Mark Hamill ‘clears up’ Star Wars misconception after criticising divisive film : r/StarWars - "Seems like the only misconception he’s clearing up is that he does not have a dislike for Johnson himself. Seems pretty clear from his comments he still doesn’t like the direction that Luke was taken in."
Mark Hamill Reveals His Biggest Regret From the 'Star Wars' Sequel Trilogy - ""Well, in the sequel trilogies, Harrison Ford. Cause I only had two cameos, and the middle one we never.. Aren't we gonna have a moment where all three of us get together and raise the roof? It'll only take 30 seconds," he explained. "And J.J. (Abrams) said, 'Well, Mark, it's not Luke's story anymore,' and I said, 'Star Wars wasn't Obi-Wan's story, but Alec Guinness had a crucial.. You know. Anyway, nobody listens to me," he added."
Sequel trilogy lovers will still claim he loves it
Star Wars Holocron on X - "Mark Hamill says that he finds it “funny that people miss the irony that [Luke Skywalker] died from an overdose of the Force.” “I mean, who knew that was even a thing? Don’t you think if there was even a marginal chance that using the Force could be lethal, Obi-Wan would’ve said ‘Use the Force in moderation, Luke?’ Or Yoda would’ve said ‘Overdo Force projection, you must not?’ Nobody warned me! But obviously, they concluded his story, he died.” (Source: CBS This Morning)"
Why are "Inhibitor Chips" so divisive in the fandom? : r/StarWars - "I think the biggest problem was that the showrunners wanted to make the Jedi too likeable. In the pre-inhibitor chip stories, the Jedi were terrible commanders. They weren't military officers, they weren't war strategists, they weren't even particularly likeable. They were basically just cop monks - and they had held dominance for so long that they had become pretty bad at that job, too. Palpatine made them all Generals specifically because they would be awful at leading an army, but would be unequivocally accepted and trusted by the public. It was all part of his game to make sure the entire galaxy was as weak and fragmented as possible when the coup started. And it worked. A lot of the Clones hated the Jedi because they were terrible commanders with no battlefield experience, who constantly bungled their missions and got troopers killed, and were generally sanctimonious and holier than thou about the whole thing. Even the ones who happened to make decent officers were still complete outsiders to the Clone culture - a culture which also happened to be heavily Mandalorian influenced, further alienating them from their Jedi officers. But the Clone Wars series wanted the Jedi to be heroes. The showrunners wanted the Republic to look like good guys, when the entire point of the prequel films is that the Republic WEREN'T the good guys anymore. They used to be, but now they were stagnant, complacent, and self-righteous. They were willing to impose the desires of the core worlds at the expense of the rim worlds. They were willing to overlook horrific institutionalized slavery and sentient rights violations as long as it happened out of sight (sound familiar?). The Republic may not have been outright villains, but they were very, very far from heroes. If the Clone Wars series had been willing to engage with that moral complexity, the inhibitor chip wouldn't have been needed. But it wanted good and evil instead. Pong Krell wasn't enough by himself, he was a straw man caricature. The Republic was BUILT on people who thought like Pong Krell, and on many more people besides who would look at Krell, shrug, and say "Well, he gets results and tells it like it is.""
Meme - Anakin Skywalker: "The Chancellor is not a bad man, Obi-Wan. He befriended me. he's watched out for me ever since I arrived here."
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "That's called grooming. you absolute pancake"
Meme - Star Wars @starwars: "There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don't choose to be a racist."
"Also Disney *Star Wars The Force Awakens poster erasing Finn in China*"
Mandalorian's Katee Sackhoff Didn't Work for 3 Years, Lost Confidence - "“I lost all of my confidence after ‘Mandalorian,’ all of it. I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. It always felt grounded in some part of my belly, of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants — I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her,” she said, adding, “My style of acting has always just been, ‘Your first instinct is the right instinct. Do that. Play the reality of the situation.’ And I’ve never really played a character.”... “It broke me. It just broke me,” Sackhoff said. “I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.” Since then, Sackhoff hired a new manager and acting coach, who told her, “‘My goal is not to teach you how to act. You know how to act. I just need to get you back in your belly. You just need to find your confidence again.'” In 2024, she appeared on an episode of “Law & Order,” plus some voice acting on animated series, and she’s part of the cast of the upcoming “Carrie” series on Prime Video."
