hey everyone what's going on good morning uh it is 4
23 in the morning nice uh pots say actually it's a pot of
decaf coffee uh normally i'd be asleep right now but
i figured i'd do a stream for all my european fans out there i
love you guys i need to give you guys more attention more love
lots of you can't join these streams so because i'm always doing it in uh north
american time so today we got some interesting news um
i'm gonna go ahead and show it up on the screen here
and get rid of the chat box i hope you're all doing well by the way
everyone's having a nice day so far i know you're getting up bright and early
or even all of you on the east coast in the states too and in canada
um we got a little bit of news today we're going to cover it as well as
more videos later today to come uh kathleen kennedy has made a statement
regarding lucasfilm it's it's a rather interesting statement and
i don't want to divulge too deeply into it make too many
things out of it but there definitely are some things
that i'd like to address and go over it's a bit long so let's get right down
into it and then we can discuss it as normal but
before i do that i'm gonna cough lucasfilm president
kathleen kennedy sat down with the rap to clear things up about the future of
star wars
kennedy revealed that it is an ever-evolving process while also sharing
the story uh revolving george lucas and the previous leads of the original
trilogy and this is from the direct uh there are many articles covering this
she says oh yeah it's an ever-evolving process you know
when i personally came into this george had already been
having conversations with his previous actors carrie fisher harrison ford mark
hamill there was a saga that the fans loved
that he never finished he always talked about doing nine movies
and he was ready to complete that and so our focus had been from the
beginning on finishing that saga notice how she says finishing and not
honoring his story because they obviously didn't
do that as we all know if you didn't know they took his treatment of episode
789 and pretty much i'd say 90 of it tossed into the bin and they
did their own thing or in george's words 100 of it i believe
in an interesting note kennedy admitted lucasfilm creatives need time
to step back and really absorb what george lucas has created
george lucas star wars and now we're stepping back she says
stories have been told within this universe over the last 40 odd years and
there's now the realization that this is a mythology that actually spans about 25
000 years now that's a realization i i hope she doesn't mean that and she's
just saying that for publicity like for for the journalism sake uh because
going into that taking over lucasfilm you should know that there is
a rich history of star wars which spans more than 25 000 years it spans
many years many more than that when you really start to look at all the
different stories that have been told whether it's in books and games
we need to just we need the time to step back and really absorb what george lucas
has created and then start to think about where
things might go and my thought process here
not to interject but yeah to interject they should have done this from the very
beginning so she's either meaning okay you know
now we're really sitting down we're kind of understanding like whoa this is
this is huge everything that we've purchased or they've finished the
skywalker saga and they're like okay you know what that's out of the way
and now we can really focus on everything that
is in this huge mythology and this is maybe why we're getting the darth revan
uh black series lightsaber forcefx lightsaber they're bringing all these
different things back
i don't know those are just the two different things that come to my mind
that's what we've been doing and we've been having a great deal of fun doing it
and meeting with lots of different filmmakers and talent there's so many
fans out there and so many filmmakers that have been influenced by star wars
for so long it's a fantastic opportunity to get a sense of
who wants to be a part of this so that's what we've been doing
meanwhile kennedy has openly stated that television is indeed an important part
of the future of the franchise since it has the ability to be very character
driven with extended storytelling and connected storytelling this is something
i covered a while ago that disney plus is really something
they're going to be focusing on and i believe they're going to be focusing on
a because it brings so much more money than movies in my opinion i mean if you
have a subscription service of 100 million people let's say per
month charging seven to ten dollars per month
that's a billion dollars every single month
coming in so obviously the cost to have those shows and stuff is high but when
you're a company like disney uh or even netflix who's got i think two
or three hundred million subscriptions every month
coming in you can you can make these big budget
projects uh for me i think storytelling is a very sensitive subject and you
gotta do it right to tell the story properly at least
it all comes down to the director and the writer but when you do it with shows
like disney plus is really uh capitalizing on
it can be great just like we see in the mando and the thing with shows versus a
movie is that you can really really dive into the
nitty gritties of a character versus just you know having that two to
two and a half hour or even sometimes hour and a half
uh cap that you have with movies as they go into theaters
so that's what i think about shows she says i do and i've already seen
evidence of it the ability to be very character driven
with extended storytelling and connected storytelling i think this
space offers us a great opportunity to do that
she goes on to say it's absolutely a priority when it comes to hiring women
directors for the franchise
my thoughts on this is look i think everyone should have the same
opportunity to direct or
have any sort of creative input into art which i believe making movies is the
greatest form of art in the world because you have so many different
artists of all different capacities and mediums
coming in composers are actual artists costume
artists everything coming in writers
this statement it's absolutely a priority when it comes to hiring women
directors for the franchise i don't know why that's a priority um i
