Qui Gon-Jinn himself has spoken. The mystery and magic of “Star Wars” has been destroyed by Disney greed.
Neeson recently confessed that he’s not at all interested in returning to play his character, adding “there’s so many spinoffs of ‘Star Wars.’ It’s diluting it to me, and it’s taken away the mystery and the magic in a weird way.”
It used to be that a Star Wars movie would be a major event for movie fans worldwide. What happened? Well, the downfall really started when George Lucas sold the rights to Disney. The mouse house decided to create a trilogy that destroyed the Star Wars myth for many and then they kept milking it with numerous TV shows and movie spin-offs.
I’m telling you all this as someone who wasn’t even a big fan to begin with. I’m just relaying the word from millions of pissed off fans who have now decided that, compared to Disney’s output, “The Phantom Menace” is a masterpiece. That’s how bad things have gotten.
Critics loved “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi,” but don’t tell that to the hardcore fans who spit on these movies.
A planned trilogy from "The Last Jedi" director, Rian Johnson, originally announced in 2017, has been put on the backburner, but Johnson recently said he still hopes to make it. My advice to Disney is simple: DON’T RE-HIRE JOHNSON. Not because he’s a bad filmmaker, he’s actually a pretty good one. No, it stems more from the fact that a majority of Star Wars diehards just plainly do not like him for what he did with “The Last Jedi.”
For 10 years, Kathleen Kennedy has presided over the Star Wars brand and has also bore the wrath of many Star Wars fanboys, especially when it comes to the recent trilogy of films that reinvented the lore of the franchise.
The best Star Wars movie since Kennedy took control of the ship was also the one that was the biggest production headache for Disney, that would be Gareth Edwards’ “Rogue One.”