Sunday, April 9, 2023

Star Wars Celebration news.

Okay, so first, here's the next three movies!

-Movie 1, the James Mangold directed one will be 25,000 years before ANH, and be about the very first Jedi.
-Movie 2, Dave Filoni directing, post-ROTJ in the Mando-verse timeline, and will unify all the shows.
Basically, Mando-verse Infinity War.
-Movie 3, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's movie will be 15 years after TROS, and be Rey rebuilding the Jedi order. Daisy Ridley will of course reprise the role.

The role of this first Jedi ever will be interesting to see cast.
Will they go for an unknown like Mark Hamill, Hayden Christensen, and Daisy Ridley, or will they go for a star, like Alec Guinness, or Liam Neeson?

As for shows....

-Lars Mikkelsen is live-action Thrawn. We all pretty much predicted this.
-"Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" basically sounds like Star Wars Prodigy.
-"Tales Of The Jedi" is getting a season 2.

They called Thrawn "The Heir To The Empire" in the Ahsoka trailer.
We're getting Thrawn Trilogy, but it's called Ahsoka.

Oh, and minor little thing in the Ahsoka trailer.
Orange lightsabers!
That's the whole rainbow!
Plus white and black!

So, that's all that.


2 comments:

B. D. said...

Recent films:

"Let's Scare Jessica To Death" (1971): Atmospheric a bit, slightly effective for such a low budget film, but I wouldn't say anything about it was terribly scary, though I do sort of like the old 70s horror trope of primitive, ugly, creepily loud Moog synthesizer squiggles playing whenever we see blood on screen, which the movie nonetheless quickly cuts away from! I watched this because I saw some people really seemed to like it and it kept getting mentioned in reviews of "Messiah Of Evil," the cult 1973 favorite made by George Lucas's screenwriters.

"Suspiria" (2018): Mostly garbage aside from the first death scene, where one girl dancing in one room causes another girl to die horribly in another one due to witchcraft. The Dario Argento movie is basically a lark to watch--I liked it enough, but it's hardly sacred to me, and it could've been written by a teenager, so I don't have any problem with a new director/writer coming along and doing something different with the basic concept (ballet school run by witches) and jettisoning everything else but the title and main character. But the film is a godforsaken hot mess, 150 minutes of boring gender-studies-class ideas, witches sitting around speaking German, an ugly beige/grey/dark red color scheme, a boring "political" (Baader-Meinhof, Holocaust guilt) backdrop, and gory deaths that clash incoherently with the dull rest of the movie. The climactic scene in the film is actually worse than anything in "Mandy," as it involves one Tilda Swinton (as the head witch, wearing a costume that looks like Jabba the Hutt if he were a blood soaked trash bag with tits) killing a second Tilda Swinton by witch-slashing her head off (before another witch comes and pops it back on, for some reason) while a third Tilda Swinton (playing an 80 year old German man lying on the floor naked) watches a bunch of nude people re-enact the final scene of "The VVitch," then the "50 Shades Of Grey" chick reveals that she is somehow Mother Suspiriorum the whole time, and then the screen becomes bathed in blood red light and slow motion as she goes around exploding other witches' heads to what sound like old "collapsing rocks" sound FX from "Super Castlevania IV" while (I am NOT making this up) a plaintive Thom Yorke piano ballad wails away in the background. What in God's name were these people thinking?!? This might actually be worse than "Mandy"!

I hope the new Star Wars movies are good, because I'll probably cave in and see them, but I personally feel that SW should just be TV shows from now on. That said, I haven't really seen the new TV shows.

Diacanu said...



I've seen both Suspiras, and I only remember flickers of the original, and absolutely nothing of the remake.

I know I saw it; your description sounds familiar...but I can't summons clips to my mind.

I remember the emotions of watching it, and bitching at the screen instead of the actual flick.

Weird, I usually remember everything.
"American Psycho 2" with Mila Kunis was like that.
My brain taped over it.



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