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Why Star Wars is Doomed

posted 7 years ago by Keelai (35258)
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss of the Games of Thrones TV show will write and produce a series of Star Wars movies.

Kathleen Kennedy quote:
"“David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”

Doesn't she know that the true writer and creator of Game of Thrones is George R. R. Martin? They are practically lifting the entire story and dialogue from his novels. She's a dimwit.

[–] FredBurroughs (21871) 7 years ago

Sounds like this series is only going to last fifteen years or 20, depending on the projections... What a cheap thing!

[–] Keelai (35258) 7 years ago

It sounds like they're doing a movie. Separate live action TV shows are being produced for a Disney app. They'll probably have people pay a subscription fee. I won't pay one red cent. And a Rian Johnson trilogy.

How sick is everyone going to become of Star Wars?

[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

You can tell from the last season of Game of Thrones where the talent lies.

The minute the tv show ran out of book material there has been a big dip in quality and a reliance on the kind of shitty Hollywood cliches it originally did such a good job of avoiding.

[–] Underdog_73 (770) 7 years ago

Arghhhh (225) 7 hours ago

You can tell from the last season of Game of Thrones where the talent lies.

The minute the tv show ran out of book material there has been a big dip in quality and a reliance on the kind of shitty Hollywood cliches it originally did such a good job of avoiding.

Everything you just said is 100% accurate. So please, tell me, if there are people that recognize this, how does Hollywood keep succeeding, while pumping out the same garbage over and over? I can't comprehend it. The complacency and acceptance of society is frightening.

[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

Well to be fair to them they did an amazing job of adapting a very tricky series. They deserve enormous credit for that... RR Martin left big boots to fill and it's just a real shame his output has almost ceased.

This said it's not the drop in quality that is disappointing so much the change of tone; embracing cliche instead of avoiding it.

I think one of the reasons why people get complacent and seem happier to make excuses for things more than maybe they did is the franchise nature of both film and TV. Everything is much longer these days, much more connected, plot lines can develop literally over years and people get emotionally invested in them and that introduces bias. People take criticism of the product personally and make excuses/create head cannon to explain away problems they don't like.

But right not Holywood isn't succeeding - cinema tickets are the lowest they have been for decades, less and less films make money, which in turn is driving Holywood to make less risks which makes for worse films which leads to lower sales and so on and so on.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 7 years ago

Exactly right.