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2. I guarantee you the original theatrical release of Episodes IV - VI will get released on Blu-Ray because Disney loves money.
2. I guarantee you the original theatrical release of Episodes IV - VI will get released on Blu-Ray because Disney loves money.
Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan
Considering Mark Hamill is retiring from voicing the Joker
Considering Mark Hamill is retiring from voicing the Joker
I was thinking more along the lines of cameos. It should be "the next generation", to borrow a phrase...
Although I don't think we'll lose the droids - I seem to recall somewhere that the entire originally planned 9-film epic was to be from their point of view (with gaps filled in, of course). They're the only characters that could span the appropriate time period.
Oh yeah, also I'm sure we can all be happy that Lucas is giving the $4 billion from this sale to starting an educational charity.
Oh yeah, also I'm sure we can all be happy that Lucas is giving the $4 billion from this sale to starting an educational charity.
It wouldn't make sense for Disney to blow multiple billions of dollars on studio acquisitions all at the same time.
Seeing as how Lucas doesn't consider the EU to be canon to the Star Wars story, the new movies could either be very good (if they somehow recreate the success of PotC (looking solely at 1 and 2) in the new movies) or very, very bad. Either way, I will remain ambivalent about this until more details are known.
They're planning on bringing Vader back. After getting roasted by Palpatine, will he be double robot? Retconning that whole force ghost of Anakin might be tricky, though.
I will admit, if they show Vader in more elaborate light saber fights, as a flash of black armor, that would make it worth it. Vader's supposed to be the biggest badass in the universe, but in the original trilogy, the costume limited movement too much, as his fighting was stiff. Those limitations don't really apply anymore with the technology available now.
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So there's been a lot of news lately.
One tiny particle of that news has been about George Lucas selling Lucasfilm to Disney for just over $4 billion.
Disney have said that feature films will most definitely be a part of their taking-over of Lucasfilm (and expect Indiana Jones at some point, I guess) and that a "new feature film" will be released in 2015. Whether this will be entitled "Episode VII" is another story. Lucas is staying on as creative consultant, but I suppose the exciting part is that if a decent director is brought in, this new movie (and supposedly, new trilogy) could be brilliant. Out of Lucas's hands, it might be more cohesive than the last trilogy that was released. (Personally, II & III were brilliant, I is getting more annoying to watch as I age, and Hayden Christensen is a terrible, terrible actor)
Essentially, Disney seemed to have let their various money-making factions that they've aquired over the years a lot of independence. Marvel have had their ups and downs, but its been ups since Iron Man came out. Then there's the Pixar thing, with Cars, Toy Story, all that. Very successful. Avengers just pulled in record figures. Its a good time to be a part of that, I think. Disney are obviously a corporation after franchises that they can milk forever more, and while I hate that Star Wars is going to be involved in that, I also love it. It needs a good vision from someone who isn't also writing and directing the thing, surrounded by yes men. A fresh vision could 'reboot' Star Wars in a very good way.
Also, they're talking TV series and a hell of a lot of other stuff. I'm quite excited, but the buyout in general has been interesting, although rather inevitable when you think about it.
I also have no idea where the plot will go for a new film, or who will be in it. I hope that the guys in charge have the clairvoyance to NOT get all the old actors in (Harrison Ford is NEVER coming back), and just do something new. Lots of Expanded Universe stuff to draw from but stuff like the Thrawn or Jedi Academy trilogy rely far too much on Luke Skywalker being the new self-appointed head of the New Jedi Order.
Anyway, geeking out here.
You have to think, how bad can Star Wars really be? If Phantom Menace is as bad as it gets, then its smooth sailing from here.Attack of the Clones? Hayden Christiansen?
I just realized I never saw episode II or III. Episode I kinda killed it for me.
Love can't save you, Padme...only my new powers can do that!I kept waiting for Billy Mays to pop in and shout "BUT WAIT! ORDER NOW AND WE'LL SHIP DOUBLE, THAT'S RIGHT, DOUBLE THE POWERS, ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!"
I just realized I never saw episode II or III. Episode I kinda killed it for me.
