Let the daft secure something lucrative and watch them piledrive it straight into the ground. And there’s no better way to see this take place than Kathleen Kennedy and co., at Lucasfilm mishandling the Star Wars franchise. In a recent interview, we learn that Kennedy believes it’s hard to make new Star Wars movies since there isn’t enough source material.
Whether you are a fan of the older Star Wars movies or not, there’s no denying that the original three and the following three prequels affected the playing field that is pop culture.
As it stands now, the latest seventh and eight films in the ongoing series have kicked up a lot of fuss due to a lack of well-crafted events and bad SJW writing. On the topic of future films in the Star Wars universe raising eye-brows is episode IX — best known as The Rise of Skywalker — and how it isn’t far off from the last two films according to rumors.
With all of that said, a new interview by the rollingstone.com touched on the inherent “difficulties of developing a new Star Wars film” without a “pre-established template” to follow. Kennedy lamented how “there is no source material” to fall back on, making things “difficult.”
In addition to the above, here’s Kennedy response to the Rolling Stone’s query on if The Rise of Skywalker is a hard nut to crack:
“Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. We go through a really normal development process that everybody else does. You start by talking to filmmakers who you think exhibit the sensibilities that you’re looking for. And I would argue that the list is very small — people who really do have the sensibilities about these kind of movies, and then the experience and the ability to handle how enormous a job these movies are. So we try to be as thoughtful as we possibly can about making those choices. I would also argue that sometimes people get involved in the normal development process, and then they realize, “Oh, my God, this is so much more than I ever imagined.” So it’s pretty common that when you’re working on movies, you’re not making choices and decisions that necessarily work out exactly the way you want from the get-go. It’s been an evolving process with lots of people and lots of opinions, and then you try to shape something into what it eventually becomes.”
So, the six previous films, all the novels, comics, and video games don’t count? And you mean to tell me that Kennedy and co. are lacking “source material”? Give me a break.
If you want to hear more about the interview between the Rolling Stone and Kennedy, you can listen to Ryan from RK Outpost on Geeks + Gamers covering the nonsense that came out of Kennedy’s mouth:
If for some reason you are looking to watch the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker it’s due out on December 20th, 2019.