Star Wars VII - news and rumors

Elikal

http://www.webpronews.com/star-wars-episode-7-cast-and-plot-info-update-2014-02

 

Honestly, NOTHING of this fills me with anticipation.

I am a Star Wars nerd and fan as much as you can be. And I always wanted a new trilogy set in the future. However, the more rumors I hear, the more doubtful I am.

First, the plot. I know in the books Luke has three kids, two of them twins, one of them becoming a new Sith - it's all well known, but truth be told, I found almost all the books set after the First Trilogy ABYSMALLY bad. All goes haywire in the Republic so damn quickly, it entirely ruins the value of all the fighting, the sacrifices, the suffering. the big happy end of Episode VI Return of the Jedi is essentially made meaningless if just a few years later all goes again down the drain with the Republic and the Jedi.

While I support the idea to give the original heroes a cameo, I would have preferred not their kids being in the center. For some reason I always disliked the idea per se, that Luke, Han, Leia all have kids who are again in the center of history. It just always felt wrong. Luke was a necessary reaction to Anakin/Vader, but with that for me the interest in that family was finished. Why should I now care about Luke's son? Or Han and Leia's son? They are nobodys to me.

And they seriously hire Benedict Cumberbatch? Again? I start to see him somehow in way too many roles, and he is in danger to be seriously burned out. I mean, how many times can you see him in short time without feeling, ok this is enough?

I seriously hope Star Wars VII and the new trilogy entirely ignores the book canon and writes a new Saga. What can be gained in making a movie trilogy, whose story is always known to all readers for years? Not to speak how convoluted the book's stories mostly are. I guess we all gonna see. BGut so far JJ Abrams has not been known for very creative movies, if I take the last 2 Star Trek as example. They didn't feel like a good representation of what I grew up with seeing as Star Trek, so I am sort of skeptical about Star Wars, just the same.