Disney is just trying to burn money now
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Star Wars X: A Lost Hope
Star Wars: A New Nope
I think we could be onto a new viral meme with this thing :)
They've put themselves in a lose-lose situation.
They back down from Rey and the sequels, they look like they are capitulating to the racist bigots and they spend the rest of the decade getting PR nightmares on every channel and social media.
Yet if they continue in the direction they've chosen, they continue to just slow drain money as people care less and less about the IP.
They should be able to make the money as they drain the IP. It's a very common thing to buy a brand and then cut corners until the brand loses its appeal. +/- hits and misses, I think that's what Disney is going to do.
I don't think that was the plan when they bought it, but it certainly is now. Its why they are shoving out show after show endlessly to wring out every last penny before they lose the power of controversy and outrage marketing for them.
I'm pretty sure this has been the plan of Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast for DnD and Magic the gathering.
I don't even play MtG and I cringe when I see all the crossover expansion they have been releasing rapid fire.
What is the revenue stream for yet another movie? Box office profit is far from guaranteed. I can't imagine they're making much money from the toy lines either. We've seen several cinematic universes derail: the Monster universe that never got off the ground, the DCU, and even the MCU as of late.
The first trick is to spend less. If u release on Xmas you'll get some views
Problem is that they've stated repeatedly that they haven't yet turned a profit on Star Wars. They needed to make back the billions that they paid for it, and so far, they haven't, and now they're losing money hand over fist.
I'm not sure capital works that way. What you do is borrow ever more. Disney itself could shit a billion out and still be a going interest. So on some level it doesn't matter. A competent brand liquidators could get them some $Bs
The goal is to get people to care less and less about the IP. They must destroy your mythology to implement their utopia.
Lennon's "imagine" laid it out pretty well.
Who needs a Jedi? Lightsabers ain't shit. Everyone can use the Force. And all the Sith are dead.
You need self-insert girl-boss with English accent to fight the patriarchy, like a bunch of guys not taking inane girl-boss advice seriously when working on their wildly popular guy projects.
But she needs magic powers for the fantasy to be extra nice. Force choke the patriarchy, girl!
No! The Jedi are and always have been the oppressors in Star Wars (according to them). They need the Sith to be their "heroes" to continue the "narrative".
Make it Star Wars XXX and I might give a fuck.
I feel we've already been screwed.
Gonna need to recast a much better looking actress if that's the goal.
Nope! They need Daisy Ridley to look like a young boy so they can continue their gay/trans/pedo narrative!
Misses mouth and shoots the load in her eyes:
Funny quip: "You cum like a stormtrooper!"
Audience laughs
I have a good feeling about this (in my pants)
Star Wars, please go away for awhile. You smell like garbage.
Gimme a real Heir to the Empire, or a sequel that starts right after ep 6, so we can change the fucking trajectory in a proactive retcon.
I didn’t want to go to episode 9 but had promised my nephew I’d take him a year prior. I remember thinking if that was all y they had they should’ve just loosely adapted Heir to the Empire or used the idea of the Vong (threat from outside the galaxy) instead of another rebellion vs empire rehash. Imagine how much more successful omit would’ve been had they just had Luke be heroic
Odd feeling not caring about a new Star Wars movie but here we are. Gotta love how she is able to rebuild Jedi but they didn’t think to have Luke’s Jedi Academy. At least I have the EU
They actually did, they got killed or turned by Ben Solo because Luke was incompetent
So Rey's will be 'yas Queen, best master ever!' (I hate girl bosses and Mary sues SO much..)
I know that is Disney Star Wars. I enjoyed him rebuilding the Jedi Order in the EU. Seems like a no brainer to have his academy and students in the sequels, but gotta make him look weak
I watched Awakens one single time.
I had a lot of complaints and dislikes for the prequels, but I still saw every one of them multiple times in the theatre, and half a dozen or more times since.
The very fist Disney trash was so bad I never looked twice at what came after.
Smart move. I’m strictly a pre Disney Star Wars fan now. Love 1-6 and really love the EU
The 10th movie should just take place like 1000 years in the future so they can leave this cancer behind.
You can't call it "a new beginning" if you're still sticking with the old characters.
It’s a new beginning in the sense it’s the carcass of what was the most profitable ip in cinema history. Now we get to see its death shits as the parasites eat it out from the inside.
They put lipstick on the cadaver and created a new dance move to perform while wearing its skin-suit.
That is totally new.
Even putting it 2000 years in the future wouldn't save it from the cancerous people they'll hire to make it
I'm really starting to wonder if Disney these days isn't really a giant, complicated money laundering scheme. I'm only half-joking, sadly.
I'll wait for Star Wars XXX: Saber Rider
And the Star Sheriffs?
The force is strong in n out of this one
Last Star Wars movie I saw as Rogue One. I'm really looking forward to not watching this one as well.
LOL
It's not made for you. It was made for their new core audience: AWFULs.
Stabbing the Golden Space Goose with a lightsaber because it was a sexist and racist goose.
Star Wars is a dead brand being run by people that actively hate the old fanbase. They are reaching a point where old fans like me just don’t care anymore. I’m sure Rey will use the strand or whatever they are calling it now like a total Mary Sue while Disney digs up whatever they can from the original movies grave to try and make some money.
Fitting we're getting a tenth film as we're coming up quick on an full decade (10 years) since Disney announced the retcon of all the EU and stated that only the Lucas-made films and their new trash going forward were canon. The disrespect to all the authors and contributors prior was mind-numbing.
It took some time to get accustom to the thought, but I stopped consuming Star Wars soon after. I was finding other hobbies and was shifting completely towards anime/manga around that time, so it was time to branch swing anyway.
100 years from now.. people all over the world will still recognize all the legacy characters. Even if they never seen starwars, they will recognize them.
These nu-disney ones will be forgotten.
Rise of Skywalker made over a billion dollars in theaters. Then streaming and merchandise on top of that. The vast majority of people don't watch youtube video essays about the decline of media, they just buy whatever is on the shelf.
Die hard fans were willing to eat shit in hopes it got better, the last movie did half of the shitty force awakens movie because the shit turned into more shit.
Calibrate yourself. The force awakens is the #5 highest grossing movie of all time. You are actually arguing that a movie that made A BILLION DOLLARS was a failure because it didn't make TWO BILLION DOLLARS. You're shit-talking a movie for not being in the top five of all time.
Listen, I think new star wars is shit. If I talk to my normie family about it, they kind of agree. But do you know what they do? They watch fucking star wars. All the streaming shows, all the movies, they buy the merch. You voting with your wallet by not going to one $20 movie that you were probably going to pirate anyway doesn't matter at all in the face of someone who is buying $2000 worth of star wars shit. They are canceling your vote out by 100x.
Disney is not "burning money". They will make another billion dollars from this. That is why they are making it. This constant dribble of woke=broke fantasy fiction is fucking intolerable. In the incredibly unlikely event that they do lose money, they'll just fire a bunch of people and buy some other properties.
I’m shit talking a movie that flopped its own projections.
The truth is that Star Wars is starting to flounder, sure you’ll get “merch sales” but this only lasts until something better comes along. The user reviews are showing the reality, quality has tanked and it’s being noticed, the profitability has drastically declined, they were expecting to make the full purchase of Lucasfilms back with the new trilogy. Retard Johnson and Kennedy made sure that this will likely not happen for another decade.