I approve.
Game of Thrones showrunners to make Star Wars flicks
Game of Thrones fans hoping that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss might spend more time in Westeros will have to visit a galaxy far, far away instead after Disney signed the pair for a series of Star Wars flicks. Details are scarce: Disney's only said the pair will "write and produce" a "series" of indeterminate length …
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Friday 9th February 2018 12:34 GMT Charlie Clark
Re: Would Disney approve...
sex scenes in Star Wars?
Without Carrie Fisher or Natalie Portman? How's that going to happen?
However, if true this sounds like Disney is trying to poach TV talent that can be fed into the franchise machine.
GoT is good because it isn't a franchise, because it had Martin's involvement in it early on and he has lots of screenplay experience, and most importantly because HBO wanted to be different from both the networks and Hollywood by giving producers more freedom.
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Friday 9th February 2018 13:38 GMT tentimes
Charles Stross is right.
Your friend/colleague has the right idea about world building. It is a laborious, intimate and requires you to expand your brain in space and time - i.e. think REALLY hard - possibly for years. And, to me, you have to do that before you really invest in any of your characters or ideas as EVERYTHING is a function of the world dynamics. And by World I really mean Universe. But worldbuilding can also turn into a neverending masturbation. I think you also need to have a conscious process running outside the worldbuilding to guide it and not have it be an end in itself. At least this is what I think and I haven't even written my first book yet. But I think I am at least partly correct.
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Friday 9th February 2018 13:53 GMT nkuk
the spacecow milking continunes
Disney sure is milking the franchise for all its worth. Its already become too diluted and dull. If you are making a conveyor belt of movies for the sole purpose of making money, it loses its prestige and appeal.
China has already had enough of the IP, the rest of the world is losing interest movie by movie, so by the time these are released there may be few people that care enough to make it worthwhile.
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Friday 9th February 2018 19:54 GMT Throatwarbler Mangrove
Re: the spacecow milking continunes
Right, Disney has sure butchered the franchise that had otherwise reached its apotheosis with the delightful and engaging Episodes I - III and Lucas's endless reworking of the original trilogy.
</sarcasm>
Jesus, has everyone forgotten that there were basically no good Star Wars movies between Return of the Jedi and Rogue One?
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