"A TV show about a likable space dad and his cute, cheeky, telekinetically powered adopted alien son, or perhaps a divisive culture-war bellwether that vacillates between trying to destroy itself in a blaze of operatic self-importance and hamfistedly rebuilding itself. These days Star Wars also seems mainly to be press releases and announcements, throwaway comments in interviews that gesture mournfully towards what once was and what might, one day, be again."
"I'm just trying to sort of go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films, he told Variety, adding of George Lucas' original trilogy: The stakes were very high [and] there were serious things going on but also there was a lot fun to be had in those films. That's what I was trying to bring back."
Star Wars began as a pulpy space adventure that drew large cinema audiences with comic wizards and laser swords. Contemporary output ranges from a TV show featuring a likable space father and a telekinetically powered adopted alien son to a divisive cultural bellwether that oscillates between operatic self-importance and clumsy rebuilding. The franchise currently prioritizes press releases, announcements, and interview noise over steady filmmaking. An Oscar-winning director was attached to a film six years ago but development has stalled, while several proposed projects — a Lando Calrissian idea, a new trilogy, and a Hunt for Ben Solo script — remain possible but unrealized.
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