New 'Star Wars' Movie Announced Set 5 Years After 'Rise of Skywalker' (cnn.com) 124
A new Star Wars movie — starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy — will be released in 2027, the two announced Friday at the "Star Wars Celebration" (a fan event in Japan). CNN reports:
Set to begin production this fall, the movie will be set approximately five years after "Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker," released in 2019, but will sit outside the Skywalker story as a standalone film. "The film... is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen," said a statement from Lucasfilm, the owner of the "Star Wars" franchise...
"The script is just so good, the story, it has so much adventure, so much heart and original character. It's an opportunity to shine the light into a side of the universe that we may not have seen," Gosling said. Levy, the director of "Deadpool & Wolverine," told the crowd the film would have all the "fun of 'Star Wars'" but it would be done "in ways that are new and original...."
The next movie in the franchise, "The Mandalorian & Grogu," a spin-off of "The Mandalorian" series, directed by Jon Favreau, will hit cinemas in May 2026.
USA Today notes that more new Star Wars movies have also been announced: Daisy Ridley is set to star in a film that will see her character, Rey, building a new Jedi Order after the events of "The Rise of Skywalker." [This is sometimes referred to as "Star Wars Episode X: New Jedi Order."]
"Logan" filmmaker James Mangold has also been tapped to direct a movie about the dawn of the Jedi, and [Dave] Filoni is directing one said to "close out the interconnected stories" told in the live-action Disney+ shows like "The Mandalorian."
"The script is just so good, the story, it has so much adventure, so much heart and original character. It's an opportunity to shine the light into a side of the universe that we may not have seen," Gosling said. Levy, the director of "Deadpool & Wolverine," told the crowd the film would have all the "fun of 'Star Wars'" but it would be done "in ways that are new and original...."
The next movie in the franchise, "The Mandalorian & Grogu," a spin-off of "The Mandalorian" series, directed by Jon Favreau, will hit cinemas in May 2026.
USA Today notes that more new Star Wars movies have also been announced: Daisy Ridley is set to star in a film that will see her character, Rey, building a new Jedi Order after the events of "The Rise of Skywalker." [This is sometimes referred to as "Star Wars Episode X: New Jedi Order."]
"Logan" filmmaker James Mangold has also been tapped to direct a movie about the dawn of the Jedi, and [Dave] Filoni is directing one said to "close out the interconnected stories" told in the live-action Disney+ shows like "The Mandalorian."
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I just wonder how much longer are the going to milk this franchise
The first Snow White was in 1937. They haven't even got started yet. Some youth, brought up on the films in the wrong order, are now trying to claim that there are films before "Star Wars". I thank god there is only one Matrix film.
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There are always new children being born, so kid movies always thrive.
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Gen Zs don't know about or care about Star Wars.
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Most old Star Wars fans don't care about Star Wars anymore, either.
Please Stop (Score:2)
Most old Star Wars fans don't care about Star Wars anymore, either.
It's more like watching Disney shitting on a great piece of art, adding a fart and saying "Look at this magnificent Shartwork".
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That's what we ALL do.
Nobody RTFA.
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Wow (Score:5, Interesting)
Has anything been left in the "franchise" to milk?
It was quite dry after the "episodes 1 to 3". In the "last three" even the green milk ran dry.
What little goodwill that crap could not finish off was burned to ashes by the TV crap.
Just let it join grandma Leia and grandpa Solo in peace.
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Has anything been left in the "franchise" to milk?
The side series have been great. "The Bad Batch" stands out, as does "Clone Wars." Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett are good if you're into that kind of thing. As in any universe, there are plenty of side stories to explore, only limited by your story telling skill.
I have full expectation for this one to bad. If it's like Deadpool and Wolverine, expect it to just be a self-roast and fan-service. Still, there is an off chance that it will be good.
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The side series have been great.
