New Han Solo Film(s)

[elcroz]

Overload is a very good point and as someone said above will people say 'oh no, not another Star Wars movie'.

I remember when Star Trek burnt itself out, we had the Next Generation movies In cinemas, new Deep Space 9 & Voyager on TV as well as the Next-Generation and the Original Series re-runs and to further muddy the waters there was a glut of 'similar-ish' shows on TV such as Babylon 5, Andromeda, Stargate, Firefly etc which did not help the oversaturation (IMO).

By the time 'Enterprise' was shown 2001-2005 (I think) the audience had just had too much Trek and the franchise has not really recovered properly even now.
Star Trek's home is on TV, there is talk but God knows when another series will be commissioned.

Star Wars could well go the same way as the Trek, especially if Disney were to add the long rumoured live action TV show and even more cartoons etc...too much of anything can leave people feeling ultimately stale.

 

[Pomse2001]

I think it is great that disney is doing all those star wars movies. That is something I wanted when I was a kid in the 80s. I never understood when I was a kid why there was only 3 star wars movies.

But I fear it would not be the same when Harrison Ford is not playing Han Solo, No one can replace him.

But I guess many people said the same when Sean Connery got replaced as James Bond and now 6 people have played James Bond. Not that I hope we will see 6 different Han Solo :lol:

 

[spoons]

But I guess many people said the same when Sean Connery got replaced as James Bond and now 6 people have played James Bond. Not that I hope we will see 6 different Han Solo :lol:

A very good point Lars

Personally I think I'll lose interest in the franchise if there's a film a year - I used to love marvel characters but there are way to many films now. Anyone excited about Antman....

 

[Pomse2001]

But I guess many people said the same when Sean Connery got replaced as James Bond and now 6 people have played James Bond. Not that I hope we will see 6 different Han Solo :lol:

A very good point Lars

Personally I think I'll lose interest in the franchise if there's a film a year - I used to love marvel characters but there are way to many films now. Anyone excited about Antman....

Thanks Andy I do not know much about Marvel characters. The only Marvel movies I have seen is Spiderman, Ghost Rider, Thor and Iron Man.

I think a star wars movie every year is great if they are good :lol:

Again they also did a few of the first james bond movies every year, later they changed it to one every second year and today every 3rd or 4th year.

I think 3 or 4 years is to much to wait for a new movie, live is short

But I hope we will not see Daniel Craig as Han Solo, I think it is hard enough to see him as james bond :lol:

 

[Princess Raya]

Do I think the world is going to reach SW saturation point in the not too distant future? Definitely. But nobody is going to put a gun to my head and make me watch it all.
The Expanded Universe arguably had us at saturation point already. I'm quite pleased with Disney wiping the slate clean and erasing the EU from SW canon. It was the inspiration for me wiping the PT from my personal SW head canon too.
Now I can look forward to the future with excitement. If any of the new films are good, I'll love them and permit them into my personal SW head canon. If they're crap, I'll erase them and never watch them again - my SW enjoyment will be unaffected.

Lets be honest, can Disney really do any worse than the PT?

 

[weasel]

But I guess many people said the same when Sean Connery got replaced as James Bond and now 6 people have played James Bond. Not that I hope we will see 6 different Han Solo :lol:

A very good point Lars

Personally I think I'll lose interest in the franchise if there's a film a year - I used to love marvel characters but there are way to many films now. Anyone excited about Antman....

I saw the trailer for that in the cinema the other week. When the "Ant Man" bit came on people actually bust out laughing. You could hear them saying "WTF is that" and "FFS they will make anything." It's been over kill on super hero movies for years and years now. Yet Hollywood keep churning them out.

 

[ODB]

Lets be honest, can Disney really do any worse than the PT?

Have you seen John Carter, The Lone Ranger, The Haunted Mansion or Prince of Persia?

 

[jedisearcher]

So before anyone on this forum has seen more than 60 seconds of TFA teaser trailer footage (which 90%+ of people loved and some got all emotional over), you're sick of Disneys offerings being milked to death, badly writted, badly cast, over-hyped blah blah blah :lol:

I'm sure they'll never get anywhere near being as good as the originals, but what was as good as something from your childhood?? Wagon wheels? Marathons? The weather? Even school dinners weren't that bad and everything was bigger and better when you hadn't got to your 10th birthday.

