How dare they make a profit while entertaining me! shakes fist in defiance
This was something they said they were going to do not long after she died. They had a choice of rewriting VIII to give her a proper send off, or sending her off in the last movie. They said they decided to do the last movie. They’re likely writing around the existing footage to try and give her the send off she deserves.
They had no reason to even think that they would need to do anything to make money when this was decided. And that a spinoff movie didn’t do as well as intended isn’t that big a deal, anyways. People were and still are going to go watch IX, even if only to see how this particular trilogy wraps up.
You seem overwhelmingly negative on Star Wars in general, BD.
I’ll say, though, that Solo is currently the #6 domestic movie of the year and will likely finish in the top 10. Your slam is unwarranted.
Most would be thrilled with having a top-10 movie, but consider that every other Star Wars movie was #1 overall the year it came out (with the exception of Attack of the Clones, #3) it’s a disappointment.
Seamless!
(My first thought too)
Weird Al Yankovic seems to have put it perfectly in his song from 1985, Yoda.
*Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess
So I’m gonna have to leave Yoda I guess
But I know that I’ll be coming back some day
I’ll be playing this part 'till I’m old and gray
The long-term contract I had to sign
Says I’ll be making these movies till the end of time
With my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda, yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda*
This is very funny. You must have me confused with someone else.
For example I’m not one of the 90% of the people here who constantly bashes Lucas over episodes 1-3.
Also if you look at the topic on Solo movie you might find some comments I made there.
If they make you so unhappy, why watch the movies at all?
Unused footage huh. I wonder as a precondition of her signing on and due to her health and drug problems, off they made her shoot some sendoff footage just in case. Bringing her on was not devoid of risks.
This never happens. It will be a scene or two they originally intended to include and now can use it in the new one. I have no idea what kind of thing it could be, maybe standing around the holographic display talking about strategies, or having a conversation with Poe, who knows. Perhaps they’ll dub some dialogue with a soundalike, or have a stand-in double in some shots too, a common enough practice in regular shoots. I expect it will be brief, and she likely won’t last far into the film.
It’s a given that actors don’t own their images as the characters they play. Unless someone has a LOT of clout, and an agent with even more foresight to write something into a contract, actors don’t get a cut from action figures based on their images, when the action figures don’t depict the actor, but the character the actor played. So when Star Wars became huge beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, and Kenner made all those toys, the cast never saw a dime from them.
Carrie Fisher even joked once that George Lucas owned her image, so that every time she looked at herself in the mirror, she owed him a dollar.
Anyway, Carrie Fisher never owned any of the footage shot of her for any Star Wars movie, and has no say in how any of it is used. That’s true whether she’s dead or alive. She could be alive, but having a spat with Disney, and refusing to appear in the next movie, so the studio said “Fine. We have enough footage as it is, and we don’t need to shoot you anymore anyway.”
It could be plenty worse.
Marilyn Monroe appeared nude in a photoshoot before she was famous (and desperately needed money), and the pictures were never published. Then, she became famous, and the photographer realized he was sitting on gold. He sold the shots to Playboy, which ran them a little disingenuously, as though she’d just posed for them, without actually claiming that she had. Totally legal. Monroe had no say, got no royalties, Playboy had one of it’s biggest selling issues ever, and carried the money to the bank in oil drums. All Monroe ever got was the $50 for the original photoshoot-- $50 that was all she had to live on at the time.
At least Fisher shot all that footage with the understanding it would be in a Star Wars movie, and no one took advantage of her needing money, or something.
Her daughter thinks it’s fine, and if anyone ought to know she should, but if we want to second guess her, just consider that Fisher came back to play Leia every time she was asked, and apparently planned to do it again.
It isn’t as though some photographer snuck a camera into Fisher’s real life funeral and filmed surreptitiously, intending to use the footage for “Leia’s” funeral. That would cross a line. They are using all footage Fisher consented to filming, and using it in a way Fisher more or less expected it to be used-- maybe not in the exact movie is was shot for, but close enough.
I say it’s a quite clever solution. Having her die off camera, and opening the next film with a funeral with a closed casket would be unsatisfying. Recasting her would be alienating to audiences who have known her as Leia, in many cases, since childhood.
If her daughter were screaming “Don’t do it!” I might feel differently, but she doesn’t, and I’m fine with it. I’m not about to carry a banner for victims who don’t see themselves as victims.
the bad news is that in the scene they are using she mentions she is glad Greedo is a bad shot give that he shot at Han before Han shot him. And she also explains all about midi-chlorians
Carrie Fisher could not act well for years.
I’m still looking for an explanation on how her character survived in outer space without a suit on.
It’s a myth that a human would die in the vacuum of space in a matter of seconds. In my understanding, it would be extremely painful, and with no breathable air you’d suffocate in a matter of minutes, but the only severe damage would be to skin and surface blood vessels (and maybe eyeballs) in those minutes, so if you were rescued (or saved yourself with the Force) before you suffocated, you’d have a chance to survive, especially with sci-fi medicine.
Tell that to her fans and the producers of movies that wanted to give her stacks of cash.
That was actually one of the least implausible things in that movie. Unlike in most movies, when exposed to vacuum, you don’t explode. You in fact, have as much as 30 seconds of useful consciousness, if you react correctly. And it does seem as though any culture that spends time in space is going to have hull breach drills.
Surviving for a minute or so before getting rescued isn’t the problem. Rescuing herself with the Force, when she’d never shown anywhere remotely close to that level of Force ability, and while she wasn’t even conscious, is the problem. Luke, or even Rey, doing that would have been no problem, but not Leia.
Plus it robbed Kylo Ren of a bit of character development. Here he is, with the perfect shot in front of him to kill his mother after he’d already killed his father, and he hesitates… with the result that some random nameless TIE pilot killsteals him, so now he can never kill his mother. That would have been worth him trashing some rooms. Except, oops, that didn’t happen after all.
I didn’t think she was unconscious, just concentrating. I know a lot of people read the scene as her using the Force to fly, but I think the intent is that she’s using telekinesis to pull herself towards the ship. Telekinesis is generally shown as one of the more basic Force powers, and Leia is explicitly strong in the Force, just too old to be trained in it. Someone who’s strong in the Force spontaneously exhibiting powers in moments of extreme duress is common enough to be a bit of a cliche. Plus, it mirror’s Luke’s similar moment in the ice cave on Hoth. There’s still a problem, in that it’s inconsistent with how telekinesis has been shown to work previously - if Leia can use it to pull herself towards a space ship, then lifting the X-Wing out of the swamp should have drilled Yoda into the ground. But Star Wars is pretty consistently inconsistent when it comes to physics, so I’m not really that bothered by it.
Yeah, no one seemed to have any issue with old recordings of Paul Newman being used for Doc Hudson’s voice in Cars 3.