This has me worried that the new Han Solo movie may be ruined by a few people who want to make a movie that is something other then Star Wars. I hope we don't end up with something like Alien 3 when compared to the rest of its franchise.
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-han-solo-movie-breaking-rules-cinematographer/
Everybody had nearly every rumor and theory and 'fact' about Episode 7 ALL WRONG as it turned out. Almost all the chit chat leading up was BS.
All this article says is a cinematographer needed to understand the directors' intents and visions and direction.
I don't know where this turns into Alien 3 and they're Fing up our franchise and oh my god what the hell are these idiots doing.
"Breaking rules" can mean 1000 things because there are certain conventions several of the films have.
I think everyone should take 50 steps away from the ledge at this point. It's click-bait.
Everybody had nearly every rumor and theory and 'fact' about Episode 7 ALL WRONG as it turned out. Almost all the chit chat leading up was BS.
All this article says is a cinematographer needed to understand the directors' intents and visions and direction.
I don't know where this turns into Alien 3 and they're Fing up our franchise and oh my god what the hell are these idiots doing.
"Breaking rules" can mean 1000 things because there are certain conventions several of the films have.
I think everyone should take 50 steps away from the ledge at this point. It's click-bait.
"Breaking rules" can be as simple as this entry not being a big "Fight The Bad Guys" movie and, instead, be a heist caper.
What does "breaking the rules" mean in or out of context?
Breaking Hollywood's rules? Breaking Star Wars film rules? Breaking Star Wars fiction rules? Breaking Disney's/Lucasfilm's rules?
Whose rules, and in what direction? Or is it just clickbait?
Honestly that article said essentially nothing except, 'gosh, these directors are so cool'. Good, I hope they are cool, cool directors make cool movies.
I keyed in on phrases like, "this spin-off will be quite different than any other Star Wars movie before it" and "it will be unlike anything fans have seen before". That's why I got worried. Different can be great. It can also fail miserably.
I keyed in on phrases like, "this spin-off will be quite different than any other Star Wars movie before it" and "it will be unlike anything fans have seen before". That's why I got worried. Different can be great. It can also fail miserably.
Given the starring characters and the timeframe of the setting, the mere idea that it likely won't deal with the same sort of Republic/Separatists, Rebellion/Empire, Resistance/First Order conflict satisfies both of those statements without being cause for alarm.
I keyed in on phrases like, "this spin-off will be quite different than any other Star Wars movie before it" and "it will be unlike anything fans have seen before". That's why I got worried. Different can be great. It can also fail miserably.
I would rather they risk "different" and fail miserably, than a rehash of the same old themes.
Probably be too much to hope for, but it'd be sweet if the Han Solo movie was an adaptation of Timothy Zahn's Scoundrels novel. Man that was a good heist story with a pretty solid ensemble cast, but parring it down to a 2 hour film would likely wind up neutering the overall story.
Yeah, I wouldn't put too much stock in articles like these. Technically, Marvel's Ant-Man "broke the rules" by being a heist movie at it's core, even though it followed the stock Marvel formula of the Hero squaring off against a Villain using a new/similar version of their powers that they've been running with since the first Iron Man movie.
This has me worried that the new Han Solo movie may be ruined by a few people who want to make a movie that is something other then Star Wars. I hope we don't end up with something like Alien 3 when compared to the rest of its franchise.
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-han-solo-movie-breaking-rules-cinematographer/
Alien 3 > Alien 4 and every AVP movie...
Also, I wouldn't sweat those statements too much. Besides, it is a movie that will have little to do with the force or probably even the Empire and will mostly be about the criminal underworld of Star Wars so I would imagine it will have a different feel than other movies in the series.
This has me worried that the new Han Solo movie may be ruined by a few people who want to make a movie that is something other then Star Wars. I hope we don't end up with something like Alien 3 when compared to the rest of its franchise.
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-han-solo-movie-breaking-rules-cinematographer/
Alien 3 > Alien 4 and every AVP movie...
Also, I wouldn't sweat those statements too much. Besides, it is a movie that will have little to do with the force or probably even the Empire and will mostly be about the criminal underworld of Star Wars so I would imagine it will have a different feel than other movies in the series.
Alien resurrection is not a bad movie..................
At least if you turn it off just before Ripley meets the Queen
This has me worried that the new Han Solo movie may be ruined by a few people who want to make a movie that is something other then Star Wars. I hope we don't end up with something like Alien 3 when compared to the rest of its franchise.
