Back to the Editing Room - Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

What is “Back to the Editing Room?” It is a new feature here at Not Your Status Quo where we talk about things we would change about a movie or TV show to make it better (in our opinion). We talk about what we like about it, what we didn’t like about it and we take it back to the editing room with the changes we would make to the show.

Our first Back to the Editing Room is all about Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. A movie with two heroes we all love that fell flat as a movie with character re-imagining that didn’t work and a plot that was too convoluted and trying to accomplish too much without proper set up.  

Synder Cut of Justice League News

The Snyder Cut as it is refereed to from the Release the Snyder Cut group is the original director of Justice League, Zack Snyder's vison, he left after his daughter passed away and WB brought in Joss Whedon to finish the film. At the request of WB, Major reshoots changed the movie pretty substantially

HBO Max will be releasing it in 2021 but It is unclear what form Snyder’s Justice League will take. Whether it will be released as a four-hour director’s cut or split into six episodes (hasn't been decided yet), but the Snyder's are now in the midst of reassembling much of their original postproduction crew to score, cut, add new and finish old visual effects, and, yes, maybe bring back many of the actors to record additional dialogue and once that is all done, we will probably find out what it will be. Would it be better as a 4 hour movie or 6 episodes?

Theory-Palooza: The Mandalorian Season 2

The Mandalorian Season 2 is returning October 2020 and we have theories about it.

Things we know about The Mandalorian Season 2:

Katte Sachoff as Bo-Katan the character she voiced on Star Wars the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels

Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett, a Mandalorian bounty hunter who seemingly died during the events of Return of the Jedi. Morrison previously portrayed Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, and has provided the voice for Boba Fett in various Star Wars media

Michael Biehn as an unnamed bounty hunter who you might remember as Kyle Reese from Terminator and T2 and also Corporal Dwayne Hicks from Aliens

Things rumored for The Mandalorian Season 2:

Temuera Morrison as Captain Rex also?

Sabrine Wren showing up (Sasha Banks has a role is this it?)

Will we see other Rebel characters? Ezra Thrawn? Hera?

Episode Titles: (Not Confirmed)

1. The Search
2. The Confrontation
3. The Bounty
4. The Republic
5. The Loyalist
6. The Sorcerer
7. The Return
8. The Empire

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

Jon Favreau serves as creator, head writer, showrunner, and co-executive producer, alongside Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. The show stars Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Bill Burr, Omid Abtahi, Taika Waititi, Ming-Na Wen, and Werner Herzog.

Leslye Headland hired as showrunner for new Star Wars Disney+ series

Leslye Headland hired as showrunner for new Star Wars Disney+ series

 

Disney+ has announced a new Star Wars series Leslye Headland as showrunner. No release date has been announced yet. In fact, the only information released so far has been that it will be “female-centric”. Before we dive into thoughts and opinions, let’s take a look at her history and see what makes her tick.

Resume

As a writer, Headland has been credited with TV shows such as Terriers and Russian Doll.

Terriers lasted only one season, but received good reviews from both fans and critics alike. It’s one of those shows referred to as the good shows people aren’t watching.

Russian Doll she wrote for and co-created with Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne. This 8 episode Netflix series won a Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy for Natasha Lyonne. Headland received a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a comedy series.

And famously, she worked as an assistant to Harvey Weinstein at Miramax.

Public Eye

When asked in an interview from Variety about her favorite Star Wars Movie, Headland replied she didn’t have a favorite Star Wars movie and that she wanted to live in the Star Wars universe forever.

She has been quoted by Rolling Stone as saying that Hollywood’s interest in women is:

“They are not interested unless we are in a group. Probably just wearing lingerie”

YouTubers describe her as “woke” and obsessed with race, gender, and sexual orientation.

She recently deleted over 4,500 tweets, according Social Blade, since July 2019.

Thoughts and Opinions

Let’s not jump the gun on our judgements. While I agree that woke Hollywood sucks, and is not entertaining, I have seen only Russian Doll out of her list of work, and I liked it. I didn’t feel like there was an agenda being pushed. Look, sometimes people are triggered by anyone advocating for more equality for minorities and women in show business. I am tired of hearing about it personally.