I think there's some truth in this. I hate the re-litigating of original stories. Everybody has seen the original story. Everybody understood it in their own way. In the end a story of faeries and magic combined with WWII fighter combat in space. You had some wonder as a child the first time you saw it. Now people come along and tell you that everything works differently from the way you understood it. It's truly irritating because it's messing with your own interpretation and memories as if George Lucas owns what's inside your head. There. Was. No. Justification. For. Trying. To. Explain. The. Force.
On the other hand, side stories are fine. It's a good way to have big events introduced into a story (for example, a nearby planet gets destroyed and refugees from there who were in space at the time of the destruction start arriving) without having to spend half the story explaining them. As long as you stay away from the major characters of the main story and you don't try to change fundamental characteristics of the minor ones, people get to keep their memories as they were but have something new related to them.
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Andor is absolutely fantastic.
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The side series have been great. "The Bad Batch" stands out, as does "Clone Wars." Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett are good if you're into that kind of thing.
And on the other hand you have: Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew and whatever the Obi Wan one was called. To each his own, but I'd also put Boba Fett in my list rather than yours.
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Obi-Wan was okay (not good enough for rewatch, but enjoyable), mostly because, well 1) Couple of references to Andor (like Mon Mothma), and actually *good* series and 2) Ewan McGregor carried the protagonist.
The others, hard agree.
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The Mandalorian is mediocre. It has many inconsistencies within itself, it's "small", safe and becomes boring as episodes go by.
The Book of Boba Fett is weak, makes little sense at times and is far removed from the SW Universe.
No comment on the animated series, because I haven't watched them, and I don't intend to, I just don't like the genre.
Solo was mediocre towards decent, and the only movie I did enjoy was Rogue One.
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The Book of Boba Fett was crap. Mandalorian had an okay first season, but after that went downhill fast.
The animated shows and Andor are the stand-outs. The Acolyte and Skeleton crew were decent, if you are into those kinds of things.
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And this is the thing⦠you can see it from the comments here: everyone has different preferences and likes different things. The Star Wars universe is huge and there are many different stories to tell. No one has to like everything, no one has to watch everything.
The fact that someone doesnâ(TM)t like Skeleton Crew but likes Andor is fine.
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I get that, but Boba Fett was just objectively bad.
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Of course, Ewok Adventures qualifies as part of "the TV stuff"
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If I were into a bland thoughtless waste of too many hours I could watch (gestures around) and don't need Mandaboreian. Good god, people have lost all sense of quality if they liked that show... It's like freebird: a mantra for the mass moron.
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They could have had plenty of gorgeous side stories if they hadn't killed of the EU.
Katarn, Thrawn, Jade just to name a few.
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Has anything been left in the "franchise" to milk?
Quadrimammarian critters.
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Has anything been left in the "franchise" to milk?
The cow thing with the green titty milk on scraggy island.
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The original movie was good for what it was, for its time. Arguably Empire was better, but then came Return of the Jedi which was when the IP milking started in earnest - that entire movie appears to have been designed from the start to sell toys and appeal to children before a single line of dialog was considered.
After that, I'd say Rogue One was good. I don't watch them, but there are people who rave about one animated series or another. Mandalorian had some good qualities, but I think as time passes people are going to be less and less enamored of Grogu and it won't hold up very well. Andor had a couple of weak episodes, but right now I'm betting that season two is going to be pretty damn good.
Star Wars is a setting, not a story. You can tell any story you want to with it. Disney's issue is they lack creativity; tweak by focus group, release, repeat. No matter how much fans think they want it, they actually do not want another story about a young Jedi and a Sith doing an intricate lightsabre dance routine under the watchful eye of a decrepit old Sith while a cute 'droid' rolls by in the background and somewhere a planet-destroying weapon is warming up. That's over, dead, and buried. They need to stop digging it up and making it dance like a marionette.
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The original movie was good for what it was, for its time. Arguably Empire was better, but then came Return of the Jedi
Many artists, including George Lucas, read Joeseph Campbell's book "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", which is also an awesome read. Campbell meant it as a roadmap of mythology and the human psyche, however it's structure and the basis of a Hero's Journey within his book is clearly represented in Star Wars. Then completed comprehensively in SW:1-6.
