Star Wars: The Burden of the Preposterous sequel trilogy

With the announcement at Star Wars Celebration of a new Charmaine Obaid-Shenoy movie that will reintroduce Rey, it’s time to reflect on the hurdles Lucasfilm is trying to overcome regarding the final three installments of the saga.

star Wars that it franchise Adrift, though, products like The Mandalorian And Andor They have shown it, with commitment and devotion and without indulging in easy temptations of force (such as immaculate temptations fan service) You can still go on and on in this sci-fi world. Unfortunately, however, the latter sequel trilogy That sets a dangerous precedent fan base And the critics won’t forget so easily. Of course, in these three films, released between 2015 and 2019, not everything will be thrown away, but it’s clear that the entire Lucasfilm design scaffolding didn’t take into account several factors, primarily the fact that fans wanted to leave at all costs. Behind the old narrative stylistic elements to experience new possibilities. With the announcement, during the Star Wars Celebration, about a new movie Directed by Charmaine Obaid-Chinoy and written by Stephen Knight, which sees Ray among the heroes, the weary ghost of the sequel trilogy reappears in an unexpected way. Let’s try to go back to analyzing the problem before we try to understand it Which direction Lucasfilm will go in the future remains to be seen.

An unexpected warm welcome

At the base of Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, there is a common desire to please everyone: nostalgic spectators who grew up on bread and lightsabers, but also occasional and last-minute fans, who know very little of the ten-year history. franchise. The solution, starting with this business goal, was to restore, especially with Star Wars: The Force Awakens And Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerold content schemes to satisfy old fans and excite new generations of star Warssuggesting in a very similar way some passages characteristic of Brand. Too bad, however, that veterans resented it, now tired of always reviewing the same narrative outlets, while younger fans were overwhelmed with confusion, not understanding the foundations of the saga. Despite the receipts with the triplets sequel Things went well (but not in the way Lucasfilm expected), a serious discontent began to develop that today has reached its climax.

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A plan that is by no means organic

the fan service And understandable alive However, they are not the only elements that decreed the failure of the new trilogy, because even the sporadic and chaotic planning organization had an impact, and not a little, on the final result. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the starkly sad return of franchise Performed by JJ Abrams riding the wave of the past, it is a modern interpretation of star Wars with new players in play; Star Wars: The Last JediDirected by Rian Johnson, however, it seems to forget the previous film and pull off a sometimes crazy, at times brilliant experiment that completely breaks the mold, but is at odds dramatically with the rigor and uniformity of the other feature film. The rise of the heavens It sees Abrams trying to rebuild everything, trying to give a semblance of meaning and logic to the trilogy, but speeding up the plot too much and taking some plot elements for granted. It follows that the denouement arrives earlier than expected and that the epic background is not enough to justify a very patchy conclusion.

Weak revelation

And here we come to a crucial element of these new films that, however, represents the most serious parting point with the audience. take up discourse threads, irrigation (Who has a face Daisy Ridley) certainly isn’t among the most memorable characters in Lucasfilm’s new cinematic trilogy due to poor writing and an overly noticeable derivative footprint. To make matters worse, there was the option of forcibly linking the character to the Skywalker family and the Dark Side when Johnson instead suggested, in a more creative and interesting way, an alternative humble legacy for a young woman, suggesting that strength can pass even through perfect strangers. We then arrive, in the last tapes of Episode IX, to a strange conflict: on the one hand we face the end of the Skywalker saga, but we reveal that Rey is the granddaughter of the Emperor and also the spiritual heir of lok (Mark Hamill) e Layla (Carrie Fisher), the foundation is laid for the character’s future. Thus, by implication, this trilogy proposes another cinematic path.

Can Ray be saved?

We finally got to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy movie. We currently know that Rey will appear in the title and that she will star New Jedi Order Thus began a new era of Star Wars, presented as the New Jedi Order, the perfect temporal counterpart to theDawn of my grandfather Which instead will tell James Mangold his movie. The work, as structured as it is, seems to want to bear the massive and uncomfortable weight of the sequel trilogy that Lucasfilm, apparently, doesn’t want to ever forget (just think of the final 7 episode of season 3 of . The Mandalorian). But can a feature film save a character’s characterization and, in turn, bring a failed trilogy back to straight life? In fact, it all depends on the purpose of the project that can rely on the three films just to rest, to go and build something else.

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An excuse to tell a new story

If you think about it, in fact, this new Star Wars movie isn’t Episode X of the saga, at least for how it’s presented and that’s very important for understanding the direction Lucasfilm wants to go. Based on what little information we have, Daisy Ridley’s Rey is just one of many characters we’ll see in the movie, and she’s certainly key to the creation of this New Jedi Order, but perhaps not the only hero. With this trick, the company led by Kathleen Kennedy wants on the one hand to rediscover the infamous trilogy (perhaps to correct some points or even exploit the most successful elements of the reboot), while on the other hand it proposes a different narrative line finally closing the three cinematic chapters that did not even convince a company Itself. Obviously, everything remains to be seen, because unexpected surprises may await us with the risk of putting the whole thing in danger franchise star Wars.