of every piece of the franchise you consumed, from the movies to a level in a game, actually "happened" insofar as the greater canon. You can't make up for 30 of history like that (Especially not with the new EU basically ripping off the old EU except worse). And even the movies are less enjoyable for me now. Sure, the original six films were all made free from the shackles of the EU (notably breaking it at one point and leading to the Ruusan reformation retcon), and I could easily enjoy them separate from the rest of the EU, and often did. But I won't pretend it wasn't cool seeing every background character, knowing their name, species, origin, and favorite color. Still, I could live without it. But even with that removed, it's just...I don't know. It's hard to explain. But going back to the original six, even my absolute favorites (E3 and E6 represent!), the sense of heroic optimism the films presented, or the setup for the endgame in the prequels... It just feels pointless and hopeless, now. Maybe it's because the disney trilogy rendered it that way, and I'm for some reason unable to separate the original six from them, or maybe I just mourn the loss of George Lucas' touch. He wasn't perfect, but the Star Wars saga was his and nobody else's. No one else could have made Star Wars like he did, for better and for worse. Seeing the spearhead(s) of any series or project leave always stings, at least for me. Even if it can sometimes be for the better, it still always feels like that personal touch is lost. i dunno why i decided to reply to a month-old comment with this rant

bingo

@Darth Revan at least Tommy Wiseau created a movie that people actually like, and like him as well

They gave Rey the Paladin ability 'Lay Hands'.. just walking around healing people like Lothar. "that's not how the force works"

That one was a real turd floater.

Carano did Disney a favor by giving them an (admittedly feeble) excuse to fire her. She's an absolutely terrible actress, stiff and completely wooden. Brie Larson expresses more emotion. Friggin' Bill Burr acted circles around her. Any series centered around her would have been a disaster.

I love how people call carano a terrible actress while not acknowledging Pascal...dude is a literal block of wood....

Not everyone is an artist. Not many people, if we're honest. I've never met a genuine artist that can be creative from 9-5 daily, that is not how inspiration works. A true artist will find passion in something and become completely consumed by it, this isn't a 9-5 process. Kurt Cobain was an artist, he wrote in bursts of inspiration, not emerging for weeks on end, finally emerging unshowered, looking like a homeless man, with a piece of art that he had just obsessed to the point the rest of the world vanished while he created it, as did he. His creative genius didn't happen at the office after his scheduled morning routine. "ok, now is the scheduled time to be inspired and creative"

Two pretty big scalps gone in the last fortnight, and the economic conditions are right. Lucas Films haven't released anything in cinemas since Solo, so I can well believe she will "retire" if Indiana Jones bombs, or being set up for a fail if they don't get a Star Wars Movie out by 2025

It's running on zombie-fuel now..... basically an un-killable abomnination.....

The fan edit of that movie is much better, if you torrent, I suggest grabbing it. I believe it is called 'Rise of the Rebellion'.

See, I don't agree with you there. Great stories need an element of tragedy, and Luke finding out to his horror that Han died while he was in exile felt fitting to me. Granted, there were so many things I agree they did terribly wrong with the sequel trilogy, but they did hit a few good notes. The major problem as I see it is that Episode 8 was permitted to derail elements that 7 had put in place and 9's problem was that too much of the first half had to be cobbled out of unused footage because Carrie Fisher had died and they could no longer make major changes that required reshoots. 9 raised a middle finger to much of 8's fuckery, but again it had to spend too much of the runtime doing it.

It was the movie equivalent of getting all the Beatles back together and then deciding to have them play separate venues.

Damn toxic Keanu.. worst dude out! They need to cast that critical race theory moron from the woman kAng, and go all in on slavery.... for a change.

The problem with Lucasfilm is they didn't correct course at TLJ. Assuming their box office peformance to represent the quality of their turd. And now they've dug a hole too deep for them to get out of.

You didn't?

Sarcasm? I thought savage was Platoon's default setting

@@sigurdholbarki8268 Wasn't being sarky. His bit about waiting for Kathleen Kennedy's age to intersect with the national average lifespan made me choke on my drink.

Berman got ahead of himself and screwed the pooch with a series of mediocre ST films that put TNG into its death spiral. BUT … no ST movie series is worse than JJ’s.

All these directors are pretty mediocre. My faith in Jon Faverau has definitely declined and depleted immensely

I always wondered why Rick McCallum wasn't contacted about running Star Wars. He would have been a much better choice.

The Farts

A woman driver at the helm.

Kurt Cobain would have been laughed at. No degree, no formal music training, couldn't hold down a 9-5. Real artists don't create art from 9-5 in an office as part of a committee.

The only way Disney could pull that off would be to ditch Disney+

Pure pipe dream. Disney is done because they've destroyed their reputation. Disney married themselves to woke, rainbow, and reduction of parental rights. As sentiment continues to turn against that it'll only get worse for Disney. Florida was the only thing keeping them afloat in the theme park industry and the financial benefits there just got nuked. My guess is they'll decline until their only existence is merchandise, movies, and an online presence. I expect the parks will be gone without a real miracle. Good riddance to them. Walt would be livid.

They did that before The Force Awakens. That commitment lasted for 1.5 movies.

I wouldn't believe any promises of theirs. That trust is long gone for a lot of us.

You can't fire 1 activist without a full blown war, look at alonso... imagine trying to fire them all. You can't fix it, and I don't care if you do. Go get money off the new audience you spat in my face for, it will never come from me again.

I went to a local comics and collectibles store and all of the Star Wars toys were at the front. I figured he didn't particularly care if they got stolen.

Nine years? Try about 30 years. They bought a lot of great cartoons and turned them into boring and "safe."