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Thu, 16 March 2017 16:10  |
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From CominSoon.net ...
Future Star Wars movies won't rely
on legacy characters, says Gary Whitta
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Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm will release Rogue
One: A Star Wars Story on Digital HD and Disney Movies
Anywhere on March 24, along with the Blu-ray Combo Pack,
DVD and On Demand release on April 4. To coincide with
the release, ComingSoon.net had an exclusive 1-on-1 chat
with Gary Whitta, the screenwriter who co-wrote the
story of Rogue One! We'll publish our full interview
soon, but we had one interesting bit of business about
future Star Wars movies no longer mining nostalgia with
legacy characters like Darth Vader or Han Solo.
ComingSoon.net: Something I grappled with after "The
Force Awakens" is the question, "What is a Star Wars
movie?" Right now Lucasfilm seems very focused on mining
the Original Trilogy characters and iconography while
also introducing new characters and ideas. Do you think
there will ever come a day where there will be a Star
Wars movie with no Vaders or Yodas or Boba Fetts or
Stormtroopers? A story that is a wholly new thing
divorced from all the stuff George originated but still
very much in the spirit of that universe?
Gary Whitta: I think you've already seen us get 90% of
the way there with "Rogue One." Yes you see Leia, yes
you see the Death Star and Vader, because those are
elements of that story and they belong there, you can't
tell that story without those characters. But for the
most part, 90% of that story is completely new
characters. Completely new planets and places you've
never seen before. It's a Star Wars movie with no Jedi!
You don't see a lightsaber once until Vader pops it out
at the end. It doesn't have any spirituality or
mysticism... a little bit through Donnie's character, but
it's very different DNA to the Star Wars films that have
come before it. I really like the fact that we tried to
do something different. The next spin-off is 'Han Solo,'
that's another familiar character, but I think
increasingly you're going to see... One of the thing
things we really want to do at Lucasfilm is create a
universe and not keep relying on old legacy characters.
We've got Rey and Finn and Kylo Ren, they've already
introduced a new generation of characters. Whatever kind
of Star Wars films they're making 10 or 20 years from now,
I don't think they're going to be relying on the same
legacy story elements as we have in the past.
CS: It would be cool to see something totally new, without
the baggage of, "Should Vader do this or should Vader do
that?"
Whitta: Yeah, I quite agree. I'm speaking purely as a fan.
I obviously have no idea what their plans are for the
franchise. I did my small piece of it, but it makes sense
to me that you don't want to keep telling the same story
over and over again. You want to tell new stories.
Whatever your thoughts were on 2015's Star Wars: The Force
Awakens or last year's Rogue One, it's hard to deny that
they relied an awful lot on OT characters both crucial
(Han Solo, Princess Leia, etc) and periphery (Ponda Baba,
Mon Mothma), and even a few Prequel characters (Bail
Organa, Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan). It is totally possible
that 10 years from now many of the new characters being
introduced (Knights of Ren, Guardians of the Whills, Saw
Gerrera, Maz Kanata, et al) will be popular enough to
warrant their own spin-off films, or possibly a movie with
exclusively new characters, vehicles and planets could
spring from the mind of a gifted filmmaker looking to
reshape the brand. With the exception of a few occasional
cameos, the show Star Wars Rebels has made a good case for
how expansive the Star Wars Universe can be, and there are
eras in the timeline totally unexplored in the movies,
from the Old Republic to the post-Return of the Jedi/
pre-Force Awakens period and even the post-Episode IX
galaxy and beyond. It makes sense to use familiar
characters to transition into a bolder vision, but
eventually the filmmakers will have to shift the paradigm
in order to keep audiences excited.
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Thu, 16 March 2017 16:16  |
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In article <170320170910220614%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
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> From CominSoon.net ...
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> Future Star Wars movies won't rely
> on legacy characters, says Gary Whitta
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> you don't want to keep telling the same story over and over again
Then Disney should not have hired a talentless hack like Jar Jar Abrams
who simply made a lazy silly reboot. :-\
> With the exception of a few occasional cameos, the show Star Wars
> Rebels has made a good case for how expansive the Star Wars
> Universe can be
Rebels was great ... until they just ran out of sensible ideas and
lazily started pulling in characters from elsewhere: Asohka, Vader,
Maul, etc. :-(
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