Simon Kinberg to produce and write new trilogy

[psylockolussus]

I think people are missing his big connection to this. He’s the co-creator of Rebels.

Have you seen his Rotten Tomatoes page. Why would Disney/LucasFilm task him with a Star Wars trilogy and expect them to do well?

 

[Sithborg]

And he was still able to convince the people at Fox to let him direct his first movie after Apocalypse and FF. He has enough successful writing credits and plenty of connections and a good producer.

 

[#root]

Can you imagine if after all this time Simon Kinberg is the one to finally make a new Star Wars movie?

 

[Lily Adler]

Can you imagine if after all this time Simon Kinberg is the one to finally make a new Star Wars movie?

Going from Abrams and Johnson to Kinberg... Star Wars fans deserve this.

 

[Pennywise]

He’s a safe choice, really?!

 

[Lily Adler]

He’s a safe choice, really?!

James Mangold is a safe choice. I don't know what this is.

 

[psylockolussus]

And he was still able to convince the people at Fox to let him direct his first movie after Apocalypse and FF. He has enough successful writing credits and plenty of connections and a good producer.

Doesn't matter. Dark Phoenix was a terrible movie so was 355.

You are making it sound like hiring him was a good idea when its not. He's been a writer for 2 decades. I doubt he's improving anytime soon.

 

[Elayis]

He knows how to talk to suits, it seems to all boil down to that.

 

[Sithborg]

Doesn't matter. Dark Phoenix was a terrible movie so was 355.

You are making it sound like hiring him was a good idea when its not. He's been a writer for 2 decades. I doubt he's improving anytime soon.

No one is talking about him directing yet. As a producer, yes, he is a good choice. He has a lot more successes beyond the X films.

He knows how to talk to suits, it seems to all boil down to that.

I mean, yeah. It explains how he has been around as a big name producer for so long. And frankly, sweet talking execs is important in this business.

 

[Lily Adler]

No one is talking about him directing yet. As a producer, yes, he is a good choice. He has a lot more successes beyond the X films.



I mean, yeah. It explains how he has been around as a big name producer for so long. And frankly, sweet talking execs is important in this business.

 

[Sithborg]

Look, man got Apocalypse and FF out the door despite the director's best efforts against it. Yes, his writing is an issue. But his ability to make a movie as a producer is a strength.

 

[psylockolussus]

No one is talking about him directing yet. As a producer, yes, he is a good choice. He has a lot more successes beyond the X films.



I mean, yeah. It explains how he has been around as a big name producer for so long. And frankly, sweet talking execs is important in this business.

Well I wasn't talking about him as a "producer". And like as if he was instrumental in movies like Deadpool & Wolverine, Logan, Deadpool 1/2, The Martian, Haunting in Venice - he wasn't, he didn't act like Kevin Feige in those films if I'm not mistaken.

They hired him here as a writer. And how is this exactly good news, if you're aware of the films he was credited as a screen writer? Days of Future Past was more than 10 years ago. The two other films that are "fresh" in RT have a score lower than 70%, and I've seen most of the films he was credited as a writer, to say he isn't a good choice as a writer, especially for a trilogy of films...

 

[Filmfreak]

Yeah, Kinberg as a writer is garbage. The only hope is for a good director to keep him in check and even that would be questionable in the Disney era.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Lily Adler]

Cue the fanboys saying "she's not a Skywalker!".

 

[henzINNIT]

Really gotta let that second season of Andor come out then wrap up this whole "Star Wars" thing permanently.

Kinberg is perfect for that.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Boom]

LOL

 

[Closerframe]

It’s honestly baffling how mishandled Star Wars has been under Disney’s leadership. We went from them announcing directors after said director has had one box office success preceding to drop them after one box office dud to picking producers/writers with a history of terrible movies. Please either stop making movies completely or fire Kathleen.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

In before he gets replaced with someone else like Colin Trevorrow was. Remember how HE was supposed to write Episode 9?

And yeah, I've read Colin's original script. I don't care what people say. We we spared and the movie wed DID get was at least more coherent and didn't make Ben Solo look like a hypocritical dumbass.

 

[Sian]

Cue the fanboys saying "she's not a Skywalker!".

Didn't they say the Skywalker Saga ended with TROS?

 

[SwordOfMorning]

In before he gets replaced with someone else like Colin Trevorrow was. Remember how HE was supposed to write Episode 9?

And yeah, I've read Colin's original script. I don't care what people say. We we spared and the movie wed DID get was at least more coherent and didn't make Ben Solo look like a hypocritical dumbass.

The point of the first two movies is that Ben is a selfish, violent prick pro-actively making the choice to be a monster so the half assed redemption arc JJ gave him isn't really praiseworthy.

It's a bad script but it's not a cowardly, self-flagellating corporately mandated nightmare jumping constantly between the worst kind of fan service and begging for forgiveness from an audience that was always going to reject it. I hate Colin Trevorrow more than almost any other director so the fact his version would have been preferable is astoundingly. For the record, I don't really blame JJ for how that movie turned out - there's no way that was the movie anyone wanted to make.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

The point of the first two movies is that Ben is a selfish, violent prick pro-actively making the choice to be a monster so the half assed redemption arc JJ gave him isn't really praiseworthy.

It's a bad script but it's not a cowardly, self-flagellating corporately mandated nightmare jumping constantly between the worst kind of fan service and begging for forgiveness from an audience that was always going to reject it. I hate Colin Trevorrow more than almost any other director so the fact his version would have been preferable is astoundingly. For the record, I don't really blame JJ for how that movie turned out - there's no way that was the movie anyone wanted to make.

To be clear, by "hypocrite" I meant "Oh, I knew what happened to your parents because I was the one who killed them". Why would telling her THAT get her on his side? What we got instead made more sense (comparatively so; REALLY tired of the stupid "somehow" meme, as there is a canon explanation that the heroes just didn't know about)!

 

[Sian]

The point of the first two movies is that Ben is a selfish, violent prick pro-actively making the choice to be a monster so the half assed redemption arc JJ gave him isn't really praiseworthy.

It's a bad script but it's not a cowardly, self-flagellating corporately mandated nightmare jumping constantly between the worst kind of fan service and begging for forgiveness from an audience that was always going to reject it. I hate Colin Trevorrow more than almost any other director so the fact his version would have been preferable is astoundingly. For the record, I don't really blame JJ for how that movie turned out - there's no way that was the movie anyone wanted to make.

Er - are you a Finn fan, by the way?

 

[Lily Adler]

Didn't they say the Skywalker Saga ended with TROS?

Yeah, but Skywalker makes money than say Acolyte.