Star Wars Stand Alone Films

guidomerkinsrules said

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This is a weird situation. I wonder if the stuff they were seeing just felt too much like an outright comedy? Maybe we'll find out one day. The lesson here, though, is that Lucasfilm has a very clear idea of what they want and between this and the Gareth Edwards thing they won't hesitate to pull rank to see it done.

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it feels almost like they want to be show runners and would rather have a TV director relation ship than a movie director one[/QUOTE]

I feel like that's an apt comparison. I would bet they've borrowed heavily from the Marvel model and that the creative end is heavily geared towards the production braintrust.

Now, the one monkey wrench in that argument is Rian Johnson saying that The Last Jedi is the most creative freedom he's ever been allowed on a movie and that they pretty much let him do whatever he wanted. Two possible theories there: 1. They're being more protective with established characters and the standalone movies while letting directors shape the story of the saga films or 2. Johnson was embellishing a bit and/or Lucasfilm Story Group absolutely has a list of what is OK and not OK and he just never came up with anything that wasn't OK.

I just find it odd that, so far, there have been no major stories of backstage difficulty with the saga movies (aside from things like the Harrison Ford accident, Fisher's death, etc.) but *both* standalones have had Lucasfilm have to step in and say "Nope, not working out. Changes must be made." It seems like there's a different approach for whatever reason.