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solohux:
Inconsistent writing is the very least of what happens when you acquire a massive franchise, immediately want to make a trilogy… but then throw out the original creator’s outlines for said trilogy, don’t even bother with outlining a set path for the trilogy that’s now going to 100% be your own, fast track the production of all three movies via cutting away that “pesky” extra year of planning and pre-production, have a man who admits that he’s “not good at endings” do the first movie, then hire a man who has no kind of experience making a major franchise film and has been vocal about wanting “to do his own thing, regards of how the audience might react” in the past do the second one and then when that –Surprise surprise– doesn’t turn out well bring the first guy back to make the final film and dump a now horribly messy story on his lap and just hope for the best!
I realize that George Lucas was not perfect as a storyteller either: He had his blind spots, bouts of eccentricity and just could not leave finished films alone… BUT! He was a man with a vision of the story that he wanted to tell. Yes, sometimes the specifics of how that story actually happened changed, but above-all, the end product still hit the same broad beats that he originally outlined.
Disney –A company world renowned for its storytelling skill in film for nearly a century– did not set out to do that. They set out to make a profit on their newest investment as soon as they possibly could and boy oh boy, does it ever show!
solohux:
Inconsistent writing is the very least of what happens when you acquire a massive franchise, immediately want to make a trilogy… but then throw out the original creator’s outlines for said trilogy, don’t even bother with outlining a set path for the trilogy that’s now going to 100% be your own, fast track the production of all three movies via cutting away that “pesky” extra year of planning and pre-production, have a man who admits that he’s “not good at endings” do the first movie, then hire a man who has no kind of experience making a major franchise film and has been vocal about wanting “to do his own thing, regards of how the audience might react” in the past do the second one and then when that –Surprise surprise– doesn’t turn out well bring the first guy back to make the final film and dump a now horribly messy story on his lap and just hope for the best!
I realize that George Lucas was not perfect as a storyteller either: He had his blind spots, bouts of eccentricity and just could not leave finished films alone… BUT! He was a man with a vision of the story that he wanted to tell. Yes, sometimes the specifics of how that story actually happened changed, but above-all, the end product still hit the same broad beats that he originally outlined.
Disney –A company world renowned for its storytelling skill in film for nearly a century– did not set out to do that. They set out to make a profit on their newest investment as soon as they possibly could and boy oh boy, does it ever show!