Time to go on about "male fragility"
Isn't acting about being someone you aren't?
Meme - "ADAM DRIVER REVEALED THAT DISNEY REJECTED BEN SOLO FILM BECAUSE "THEY DIDN'T SEE HOW BEN SOLO CAN BE ALIVE" MEANWHILE IN STAR WARS BEFORE:
MAUL DIED IN PHANTOM MENACE. BROUGHT BACK IN CLONE WARS
BOBA FETT DIED IN RETURN OF THE JEDI. BROUGHT BACK IN THE THE MANDALORIAN
PALPATINE DIED IN RETURN OF THE JEDI. BROUGHT BACK IN RISE OF SKYWALKER
ASAJJ VENTRESS DIED IN CLONE WARS. BROUGHT BACK IN THE BAD BATCH"
The Mighty Dud Bolt - X: "Bob Iger recounts in his memoir that George Lucas's disappointed reaction to seeing The Force Awakens for the first time was, "There's nothing new." According to Iger, "He wasn't wrong." But Iger says they had to make the film that way, to give the fans what they wanted."
Taika Waititi’s Star Wars exit proves the franchise is a poisoned chalice - "It’s the ultimate Jedi mind trick. Announce a new Star Wars film, generate gigawatts of publicity and then, faster than you can say “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for”, pretend the movie never existed and the whole thing was a figment of the audience’s imagination. Such has been the apparent strategy of Star Wars’ parent studio, Lucasfilm, which has unveiled a Sith Lord’s ransom in new spinoffs, only to ultimately leave fans spinning in deep space. The latest Lucasfilm associate to attempt an Obi-Wan Kenobi-style mind wipe is Taika Waititi, who has put his “Untitled Star Wars Film” – its quasi-official name – on the backburner in favour of an adaptation of trigger-happy 2000AD anti-hero Judge Dredd... The news appears to confirm previous rumours that Waiti’s Star Wars feature is spinning its warp drives with no clear release date in sight. That would be quite a u-turn from the far-off morning in May 2020 when Lucasfilm – a subsidiary of the all-powerful Disney – revealed that Waititi would be directing a “fresh and unexpected” take on the galaxy far, far away. Unexpected – or non-existent? With Disney and Lucasfilm, it’s increasingly hard to tell the difference. We are living through strange times, when Coldplay end marriages rather than soundtrack them, and in which freshly reformed Oasis are the hottest new band in Britain. Even so, how bracing to think that, at the halfway point of 2025, Judge Dredd has more appeal to a successful director than Star Wars – for so long, the last word in bum-on-seats franchises. Like a sort of King Midas in reverse, everything Lucasfilm touches turns to dross. That includes the careers of once-buzzy directors Josh Trank and Colin Trevorrow, who went from the future of cinema to yesterday’s story the moment it was confirmed they were to direct new Star Wars films... [John] Boyega has since expressed his misgivings about the “Sequels” (and pointed out how his character Finn was marginalised as the story went along). Ridley, by contrast, doubled down on the brand when agreeing to front an all-new trilogy about her spiky heroine Rey, to be directed by Pakistani journalist and documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, only for that project to follow Waititi’s trajectory into permanent limbo. Likewise drifting in the void is Rogue Squadron, a supposedly gritty X-Wing movie directed by Wonder Woman’s Patty Jenkins, and a long-cancelled trilogy from Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D B Weiss. They are joined by Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, who decided he’d much prefer making Knives Out whodunnits rather than being abused on social media by Star Wars fans. Why do so many Star Wars films stutter? Assuming it isn’t a curse cooked up by Darth Vader and his fellow Sith Lords, the explanation is probably that the saga is a victim of its own iconic status... The other issue is the influence of Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy... Kennedy is passionate about Star Wars – perhaps to a fault. She is certainly not afraid to meddle. Such was the case with 2017’s Han Solo movie, from which comedy improvisational duo (and Lego Movie directors) Lorde and Miller departed – supposedly because their improvised approach didn’t chime with Kennedy’s more straight-laced philosophy. With the pranksters expunged, Kennedy turned to a safe pair of hands, Ron Howard, who delivered what would prove to be the first-ever Star Wars film to post a loss. “There’s one gatekeeper when it comes to Star Wars, and it’s Kathleen Kennedy,” an insider told Variety several years ago. “If you rub Kathleen Kennedy the wrong way – in any way – you’re out. You’re done. A lot of these young, new directors want to come in and say, “I want to do this. I want to do that.” A lot of these guys [i.e. Trevorrow] got very rich, very fast and believed a lot of their hype. And they don’t want to play by the rules. They want to do sh–t differently. And Kathleen Kennedy isn’t going to f–k around with that.” But Kennedy’s track record isn’t anything to wave a lightsaber in the air over. She is widely regarded as having damaged the Star Wars brand with subpar TV spinoffs, such as The Acolyte and Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan – expensive shows that featured low-budget production and poor writing... Kennedy, meanwhile, is due to step down as head of Lucasfilm before the end of the year. There is the caveat that she is to “continue to produce Star Wars content”. Still, her hand is going to be off the tiller, and there will be a new Star Wars movie coming down the line. After years of disappointment, you might say the saga has a new hope."
