John Favreau - Directing the new Star Wars flick
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People seem really upset that a Hollywood producer lied to their faces just to score diversity points.
‘Star Wars’: Lucasfilm’s False Promise for Behind-the-Scenes Diversity Continues With Jon Favreau TV Series
The new live-action TV show will be distributed on Disney's upcoming Netflix competitor.
If Lucasfilm was looking for an exuberant reaction to the news that Jon Favreau would be writing and executive producing a new live-action TV series set in the “Star Wars” universe, picking International Women’s Day to announce it was perhaps not a great choice.
Per the official announcement, Favreau will be developing the series for Disney’s new “direct-to-consumer platform” — aka Disney’s own personal version of Netflix, which it has been developing for launch in 2019.
Favreau’s hiring isn’t too much of a surprise, given his long history of working on Disney-related projects, and he certainly has the relevant experience to take on a project of this scale. But the fact that Disney and Lucasfilm have yet to give a non-white man the opportunity to spearhead a “Star Wars” project on any sort of creative level cannot be ignored.
So, in the official announcement, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy didn’t ignore it: “This series will allow Jon the chance to work with a diverse group of writers and directors and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to build a robust talent base,” she said as part of her statement. Theoretically, this is a promise that people from marginalized demographics will not only be brought into the “Star Wars” fold, but given some support to grow as a part of the franchise.
J.J. Abrams: ‘Star Wars’ Fans Who Didn’t Like ‘Last Jedi’ Are ‘Threatened’ By Women Characters — Exclusive
It’s an attitude that matches up perfectly with Kennedy’s previous comments about how “We want to make sure that when we bring a female director in to do ‘Star Wars,’ they’re set up for success,” as she once said, later clarifying that she meant they should have directing experience on a comparable scale first.
It’s worth noting that at that time, Kennedy also said that Lucasfilm had every intention of hiring a woman to one day direct a “Star Wars” film. She made those comments in 2016. Since then, new trilogies led by Rian Johnson and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been announced. As Variety’s Maureen Ryan recently observed, 96 percent of the “Star Wars” film universe was written and directed by white men.
Favreau has never directed a film or an episode of television written by a woman (the only possible exception is that Irene Mecchi, credited as one of the writers on the original animated “The Lion King,” has a “characters by” credit on the upcoming live-action remake). However, recent shows he’s executive produced (Fox’s “The Orville” and NBC’s “Revolution”) have shown relatively decent representation for both writers and directors — which is to say, it wasn’t exclusively white men working behind the camera.
It’s great that Kennedy and Lucasfilm are promising that a diverse team will be involved with the new series. But change comes from the top, and as the Color of Change report noted last year, “white showrunners tend to exclude Black writers, with 69 percent of white showrunner shows having no Black writers at all.”
Standard operating procedure in Hollywood for far too long has been that those in charge tend to hire who they’re most comfortable working with. That’s more than evident in the choice to hire Favreau, but now it’s up to Favreau to push beyond SOP and bring together an exciting team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds and points of view. At this point, we’ll let ourselves believe that will happen, but we won’t forget this: Lucasfilm could have actually hired a non-white man for the job, and cut out the middleman in the process.
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/star-wars-jon-favreau-tv-show-diversity-lucasfilm-1201937210/(https://archive.md/3rTCv)
‘Star Wars’: Lucasfilm’s False Promise for Behind-the-Scenes Diversity Continues With Jon Favreau TV Series
The new live-action TV show will be distributed on Disney's upcoming Netflix competitor.
If Lucasfilm was looking for an exuberant reaction to the news that Jon Favreau would be writing and executive producing a new live-action TV series set in the “Star Wars” universe, picking International Women’s Day to announce it was perhaps not a great choice.
Per the official announcement, Favreau will be developing the series for Disney’s new “direct-to-consumer platform” — aka Disney’s own personal version of Netflix, which it has been developing for launch in 2019.
Favreau’s hiring isn’t too much of a surprise, given his long history of working on Disney-related projects, and he certainly has the relevant experience to take on a project of this scale. But the fact that Disney and Lucasfilm have yet to give a non-white man the opportunity to spearhead a “Star Wars” project on any sort of creative level cannot be ignored.
So, in the official announcement, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy didn’t ignore it: “This series will allow Jon the chance to work with a diverse group of writers and directors and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to build a robust talent base,” she said as part of her statement. Theoretically, this is a promise that people from marginalized demographics will not only be brought into the “Star Wars” fold, but given some support to grow as a part of the franchise.
J.J. Abrams: ‘Star Wars’ Fans Who Didn’t Like ‘Last Jedi’ Are ‘Threatened’ By Women Characters — Exclusive
It’s an attitude that matches up perfectly with Kennedy’s previous comments about how “We want to make sure that when we bring a female director in to do ‘Star Wars,’ they’re set up for success,” as she once said, later clarifying that she meant they should have directing experience on a comparable scale first.
