Oscar Isaac isn’t tired of all these Star Wars anymore
If Lucasfilm has a "great story" and a "great director," he'll play Poe Dameron again
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Well, it looks like Oscar Isaac needs a new house: Back in 2020, he quipped to Deadline that that would “probably” be the only thing that would ever convince him to go back to Star Wars and play hotshot pilot Poe Dameron again after The Rise Of Skywalker, having rededicated his life to grown-up movies like The Card Counter, but now—possibly because he’s running out of room for his stuff, or because he’s tired of his neighbors—Isaac says he has “no real feeling one way or another” about doing another Star Wars and that he’d be “so open to it” if Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy went to him and said they have a “great idea” for more Poe Dameron.
That comes from Variety, which also quotes him as saying he’d need both a “great story” and a “great director” if he were going to do more Star Wars, which could arguably be taken as a comment on the story and director of his last Star Wars, but it’s not like Isaac to dismiss the projects he’s worked on and the people he’s worked with like that. After all, he won’t even say anything bad about X-Men: Apocalypse other than that he wishes it were “better.”
If Isaac does go back to Star Wars, though, you can probably thank his propah ol’ Bri’ish friend Moon Knight, since Isaac has been open about the amount of “mental torment” he went through before deciding to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe and star in that Disney+ show. He seems to be happy with how that experience went, which must’ve convinced him that this kind of mega-franchise genre thing can still be fun if it’s not completely dominating five years of your life.
As for where we might see Poe Dameron next, Disney and Lucasfilm have yet to touch the post-Rise Of Skywalker timeline, so some kind of Book Of Poe series that takes place after the sequel trilogy and has Oscar Isaac back as the star would be a big deal on Disney+. (We own that idea, though, so if Disney takes it we demand to be paid off with a new house that is at least as big as Isaac’s new house.)
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If Lucasfilm has a “great story” and a “great director,” pony’s up, he’ll play Poe Dameron again
You know, Oscar Isaac is one of the actors who says this and I actually believe him. After the shit he’s been through with Star Wars and X-men, I don’t know that there’s enough money out there for him to take the job again if it just feels like it’s going to be miserable and humiliating.
Pretty sure the $24,000,000 million dollars they have paid him has more than made up for any anguish.
That’s what I saw as well!
Actors are always like, “I’ll sell out for a little while, because there’s a mansion off the beach that I’ve had my eye on and I just need a little more money to be able to buy it.” What they forget is that after you buy that mansion, the first time anything goes wrong with the plumbing is really expensive. Like, super expensive. And it kind of defeats the purpose of having a mansion if one of the first floor half-baths is out of service because the toilet doesn’t work.
Oscar Isaac is a Brooklyn hipster who throws art salons at his place that his wife documents on IG. I’m pretty sure in this case, his blockbuster money is legit going to finance smaller projects including his wife’s work.
Roger knows what’s up.
sounds like metal gear solid isn’t going to happen any time soon.
He can always wait for the recast in Metal Gear Solid 5.
Kept us waiting, huh?
He said at the Moon Knight red carpet that they are still trying to figure out the script, but that he is still attached.
yeah like how jamie foxx is still attached to spawn.
Except that Metal Gear Solid is considered in active pre-production with a writer and director attached whereas Spawn is considered in development.From Oscar Isaac’s comments and the current credits slate, there’s a lot of question of what Jay Basu has contributed and what Derek Connolly has written as well as what the quality of either has been.
On a related note, a fun game of speculation I like to play is “What will fall off of Taiki Waititi’s slate first?”Currently he ostensibly has the following in various stages of development:More Reservation Dogs (show-runningMore Our Flag Means Death (starring, EP)A spin-off of What We Do In The Shadows called We’re Wolves (writing)An Akira live-action film (directing)A Flash Gordon film, originally animated but not I think intended to be live action (directing)A Charlie & The Chocolate Factory animated series for Netflix (Directing, writing, EP)A second Charlie & The Chocolate Factory animated series for Netflix, this one about Oompa-Loompas (Directing, writing, EP)A film adaptation of The Incal (Directing, possibly writing?)So if he can do all that (and why would we doubt it?) Oscar Isaasc can definitely play Snaaaaaaake and be in a bunch more Star Wars films.
Yeah Poe deserves to finally be in a Star Wars movie that has a great story and great director.Lord knows that doesn’t describe the 3 he was in at all.
Oscar Isaac may deserve these things. “Poe” isn’t really a character though, just a name someone thought up a couple of weeks after catching part of Con Air on TV and never realized where they’d got it from.