Meme - Black Girls Deserve Nice Things: "This Woman Ran the ‘Star Wars’ Universe. Kiri Hart was the Senior Vice President of Development at Lucasfilm for six years where she formed the Lucasfilm Story Group, and oversaw the creative development of all Star Wars content across film, animated television, publishing, gaming, immersive media, and theme parks. She is currently the executive producer and a creative consultant on Disney and Pixar’s feature film “Soul.”"
Dan Fleming: "And instrumental on the downfall of a 5 billion dollar franchise. Way to go"
How Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars for a generation - "“My love is making movies,” enthused Lucasfilm’s now ex-president Kathleen Kennedy in an interview with Deadline to mark the end of her 14-year tenure at the prow of Star Wars. Really? She could have fooled me, considering she has essentially spent the 2020s making as few of them as humanly possible. The list of announced then scrapped or dumped-in-limbo projects since the release of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker is enough to make R2D2’s head twirl, complete with the obligatory whistly bloops and bleeps. Not one, nor two, nor three, but four brand-new trilogies have been proudly announced… then either sheepishly binned, or buried under blankets of ominous silence. And entirely separately to these mammoth undertakings, golden boys and girls of the directing world were pinched from rival cinematic universes – Kevin Feige, Taika Waititi and Josh Trank from Marvel, and Patty Jenkins from DC – and presented with blank cheques for one-off projects which all subsequently appear to have bounced. At one point, Jenkins’s film was enough of a sure thing to merit an official teaser trailer, in which the Wonder Woman director and fighter pilot’s daughter was seen pulling on a Rebel Alliance flight suit and clambering into the cockpit of an X-Wing, which presumably flew off into the Star Wars equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. Anyway, now that some more Star Wars films have finally been made – The Mandalorian and Grogu, spun off from the Disney+ series and coming to cinemas this May, and 2027’s Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling – Kennedy has clearly decided it’s time to head for pastures new. Those hoping for sober reflection, however, needn’t look for it in her exit interview, which politely picked its way around the past decade’s woes. The most telling moments lay in the juxtapositions. Kennedy lamented how difficult it was to find directors who could “step into this space and still be [themselves]”, then minutes later hinted that some of those who had were a bit too much themselves for their own good. Poor James Mangold and Beau Willimon’s proposed birth-of-the-Jedi desert epic was described as “an incredible script” but also “definitely breaking the mould and it’s on hold” – i.e. dead in the water. That’s why the name-drops of other writers and directors she had tried to woo since 2019 no longer tantalise as they might have before... With the notable exception of Tony Gilroy’s tremendous two series of Andor (the existence of which I still don’t quite understand, given the tide of cancelled projects it somehow emerged from), Star Wars has become the franchise where dreams go to die. No wonder casting Shawn Levy’s Starfighter proved so troublesome, with Mikey Madison, Jesse Plemons, Sarah Snook, Jodie Comer and Greta Lee among the stars to have reportedly turned down key supporting roles... she made no mention of what always sounded like a Kennedy pet project – the sequel centred on Daisy Ridley’s Rey. Mind you, since that one was announced in 2023, it has shed three high-profile writers – Damon Lindelof, Justin Britt-Gibson and Steven Knight – with its latest being George Nolfi, of Ocean’s Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum. Little about its now-confirmed director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a Pakistani-Canadian documentary maker who oversaw a couple of Ms Marvel episodes, says “seasoned studio journeyman and all-around safe pair of hands”. Fans were also left incensed recently when respected auteur Steven Soderbergh revealed that a Ben Solo script he had been working on with Adam Driver had been nixed by the studio... Considering Star Wars’ original appeal was anchored in its fairy-tale simplicity – rural blue-eyed stripling