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Comment by MahMahAfro on February 6, 2013 at 2:42pm

 @C- perhaps Yoda's age is the main reason he's been considered for the first movie, cos essentially they can set it 6 or 7 hundred years before anything we've previously seen before and not have to worry about muddying the already confused timeline, or about creating new story elements that would clash/restrict the later films they are going to make as they would all take (presumably) hundreds of years later.

The idea of Yoda not fighting the Sith or existing in a completely new part of the Star Wars timeline doesn't bother me. What bothers me is this whole spin-off movie strategedy they've hatched sounds so moronic to begin with. I fear it will result in the Star Wars version of The Cleveland Show repeated over and over again.... ugh..

Comment by MahMahAfro on February 6, 2013 at 2:26pm

The yoda I used to love died a long time ago. And even with Frank Oz's astoundingly good performance in Empire, I think a whole movie about him misses the point - he's not a hero, he's the older wiser mentor, the sage who steers the hero in the right direction - with acrobatic swordmaster Yoda they didn't just jump the shark they buttfucked it to death by having Yoda completely useless in every department other than being an action hero. If this is the direction they're going in with their first movie announcement, I sense dark times ahead....

And come on, the first stand-alone movie has to be about Jar-Jar Binks, right?

Comment by John Lemus on February 6, 2013 at 9:34am

Honestly I wish the Franchise would just be put to rest already

Comment by CBright7831 on February 6, 2013 at 7:14am

And here I was hoping a solo movie with the GONK droid. :( Oh well.

Comment by C on February 6, 2013 at 6:29am

Wil and DoomReaper have made very good points.

I'm very much against this also. Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back was such a fantastic character, the idea of this diminutive creature being a great warrior and sage was compelling. By the time the prequels rolled around, the backstory given then was disappointing and what he did in those films could have been done by any other Jedi Council member, and we still would have had the mythos of Yoda from TESB.

The irony is that with the prequels came unnecessary characters from the OT shoehorned in for no good reason at all (Boba Fett, C3PO), yet they want to seriously consider a spin-off film for Yoda?

What do they plan to do? A film of him younger? That may very well rob us of Frank Oz's voice. The man is irreplaceable as Yoda (and yes, I do know of Tom Kane as Yoda but he doesn't compare to Oz), and a film of a younger Yoda again would give us possibly more of the same that we saw in the prequels of the "green whirlwind". And even then, if you have a Yoda, the opportunity for story is limited. In the PT-OT he was pushing 900, and in the Star Wars canon (if I remember correctly), the Sith had either withdrawn from known space or were extinct 100 years prior to his birth. It would be very hard to create a narrative involving one of the most well-known Jedi if you remove their primary antagonists. Otherwise the story could revolve around a Jedi Knight's possible turn to the Dark Side, and we have now seen that possibly enough.

The potential for story just isn't there. And what we see will just take further away from our association of one of the best fictional characters put to screen in one of the best films of all time. 

Now let us remember better times:

 

Comment by Jake_Servo on February 6, 2013 at 12:14am

"Love you I do, my love, yes! But with great responsibility, great power does come!" 

Comment by Jake_Servo on February 6, 2013 at 12:13am

I will walk out of the theater due to the corniness and anger I feel if there is going to be a romance or some type of relationship Yoda has in this movie. Which there probably will be.

Comment by DoomReaper on February 5, 2013 at 11:03pm

What Disney needs to realize is that Star Wars isn't a comic book universe. Star Wars is different from Marvel and should be treated differently. This isn't a comment made to diminish the value of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but a statement to highlight the differences in approach Disney should take in order to maximize the potential of the Star Wars Universe.

Star Wars isn't just a film franchise, its a deep, rich, and complex mythology layered with thousands of characters, worlds, and elements of galactic history that range across games, books, comics, and even a television show. While the movies are the biggest pieces of that history, unlike the Marvel movies, they are technically just a part of a larger story. They're technically just the most important part. Being a gamer some of my favorite video games of all time are Star Wars games, and my enjoyment of those products has rivaled that of my enjoyment of the Star Wars movies. Different themes and concepts within the Star Wars universe stick with different types of Star Wars fans leading to arguments and debates over which characters in Star Wars are the best, which movies are the best, or the differing levels of importance placed on fiction outside the movies. Exploring backstory, secondary themes, and minor characters in the Star Wars universe is a blast and it works quite well when we're viewing it through a different storytelling lense. Pumping out new Star Wars movies every year to explore these secondary stories is completely pointless and reeks of a forced business move rather then a serious but profitable attempt to expand the Star Wars universe.

The new slate of Star Wars movies are now being called "The Star Wars Cinematic Galaxy", quite similarly to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Disney... come on. This is arguably the greatest film franchise of all time! Say what you will about the prequels but they still managed to revive the public's interest in Star Wars, leave a massive cultural impact, and capture the imaginations of children across the world. Star Wars movies are a big freakin' deal, and I would hate to see the day when the release of a new Star Wars movie isn't big news. This is Star Wars or crying out loud! Please take my favorite fictional universe which I have loved since I was a child and treat it with some damn respect before driving it straight into the ground. I don't need a Yoda backstory anymore then I needed Jar-Jar Binks in the prequels. EU material operates fantastically as EU material, not as cinematic material. Don't oversaturate the market by incorporating every minor side story as a movie in order to maximize profit. Loads of mediocre Star Wars films won't keep the franchise alive. While Captain America and Thor weren't great, they still worked because ultimately, they weren't bad and fans of those characters who had dreamed of seeing a film based off of them since childhood were excited to see anything related to those characters that wasn't complete and utter shit. The Avengers only worked because it felt like a clever combination of multiple film franchises that had been subtlety (save for in Iron Man 2) tied together. Star Wars already is a massive universe. Don't take that universe and compartmentalize it by branching it off into other ancillary projects. Those aren't projects that need to be seen.

In other words: you'll make your damn money back even if Episodes 7, 8, and 9 suck. You'll get your profit either way. Stop being greedy and take my favorite mythology seriously.

Comment by Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II on February 5, 2013 at 9:12pm

This could be cool.

Comment by HudsonsirhesHicks on February 5, 2013 at 6:58pm

  Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed in an interview with CNBC that spin-off films are indeed being developed separately from the up-coming episode 7 led trilogy:

"There's been speculation about some stand alone films in development and I can confirm that, to you today, in fact we are working on a few stand alone films - Larry Kasden and Simon Kinberg are both working on films derived from great 'Star Wars' characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make 'Star Wars 7,' 8 and 9.      

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