Ach, well. At least I can maybe see it now: “Amazon Studios is in final negotiations to buy worldwide rights to “Without Remorse” from Paramount Pictures, Variety has learned.” (Via GeekTyrant)
The real problem, though? This was scheduled for February of next year. If you were wondering just how disrupted the movie industry was going to be, and for how long — well, you probably hadn’t seen anything yet about how Disney’s pulled the circuit breaker on its release schedule. Now is not the time to cancel Netflix/Hulu/Disney+, is what I’m saying*. I’m not saying that happily, but I am saying it.
Moe Lane
*And I’m wondering if the Alamo Drafthouse people are contemplating doing a major expansion. Even if the big theaters die, people are still going to go out to films and eat somebody else’s cooking.
Ironically, while the article mentions losing the Aug 21 release date for Mulan, the date that I’d last heard was Aug 10. And that was last week…
The article mentions “dated Star Wars films”. There are additional scheduled Star Wars films? Last I’d heard, the films were all on hold (with Episode IX being the last film still scheduled for release) while The Mouse figured out how to undo the damage to what is potentially one of its most lucrative franchises. Is that not actually the case?
Depending on how long WFH (Wuhan Flu Hysteria) runs for, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mulan and other Disney films end up doing the “Disney+” release. Political leadership keeps setting impossible goals as pre-conditions for relaxing the SARS2 lock down controls, meaning that it might be a very long time before the movie theaters reopen in some states (such as Disney’s own home state of California).
On another note, Disney got very lucky with the launch of Disney+ literally right before everything shut down.
Disney have had slots in the schedule reserved for Star Wars movies, but I’m not sure what, if anything, they actually have in development that way, at the moment.
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Theoretically, Rian Johnson’s promised trilogy is still planned, but it doesn’t seem like anybody–including Johnson–is actively working on it.
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There are a couple untitled movie projects with directors attached (Taika Waititi on one, Kevin Feige on another), but neither’s got a date or even a script, yet.
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The Obi-Wan series being developed for Disney+ was previously rumored as a movie–hard to tell from here whether that’s coincidence, past misinformation, or a project being pivoted from a medium where the studio seems to be losing to one where they seem to be doing okay.
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There’s at least two other series (other than The Mandalorian) also under development, one of which has a showrunner but nothing else announced.
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Personally, I think Lucasfilm are throwing things at the wall, right now, and hoping that something they like sticks. But, I don’t know anything about it that can’t be Googled in five minutes, so that’s just a guess, and not even a well-informed one.
I’m pretty sure a lot of suits who don’t quite “get” the appeal of the franchise are saying their own version of the nerd’s prayer.
Please [in nomine infernal prince of choice], don’t let it suck.
On another note, the blurb about ‘Without Remorse’ shows that they’ve changed the plot slightly. In the novel, the woman he’s avenging is a new girlfriend who also happens to be a prostitute who ran away from her pimps. The brief plot descriptions that I’ve seen in this and earlier articles mention that he’s avenging his wife’s death.
I wonder why they changed that plot point? In the novel, the fact that the bad guys are running a prostitution ring (among other things) is an essential part of the story. But it looks like the movie is cutting that out completely.