Then you, sir, have not yet known true despair.Quote from: Anakin SkywalkerLove can't save you, Padme...only my new powers can do that!I kept waiting for Billy Mays to pop in and shout "BUT WAIT! ORDER NOW AND WE'LL SHIP DOUBLE, THAT'S RIGHT, DOUBLE THE POWERS, ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!"
It slices, it dices! And with twice the midichlorians of the leading jedi brand!
Darth Maul was a completely wasted character as far as I'm concerned.
JJ abrams is directing the new star wars movie. so thats a thing.Didn't he do the new Star Trek movie? Isn't that a nerd-plurality conflict of interest or something?
yes he did do the star trek movies, but he has said when he was doing the star trek movies he wasnt a star trek fan, he did say however that he was a star wars fan. He even put a floating R2D2 in the wreckage when the enterprise arrived at vulcan to fight the bad guy. Its one of those "blink and you miss it" moments. So now we have a star wars fan making a star wars movie after reviving the star trek franchise.JJ abrams is directing the new star wars movie. so thats a thing.Didn't he do the new Star Trek movie? Isn't that a nerd-plurality conflict of interest or something?
Chewie just asked me to pass on a message
"Raargs nnnn Graaaah hurh raaaagh"
Chewie just asked me to pass on a message
"Raargs nnnn Graaaah hurh raaaagh"
That is all.
So yeah there's going to be spinoffs. Lots and lots of spinoffs. (http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/06/Star-Wars-spinoffs-Young-Han-Solo-Boba-Fett-movie-in-the-works/8601360176417/)
The milking begins.
Oh I think we all know Shia is going to work his way in somewhere.
Also, Eddie Murphy as Lando's hilarious Dad in the Calrissian Chronicles trilogy circa 2018
Oh I think we all know Shia is going to work his way in somewhere.
Also, Eddie Murphy as Lando's hilarious Dad in the Calrissian Chronicles trilogy circa 2018
I can see Eddie Murphy in any movie, he's just hilarious.
Shia Bidoof (I don't care how he spells his name, he'll always be an annoying little beaver-twat) can go eat a dick. I'm serious, he didn't even belong in "I, Robot"...I still wish Will Smith would have shot him.
Star Wars 3―?
Ahh, fuck it. I'd watch it.
Denning says he's doing a novel about a year after Apocalypse ends. It stars the Big Three, and starts in a cantina, "and yes, Han shoots first." It'll be set in a new part of the galaxy, that's new to readers. Lando is involved, no grandkids."
Gonna make it disappear like the Holiday Special huh? ;D :angel:
Star Wars sequel: Open auditions to be held in UKhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24828750
Open auditions are being planned for two lead roles in the next Star Wars film, the BBC has learned.
The casting sessions for Star Wars: Episode VII will start later this week at locations around the UK and Ireland, including London, Dublin and Glasgow.
According to a casting notice the film-makers are looking to fill two roles.
They are a "street smart and strong" orphaned girl in her late teens and a "smart capable" man in his late teens or early 20s.
The open auditions for a "major Hollywood Movie" were first published on the twitter account @UKopencall, which announced a "nationwide search for lead roles for a Disney movie". Disney bought Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars series, in October 2012.
Leaked descriptions
Lucasfilm declined to comment to the BBC but it seems likely that the characters have been given non sci-fi names and descriptions in the announcement in an effort to disguise that the auditions are for Star Wars: Episode VII.
The broad nature of the characters is almost the same as in descriptions leaked online earlier in the year when the overall casting process began.
While it is unprecedented for lead parts in a franchise of this size to hold open auditions in this way, Star Wars has in the past given major roles to little known actors and actresses through the traditional casting process, dating back to the original trilogy when the then unknown Mark Hamill won the role of Luke Skywalker.
Other movies have successfully cast secondary actors and actresses through open auditions in the past most notably some of the later Harry Potter films.
And actress Dakota Blue Richards won the lead role of Lyra in The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, through open casting.
Director JJ Abrams, who is also co-scripting the movie, will not be attending the open auditions which begin in Bristol on 9 November. Instead those at the auditions, who must be over the age of 16 for the female role, and over 18 for the male role, will briefly meet members of the casting team of the film.
Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled to begin shooting at Pinewood Studios in spring 2014, for an expected 2015 release.
