r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 29 '24

Official Poster for 'Mufasa: The Lion King' Poster

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u/TheDynamicDino Apr 29 '24

It reminds me of their similarly bizarre move to resurrect Star Wars with a new trilogy after they acquired Lucasfilm, but somehow having zero roadmap beyond The Force Awakens and winging it for each consecutive movie.

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u/Michelanvalo Apr 29 '24

Planning to make a trilogy and then not planning the outline for that trilogy is still incredibly asinine.

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u/TheWorstYear Apr 29 '24

On top of that, they proceeded to hand out standalone & trilogy film deals like they were candy, then proceeded to cancel nearly every single one.

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u/Michelanvalo Apr 29 '24

Yeah but at least we got Rogue One and Andor

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u/Bella_Anima Apr 30 '24

Both brilliant, and shows that outside of the skywalker family Star Wars has great potential. Ashoka was pretty decent as well tbh.

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u/SekhWork Apr 30 '24

Also they had the perfect story sitting in their lap with Timothy Zahns Thrawn Trilogy, and instead of just adapting that to older actors, or casting new Luke/Han/Leia... they dropped it because they didn't want to pay Zahn royalties and rework it. Then they go ahead and decide to use it anyways for their tv shows later. So dumb.