Star Wars 7 shit talk

aka because we needed something else to obsess over for a few years after today. Or not.

Rumors, lies, stories they made up, whatever. The current big one:

http://www.unleashthefanboy.com/movies/harrison-ford-want-back-in-for-star-wars-episode-7/32960

rumour: Alfonso Cuarón to direct.

NOW I'm interested.

Gonna suck. Cuaron's got his own sci-fi epic to shepherd.

Lucas gonna fuck it up by proxy.

I've also seen Matthew Vaughn's name bandied about, and he did just suddenly drop out of the X-Men: First Class sequel.

old Mark Hamill sittin' by the phone

if you are over the age of like 19 and have any opinion on this whatsoever, you are basically a brony

Dude is one of the hardest-working voice actors in the business, Morbs, he ain't hurting for work.

btw I will personally pay both your bar tabs for the coming year if you will GTFO this thread and stay off

dammit, no fair making such an offer when I'm taking oxycodone

but done, motherfuck Star Wars forever

Do you still wear this hat Whiney? Because from this angle it looks like some kind of goddamn doggy-ear things. Fucking human tanookis shouldn't make fun of ponies and Star Wars.

[controversial mod edit etc etc]

heard it's tentatively subtitled "Meet the Fetts"

I'm wondering how they gunna pull this off in 2.5 years. Fuck the tech and cgi shit, how long will it take to craft a non-crap script?

Also, R5D4 cameo plz plz plz

how's life, i'd sincerely appreciate it if you didnt bring my IRL life into threads because I made fun of a movie.

how long will it take to craft a non-crap script?

what makes you think they would even bother

be-la-tarr! be-la-tarr! be-la-tarr!

Because people non-Lucas will have a say in it, and there are enough Disney/Pixar folks who could pull it off

And most importantly, Disney ain't Dreamworks

this is such a stupid fucking idea, how can anyone have faith in this "franchise" anymore

Holy fucking shit at that being Whiney Weingarten, known to the huddled survivors of the Dorkpocalypse as the Oncoming Storm!

Because it's got a gigantic, devoted worldwide fanbase who would go nuts at even the promise of another halfway-decent movie? Just shooting in the dark, here.

Hamill in the PS3 Batman games is AMAZING. Even after I knew it was him, I listened and just could not hear a single drop of Luke Skywalker anywhere in there. But beyond that he invested every line with such cackling menace. Hard to imagine the game would have been nearly as gripping without him.

/Ain't It Cool

The franchise isn't doing that badly: The Force Unleashed, The Old Republic, The Clone Wars, still roughly 1,000 comics per month. I mean it's not like anyone is saying "Oh, are there films too?", but a lot of franchises would swap in a second.

Yeah, Hamill has probably joined Ford in Not Needing This Shit Anymore.

Hamill's voice as the Joker really reminds me of Harvey Fierstein.

It's worth noting that the 3-D re-release of the most reviled film in the franchise still managed to pull in more than $43 million, which is nearly 10% of the movie's lifetime gross.

Hamill has been angling for a voice role on The Clone Wars, but they haven't been able to find a part for him. If they're gonna get an original trilogy star to do a voice on the show, they want it to not be something one-off or pointless.

Tall order, that

Because people non-Lucas will have a say in it, and there are enough Disney/Pixar folks who could pull it off

Turned out well for "John Carter," didn't it, about the closest thing one can imagine to a Disney/Pixar braintrust reboot of "Star Wars?"

Cuaron's got his own sci-fi epic to shepherd.

btw what is this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29

And frankly this sounds horrible:

Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone--tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth, and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space

DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNNN

I mean if this plays as a comedy, sure.

Aren't Sandra Bullock and George Clooney the same age?

Sandra plays a 20 year old, George plays 93.

I wonder if I can think of any differences between the Star Wars franchise and John Carter of Mars hmmmmm let me ponder

so it's 'Deep Water' in space.

xp

(Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer

lol

this is basically "The Net in space" which means it's going to be hilarious

Did anyone here other than me see Wreck-It Ralph?

god, Matthew Vaughan would be such an uninspiring choice

In the Wreck It Ralph thread I note that I have seen Wreck It Ralph.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/star-wars-episode-vii-may-have-found-its-writer.html

you know i really like Hamill, especially in Empire.. he's called onto to do a lot of different stuff emotionally and pretty much the entire thing is carried by him. he's the star and hero of the best loved set of movies ever and i'm baffled why he doesn't get more credit. i'm sure this has been discussed at length elsewhere. maybe everyone else likes him too?

I always considered him a total - and wonderful - ham in Empire. Even as a kid, I laughed by ass off at "that's not true, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!". That said, I genuinely believe his voice work on Batman/Justice League is top quality.

I can't find the direct quote, but Sam Fuller directed Hamill in Big Red One and said that Star Wars ruined the dude, in terms of wasting what Hamill could do vs what he was pigeon-holed into

His Joker gets a lifetime pass from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA

Listened to Hamill on that Batman podcast that Kevin Smith is doing (by far the best thing Smith has ever done). He's really a pro, very much a technician when it comes to performance.

In terms of a script, there has to be gold somewhere in the hundreds of SW universe novels.

you'd think that

Bring in the rabbit dude from the comics.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i-95vNxdcS4/TRuufaqEElI/AAAAAAAAAoI/PwsUt1ufmVw/s1600/Droids%2B1A.jpg

Responding to something Shakey said upthread, you can make compelling stories in this universe(I've given three examples at least), but the more important thing game-wise is that it will never, ever NOT be fun to force-throw a stormtrooper dude off a gangplank to his screaming death

I wonder how the purchase will affect Star Wars 1313, still in development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLXu28Kyle0

Hamill never bothered me much, except the timbre of his yelling voice. Also he had a bad traffic accident between the first 2 films, couldn't have been an easy time.

Pretty sure you mean a wampa accident.

Bring in the rabbit dude from the comics.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not familiar with the comics. Was it one of these little guys that Chewie's rescuing?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070715013152/starwars/images/9/96/PlanetOfTheHoojibs-BookAndTape.jpg

nah, it was this dude
http://www.snowbuni.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/MISC_jaxxon.jpg

if you want to go down the rabbit-hole, so to speak

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaxxon

Oh man, that's so much worse! I had really been looking forward to a fourth Star Wars movie with Hoojibs in it. I've never budged on my love for Ewoks either. But that rabbit...lord, almighty.

Leporidist.

I've never budged on my love for Ewoks

I've always liked Ewoks too. The bit where one is shaking his dead mate to see if he'll wake up always gets to me.

The Ewoks are cool. I mean even some of the crappier CGI creations in the prequels might have been tolerable if they were actual puppets or whatever

Jaxxon was a quick-witted Lepi smuggler from Coachelle Prime. The most rambunctious of his family's thirteen children, he left his homeworld at an early age, after stealing an unprotected freighter. He made his way to Nar Shaddaa, where he began to perform odd jobs, quickly becoming familiar with the important elements of fringe culture.

hipster bunnies?

Coachelle Prime.

I've never budged on my love for Ewoks either.

