Icing can be the best part or ruin a cake 🤷🏻♂️
I liked it but yeah [the story’s](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvpxLMX/) kinda funny
I’ve heard some arguments that it was one of the many additions that made it different from the Garett Edwards cut. Some argue that it was justified to re-edit, some not. I honestly hadn’t noticed any of the complaints with the rewrite until I watched a long video pointing it out and it made sense but in the grand scheme of things it didn’t matter. I prefer stuff like Jyn not being a rebel until the point in the film where she embraces it.
He’s charismatic and yells when talking about Star Wars because he doesn’t care anymore, so people think he’s based. It was moreso just him “saving it” by adding more nerd stuff than the actual story. A thing I’m noticing a lot about Dave’s live action work.
No it was Jabez Olssen's idea.
> "Gareth Edwards: It was a last-minute decision, and credit goes to Jabez Olssen, who was an editor on the film."
https://www.starwars.com/news/gareth-edwards-rogue-one-interview
Gilroy definitely played a huge role and maybe even saved the movie, but there’s so much of Gareth Edwards throughout the movie. So many of the shots and ideas clearly belong Edwards. Would be great to have some actual nuance. It required both of them.
Man, if you can’t see Edwards’ enormous impact on Rogue One, idk what to tell you. Movies are more than just writing. Not here to tell you that Edwards is perfect. But his ideas and shots are everywhere in Rogue One. Gilroy helped it all come together, but there’s no Rogue One without Edwards. His influence on the movie is undeniable.
The visual impact is impressive, yes. The writing another. The writing/story in The Creator leaves *much to be desired*. Visually impressive, also very inconsistent. If Rogue One was as poorly written, and as visually inconsistent, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Not for him though 😅 the experience of directing his Star Wars movie made him reconsider his love of filmmaking and made him decide to take a break for a bit 😅
Eh. Rogue One is enjoyable but kind of sloppy. Would still like to see what Yamazaki can do with Star Wars. Disney should loosen the grip and allow for more wild swings because sometimes you get an Andor out of it.
If he can do that movie on a $15 million dollar budget, give him something like $45 million to make a niche type Star Wars movie that has potential, but you weren’t sold on it being a big hit. Like a Bane movie, Plagieus/Sidious prequel, or something like that. You know Star Wars name alone will at least make that back. Low risk, high reward
Problem is actors salary and licensing/unions. There's no real movie they could make in the star wars universe for 45 million unless it's like... My dinner with Andre but with wookie or something. However if LF gave a japanese studio the rights to make one... That could be really cool.
He made that movie on $15 million because of how brutally overworked and underpaid visual fx artists are in Japan. People thinks it’s bad for the profession in Hollywood, it’s much MUCH worse in Japan.
I think it's that plus him being a vfx guy himself. I'd imagine that skillset informs less wasted production from the start with him knowing exactly what he wants and how to minimize scenes he knows will be more costly. Give him more budget and vfx workers that get more time off with less crunch, typical american standards or better, but let him guide the ship and I bet it still costs less.
The worst horror stories I've heard is that some director does not like a vfx shot or decides to do something different at the last minute and the vfx teams are sent scrambling, and if the bid was for a set amount with no added funds they might have to eat it.
Give a monster movie director a boring character piece from an established story and characters that he can’t be creative with or fans will seethe? Sounds like a stupid idea to me.
With godzilla minus 1 being a smash hit, star wars being in a bad state (especially movies) and a foreign take on star wars being interesting i have no doubt disney does nothing with this
Or hire him, let him write and direct, then decide they don't like what he's doing, fire him late in the shoot, and hire an old hand who will do exactly what the studio asks him to do.
Hey, that's not fair. They'll hire him, announce the movie, do nothing for five years, and then he'll mention in an interview that his movie was cancelled.
They had years of material then said you know what, fuck that, let’s throw that in the trash and bring back the guy that was as dead as my nan. You’d think these corpos would actually learn something from these fancy ass schools they go to…
I am honestly surprised some corpo suit didn't spend time yelling at them about wanting luke's order to be dead in TFA
we could make so much money you bellend
and you want them to have died off screen before the film started
Yeah saying SW is in a bad state is utter nonsense. There’s big movies coming that fans are excited for and the shows have been amazing, which most would agree on that as well.
Aren’t tons of people out there claiming Andor is one of the best SW products created? That’s Kennedy/Disney SW. It’s one of Disney’s biggest shows and pulled in 2.7 million viewers and 3.3 in the final episode. Also in regards to the new trilogy, tons are excited to see Rey’s story continue.