GarandMarine - dude, personally I've seen enough of Scarlett Johansson. Don't need to shoe-horn her into Star Wars just because she looks like a woman from a series of books Disney have just said aren't canonical (hardly a coincidence with the timing of the cast being announced). What's with the dislike of Abrams? Everyone has their own opinions, but could he be any better/worse than say Lucas himself, or Richard Marquand?
You mean since he fraked with Star Trek?
GarandMarine - dude, personally I've seen enough of Scarlett Johansson. Don't need to shoe-horn her into Star Wars just because she looks like a woman from a series of books Disney have just said aren't canonical (hardly a coincidence with the timing of the cast being announced). What's with the dislike of Abrams? Everyone has their own opinions, but could he be any better/worse than say Lucas himself, or Richard Marquand?
It was an offhand comedic example of a classic Star Wars character, (Please note that games, comics, animated features, etc are included in the swath of the EU The Mouse just destroyed, not just the books.) more particularly, an extremely strong female lead character and bad ass that could have easily been folded into this reboot as opposed to one new female fortheloveofthegodsletherbealead character and... Carrie Fisher. Relax. Smoke a bowl. What ever you do down there to chill out. Play with poisonous snakes or something I guess, and of course it's not a coincidence. THAT WAS THE ENTIRE FRAKKING POINT!
As for Abrams he's just a shitty director. Ol'George's writing might have gone down hill on the Prequels but he's not a bad director (he only directed one Star Wars movie any way) his pre-Star Wars films prove his chops. THX-1138 his debut, in particular was quite good.
Abrams meanwhile has churned out a good movie NEVER. Seriously his entire filmography is shit unless you were big into Lost, which I always thought wasn't that good to begin with, and after the freaking travesty he committed against Star Trek... well I'm not exactly positive about Captain Lensflare's contribution to Star Wars.
Just remember this is the guy who took a show and universe based around the best things about humanity, an ideal future for us to look towards with hope*... and turned it into a standard issue action sci fi piece wearing the corpse of the former like a serial killer wearing a meat suit made of the flesh of his victims.
Seriously. Fuck that guy.
He's on the same level of filmmaker as the guy who did the Stallone era Judge Dredd.
Speaking of things that are a crime against it's source material...
*Yes I'm aware the series got significantly darker in and around DS9, but if you want to count that as a gritty reboot it's proof that good writers and directors can do gritty reboots of a franchise with panache and still keep the bright future caramel goodness at that heart of Star Trek in place.
They were however terrible Star Wars movies.
there's a thread for rebels. :-D
Their bodies got tossed in the smuggling compartments and were disposed of later.
tldr, who's playing Jar Jar?
He could have been somewhere else when the planet blowed up.tldr, who's playing Jar Jar?
Jar Jar's dead
Wedge is still one of Luke's friends.Oh I know, my disagreement was about who was mentioned at the beginning of episode 4. :-D
I haven't watched this films in forever, but I never noticed any of the X-wing pilots were recurring characters.
Now that I am aware, I care so little I wish I hadn't asked.
Remember how Disney wanted to release a new Star Wars movie every year? According to this list of upcoming Star Wars toylines from Hasbro, they figured out what these movies will be through 2020, and the newest addition is one titled Red Five.
This list reportedly comes from a Hasbro toy event and published by StarWars-Union.de, who Hasbro later asked to take it down, so grain of salt and all.
2014: Rebels
2015: Episode VII
2016: Boba Fett
2017: Episode VIII
2018: Solo
2019: Episode IX
2020: Red Five
We've heard plenty of rumors that Disney was planning on making stand-alone Boba Fett and young Han Solo films, so that jibes. But what is Red Five? Could it be about the further X-Wing adventures of Luke Skywalker? Is it just a Disney shareholder-friendly name for a Rogue Squadron-type film? And if Disney's cartoon Rebels makes this list, could Red Five actually be another animated series?
I'm genuinely asking. Because really, Disney could do pretty much anything at this point and I wouldn't be that surprised.
Okay?
The more I think about Episode 1, the more I think it would've been better to have Anakin as a teenager, possibly even as old as he was in Episode II. It just makes more sense - how much of Episode 1 reflects on the original trilogy?I am guessing you havnt seen these then:
.....how does is it an X wing if it doesn't X? Only looks like a single wing there.
