Monday
21Jul2008
Two New Commercials for 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'
Monday, July 21, 2008 at 10:56AM
Perhaps I've missed all the talk this summer about
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, or perhaps there
just isn't that much talk. The point is, I've had more people contact me about
some also-rans of the summer than what I think is an exciting new direction for
the storied
George Lucas universe. Maybe the people who
would've contacted me with questions and comments are already in line, though;
Star Wars fans like to do that.
I'm really curious about the potential box office for
this. Can it do $40 million in its opening weekend and make $100 million or more
by the end of its run? I really don't know. I would think so but the appeal may
only be there strictly for die hard Star Wars fans.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Animation, Clone Wars, George Lucas, Star Wars, Video | Print Article | Email Article | 4 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (4)
Box office potential for this Star Wars depends highly on critical review in the media. Take me for instance, a Star Wars fan but not a diehard fan, I am waiting to hear how good it may actually be before I fork out the big bucks to see it when I could wait to rent it on video.
It looks like quite an exciting movie and interesting but my problem is that the trailers have not shown anything that I have not already seen in the 3 prequels that was brought to us unfortunately by George Lucas.
I am hoping it brings us something George has not been able to capture, when I find out that is the case from this film, and then I will be willing to pay decent money for it.
Yeah, go watch the clone wars cartoons, more of them is all that is needed. Unfortunately if you did not see them, and they were easy to miss, you dont understand how good this will be, especially compared to the star war prequel movies themselves. It's hard to portray that in a trailer, most people probably just go "oh animated star wars, wonder if it can be as bad as the prequels" The Star Wars name is tainted, and unfortunately you cant put into the preview "NOT DIRECTED BY GEORGE LUCAS". I expect shining reviews for this, it wont be perfect but it will be good.
Speaking as a huge Star Wars fan, "Enh." With dialog like "Surrender or die!" it's hard to remember it wasn't written by Lucas. The "son of Jabba the Hutt" plotline--I'm calling him Bubba the Hutt--feels as silly as the forced family dynamics of Return of the Jedi. And, as a friend here says, "I'm looking forward to watching Clone Wars the second weekend...when it's on TV."
Having grown up with Star Wars, I am among the legions embittered by the new trilogy. I'm still trying to make sense of why I put so much power in a few movies that appealed to me tremendously when my adolescent mind was forming opinions on everything from politics, religion, to love...
Star Wars appealed to me on all those levels. I suspect it did to all of you as well.
All these years later on days that I sit in the park reading, I notice young families. Four year olds having discussions about Vader and ObiWan are not uncommon, and neither are the action figures to personify those legends.
There are legions of new fans out there growing up on this mythos as it itself continues to evolve. And I think they are the same bunch who love Harry Potter.
Maybe that's why Warner is so confident, why they are attaching the new Potter Trailer, and why, I think, this movie will rake in some serious dough.
And it may not even need the guys who saw A New Hope 44 times before it was called A New Hope to do it.