Stand-Alone Movies Next wave of SW film announcements

[Shoppy]

As of now we know about:

Episode 8 - 2017
Han Solo - 2018
Episode 9 - 2019
Boba Fett - 2020

So we may not hear about what they plan to do after those films until 2018 or 2019.

My guess is they'll up the output to 3 films every 2 years and we'll get something like...

2021-22. - Outer Rim trilogy pt I, Han Solo II, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt I
2023-24. - Outer Rim trilogy pt II, Obi Wan, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt II
2025-26. - Outer Rim trilogy pt III, Yoda, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt III

2027 (50th anniversary year) - STAR WARS EPISODE X, and Favreaus's live-action series and Resistance animated series replaced by live action The Old Republic series and an animated post-Episode IX series

 

[Shoppy]

As for the future? I would eventually love to see a KOTOR trilogy but what I would rather have first is a Netflix or HBO TV series focusing on a rough following of "Tales of the Jedi" I think going back historically and showing the origins of the Jedi/Sith would make for a really good TV show and then later on have films following some of the bigger events during the KOTOR time period more so.

I agree in terms of telling a quality story this would be preferable but I think it's more likely that we'll get a KOTOR-era trilogy on the big screen from the Game Of Thrones guys and then once that's over, see the Old Republic a few hundred years later in a live-action series after Jon Favreau's post-ROTJ series is done, around the same time we get the fourth Saga Trilogy.

 

[Aximili86]

If they do a canon version of KOTOR (as in time period, not all the lame characters), they'd better differentiate it a ****load from the stuff we know and love in the movies asthetically.

Primitive lightsabers-that-maybe-even-aren't-quite-lightsabers yet, maybe hyperspace travel doesn't exist yet and space travel is more in its infancy. Different social structures, maybe no droids exist yet, no random goons in white armor.

The whole KOTOR thing just felt like bad fanfic from the start. A thousands-of-years-in-the-past Star Wars story is a great idea, but don't make it exactly the ****ing same as the Galactic Civil War in look and feel, just with thousands of Sith and thousands of Jedi. Lame.

If they're going to do it, just take the broad idea of ancient-world Star Wars. Start afresh with everything else. If the Civil War took from WWII in feel, make an ancient series full-on feudal Japan or dark ages Europe or whatever. The Force exists, people know about it, but it's not just more dudes in black robes wanting to form an Empire and amass a big-ass hyperspace fleet.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't see a Knights of the Old Republic movie ever happening. Maybe something close but not basically doing those games into movies.

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah. Just "early days of the Republic, but other than that completely unrecognisable from the KOTOR stuff".

Which is how it should be. Fanfic vibes are fine for games, but they should stay there.

 

[TheVileOne]

Don't forget the stigma of adapting games into movies.

Also if you look at all the anthology movies we've seen so far or all the ones rumored to be in development, none of them are really adaptations of existing Star Wars properties or stories. They are basically all new stories.

That's why I don't see any future movie having an adaptation of an existing Star Wars piece of Legends material or what have you. I think Lucasfilm wants to brand each new movie as a new experience.

 

[Aximili86]

Hopefully.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

http://collider.com/star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold/

 

[Ozbridge]

http://collider.com/star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold/

Hmm since the Boba Fett movie was announced when Solo was already expected to flop I thought that movie would still happen.

Well a re-assessment will still do good for the studio anyway.

 

[Iceman]

I wonder what they would do instead. Take a break or put something safer out?

 

[Iceman]

My guess is they'll up the output to 3 films every 2 years and we'll get something like...

2021-22. - Outer Rim trilogy pt I, Han Solo II, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt I
2023-24. - Outer Rim trilogy pt II, Obi Wan, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt II
2025-26. - Outer Rim trilogy pt III, Yoda, Knights Of The Old Republic trilogy pt III

2027 (50th anniversary year) - STAR WARS EPISODE X, and Favreaus's live-action series and Resistance animated series replaced by live action The Old Republic series and an animated post-Episode IX series

You think that's likely after Solo's numbers?

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Looks like they’re just going to stick with Rian’s and D&D’s trilogies for the time being.

 

[Ozbridge]

You think that's likely after Solo's numbers?

Even before Solo I thought they would only produce a movie a year.

 

[Abudefduf]

Glad to see that Lucasfilm got the message... no more prequels starring male characters. The future (of Star Wars) is female.

 

[Iceman]

Glad to see that Lucasfilm got the message... no more prequels starring male characters. The future (of Star Wars) is female.

No Chewie too! Wookie-free zone going forward.

 

[David H.]

#JusticeForBothans

 

[Fincher]

But...Boba Fett...


I should have known it was too beautiful a dream to be true.

 

[David H.]

No Boba Fett movie unless they can guarantee Taika Waititi as the director.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I felt Mangold was wasted on Fett.

Better he be a future director on a better project. Maybe get Michelle Lovretta in on development as well unless she's bored with space at this point or stuck working with Comcast/Universal.

 

[Grootster]

This is kind of reminding me of what happened with Transformers a few months back (more or less). I can't say I didn't expect something like this to happen, but not quite so soon.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing. Some of it sounds like a good call. One article on the subject is saying that Lucasfilm is going to stay away from "new and unusual directors" and stick to established film veterans. Good. No more weirdos like Rian Johnson please. Not sure if his trilogy is still happening or not.

Unfortunately some of it sounds like Disney/Lucasfilm/Kennedy still have no clue what they're doing.

I'm kind of glad that there's going to be more time between movies. I don't think having a movie a year is bad, but it's exhausting if they're mostly mediocre or downright bad. Waiting for Star Wars movies just isn't fun anymore, and a lot of people aren't really that excited for the future. Hopefully longer gaps between movies means hype will be able to build up again.

I am disappointed that we might not be seeing the Boba and Obi-Wan movies. On the other hand, maybe Disney and Lucasfilm need to learn a lesson and get their act together before they do those, so they don't screw them up.

There's more info in this article:

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/201...y-thats-actually-great-for-the-franchise.html

 

[henzINNIT]

Gotta admit, I lol'd. Angry fans are losing it over Rian Johnson's Last Jedi, and now Disney have halted every spin-off except potentially Johnson's trilogy.

 

[Grootster]

Gotta admit, I lol'd. Angry fans are losing it over Rian Johnson's Last Jedi, and now Disney have halted every spin-off except Johnson's trilogy.

Well, if Rian Johnson's series was a spin-off series, it's probably been cancelled too.

 

[henzINNIT]

Well, if Rian Johnson's series was a spin-off series, it's probably been cancelled too.

Yeah should have said potential. It's possible the future trilogy referred to isn't Johnson's.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

The Johnson Trilogy is still being worked on. They said as much in the actual video that broke the news.

 

[Iceman]

Even before Solo I thought they would only produce a movie a year.

I couldn't have imagined more unless they started branching out with much more exotic films covering more of the galaxy, races and types of force users. It's not just about being good, you need considerable variety before you can put films in front of an audience that fast and get results. Has it even been done persistently and successfully apart from the MCU?