understand in the past women have been have not been treated fairly but that's
not the case in today's world at least in north america for the most part and
the world is definitely taking a change and a big step to change
how they treat women which is fantastic i'm going to one day have a daughter i'm
sure and i want her to be treated right but and i say but because i don't think
it should be a priority when it comes to hiring a man or a woman for a movie
i i think it makes no difference either way i think if
they are capable and they have the resume to back that up then i think
that's great i think that's all we should really care
about and all we should really be looking for
um their gender to me doesn't matter but if they want to focus
on that that's that's great but again it doesn't matter
it really matters about the story and if they can deliver the story
so if you take let's say you want to hire a man
and your focus is to hire a man i'm just taking the opposite of what they're
doing uh but you have a woman who is more qualified for the job and you
choose the man because he's a man i'm gonna say well
why why would you do that we're focusing on the story the idea
here is to tell the story it's absolutely a priority it's been
very exciting to see the talent that's come in
and now we're developing the limited ob1 kenobi series with debra chow and she's
been doing a phenomenal job i was actually
sad because i love nia decosta who has just announced to captain marvel the
sequel she's another director i've been watching
and i think she's enormously talented that's all great
um deborah chow is extremely talented she's a fantastic job with the
mandalorian she did episode she did the action
episode actually um where all the mandos came in i think
it was episode was it four was it four was it
yeah i don't know but it she dude she does a great job
but that being said i'm not going to focus on hiring someone based on their
gender i see where she's going with it i know
what she's doing with it but in movie making i really don't think
it makes a difference whatsoever i think it's down to the person who has
the credentials and the creativity if that's a man great if it's a woman great
whatever lastly kennedy expressed her interest
when it comes to developing new talent since she pointed out that the extended
production values of television is giving many people an opportunity to
direct more certainly the kind of television that's
being made now is going to give many people an opportunity to direct more and
be more involved with shows that have special effects
and extended production values it really gives people an opportunity to move into
big technical movies that's exciting i think we can develop a
lot of new talent and it's about time okay and then the
site goes on to say what this means which i'm going to give my take on what
this means so what this means in my opinion is that
they're taking a step back to really appreciate well maybe not
appreciate but really look the sequels created a
massive divergence in the force of the fandom
they're aware of this you'd have to be very very
senile to not know that that's going on how are we going to fix this we need to
take a step back and we need to really observe
what star wars means what does star wars mean
well we have to look at who created it george lucas and when you see that
there is this massive difference between and i hate saying you know i hate
branding as george lucas star wars disney star wars it should all
just be star wars at the end of the day it should just be the same thing just
like what the uh cobra kai creators are doing with
the karate kid um story is that it is completely seamless and you wouldn't
even know that these are new this is like 40 years later 34 years later
it is unbelievably seamless seamless and they're doing a fantastic job with it
so there's there's no like 20 20 karate kid it's it's just
the karate kid timeline and it's very seamless and i wish that star wars was
like that too there shouldn't be a george lucas star wars in a disney star
wars but at the end of the day this is what
has happened there has been a divergence in the force and as james arnold taylor
said uh when i interviewed him on rule of two
with mark um he said it's all like and i'm
paraphrasing you go find the interview he said it's all like
uh you get the keys to dad's car you know and we're all just taking it
for a spin and learning things and i believe the process does take a lot of
learning but when you're talking about star wars
and you you take over this company you have to be extremely sensitive and
extremely careful so this kind of whoa we need to chill out and
really absorb what george lucas star wars is before we go on making more
i think that should have been done from the get-go and it's unfortunate that
it wasn't because now they have to do that
it's later um they've now later said that
there won't be a star wars film for at least until 2023
i believe it is so that's going to be another
while another three years we were supposed to get one in 2022 but of
course covet happens i mean everything's delayed as for where
they're going from here when she says there's 25
000 years let's bring it up on the screen again
25 000 years of mythology here um that tells me that they're at least
going to go into legends now right otherwise they would
well actually i could be totally wrong they could just go into that timeline
from legends and then write their own story which is very possible but
i think they're going to be much more careful this time around because they
don't want that i'm sure my dogs are sleeping
they don't want that to happen which what happened with the sequels
to happen again it's very bad for pr it's very bad for their money making
and it's just not fun in general to see that kind of stuff
um as far as this goes i'm very hopeful i think this is a very good thing i
think if they're really true and honest about this
then i think they're going to be much more careful with things going forwards
and the fact that she calls it what george
lucas has created needing the time to step back and really
absorb it i think those are the perfect words and
i hope they're just not words i hope they're really going to
take that seriously and they're going to sit down and
they're going to say okay look we've got guys on lucasfilm here who
have been here 20 30 years maybe even 40.
