Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci On Harrison Ford's Role In Cowboys And Aliens!

I wanna see FORD back in STAR WARS... old HAN SOLO!

EPISODE 7 - 9 with all the old cast an crew!

Damn FORD's gonna own in COWBOYS!


P.S. INDY 5 only IF we don't get Transformers boy back! : P

@Fullmetal Star Trek is NOT dumbed down in any sense. It actually has a profoundly creative original scifi expositional point that totally and plausibly opened up the franchise for further redirection, and almost infinite possibility.

Maybe you should watch it again.

They are great writers with Abrams in charge - ROTF was blown through Bay's mindlessly millitant production techniques; which included pressing them into solitary confinement for months in a hotel room lol. That guy should've been a general, not a director.

And Favreau is alot more along the lines of Abrams than Bay, so we can probably expect good things from this script.

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Jugggy the expanded universe

Not with you on the death part but otherwise Amen brother Fullmetal. A-freaking-men.




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Yep they spent so much time on the hat that they ended up giving him and wider, taller cowboy hat version of his Indiana Jones one - its the same guys!

I never read the Star Wars books, but the thing that made Star Wars IV-VI so great, is the father/son dynamic; and the huge scale historical allegory working the themes of war studies, the bushido code, and the "force." Plus most people had never been exposed to spaceships firing lazer beams, and traveling to distant planets on screen. Plus the "grumpy guy with a huge heart," as Favreau calls Han Solo. And the ultimate personification of evil in Vader - having things come 'round to the father/son again.

IMO, what the hell went wrong with the prequels was 1. Lucas is, I believe, a pretty greedy guy who's lost his force, and set out to sell toys. 2. Poor casting, horrible acting = poor direction. 3. It's probably the best example of "how you can let cg overwhelm story and characters." 4. They're rushed partially because of this. - Way too much going on on screen way too fast, most of the time, and no focus on depth.

That's part of why the movies failed, but from the prequel source material, they could've probably been pretty great if Lucas wouldn't have let his appetites get the best of him. You can see glimpses of how those movies could've turned out great - actually Abram's Star Trek, is what they could've been.

So in the IV-VI you get a family coming together battling evil on a galactic system scale.

In the prequels, you have the love story that started it all (done poorly so that you don't care that much), and the dark side coming out in droves, and billions of spaceships and lazer beams firing off all over the place.

You have to go back to the basics with the "postquels" lol. You need a core support as strong as the father/son subtext, and you have to take it into huge territory - a long time ago in another galaxy far away; and you have to evolve it with some sort of modern human big picture ethical question and theme. It can be done, but it needs to be done patiently.

I guess IV-VI really work off of almost every theme imaginable, maybe you have to take it back to those and just add new memorable character development.

They need to actually do something like Orci and Kurtzman did with an alternate dimension and tie everything up to wipe away the poop stains that those prequels left all over the franchise imo. Would work pretty well I think - but that time trick they used will probably become a formulaic convention sooner or later.

What is the Thrawn about guys?

i disagree and no! I won't watch it again damn it! i've seen already like 5 times! What, you think i come to my conclusions after just one viewing? I'm a film lover, i watch a film 2-3 times before even saying a thing about it. My dad is the biggest star trek fan ever and he hated it. the first thing I asked him after i saw the film was if Uhura and Spock have something going on in the old series because that was really weird and came out of no where. He was at a lost of words because he didn't know where that came from either. Plus the young kurt jumping out of a car, blasting Beastie Boys was ridiculous and stupid, something that clearly exemplifies that these two morons wrote this film because they always include meaningless scenes like that in their films. The scene with the green chick and kurt was retarded as well and felt like a joke. In my opinion this film is a parody of the real Star Trek films and I know a lot of people liked it but so what?! You talk as if your opinion is that absolute truth but all it is, is an opinion. Star Trek had good story elements here and there but all the dumbed down crap makes it too much of an anomaly in the franchise. I hate it and i hate these two writers because they simply just can't write a film with it's story they have to pamper it with all this cliche MTV generation bullshit. NOW everyone is screaming "Star Trek, Star Trek" when it's been around for years with a loyal following. "These guys are good film writers" you have to be joking me, i swear. Where did you go to film school? Go watch a Fellini film or something like "On the Waterfron", that's good screenwriting, not these two hollywood garbage bastards...