I never in my life thought I'd see this sentence

Jaxxon in the comics was hilarious/awesome. accompanied by big-tittied human sidekick iirc

AMAIZA FOXTRAIN

I know it's long past time for this but: Whiney OTM

yes because god forbid on a website dedicated to obsessing over the minutia of popular culture we start drawings lines around which are acceptable

"my nerdery is more acceptale than your nerdery"

wtf is wrong with my keyboard

I really don't understand why you react to vague non-serious teasing as if it was a personal attack

also: "Amaiza Foxtrain" <--- I mean come on

I don't think she's been confirmed for the new movie yet but we can dream

lol i'm so not taking it personally, i'd say the same thing in any other thread where someone decided to equate nerding out over something to people wanting to fuck cartoon ponies

if you'd said "lol star wars nerds" i'd be okay, but you were otming Whiney's trolling post

bronies vs. star wars nerds is the new trekkies vs. whovians

not really, at all. unless the whovians actually produced daleks that they could fuck.

lol i'm so not taking it personally, i'd say the same thing in any other thread where someone decided to equate nerding out over something to people wanting to fuck cartoon ponies

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, November 9, 2012 1:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jon, I take offence to your notion that being a brony is all about the fuckin'.

... I don't see how that joke was inappropriate, coming as it did after the reveal of big-titted human sidekick Amaiza Foxtrain

tbh I am glad we are having this conversation because just typing "Amaiza Foxtrain" is cracking me up

ps: Amaiza Foxtrain

xp: you haven't seen the picture of 70s companion Jo Grant nude and draped over a Dalek, I take it

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jxO0UwZwWXw/TV08Sa5vp-I/AAAAAAAAAPs/k6X6YtJWhfw/s1600/dalek.jpg

built for lovin

lol, that i have not seen. and no, i'm not defending the kookier/crepeier corners of star wars nerdery either.

i know i really shouldn't be surprised, but the level of detail in every article on wookieepedia, it's mindblowing.

^^^ Merdeyeux otm

funny, even as a star wars stan i had never spent much time on that before it was brought up itt

i mostly just like when it reminds me of the old comics i haven't read in 20+ years

ftr I love Star Wars and Doctor Who and Star Trek

My Little Pony can fuck off though, unless it's that cracked-out "call upon the Sea Ponies" video

I discovered this wondrous bit of prose on wookiepedia a while back. I never tire of reading it

The remaining IG-88 uploaded his consciousness into a computer core destined for Death Star II. He succeeded in being uploaded, and was preparing to activate his program to take over all droids in the galaxy when it was destroyed. With his consciousness in the Death Star II, he would literally become the Death Star.[3]
Emperor Palpatine was the only known person on the Death Star to suspect something was wrong after the uploading of the computer core with IG-88 inside. Before the station's destruction, he noticed a series of doors in his throne room opening and closing sporadically. IG-88 did this to show the Emperor that he was not all powerful. However, IG-88 was utterly baffled when it appeared that Emperor Palpatine used some unseen force to attempt to push the doors open. However, IG-88 exerted more force and was able to continue to keep the Emperor locked in, until he grew tired of the game and unlocked the door.[3]

big green rabbit is only scratching the surface of the range of wacky characters in the comics

that's the kind of gold you get in the expanded universe novels btw

Number None, that is amazing

the only expanded universe novels i've ever read were those Zhan Thrawn trilogy books.

oh wait, i had a book of short stories about the bounty hunters at one point, including one about IG-88 but it didn't tie in with Number None's story.

I read one of the Han Solo books, it had a blue cover? I remember it was super boring, then amazing, then boring again.

http://brunching.com/images/geekchart2.gif

Zahn books are pretty much the only ones worth reading

i had the bounty hunters book too, i remember an ig-88 story but playing practical jokes on the emperor doesn't ring a bell.

i like the attention to detail of all the articles being in the past tense. it was a long time ago!!!!

xp I don't know, I admire the whole series where the writers [SPOILER ALERT] gave Han and Leia three kids, then killed off two of them. Kinda ballsy.

hah I think that's after my time - I do remember their three kids

remember realizing even as a kid that Kevin J. Anderson is one of the absolutely worst writers ever

C'mon man what abt Splinter of the Mind's Eye?

Fuckin' film that shit!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6lgbvmMm1qi0m30o1_250.jpg

Looks like some sort of steampunk erotica.

OMG

Amaiza'd

there are at least two others from that photoshoot

Someone should put some clothes on that dalek.

Only novels I ever read were the Thrawn books and the zombie one on audio, which was actually pretty good had it not had the requisite cameos

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/star-wars-episode-vii-may-have-found-its-writer.html

wait what?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/nov/10/twilight-breaking-dawn-better-than-star-wars?CMP=twt_gu

No matter – whatever happens, the Twilight series' positive legacy is already written in stone. A generation of young readers have spent hundreds – nay thousands – of hours reading Meyer's books with the same passion and enthusiasm that the great gothic novels once excited. Moreover, they have formed an extremely vocal and articulate fanbase whose obsessive dedication to the written word has effectively forced the film-makers to remain essentially respectful of the source texts.

Truly, trolling refined into high art.

Wow, didn't expect that to be Kermode before I clicked it.

He thinks The Exorcist is the best film ever made

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/BLX-5

just remembered this guy for some reason. i wonder if the extended universe authors are at all trolling george l with all of the terrible terrible names?

A philosophical Bollux

C'mon man what abt Splinter of the Mind's Eye?

It's somewhat mindblowing to learn about this and read about the writing of "Empire" and realize "I had it all planned out from day one!" was GL's most successful achievement in creating the Star Wars myth.

It sounds like Mark, Harrison, and Carrie are down with this. I'm ok with it too, as long as Mark doesn't have to have that dumb 'Padawan learner' buzzcut with the asymmetrical rat tail from TPM.

... why would he?

In the event that Luke Skywalker had a kid and is training him to be a Jedi. And said kid may turn out evil (???) It rhymes like POETRY!

but... if he is the teacher, why would he have the hairdo of a padawan, is the question I am waiting for you to ask yourself

both of you are on time out, go to the corner and reflect on what youve done

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVKBvrzjMMI/TtKxIlTzeyI/AAAAAAAABzQ/H_mEQrlf6aU/s1600/Obi-Wan%2Blooking%2Bat%2BAnakin%2Bin%2BThe%2BPhantom%2BMenace.jpg

I'm just going to sit over here and wait for you to actually remember the rest of the movie

Camera pans down to ugly pink Yoda-like creature with an eyepatch, right?

No, Ewan was wearing trousers that day.

ugly pink Yoda-like creature

http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/2007-13_files/Last%20of%20the%20Time%20Lords%20(7).jpg

haha, nice

I hope this happens, just to hear the screams that result:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/357610/Darth-Vader-to-be-resurrected

haha "a film mole" speaking to a UK paper doesn't seem hella reliable.

It isn't, but this is the shit talk thread, anything goes.

Director list allegedly including/down to Vaughn, Favreau, Fincher.

was thinking vince vaughn for a second

Meanwhile, whatever:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/what-hell-hath-disney-lucasfilm-wrought-star-wars-meets-extreme-home-makeover/

I love how this is all this bizarre demi-disgust over the 501st, who are all about the charity work.