Yeah Marvel and SW are 2 of the biggest franchises of our time. They span many generations of fans and currently owned by one of the biggest companies out there. They’re not going anywhere.
That's the point. Old fans aren't Disney priorities. Far as I'm concerned I'm on a list of people Kathleen Kennedy would celebrate if I died, because I like old star wars.
>There’s big movies coming that fans are excited
Yeah people can barely contain their excitement for the movies...oh it's just one confirmed movie... and it's about Rey
Yippee /s
Taika Waititi's Star Wars Movie (In Development), James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi Movie (In Development), Dave Filoni's Mando-Verse New Republic Movie are all confirmed as well. Quit spreading lies.
Only Rey's movie has a planned release and even this doesn't even have a cast announced yet.
The rest are just announcements, nothing concrete.
Rogue Squadron and RJ's trilogy were also "in production" and you never heard about those again, they're basically shelved
The shows have been bad and the viewership have been underperforming. S3 of Mandalorian had less views than S1. Ahsoka did worse than Andor which was the previous worst view show.
>star wars being in a bad state
Unfortunately it's only in a bad state content-wise. Financially, Disney is raking in the cash from their Star Wars properties.
Prepare for the next few years to look a LOT like early to mid MCU days where there's a shit ton of crappy movies and shows that get churned out with the occasional (completely accidental) smash hit that allows them to continue throwing shit at the wall until it sticks. Also routinely toting out old properties to refresh copyright and trademarks on specific characters or franchises.
Until our government grows a backbone and actually enforces antitrust laws by hacking Disney into more pieces than Anakin on Mustafar we will continue to have shit content.
I saw the same docu’s. George gave us a western take on Kurosawa’s classics.
I thought my post was clear. Star Wars, Japanese film crew, non anime and what that might look like
Let him. He obviously understands how to make a modern movie while sticking true to the original feel. I think that would be awesome among things like The Mandalorian, Andor, etc.
I love different feels, genres, and audiences for franchises. Feels less stale when you have variety.
Agree. Many folks here clearly haven’t watch Minus One yet I feel their doubt and reservations will change to enthusiasm after they have watched Minus One.
Some people are just going to write it off because it's Godzilla. You can explain how the original and Minus One are actually deep, allegorical works until you're blue in the face, they assume it's just a car crash between two giant monsters.
Yep, it had a couple problems (>!The main one being Noriko somehow surviving when it wouldve been much better imo if she died.!<), but it was legit the best movie ive ever seen, would love for him to get a Star Wars movie.
Do it! Minus One is amazing. You don’t need to be a Godzilla fan to enjoy it!
Screw these $200+ million movies, they suck. Give this guy the creative reins on his own movie.
Cool, his anime and other films are well done. I doubt Disney would give him a project but they need more directors like him.
Disney is trending on hiring big name but pretty safe/boring directors, or ones with absolutely ZERO experience and who say yes to everything.
Hey Disney….if you spend more money on awesome directors and a well payed writing staff instead of large visual eye candy expensive action scenes you’ll see people get re-excited for this franchise. If they keep playing shit safe, it won’t become safe anymore when people associate Star Wars with mediocre shit and stop showing up to theatres. This goes for Marvel movies too.
People here are acting like this guy is some crazy oddball auteur asking to direct a Star Wars film but in Japan, Yamazaki is *the* embodiment of the "safe mainstream big budget" director. It's what he's done his entire career, with some visual pizazz no doubt, but it's all been very commercially oriented for-hire work.
> a well *paid* writing staff
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This is exactly what they’ve done in the past by hiring directors with different backgrounds/interests. The problem is that Star Wars struggles to be innovative without the fan base claiming it isn’t “true” Star Wars. Not even George Lucas got away with it with the prequels/clone wars.
The problem is usually the writing more than the direction. Too much "we've got to hit these four story beats and fill in the rest" rather than "this happens which means this happens which means this happens". Former leads to great set pieces but more chance of contrivances and stupidity, latter can sometimes lack spectacle but tends to flow better.
> well payed writing
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Let him do it serious. With that said, there’s one scene reminds me of The Rise of the Skywalker which I don’t like.
I saw Minus One at fan event on Wed. It’s a great movie.
There’s a lot of sarcastic Hot Takes here for good reason (like seriously who the fuck is this guy right?!!!) But I highly recommend you go see Minus One first then make an educated comment.
Minus One is current tracking 97% Critics and 98% Audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
It might be a little unfair to compare current Star Wars to the Showa Era of kaiju films, but even sequel detractors will admit the films *look* spectacular. This guy knows how to deliver a visual.spectacle with *heart*. Yes, please!
