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Post by Gojitron on Dec 13, 2020 22:24:44 GMT -5
Here's all the Star Wars and other items of interest from the Disney reveals.
The only SW feature film announced was Rogue Squadron for 2022 to be directed by Patty Jenkins. Patty's father was a decorated fighter pilot who was KIA when she was seven and she's stated that she's always wanted to do a film featuring pilots.
Indiana Jones 5 is still a go, also for 2022. Harrison will be, I don't know, 106 by then?
Disney+ is where it's at for Star Wars...
Ewan McGregor will be joined by Hayden Christensen for the Obi-Wan Kenobi show which is said to take place 10 years after episode 3. Star Wars on Disney+ is about redemption, apparently. Where's the Jar-Jar show?
Andor is currently filming.
The Bad Batch is an animated spin-off featuring the Dirty Dozen style clone unit seen in the last season of Clone Wars.
A Droid Story will be an animated movie featuring Artoo and Threepio. It features a "new hero" guided by the droids. Sounds like the old 80's cartoon. No mention of Anthony Daniels, but what else does he have going on?
Ahsoka will get her own show starring Rosario Dawson. That was a safe bet.
Another Mando spin-off will be Rangers of the New Republic. No cast announced yet, so the question of "does Disney care what Gina Carano does on Twitter" has not yet been answered.
Lando may be a cross-generational series with both Donald Glover and Billy Dee, but no details yet.
Star Wars Visions will be a series of anime shorts.
And just to make sure Disney gets the most from the Lucasfilm purchase, there will also be a Willow series.
There's another SW series rumored, but I'll wait until after the Mando season finale to mention that because it might be a huge spoiler.
Other stuff...
John Mulaney and Andy Samberg will be Chip and Dale in a Rescue Rangers movie on Disney+. Um.......
Lightyear is a Pixar theatrical release for 2022 which will feature the "real person" who inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy. He'll be voiced by Chris Evans.
Meanwhile, over at Hulu, Noah Hawley of Fargo and Legion, will be creating an Alien series that focuses on the "human drama" in the Alien universe.
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Post by Greatshot on Dec 14, 2020 1:49:13 GMT -5
Rogue Squadron (the game) was one of the best Star Wars things ever. If the film takes any inspiration from that name, I will be beyond thrilled. I love the idea of an Obi-Wan show. Dunno how I feel about Vader returning, since that seems to undermine their meeting on the first Death Star. Think I'd be a LOT happier if the returning Sith Lord was Maul. Rogue One is the only Disney era movie I like and I greatly enjoyed they were willing to show the.. less savory parts of the Rebellion. Andor could be good. Donald Glover was the only redeeming thing about that god awful pointless Solo movie. Straight channeled a young Williams. Am interested in this. I am stupidly interested in Lightyear. The rest, meh.
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Post by SporkBot on Dec 14, 2020 11:00:49 GMT -5
Not that I have a problem with John Mulaney, or that I'm nostalgia-bound to the old Rescue Rangers cartoon, but this casting is baffling...and not just because I've never cared for Andy "poor-man's Adam Sandler" Sandberg.
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Post by machsabre on Dec 14, 2020 16:00:46 GMT -5
Not that I have a problem with John Mulaney, or that I'm nostalgia-bound to the old Rescue Rangers cartoon, but this casting is baffling...and not just because I've never cared for Andy "poor-man's Adam Sandler" Sandberg. Oh shit, don't look now, Sporky, but it's written by James Tynion IV! (Obviously a joke, but I wonder what your face looked like for a second there before it registered "Oh, Dave's just being a dipshit again.")
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Post by SporkBot on Dec 14, 2020 18:08:11 GMT -5
Not that I have a problem with John Mulaney, or that I'm nostalgia-bound to the old Rescue Rangers cartoon, but this casting is baffling...and not just because I've never cared for Andy "poor-man's Adam Sandler" Sandberg. Oh shit, don't look now, Sporky, but it's written by James Tynion IV! (Obviously a joke, but I wonder what your face looked like for a second there before it registered "Oh, Dave's just being a dipshit again.") Oh, I jumped to that pretty quickly. The only thing that preceded it was the compulsion to snark on excessive crying, plot holes the size of Buicks, and bad poetry leading to a crappy, crappy conclusion.
