Kathleen Kennedy has caused permanent damage, i think brand loyalty has been destroyed with TLJ
I'm not sure they can fix the damage caused, i don't think this is an overreaction, the backlash is huge and will have great impact on future film grosses
I still have to see the movie again for final judgment, but yeah, I really would have preferred to see George's original story plans for the sequel trilogy instead of what we got, with of course, someone else directing.
shareThis would have been ideal, but we didn’t get that, so we’ll have to live with it
shareI'll never understand the reverence for Lucas. I get that he made a New Hope and he has been more than rewarded for his talent in creating that but he never directed another worthwhile film.
In fact, his only semi-accomplishment after a New Hope was in helping Speilberg create Indiana Jones. I honestly believe if Kasden hadn't written and Kirshner directed the Empire Strikes Back, the entire Star Wars franchise would have collapsed in the eighties from Lucas's pedestrian skills. Can you imagine if the creator of the Phantom Menace had showed up to make Empire Strikes Back? The Matrix movies are probably the best comparison of what Star Wars history would be now.
As Volley said, someone else would need to direct, and for me, write dialogue, as Lucas is shit at both. But he can write a story and create characters. So given that he wrote story treatments for a sequel trilogy, I would like to have seen them used and fleshed out by Abrams.
shareIf Star Wars can survive Phantom Menace, it will easily survive the Last Jedi. Every film since Return of the Jedi has had an army of disappointed bemoaning the "rape of their childhood". Every franchise has their narcissistic, entitled infants ready to crusade from behind their keyboards for their one true vision.
They might as well be screaming, "I am so arrested in my development, that the idea that someone can have an opinion different than mine is beyond me."
Let's get real...
The Last Jedi is on track to be the highest grossing film released 2017... Star Wars doesn't need fixing...
Please wake up...
Disclaimer: I thought it was just a "passable" movie and I'm not a StarWars fan(atic)