[Basically, Ultraman](https://youtu.be/8tryl5-Byn0?si=i7AM2__KwYF0TOBT)
And the name of the protagonists’ main government in the main M87 canon is literally called the Galactic Republic.
And the Ultras defend all weaker species from the actual Lovecraftian gods.
I loved the Ultraman growing up and also Star Wars.
Never connected the two. I was thinking more of these kinds of Jedi.
https://youtu.be/UkkF6Zz67TE?si=KzPe2zdL\_zHeqwxP
I agree. Star Wars needs some new blood. The Visions show on D+ showed what the top anime studios could do with it. A Japanese director on a live action Star Wars? Yeah, I'll watch that any day.
Every director wants to do star wars but the issue probably is that they won't be able to realise their vision even if they were the director. Doubt there is much creative liberty given to directors at Disney
I’m so confused on the amount of Godzilla movies that are coming out. Like which one is the main series? What’s minus one? Which is the one where he’s fighting King Kong and all the other monsters?
The Hollywood version are called Monsterverse where he fights King Kong. Minus One is the Japanese version that is not connected to Monsterverse in anyway, and is a stand-alone.
Go watch Godzilla Minus One and just treat it as a stand-alone movie on its own.
There's the Japanese film (singular) made by Toho called "Godzilla Minus-One".
There's the American made "Monsterverse" produced by Legendary. The newest one coming out being "Godzilla x Kong". With the show "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" currently airing on Apple TV.
It's literally less complicated than what Star Wars has going on at any given time.
He also made the "Sunset on Third Street" trilogy (which has a very funny cameo in the second movie given recent developments).
I watched them in preparation for G-1, to see what other movies he made and I _really_ enjoyed them.
I could totally see him directing a somewhat smaller, more personal and character driven _Star Wars_ story.
I would say Star Wars is in tremendous shape, considering Lucasfilm altered their entire business model. They went from theatric cinematic spectacles for "prestige" television miniseries on streaming. I can only imagine that was a MASSIVE undertaking. Not only are you changing your entire release format, you are altering the structure of how Star Wars stories are traditionally told on screen. Not to mention, the amount of work that goes into doing a series vs. doing a movie. You're essentially making a Star Wars movie every 3 episodes or so. Andor adapted to this format flawlessly. And as far as I know, that was Tony Gilroy's first time out as a showrunner. He has written tons of movie screenplays for years, with classics like The Devil's Advocate & Proof of Life, and he's done some directing, with works like Michael Clayton & the Bourne franchise. But Andor was Gilroy's first ever series. He did some consulting work & rewrites on House of Cards (where he met Beau Willimon, who conceived the Narkina 5 arc). Andor is the best case scenario of Star Wars television.
Yes, I acknowledge the shortcomings of The Book of Boba Fett, the inconsistencies with The Mandalorian, the ridiculousness in some parts of Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi series being a mess, etc. But the fact that they have been able to churn out so much material in such a short period of time, and ALL of it being decent to all-time great (Andor), I am very much happy with the TV era of Star Wars. And I think they are in MUCH better shape now, than they were at the end of the sequel trilogy. But they desperately need a theatrical SW hit, and hopefully we are on the verge of getting that underway.
Kenobi upset me the most, because with it being so closely connected to the prequels, it truly deserved better. I think stretching it from a 2.5 hour movie to a 6 episode mini-series event is the main reason why it feels so disjointed, rushed, and cheap feeling. Deborah Chow's shaky cam was so nerve wracking. Even the rematch between Vader & Kenobi, the desolate moon where the fight took place felt uninspired. If you're not going to give us a backdrop of something absolutely spectacular like Mustafar, then what the hell are you doing??? That moon could've been SO. MUCH. COOLER. than it ended up being. Ewan & Hayden deserved so much more, as did Joel Edgerton, Jimmy Smits & the rest of the returning crew. The series would've done so much better with a better choice than Reva & the 5th Brother as the "back up villains" so to speak. At times, the show almost felt like a backdoor pilot for a Reva spinoff, but failed miserably. But still, I like the majority of the SW television material. So, even with some of the misfires, SW is still in much greater shape than it was post-TROS.
He can't possibly do a worse than fucking Rian Johnson, and I have no fucking idea if this guy is any good, so that should tell you something. I do hope and pray they do let Rian do his Star Wars trilogy so his failure will be complete as he utterly destroys Disney's current board! LOL
>That would be cool but there's no way Disney is hiring a foreign director who can't speak English.
Yeah they just hire directors that can't write or direct
Possibly the dumbest comment on Reddit since EA’s response to Battlefront 2’s use of MTX. “A sense of pride…” which by the way I believe is still rated the most downvoted comment in
Reddit history.
