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So, Disney’s well and truly taking the Star Wars franchise by the scruff of the neck, even bagging JJ Abrams to govern the ship. But now it’s looking at Yoda spin-off. Yoda: The Early Years somehow leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but am I being just a bitter old sod?
AICN has it that Disney’s first standalone Star Wars franchise movie will be some sort of Yoda story, either a continuation of the story, possibly in the Clone Wars era, or a young Yoda story. That reeks of X-Men: First Class to me, and well, that would ruin a fantastic franchise in my opinion. Vodafone’s already got Yoda selling his soul.
But what do you all think? Should the remaining trilogy be made, and then Star Wars left alone, or is Disney right to try and pump as much money out of it as possible? [AICN via Total Film]
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If the story and the movie is good, I don’t see why they shouldn’t spin off the shit out of it.
Can’t be worse than Episode 1!
I agree mostly but I can just see Yoda being turned into an idiot as an excuse to show character development. Basically I can think of so many ways they could ruin yoda and very few they could improve. He’s better a bit mysterious.
You do have a good point, but judging by the other movies that Disney released recently I am quite confident on it will be good and like Cloudfire said, it can’t be worst than 1. Well, it could but they would have to be really trying hard to make it worst.
there is no “on” after the confident. Give me an edit blah blah blah… What’s the point of asking?
its not like adding an edit button is hard, i am sure that wordpress has a little checkbox by permissions whereby is says ‘users can edit own posts’ ticking that might help
it would save a lot of grief
I reckon it’s a ‘power’ thing the editors have over us
it’s a legal issue that needs working out apparently, stopping people editing their post to make replying commenters look stupid/racist/weird etc
Sam, are you suggesting X-Men: First Class was a bad movie? I rather enjoyed it myself
I’d suggest it’s more comparable to Wolverine: Origins – I think where it can get let down is focussing on one specific beloved character. With that much screen time, somethings bound to rub fans up the wrong way.
JJ Abrams ruined the new Star Trek movie and now this. What JJ Abrams doesn’t seem to understand is that Star Trek is an aspiration. Its what man could achieve. Its about creating a society where people look to better themselves as people and not financially. It had role models like Uhura who showed people a society that isn’t segregated and where racism doesn’t exist. Star Trek was about discovery. The new Star Trek inspires no one. In many ways it goes against Gene Roddenberry’s ideas of what man kind was capable of.
I thought the Original series was about how many aliens Captain Kirk could punch/have sex with?
That was just a happy by-product for Kirk; T is quite correct and although the new Abrams movie was a great action movie it wasn’t in the Star Trek spirit really.
I haven’t seen many Star Trek movies but wasn’t there one where Spock could speak to whales and then they kidnapped them?
But that was to save humanity AND the last remnants of the space-faring species (whales) that us humans thoughtlessly wiped out
Wait… isn’t that Doctor Who?
Nope….it was Spock etc…
Are you saying that’s NOT self improvement?
My life… Wasted… Noooo!
For me, Star Wars started going down hill at Return of the Jedi. The prequel trilogy was mostly awful. Only the Clone Wars CGI cartoon has given me any hope that Star Wars has any life left in it.
So, I say go for it. It can’t get any worse.
Besides, Disney have guided Marvel to some brilliant films over the last few years. Now Goerge Lucas has finally let go, it could be back to the glory days.
Give me a younger Yoda, in a dark samurai style epic. That’d be cool. Boba Fett in his own film chasing down remaining Jedi. Could be decent.
Sure, why not.
How about less of a yoda star wars film (which would be terrible just watching a CGI character for 2 hours), and more of a yoda star wars video game? Give it a AAA production value with some massive development team and get a solid third person action/adventure game with the full star wars film quality cut scenes, develop it for the xbox 720 and you’ll make millions!
And so it begins…
No, Star Wars sucks, let it die.
Oh dear. Fail you will.
As long as he beats the **** out of Mickey Mouse and his bloody friends.
After years of having the endure Mickey’s Club House with my daughter I’d be more than happy to watch Goofy be neutered and make Donald into a duck salad.
Gawd I hate Disney…