It’s worth noting that at that time, Kennedy also said that Lucasfilm had every intention of hiring a woman to one day direct a “Star Wars” film. She made those comments in 2016. Since then, new trilogies led by Rian Johnson and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been announced. As Variety’s Maureen Ryan recently observed, 96 percent of the “Star Wars” film universe was written and directed by white men.
Favreau has never directed a film or an episode of television written by a woman (the only possible exception is that Irene Mecchi, credited as one of the writers on the original animated “The Lion King,” has a “characters by” credit on the upcoming live-action remake). However, recent shows he’s executive produced (Fox’s “The Orville” and NBC’s “Revolution”) have shown relatively decent representation for both writers and directors — which is to say, it wasn’t exclusively white men working behind the camera.
It’s great that Kennedy and Lucasfilm are promising that a diverse team will be involved with the new series. But change comes from the top, and as the Color of Change report noted last year, “white showrunners tend to exclude Black writers, with 69 percent of white showrunner shows having no Black writers at all.”
Standard operating procedure in Hollywood for far too long has been that those in charge tend to hire who they’re most comfortable working with. That’s more than evident in the choice to hire Favreau, but now it’s up to Favreau to push beyond SOP and bring together an exciting team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds and points of view. At this point, we’ll let ourselves believe that will happen, but we won’t forget this: Lucasfilm could have actually hired a non-white man for the job, and cut out the middleman in the process.
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/star-wars-jon-favreau-tv-show-diversity-lucasfilm-1201937210/(https://archive.md/3rTCv)
Oh, the shock of Disney hiring a guy that's proven he can handle big budgets and make entertaining movies. This is going to stop absolutely no one from buying tickets. Star Wars fans are like junkies; they can vocally hate every movie except Empire and a New Hope but they'll show up and buy a ticket wearing a Chewbacca t-shirt without fail.
Crosspost from the other thread. Archived because Engadget can burn in fucking hell.
Quote of the Day:
"Though did Lucasfilm have to announce another white male Star Wars writer on International Women's Day?"
- Swapna Krishna (Unfortunate Street Shittress)
Quote of the Day:
"Though did Lucasfilm have to announce another white male Star Wars writer on International Women's Day?"
- Swapna Krishna (Unfortunate Street Shittress)
Kermit the Frog
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Star Wars has been trash since 1983. The movies have stopped being special long ago. It doesn't matter who writes or directs it, it's mega-corporate slop to be eaten up by an unwavering fandom that borders on a fucking cult. It's time to move on, manchildren.
They openly detest every other Star Wars movie, but are there buying 3-4 tickets to see each one in theaters just so they can bitch about it on their tumblr.
Pretty much.
The target audience of Star Wars has never changed. They're children's films made to sell toys and t-shirts. It just so happens they're children's films with an easily exploitable adult neckbeard idiot fanbase. This might be what scares me most about Disney in general- how easily they can tap into nostalgia and THESE ARE THINGS I KNOW! to get people to fork over more money. There's no secret as to why they've strategically purchased and monopolized entertainment franchises. And yet people still want to paint them as "good guys".
There's even an applicable Star Wars quote. "He's more machine now than man...twisted and evil".
Star Wars also strikes the weirdest balance. It's the most mainstream normie franchise you can imagine and yet its hardcore fans are some of the most autistic nerds on the planet.
I wonder if there are enough PoC's(no asians allowed) , women and lesbians, gay, bisexuals and transexuals with the qualifications to fill the entire credit list of a AAA movie. I would actually be impressed if the whole thing didn't implode in drama, and they released something, anything.
Firstly, jesus christ more Star Wars shit?! One new trilogy is enough just let it fucking die.
Secondly, what's the point of pandering to these people if they're never gonna be happy unless you have a scene with a black tranny autistic nonbinary lesbian kill every white person on screen. They just seem really ungrateful imo.
Secondly, what's the point of pandering to these people if they're never gonna be happy unless you have a scene with a black tranny autistic nonbinary lesbian kill every white person on screen. They just seem really ungrateful imo.
Ironically, I'll bet she can't even name any.
This is the good John Fabreau and not that fuckin' Pod Save America dipshit, right?
What could possibly go wrong? It's not as if Star Wars has ever had a target market....
They're attention whores. If you're not paying special attention to them, catering to them, tailoring your works and words and world to them, then you're literally killing them.
Jon Favreau directed Iron Man, the movie that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has made approximately half the money in the world. Why would you not hire him?
Munchingonfish
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Because he's not a quadriplegic transgender neurodivergent Muslim black woman.
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