teams up with local wizard and loveable rascal to save the princess and overthrow the evil king – the Kennedy approach felt madly overthought. When Kennedy succeeded George Lucas in 2012 – having previously worked with the Star Wars creator on the Indiana Jones films as a co-founder of Amblin Entertainment – it looked as if she was setting herself up for a late-career victory lap. The mission seemed simple: oversee the production of Disney’s impending “sequel trilogy”, which would tie up Lucas’s own years-in-the-making Skywalker Saga, while turning his brainchild into the sort of IP which – a la Marvel – could be milked from 15 angles at once. At first, everything was working nicely: her back-to-basics Episode VII: The Force Awakens, became the highest-grossing film ever made, while Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One plugged a narrative gap that had intrigued fans since the release of Lucas’s 1977 original. But barely a year later, panic was already setting in. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the two brilliant pop-art auteurs behind The Lego Movie and the Jump Street comedies, were hired and then fired as directors on a Han Solo-led swashbuckling romp, reportedly because the film they were making just didn’t feel Star Wars-y enough... when the tonally spot-on yet politically provocative Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, was released, the panic bloomed into perpetual corporate meltdown. The Star Wars fanbase, it transpired, was not as uniformly receptive to 2010s US metropolitan progressivism as the Marvel one... The Mandalorian morphed from Star Wars at its most primordial (wind-whipped western and samurai thrills) into mid-tier Star Trek, while the slew of subsequent series all failed to recapture its initial, richly atmospheric magic. The problem was – and perhaps here lies a cautionary tale for the executives at Amazon, whose minds must be boggling at what they might be able to wring from those James Bond rights – Star Wars thrived on its imagination-sparking gaps. In Lucas’s original films, Boba Fett was a tantalisingly enigmatic figure. After seven episodes of his own standalone series, plus multiple walk-ons in other people’s, however, he was just another twerp with a bucket on his head. The prospect of the return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi drove attendees at Disney’s D23 convention wild in 2019. But when was the last time you heard fans talk about the drab, meandering result? Gilroy’s Andor presented fans with a grippingly slow-burn drama about the initial sparks of insurrection in 2022, but Dave Filoni’s Ahsoka, released the following year, played like mindless cartoon apocrypha, while 2024’s disastrous The Acolyte ploughed headlong into the political fray Kennedy pointedly abandoned five years previously. That series ended up being watched almost exclusively by angry YouTubers, who would post snarky takedowns after every episode dropped. With a reported budget of $230m (£172m), the show cost almost $700,000 per minute of screen time: let’s just say the spend is not immediately apparent. Why did it all go so wrong? Because – as Hollywood has started to discover in the past few years, to its cost – the cinematic universe business model is neither endlessly accommodating nor endlessly exploitable. Even the most beloved franchises cinema ever came up with might not survive it. Remember when Star Wars was one of those?"
Marvel is failing too, so
John Nerst on X - "The sequel trilogy is so illustrative of boomer radicalism. It desperately wants to continue being the underdog rebelling against the oppressors that they more or less just ignore that they won in the previous movie and larp on. If the prequel trilogy was about democracy collapsing, and the OT about rebelling against the Empire, what should the final third be about? How to handle power responsibly, of course. But that would require growing up."
DiscussingFilm on X - "Disney is changing part of ‘STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE’ in Disneyland Park to the original trilogy.
• New props & graphics will be applied to Black Spire Outpost
• Darth Vader, Leia, Luke & Han will be able to meet guests
• John Williams’ score will now play in the park"
The Moonlight Warrior 🌙 on X - "Some may not want to accept it, but Disney is quietly admitting that The Sequel Trilogy was a failure."