Keep in mind that, legally speaking, Nikki Finke is mentally retarded.

holy hell that is hilarious

fans really are the worst

You don't think it is a little weird for nerds to dress up as fictional baby-killin' fascist troops and visit children's hospitals?

Darth Vader and stormtroopers have been kids' favorite characters since, like, 1977, along with Chewbacca and the droids.

Lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mK7dzyUkM

okay best kid ever

(family better watch out for puberty)

OH. MY. GOSH.

That little taH'qeq!!! Any other petaQs or any other Romolushnon hu'tegh baktag have any similar ideas? XD

Romulan64 1 week ago

kill

Finally, we're going to find out that R2 D2 is a true Jedi master!

io9 has things to say about idiot fan

http://io9.com/5965636/and-heres-the-worst-star-wars-fan-in-the-entire-world

I've been having massive lols these past few weeks at people I know on Facebook that are taking a break from their constant Game of Thrones or Twilight status updates to sneer at Star Wars and Star Trek fans.

We know different people.

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/jj-abrams-set-direct-next-star-wars-film-exclusive-74596

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Little Miss Sunshine" screenwriter Michael Arndy is penning the script.

he also did Toy Story 3

Yawn.

Actually, I think he's a great choice. I'm a little more optimistic now. I thought he did a great job with Super-8, and I think he will be the dude that can remember that these are meant to be, at heart, kid's stories but that kids don't need to be condescended to (fucking jar-jar).

oh shit, stormtroopers AND lens flare!

haha, tbf though, considering the major Close Encouters era Spielberg vibe Abrams was going for, the lens flare was p appropriate if completely fucking overused

This seems like a win-win to me. Now that Star Trek has been revived as commercially viable franchise, someone else can take it in a more interesting direction and Abrams can make the Star Wars movie he always wanted to make.

And anyone who was excited about new Star Wars to begin with and is disappointed with this news: lol, sucker.

i'm pretty happy with it!

This seems like a win-win to me. Now that Star Trek has been revived as commercially viable franchise, someone else can take it in a more interesting direction and Abrams can make the Star Wars movie he always wanted to make.

And anyone who was excited about new Star Wars to begin with and is disappointed with this news: lol, sucker.

― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:36 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

Trek and Wars crossover closer than ever now

What a wonderful world.

http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552722_10151209711980800_1444225148_n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zMru5.png

lol, well hey if "too much lens flare" is all they've got, he's getting off lucky so far. i don't envy dude at all, hope he's prepared to have every decision he makes for the next four years consistently shat upon by all corners of the internet.

That didn't take long:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/44723_10151372368959828_784677587_n.jpg

feel like this dude could do ok if he concentrates on making a cool movie and avoids the super 8 sentimental meta bullshit, could be p hard to resist what w working on a legendary franchise and the temptation to just fill it w a lot of nerd pleasing references to the 1st trilogy

So like Segel's The Muppets, basically.

I demand a nerd-pleasing reference to AMAIZA FOXTRAIN

even just like stylistic references to the first one could be p dangerous

Eh i don't think so. As long as GL isn't involved then there is far less to worry about.

Every Star Wars movie references the older ones, starting w Empire.

cool post

Cool response

How wude!

AMAIZA FOXTRAIN is expanded universe i.e. not in any films. Like "Tiberius".

a crime which needs to be rectified

even just like stylistic references to the first one could be p dangerous

― lag∞n, Friday, January 25, 2013 11:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw they gotta do the wipes and stuff

Wonder how much Disney would have to pay Fox to license the fanfare for use before the opening crawl?

Hahah I've been wondering about that since day one.

ha

There's no worse vanity card than the 3D BV castle these days.

I will miss the fanfare, but I will not miss this movie. Very excited that anyone who grew up on SW will be directing SW.

Plus, they're sequels. It's not like he's remaking Holy Mountain or something.

And on a related note, I just had the pleasure of watching the fan-edited HD versions of the original trilogy. Was just like being back in the theater as a kid. Highly recommend downloading those from your favorite torrent and reliving the glory.

which one, tho? there's at least a few

Formal rubbage from the starwars.com site:

After a bevy of emails and phone calls, the formalities have been wrapped up, and at long last everyone can exhale and properly share the word with an excited Internet. Yes, J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, the first of a new series of Star Wars films to come from Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams will be directing and Academy Award-winning writer Michael Arndt will write the screenplay.

"It's very exciting to have J.J. aboard leading the charge as we set off to make a new Star Wars movie," said Kennedy. "J.J. is the perfect director to helm this. Beyond having such great instincts as a filmmaker, he has an intuitive understanding of this franchise. He understands the essence of the Star Wars experience, and will bring that talent to create an unforgettable motion picture."

George Lucas went on to say "I've consistently been impressed with J.J. as a filmmaker and storyteller." He's an ideal choice to direct the new Star Wars film and the legacy couldn't be in better hands."

"To be a part of the next chapter of the Star Wars saga, to collaborate with Kathy Kennedy and this remarkable group of people, is an absolute honor," J.J. Abrams said. "I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid."

J.J., his longtime producing partner Bryan Burk, and Bad Robot are on board to produce along with Kathleen Kennedy under the Disney | Lucasfilm banner."

Also consulting on the project are Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg. Kasdan has a long history with Lucasfilm, as screenwriter on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. Kinberg was writer on Sherlock Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Abrams and his production company Bad Robot have a proven track record of blockbuster movies that feature complex action, heartfelt drama, iconic heroes and fantastic production values with such credits as Star Trek, Super 8, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, and this year's Star Trek Into Darkness. Abrams has worked with Lucasfilm's preeminent postproduction facilities, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, on all of the feature films he has directed, beginning with Mission: Impossible III. He also created or co-created such acclaimed television series as Felicity, Alias, Lost and Fringe.

Etc. etc. whatever.

hey ned what's up

there's like a 100% chance that Ben Burtt will be back for Artoo/sound design, right?

xp Hullo.

i feel like you're hedging on this hello. the 'u' tipped me off

That's because I'm about to get some sleep!

sweet dreams ye princes of ilx u kings of ned raggetss

This is the best possible big-name director they could've picked imo. Wish they would've asked David Lynch again tho.

Roman Polanski

Steve McQueen

Haneke, bitch!

herzong obv

herzog even jeez i'm not even drunk

herzong sounds cool too whatever

Then they could tell everyone that this is Herzong.

herzomg

Be funny if after Abrams makes his CGI-rich Star Wars, Lucas goes back and remakes the effects with practical models, mattes, etc.

Wrench in the works here is that this is not a reboot. What made the Abrams "Star Trek" so solid was that he was, working off of and correcting (or at least compensating for) decades of missteps and mythology. This, on the other hand, will have to fit into some grander narrative, and Abrams has been less than solid when it comes to actually telling new stories. Not that the story of "Star Wars" is particularly compelling as more than boilerplate. Anyway, any hack could have made this movie - Richard Marquand! - but at least they picked a competent hack.

as long as Lindelof stays away from it...