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-han-solo-movie-breaking-rules-cinematographer/
Alien 3 > Alien 4 and every AVP movie...
Also, I wouldn't sweat those statements too much. Besides, it is a movie that will have little to do with the force or probably even the Empire and will mostly be about the criminal underworld of Star Wars so I would imagine it will have a different feel than other movies in the series.
Alien resurrection is not a bad movie..................
At least if you turn it off just before Ripley meets the Queen
It at least made a good dry run for Joss to iron out the kinks in the Firefly crew.
Honestly that article said essentially nothing except, 'gosh, these directors are so cool'. Good, I hope they are cool, cool directors make cool movies.
JJ is cool. I don't think he made even one cool movie
Calling colleagues "cats" at least three times makes me want to say, Stop talking and show me a rough cut.
All the same, I think there's a lot of room for Star Wars movies - not only forward, but throwback. For instance, there's a Kubrick-influenced minimalist feel throughout ANH that faded by RotJ, and isn't present at all in either the prequels or TFA.
Beastie Boys in the soundtrack, yeah, maybe not. But now that SW movies are regular productions, filmmakers need to avoid the cargo-cult-like temptation of following a formula because "it isn't Star Wars" otherwise.
Dude -
Alien 3 rocked... minus the last 10 minutes (added in by another director, btw...).
Dude -
Alien 3 rocked... minus the last 10 minutes (added in by another director, btw...).
http://www.peterdavid.net/2009/05/25/alien-3-people-nothing/
Using the Aliens franchise as an example, a lot of people seem to forget that Cameron did exactly what this article said when he took over for Ridley Scott after the first movie, Alien. Aliens was a huge departure from the original, changing setting, tone, and even genre of film from a Sci-Fi horror to a Sci-fi Action movie. In the process, he reinvigorated the series and set a high bar for Aliens3.
Imagine if the Han Solo story took a subtle gambling approach like the movie Rounders with Matt Damon and Edward Norton (Han in the Matt Damon role and Lando in the Edward Norton role). That movie would dramatically separate itself from the traditional Star Wars flick, but at the same time be an AMAZING movie. Personally, until the mouse house burns me on a film (Marvel or Star Wars) I'll trust that they have a plan and get my popcorn ready.
Rounders in Space could be awesome! Or Oceans Eleven aka Scoundrels could be decent as well. I'm not normally a Zahn fan, but that was a pretty good story.
Dude -
Alien 3 rocked... minus the last 10 minutes (added in by another director, btw...).
http://www.peterdavid.net/2009/05/25/alien-3-people-nothing/
Now that has a worse choice of background and font color than even old Kyla posts, half the text is literally black on black
(I like the new one btw, and might give rounders a shot next weekend)
Agreed... I'd love to read the article (I'm kind of an Alien junky), but that site is practically illegible.
That's strange...whenever I visit the site, the text is black on a white background. I even re-read the article after posting it. I'll take another look when I get home.
That's strange...whenever I visit the site, the text is black on a white background. I even re-read the article after posting it. I'll take another look when I get home.
There is a background image and a black background on the sides, I rewrote the css kicked the annoying image and changed the background to white and noticed than that I already knew the blog post anyway. °_^
From what I've read, this film is the project that Lawrence Kasdan got brought in to do before being brought in on The Force Awakens (I think I first heard this on the Rebel Force Radio podcast a few months ago, but don't have the ability to look it up right now). Between him as writer, Lord and Miller as directors and Kathleen Kenedey as producer, I think we're in good hands.
Is it the choice in first main-character-focused spin-off film I'd have liked? No, but I have enough faith in the people involved that I think we'll get something good.
That's strange...whenever I visit the site, the text is black on a white background. I even re-read the article after posting it. I'll take another look when I get home.
There is a background image and a black background on the sides, I rewrote the css kicked the annoying image and changed the background to white and noticed than that I already knew the blog post anyway. °_^
Hmmm...in looking at it, it looks like pages that go fairly far back (that was posted in May of 2009), the formatting of the text blocks just plain went away. I shot a message to them. Hopefully, it will get fixed.
After reading and hearing what other people had to say about TFA, I didn't bother watching it, just like I didn't bother watching 2 or 3 because I hated Epicsuck One so very much.
I'll go see Rogue One. If I like it, I'll probably watch the Han Solo movie.
I just hope that at no point in any future movies, shows, etc, Disney decides to ruin Boba Fett, Tarkin, or Thrawn.