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Yes, but is McDonald's shit burgers suddenly made almost half less profit than they did the previous year they would care about that a LOT and be sitting at their drawing board, wondering why.
The Force Awakens was a $2 billion turd and The Last Jedi is a $1.2 billion turd. Something is severely wrong there and Disney knows it.
Rain will be out and maybe even Kathleen will be out on her ass if this keeps up. Good.
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Yeah, that's definitely going to be the first ax throw for Disney. The second will be Kathleen after either Solo or when Episode IX underperforms.
I don't like Abrams either but my prediction is they'll ultimately dump Rain and Kathleen over time and double down their bets on Abrams.
Who even IS this Rain Johnson guy? He came out of nowhere like a fart in a flower field and is being propped up as some huge figure with four Star Wars movies attached to his a$$ like pimples. I thought Disney was all gun-ho for Abrams? In any case, I expect Disney to wash their hands of the other two and focus on Abrams. He's not really anything special either but at least he knew better than the screw with the fanbase too much. He likes to play things safe. Disney will crawl toward him on their hands and knees.
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They were probably fired because they weren't fancying that new marxist direction the bitch was forcing them to go, but who knows...
shareThe bitch doesn't own this thing though and if she keeps costing them money they will likely dump her. She'll of course try to make a political spectacle out of it and claim it's "discrimination against women" or some crap.
shareIt's all been foretold! Grab some popcorn and enjoy the show!
shareOh, I am! :D Star Wars is a complete joke under Disney.
Best case scenario would be for these movies to keep making less and less profit until Disney gives up on it and sells it back to Lucas, decanonising everything they did. I'd rather Star Wars sit in Lucas' possession, gestating and not doing anything than to see further insult to the franchise with all these sequels/spin-offs.
I don't think very many people would deny feeling extremely excited when these sequels were first announced...I doubt ANY of us were expecting what followed:
-The big 3 never being on screen together at the same time
-Two of the big three dying in pathetic ways as miserable failures who spent almost the entire time since Return of the Jedi miserable, bitter and self-loathing
-Carrie Fisher dying which now leaves her character with an unnatural write-off which leaves us with all three of our favorite characters meeting miserable ends completely disrespectful to their characters
-The last of the Skywalker blood being left in the hands of a psycho worse than Anakin who has almost no reason to be acting this way
-The Skywalker legacy completely trivialized by a director (and head of Star Wars division) who apparently hate Skywalkers and want to make them seem as trivial and useless as possible
-100% renders the Original Trilogy (and even prequel trilogy) useless by showing us that Anakin bringing balance to the force and Luke starting a new Jedi order all meant absolutely 100% NOTHING. NOTHING at all
So, yes--they should find a way to sell it back to Lucas at an extreme discount and let Lucas lock this shit in a vault and never touch it. Then we can go back to just having Return of the Jedi and EU again. That EU stuff was greatly stupid in some areas but nowhere near as stupid as what Disney is doing.
All fair points. EU could easily sustain the franchise's basic survival. For the fans. The most important responsibility was to coordinate EU and keep it away from rogue writers, who didn't understand the SW universe. Who knew, that by invalidating EU the new owners would also try to almost invalidate Skywalkers and OT.
But now that we finally got SW rolling, it would be silly just to lock it down again. I blame the management and politics. Get rid of the two, and there's a chance once again to see SW universe as we all wanted to see it. Disney should stop meddling with something they don't understand.
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JJ has a contract with Paramount studios, he simply can't stay producing films for Disney. They already had to pay Paramount 10million dollars for stealing him for Episode IX.
shareIt's Rian (pronounced Ryan). And he made the excellent Looper with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levit. On that movie alone I would have bet money on him to do something interesting with an SW movie, but as it turns out it didn't happen. I am pretty sure the studio probably interfered and he didn't get to make the movie he wanted. Of course all this will come out in the fullness of time, too soon now.
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