However the real lesson is Campbell's mantra "Follow your Joy" which is exactly what George Lucas has done with his life.
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He followed his "joy" to the detriment of enough of us.
I don't want to see George Lucas's "joy" thank you. I suspect most don not, and I would hope he would be arrested if he showed it in public.
All we are asking for are some interesting plots to some science fiction fantasy films. This is not a high bar.
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Make another Rogue One. That movie was fantastic.
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Rogue one was headed in the right direction. Quite possibly my 2ndfavorite Star Wars movie at this point. Even the second movie of the most recent trilogy had some very interesting ideas (with a mess of plot holes though), which got cut off at the knees because Disney absolutely positively did not want creativity or any critical thinking to go with their Star Wars fans.
The horrible thing is that they were right: they made more money off of the idiotic baby Yoda than they would ever make off of a thought-pro
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What little goodwill that crap could not finish off was burned to ashes by the TV crap.
And yet some of the series have been well received with recent efforts like Andor being reviewed overwhelmingly positive by critics and fans alive. I suspect your view isn't as universal as you think it is.
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your view isn't as universal
Where did I claim it is? I'm old, if you are my age and find the SW crap amusing, you're probably descending back to childhood and not in a good way.
But when even the grand kids are bored and don't want any of it, the time to put it to rest has long passed.
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Well, it was never a masterpiece of cinema, but the special effects were phenomenal back then.
The low-budget "Blake's 7" that was running around the same time had many more likeable characters, interesting stories and much, much better dialogue, for example. But, man, those lacquered hairdryers being passed off as "spaceships", those were pathetic.
And yes, although I don't know who Wilford Brimley is, by the time the emperor had the half of the second death star painted in the background, even the sagging
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The low-budget "Blake's 7" that was running around the same time had many more likeable characters, interesting stories and much, much better dialogue, for example.
It's dystopian and anti-establishment themes GUARANTEE it will never be remade as it was with updated special effects.
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Who knows, there was after all the expanse, which had both great effects and a good script. Also, for all mankind wasn't bad at all. But then we had the terrible Foundation and a few others like it that I forget.
I don't really want to see a remake of Blake, either, quite possible slapping special effects would just ruin it. Something new would be much better. No dearth of good material.
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Has anything been left in the "franchise" to milk?
It was quite dry after the "episodes 1 to 3". In the "last three" even the green milk ran dry.
What little goodwill that crap could not finish off was burned to ashes by the TV crap.
Just let it join grandma Leia and grandpa Solo in peace.
Pretty sure, like me, the general public is eagerly awaiting Star Wars vs. Alien, Predator, Jason, etc. There's no bottom. :)
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What about Vader vs. Kirk in glorious AI in Barbie land?
I for one can't wait to see the pink aliens drooling over Ryan Gosling.
Let me guess (Score:5, Funny)
Wait until part three, where it is discovered that Emperor Palpatine is still alive. (A surprising number of Star Wars movies feature that plot).
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
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Best of the humor, but it's a big target.
My own interest is in statistics on Star Wars books. I am afraid that each of those books represents yet another potential Star Wars movie.
Very afraid.
Okay, that was an attempted joke and I don't think I've ever read any Star Wars book and only a few of the non-canonical Star Trek books. So now I also want statistics about seminal canons? Getting into really speculative territory because I pay so little attention to TV or movies, but I think there is lots more stuff
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And are there other genres that should be considered as major generative categories?
Not exactly the same, but a good portion of fantasy genre should be considered directly derived from LOTR.
The King Arthur cycles could be an ancient example of a generative category.
Pride and Prejudice has spawned a remarkably large universe, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Of course the Marvel universe and DC are there
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ACK of your good examples. Especially Tolkien.
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The Last Jedi was such a great movie.
There must be another movie of the same name that wasn't the one I watched.