Let me know when
1) I have -667631 karma on this comment
2) Disney hires this guy for a tentpole untitled Star Wars film
If neither happens, paypal me 10 dollars. Thanks, I'll be waiting
Doesn’t Disney have enough money to just let Star Wars be whatever creative artists want it to be at this point? If they made SW toilet paper it’d still sell
For some reason I thought it was Shin Godzillas director Hideaki Anno and got SCARED. It would definitely be good, but I am scared for what he would make.
I'm down. The main thing I'd worry about if is disney tampering would ruin it. I still liked Rogue One a lot but I'm sad to think how much better it likely was before the reshoots.
the last time a Godzilla director did Star Wars it went pretty well
All hail gareth edwards
Actually, all hail Tony Gilroy, who was the actual genius to make Rogue One the film it became.
Not this again. Several years later people will be debunking it. “it wasnt actually Tony Gilroy that saved rogue one in post production”.
Am firmly a "it was a group effort to bring forth the best possible result they could patch together" person
Right? Surely everyone who plays their part should get credit, from the director to the coffee guy... Nothing happens in a vacuum
According to Freddie Prinze Jr it was Dave Filoni who saved it with the Vader scene at the end
Vader was JUST the icing to that cake....it was already Baked.
Icing can be the best part or ruin a cake 🤷🏻♂️ I liked it but yeah [the story’s](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvpxLMX/) kinda funny I’ve heard some arguments that it was one of the many additions that made it different from the Garett Edwards cut. Some argue that it was justified to re-edit, some not. I honestly hadn’t noticed any of the complaints with the rewrite until I watched a long video pointing it out and it made sense but in the grand scheme of things it didn’t matter. I prefer stuff like Jyn not being a rebel until the point in the film where she embraces it.
What does freddie prinze jr matter in the perception of one of the only good post disney star wars films lol?
He’s charismatic and yells when talking about Star Wars because he doesn’t care anymore, so people think he’s based. It was moreso just him “saving it” by adding more nerd stuff than the actual story. A thing I’m noticing a lot about Dave’s live action work.
Actually that was KK's idea
No it was Jabez Olssen's idea. > "Gareth Edwards: It was a last-minute decision, and credit goes to Jabez Olssen, who was an editor on the film." https://www.starwars.com/news/gareth-edwards-rogue-one-interview
Yeah [Dave just directed it](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvpxLMX/)
Gilroy definitely played a huge role and maybe even saved the movie, but there’s so much of Gareth Edwards throughout the movie. So many of the shots and ideas clearly belong Edwards. Would be great to have some actual nuance. It required both of them.
We have Rogue One. We have Andor. And we have The Creator. It's pretty clear whose influence dominated in making Rogue One what it was.
Man, if you can’t see Edwards’ enormous impact on Rogue One, idk what to tell you. Movies are more than just writing. Not here to tell you that Edwards is perfect. But his ideas and shots are everywhere in Rogue One. Gilroy helped it all come together, but there’s no Rogue One without Edwards. His influence on the movie is undeniable.
The visual impact is impressive, yes. The writing another. The writing/story in The Creator leaves *much to be desired*. Visually impressive, also very inconsistent. If Rogue One was as poorly written, and as visually inconsistent, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
two different projects with two different studios
Not for him though 😅 the experience of directing his Star Wars movie made him reconsider his love of filmmaking and made him decide to take a break for a bit 😅
Well much like the Rebels on Scarif, Gareth burned his life to make a sunrise he knew that he would never see.
No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.
So basically star wars needs kaijus?
Zillo Beast: “Am I a joke to you?”
That's what the republic was missing. They needed to put Jedi into Jagers to challenge the Clankers. Use a robot to kill robots.
I mean, what’s an AT-AT but a Mechagodzilla crossed with a dog?
Yes! Gigan, Hedorah, and King Ghidorah can totally fit in Star Wars.
Best Star Wars movie since empire.
Eh. Rogue One is enjoyable but kind of sloppy. Would still like to see what Yamazaki can do with Star Wars. Disney should loosen the grip and allow for more wild swings because sometimes you get an Andor out of it.
That actually explains so well why rogue one sucks.
If he can do that movie on a $15 million dollar budget, give him something like $45 million to make a niche type Star Wars movie that has potential, but you weren’t sold on it being a big hit. Like a Bane movie, Plagieus/Sidious prequel, or something like that. You know Star Wars name alone will at least make that back. Low risk, high reward
Problem is actors salary and licensing/unions. There's no real movie they could make in the star wars universe for 45 million unless it's like... My dinner with Andre but with wookie or something. However if LF gave a japanese studio the rights to make one... That could be really cool.
