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Is The Mandalorian hurting the Star Wars movie franchise?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19416)
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https://observer.com/2020/11/star-wars-disney-plus-shows-movies-box-office-taika-waititi/

"Despite occasional forays onto the small screen, Star Wars has always been a big screen brand first and foremost," says Brandon Katz. "Yet Disney+’s The Mandalorian has indisputably helped to repair some of the damage the franchise suffered as a result of the divisive sequel trilogy (which still earned an envy-inducing amount of money). Next year, Mandalorian will be joined by confirmed upcoming TV series featuring Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, and the animated Bad Batch. There are also a handful of rumored series, such as one for Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano, that are unconfirmed but possible additions to Disney+’s growing library. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic has delayed Taika Waititi’s theatrical Star Wars feature until 2023, cementing the small screen as the go-to home for a galaxy far, far away for the immediate future. The unknown is if audiences will become so accustomed to immediate access blockbuster Star Wars TV series that the allure of a theatrical release begins to dull."

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12302) 3 years ago

No, it's rescuing Star Wars.

[–] overseas7 (3524) 3 years ago

I agree with you.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I agree as well

[–] Sandman81 (1501) 3 years ago

Nope

[–] linuxlad (996) 3 years ago

Theater? What is that?
Blockbuster Video? What is that?
VHS tape? What is that?

This is yet another nail to that theatrical coffin.

[–] ultravioletx (10216) 3 years ago

Eventually theaters will be a thing again. Mando is keeping things afloat until that time.

[–] LuckyLucius (342) 3 years ago

When Star Wars first theaters in 1977 many people thought it would become a huge flop but once Star Wars debuted in 1977 it began to grow a large fanbase and just like Star Trek had spun off many movies after it was cancelled and a line of TV shows. George Lucas hopes to become the new Gene Roddenberry and The Mandalorian will be the first of many Star Wars TV shows just like Star Trek has The Next Generation Voyager Deep Space Nine and others. I can bet that there will be a series called Skywalker that will follow young teenage Luke Skywalker and since Star Wars has also had many cartoons made they have made Star Wars a very successful franchise in movies and TV. While other movie franchises such as Indiana Jones Jurassic Park Jaws and other movie franchises still continue to do well Star Wars will continue to survive in movies. So The Mandalorian is the new beginning of a whole new world for Star Wars

[–] RogueDemonHunter (2645) 3 years ago

Is there really a Star Wars movie franchise to hurt anymore? They've run it into the ground already.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

This is the answer. IF the movie Disney created under the Star Wars banner hadn't all been stinking piles of shit, then putting series on TV could hurt future movies. But at this point any Star Wars creation made for TV that isn't a stinking pile of shit can only help to repair the damage Disney has already done. Frankly the Mandalorian is probably closer to what Lucas imagined Star Wars being in the first place. The original was his version of the old Flash Gordon serials that were shown in theaters each week... The Star Wars movies were actually too long compared to those Flash Gordon Serial shorts which ran an average of about 20 minutes each.

The best way for Disney to resurrect the franchise is probably by focusing on TV serials like Mandalorian. IF theaters actually return in significant numbers these serials could create enough interest that people might want to see some of them turned into full blown movies that would need to be seen on a big screen... but there is a chance the theaters may not return to their former level in the US. You had 7,798 theaters in 1996, which dropped to 5,869 in 2019 before the pandemic... so the number of theaters was already moving downward, the pandemic probably ended the lives of some of those theaters and if the number drops too much it will eliminate the critical mass that movie studios need in the US to even bother with movies. At this point large blockbuster scale movies are probably off the table and any large scale movies would need to be done for a lot less money...

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

No, it's the only new Star Wars I watch, I hated Force Awakens so much that I never watched the rest of the sequel trilogy or the Solo film. The Mandalorian is the only new Star Wars I have any interest in, largely because it feels like Star Wars and doesn’t preach at me, thank God Kathleen Kennedy isn’t involved.

[–] Boricanator (1369) 3 years ago

The more I think about it, the more I believe that Star Wars best bet is on TV series.

People seem to forget how the Dark Horse Comics and other books contributed enormously to Star Wars being as huge as it is.

In fact, a lot of the things we saw in the Prequels, Sequels and TV shows came from those comics.

I believe that not being limited to 2.5 hours like the movies are allows them to develop characters, concepts and stories much better than in the movies.

The TV series could be what the Comics were in the 1990s and the 2000s. And they can give us a much more satisfying experience.