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Post by Greatshot on Dec 15, 2020 22:50:47 GMT -5
So in a quiet day at work I was just wool gathering on just how much stuff Disney is putting into D+ and I was like "geez, they're really putting a ton of investments into this. These MCU and Star Wars tv shows, done with what look close to movie level production values cannot be cheap."
That lead me to musing about the cost. What follows is VERY thumbnail math and taking some fairly large, but I feel reasonable. assumptions.
So... if aside from big tentpole movies (assuming those ever indeed are a thing), Disney is cutting out a ton of middleman "cost" -- no licensing/carriage fees for broadcast/cable stuff, no syndication rights, etc etc. Just straight from them to the consumer, creating all the content "in house" via their owned brands, so they won't be paying for rights to anything either.
Last number put them at 86.8 MILLION subscribers.
Okay, so lets assume only 50% of those pay the (soon to be) 8 bucks a month. The other half we'll say 25% do the yearly subscription (79.99, so 6.67/month), and the final 25% don't pay for it, they get it thru some service (IE a Verizon cell plan), though obviously disney's still getting money from someone for those subs (though I'm sure those agreements are bulk rates, so we'll say they're getting $4/month for each of those) . So again, very rough math, we'll say they're getting on average 597,239,000 a month in streaming revenue. Assuming they keep that subscriber rate, which is certainly feasible with the huge amount of upcoming content. That's 7 BILLION dollars a year. Now obviously there's a lot of swing room in my armchair appraisal, so say give or take a billion in either direction to make room for errors.
Netflix has to chase content, even most of their in house stuff is them throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks (and to be fair, some of it is great). Disney's gonna do everything inside their own four walls so to speak. Suddenly I very clearly understand why they're pouring so much money into their big name brands on there. They might very well annihilate the concept of the box office and television licensing agreements if it works, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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Post by Gojitron on Dec 18, 2020 22:48:58 GMT -5
SPOILERS FOR MANDO SEASON FINALE
December 2021 - The Book of Boba Fett! Taking over Jabba's throne like a ruthless sonovabitch! Nice.
Bib Fortuna, NOT getting a show. 😆
So, Mando season 3...not sure when that's happening, but I guess we'll get some kind of struggle between Din Djarin and Bo Katan? It'll be interesting to see if the show retains it viewership sans Grogu.
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Post by machsabre on Dec 19, 2020 0:23:50 GMT -5
What if Season Three is basically the Book of Boba Fett? And we're just shifting focus onto a different Mandalorian? Dec. 2021 is supposed to be the release date for Season Three?
Unless BoBF is like a short three episode Miniseries thingie?
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Post by Gojitron on Dec 19, 2020 7:15:24 GMT -5
What if Season Three is basically the Book of Boba Fett? And we're just shifting focus onto a different Mandalorian? Dec. 2021 is supposed to be the release date for Season Three? Unless BoBF is like a short three episode Miniseries thingie? Well, it's been widely reported that Pedro Pascal walked off set during season 2 due to creative differences that have not yet been worked out for season 3. So the Fett show may be considered season 2.5 or something just to hold fans over until they work things out with Pedro or figure out how to move forward without him.
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Post by iacon45 on Dec 20, 2020 11:55:07 GMT -5
I was thinking that with how poorly Solo performed at the box office and with the mixed reviews of Episode 8 and 9, that Disney might have flooded the market with Star Wars and people were getting tired of it. I guess instead it just evolved into a new market with how well the Mandolorian is doing. (I haven't seen any episodes of Mando but I plan on changing that next month when I sign up for the Disney/Hulu/ESPN bundle). But seeing all that they have planned, I hope they don't flood the streaming market with Star Wars series where it becomes quantity over quality. I am really looking forward to that Obi-Wan series though so I at least plan on watching that and catching up on Mando.
As for Harrison Ford and Indiana Jones, I am a huge Indiana Jones fan so I will probably see it even if it was him rolling his wheelchair throughout the retirement home trying to get the last pudding cup in the cafeteria while trying to avoid the orderlies and doctors. But seriously though he is 78 now and by 2022 he will be in his 80s. I know they already said they are not planning on recasting him but I can't see him doing alot of the action shots Indy is known for unless they use a combination of stunt doubles and CGI-Ford. But considering his real life age, and it being on record this will be the last Indy movie, I imagine it will involve him on the verge of retirement if not already. It will be interesting if they could pull of an Indy movie that maybe dialed back on some of the more action scenes involving Indy.
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