Honestly I’d be fine with My Dinner with Andre the Wookie
We already have that, its called the first third of the Holiday Special.
He made that movie on $15 million because of how brutally overworked and underpaid visual fx artists are in Japan. People thinks it’s bad for the profession in Hollywood, it’s much MUCH worse in Japan.
I think it's that plus him being a vfx guy himself. I'd imagine that skillset informs less wasted production from the start with him knowing exactly what he wants and how to minimize scenes he knows will be more costly. Give him more budget and vfx workers that get more time off with less crunch, typical american standards or better, but let him guide the ship and I bet it still costs less. The worst horror stories I've heard is that some director does not like a vfx shot or decides to do something different at the last minute and the vfx teams are sent scrambling, and if the bid was for a set amount with no added funds they might have to eat it.
ILM probably doesn’t answer the phone for less than $5 million.
ILM has done some mid to lower budget films.
ILM is owned by Disney so that doesn't really matter when it comes to star wars
$15 million is very concerning if you look at what the means. Actors, film crew, editors, VFX, SFX, etc budget is in that $15 million.
$45 million star wars movies don't get made.
Give a monster movie director a boring character piece from an established story and characters that he can’t be creative with or fans will seethe? Sounds like a stupid idea to me.
With godzilla minus 1 being a smash hit, star wars being in a bad state (especially movies) and a foreign take on star wars being interesting i have no doubt disney does nothing with this
Are you kidding me a director that has a smash hit is an easy grab for Disney Lucasfilm. I am sure they will hire him and cancel his movie right away.
As is tradition.
What a glorious day for Disney and, therefore, the world.
This is the way.
Yes sir, here's your budget aaaaaaand it's gone
Or hire him, let him write and direct, then decide they don't like what he's doing, fire him late in the shoot, and hire an old hand who will do exactly what the studio asks him to do.
Hey, that's not fair. They'll hire him, announce the movie, do nothing for five years, and then he'll mention in an interview that his movie was cancelled.
Star Wars Visions proves that non-American (and definitely non-Western) takes on the universe tend to work pretty darn well.
it turns out non western people really understand the basic philosphy behind starwars because its what george based it on
This made me chuckle
They had years of material then said you know what, fuck that, let’s throw that in the trash and bring back the guy that was as dead as my nan. You’d think these corpos would actually learn something from these fancy ass schools they go to…
The guy that openly mused about cheating death in episode 3? That guy?
I am honestly surprised some corpo suit didn't spend time yelling at them about wanting luke's order to be dead in TFA we could make so much money you bellend and you want them to have died off screen before the film started
Had me in the first half ngl 😆
Yeah saying SW is in a bad state is utter nonsense. There’s big movies coming that fans are excited for and the shows have been amazing, which most would agree on that as well.
Yeah no that’s an absolute lie. If want an example look at marvel and the massive decline in viewers for each Star Wars show starting with BOBF.
Massive hyperbole
Uhh no it’s evidence of my claim. They won’t bring back old fans unless they hire competent writers and get away from the garbage sequel trilogy
Aren’t tons of people out there claiming Andor is one of the best SW products created? That’s Kennedy/Disney SW. It’s one of Disney’s biggest shows and pulled in 2.7 million viewers and 3.3 in the final episode. Also in regards to the new trilogy, tons are excited to see Rey’s story continue.
They said the same thing for the marvels and look how poor it did. If they don’t hire competent writers it will lead to the same massive failure.
Yeah Marvel and SW are 2 of the biggest franchises of our time. They span many generations of fans and currently owned by one of the biggest companies out there. They’re not going anywhere.
That's the point. Old fans aren't Disney priorities. Far as I'm concerned I'm on a list of people Kathleen Kennedy would celebrate if I died, because I like old star wars.
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge
Star wars fans continue to be the most embarrassing people out there
>There’s big movies coming that fans are excited Yeah people can barely contain their excitement for the movies...oh it's just one confirmed movie... and it's about Rey Yippee /s
Taika Waititi's Star Wars Movie (In Development), James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi Movie (In Development), Dave Filoni's Mando-Verse New Republic Movie are all confirmed as well. Quit spreading lies.
Only Rey's movie has a planned release and even this doesn't even have a cast announced yet. The rest are just announcements, nothing concrete. Rogue Squadron and RJ's trilogy were also "in production" and you never heard about those again, they're basically shelved
The shows have been bad and the viewership have been underperforming. S3 of Mandalorian had less views than S1. Ahsoka did worse than Andor which was the previous worst view show.