Well, you’re not wrong.
His name is CDameron Poe. A good man, he did what any of us would have done, and he paid the price for it.
Call the Poe-poe’s!
There is an idea of a Poe Dameron, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real him. Only an entity, something illusory. He simply is not there.
yknow good call. it never really occurred to me because i like isaac so much, but poe really is a nothing character.
I’d slightly push back on this because I think Last Jedi establishes him as someone who needs to be the leader/hero and has a lot of confidence in his opinons—so much so that he led a mutiny against Admiral Purple Hair Laura Dern because he wasn’t looped in on the secret plan.
The problem is that the character Last Jedi established isn’t really one I like.
Con Air? No.
Sam takes a lot of crap, but someone who references the great Titular Line sketch from Upright Citizens Brigade can’t be all bad.
He doesn’t just reference the Titular Line sketch: Those pennies you have? They’ve all been in his ass.
True, but he’s constantly trying to get me to go into the Hot Chicks room.
I’d see a Star Wars movie if I knew Poe was hanging onto the wings of the Millenium Falcon.
Of all the problems with those sequels, none of them were the casting or the acting.
“Somehow, I, Poe Dameron, have returned.”
They should get the great writer/director Andrew Haigh, to make a Poe film where he spends a weekend on a break from his job and hooks up with a guy.
Looking back at the sequel trilogy, I can’t help but think that Poe surviving (where he was originally supposed to die) was a big mistake. Both previous trilogies were built around three characters that each play a specific role (Luke-Leia-Han, Anakin-Padme-Obi-Wan). The sequels were likely intending the same with Rey-Finn-Kylo Ren…but when Poe survived, he wound up having to share the space with Finn. I honestly think this is why Finn got the short end of the stick in the end…he was having to compete with Poe and ultimately ended up being kind of nothing at all.There’s obviously a lot gone wrong with the sequel trilogy, but I think even this one change could’ve made a huge difference: kill Poe off midway through A New Hope The Force Awakens as was supposed to happen, and give Finn more room to exist and grow.
Conversely, and I say this as someone who actually really likes Last Jedi, no Laura Dern could have solved the problem as well. If you still had injured Leia and actually had Poe left in charge instead of the weird coup plotline, he would have had plenty of plot, plenty of “growing up” time and plenty of impact. Then Skywalker Poe would have been an older, wiser Poe having to make tough decisions and confronted with his sketchy past which might have had more weight. I will say there’s some good Poe material in some of the books.
That’s an interesting point. Seeing him making sacrifices or dealing with the actual repercussions of his “flyboy” attitude while being thrust into a leadership role he isn’t prepared for. It would’ve given him much more.
Exactly.I mentioned in one of my comments below that it is possible that his Skywalker screen time might have been different had Carrie Fisher not passed away. Her death is not responsible for ALL of the problems with that movie, but it does seem likely that major plotpoints had to change, and I suspect sacrificing the larger Resistance was part of that.
That really would have made for a great conflict. Given where he was in his development when Leia was injured, he likely would have rejected the Crait plan as “running and hiding”, and officially supported the Canto Bight plan, which still would have blown up in his face. What that did to the Resistance would have made for a great journey to true leadership in the final movie.
Exactly, and I do think it bears some consideration that Poe’s Skywalker arc and activities *might* have looked different if Carrie Fisher hadn’t passed away. I don’t like to make excuses for shoddy storytelling and there was a lot of shoddiness in Skywalker that had NOTHING to do with Carrie Fisher’s death, but certainly some plot points must have been scrapped if Skywalker was really supposed to be Leia’s movie as they claimed. I suspect based on nothing that there would have been more Leia/Kylo interactions which would have meant more time for Rey to be more present, for lack of a better word, with Poe and Finn.
“If Lucasfilm has a great story and a great director for Star Wars movies” is the kind of if statement you know will never return a true value.
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I’m sorry when did he “rededicate” his career to grown up movies? Yeah, he’s done as much more adult fare as he did before, but he just did Moon Knight as you pointed out. And he was in Dune. And he’s voicing a character in Into the Spiderverse 2.He seems perfectly happy to play in both sandboxes and always has.
They have to get that anti-Disney snark in somewhere, even if it doesn’t really make sense!
Indirect confirmation that they’re asking him to come back for Rogue Squadron? Yes, Rogue Squadron was during the OT but they can dust off the name for whatever post First Order threats are out there.
He was in four episodes of Star Wars Resistance, so technically, he has done Star Wars TV already…