The only thing that matters when making shows and movies is the story. If the story makes sense and has cohesion and depth, then I’ll watch it and enjoy it. If it is just a vehicle for hate or discrimination or how “men are bad”, it’s probably going to fall flat.

An all-female Star Wars show is kind of a new idea and sounds like it could be full of agenda, but it may not be as well. It could be just a new perspective. Star Wars has had good, strong female characters in Princess Leia, Ahsoka Tano, Hera, and Sabine to name a few.

You can have strong female characters that do not put up with nonsense and also not disparage men (just for being men) at the same time. This has been done in other series with Ripley in the Alien series, Sarah Connor in Terminator, Alita Battle Angel, Avatar. The poor attempts are the woke attempts. Who knows what this will be. I am a little concerned that she couldn’t pick a favorite Star Wars movie, but Not Your Status Quo will wait until this show comes out and judge it based on the quality of its content.

 

 

 

Star Wars the Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 12 Spoiler Filled Breakdown and Review

Episode 12 Victory and Death

As Ahsoka and Rex try to escape from the cruiser, Maul destroys its hyperdrive with the Force and causes the vessel to drop out of hyperspace and into a moon's gravitational field. Forced to fight their way through the clones, Ahsoka tries to prevent Maul from getting away, but she fails and Maul vanishes into hyperspace. Just barely clearing the doomed ship in a Y-wing, Ahsoka and Rex escape to the moon, where they respectfully bury the clones and Ahsoka discards one of her lightsabers. Years later, Darth Vader arrives on the moon and recovers Ahsoka's lightsaber. He looks up and sees a convor circling overhead. The series ends with an image of Vader walking away reflected in the visor of an old trooper helmet sticking out of the snow.

 Star Wars: The Clone Wars ran from October 3, 2008 until its final regular broadcast episode on March 2, 2013, following the show's cancellation at the end of its fifth season. A half-length season was available on Netflix on March 7, 2014, and some story arcs were released in several different mediums in the following years. The show was succeeded by Star Wars Rebels, which continued the story of Clone Wars era characters like Ahsoka Tano and Clone Captain Rex, but fans continued asking for more episodes of The Clone Wars.

The seventh season of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series is a revival run of twelve new episodes that will air on Disney+ beginning on February 21st 2020. The revival was announced by the show's supervising director, Dave Filoni, on July 19, 2018 at San Diego Comic-Con, during a panel commemorating the show's tenth anniversary. The episodes will be a continuation of the series after it was cancelled in 2013, and will include the Siege of Mandalore. Series stars Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Sam Witwer, and more have all returned to lend their voices to the series.

Star Wars the Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 11 Spoiler Filled Breakdown and Review

Episode 11 Shattered

With the Siege of Mandalore over, Ahsoka and Rex prepare to take Maul, who has been placed in heavy restraints, before the Jedi Council on Coruscant. Mace Windu and Yoda contact Ahsoka via hologram and reveal that Obi-Wan has tracked Grievous down to Utapau, indicating that the war may soon be over. On their way to Coruscant, however, Ahsoka senses Anakin's fall to the dark side, moments before Darth Sidious issues Order 66, branding all Jedi as traitors to the Republic and causing Ahsoka's clone troopers, including Rex, to turn on her. She escapes and manages to subdue Rex and free Maul to distract the other clones. With the help of three astromech droids, Ahsoka then discovers and removes the chip from Rex's brain, restoring his free will.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars ran from October 3, 2008 until its final regular broadcast episode on March 2, 2013, following the show's cancellation at the end of its fifth season. A half-length season was available on Netflix on March 7, 2014, and some story arcs were released in several different mediums in the following years. The show was succeeded by Star Wars Rebels, which continued the story of Clone Wars era characters like Ahsoka Tano and Clone Captain Rex, but fans continued asking for more episodes of The Clone Wars.

The seventh season of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series is a revival run of twelve new episodes that will air on Disney+ beginning on February 21st 2020. The revival was announced by the show's supervising director, Dave Filoni, on July 19, 2018 at San Diego Comic-Con, during a panel commemorating the show's tenth anniversary. The episodes will be a continuation of the series after it was cancelled in 2013, and will include the Siege of Mandalore. Series stars Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Sam Witwer, and more have all returned to lend their voices to the series.