Donald Glover is hoping to carry some leisure again into the Star Wars franchise, along with his Lando film nonetheless being deliberate.
He doesn’t prefer it and he doesn’t agree with it, however he received’t settle for it. Donald Glover has taken goal on the Star Wars franchise, saying that all the enjoyable and pleasure it as soon as had has drifted off right into a tight-ass galaxy far, far-off.
Possibly it’s the nostalgia getting the perfect of us or that a few of us have aged out of that thrill of seeing Star Wars repeatedly on opening weekend or that the franchise simply can’t give attention to “fun”, however Donald Glover is having none of it, hoping he will be a part of bringing some pure leisure again into the collection. “I just want it to be fun. As a Star Wars fan myself, I think it’s important that there needs to be fun being had.” Glover would say that the state of our society could also be partly chargeable for this, doubtlessly damaging each leisure and our connection to 1 one other. “It’s very hard to have fun right now. It’s tough because there are very serious things happening and those are the only things that connect us, weirdly. So I get why things are serious, but part of the human experience, I believe, is we have a responsibility to have enjoyment. And I just feel like we’re lacking in that department.”
So, the place does Donald Glover match into all of this straight-faced Star Wars materials? By Lando Calrissian, after all, the character he adopted for Solo: A Star Wars Story and will play in a spin-off characteristic. As he added, Star Wars “can be super serious. Sometimes it’s way too serious. Everything that has to do with the Skywalkers is like so serious. [With] Lando, I think the best part about him is he’s a scoundrel. And I feel like people can relate to that, and he’s probably like ‘man, this war is whack. I need money,’ which I feel everyone can relate to. I want to bring fun to Star Wars. I just want it to be fun.”
Many op-ed items have been written about Star Wars shedding that enjoyable issue, so Donald Glover isn’t precisely out on a Cloudy Metropolis gantry right here. There may be leisure to be discovered within the collection nonetheless however with so a lot – six exhibits alone have debuted since 2019, with Skeleton Crew coming in December – and a few drastic tonal shifts, how can correct consideration actually be given to “fun”? And, actually, how can we outline that?
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