'Iron Man' Director Jon Favreau Will Write And Produce a Live-Action 'Star Wars' TV Series For Disney's New Streaming Service (cnet.com) 90
From a report: Jon Favreau is going from "Avengers" blockbusters to a galaxy far, far away. The director, actor, producer and writer will take on a Star Wars starring role by helming a series destined for Disney's new streaming video service. While Favreau is multi-talented, his focus will be on producing and writing the unnamed show. Favreau is a bonafide Star Wars fan who voiced a character in the animated "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and also has appearance in the upcoming "Solo: A Star Wars Story."In a statement, Favreau said, "If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you. I can't wait to embark upon this exciting adventure."
Boycott Star Wars (Score:5, Funny)
Jon Favreau is a well-known SJW and will probably ruin the entire franchise by making the Empire the bad guys this time.
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I believe the preferred term is "oil driller."
Preferred by inbred pencildicked rednecks.
Re:Boycott Star Wars (Score:5, Insightful)
When white men learn from other cultures, it's called "appropriation." When they design something new and useful that other cultures adopt, it's "colonialism."
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It's amazing what bitches white males have become trying to out-victimize their historical victims
Maybe we shouldn't foster a victimhood culture ....
Good luck with that. The commercials on the local Fox channel are 80% ambulance-chasing lawyers offering to "get you the money you deserve". It's like Jerry Springer 24x7.
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When Chinese companies learn from American ones it's called called stealing. Maybe it's all just bullshit.
Also, you don't know what cultural appropriation is. I mean, I don't really buy into it much either, but at least I bothered to learn what it is.
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This is still another category: "stealing" is when Asians make a technology profitable that the West developed but declines to use, even when no patent is involved.
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It took Luke three movies to get to be a full Jedi, some chick from the desert did it in one movie. That's how you kill a franchise.
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Thanks, mom.
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Pass (Score:2)
All of the EU Star Wars shit is crap. I don't care what Disney has canonized, or which shitty cartoon came in after the last canonical axe fell.
Star Wars canon is:
Star Wars
Star Wars: Holiday Special
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
The various Star Wars PSAs from the era of the original trilogy (drunk driving, immunization, etc.)
I'd even accept the prequel trilogies before I accept the shitty CGI cartoons and the Disney shit.
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Thank you! I thought that conclusion was pretty obvious to see, even if I hadn't known who Anakin was destined to become.
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The Sith were just trying to fight against the globalist cucks [youtube.com] and Make Coruscant Great Again.
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Sometimes being a stubborn jackass isn't a good thing. Qui-gon.
I remember saying right after Anakin killed off all the Jedi trainees, "well he did bring balance to the force." The people that I was with didn't think it was that funny then. I thought it was hilarious .
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It seems to me Lucas and Disney and an entire army of shitty fan fic / EU "writers" shat on everyone's memories (childhood or otherwise) with the release of everything after Return of the Jedi.
Did you like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Did you jerk yourself off when watching Chris Pratt be smart enough to train raptors, but not smart enough to use a human sized door to enter a giant dinosaur enclosure in Jurassic World?
Hollywood is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
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What you've described is called "head canon." It's the opposite of canon.
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What about I.M.P.S.? http://impstherelentless.com/ [impstherelentless.com]
No thanks. (Score:5, Insightful)
I liked the first three Star Wars movies. Fun, clever writing for the era they were filmed in, explored ideas in a way that made sense for their circumstance without cheap drama, considering their inspiration of old serial films. Ewoks were annoying, but they didn't take up much time.
The prequels sucked. Basically they upped the cheap drama, placed an extra-whacky Ewok-equivalent front and center, and replaced the ideas with empty aphorisms and ... midiclorians.
The recent follow up movies suffered many of the same problems - cheap drama followed by ANGRY cheap drama, and that modern-sci-fi variant of stretching all ideas out into teases for franchises. Lots of spinning wheels, nothing to really take with you.
The whole point of stories is that they are shared dreams. I'm not seeing anything worth while being explored for the past several decades of this franchise with those dreams.
Well, at least with the films. Tie Fighter the game, and the old RPG KOTOR were really fascinating in their take on ideas they explored - but I'm not seeing any real follow up on that stuff. Just more empty drama with the recent games/multiplayer things.
If I see someone paste clips on youtube, I'll take a peek, but no a-priori fascination off the bat.
Ryan Fenton
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The recent followup movies simply reset everything - episode 7 was a remake of episode 4, and 30 years after defeating the Empire, the good guys are again stuck as the underdog against a 'new order' (of what, takeout?) pulled out of the director's ass. The Last Jedi took the already bad story and distortions in continuity and made it worse with a dose of pandering to the SJW crowd.
I see it now (Score:2)
Jar jar, the younger years. With baby wookies
Nope.. not even for Star Wars (Score:5, Insightful)
Will I be nickel and dimed by every movie studio and TV channel separately. I'm a cord cutter. I will use ONE service and one service only and it will be the one that has the most content and the one that most liberally allows me to use devices, apps and operating systems that don't track my every movement. That or I'll either do without or pirate. It's their choice. DRM has gone beyond a way to police content, it is now forced as a way to force you to use entire content delivery systems that they control.