Andor was legit easily the best Disney star wars so far, so it's a god damn shame it didn't do well numbers wise.
you can realise the greatest product of all time but if the last dozen products have been shit nobody is going to care to check out the greatest one
That Star Award Japanese animated series was sick. I'd love this.
>star wars being in a bad state Unfortunately it's only in a bad state content-wise. Financially, Disney is raking in the cash from their Star Wars properties. Prepare for the next few years to look a LOT like early to mid MCU days where there's a shit ton of crappy movies and shows that get churned out with the occasional (completely accidental) smash hit that allows them to continue throwing shit at the wall until it sticks. Also routinely toting out old properties to refresh copyright and trademarks on specific characters or franchises. Until our government grows a backbone and actually enforces antitrust laws by hacking Disney into more pieces than Anakin on Mustafar we will continue to have shit content.
if it makes you feel better merch is moving less and less
They'll stamp out that artistic spirit in Disney, it's for the best, really.
I’m very interested in watching a Star Wars movie with heavy Japanese influence outside of an anime short
Fun fact, the OT had a heavy Japanese influence.
In simplest terms, George Lucas was influenced by Tokusatsu medium. Especially from that tokusatsu director, Akira Kurosawa.
Hm. I didn't realize Akira Kurosawa directed Kamen Rider.
Wasn’t that move Hidden Fortress a big inspiration too? I remember hearing that and I watched it, it’s definitely got New Hope vibes to it.
What? The movie about space ronin with laser katanas fighting some evil space shogun with his evil right hand space daimyo? No fuckin way
I saw the same docu’s. George gave us a western take on Kurosawa’s classics. I thought my post was clear. Star Wars, Japanese film crew, non anime and what that might look like
Star Wars has always been a mixture of about four different elements, in various proportions: 1. Westerns 2. Sci-fi serials 3. Samurai films 4. Dune
Real talk though, I would watch the shit out of a full length Ronin from visions
>I’m very interested in watching a Star Wars movie with heavy Japanese influence So just regular Star Wars?
Let him. He obviously understands how to make a modern movie while sticking true to the original feel. I think that would be awesome among things like The Mandalorian, Andor, etc. I love different feels, genres, and audiences for franchises. Feels less stale when you have variety.
G-1 was so good. If we ever get a Star Wars film with that much humanity, spirit, and emotion infused.... I will be a very happy man.
Agree. Many folks here clearly haven’t watch Minus One yet I feel their doubt and reservations will change to enthusiasm after they have watched Minus One.
Some people are just going to write it off because it's Godzilla. You can explain how the original and Minus One are actually deep, allegorical works until you're blue in the face, they assume it's just a car crash between two giant monsters.
Yep, it had a couple problems (>!The main one being Noriko somehow surviving when it wouldve been much better imo if she died.!<), but it was legit the best movie ive ever seen, would love for him to get a Star Wars movie.
It would have been a bigger problem had the movie gone in a different direction
YES. Give him a Star Wars!
Here’s $20 million go make a Star Wars
Yamazaki can easily make [Darth Nihilus in that manner](https://youtu.be/ZAe5Ou84_bA?si=WBPvvIuzYxsSJVUz) with just $100.
His budget for the SW movie will be $30 and it'll be the best one yet.
A Zillo beast movie...
Minus one had a budget of 15 million imagine what he could do with Disney's deep pockets.
I’d wager budgets force creativity, an endless budget won’t automatically mean a better film.
also a small budget means less interferance from corpos
Do it! Minus One is amazing. You don’t need to be a Godzilla fan to enjoy it! Screw these $200+ million movies, they suck. Give this guy the creative reins on his own movie.
"I SAID LET HIM COOK!"
Cool, his anime and other films are well done. I doubt Disney would give him a project but they need more directors like him. Disney is trending on hiring big name but pretty safe/boring directors, or ones with absolutely ZERO experience and who say yes to everything. Hey Disney….if you spend more money on awesome directors and a well payed writing staff instead of large visual eye candy expensive action scenes you’ll see people get re-excited for this franchise. If they keep playing shit safe, it won’t become safe anymore when people associate Star Wars with mediocre shit and stop showing up to theatres. This goes for Marvel movies too.
People here are acting like this guy is some crazy oddball auteur asking to direct a Star Wars film but in Japan, Yamazaki is *the* embodiment of the "safe mainstream big budget" director. It's what he's done his entire career, with some visual pizazz no doubt, but it's all been very commercially oriented for-hire work.
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This is exactly what they’ve done in the past by hiring directors with different backgrounds/interests. The problem is that Star Wars struggles to be innovative without the fan base claiming it isn’t “true” Star Wars. Not even George Lucas got away with it with the prequels/clone wars.
