By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Recently, Disney surprised Star Wars fans everywhere by announcing StarfighterAn upcoming film with Ryan Gosling. Right now, no one knows much about this film, with the exception of its title and its star. Nevertheless, I am ready to make a prediction worthy of Qui-Gon Jinn: Starfighter Will be the chosen cinema, bringing balance to the deeply unequal world of Star Wars cinema.
Why am I ready to make such a daring prediction for this film according to his name and the name of his star? For one thing, the name Starfighter implies that this film will focus on a pilot rather than on the Jedi and the Sith that the trilogy of the Star Wars suite was so obsessed. To modify a sentence from the podcast killer star trek, Greater generationIt looks like Disney kisses the idea of ”Star Wars as a place” … After all, the galaxy far, far is ripe for different types of stories rather than lame sponsors of what preceded.
The failure of Star Wars’s follow-up let many fans wonder where these films were wrong … How, how could Disney follow up on the most famous science fiction films ever? There are many stories that float, including criticism that the films have failed because they were shooting around Rey, a so-called character of Mary Sue. But the truth is that these films failed because they gave us a infinitely More crunchy version of the original trilogy, with Sith fighter and rebels fighting an Evil Empire.
Starfighter It does not seem that it revolves around this tired formula; Instead, he will probably focus on the original characters of this familiar fictitious universe. It’s exciting because it reminds me of the original scene of Mos Eisley Cantina from A new hope… A scene that is so exciting precisely because we know that each of these crazy creatures has its own wild story. Hopefully, Starfighter Will focus on a similar character … someone who simply tries to survive and who, otherwise, does not care about franchise icons like Dark Vader and Luke Skywalker.
More, Starfighter is guaranteed to give us something that the Star Wars franchise has always excelled: the battles of the killer outdoor space. The Trench Run Cimented A new hope As the first real science fiction blockbuster, and the Battle of Endor was easily The best part of Return of the Jedi. Assuming that it can give us something more impressive than the battle of the weak sauce of TIl Rise of Skywalker (Certainly a very low bar to erase), Starfighter could restore this franchise to its old glory faster than 12 parsecs.
Should Starfighter Break the theatrical crisis of Star Wars and will become a critical and commercial success, he will inspire Disney to create more content built around original characters rather than creating endless films and programs according to what preceded. This is the main reason why I see this film as the cinema chosen: it has the potential to remind the public and leaders that Star Wars is a fictional universe with endless narrative potential. The only way to waste this potential is to do the same repeatedly to reduce the results, which Disney has done, effectively performing this franchise in the soil.
When a deductible was run in the ground like this, it has nowhere to go but in place … in this case, to the stars. We still don’t know much StarfighterBut for this fan of the old school, just know that we are going to get a fun solo film built around an original character. It is only by putting an end to the endless nostalgia for the analysis of past years that Disney can give a franchise set a long time ago, the best better future it deserves.
