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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Almost certainly. You get these well known directors who claim to be fans of a franchise but proceed to muck it up, so I just assume they were lying or they were so hands-off in the production that they lose the plot. M. Night Shymalan said he was a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (he even wrote the forward for the ATLA art books) and then he pumped out an absolutely terrible live action adaptation that any fan of the original show could realize was hot garbage. How does that happen?
I guess at this point I'll take any director or producer claiming they're a huge fan of the show they're working on as a big red flag.
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I just don't get how someone who is a basic fan of film watches the Emperor in RotJ and thinks....wow do you know what would be missing from this....if the Emperor came back from the dead and had even more powerful lightning powers. The ROTJ had relatively simple force powers and relied on well crafted storylines to build tension in that final scene.
At the end of the day, Michael Bay could have directed RoS and had a similar result. I know...we'll just take everything from the original trilogy and make it louder....and more lens flare!
JJ Abrams is just not that good at what he does. He struck gold on MI3, due a great Philip Seymour Hoffman performance, and Star Trek had a bunch of things all come together that he was unable to recreate.