I expect that the Empire splintered and the Rebels would have to keep fighting. I mean, people are not just going to turn over power if they've been lording it over the locals for years. But the suggestion is that the back of the Empire was broken at the Battle of Endor. Now some decades later, X-wings are still beat up junkers, while Stormtroopers have new, even shinier and slicker armor suggests to me that nothing really has changed in the decades since Endor.
.....how does is it an X wing if it doesn't X? Only looks like a single wing there.
its actually an x-wing. I nerdgasmed when i saw that part of the trailer.....how does is it an X wing if it doesn't X? Only looks like a single wing there.
Actually, I don't think that's an X-Wing at all.
.....how does is it an X wing if it doesn't X? Only looks like a single wing there.
Actually, I don't think that's an X-Wing at all.
its actually an x-wing. I nerdgasmed when i saw that part of the trailer
So, how about the lightsaber with laser arm guards? Am I alone in thinking that looks pretty silly?
So, how about the lightsaber with laser arm guards? Am I alone in thinking that looks pretty silly?Extremely silly, in the same way as fantasy weapons with spikes in places that would be more dangerous to the wielder than anyone else. Of course the original lightsabers, with no handguard at all, were extremely silly too. The comic-relief beachball robot is silly. The tie-fighters zooming about in an atmosphere look pretty silly (aerodynamics much?). Oh, and what is the betting that the X-wing pilot, and girl on the hoverbike, are "good guys", and the guy in the stormtrooper armour is a baddie? :(
if han cared about what the falcon looked like, people wouldn't keep saying it looked like a piece of shit.
That is essentially the problem with the whole trailer. Everything is a call-back. Tatooine, stormtroopers, cute/funny robot, desert junkyard, girl on a hoverbike, the Millennium Falcon, tie-fighters & X-wings, lightsabers, ominous dark-robed figures... It rather screams: "We are too terrified to change even one teat on our money-cow."
You can tell The Empire is run by conservatives. Conservatives always repress science and technology spending.
Right... because America's military isn't quite literally the bleeding technological edge. We're approaching rail guns, combat ready laser weapons, exo-skeletons and fuck only knows what DARPA has sealed away in their labs. The defense industry has always massively advanced tech.
Right... because America's military isn't quite literally the bleeding technological edge. We're approaching rail guns, combat ready laser weapons, exo-skeletons and fuck only knows what DARPA has sealed away in their labs. The defense industry has always massively advanced tech.
We've been "approaching" that stuff for 30 years and some of it actually works, yet the standard weapons for the armed forces are M16s, various sniper rifles, and pistols.
Right... because America's military isn't quite literally the bleeding technological edge. We're approaching rail guns, combat ready laser weapons, exo-skeletons and fuck only knows what DARPA has sealed away in their labs. The defense industry has always massively advanced tech.
We've been "approaching" that stuff for 30 years and some of it actually works, yet the standard weapons for the armed forces are M16s, various sniper rifles, and pistols.
Not to mention the fact that robots patrol the sky.
And expensive flops
REALLY expensive flops
Then there's the JSF.
It was always infinitely more likely than not but I'm still a bit PO'd about the EU thing.
And greatsword lightsaber dude is Kylo.
Taoism explicitly embraces balance, but not between good and evil (yin and yang are complementary, not opposed); imbalance is the evil. Qi is simply a force of nature (assuming you believe it exists) with no sentience or moral nature at all. I would see Sith as corrupted by their delusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidy%C4%81_(Buddhism)), not by some hypothetical "external" Dark Side, but then I am probably no more able to escape my own philosophical/religious background than George Lucas was his dualistic, Abrahamic one.
I'm pretty sure the force is just bacteria in one's blood. :clairedoge:
Now just edit-out Jar-Jar.
I haven't found it myself, but there are rumors that "The Phantom Edit" is somewhere on the Internet.
https://www.reddit.com/comments/2pqcqy/slug/cmz6s38
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
Frank Herbert, Dune series
...Is this some sort of reference in-Universe to the number of different styles of lightsabers there are?
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And I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Rogue One is an X-Wing movie.
the fans end up writing for the series.Considering J.J. Abrams stated he was always a Star Wars fan and preferred it to Star Trek, it can't be far from the truth. :wink:
I just nerdgasmed all over my workstation!
