New Star Wars live action series anounced - Cassian Andor!
Best thing about Cassian was he came across very boring, as we found out little about him due to R1's poor character development.
How is this a good thing? It gives the writers a large bit of room and flexibility when writing the story, as they aren't tied to multiple story snippets and character traits that they were for Solo.
The smart thing about this is you can have all the original trilogy stuff just like rebels could, but have a blank slate of a character to build a world around...also Vader or the emperor or thrawn can make a guest appearance at some point in time...
the other thing is if they build his character good it actually make rogue one better....kind of like a series finally
For some reason i'm not super excited for this, even in R1 there were characters that would make for something more unique, like Baze. Ok i guess.
1 hour ago, Porkchop Express said:Best thing about Cassian was he came across very boring, as we found out little about him due to R1's poor character development.
How is this a good thing? It gives the writers a large bit of room and flexibility when writing the story, as they aren't tied to multiple story snippets and character traits that they were for Solo.
He's also implied to be - pre rogue one - a bit of an anti-hero; the "I've done a lot of stuff I'm not proud of" type - combined with it being live-action, it implies we might be seeing a slightly grittier version of the rebellion.
This should be interesting. A grittier Star Wars TV series is good in my book!
Oooh a prequel to the prequel.
Everyone knows that prequels are what Star Wars does well....
(in all seriousness though this does sound kinda cool)
Edited by player2072913This is going to force them to finally give us a K-2S0 right?
One bit of trivia from my trip to Wookiepedia, Cassian joined the CIS for a while. I wonder if that will be picked up by FFG.
I was surprised by this, but Disney seems to be reacting to the fans at this point. (Which hopefully doesn't fully cancel the Obi-Wan and Boba movies). I think they're hearing a lot of "Rogue One is the only good movie Disney has made" and trying to figure out if that darker, grittier Star Wars is what people want. I think the actor who played Cassian did a good job and I'll be delighted to see K-2SO again. With the time period where this takes place, there could be a lot of exciting surprises as well.
This is a series I’m excited for if it’s done right. By right, I mean I want to see a gritty, “real” Star Wars story that puts war back in the title.
Oh, and we must have more K2. That is non negotiable.
The rest of this isn’t mandatory for a good show, but things I want to see:
- Maul cameo/interaction somewhere. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ray Park brought back for another great fight scene, perhaps agaisnt Vader as I’m not envisioning any good “hey look a token Jedi who survived 66”. (Maybe that’s what gets Cassian out of a jam? 3-way scum/rebellion/imperial battle like the Skyhook from SotE and Vader changes target priority on seeing Maul)
- More of Saw’s partisans and how they came to be as split as they are from the rebels (not sure if season 4 of rebels did this or not - haven’t seen it). Bonus for black and white painted t65s in combat.
Oh good. Just what we need. A THIRD thread about this.
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So they're going to give us another prequel for a character who ends up dead? (He did end up dead at the end right?) And a prequel for a fairly "meh" story we didn't really need. I didn't really care for any of the characters in that thing.
This is what happens when you just throw together a film by focus group. They could have taken their time before Force Awakens but they had to rush in and make a anti-prequel movie and they ended up making a hash of the entire thing and now they're flailing about just like the DC movie universe.
Given what we had in Rogue One with this character and who appeared to be his superiors how does this end up anything other than some great big "gray area" maybe the Rebels aren't so much the good guys thing? I don't need another bad guy general just trying to make the hard calls the civilian leadership is to weak to make.
That it is on yet another streaming service just makes it that much easier to ignore.
1 minute ago, Frimmel said:So they're going to give us another prequel for a character who ends up dead?
It's actually going to be a sequel. Cassian's atomized remains float around in space and don't really do anything season after season. It may not sound terribly exciting, but with the right writers...
7 minutes ago, JJ48 said:It's actually going to be a sequel. Cassian's atomized remains float around in space and don't really do anything season after season. It may not sound terribly exciting, but with the right writers...
What this really says it that Episodes VII and VIII have left them absolutely nowhere. The only thing they've made that's got any traction is Rogue One and this is their last straw to grasp.
3 minutes ago, Frimmel said:What this really says it that Episodes VII and VIII have left them absolutely nowhere. The only thing they've made that's got any traction is Rogue One and this is their last straw to grasp.
yeah, that and the Mandalor. and the Rian Johnson Trilogy. And the thing that the Game of thrones show runners are heading up. and the new Resistance cartoon that just premiered. yeah, they are no where.......
5 hours ago, PanchoX1 said:yeah, that and the Mandalor. and the Rian Johnson Trilogy. And the thing that the Game of thrones show runners are heading up. and the new Resistance cartoon that just premiered. yeah, they are no where.......
I’m pretty sure after TLJ there are a fair amount of people who do not want “Rian Johnson” and “producing a Star Wars movie” in the same sentence. And if Solo is anything to go by, those movies will not do well as they hope.
I'm sure I am being too hopeful and optimistic, but I'd love for it to bring things in from the Rebels series. Both Rogue One and Rebels were successful, and both had tie-ins with each other (Rogue One had more Rebels than vice versa), so maybe/hopefully they will continue that. If this series is supposed to be the "dawn of the Rebellion," that ties in with the theme of Rebels, too. Plus, I'd love to see Hera and Chopper in "real life."
Is it obvious I love Rogue One and Rebels?
1 hour ago, FlyingAnchors said:I’m pretty sure after TLJ there are a fair amount of people who do not want “Rian Johnson” and “producing a Star Wars movie” in the same sentence. And if Solo is anything to go by, those movies will not do well as they hope.
oh I agree but that was not the point of my post. It was that Lucasfilm had plenty of places to go and are going there. Far from grasping a last straw.
And Solo was fantastic.
A live action series about Cassion Andor and K2? Gritty espionage in the time of the Galactic Civil War? Possible Rebels crossover?
Sign me up.
They need to do spin off stuff that is not tied directly to the main storyline. Side stuff, new characters, new ships and planets. they could do a lot to flesh out the mythos.
On 11/9/2018 at 2:50 AM, Stefan said:
Oh yeah. It's super great news that Disney has learned to stop running their Star Wars movies into the ground, and has decided to switch to running TV series into the ground instead...
On 11/9/2018 at 9:01 AM, Porkchop Express said:Best thing about Cassian was he came across very boring, as we found out little about him due to R1's poor character development.
I am not agree at all. The first 30 seconds of cassian in R1 is totally enough for characterising him as stone cold killer and idealist. The movie is short, there is obviously too little time to enter the details IMHO
This sound like the best thing to come out of Disney since Rogue One itself. I'm all in.
I'm hoping for more Classic stuff coming out of this, so...good news
21 hours ago, Frimmel said:What this really says it that Episodes VII and VIII have left them absolutely nowhere. The only thing they've made that's got any traction is Rogue One and this is their last straw to grasp.
Actually, I think it really says that Disney is considering what the market wants and is attempting to deliver that.
Rogue One does well? Great! Let’s tell more stories about those characters and see how that works out.
Disney hasn’t given up on sequel era yet.