This won't stop the cope about what a huge success it is
Meme - Han Solo: "There's no mystical energy field controls my destiny. It's all a lotta simple tricks and nonsense."
Chewbacca: "Are you shitting me ?! I fought in the Clone Wars alongside Jedi Masters, you moof-milker! I saw Yoda do a backflip and take out Commander Gree like he was some punk! You're an embarrassment, that's what you are."
Meme - R2D2: "Yo Vader what the f#$k?! Why did you shoot me?"
Vader: "You left me on Mustafar you bastard! I told you to stay with my ship. And what did you do? You leave with ObiWan. I invited you to my wedding you piece of shit! And you leave me to die!"
Meme - "Created an Empire out of scratch
Created jobs for thousands of employees
Hired disabled people for top management positions
Paid the medical bills for his employees
Reduced the unemployment rate in Alderaan to 0%
Never forgot to motivate
Goooooooooooooooood."
Meme - "Star Wars is too diverse and woke now!! I wish it was like 25 years ago! SW
25 years ago: *Plo Koon, Mace Windu, Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Saesee Tiin, Stass Allie/Adi Gallia, Agen Kolar, Depa Billaba, Even Piell*"
"Kathleen Kennedy bad for woke. It must be really hard for some."
"See, the difference here is, we weren't told any of these characters' sexual orientation (because it simply didn't matter for the story whether Yaddle was a lesbian or Depa Bllaba was bi or lo Koon was asexual) and whenever Samuel L. Jackson was interviewed about his role, he didn't make a whole song and dance about being the first Black Jedi (because, believe it or not, that was just considered to be normal back in 1999), This was natural diversity and George Lucas didn't get off "owning the chuds" and he didn't constantly deflect any and all ciiticism by telling the fans they're incels, bigots, racists, toxic etc."
Meme - "George Lucas: Star Wars is for 12-year-old boys.
*brothel *profanity *torture *drugs *consensual relations *non-consensual relations *paid relations *more drugs
Tony Gilroy: ...and I took that personally."
Left wingers praise Andor because they see iit as a way to self-actualise through cosplaying as a Rebel, but they also mock people who criticise Disney Star Wars because George Lucas said it was for kids. Ironic.
Meme - "In 3 ABY, Empire captain Firmus Piett was asked what it felt like to take human life, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed rebels""
Has anyone pointed out how insane it was for Padme's decoy to order the actual Queen to get on her knees and scrub R2D2 with a rag after he's commended for saving the ship? : r/PrequelMemes - "Besides the obvious selling the role, it gives her an excuse to be with the ships crew instead of beside the Queen 24/7"
"The fact that they thought they could pull one over on a Jedi Master still boggles the mind."
"If you assume that Qui-gon knows Padmé is the queen and Padmé knows he knows, their dialogue becomes more nuanced. "The Queen would not approve" "Well the 'queen' is not here, is she?" "Well I don't approve..." On a side note, in the scene where Padmé meets Anakin for the first time, imagine Anakin as a cocky hormonal teenager instead of a young child. His terrible dialogue suddenly makes sense if you imagine he's trying to hit on her, badly. "Are you an angel?""
"I thought that was the whole point - Qui-gon's intonation even sounds like a wink-wink gesture to the ruse"
Your favorite "nice" thing Vader has done? : r/StarWars - "One of the funniest things is realizing how long it takes him to decide to help Luke. Anakin really had to think on it."
"Last time he made a snap decision to interrupt a duel it was quite costly for him lol. He learned from that and decided to mentally run through a list of pros and cons before making up this mind this time around :)"
"Not just a duel, but a duel involving the emperor. Now that i think about it, the scene in RotS really is a dark reflection of the scene in RotJ. Both times he steps in to save someone he sees as family, both times he steps in to save them from someone ostensibly on his own side. Both scenes represent a transition between Vader and Anakin. I'd never really put this together"
MACE WINDU | THE CLONE WARS (2020) – @padawanlost on Tumblr - "'My name is General Mace Windu of the Jedi Order. At this point of the Clone War, I have dismantled and destroyed over 100,000 of you type one battle droids. I'm giving you an opportunity to peacefully lay down your weapons so that you may be reprogrammed to serve a better purpose than spreading the mindless violence and chaos, which you have inflicted upon the galaxy.'"
