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Confirmed to be directing a new Star Wars movie.


It will be written by him and the writer from 1917.

https://www.starwars.com/news/taika-waititi-announce

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shes doing her own show on disney plus she is not involved wiith Taikas project

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im excited he brings indie style Like Lucas & Johnson which is perfect as we head in the era of Post-Skywalker Era Films "Star Wars is best when its new"-HelloGreedo

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I dearly love Waititi, but I have serious doubts about this.

His loopy, absurd, deadpan humor may have worked beautifully in a Thor movie, but it's absolutely wrong for a Star Wars project. In Star Wars, everyone has to take things seriously!!!

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Yes, they handled Jar Jar Binks' arc with restraint and dignity in Phantom Menace.

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I see where you're coming from, but JoJo Rabbit showed that he is very capable of some very serious material. Dark, even.

Either way, after the disaster the ST was, I think a fresh face like Taika is needed...IF you want Star Wars to continue. Personally, I would have been just fine with them just killing it completely. But we both know Disney won't do that and will continue to milk it for as long as possible.

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I must see "Jojo Rabbit", so I can see if that's true.

The thing is, I LOVE Waititi's loopy humor, so I'm kind of caught between wanting to see more of it and knowing damn well it wouldn't work for a proper Star Wars movie. I mean, this is one case where I'm glad it's not me calling the shots, like every fan I like to think I'd do a better job with creative decisions than the people who actually made them, but not this time!

But I'm also aware that the people at Disney have a history of throwing Star Wars projects to the hot young things of Hollywood, like David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who were the "Game of Thrones" showrunners and the hottest hot shit in Hollywood for a while. And who made an absolute mess of wrapping up "Game of Thrones", because they wanted to ditch it for Star Wars. What a pair of disasters those two turned out to be, and I hope their project is dead in Development Hell, and I also hope that Waititi turns out to be a better fit.

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I disagree that it worked beautifully in Thor. The first two movies were fun high fantasy that took themselves mostly seriously. The MCU already had titles that were saturated with meta-humor.

IMO the only "dark" he's good at is dark comedy, which is mostly what his other movies I'm familiar with are. Jojo Rabbit was a good movie but not a serious one. Mostly dark humor.

Disney has already MCU-ified Star Wars with perfect superheroines and constant forced jokes. It of course doesn't need to be completely serious but it could stand to be rebalanced toward more of it, not less.

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Have you considered the DC fandom?

It's a great fit for people who love comics, and who have no sense of humor.

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I have and I've very much enjoyed some of their recent movies, matter of fact.

Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Henry Cavill's Superman (minus BvS).

I'd say they're a great fit for people who love comics and who have low enough ADD they don't need a joke every 5 seconds. ;)

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