Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week joined by special guests Luke Dunne and Richard Drumm, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, JJ Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, somehow Palpatine returned.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 12th October 2023.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Heather Saul at The Independent reports on Colin Trevorrow being announced as the director of Star Wars: Episode IX, August 2015.
- Borys Kit and Mia Galuppo at The Hollywood Reporter cover the announcement that Colin Trevorrow has left Star Wars: Episode IX, September 2017.
- Dom Nero at Esquire reports on the leak of Colin Trevorrow’s script for The Duel of the Fates, December 2020.
- Thomas Bacon at ScreenRant considers the similarities between The Duel of the Fates and The Rise of Skywalker, February 2020.
- Jesse Scheden at IGN discusses Disney’s plan for each of the sequel trilogy to focus on a single legacy character, November 2020.
- Edward Helmore and Kevin Rawlinson at The Guardian write about the passing of Carrie Fisher, December 2016.
- Kathleen Kennedy at Entertainment Weekly talks about how the passing of Carrie Fisher impacted the Star Wars franchise, April 2017.
- JJ Abrams explains to Digital Spy that the plot of The Rise of Skywalker didn’t change due to the passing of Carrie Fisher, November 2019.
- The production team working on The Rise of Skywalker talk about how The Rise of Skywalker dealt with passing of Carrie Fisher, December 2019.
- Ben Fritz at The Wall Street Journal reports on Colin Trevorrow’s departure from The Rise of Skywalker, May 2018.
- Chris Lee at Vulture reports on gossip about the firing of Colin Trevorrow from The Rise of Skywalker, September 2017.
- Jon McCoy shares some art from The Rise of Skywalker, March 2020.
- Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline reports that Rian Johnson was the favourite to replace Colin Trevorrow on The Rise of Skywalker, September 2017.
- John Saavadra at Den of Geek reports on David Fincher’s decision not to direct The Rise of Skywalker, April 2019.
- Andrew Liptak at The Verge reports on JJ Abrams’ announcement as director of The Rise of Skywalker, September 2017.
- Matt Kamen at Wired reports on the “men’s rights activists” protesting Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- The National Post reports on the reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among the “manosphere”, May 2015.
- David Rutrelle at We Hunted the Mammoth looks at the absurd reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among misogynist sections of the internet, May 2015.
- Erik Kain at Forbes discusses the strange fixation on labelling Rey as a “Mary Sue” among certain corners of the internet, December 2017.
- Adam Howard at NBC News reports on the misogynistic backlash to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, May 2016.
- Nina Badahur at Self reports on the misogynistic backlash to the women-only screenings of Wonder Woman, June 2017.
- Constance Grady at Vox reports on the racist and sexist harassment of Kelly Marie Tran following the release of The Last Jedi, June 2018.
- Kelly Marie Tran writes at The New York Times about the harassment that she received following The Last Jedi, August 2018.
- Kelly Marie Tran talks to The Hollywood Reporter about leaving social media following the targeted harassment, March 2021.
- Emma Ockerman at Time reports on Daisy Ridley’s decision to leave social media after harassment, August 2016.
- Rian Johnson talks to /film about his experience of the vocal online backlash to The Last Jedi, January 2018.
- Michael Baumann at The Ringer reports on the rumoured “JJ Cut” of The Rise of Skywalker, January 2020.
- Dominic Monaghan talks to The Hollywood Reporter about a forty-minutes-longer directors’ cut of The Rise of Skywalker, January 2020.
- Ed Power at The Telegraph discusses the rumours about the relationship between JJ Abrams and Disney, May 2020.
- Julia Alexander at The Verge reports on JJ Abrams’ deal with Warner Bros., September 2019.
- Bethy Squires at Vulture reports on Disney’s attempts to retcon “jizz” music, September 2023.
- JJ Abrams talks to The New York Times about his complicated feelings about The Last Jedi, December 2019.
- JJ Abrams talks to The Wrap about the audience’s reaction to The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Zack Snyder talks to The Guardian about Martin Scorsese’s criticism of superhero movies, May 2021.
- Martin Scorsese talks to his daughter on TikTok about how The King of Comedy was “slept on”, October 2023.
- Alethea Rockwell writes at The Museum of Modern Art about “exquisite corpse”, November 2018.
- Brooks Barnes at The New York Times reports on the box office success of The Force Awakens, December 2015.
- Stacey Ritzen at The Daily Dot reports on the Rise of Skywalker memes, December 2019.
- Gavia Baker Whitelaw at The Daily Dot reports on the “live slug reaction shot”, February 2022.