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A "cord cutter" is one who is paying for cable, but only paying the ISP for the data portion of it, then paying Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/Whoever for the traditional content (or simply stealing it). And as we've seen, costs keep going up for those other services, and content keeps getting siloed off or pulled into brand new services that have only one or two things people want to see.
"Cord cutting" hasn't really changed the industry for the better. Piracy has, though, because services need to compete with that
Well... (Score:3)
If Favreau is given some independence, this might not be bad. He's actually made some pretty darned good films over the years in a number of different genres. Elf is one of my favorite Christmas films (not to mention one of the few Will Farrell vehicles I actually enjoy), and Zathura was a pretty worthy semi-sequel to Jumanji. My problems with Iron Man are more to do with the fact that I never particularly liked the character, but it was a well made film.
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OK, I like going to Vegas once a decade and wearing a nice shirt. And who wouldn't want to be a rich actor?
Favreau wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Swingers in 1996. I still enjoy it, people wanting everything but just doing regular stuff because they don't know what to do (or it's not possible).
Getting nostalgic, around that time (a bit before), Floundering came out, a movie I have watched quite a few times, showed it to my future wife about a week into dating (couple of decades in so far):
http:/ [imdb.com]
All I know is (Score:2)
There was some guy in a bathrobe, telling me:
"This is not the streaming service you are looking for."
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> If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you.
And rightly so, because the Star Wars universe you knew at 11 years old (or 21 or 31) was first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories.
The saddest thing is that you may actually believe this. Star Wars has always been about making money. The first hint should be that it was a movie released in theatres. You do understand, don't you, that they do that to make money? I was kid during the original Star Wars trilogy. There were tonnes of toys to cash in one the movies and there were people just like you telling everyone (whether or not they wanted to hear it), how the Empire Strikes Back and later Return of the Jedi were doing the same th
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The difference is in the 70s, you had to make a good movie to make money. Today you can just churn out turd after turd and people will pay for the nostalgia and special effects.
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I think that view is a bit cynical. Lucas strikes me as someone who actually enjoyed being a story teller and film maker (especially playing with new technologies). He was just smart enough to realize he could make a buck doing that, then used that as a way of getting funding to continue doing what he liked.
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Star Wars has always been a space opera
Small correction, its space fantasy. You got mystic knights with swords that cut through anything. There are space wizards through around magic space lightning.
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Amusingly enough, Star Wars is one of the examples given on the Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] and TV Tropes [tvtropes.org] pages for Space Opera. I do agree that it is science fantasy, again according to the definitions on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] and TV tropes [tvtropes.org], but I don't think they are mutually exclusive categorizations but rather space opera defines the type of story, and science fantasy describe the world (or universe) the story is set in.
It's a pity it's live action (Score:3)
The Star Wars universe lends itself beautifully to TV series, because there are a gadzillion of little back-stories to tell and flesh out. It really makes the universe come alive even more.
That being said, the animation style takes some getting used to, but I didn't even notice it after a couple of episodes in. But something that does constantly cross my mind is "I bet they couldn't have done this battle sequence, or space combat sequence if it were live-action, so lucky us that they decided to do it in animation!"
So, a live-action tv-series will have to cut back on effects and complexity quite a lot. I would prefer them to go animated, again.
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CGI is so cheap now they can probably do a lot on the budget Disney will provide for this. Look at Star Trek Discovery as an example. Almost every scene has CGI in it, and pretty good CGI at that.
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If you look at the inflation adjusted grosses here
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/f... [boxofficemojo.com]
You see
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Return of the Jedi
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
So the first film made a tonne of cash, then you see the first films of the reboot and first film of the prequels, then the sequels to the original, then the seque
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Mass Effect died when they made a sequel that took the franchise from an RPG to a FPS...
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If the SJWs want to make their own Star Wars series, let them. They did that with Mass Effect Andromeda. Look how that turned out, Mass Effect is now dead.
I'm actually on my second play-through of ME:A at the moment. I really just don't see anything particularly SJW about it. I see that as almost-surprising, given the shoe-in they had for showing some controversy regarding whether the Andromeda Initiative would count as colonialism. This really could have been done very well if there was a third race in Heleus besides the nearly-angelic Angara and the one-dimensional, conquest-driven Kett. It also was a near-perfect setup for there to have been an AGW angle t
Swingers! (Score:2)
In a statement, Favreau said, "If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you."
Jon, you're so money and you don't even know it.
All I can say is... (Score:2)
The Force is so money.
To Quote Darth Vader: (Score:2)
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Three words: The Shannara Chronicles.
So if you're looking for someone to ruin your childhood memories look no further...
Separate streaming service (Score:2)
To get this you'd need to sign up for disney's streaming service... Not going to happen. I don't subscribe to a service for one show. Was it CBS and that Star Trek show they offered on Streaming only? That didn't last. This won't either.
Dear disney. Do you want to get your shows pirated? Because pulling your content from netflix and starting your own service is how you get your pirated.
No cash for the mouse (Score:2)
Suck, it will (Score:2)
Disney has ruined Starwars.
The Disney Touch (Score:2)
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