But George Lucas’ own plans to explore the conflict with 2008 s
Star Wars: The Clone Wars pushed the original
animated take aside. That’s a damn shame, because the 2003-2005 series heavily influenced many
Star Wars stories afterward and yet there’s still more greatness from it that can be reinstated. Here are a few suggestions.
Durge
The most important
Star Wars villain that hasn’t made his way to the new canon is Durge, a Gen’Dai bounty hunter seen in the first season of Tartakovsky’s
Star Wars: Republic comic series. His hulking shape and bulky blue armor feel on-brand for the aesthetics of the prequel trilogy, but Durge comes with a twist.
Gravity.
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As with all Oscar categories, a certain showiness will probably always win the day in Best Cinematography. But voters might at least consider different
types of showiness especially in a year without an obvious one-long-take behemoth to distract everyone with its invisible edits.
Straight Up, an underseen romantic comedy from early in 2020, has no shortage of attention-grabbing compositions and camera movements. It’s shot in the old, squarish Academy ratio of 1.33:1. It places its characters within the frame carefully, often favoring symmetrical, Wes Andersonian images and lots of headspace. It occasionally uses split-screens and split-diopter shots. For that matter, it has some some extended takes, too, though they’re executed with fixed shots and pans, rather than wild floating-camera mobility.
looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
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In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and took ownership of Lucasfilm Ltd., the company that he’d spent decades building. Disney wasn’t paying all that money for Lucas productions like
Howard The Duck or
Tucker: The Man And His Dream or even
Strange Magic. Instead, the Mouse House flexed its world-domination powers to take full control of the
Image: Steve McNiven/Marvel Comics
At some point between
and Return of the Jedi, the bounty hunter Boba Fett has a very bad day. When he loses his bounty, the carbonite-encased Han Solo, a mercenary war erupts throughout the galaxy in the most epic event Marvel
Star Wars comics have yet attempted.
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Star Wars title and past writer of the likes of
Darth Vader is the mastermind behind the event. He’ll also write the
War of the Bounty Hunters comic, which will focus on Boba Fett as he seeks to reclaim his prize after it’s somehow stolen from the holds of his ship, Slave I.
Image: The A.V. Club
It’s been about a year and a half since Disney confirmed that it was planning to dig through its new collection of Fox assets in hopes of rebooting everything it possibly can for Disney+, and now we have some more information about one of those reboots: According to
Variety, Disney is moving forward with a new version of
Cheaper By The Dozen with Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union starring as a pair of parents with a bunch of kids (we’re talking more than 10 but fewer than 13). Kenya Barris co-wrote the script and will serve as a producer, with