Oh, God, I can only imagine.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away ... that may be heaven ...

the idea that the Star Trek reboot cleared away decades of crust is odd given that the movie is nothing but callbacks and references to even the the lowliest of canon details, and I doubt that he would be prevented from doing the same with Star Wars.

Who cares really. We live in an era of po-mo fan-fiction cinema. No going back.

Star Trek movie was some bullshit imo, but its approach almost inherently is better suited to Trek than SW. the Abrams approach to casting and storytelling will probably result in a bunch of vacant Hayden Christensen types milling around unsubtly referencing the original trilogy.

it'd be almost impossible not to improve on Christensen

I dunno -- Star Wars seems a lot more amenable to endless referencing given its samurai movie pedigree and the "rhyming" thing.

to me the Lucas prequels were at least interesting as a deterioration of the original creator's sensibilities, like listening to a really shitty later Prince album. Abrams pilots his projects like an effective technician and may do something modern and mildly clever, but at the end of the day is a guy whose imagination could never create a Star Wars or Star Trek or Mission Impossible of his own.

^^^ otm x1000

But he's not being asked to make a new thing. He's the new manager of a franchise/brand, which is what he is perfectly suited for.

I think he also has the sense to not, say, create a character like Dexter Jettster. Can you guys think of the worst/cheesiest thing he's come up with? I haven't seen "Lost" or most of his movies. Star Trek was great tho.

Star Trek was a great Star Wars movie. Maybe this next Star Wars movie will be a great Star Trek movie?

I would see a muppet version of this movie

I agree 1000% with some dude as well.

Well - except for the ST movie being bullshit. I enjoyed it but yeah - pretty much the epitome of breezy corporate filmmaking.

to me the Lucas prequels were at least interesting as a deterioration of the original creator's sensibilities, like listening to a really shitty later Prince album. Abrams pilots his projects like an effective technician and may do something modern and mildly clever, but at the end of the day is a guy whose imagination could never create a Star Wars or Star Trek or Mission Impossible of his own.

― some dude, Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll take that over whatever it was that george lucas did, which imo wasn't just like, a watered-down version of when he was good... its like at least on a bad prince album you can be reasonably sure the musicianship will be super tight etc...

Wonder how much Disney would have to pay Fox to license the fanfare for use before the opening crawl?

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.)

Shit, hadn't considered this! It's a really important part of the theme tune.

Oh shit. I never thought about that!

Instead of the fanfare they'll just have a Star Destroyer going NNNNNNNRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN over the top of the camera then instead of the SW theme Abrams will play something by the Beastie Boys.

Then they issue a flood warning on account of all the fanboy tears.

Eh, ownership is pretty loose these days. I mean, Disney owns Marvel, but it's Universal that has the Hulk and Spider-Man rides. And Harry Potter, which is of course a Warner Bros. property. If anyone's worried about the fanboy shit, just wait until the Bad Robot logo shows up before the crawl.

Hey, maybe the crawl can just recount the history of the property. "And then the mighty Lucasfilm sold its rights to Disney, but while the merger went through, some preferred the way things used to be, and proved willing to fight for it. A galactic alliance of nerds, fanboys and dorks, calmed by the recruitment of General J. J. Abrams, was soon up in arms about the fate of the Fox fanfare, a battle whose results still hang in the balance ..."

lol

Still better and more bloodstirring than the TPM opening crawl.

Why couldn't they license it?

because that would be silly

u think disney is going to pay $4billion for something and then use another company's branding

Maybe they can license just the fanfare and have it playing off in the distance over a shot of a starfield or something before the "A long time ago" pops up.

the something they paid for was branding, so why not?

Clearly the solution is to crowdsource/Kickstarter the licensing fee to use the old Fox fanfare.

they can just use the flute edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGwwJEE7k48

the something they paid for was branding, so why not?

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:43 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you just trolling me at this point or

As long as it dips to blackness and silence before the John Williams score begins, we will all survive.

Shall we take bets on original cast cameos?

I hear Salacious Crumb is in talks

are han/leia's kids supposed to be characters in this?

Sony is paying Disney now to use a Marvel intro for Spider-Man. So whats the big deal about paying to use the fox fanfare?
Btw paramount's fanfare always sounded suspiciously like the opening to Star Wars which was always disconcerting to hear after every episode of tng.

as above, the only one I'm really rooting for is Ben Burtt as Artoo. Wouldn't object to a bearded and be-robed Hamill, which would be probably the least-forced thing if the new movies are about Jedi, since Luke presumably is the one founding the new jedi order even if nothing whatsoever of the EU is used as a source. Would think Ford is less likely than Hamill/Fisher to participate without Lucas?

James Earl Jones cameo as an anthropomorphic leonine alien.

seems hard to discount the possibility of ghost-Yoda as well

Disney got ILM and Skywalker Sound in the deal so they will presumably be making cameos as the VFX and sound design outfits

Would think Ford is less likely than Hamill/Fisher to participate without Lucas?

see link in the OP!!

cgi alec guinness as ghost-obi wan. involved in capers with ghost-jar jar.

I could see JJ throwing in someone yelling "It's a trap!" and other SW memeworthy references.

I hope the Jedi academy isn't in some sparkling faceless CGI city but some ancient temple overgrown w crazy vines and ancient carvings.

luke's son listening to yub nub on his lightradio

u think disney is going to pay $4billion for something and then use another company's branding

― zero dark (s1ocki), 27. tammikuuta 2013 20:32

Use the Disney magic castle intro, but at the end the camera pans to the night sky, which becomes a field of stars + get John Williams write a new bridge called "When You Wish Upon a Star Wars" = problem solved.

What is the rhyming thing Philip Nunez mentions above?

nerdcore rappers

hl: clip of George Lucas justifying one of the various examples of pointless callback/recycling of story elements with less impact in the prequels: ''See, it's like poetry, they rhyme.'' Referred to frequently in the long Redlettermedia reviews of the prequels as evidence of GL's creative bankruptcy. See the ''crimes of george lucas'' thread for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc

It does lead to an interesting question that I'll be curious to see how Abrams addresses it, though, namely: What constitutes "a Star Wars movie?"

With the Trek property, he could basically do whatever he wanted because it was explicitly a reboot and because there isn't so much formalized structure to "a Star Trek movie." But for Star Wars, there's a very formal (ritualistic) structure to the opening few moments. I have to assume that Disney wants to stick with that, but I guess we'll see.

All further SW opening credits to be done like Enter the Void.

Would pay to see that, as long as the movie ended after the credits.

So Han Solo, Yoda and Boba Fett solo movies as well as SW VII, VIII, and IX all in a span of 6 years? I guess "market saturation" is a non-word?

Doesn't appear to be a problem for the Marvel franchise.

