Weiss, the new animated series Resistance and a live action TV show from Jon Favreau. In the next few years, we apparently have on the way an Obi-Wan film, a Boba Fett film, a new Rian Johnson trilogy, a separate film series from David Benioff and D.B. The first, which I outlined in the aforementioned blog post, is ubiquity. It’s that a lot of little things have gone wrong and now the one point I agree on with the really awful ‘fans’ out there is that Star Wars is in serious trouble. The problem, to paraphrase a really good thriller I finished recently, is not that one big thing went wrong. The problem isn’t Solo, The Last Jedi, or Kathleen Kennedy. It even managed to make me kind of excited for Solo.īut now, for the first time ever, I’m ready to stop calling myself a Star Wars fan.
The Last Jedi demonstrated that Star Wars can be more than just callbacks, that there was enormous potential within the sandbox to do new and bold things. It was a film that got better upon re-watch and single handedly restored my love and excitement for the franchise. And to a degree, I still feel that way, but my growing apprehension was tempered somewhat by the pleasant surprise that was The Last Jedi, a film that, love it or hate it, was clearly driven by genuine creative vision, a film that subverted expectations and was thematically rich in a way that no other Star Wars film was before. All we knew, all everyone agreed upon, was that the future of Star Wars looked very bright indeed.Īround this time last year I wrote a lengthy blog post bemoaning the state of the franchise, predominantly the fact that, with a glut of new content seemingly hinged on fan nostalgia rather than any clear creative vision, the saga had lost its shine. Even as we walked into that first screening we had no real clue of what to expect.
At that point, the few bits of information we had about The Force Awakens had told us next to nothing there was an intoxicating sense that the movie could be anything. If you were a Star Wars fan, it was a pretty special time.
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