Originally published at: The upcoming Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins Star Wars movies have been canceled | Boing Boing
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This all just seems like corporation-as-sportsteam hype. Kinda the geek equivalent of celebrity gossip.
The Disney juggernaut continues to make money hand over fist, making the odd dud, the odd gem and a whole heap of mediocrity. The wheel turns, snaring both wild talent and wilder sociopathy in it’s gears. Hollywood was ever so.
Breaking news! Movie in early development now in cold storage! Coming up, news about new developments forthcoming!
As much as I enjoy Pixar films, I think it’s been more than just a few years since they were “firing on all cylinders.” Turning Red was good, but personally I think their last great film was Coco, which was back in 2017.
All this smells like self-hyping for stock purposes. Announce a new hot director taking on a tent-pole property… ohhh, Disney is on the way up! Look at us, we’re hot property - buy our stocks … then you can only dance for so long before the tune goes sour and you need to cut the loses.
Obi Wan Kenobi as “Alec Guinness” in Star Wars (1977)
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