"Come find me on Facebook to follow my new projects:
Cat O'Malley/Geek Modifies Girl
and on Twitter: @GeekModsGirl"
The Spill Movie Community
If it's crap ... We'll tell you
Follow Spill!
Latest Activity
Eryn McCabe posted a status"My thoughts on "The Place Beyond the Pines"! http://www.thatindiefilmchick.com/2013/05/the-place-beyond-pines.html"
FMC posted a status"Continental Podcast content just doesn't stop. This time with the interviews with the crew. This one is with Mak. http://ning.it/11MBYgm"
Admiral Phil-Good posted a status"For the love of god do not look up "Ladyboy tequila slaves" on Google images.."
C posted a blog postStar Trek Into Darkness (Spoiler heavy review)
Now I'm going to preface this with a quick recap on my thoughts on Star Trek (2009). That film was…See More
Photos
Music
The New Lucasfilm Looking To Release Multiple 'Star Wars' Movies In A Single Year?
The web has been inundated over the last few weeks on what might become of the new 'Star Wars' movies; who's interested in starring, who's not interested in directing, etc. This is of course all a function of Disney's recent acquisition of Lucasfilm. In many ways, it's been a bit tiresome, but as a diehard fan of the original trilogy, I can't help but get caught up in the fervor and speculation. This latest piece of news comes straight from Kathleen Kennedy, newly appointed head of Lucasfilm. We had been hearing that the Disney/Lucasfilm conglomerate were looking to release multiple new 'Star Wars' films, the first to be released in 2015. Now it appears that their plan is even more ambitious than that. According to Kennedy, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, their aim is to produce "two or three films" a year. Considering that there has always been a three-year gap from movie to movie (both in the originals and in the prequels), this would be a monumental increase in output.
But is that a good thing? I'll admit to falling under the umbrella of the tawdry fanboy label, and that can often make it difficult to remain objective. So yeah, on the one hand, it's exciting to think that there are that many 'Star Wars' films are in our future, if only because it expands the number of story avenues that could be explored as well as lengthens the list of directing talent that can leave their stamp on this iconic franchise. The 'Star Wars' universe can be as massive and sprawling as the filmmakers can imagine, and the preponderance of new films would allow for a host of differing visual styles and tones to be applied to that universe. On the other hand, this crank-out-as-many-as-possible mentality could not be more dangerous for this series. Why is the goal to flood theaters with as many films as possible, and why is that approach being adopted before the first film in the new franchise is even released? Slow down, take your time, and make something great. It almost sounds like they're saying, "let's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks," and that is alarming. My one hope here is that she actually means that they'll produce multiple movies in one year, but then release them over time. Even that still suggests an overly-rushed plan, but it's at least somewhat more reasonable.
What do you guys think? Does the prospect of multiple 'Star Wars' films in a given year excite or worry you?
Comment
-
Comment by Robert Wild on November 16, 2012 at 4:27pm -
But even LOTR had 1 film PER YEAR. There is just too much preparing, planning, marketing, and schedualing to get 2 or 3 films released per year. I am very excited for more Star Wars films (and having them filmed at the same time for 1 film per year would be cool) but several films in 1 year just doesn't sound like a good idea.
I have a bad feeling about this....
-
Comment by PresidentEvil on November 16, 2012 at 4:27pm -
I pray every day, facing west, that they don't fuck it up. PLEASE don't fuck it up Disney! It'd be amazing if they did the same thing as with the Marvel films, releasing a new one at least every year, but have it be about something different so we don't get tired of that shit. And at the end of every 3-year cycle, make a gigantic 3-hour long Movie that makes enough money so they could buy a couple small african countries. Or Greece.
-
Staff Comment by Fungusmonkey on November 16, 2012 at 4:16pm -
They could be filming back to back to keep continuity like LotR... they could be expanding their franchise like Marvel has done and maybe they mean we'll see a regular Star Wars entry, and then a Bounty Hunter movie, and then a KOTOR movie, etc. Honestly, it's not like anything we say or do is going to stop the juggernaut at this point, so I say we all just sit back and wait until they've got something concrete figured out.
-
Comment by 31 on November 16, 2012 at 4:13pm -
maybe theyre talking about releasing the older movies in 3D still? has Disney said theyre still doing those movies? they said one of those every year, maybe two next year.
-
Comment by Jigaboo Banzai on November 16, 2012 at 4:09pm -
it just means they will make a new trilogy the same way LotR ways made, back to back without halt in production...not release 3 movies in a year. That would be ludicrous.
-
Comment by Matt Orell on November 16, 2012 at 3:58pm -
I think you might've misunderstood. I have the issue of Entertainment Weekly where that news was printed and to me, it came off as wanting to produce two or three films in general, one of them just happening to be Star Wars: Episode VII.
-
Comment by Tom on November 16, 2012 at 3:56pm -
Fuck that, I want a TV series like they were talking about.
-
Comment by Dr Mercurio Porter on November 16, 2012 at 3:56pm -
Baby steps, Disney.
-
Comment by Obed Casillas on November 16, 2012 at 3:51pm -
Wat.
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Next ›
© 2013 Created by The Spill Crew.
You need to be a member of The Spill Movie Community to add comments!
Join The Spill Movie Community