Not saying I think its a good idea, but all of the Avengers spin-offs from the last three years or so have done well enough to at least justify their existence.

not quite the same. All the Marvel movies were leading up to the Avengers, these Star Wars solo films don't have any reason to exist other than fan service/money

plus they're prequels. And we know how that goes

Number None otm - Avengers thing is totally unique actually

spinoffs FIRST, ensemble movie last

Marvel characters have existed as self-sustained characters for decades. Dudes like Yoda and Han Solo have only ever been seen in the Star Wars context. They haven't had their own parallel solo titles since the 60s or whatever.

lol as if the whole avengers thing isn't one THOUSAND percent fan service

/ money

This would be like giving Kermit the Frog or Miss Piggy (in more ways than one) their own solo spin-offs.

in other words UTTERLY UNTHINKABLE

Surprised it hasn't been done yet!

wait til you guys hear about the Jabba the Hut and Darth Maul movies

Heard the first spin-off will be Han/Yoda fan fic. "Use the force," etc.

Would totally watch a Jabba sit-com.

Jabba of the House.

Jabba the House.
Jabba's World
Home is Where the Hut Is.

Surprised it hasn't been done yet!

Star Wars Holiday Special was more or less a solo spin-off for Chewbacca.

30 'lacc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEV_sLEglI

Avengers made crazy money ($1.5 billion in ticket sales) and most or all of the character movies made money too. I'm not surprised they're trying to do it again. This high-concept kiddie shit is even more profitable now that over half of the world population can afford to see movies.

It's kind of funny all this stuff happening, it's basically all stuff GL was saying right after the first movie came out. Do prequels, do sequels, do movies that follow one or two characters, get different directors to put their own spin on it, etc. All that stuff pretty much should have happened right from "Empire". My guess is "Holiday Special" was such a horror that it scared him into ever letting go of the franchise again. Or at least until 2012.

No Sarlacc spin-off, no credibili ... oh, wait.

We need a Max Rebo Band movie that follows them as they tour the dives - and hives of scum and villainy - of the universe.

We need a 3-D concert movie.

http://theblueraft.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lips.jpg

the originals basically ARE 3d concert movies at this point.

I'm not sure if you know this, but in the Star Wars "extended universe", i.e. SW comic books/novels/video games, there have already been numerous solo stories for Han Solo, Yoda, and Boba Fett... And I'm almost certain Jabba and Dart Maul have had ones too. So it't not like this is some shocking new development.

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Also the Jabba and Darth Maul films are a joke.

so what will become of "G-level canon" now that a main-sequence movie sans G is going to come out?

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Is it really? Lots and lots of big fiction franchises have done spinoffs based on popular characters, why would it be shocking or weird that SW has done that too?

And I got it that Jabba and Darth Maul movies were a joke, my point was just that it isn't a very good joke, since spin-offs about them most likely already exist.

Yes, but most fiction franchises that have done this (I'm curious as to which ones you mean, though) don't have a history of grossing half a billion dollars per instance*

*The Clone Wars is admittedly a bit of an exception here, more on the lines of the Ewoks films.

(I'm curious as to which ones you mean, though)

Superman, Batman, X-Men, Indiana Jones (if you count Young Indy as a separate character from Old Indy), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, The Mummy, , etc etc. The only really big fiction franchise I can't think of that has (AFAIK) no spin-offs whatsoever is Lord of The Rings, and I assume that's because Tolkien's estate forbids to create any new spin-offs that aren't based on his original writings.

And yeah, the Ewoks movies are actually a good example of Star Wars already having done this.

Though I guess LoTR RPGs and computer games are technically "new fiction" based on Tolkien. But AFAIK there no official LoTR movies, TV series, comics, etc that wouldn't be based on Tolkien's own material.

"there are no official"

afaik there's no spinoffs of The Godfather

There's a videogame at least, but I think that follows the plot of the movie?

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Little bit of question-begging going on w/this statement.

There are a lot of solo Star Wars spin-offs on my blog. Also, the characters have sex with each other a lot.

Mark Hamill is awesome:

They're talking to us. George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts – they would write us out. … I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed — on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am. . . .

When I found out [while making the original trilogy] that ultimate good news/bad news joke – the good news is there's a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she's your sister – I thought, 'Well, I'm going to wind up like Sir Alec [Guinness]. I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots . . .

I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway. And another thing I'd want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee and Tony Daniels, everybody that's around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody's on board here, rather than just one...

I hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings — I'm sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that's unfortunate. … If they listen to me at all, it'll be, 'Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.

<3

Let him direct, shit

otm

he would know: http://youtu.be/zyTsGx1q1EQ?t=4m20s

Well here we go

http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/carrie-fisher-princess-leia/

would be rad if the originals were the actual stars of this movie

Really they just should re-release episode IV as episode VII. It would rhyme, like poetry.

Old Harrison Ford starring in a late sequel with a flame from the first movie. What's the worst that could happen?

it's basically gonna be "amour" with mark hamill playing the isabelle huppert character

empty posturing from a loathsome senator? tell me more

lol wrong thread sorry

well theoretically you could be talking about palpatine

maybe an element of the 'rise and fall of jar jar binks' spinoff movie.

glad these characters are coming back. I've seen more star wars movies in teh past two weeks than I care to admit (all of them, multiple times, thanks to my kid). back to back with the originals its obvious how terrible the prequels are, muddled plots, no humor, heavy heavy heavy and long. Obv cast is too old to do the full action thing here but I'm sure Abrams will find the right balance.

lmao shakey

We need a Max Rebo Band movie that follows them as they tour the dives - and hives of scum and villainy - of the universe.

― DavidM, Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:18 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd watch that before i'd watch a "young han solo" movie 4 sure

I assumed Jabba would be CGI

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/how-disney-bought-lucasfilm-and-its-plans-for-star-wars#p1

Pretty interesting.

if this film is as good as IJ & KCrystal Skull, count yr blessings.

"I mostly say, ‘You can’t do this. You can do that,’ ” Lucas says. “You know, ‘The cars don’t have wheels. They fly with antigravity.’ There’s a million little pieces. Or I can say, ‘He doesn’t have the power to do that, or he has to do this.’ I know all that stuff.”

Billionaire entrepreneur or your know-it-all best friend from 7th grade?

I really like how he trolled Disney w 'The final trilogy is all planned out' for one last epic troll probably worth millions of dollars.

xxpost this is why no-one invites you to their birthday parties anymore, George

“I don’t want to overcommercialize or overhype this,” he says. “It’s my job to prevent that.”

Says the president of Disney, which just bought Star Wars.

Love this bit, about another guy:

The transaction gave Disney a new source of hit movies. Jobs also became a Disney board member and its largest shareholder. Periodically he would call Iger to say, “Hey, Bob, I saw the movie you just released last night, and it sucked,” Iger recalls.

Also, that Pablo Hidalgo fellow mentioned early on is a friend of a friend -- hope I can chat with him sometime about all that!

apparently Lucas would come around Lucasarts when they were working on Star Wars games and provide random input. made up example: they'd be working on a level and he'd say "well you know Darth Vader could just fly to get himself out of trouble, right?"

"what?"

"sure he's a master of the force, of course he can fly."

of course this would break canon in a bunch of ways ... so he'd leave and the designers would pretend it never happened.

I've already told the story about Lucas bringing his son to the screenings of the dailies for Phantom Menace right

Yup.

