A live-action “Star Wars” series coming to the platform from Jon Favreau, the director of films like “Iron Man” and “The Jungle Book,” is expected to cost roughly $100 million for 10 episodes. “‘Star Wars’ is a big world, and Disney’s new streaming service affords a wonderful opportunity to tell stories that stretch out over multiple chapters,” Mr. Favreau said in an email. He added of Mr. Strauss: “Marketing is about telling a story, and his background in that area allows us to collaborate and create new content.”
Also, unsurprising, but also confirmed that there won’t be R rated content on the Disney streaming service
Yeah but they have the Fox library and a big part of getting that I thought was that library of movies and franchises (many of which are R-rated) They won't show something like Predator? There should be a "Disney" section, a "Fox" section, a "Star Wars" section, a "Marvel" section, etc.
I read that Hulu is getting the Fox catalog sans Star Wars. I also read the price point will be cheaper than Netflix because they won't have a lot of content compared to Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video. It will be a second subscription streaming service and will probably be something like $9.99/month.
Figured he'd do something with Mandaloreans. Could be cool, if they take up their old ways and start wrecking shit. Give me Mandos riding Basilisk war droids down from orbiting drop ships to conquer a planet.
Being optimistic - this is a pocket of the SW universe you can really develop and create your own lore, without impacting or having to navigate the constraints of the movie canon, (the force, main characters, events ect). Basically Mandalorian Game of Thrones. Lots of potential, imo. Being pessimistic - I dont want to be that right now.
Curiosity got the best of me of why something on ESPN2 is connected to SW. Goodness. this is amazing. Should start a thread imo
competitive lightsaber fighting. bunch of nerds wearing hockey pads lightsaber fighting. it's glorious
This is challenging curling for my fave niche sport. But Chess Boxing in two hours could be a game changer
Will watch but not excited for it. Although I wasnt excited or Rebels or Clone Wars either. It was hard for me to get into a cartoon. I think it being 2D instead of Pixar style ( i know that's the wrong term) will be tough to get into also.
So I would expect them to have some sort of connection with the Force in there but how do you do that at this point in the timeline? The only real Force wielder at this point is Luke (and technically Asoka and Ezra)
Yeah and I’m sure they will have others but I’m referring to full on trained users. I have to expect that Disney is going to try to hambone lightsabers in there somehow and I don’t really see how in a way that makes sense. Then again and an almost 40 year old dude and this is a cartoon on the Disney channel meant for tweens, so what do they care about all that
I don’t expect to see any of the Force in this. I will watch this. Search your feelings, you know it is going to be good.
I did enjoy the animation style but the cel shading was distracting Like an shitty artificial glossiness
Imagine not ignore gubbs. SMH I didn't like the look of Rebels when it started (remember the look of the wookiees in that first episode? Yikes) but I quickly got used to it as the story sucked me in. I'm sure the same will happen with this.
It’s a Disney show for kids. Kids like the force. They will shoe horn it in there somehow, guaranteed
I bet that ad is misleading and Poe is in one episode If they somehow shoehorn Luke in it’ll be pandering fan service but goddamnit give it to me
This feels very kid friendly compared to even the first few episodes of rebels. The change in animation definitely adds to it. Feels like I’m watching a Star Wars version of the new Zelda. I think we are finding out why clone wars was re-booted. Appease the older crowd with the more adult oriented clone wars and leave this geared toward kids.
I’d bet Filoni is going to be the head creative or Feige of the SW universe and Kathleen Kennedy will either be fired or still be head of LFL but a far less public figure
Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment By Kelly Marie Tran Aug. 21, 2018 Editors’ note: The actress deleted her Instagram posts this summer in response to online harassment. Here she speaks out for the first time. It wasn’t their words, it’s that I started to believe them. Their words seemed to confirm what growing up as a woman and a person of color already taught me: that I belonged in margins and spaces, valid only as a minor character in their lives and stories. And those words awakened something deep inside me — a feeling I thought I had grown out of. The same feeling I had when at 9, I stopped speaking Vietnamese altogether because I was tired of hearing other kids mock me. Or at 17, when at dinner with my white boyfriend and his family, I ordered a meal in perfect English, to the surprise of the waitress, who exclaimed, “Wow, it’s so cute that you have an exchange student!” Their words reinforced a narrative I had heard my whole life: that I was “other,” that I didn’t belong, that I wasn’t good enough, simply because I wasn’t like them. And that feeling, I realize now, was, and is, shame, a shame for the things that made me different, a shame for the culture from which I came from. And to me, the most disappointing thing was that I felt it at all. Because the same society that taught some people they were heroes, saviors, inheritors of the Manifest Destiny ideal, taught me I existed only in the background of their stories, doing their nails, diagnosing their illnesses, supporting their love interests — and perhaps the most damaging — waiting for them to rescue me. And for a long time, I believed them. I believed those words, those stories, carefully crafted by a society that was built to uphold the power of one type of person — one sex, one skin tone, one existence. It reinforced within me rules that were written before I was born, rules that made my parents deem it necessary to abandon their real names and adopt American ones — Tony and Kay — so it was easier for others to pronounce, a literal erasure of culture that still has me aching to the core. And as much as I hate to admit it, I started blaming myself. I thought, “Oh, maybe if I was thinner” or “Maybe if I grow out my hair” and, worst of all, “Maybe if I wasn’t Asian.” For months, I went down a spiral of self-hate, into the darkest recesses of my mind, places where I tore myself apart, where I put their words above my own self-worth. And it was then that I realized I had been lied to. I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person’s approval. I had been tricked into thinking that my body was not my own, that I was beautiful only if someone else believed it, regardless of my own opinion. I had been told and retold this by everyone: by the media, by Hollywood, by companies that profited from my insecurities, manipulating me so that I would buy their clothes, their makeup, their shoes, in order to fill a void that was perpetuated by them in the first place. Yes, I have been lied to. We all have. And it was in this realization that I felt a different shame — not a shame for who I was, but a shame for the world I grew up in. And a shame for how that world treats anyone who is different. I am not the first person to have grown up this way. This is what it is to grow up as a person of color in a white-dominated world. This is what it is to be a woman in a society that has taught its daughters that we are worthy of love only if we are deemed attractive by its sons. This is the world I grew up in, but not the world I want to leave behind. I want to live in a world where children of color don’t spend their entire adolescence wishing to be white. I want to live in a world where women are not subjected to scrutiny for their appearance, or their actions, or their general existence. I want to live in a world where people of all races, religions, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities are seen as what they have always been: human beings. This is the world I want to live in. And this is the world that I will continue to work toward. These are the thoughts that run through my head every time I pick up a script or a screenplay or a book. I know the opportunity given to me is rare. I know that I now belong to a small group of privileged people who get to tell stories for a living, stories that are heard and seen and digested by a world that for so long has tasted only one thing. I know how important that is. And I am not giving up. You might know me as Kelly. I am the first woman of color to have a leading role in a “Star Wars” movie. I am the first Asian woman to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair. My real name is Loan. And I am just getting started. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/movies/kelly-marie-tran.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur