Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/10/next-starwars-movie-star-wars-rogue-squadron-slated-for-christmas-2023-directed-by-wonder-womans-patty-jenkins.html
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Based on the last few Star Wars movies, this won’t even be worth pirating.
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I guess they’re dropping the more recent naming convention for spinoff movies. Probably for the best, “ROGUE SQUADRON: A STAR WARS STORY” would have been a dumb title.
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Wow, great little trailer in there. I’m excited to see a movie made by a director who’s life’s mission has been to make a movie about this specific subject matter like this.
Video for the BBS:
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Patty Jenkins did great with Wonder Woman; while I’m against giving Disney my money if I can help it, I still hope she can repeat her success.
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Props to her thick skin as well, as the misogynists will, again, be out in full force over this directing choice.
Best of luck to her.
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Of course the whiny, self-absorbed fanboys are gonna bitch and moan, throw tantrums and try to sabotage the film before it even comes out; that’s what they do because it’s the only thing they are any good at.
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That’s boss! I’ve actually enjoyed the more “side story” movies of the past few years than the trilogy movies. So, I’ll be looking forward to this!
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Is this based on the book trilogy featuring Wedge Antilles?? Moar Wedge!
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Well - no one will ever watch an action movie starring a woman or directed by one.
Wonder Woman:
It’s like these dudes have never even heard of the Alien franchise. Half of them were born after that came out in 1979.
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Real talk.
Fun fact which I’m sure you already knew; the character of ‘Ripley’ was originally meant to be a guy.
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That would have been completely unbelievable.
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If you’re going to make yet another installment crammed in between the events of the existing movies you might as well use a Wedge to do it.
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I remember seeing Dark Star in the theater years ago - a student film by Carpenter and O’Bannon - O’Bannon used the comic beach ball alien as a starting point for Alien.
Just say that it’s available on Amazon to stream for $1.99. I’ll have to give it a look.
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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Yay!
Christmas 2023
#@*%!
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Thanks, COVID-19!
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Same. The trilogy was atrocious but the side stories were good. At what point do we hit peak star wars though?
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1983
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Damnit. Take your like
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Personally, I found the standalone SW movies to be perfectly acceptable. Rogue One was outright good, and while Solo was not the greatest movie, it was a damn sight better than any of the sequel trilogy movies, and way better than the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie.
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