I heard his questions about utility data were incorporated throughout.

haha

Lucas interjecting his stupid nonsense all over the place all goes back to his feeling thoroughly burned at the initial industry and critical reception of Star Wars - everyone told him how stupid it was and how wrong he was and since he proved them all wrong that one time, he automatically discounts any and all criticism. That, and he's surrounded by people who are complete sycophants.

Lucas bringing his son to dailies? Is that in another thread?

Yeah, those Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominations musta really stuck in his craw. I'd be fucking pissed.

I'm talking more about the resistance he got to getting it made, before it was such a huge industry-changing hit. of course everyone was on his dick after that

Of course.

just a big ol' dickload of everybody

I would like to break a cannon over the head of anyone saying "break canon" in my presence.

http://m.cdn.blog.hu/cr/criticalmiss/image/ProfessorFrink1.gif

they shd def sneak Jerry Lewis in as a Jedi master

i heard a story from some people who worked on a pretty high profile...ancillary star wars entertainment product ....

anyway they heard word that lucas was very excited about the project and was, in fact, so excited about it that he had come up with a brand new character expressly for this project that would become part of the official star wars canon, etc.

obviously everyone was really excited.

the day came for lucas to meet with them. lucas coming to their offices was basically like the fuckin' pope or president coming, huge deal, big preparation, everyone's buzzing around etc etc

so they finally sit down with lucas in the conference room, and he starts by saying how impressed he was, how he wanted this product to be a real core part of star wars lore, blah blah blah...

then he says, "So the character I've created for the [project] is..."

*everyone leans forward, anticipating with bated breath*

"....Darth...Icky"

so they're like, "Darth...Icky"

and he's like, "yes, Darth Icky - I-C-K-Y" and begins to explain the character

so then after they were all freaking out like how the fuck are we gonna write around this retarded character etc, eventually they just drug their feet on it for long enough that lucas had moved on to his next brilliant idea and forgot about it and the public never knew of Darth Icky.

http://twitter.com/crushingbort/status/309798688484622337/photo/1

http://i.imgur.com/vg1VR7w.png

no morbs otm - i think depalma and scorsese expressed their regrets when he screened it for them, iirc the only one who didn't see a disaster was (shocker) spielberg who told him it was going to be a huge huge hit. studio obv didn't have much faith in it either since they gave him all the rights for waiving his director's fee right?

lol dayo

let's stay focused here

hahaha Darth Barf and Darth Grody were taken already ;_;

uh morbs said what now?

"Oh no, it's Darth Ewwww!"

Darth Grody and Darth Gag Me With a Spoon

There's already a General Grievous; can we expect the eventual appearance of Commander Heinous?

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Did you mean: "darth mickey"

it's all coming together

admiral able

commander anus

apparently the time I spent during The Phantom Menace calling Darth Maul "Darth Yuckmouth" put me closer to the Lucas mindset than I realized

darth vadge

darth jar jar, last vote cast to terminate the republic

haha uh freudian slip

darth madge

Emperor Cos Dashit reporting for duty from an early draft of Star Wars.

grand snot merkin

jabba the record critic

You've gone too far.

he's the white sheep of the hutt family

I've heard stories about him at Lucasarts, like getting personally interested in the development of Force Unleashed 2 for some reason, before getting bored and wandering off for something off.

Suffice it to say that all reports of the game were that it suuuuuuucked, to the point of cloning the dead protagonist of the previous game because they could come up with a better idea

Looks like Episode VII plans just borked the most popular current property, after its season just ended on a major cliffhanger: http://starwars.com/news/a-new-direction-for-lucasfilm-animation.html

As we enter into an exciting new era focused on the next Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm has decided to pursue a new direction in animated programming. We are exploring a whole new Star Wars series set in a time period previously untouched in Star Wars films or television programming. You can expect more details in the months to come.

As part of this shift, we have also made some key decisions affecting Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Detours.

After five highly successful and critically acclaimed seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we feel the time has come to wind down the series. While the studio is no longer producing new episodes for Cartoon Network, we're continuing production on new Clone Wars story arcs that promise to be some of the most thrilling adventures ever seen. Stay tuned for more information on where fans can soon find this bonus content. In the video below, Supervising Director Dave Filoni offers a peek of what is to come in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

At Star Wars Celebration VI last year, George Lucas gave fans a glimpse at the animated comedy series Star Wars Detours from Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, and Todd Grimes. Detours was conceived and produced before we decided to move forward with the new Star Wars trilogy, and in the wake of that decision, Lucasfilm has reconsidered whether launching an animated comedy prior to the launch of Episode VII makes sense. As a result, we've decided to postpone the release of Detours until a later date.

We are incredibly proud of the teams at Lucasfilm Animation for creating some of the most amazing animation ever produced for TV. Keep checking StarWars.com for new developments on these and future projects.

the animated comedy series star wars detours might not happen?! *weeps*

BOOOOOOOOO!!!!

No, i thought that meant Clone Wars was being eliminated (sad) in favor of focusing on sub-Family Guy schtick.

Phil, the rest of that core paragraph indicates more episodes are coming! Probably just means they'll be on Disney TV instead, obv.

I have a feeling they'll be online-only, which, ugh. Right now "Clone Wars" is the golden goose, and I hate to think they're killing it prematurely.

I just thought, it would be so funny if Star Wars 7 opened with the Emperor falling down the shaft and then like using the force to float safely to the ground. He walks away cackling, the villain for the new trilogy is found, and the entire legacy of the first 6 movies is destroyed.

the emperor tears off "his" mask, and "he" is yoko

I just thought, it would be so funny if Star Wars 7 opened with the Emperor falling down the shaft and then like using the force to float safely to the ground. He walks away cackling, the villain for the new trilogy is found, and the entire legacy of the first 6 movies is destroyed.

In one of the comic book sequels, it's revealed the Emperor has clone bodies he can use if his current body gets killed, and he simply comes back as a clone. AFAIK this story is still considered canon, but whatever will happen in SW7 will probably contradict it. It'd be pretty funny if they used that story in the movie, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Empire_I

With the release of the prequels and the revelation that Anakin Skywalker was destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith, Dark Empire has been criticized for contradicting the prophecy of the Chosen One and Anakin's killing of Palpatine. However, Tom Veitch could hardly have known what George Lucas had planned for the prequels, which were not made for another seven years.

Other fans have criticized the resurrection of the Star Wars saga's main antagonist.

Veitch has also been criticized for having many pivotal events occur within a single panel or entirely off-panel, which many fans found to be jarring.

I've read this series, and last comment is very apt, the plot is pretty awful to follow. For some reason it's still considered one of the best SW comics though.

Part of that might be because it came out at a time when people were jonesing for anything SW (right around the time of the Timothy Zahn novels). At least 12 yr old me was, I remember being pretty excited about it.

friend wrote this sketch (he's also the dude in the robe). I enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0vs9gYydo&feature=player_embedded

try this again: http://youtu.be/7T0vs9gYydo

How do you embed YTs onto ilx these days?