Probably a better idea to give Disney a chance, especially until you've actually soon a couple of films ...

Grumpy gits :lol:

 

[jedisearcher]

Lets be honest, can Disney really do any worse than the PT?

Have you seen John Carter, The Lone Ranger, The Haunted Mansion or Prince of Persia?

Disney never spent $4bn buying the rights to those films. They're not stupid, they know they need to succeed with Star Wars which hopefully means that they do a better job getting it right.

 

[theforceuk]

So before anyone on this forum has seen more than 60 seconds of TFA teaser trailer footage (which 90%+ of people loved and some got all emotional over), you're sick of Disneys offerings being milked to death, badly writted, badly cast, over-hyped blah blah blah :lol:

I'm sure they'll never get anywhere near being as good as the originals, but what was as good as something from your childhood?? Wagon wheels? Marathons? The weather? Even school dinners weren't that bad and everything was bigger and better when you hadn't got to your 10th birthday.

Probably a better idea to give Disney a chance, especially until you've actually soon a couple of films ...

Grumpy gits :lol:

Well said.

 

[ODB]

Lets be honest, can Disney really do any worse than the PT?

Have you seen John Carter, The Lone Ranger, The Haunted Mansion or Prince of Persia?

Disney never spent $4bn buying the rights to those films. They're not stupid, they know they need to succeed with Star Wars which hopefully means that they do a better job getting it right.

No but the first two bombed at the box office hard enough each time that it impaired Disney's profit for that quarter. I doubt they planned for either of them to lose circa $150m each but it happened, in fact Lone Ranger had budget cut backs and alterations made after John Carter's failure but to no avail.

 

[JFK]

Looking forward to taking my kids to see DISNEY STAR WARS ON ICE at Sunderland arena every last penny squeezed out of the franchise

 

[Princess Raya]

Didn't George Lucas invent film merchandising single handedly? The milking started in 1977, and we wouldn't all be here without it. I'm personally going to enjoy the build up to a new Star Wars film(!)

The destination may or may not be a disappointment, but I'm sure as hell gonna enjoy the journey. Now where can I preorder my copy of Aftermath...

 

[sith-smith]

Personally I think the Star Wars universe is so large that they could potentially makes films every few years and not even begin to cover everything.

What concerns me more is if they tried to remake the OT

 

[palitoyjunky]

Well I hope to God they don't even think of doing that :!: :?

 

[Grant]

Personally I think the Star Wars universe is so large that they could potentially makes films every few years and not even begin to cover everything.

What concerns me more is if they tried to remake the OT

It's just a matter of time before they RE make the OT.

 

[Twin30mm]

I think there would be uproar, if they contemplated rebooting the OT.
It's so ingrained into a generations psyche, they would be onto a hiding to nothing.

The prequels, on the other hand........................

 

[Robstyley]

I think this thread is getting slightly skewed off topic!? We were talking about them making a Han Solo film and now everyones going on about TFA and any random other SW films. I think most people are looking forward to TFA, me included but if they keep churning out loads of spin offs and backstories it could spoil the magic and become silly. They are in danger of the films/franchise losing their/its integrity if they overdo it. Especially if they are all action and effects over substance.

 

[TrisCompany]

I agree that there is a potential for massive overkill.

However if you were going to do a spinoff film that had the makings of a great story then this could be it. Some really cool stuff could be covered:

Han origins
His life as a pirate / merchant runner and run ins with the empire
Han getting to know Chewie
Early run ins with Jabba and interactions with bounty hunters- maybe reprises for the ESB bounty crew and Greedo
Winning the MF from Lando
Tongue in cheek one liners and action sequences

But as has been said you can't replace Harrison Ford.

 

[Grant_C]

You know Disney made Pulp Fiction as well under a subsidiary company called Miramax?

This is a similar situation. The Force Awakens is made by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot.

I think this is toy forum Disguised as a Star Wars forum.

I could understand being cautious about big announcements like this, but to disregard it without seeing anything from it is ignorant.