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The Last Jedi was such a great movie. It tried to break the franchise away from all that. Move beyond the dark side/light side and Jedi/Sith struggle, to one in which the characters matter, where anyone can make a difference, not just members of two particular families.
Because Han Solo was a member of an elite family? Or maybe you think he didn't make a difference?
Watch the Clone Wars series, it's all about minor characters who make a difference.
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Han was there, but let's just recap. In ANH it all hinged on country bumpkin Luke mastering the force to make that impossible shot. In ESB none of them do much to change galactic history. In RotJ it's basically down to Luke again, the rest of it wouldn't have finished off the Empire if he didn't turn Vader and kill* the Emperor.
Clone Wars was definitely good, but I'm talking about the live action movies. Bad Batch and Rebels were decent too.
* Ugh, I know.
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No R2-D2 and C3PO ? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not Star Wars without those two. Star Wars is ultimately about things witnessed by the two droids. I didn't say it, George Lucas did. He said that's one of the main things he ripped off of The Hidden Fortress. Reference: https://www.bbc.com/culture/ar... [bbc.com]
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It's not Star Wars without those two. Star Wars is ultimately about things witnessed by the two droids. I didn't say it, George Lucas did. He said that's one of the main things he ripped off of The Hidden Fortress. Reference: https://www.bbc.com/culture/ar... [bbc.com]
"Rosen?"
"Gilden?"
You mean the "Wokiee"? :-) (Score:4, Funny)
\I didn’t do it. The Woke did.
You mean the "Wokiee"? :-)
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poe's law? dear god let this be satire and not what an actual human being thinks
You are assuming Disney leadership consists of "actual human being".
Well, it's Easter after all! (Score:5, Funny)
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Somehow, Palpatine returned... (Score:2)
...again!
Fabulous news (Score:2)
Because we all know Disney are a pair of safe hands when it comes to franchises.
I have a bad feeling about this.. (Score:2)
n/t
You do feel a disturbance in the force! (Score:2)
nothing less, nothing more.
nobody gives a damn about star wars anymore (Score:3)
they literally destroyed the franchise, and it's been 20 years in the making, new low after new low. Star wars is dead. Kids don't care, old people don't care.
Feel free to throw away another few hundreds million dollars Hollywood. Nobody gives a damn about star wars.
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https://www.the-numbers.com/mo... [the-numbers.com]
This is why they'll keep making them.
List of all the Good Star Wars movies (Score:1)
Start list:
Rogue One
end list
That said, this concept at least shows promise - if they have some decent writing and direction it could be a good movie.
If not, it will just be another of the long list of crap Star Wars movies that really should not be watched but anyone who successfully completed 3rd grade.
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List = ^@
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"Daisy Ridley is set to star" - Ok already a Flop (Score:3, Insightful)
OK, and how many people liked Daisy Ridley's character? Her toys sat on store shelves until they went on clearance, and they were even a tough sell after that. That's true for nearly every character in their trilogy.
Disney still doesn't understand Star Wars if their plan is use DOA characters to revive a series that has lost half its fan-base. They may be shooting for new fans, but clearly that didn't work too well the first time around.
I mean there isn't much character growth that can be written into a character who is already perfect and the best at everything.
The Ruin of Skywalker :o (Score:5, Insightful)
At this point.. (Score:2)
Which planet's "5 years"? (Score:2)
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This is actually a topic in Asimov's Foundation sequels. There's a galactic-standard hour, day, and year, and every plant maps their rotational and revolutional patterns to that. A main plot point was trying to find THE planet that had true 24 hour days and 364.25 day years, since that might have been the birthplace of humanity.
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They still can't come up with anything new, even after 50 years of deep contemplation. And, Star Wars wasn't that great to begin with. It was just warmed over Flash Gordon with CGI. So, really, nothing new after almost 100 years.
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Flash Gordon is just Odyssey in space. We havent come up with anything new in 2600 years.
Respect the wamans (Score:2)
No, thanks. (Score:2)
I'm good with Star Wars (1977), its prequel Rogue One (2016), and the latter's prequel TV series Andor (2022-2205).