Take the s out of HTTPS then repost the url

Neither youtu.be or https links work. With the https ones you just take out the s. Not sure if removing the period is enough for the other one, but let's see
http://youtube/7T0vs9gYydo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0vs9gYydo&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY

the part about chewbacca's severed head made me lose my mind

that was a true tour de force

you

might

say

http://i.imgur.com/hYKzpqD.jpg

That seems a bit off... You'd think real right-wingers would prefer Star Wars (violent, religious mavericks overthrow a highly centralized federal government) over Star Trek (atheist representatives of an intergalactic UN try to solve local problems by peaceful means).

that cartoon is not a political satire, it is about how jj abrams is a pseudy jerkface

I remember people posting earlier cartoons in the same series, and they were all parodies of right-wing political cartoons... That's why you have crying Lady Liberty in it, she appears in all of them.

You are quite literal Tuomas

and why should america not cry, freedom not weep, when the federation has been betrayed

going a bit far to say the ST guys are explicitly 'atheist' -- kirk, spock and bones don't react with total scorn to the idea of there being a god in ST V -- and the force seems more like a vague philosophy than an actual religion.

It's specifically said to be a religion in the first movie! And the way the members of the Rebellion say "May the Force be with you!" to each other implies a shared belief in a higher power, not just a "vague philosophy".

As for ST V, I'd say is a bit of anomaly, generally the protagonists in various Star Trek operate from an atheist (or at least agnostic) point of view.

Irrational right wing nutjobs. Who would have thought it?

tuomas maybe it's just best to imagine that the fake cartoonist is just a trekkie in this case

I remember people posting earlier cartoons in the same series, and they were all parodies of right-wing political cartoons... That's why you have crying Lady Liberty in it, she appears in all of them.

― Tuomas, Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:36 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

there's two types of kelly cartoons, ones parodying right wing political cartoons, and ones that develop the Kelly Mythos

http://i.imgur.com/4EUdKRl.jpg

lol otm

Trek cartoon also reminds me of how the Mallard Fillmore dude will just go off on pet topics for weeks at a time, most famously his quixotic campaign to save 'Veronica Mars' from cancellation.

Ooof. Look on the bright side, NO KELLY.

So meantime:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/star-wars-rebels/

Sourced from the Sun so grain of salt and then some but...

http://www.nme.com/news/florence-and-the-machine/70620

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/30062855.jpg

not entirely opposed to this, I like her singing okay and I have to say it's in the spirit of the original movies to build the cast out of largely untried actors in the lead roles. If they start announcing gracefully aged British character actors for the secondary parts I'll be really impressed. (But please no Alan Rickman as Darth Severus.)

Yeah she might be a terrific actor for all I know, whatevs. Basically I'm approaching these new films with interest and an open mind. If they turn out to be good then bonus, if they're shit then it's not like the franchise hasn't been already debased.

How about if they cast Justin Lee Collins as Jar-Jar Binks' son?

not entirely opposed to this, I like her singing okay and I have to say it's in the spirit of the original movies to build the cast out of largely untried actors in the lead roles. If they start announcing gracefully aged British character actors for the secondary parts I'll be really impressed. (But please no Alan Rickman as Darth Severus.)

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, June 1, 2013 10:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

feel like this is going to seem weird in a post harry potter world

never forget

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Lloyd

i feel like this will be j.j. abrams's waterloo

The Napoleon kind or the ABBA kind?

don't complain about florence, it could have easily been amanda palmer

The Napoleon kind or the ABBA kind?

― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, June 1, 2013 1:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both.

Looks like the Jake Lloyd's screen role was playing a character called J.J.

Think about it.

*first screen role, that is

I do not like the new Storm Trooper costumes (link because pic is large):

http://media.dallasobserver.com/8811062.87.jpg

It's all about merchandising, duh.

yknow we improved that Ewok song with the special edition, but what it's still really missing is a sick drop.

Prepare your headshots:

A young man aged between 20 and 25, witty and smart, fit but not classically handsome,

Man in late twenties, also fit, but this one is handsome and confident.

Late teenage girl, independent, good sense of humour, also… physically fit .

Second young female, also late teens, tough, smart and physically fit.

Man in his forties, obviously physically fit, this one is a military type.

A man of around thirty or so, this one is an intellectual type.

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

I can't wait to see Emperor Cos Dashit finally realized on the big screen.

it's cool that Reel 2 Real is writing the casting calls for this

So they're going with a cast primarily composed of good-looking young people, you say...

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

crazy that they're actually having a casting session for han solo

obviously physically fit

lol s1ocki i thought the same thing

maybe they are going for an ensemble like this!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVptUKxiVQY/TsLvd7ClEGI/AAAAAAAAF7Y/Sr2A5iJ4jI4/s1600/starship%2Btroopers%2Bmovie.jpg

god i love that movie

what do you mean "like this"? There's your cast.

doogie-doogie howser

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

So, this maybe implies Ford won't return for this movie, right? I don't think they'd have a third old mentor figure besides Luke and Han... Unless the old dude is the bad guy.

who knows, it could be like, the hero(ine)'s dad or something

Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.

Calling it now. It's the "That's so wizard, Annie" guy.

I'm not gonna lie to you, there's already an "Expanded Universe" novel, Tatooine Ghost, in which that dude plays a major role:

. . . Han and Leia embark on a journey through Tatooine in order to retrieve the art piece, battling the Imperial forces and Tusken Raiders with the help of Jawas and a Squib trio, Emala, Sligh and Grees. During their voyage, Leia finds out more about her late father's past, and runs into Anakin's old friend, Kitster Banai, who reveals to her what her father was like before he left Tatooine under the guidance of the late Qui-Gon Jinn. Leia also retrieves a holojournal recorded by Shmi, revealing details of her life in between Anakin's departure from Tatooine to his return to his home planet. After Leia saves Han from being dehydrated and lost in Tatooine's vast, dry desert, it is implied that they sleep together, which would indicate that this tryst was what led to the conception of their children, Jaina and Jacen.

Not surprised in the slightest.

Thank you for not judging me for knowing about it.

For I am deeply ashamed.

we judged you long ago for far less, lol :)

;_;

A young man aged between 20 and 25, witty and smart, fit but not classically handsome,
Man in late twenties, also fit, but this one is handsome and confident.
And Captain Lando Tucker, a dedicated young man with no characteristics.

to what extent is Lucas involved this time round?

holding out hope for Darth Icky

Thank you for not judging me for knowing about it.
I was being charitable and assumed you Googled it.

For I am deeply ashamed.
As you should be.

to what extent is Lucas involved this time round?
IIRC, he may have handed off an outline. Other than that, not at all. He sold his toys and went home.

ah right thanks.

only gonna see this if billy dee and harrison are in it, maybe if carrie fisher (but only if she plays herself).

read that wrong

hee

http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-episode-7-to-be-shot-on-film-not-digital/

Cinematographer Dan Mindel ASC, BSC will be reteaming with JJ Abrams to shoot Star Wars Episode VII. That comes as no surprise as Mindel worked with Abrams on the Star Trek films and Mission: Impossible III. The big news is that Mindel says that Episode 7 will be shot on Kodak film stock 5219 film, NOT digital cameras like the last couple prequel movies. The Phantom Menace was the last Star Wars film to be shot with film cameras (although some trivia fanatics will note, the movie did include a digitally photographed shot).

