Di$ney and sequel trilogy
For the last few days I’ve been watching interviews with Mark Hamill about the new Star Wars movies and reading about it, and the director’s responds, and I must say it’s a load of crap.
Rian Johnson says that he makes the movies based on what he wants them to be, not the fans. Fact is, if it was true, why not just make them private? I don’t know, write fanfiction, make short films and just not make them public, have them for yourself, because being a director isn’t about crating what you want. If you’re a director, your priority should be creating what the fans most want (especially when you barge into someone else’s project that has been going on for almost 30 years) and sure, would be nice if it would also be what the director wants, but like I said, being a director is creating something for the audience, not yourself, you’re a public person. For example, Dave Filoni, when working on the Star Wars Rebels series, on the episode where Ahsoka fought Vader, he originally was going to kill her, he personally liked that idea and I as a fan would also like that idea, but he didn’t do it, because he knew it’s not what most of the fans would want. That’s an example of good directorship.
George Lucas was creating Star Wars for himself but also for the fans, he cared what they had to say, and he put everything into it. I get, that making a movie is a private experience, but I don’t think Rian Johnson knows what that means. It means that you put a part of yourself into it, you become one with your project, not make what you want and make it for yourself.
I wish the new directors would at least try to listen to the feedback, maybe ask George what he would do, because it is his own universe they are working on. Instead they just make anything they like. What’s the point in showing the films to people (except money) if you’re not willing to listen to the feedback? Just throwing it out there and closing yourself from any kind of critique? Nice.
At this point the sequel trilogy was, is and always will be dead to me. I don’t consider it canon. To me canon are just the original and prequel trilogy and books and comics that I know are written by people who discussed the plot with Mr. Lucas, or are considered canon by him or his associates like Dave Filoni.
Also, I feel really bad for Mark Hamill. Having to work on something so different from what you indentified yourself with in the past. It must’ve been hard.
