There’s a brand new Star Wars trilogy in the works, and it took the collective internet about 0.3 seconds to conclude that Disney has already screwed the new project up.
Now to be fair to Star Wars fans, this kind of response isn’t exactly unearned. Whatever you think of the recent lot of Star Wars films and TV show, it’s more than fair to say that Disney have kind of just been haphazardly cobbling together whatever they think might work.
The new trilogy started strong, and then absolutely nosedived in quality by the time The Rise of Skywalker somehow returned.
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And since then, it sort of feels like Disney have just been throwing new stuff out there in a bid to see what works and what doesn’t… and the new trilogy announcement seems like much of the same.
In a thread over on r/StarWars titled “Star Wars Trilogy Deal: Lucasfilm Taps Simon Kinberg To Write & Produce”, every single comment is taking aim at Disney for its awful mismanagement of the franchise.
“I can't wait to hear nothing else about this project for two years,” replied obert-wan-kenobert, “until we get the big exciting update that Kinberg has left and LucasFilm is searching for a new writer!”
This comment from a user called PopsicleIncorporated probably put it best though: “This guy wrote X-Men 3 AND Dark Phoenix. Gonna be real this scares me a little”
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“He had two attempts at the Dark Phoenix saga and f*cked up both times lol” stated handsome22492 in response.
Look, I’m not saying Simon Kinberg hasn’t written good stuff. He’s produced some good/decent scripts in his time, like X-Men: Days of Future Past, the 2009 adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, and he even wrote the Star Wars: Rebels TV show.
But this guy has missed way more than he’s hit. You know what else he’s written? The 2015 film Fantastic Four. Yeah, THAT Fantastic Four movie.
I just can’t really tell what the thought process is here. Kinberg is a great producer, but when he's managed to screw up the same X-Men adaptation twice you’ve gotta wonder what Disney is thinking by giving him so much creative control over one of their biggest franchises.