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re: Lucasfilm internal war! Kennedy vs Favreau... who you got?
Posted on 5/7/20 at 11:22 pm to Ash Williams
Posted on 5/7/20 at 11:22 pm to Ash Williams
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struck gold" or "knocked it out of the park"
pick one
Maybe he meant stroked it out of the park
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Posted on 5/7/20 at 11:26 pm to Sentrius
quote:I just watched that Mandalorian Gallery or whatever it was, the documentary on the show.
Neither one of them.
Dave Filoni for the win.
Looks like Favreau and Filoni like working with each other, and Filoni was really complimentary about how Favreau taught him how to do live action. And Favreau was apparently responsible for bringing the other directors in, and making sure they kept the right vision.
I'm rooting hard for Favreau in this, with the idea that Filoni will be his right-hand man. I'm sure the folks at Disney see, he's got the right formula and appeals to the right demographics. Star Wars isn't for the Disney Princess group, no matter how bad they want to make it so.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:08 am to Esquire
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8 total. I would imagine one solely devoted to The Child.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 8:41 am to Scoob
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Looks like Favreau and Filoni like working with each other, and Filoni was really complimentary about how Favreau taught him how to do live action. And Favreau was apparently responsible for bringing the other directors in, and making sure they kept the right vision.
If the heads of Disney were reasonable people, and that is perhaps asking for too much, Favreau would be the easy pick. He has delivered quality goods for them. George Lucas appears to like him. He already has a stable of directors ready to go. You could put him in power tomorrow and start reaping the benefits as soon as the Coronavirus lifts.
Kennedy defenders will talk about how it would send a negative message about how Disney favors men over women but it is worth noting that Kathleen Kennedy has entrusted exactly zero people who aren't white men to direct the Star Wars projects she shepherded.
Favreau, on the other hand, picked two female directors, one of whom is Asian, an African American, and a Pacific Islander to direct 6 out of the 8 episodes of his series. From what I understand he was the driving force to put Deborah Chow in charge of the Obi-Wan series... a series, I might add, that Kennedy effectively nuked from orbit right before it was going to go into production.
I am no SJW, and frankly I don't care who directs as long as they do a good job... but it is pretty damn obvious that for all her virtue signaling Kathleen Kennedy is actually less likely to give opportunities to minorities and women. And quite frankly her ability to determine who would be a good fit to direct Star Wars properties is not nearly as good as Favreau.
The choice is obvious.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 8:51 am to Midget Death Squad
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Again, this is a conflict that Disney doesn’t want
You know what Disney likes more than social messages? Money. And they paid an assload for it.
You have a guy that was part of ground zero and an integral player in building the largest most successful interconnected IP franchise in history with the MCU. By all accounts, people love working with him
Meanwhile, you have a lady that took over the most recognizable IP in history with quite possibly the most rabid and passionate fan base ever and literally called fans names for providing direct and valid feedback that they weren’t happy with the direction the franchise was going. Then they ultimately spoke with their wallets and the brand has taken a hit.
Disney invested a frickton of money in this. They just opened Star Wars land at both the parks and the branding is all interconnected with the last trilogy that no one is really excited about. TLJ was an abomination and it made JJ abandon any hope of storytelling an effectively close out the trilogy with a loose plot full of fan service connected by scenes that literally said “Yeah, we get it. Our bad.” (ie: Rose getting the Jar Jar treatment at the beginning on her tagging along, Forceghost Luke catching the lightsaber saying “that’s not how you treat this”, etc)
This seems like a no brainer. Mandalorian was good because it scratched an itch that I think a lot of people hoped for: Stories in this universe. Think about if they did a show like Firefly based in this universe? Set it in the original trilogy timeline. They could do an Rogue Squadron show. Etc.
One thing Marvel has done well is focus on telling good stories and the fans will come. Guardians concept is insane. But they told a great story and made a wonderful movie. This isn’t that hard.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 9:04 am to Midget Death Squad
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Watched the Favreau episode of Sopranos last night. It's one of the few cheesy episodes. I never liked Favreau playing the weak Swingers character there.
Back On Topic:
Disney should give Favreau his choice of projects and free rein to create them.
Watched the Favreau episode of Sopranos last night. It's one of the few cheesy episodes. I never liked Favreau playing the weak Swingers character there.
Back On Topic:
Disney should give Favreau his choice of projects and free rein to create them.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 9:27 am to Midget Death Squad
For some reason I laughed at the fact that one of Favreau's first movies was PCU and now he is about fight a battle turning PC
Posted on 5/8/20 at 11:37 am to Midget Death Squad
quote:More proggie buzzwords. As GlennCampbell says in True Grit, "She draws it like a gun."
They explain, “But be ready, because it looks almost certain that a new narrative is being pushed by Kennedy loyalists in Lucasfilm… and that narrative is that Headland was ONLY a personal assistant for one year, and that being against her or her series is misogynistic, mean, and unfair.”
It looks like they're trying to make it all about the one forthcoming girl series. It's not. Kennedy has had nothing but failures, though they are made less so because she has a nice franchise name to ride on.
If the name "Star Wars" wasn't on these films, there never would have been a second movie. The painful truth is that her all-girl, girl power, force is female creative team - sucks. And now everyone associates feminism with sucking.
Good job, Kathleen.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 2:28 pm to Midget Death Squad
Favreau SHOULD win the war, but with the way Hollywood is now, I have zero faith that will happen. They’re going to frick this franchise dry.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 2:29 pm to Midget Death Squad
End star wars already!!
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