Star Wars: The Franchise That Choked

The Rise Of Skywalker is out. Yes. It seems a good example of product design failure and leadership failure; it fails to push the narrative anywhere interesting, feels rushed and weak, and caps off the return of Star Wars films with a whimper more than a bang.

In my opinion it seems that everyone involved in the production has developed Star Wars fatigue, which might be fine if it didn't seem a significant amount of the audience has too. The Rise Of Skywalker could have been an incredible asset for Disney in terms of furthering its audience, instead it now seems there might be a greater pause than anticipated. Also, C3PO did not get enough respect in this movie.

The Star Wars theme from the opening crawl is from:
Star Wars -Worst French Horn Player

Links:
Star Wars Merchandise Down

Kathleen Kennedy Entertainment Weekly Interview:

Star Wars Cast & Crew Interviews

Star Wars Reshoots - ibitimes

Alan Horn Force Awakens Premiere Interview

Bob Iger on The Star Wars Show

Kathleen Kennedy JJ Abrams – Star Wars Theory

Lucas And Kennedy – Jar Jar Abrams

Abrams and Kennedy Interview – Fandom Entertainment

Everything That's Wrong with 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' - Vice

Last Jedi AV Article

Will 'Star Wars' Fans Ever Forgive Rian Johnson for 'The Last Jedi'?- Cheatsheet

The “backlash” against Star Wars: The Last Jedi, explained - VOX

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi - VOX

[Dooger]

This was not three films about a story, but rather an IP that has three promotional films. Several billion dollars later and no artists involved want to touch that brand again. It is incredible.

[wrestlingbuff]

"You knew it was gonna be a trilogy. Decide who the antagonist should be, in the last film, before making the first two. It's not hard"

-Quote of the decade

[WanJae]

TFA: Trying to be fun
TLJ: Trying to make a statement
ROS: Trying to be all things to all people

[misterjei]

No plan, too many cooks, manged by a committee of cooks.

[TheOmniscientAtheist]

JJ Abrams has to be the most overrated director of the modern era. I've literally not enjoyed one of his films, they are all glossy and overblown with no substance. I'd take a tacky John Carpenter movie with 5% of the budget any day of the week.

[EthanAc]

Star Wars: the search for more toy sales.

[blueseanomad]

I love that all the main actors want nothing to do with this IP ever again. Disnep done goofed.

[Carlton_Banks]

Kathleen Kennedy: _There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be_
Star Wars Expanded Universe: _am I a joke to you?_

[RolfHartmann]

After all this we need a sequel to Spaceballs.

[vermis]

"Kathleen Kennedy and JJ Abrams aren't stupid."

Perhaps not, but the ability to wheedle your way to the top in Hollywood doesn't necessarily translate to an ability to create a satisfying story.

[tisfaction]

The narrative to this "trilogy" was like a TV-show: Let's make a first season, and see where we go from there if people like it.

[michaelkemel]

Funny that you mentioned Lord of the Rings because I had just been thinking about a comparison. Though this is hardly to insinuate that the stories or authors mentioned could be properly equated to their Star Wars counterparts.

Imagine if after publishing Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien's publisher got C.S. Lewis to write the Two Towers. In it Saruman tries tempting Aragorn to evil by telling him his lineage was a lie and he was born to simple farmers from Arnor. Saruman fails but instead kills off Sauron, takes over the armies of Mordor and nearly wipes out Gondor, leaving Frodo's quest null and void. Then Tolkien hastily writes a version of Return of the King where he introduces Morgoth as the new main villain. He quickly shunts aside Saruman and threatens Middle Earth with an army of Balrogs who can't yet escape from his fortress in Angband for ill-defined reasons. Morgoth tells Aragorn that he is his own creation and that he will use him to regain his power. Aragorn fights Morgoth with the help of Saruman as an inexplicably large army of the free people assault Angband. Aragorn then defeats Morgoth after Gandalf tells Aragorn all the Valar live in him. All the while Frodo is relegated to a sidekick and Saruman's army is never mentioned again.

Also Tom Bombadil gives Saruman his ring of power which he apparently forgot to do earlier and Merry and Pippin get new wacky hobbit friends Beebee and Deeyo.

[kaerakh]

“There's no source material. We don't have comic books. We don't have 800-page novels. We don't have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be.”
- Kathleen Kennedy

[dariusq]

"As Yoda would say, there's great responsibility... that goes with doing this and I think we all take that seriously so..." - Kathleen Kennedy


Uh, I think she was referring to this quote:


"With great power comes great responsibility." - Ben Parker, Spider-man's uncle.

[jackburton]

As a massive Starwars fan, I'm really looking forward to Dune

[DGP]

when a creative industry tries harder to sell a product than tell a story

[JosephVice]

Abrams has never made a movie I wanted to watch twice...

[amiciprocul]

Listening to these corporate robots speak is exhausting, everything is just a facade.

[greyarea]

Kathy Kennedy was quoting Uncle Ben, not Yoda.

[JediBunny]

“I certainly didn’t think back when I heard Disney were making more [Star Wars], that it would all end so _anemically”_ -Georg




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