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I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand.
by jerf 5mo ago
I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand.
It's what they probably should have done from day one.
I'm not saying the Thrawn trilogy is like the highest art ever made. It's glorious pop schlock fun, as Star Wars should be. But it reminds me of the way that manga is so often treated as storyboards for the anime adaptations. The books, being books, can't be quite so directly translated, but it's close enough that it shouldn't strain any competent scriptwriter. Assuming Disney still knows how to find such people, a proposition not well supported by recent evidence.
Also, automatic three-movie plan, which could be used to fix up one of Hollywood's biggest problems. I don't know where Hollywood gets its swaggering confidence that they can make multi-movie epics while simultaneously having no plans whatsoever for what the next movie will be, after their repeated, catastrophic, and expensive failures trying to create them. What if, and hear me out here, try not to let your head explode at the audacity of this idea, they didn't try to spend billions of dollars just sort of "winging" it? What if they had an actual plan for how they were going to spend billions of dollars over the course of a decade? I know, I know, it's a crazy idea, but maybe they should give it a try.
- ramesh31 5mo ago>"I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand." They could print money by just having Bob Iger stand silently in front of a camera flipping off the audience for two hours and calling it Star Wars. Every one of those films were profitable. They'll keep doing it, and people will keep paying for it.
- yongjik 5mo agoIt would be also a more coherent story than what we got in the sequels.
- msh 5mo agoOr the dark empire comic book series.
- jerf 5mo agoSo much ripe fruit just sitting there that the decision to wander away and do their own thing would still have been objectively crazy even if they had fully succeeded. It just would have been an objectively crazy decision that they managed to succeed despite making.
- suburban_strike 5mo agoEven Shadows of the Empire as a standalone movie would be a breath of something new and fun. Maybe not the highest art ever but both were solid stories memorable enough for us to remember decades later. Thrawn was a respectable villain. We weren't supposed to like him but couldn't deny his competence. Of memorable blue people, for comparison I've watched Avatar twice and don't remember a thing about it.
- tencentshill 5mo agoBut then they would have to negotiate the rights to the books! Disney can't afford to buy the rights to a massive property like that.
- slowmovintarget 5mo agoRight... that'd be so freaking expen... Oh, they already own the rights, you say... Oh.
- throw0101a 5mo ago> The books, being books, can't be quite so directly translated, but it's close enough that it shouldn't strain any competent scriptwriter. It should be noted that many writers want to make their own mark and don't care too much about the original work and its popularity… which kind of defeats the purpose of "adapting" it. I've heard The Witcher suffers/ed from this (≥S02), as some writers hated the original stuff (in which case, why are you here and/or why were you hired?).