we've got a lot of young guns newbies here
who can bring a different side to the story as well
if we can combine these two which is i believe is what they've been doing
then we can create something great but they have to in my opinion first and
foremost listen to the george lucas purists
the guys who really understand what star wars is
and when i say that i'm not coming from an elitist standpoint i'm saying
george lucas star wars is star wars right it is the original it is the
creator it is the the essence of what star wars really
is and for them to even say this is just
really accepting the fact that they've strayed away from that in my opinion
and for me this is a very good thing and i'm really happy about it
so what do you guys think let me know um is she leaving someone says no i
i don't i don't know i don't know if she's leaving she could be leaving
eventually everyone has their time dana thank you for the five bucks james
thanks for the 449 and lil thanks for the 19 cents guys uh
are they going back to lucasfilm times that would be nice you know what i would
like to see i'd like to see a reinstatement
of lucas hearts you guys remember the fantastic company under lucasfilm that
was making all the star wars games where'd they go they got dissolved when
it was whizney i'm going to create my own company
called wizny when disney took over and uh i don't know why i think they
wanted i don't know i i don't know but they did a fantastic
job and i wish it would have continued
what's the article uh you can google it it is
uh star wars kathleen kennedy says lucasfilm is stepping back to assess
future of franchise there's there's many articles that are covering
the same interview where she sat down with the rap
i guess that's an uh another uh website what is going on uh okay well i'm gonna
end the video so that you can you can uh go back and watch the watch
everything that's been said here as another recap here i think it's good
i think if they really stick to this um we're gonna see some awesome stuff
here's what i would like to see before i end the video before i end the stream
and then you guys can go ahead and comment
or re-watch it i'd like to see the plagueis novel
become canon i'd like to see a plagueis show
on disney plus i'd like to see a lot more
from what she says
the era of george lucas what george lucas has created
and in that i'm primarily focusing on the old republic because i think that is
the most rich era of star wars lore that we have ever
had and possibly will ever have i mean think
game of thrones think you know gladiator think lord of
the rings but star wars that is literally what it is think the
witcher but star wars you have all of that in the old republic
and uh it's a fantastic timeline it's a fantastic story i just wish that we'll
get you know a movie or show or something
or shows upon it you know forget the new crap forget the new stuff
going after episode nine and this and i don't care about that i really don't
like go backwards they're going to the high republic
forget the high republic go even further let's go let's go like
freaking 10 000 years back all right show me the true grit
of when the sithari were were invaded by the dark rogue jedi you know and
that's really what that's it's such a cool story that they have
here that the jedi started to rebel against each
other and there were the dark jedi that were created and they were outcasts into
the galaxy and they went to the planet uh uh um
what was the planet anyways they went to the sathari and
they were the actual original sith these guys were like red they had
sith looking weird tentacles dangling down their face
and they enslaved them they actually took them over
and then later they were known as the sith there's a huge history there
a huge story there arjuna to paul the first sith
there are tons of lore stories that could really be
brought to life with shows disney plus whatever movies dude they're sitting on
the biggest gold mine on earth forget marvel forget dc forget all those things
that i love as well they could really be making the most
fantastic and amazing stuff ever and i really hope that they do
take this time to step back and absorb what george lucas created
because he is a revolutionary he changed cinema he changed so many people's lives
and he created star wars and star wars is george lucas without
him there is no star wars and that's why uh today there is such a divergence in
the force so that's my thoughts on it let me know
down below in the comments hope you're all having a great day
uh mac attack says am i the only one that remembers the prequels
no you're not my friend you're not you're not the only one at all
with that um i'll leave you guys i'm gonna finish my decaf
it's like a little hot chocolate here
yes bring back lucasarts and rogue squadron i was just playing rogue
squadron the other day from like 1990 whatever oh it was so fun
um love you guys sorry i didn't get a stream in tonight on the gaming channel
we'll get one uh tomorrow or something or i guess today when i wake up
i've got an interview with william christopher ford on cobra kai
theory at uh 5 p.m so in literally 12 hours and 15 minutes
and then um going for pizza with my friend and then i will
see you guys on the game channel as well and i'll also do another video for you
here tomorrow today when i wake up love you
catch you later may the force be with you see you guys