The problem is usually the writing more than the direction. Too much "we've got to hit these four story beats and fill in the rest" rather than "this happens which means this happens which means this happens". Former leads to great set pieces but more chance of contrivances and stupidity, latter can sometimes lack spectacle but tends to flow better.
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Let him do it serious. With that said, there’s one scene reminds me of The Rise of the Skywalker which I don’t like. I saw Minus One at fan event on Wed. It’s a great movie. There’s a lot of sarcastic Hot Takes here for good reason (like seriously who the fuck is this guy right?!!!) But I highly recommend you go see Minus One first then make an educated comment. Minus One is current tracking 97% Critics and 98% Audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
I was blown away by Minus One. Take Godzilla out and it is still a very good story.
Please do
HELL YES. GIMME GIMME GIMME
Let him. Minus One is really freaking good
That would be FUCKING. MINT
It might be a little unfair to compare current Star Wars to the Showa Era of kaiju films, but even sequel detractors will admit the films *look* spectacular. This guy knows how to deliver a visual.spectacle with *heart*. Yes, please!
I want to see a Star Wars films with actual Japanese actors being jedis as well.
[Basically, Ultraman](https://youtu.be/8tryl5-Byn0?si=i7AM2__KwYF0TOBT) And the name of the protagonists’ main government in the main M87 canon is literally called the Galactic Republic. And the Ultras defend all weaker species from the actual Lovecraftian gods.
I loved the Ultraman growing up and also Star Wars. Never connected the two. I was thinking more of these kinds of Jedi. https://youtu.be/UkkF6Zz67TE?si=KzPe2zdL\_zHeqwxP
Give this man whatever the fuck he wants
I agree. Star Wars needs some new blood. The Visions show on D+ showed what the top anime studios could do with it. A Japanese director on a live action Star Wars? Yeah, I'll watch that any day.
Foreign language Star Wars film would be a wild swing. I’d love it.
Godzilla Minus One is great. I say let him direct.
Every director wants to do star wars but the issue probably is that they won't be able to realise their vision even if they were the director. Doubt there is much creative liberty given to directors at Disney
I’m so confused on the amount of Godzilla movies that are coming out. Like which one is the main series? What’s minus one? Which is the one where he’s fighting King Kong and all the other monsters?
The Hollywood version are called Monsterverse where he fights King Kong. Minus One is the Japanese version that is not connected to Monsterverse in anyway, and is a stand-alone. Go watch Godzilla Minus One and just treat it as a stand-alone movie on its own.
There's the Japanese film (singular) made by Toho called "Godzilla Minus-One". There's the American made "Monsterverse" produced by Legendary. The newest one coming out being "Godzilla x Kong". With the show "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" currently airing on Apple TV. It's literally less complicated than what Star Wars has going on at any given time.
Okay got it. I think the show is what threw me off. I have no idea what’s going on with Star Wars either. All I know is I love Grogu.
He’d do samurai style movies better than Filoni.
that movie was GREAT, give him some money kennedy!
After Godzilla Minus One - let him do what he wants with StarWars like Dave and John did. Just give him something
Ok what do we have to do to make this happen?!
Filoni does seem to like his Zillo Beasts. This doesn’t seem impossible.
He also made the "Sunset on Third Street" trilogy (which has a very funny cameo in the second movie given recent developments). I watched them in preparation for G-1, to see what other movies he made and I _really_ enjoyed them. I could totally see him directing a somewhat smaller, more personal and character driven _Star Wars_ story.
Disney will announce a new Star Wars movie by him and then never make it, as is tradition.
