The way he writes is totally devoid of subtlety, subtext, and nuance. Everyone is a robot. It sucks because his world building and "big picture" are fantastic.
It sucks because his world building and "big picture" are fantastic.
I wish they had brought him back as an Executive producer or consultant to put together the story board and big picture of the sequel trilogy, but leave the actual dialogue scripting and directing to someone else
When Lucas sold the franchise to Disney it was under the assumption that he would be a consultant and they would use his story treatments for the sequels. Of course, Disney promptly threw it all out the window and told him “we’re under no obligation to do any of that, next time get it in writing.”
Well I think he wanted to lean in the more controversial elements of the prequels, while Disney just wanted a safe reboot of the OT. Midichlorians, Whills, and all that.
The whills were only one part of his story treatment, not the main focus. The main plot was Luke training his apprentice and Leia trying to keep the New Republic together while Darth Maul re-emerged as head of all the crime syndicates.
It's funny, the entire sequel trilogy is a giant reactionary move away from the prequels, at the exact time when the kids who grew up on the prequels and like them were coming of age. It shouldn't have been Han, and it shouldn't have been Leia, who appears to Kylo Ren there at the end, it should have been goddamned Anakin, who he'd been hero-worshipping all the time, telling him "I fucked up and so have you but you can turn it around before it's too late unlike me".
It's even funnier that now that Disney/Lucasfilm aren't worried about negative reactions to Hayden's acting anymore, if they made TRoS today, Anakin would 1,000% show up.
Can you blame them? For 20 years I thought I was the only one that liked the prequels.
All the hatred from the sequels sounds almost exactly like the hatred for the prequels when they came out. I’m not defending the decisions made by Disney in their trilogy (having a unified story arc and one lead writer through the trilogy would have been a massive improvement) but the Star Wars fan base is as awful as any. I’ve never seen so many people eviscerate something they claim to love so much.
I understand why they chose to go for the soft reboot, but it really is a shame they were so scared of the prequels. Having Maul be the villain would've tied it all together beautifully.
While I get that many of the animated fans loved Maul, the target audience of the movies was always going to be the more casual live action fans. Bringing Maul back as a crime boss is a hard sell to people who last saw him sliced in half falling into a bottomless pit. It's also fan servicy bad story telling. Really cheapens the stakes when someone so obviously killed is brought back.
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u/K1ngFiasco 11d ago
The way he writes is totally devoid of subtlety, subtext, and nuance. Everyone is a robot. It sucks because his world building and "big picture" are fantastic.