Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

the Blank Check podcast's Patreon feed just did a commentary-track episode, where they watched Rogue One with one of the screenwriters, Chris Weitz. pretty interesting if you're into the behind-the-scenes of this stuff.... he doesn't drop any gossip bombshells, and he is polite and professional about his role as someone brought in to work on a project on which someone else had already done writing, and which in turn was passed on to other people after his tenure. but you get a lot of little things about directions he was taking the story, stuff he thought was cool and put in, etc. i'll share just one tidbit (for fear of undermining their patreon efforts) - - -in his draft, Kassian was an Imperial double-agent, who was initially with the group only because Saw Gerrera's extremist rebellion methods had led to the death of his wife (or his family... something like that). so his initial goal is just to get to Gerrera and get revenge. i liked hearing this because i always thought Gerrera's "too extreme" tactics were very vague, along with the whole rest of his role.

Whitaker's bizarre performance vs Del Toro's annoying one in a nu-SW walk-on guest-off

Whitaker's all day.

I'd rank Whitaker as the number 2 most off-putting element of nu-SW behind the blue milk thing

Saw Gerrera is a The Clone Wars deep cut, no?

Exactly

I guess I need to get into clone wars

in my mind's eye, whitaker was great. i also thought del toro was fun tbh. casting has for the most part not been an issue in these movies - their bigger problem is wasting great performances by leaving them on the cutting room floor.

rewatching Rogue One for at least the fourth time. Not much more you can say imo

Whittaker is the only misstep in this flick imo, otherwise the best nu-SW by a considerable distance

It feels more like Star Wars in its own funky way than any of the others. There’s also some awesome shots!

I guess it’s all been covered itt

doesn't matter it's great and worth talking about again! I was kind of amazed at what a sausage factory the production was. Considering the mess behind the scenes they really pulled it together. The last 30 min are just killer.

Totally agree with you. It's the only one that, for the most part, captured the classic SW feel. "Solo" feels like a big budget TV movie by comparison.

(from when such things as TV movies existed)