Update: Disney representatives for Lucasfilm tell us Kathleen Kennedy wasn’t translated correctly by Premiere France. The Lucasfilm President apparently said the company would love to make a Lando Calrissian film, but it’s not coming next. The quote Kennedy said is, “[I] would love to see a Lando film in the future, but it would also be fun to tell [another] Han and Chewie story.” Premiere France have updated their article too.
The latest Lucasfilm picture “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” is out in the world, has premiered at Cannes and has been seen by critics here in the U.S. The Ron Howard-directed film is… ok, safe, predictable, a little banal, but also, honestly, nonetheless entertaining with terrific action sequences. File under: a mixed bag.
Howard has talked about sequels (it depends on how the audience reacts to ‘Solo’ and how much money it makes) and the entire cast is signed on for at least three movies). So what’s next for Lucasfilm? Well, there are rumors, unsubstantiated as of right now it should be said, that an ‘Obi-Wan‘ film shoots in the spring of 2019 (still unclear whether Ewan McGregor will star). And there’s been talk of the Simon Kinberg-penned and dormant ‘Boba Fett‘ movie coming back too.
But Kathleen Kennedy herself has revealed what’s apparently “next,” and it’s a Lando Calrissian solo film that would star Donald Glover. “We think that the next spin-off will be dedicated to Lando Calrissian, ” Kennedy told Premiere France. ” Of course, there are still many stories to tell about Han and Chewbacca, but Lando will be next.”
This would be pretty big news considering that (not a spoiler because we know they’re signed on for multiple films) that ‘Solo’ sets up potential sequels and many expect the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie to shoot next. But Donald Glover is signed up for more films, and perhaps Lucasfilm wants their own “Black Panther” and a film that serves the African American audience that will clearly come out in droves if they’re given a good movie.
Obviously, we should cool the jets a second because there is no script written that we know of, but perhaps the secretive Lucasfilm has already put it into development.
Lucasfilm‘s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” hits theaters on May 23. Here’s a clip of when Lando Calrissian first meets Han Solo in the movie and a few related videos.
Since the transfer of Star Wars franchise to Disney there appears to be some kind of a ban on any depiction of a lightsaber or jedis. They appear only for a few minutes in a lackluster action sequences. We are watching movies about scoundrels, smugglers, scavengers, bounty hunters and so on. The secondary characters are the principal ones now. Everyone likes Firefly but Nuwars are pretty pale in comparison to more sophisticated space westerns.
go outside, camp and learn how to make a fire.
stay inside, disassemble fortifications or forget why to destroy the frost
The Kylo and Rey fight scene in the throne room was the opposite of lackluster. Since all Jedis except one is dead there obviously wouldn’t be any Jedis in the new films…
The fight scene quality is a debatable. You may like it and I may not. And about Jedi – this is a fictional universe that doesn’t have any restrictions on facts. It was a decision by Disney to kill all jedis once again in order to mimic original trilogy. It will take a similar decision to restore a presence of cool dudes with a lightsabers.
Actually, Disney made no decision to “kill all jedis”-when they took over the franchise there was only one jedi remaining. So, they decided to kill the “Last Jedi”, hence the title. Its a good decision, the idea that the force is just focused in one family is a small so Im glad they are opening up the entire world to the force as seen at the end of TLJ
There was one jedi remaining and over 20 years to rebuild the order. And Luke tried to do it in new canon. But we received Jedi Purge 2: Electric Boogaloo instead. Disney tries so hard to make sequels look like original trilogy that it completely denies any possibility of setting development. I bet that that we are going to see the same x-wing in the nearest 10 films as the main fighter for any good guys which are going to be called “Liberation” or so on.
Killing one person is a purge? Hardly. Last Jedi didn’t look like Empire at all-it had similar elements but was definitely its own story. So many amazing moments-Snoke’s death was a surprise, Luke’s astral projection, Luke
‘s story with Kylo, Dern’s death-so cool!!-great moments I think yourself and many others were disappointed because the Last Jedi didn’t follow the regular format of films-it was surprising and thusly, brilliant. Force Awakens was a copy of New Hope, you type bitched. Last Jedi was wholly original, you bitched. Maybe show us on the doll where Disney touched you?
Mass infantilization of culture
No more so than in the ’60s, when the equally simplistic James Bond franchise reached its peak popularity, or during the Hays Code years, which mandated a simplistic, black and white moral universe (i.e. infantile) in films. But hey, today’s stuff is new without decades of analytical articles and books devoted to it; therefore we can dismiss it in our simplistic mindset.
James Bond straight up cruelly murders some folks in the early Bonds. Star Wars is Greedo shot first good guys vs bad guys.
True, and people who look upon the old days as some halcyon time of G-rated perfection do so while ignoring films like the brutal old Bond flicks as well as such things as the Dirty Dozen and the like. However, in those early Bonds, you’re looking at the dying of the Hays Code influence (hence the more cruel nature) while also seeing the mindset of “well, they’re the bad guys, so they deserve it.”
This obviously creates a more complex moral scenario than the Hays Code intended (especially when you factor in films like Detour or Double Indemnity with their doomed protagonists), and my initial post was not to be ultimately dismissive of the era. Rather, it was to address the superficial dismissiveness of guys like tomkat8960, who look upon today’s cultural interests with disapproval and make a silly pronouncement, much as initial cultural critics did in the earliest days of cinema (or really, at every form of pop culture in any decade). Granted, sometimes the criticism is warranted, but here he’s looking at one film in one franchise and condemning everything.
Aren’t these movies just space adventures made for children?
I mean, I was definitely a child when I saw the original trilogy and, despite seeing every film in the franchise, they haven’t exactly been given any room to grow.
At least not to the point where I’d write a novel like that about them in the comments.
By the way, LOVED you on Seinfeld.
Lucas said he wanted a modern fairy tale for Americans, one that would “reach the child in the adult, and the adult in the child”. You may dismiss them for being thus for children and therefore “not serious of writing a novel about” but there are doctoral dissertations done on the Alice books, and that’s not due to a paucity of imagination or an overwhelming amount of prevention on the part of the Ph.D. candidates. It’s because there’s something actually there worth discussing. And what I posted is not even close to being flash fiction, let alone a novel. Then again, in this age of texting-limited attention spans, when people are proud to be unable to read more than 100 word entries at a time, I guess it would seem to be a novel to some.
…What are you doing with your life?
I just want an Obi Wan film. Glad that other people with the current films, they’re just really weren’t for me. If they really do make the Obi Wan flick I’ll be first in line though.
Solo will make money, but it will be less than half of what the new films have made.
Are you guys freakin serious, a Lando spinoff? Is this the Black Panther effect? That movie sucked big time!! People are getting tired of Star Wars flicks in their present form. They are gonna have to go Dark Alien and do an R rated space opera. It’s the only way to save this dying joke of a franchise.