Maybe stop announcing so many movies... (Score:2)
Is there any chance of Disney Lucasfilm ever being run by adults again? They announce new movies several times a year, but none of them get made, which is good, because the ones that do get made are all garbage. Well, all but one.
I can't believe they haven't damaged the company so much they have to start selling properties off, and I'll be happy when they do.
Disney delenda est.
I think I'm the target audience but.... (Score:2)
So I'm solidly in Gen X and old enough to remember going to see the first movie on my birthday in 1981 the day it was re-released in theaters.
I was the right age to be hooked, I even anxiously watched the 2015 sequels, but reading about this one, I find I can't even motivate myself to care about it anymore, so and I know my teenagers don't care about Star Wars at all, so I can't help but wonder who the target audience of this movie is and whether it will kill the franchise once and for all due to its inevit
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I think you are too old to remember accurately. The first movie was released in 1977. The second was 1980. No Star Wars movie was released in 1981.
Ryan Gosling!? (Score:2)
well, if he does to Star Wars, what he did to Blade Runner then I donâ(TM)t see a Star Wars movie ever getting made again.
Congratulations, Disney, you screwed this pooch long after it was dead and now you got a case of the maggots.
New Jedi Order? (Score:2)
Wait, Yoda had Luke burn the entire library of the Jedi order, and said it needed to end. Rey, after defeating the Emperor, and the Sith fell, retired to get away from it all.
WTF would she want to start a new order, to start the same cycle again? I don't buy it, at all.
My new Jedi order? Yeah, I'll take fries with that.
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Mel: "Did the buffer plate fly off my gor-ram ship AGAIN?"
Inara: "It was made by Boeing from the Earth that Was. It's amazing we're still in one piece, Mel."
Wash: "Well, I don't like dying. So let's not do more of that, you know, dyin'."
Mel: "Didn't the word 'Boeing' get translated into 'falling apart panda piss'?"
Zoe: "Yeah, after that disaster where the door blew out in low Earth orbit."
Jayne: "Boeing! I don't wanna die! Even though you're paying me a lot it ain't enough if I die!"
Kaylee: "Boeing? This th
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I understood all those references.
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These movies will suck, because Disney got the woke ....
Don't upset the wokiee.
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Which part of the doll represents childhood memories and a love for beloved characters?
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The brain, the part that is supposed to be smart enough to know these are characters that are owned by a soulless Hollywood studio whose only interest is how much profit they can bring in and you don't have to let them actually control your thoughts, that's what your line of thinking says, "whatever JJ Abrams decides to do with my memories I have to let him, I am helpless to stop him"
And our brains should have enough capacity to discard something that would preserve your childhood memories no matter the fut
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Don't expect a social conservative to do anything much except clutch their pearls and take to their fainting couch. They're born aggrieved victims and they'll die aggrieved victims.
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Heir was so good. It was a trilogy. It was right there. All they had to do was make it. What could have been...
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Holy shit agree 100% it has everything you need in a sequel story; a very compelling villain, a different framing for the fight (new republic getting established and the remnant empire is the "rebel" group), a new set of characters to adapt the story around while having different roles for your original ones (mara jade is right there as your female lead)
Yeah the timeline and characters ages dont work out but you can adjust the bones of the story around that, i mean hell it even ends with the emperor clones
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Heir was so good. It was a trilogy. It was right there. All they had to do was make it. What could have been...
There's a guy on YouTube (DarthAngelus) that made Heir To The Empire in computer animation (Unreal Engine I think). The thing about them that impresses me the most is the voice acting; several of the voices sound exactly like the original actor. The one for Han Solo is especially close.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Oh you weren't kidding, it's whole movies. That must've been a labor of love right there.
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Nope.
I don't know what is wrong woth the doll (you made it after your own image? is it woke?) but it has no brains.
Cannot show on doll how brains got raped.
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She's still there. SOMEHOW.