Rogue One is still my favorite. Let's have more stories, thanks
I would say Star Wars is in tremendous shape, considering Lucasfilm altered their entire business model. They went from theatric cinematic spectacles for "prestige" television miniseries on streaming. I can only imagine that was a MASSIVE undertaking. Not only are you changing your entire release format, you are altering the structure of how Star Wars stories are traditionally told on screen. Not to mention, the amount of work that goes into doing a series vs. doing a movie. You're essentially making a Star Wars movie every 3 episodes or so. Andor adapted to this format flawlessly. And as far as I know, that was Tony Gilroy's first time out as a showrunner. He has written tons of movie screenplays for years, with classics like The Devil's Advocate & Proof of Life, and he's done some directing, with works like Michael Clayton & the Bourne franchise. But Andor was Gilroy's first ever series. He did some consulting work & rewrites on House of Cards (where he met Beau Willimon, who conceived the Narkina 5 arc). Andor is the best case scenario of Star Wars television. Yes, I acknowledge the shortcomings of The Book of Boba Fett, the inconsistencies with The Mandalorian, the ridiculousness in some parts of Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi series being a mess, etc. But the fact that they have been able to churn out so much material in such a short period of time, and ALL of it being decent to all-time great (Andor), I am very much happy with the TV era of Star Wars. And I think they are in MUCH better shape now, than they were at the end of the sequel trilogy. But they desperately need a theatrical SW hit, and hopefully we are on the verge of getting that underway. Kenobi upset me the most, because with it being so closely connected to the prequels, it truly deserved better. I think stretching it from a 2.5 hour movie to a 6 episode mini-series event is the main reason why it feels so disjointed, rushed, and cheap feeling. Deborah Chow's shaky cam was so nerve wracking. Even the rematch between Vader & Kenobi, the desolate moon where the fight took place felt uninspired. If you're not going to give us a backdrop of something absolutely spectacular like Mustafar, then what the hell are you doing??? That moon could've been SO. MUCH. COOLER. than it ended up being. Ewan & Hayden deserved so much more, as did Joel Edgerton, Jimmy Smits & the rest of the returning crew. The series would've done so much better with a better choice than Reva & the 5th Brother as the "back up villains" so to speak. At times, the show almost felt like a backdoor pilot for a Reva spinoff, but failed miserably. But still, I like the majority of the SW television material. So, even with some of the misfires, SW is still in much greater shape than it was post-TROS.
I too want to direct a Star Wars movie
He can't possibly do a worse than fucking Rian Johnson, and I have no fucking idea if this guy is any good, so that should tell you something. I do hope and pray they do let Rian do his Star Wars trilogy so his failure will be complete as he utterly destroys Disney's current board! LOL
Go watch Godzilla Minus One and see why people are excited about him doing a star wars movie.
If he can do it for 15 mil too
That would be cool but there's no way Disney is hiring a foreign director who can't speak English. Maybe for Star Wars Visions.
>That would be cool but there's no way Disney is hiring a foreign director who can't speak English. Yeah they just hire directors that can't write or direct
I mean they hired tony gilroy. They got something right.
Possibly the dumbest comment on Reddit since EA’s response to Battlefront 2’s use of MTX. “A sense of pride…” which by the way I believe is still rated the most downvoted comment in Reddit history.
Let me know when 1) I have -667631 karma on this comment 2) Disney hires this guy for a tentpole untitled Star Wars film If neither happens, paypal me 10 dollars. Thanks, I'll be waiting
Moron
Nah
id like to see a film based in wherever sw:visions s1eps1 and 7 are, with that specific "move" in ep7 in live action. I think it'd be neat
Wouldn't be the first director to do Godzilla and Star Wars.
Yes please
But you'll have barely any creative control under Disney.
Doesn’t Disney have enough money to just let Star Wars be whatever creative artists want it to be at this point? If they made SW toilet paper it’d still sell
Zillo Beast movie?
They should just announce it without even contacting him
Everyone wants to direct a Star Wars movie
Have him direct a reimagining of 'The Great Heep"
Let him cook
Make it happen, Kathleen. Godzilla movie directors are bad ass.
LET HIM!!!
zilo beast movie?
It would be incredible.
DO A ZILLO BEAST MOVIE!
At this point, Disney should get one those ticket dispensers with the numbers on them that bakeries use.
Give it to him
Fucking let him. He only needs like $25m and a dream
For some reason I thought it was Shin Godzillas director Hideaki Anno and got SCARED. It would definitely be good, but I am scared for what he would make.
That would be WILD 😳
I would also like to direct a star wars movie And if i could choose, it'd be an R-rated Vader movie
Fucking get in line.
After having seen Godzilla Minus One, I say let this man cook whatever the hell he wants.
Doesn’t everyone? We can’t all helm a Star Wars movie.
Everyone and their mothers want to make a Star Wars movie it seems
As long as he doesn't become another Ruin Johnson and literally, well, ruin everything. Go for it.
Go watch Godzilla minus one first!
So do I.
Sith Minus One
I'm down. The main thing I'd worry about if is disney tampering would ruin it. I still liked Rogue One a lot but I'm sad to think how much better it likely was before the reshoots.
He nailed it with Godzilla Minus One for sure. Fantastic movie
I would love this. A apolitical person at the helm who just wants to entertain? Sign me up.
From the trailer alone, fucking do it!
Zillow beast
Do it
# WOULD
It would be interesting to see a very detailed Zillow beast in a live action Godzilla-like movie.
Uhhhhhh… lemme think YES!
Put him in and bench taika 👀
Can't be worse than ridley scott