- Jenna Amatulli at The Huffington Post reports on the editting of Judi Dench’s human hand out of the theatrical cut of Cats, December 2019.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist writes about how Disney tried to retroactive “patch” the narrative of The Rise of Skywalker, March 2020.
- Megan McCluskey at Time discusses the ending of The Rise of Skywalker, December 2020.
- Kirsten Acuna at Business Insider considers reports that the force ghosts were supposed to appear at the climax of The Rise of Skywalker, January 2020.
- Damien Gayle at The Guardian considers the controversy over Ben Affleck’s attempts to conceal his slave-owning ancestors, April 2015.
- Natalie Hanman at The Guardian reports on Benedict Cumberbatch’s slave-owning ancestors, February 2014.
- John W. Miller at America Magazine considers the moral weight that weighs upon the descendents of slave-owners, November 2018.
- Kat Rosenfield at Reason considers the sequel trilogy as a political mirror to contemporary America, May 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes argues that Trump’s election had a sizable impact on Rogue One, November 2016.
- Meghan O’Keefe at Decider contemplates the politics of Rogue One in the context of Donald Trump’s America, December 2016.
- David Schwarz at 1137 considers the popularity of the Empire in Star Wars, September 2017.
- Chelsea Steiner at The Mary Sue considers the publicity campaign for Galactic Starcruiser that asked fans to rat out Chewbacca, March 2022.
- Julianne McShane at NBC News reports on the fascists camped outside Disney World, September 2023.
- Nien Nunb at Wookiepedia.
- John Boyega talks to GQ about his experience making Star Wars, September 2020.
- Domhnall Gleeson talks to Entertainment Weekly about playing Hux in The Rise of Skywalker, April 2021.
- Adam B. Vary at Variety reports on the lack of Finn and Poe romance in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Oscar Isaac talks to IGN about how the “Disney overlords” shot down a romance between Finn and Poe in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- John Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly reveals that the mystery planet at the start of The Rise of Skywalker is Mustafar, December 2019.
- JJ Abrams tells IndieWire that Rey and Kylo are platonic in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Michelle Jaworski at The Daily Dot reflects on how the novelisation of The Rise of Skywalker approaches the kiss between Rey and Kylo, March 2020.
- Brooke Kato at The New York Post considers how women suffer from imposter syndrome far more frequently than men, April 2023.
- Violet Kim at Slate reports on Rose Tico’s screentime in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Chris Terrio talks to IGN about the use of Rose Tico in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Kelly Marie Tran talks to The Hollywood Reporter about her deleted scenes from The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Billie Lourd talks to Vanity Fair about asking to share scenes with her deceased mother in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly reports on the revelation that Janno is Lando’s daughter in The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Eric Francisco at Inverse reports on how Dominic Monaghan came to be cast in The Rise of Skywalker, October 2019.
- The Irish Times reports on the bet between Sean Astin and Leo Varadkar, June 2020.
- Kevin Fraser at JoBlo tries to unravel the mystery of Matt Smith’s casting in The Rise of Skywalker, November 2021.
- Ana Dumaraog at ScreenRant reports on how Daisy Ridley wasn’t sure that Rey was “a Palpatine” while filming The Rise of Skywalker, September 2020.
- Sam Warner at Digital Spy reports on Emperor Palpatine as a late addition to The Rise of Skywalker, November 2019.
- Matt Miller at Esquire considers the fakeout death of Chewbacca in The Rise of Skywalker, January 2020.
- Kara Hedash at ScreenRant considers the death of Chewbacca in the expanded universe, December 2020.
- May Singham at Comic Book Resources considers the Rey and Poe romance in Colin Trevorrow’s The Duel of the Fates, September 2022.
- Michael Swaim at IGN considers the long saga of Chewbacca’s medal, January 2020.
- Patty Jenkins announces that she will be directing Rogue Squadron, December 2019.
- Rebecca Rubin at Variety reports on the cancellation of the planned Rogue Squadron movie, September 2022.
- Christopher McPherson at Collider reports that Rogue Squadron is still in development, December 2022.
- Rian Johnson talks to Den of Geek about the delays to his long-announced Star Wars trilogy, October 2022.
- Owen Williams at Empire reports on Damon Lindelof’s recently-announced Star Wars movie, October 2022.
- Geoff Boucher at Deadline reports on the departure of Benioff and Weiss from their Star Wars project, October 2019.
- Taika Waititi talks to IGN about the status of his long-planned Star Wars movie, November 2023.
- Kevin Feige confirms to The Hollywood Reporter that his Star Wars movie is dead, November 2023.
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