I think I need a few minutes...
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Already iconic.
The new Chewbacca looks weirdNah someone obviously did a face swap with him and Han. :clairedoge:(click to show/hide)
The symbol on that banner behind the stormtroopers is NOT the same symbol the Galactic Empire used in the original trilogy.My theory is a new regime and a new flag. The wacked out tie fighter in the hanger is probably a rebel fucking things over for the empire. They did something similar in Rebels, in fact it looks almost frame for frame close to the scene. Wish I could post a video but Disney is very vigilante about pulling down that stuff.
Speculation: This may be only one of several competing remnants of the original Empire. Which might explain why one TIE fighter was apparently shooting up a hanger bay full of other TIE fighters.
Also, word of JJ is that the planet with the crashed Star Destroyer isn't Tatooine. Of course, Abrams has been known toliedisseminate anti-spoiler misinformation before.
Watching/listening to the fan reactions from the SW Celebration panel was also pretty cool. Wish I could've been there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUGCGObBQ-g
Um, wasn't the first Death Star only 100 miles in diameter or something? That looks so close it's practically scraping the upper atmosphere.
And to top it all off ............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivv51UmwTrw
@*^%%$&$#### Disney.
Try this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_c2n9e3cYg
May the Fourth be with you :-D
May the Fourth be with you :-D
And also with you.
Lift up your lightsabers. We lift them up to the force. Let us give thanks to the Force our guide.fixed
Aside from the entire new trilogy that has the old guard in it as a handover.
The sheer reverence that seems to be going into this movie is kind of astounding.
The sheer reverence that seems to be going into this movie is kind of astounding.It gives me hope that it will actually be good.
but they wanted to establish their bonafides by including everyone from the original trilogy.
Honestly the worst part about RotS is, again, the Anakin-Padme relationship. Why are these two people together? The only thing he does is whine.
The rest of it was Hayden Christiensen's lack of acting ability. Another thing that the Prequel Trilogy taught us about the George Lucas of today is that he is not very good at casting decisions.I disagree. If you look at some of the behind the scenes things GL is the reason Hayden came off woody as he told him exactly how to say it without context. He's a terrible director when he is the sole decision maker. He's a tell the audience how the actor feels instead of let emotion and acting take over. The script was unsalvageable by any actor, including Ewan Mcgregor (I saw him killing younglings! Only a sith deals in absolutes!). I completely put the blame on GL.
I don't know why, I'm just not that excited about it. I'll see it, and I'm sure it'll be great, but...eh, I dunno.
Can he fuck it up worse than George did?
Can he fuck it up worse than George did?
The more I think about it, the more I get the feeling there's some form of Plot Twist in store with regards to Luke coming in the movie.He'll be like old Spock from the Star Trek reboot.
A lot of people are upset that they didn't clearly see Luke in the trailer. What were they blind?
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Stupid racist idiots make #BoycottStarWarsVII becase of the casting of John Boyega as Finn. Conveniently forgetting that James Earl Jones voiced Darth Vader, or that Jango Fett / the entire original clone army were Maori :facepalm:And not to forget Billy Dee Williams in TESB and TRotJ. But racist arseholes are arseholes.
I would *love* to see that version.
..he brought the series back to Prequel-levels of quality and polish.
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I'm sure I remember that some heightened level of force-sensitivity is necessary to not decapitate yourself with a lightsaber.
Finn was able to pick up and use a light saber without any prior training with it though, using it in two fights. Not successfully mind you, but without losing any limbs in the process.
The question that is on my mind is 'Who is Rey anyway?'.
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Did you watch the Vid to the end?Ah, caught it.
I'm still holding out on a Poe/Finn romance for Episode VIII
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Wrong Starkiller. :laugh:
Sadly, I have been corrupted to the point where every time I see the term "star killer", I think of Sheridan.
Indeed, but my initial title confusion had more to do with the titles just being very similar and me knowing about that game nearly a decade before the movie came out...even if the game wasn't that good.
Sadly, I have been corrupted to the point where every time I see the term "star killer", I think of Sheridan.
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Emo Kylo Ren (https://twitter.com/kylor3n) (spoilers)