Last week, we reported that Disney had fired one of the writers for the official Star Wars website after he criticized The Rise of Skywalker. But it seems that the Mouse House actually got rid of the contributor for bringing up a specific issue in the last movie of the Skywalker Saga.
We’d assumed that J.J. Abrams would take the safe road with Episode IX and try to cater to fan opinion as much as possible. And while the filmmaker did just that with The Rise of Skywalker, it didn’t much help the movie’s reception, as all hell broke loose the moment it hit the silver screens. Since December, the last installment in the nine-movie saga has managed to spark a lot of controversies, much like its predecessor a few years ago. One of the points that The Rise of Skywalker‘s most ardent critics make is the depiction of Rose Tico,...
We’d assumed that J.J. Abrams would take the safe road with Episode IX and try to cater to fan opinion as much as possible. And while the filmmaker did just that with The Rise of Skywalker, it didn’t much help the movie’s reception, as all hell broke loose the moment it hit the silver screens. Since December, the last installment in the nine-movie saga has managed to spark a lot of controversies, much like its predecessor a few years ago. One of the points that The Rise of Skywalker‘s most ardent critics make is the depiction of Rose Tico,...
- 5/27/2020
- by Jonathan Wright
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