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[–] 217 points 4 days ago (17 children)

It's frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.

Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren't any books and comics?

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Can't use material you don't own, if your primary interest is money.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    So on one hand, that reads to me like she meant "we are not pulling from the existing comics or books", as opposed to "we are unaware of them".

    On the other hand, Darth Caedus (aka Jacen Solo) might have something to say about Kylo Ren being an "original concept" that "was not pulled from the books or comics".

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/lucasfilm-president-kathleen-kennedy-interview-rise-skywalker-future-star-wars-912393/

    Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow was slated to write and direct Episode IX before you brought J.J. Abrams back in. Is this final entry in the trilogy a particularly hard nut to crack?
    Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Lol what? That's like saying drawing is hard if there's no connect the dots

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  • [–] 22 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I have a biased take here, but:

    It's so much worse than that. It's like saying "We can't trace any completed connect the dots drawings" when there were 200 already completed connect the dots drawings specifically based on Star Wars.

    I would kill to have a Darth Bane movie trilogy or two movies based on Revan. There's even a Star Wars zombie book they could have turned into a movie at the height of the zombie media craze for crying out loud.

    Horribly, horribly mismanaged.

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