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Yeah given their recent track record of announcing stuff with great fanfare and then quietly shelving it, I wouldn't be surprised if only 1 of those 3 get made at most.

Also FWIW, I'm pretty sure the Rey spinoff is only one movie, it got falsely reported as a trilogy early on and that just got repeated ad infinitum. Still agree that zero people want to see that, probably a significant portion of the ones that might have been open to it are the Reylo types who now don't care since they can no longer explore the weird ****ing relationship between Rey and Kylo.

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02-11-2024 , 08:52 PM

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Was she even fired? From what I recall Disney just didn't hire her again for the next season.

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02-12-2024 , 01:07 AM

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The statement was pretty clear as to why she was "not currently employed by Lucasfilm". In 99% of cases, they end this bit with "we wish her well with her future endeavours" rather than throwing her under the bus.

it basically looks like it was written by a DEI intern, and I'd be surprised if they don't settle out of court rather than comply with a FOI request.

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02-12-2024 , 03:44 AM

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Don't they specifically use the word "nevertheless" to make sure the two parts of the statement are unrelated? Even though everybody knows they're not.

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it basically looks like it was written by a DEI intern, and I'd be surprised if they don't settle out of court rather than comply with a FOI request.

What makes you think that while she was unable to find a regular lawyer over the last two years there's still a good chance Disney is going to settle for any meaningful money? I wouldn't even be surprised if Disney was happy about the new publicity because that obviously fits well with their agenda.

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02-13-2024 , 02:42 AM

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I doubt she is wealthy enough to take on Disney with a non-zero risk of losing and having to pay their costs. On the other hand, it's chump change to Musk and obviously fits well with his agenda.

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04-16-2024 , 06:07 PM

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I try to make it a point to not to pre-judge anything based on a trailer or hype (or lack of hype), so I won't. But if I had to grade The Acolyte trailer itself, it's zero stars. And it's not because it lacks white guys.

At very least no one will accuse them of making a trailer that "spoils all the good stuff." Unless the good stuff is the rehashed fan fiction style dialogue and what a mystery bad guy throwing a lightsaber? Which will probably just be Darth So-and-So from some book or comic that gets the super-nerds jizzing and screaming on YouTube reaction vids.

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04-17-2024 , 12:56 PM

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There's no way this show is gonna be good. I still can't believe the garbage level of writing they have for every single project outside of Andor (which of course got the worst ratings, so Disney learns nothing from it).

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04-17-2024 , 02:28 PM

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None of the writers of The Acolyte have any previous connection to Star Wars, right? I've read in an interview with Leslye Headland, the show runner, that she even decided to hire one writer who never had watched Star Wars.

FWIW and no idea how much intel Stellan Skarsgård has, but he said that Andor S2 might actually start before the end of the year. No idea if that's even possible if Skeleton Crew doesn't get a release before November?

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04-17-2024 , 07:10 PM

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I feel like Andor is more like the least worst. It was okay but then go watch something like Shogun later and the gap is enormous.

And honestly I don't have a problem with Disney bringing people new to Star Wars in to handle new projects, in fact I think I'd prefer it. And while they're at it get whatever continuity committee they have to **** off and get out of the way. I can live with mistakes and continuity errors if the story works.

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04-18-2024 , 09:50 AM

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I feel like Andor is more like the least worst. It was okay but then go watch something like Shogun later and the gap is enormous.

Yeah but it just goes to show that the bar doesn't even need to be that high, combine OK writing with the SW universe and it's pure gold for most fans. But they've so rarely even managed to reach that level.

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I don't know, but I asked someone at work who generally likes the newer stuff who his favorite villain in the Disney+ show era was and he said Moff Gideon.

Granted, Darth Vader is always in the discussion for GOAT villain and a hard act to follow. But honestly there are more compelling villains in Happy Gilmore than Moff Gideon.

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Lucas wants back in to the Star Wars universe... seeing as Disney f*cked the entire franchise up.

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But honestly there are more compelling villains in Happy Gilmore than Moff Gideon.

Who else is there though?

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Who else is there though?

Nobody. At least not for people who only watch the live action shows. I assume that's the majority of casual Star Wars fans.

The main villain in Andor is the system. Thrawn in Ahsoka and Cad Bane in BoBF are irrelevant to anyone who doesn't watch the animated shows. Reva in Obi-Wan Kenobi is an antagonist but not really a villain. So it's Moff Gideon by default.

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