I imagine that trivia fanatics are the only real fans of the Phantom Menace

oh man i hope they're just doing that to troll george lucas

maximum troll would be a ton of practical effects

would watch Star Wars as creature-shopped by Guillermo del Toro.

oh man i hope they're just doing that to troll george lucas

― socki (s1ocki), Friday, August 23, 2013 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, a lot of the stuff around this movie is a repudiation of the prequels. that doesn't mean the new ones are any good, but there's definitely a sense of deliberate palate-cleansing

wonder if lucas sits in his mansion and sulks about this

no wait he's working on the "experimental" movies he's promised us for decades*

*would genuinely blow my mind if lucas came out with some $1,000,000 expanded cinema frampton-meets-brakhage-meets-tscherkassky experimental nonnarrative IMAX feature.

are will be any good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgICnbC2-_Y

(Don't know if it really belong here, anyone have JJ Abrams' email address?)

i hate that genre of youtubes. even when i sort of agree with them. i watched that for 0:48 and then couldn't handle dude any more.

TL;DW

Sure, that's fair - I just really like the way that he fixes stuff while still using 80% of what was actually shot, and without ever not being really corny, like he's not about establishing Intriguing Psychological Depth or Realistic Social Structures, he's about making a Star Wars movie.

i'm sure his ideas are good I just can't get past the presentation

also i don't really care about star wars!

Hello.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-lawrence-kasdan-jj-abrams-star-wars-episode-vii-20131024,0,7723323.story#axzz2ig6GeOuC

Boooooooooo

He's Ready (as they say on the football threads)

http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/Por_fin_solos-director-filmmaker-Lawrence_Kasdan.jpg

December 18, 2015

A long time in the future, in a cinema far, far away...
*fanfare starts*
STAR WARS NERD RAGE

Just get me to the point where I'm buying extra-large sodas fron taco bell. That's just where I want to be in these procedings.

Extra Large Yoda Soda - May the Force(tm) (of sugar and/or HFCS laden beverages gushing out of your bladder) be with you, always!

don't know the source on this but

Todd Dadslayer ‏@SRN_lol 22m
the new Star Wars movie is auditioning teens in case you thought somehow the new flicks were going to be better than the Jarjar ones

Todd Dadslayer ‏@SRN_lol 19m
"street smart, independent, athletic" teens for the main roles in Star Wars. haha

Yeah that'll definitely be a lot worse than Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher who were 20 and 21 when "Star Wars" filmed wtf are they thinking franchise ruined BURRRRRRRRP

this is the source
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/star_wars_casting_call.jpg

Ah, so the person who tweeted that is a moron, since they are in fact looking for people in the approximate age range that Fisher and Hamill were in when they were cast.

ah ok yeah that sounds reasonable then

I wonder if Rachel and Thomas are fake names or if the new Star Wars universe is set in a New England bed and breakfast

or that's not even definitely for star wars?

no, but the internet has decided it is. It does seem quite likely though

wasn't meant to be snarky, it's just, well, Disney has their hands in so much stuff that it's weird that certain sectors of the internet seem to feel every single thing they do lately is related to star wars.

If they own Gilmore girls this could mean they are making the crossover nobody wanted but everyone needs

irl lol

Casting call is probably for Treasure Planet II.

hahaha

xxp I believe the reasoning was that Star Wars is the only movie Disney currently has schedule for production in the UK, so this must be related to it.

I have seen this being reported as definitely being for Star Wars on a number of more or less trustworthy outlets.

maybe this will take place in an alternate parallel universe where Luke and vader team up with Thor and iron man to stop magneto.

Oh come on. Marvel are never going to put the X Men in the same movie as the Avengers...

They legally can't.

xxp you are late to the game, my friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOsKISBkIlQ

xp yeah I know. Can't decide if that's a bad thing or if we've been saved from a real mess.

Wait, I didn't know that! What's that story?

Fox own X-Men and Fantastic Four, Sony own Spider-Man

Oh, weird. Gotcha.

the reason they keep re-booting/making shitty sequels for each of those properties has more to do with maintaining rights than making interesting movies (big surprise, right)

We should just tell them to play nice and share their X-Men and Spider-Man toys.

Please, won't someone think of the money?

Confirmed by Lucasfilm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-24877078

give the part to Alex Rambo

"Doing open auditions makes sense to me. Some of the more recent films they cast star names. I think they never bothered to test them with other people and sometimes when you do that there doesn't seem to be a lot of chemistry on the screen.. "

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/nov/06/star-wars-episode-vii-auditions-kurtz-abrams

new films' chemistry can't be any worse that Portman/Christensen i guess.

No more making fun of the guys who build R2-D2 robots in their garages: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/2013/11/19/r2-d2-is-in-star-wars-episode-7-and-hes-fan-made/

Meet Lee Towersey and Oliver Steeples, Star Wars fans and members of the worldwide R2-D2 Builders Club. They create fully functioning, film-accurate astromech droids like the R2-D2 seen in the photo, and they’re officially part of the Creature Effects team for Star Wars: Episode VII. They didn’t apply for their jobs, but still had what is probably the best reference one could hope for.

“It all started when Kathleen Kennedy toured the R2-D2 Builders area at Celebration Europe this past summer in Germany,” says Steeples, who finished his first R2-D2 in 2007, after 10 years of collecting parts and researching. “She posed for pictures with us, looked at all the droids we’d built and was very complimentary. I mentioned that the R2-D2 Builders in the UK were available if required, as a semi-joke. When I was contacted to work on the film by [executive producer] Jason McGatlin, it was on her recommendation.”

Steeples, from Berkshire, England, and Towersey, from Middlesex, England, are working full-time on Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood Studios (where the Twitter photo was taken), focusing solely on astromech-building — for now. Keeping an astromech droid in working condition throughout the production of a film is a challenge, as it’s filled with gears, lights, and electronics; Steeples and Towersey were chosen because of their expertise and experience, both having worked on Star Wars­-themed commercials for the UK appliances megastore Curry’s. “We know the pressures of filming, prepping, and being able to assure reliability throughout the shoot,” says Towersey, who built the droid seen in the tweet. “We have a good knowledge of Artoo, with a large stock of parts for reference and drawings, plus we know what is involved throughout the whole building process, as well as potential problems we need to avoid.” Despite their impressive understanding of how to construct an astromech droid and keep it functioning, Steeples and Towersey still have a goal for Star Wars: Episode VII: to build a better R2-D2.

:)

that warms the cockles of my heart

so awesome

absolutely!

I'm getting a "Indy4-younguns team up with fogeys for adventure
while throwing out jokey references to the previous films" gut feeling about these
already. Just a vibe.

But I will go see. Don't get me wrong!

ugh don't even casually invoke that horribleness yet

I will definitely download a bootleg of this/these movies when they come out. I paid money to see the prequels, and made the decision that it is the last time I spend it on anything w the name Star Wars on it.

midnight showing of attack of the clones is one of the best movie tickets i ever bought, so many laughs, great times

I'll watch Starcrash again if I want a laugh.

'Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone' AKA "What if we try and rip off Star Wars and Mad Max at the same time, with Molly Ringwald?"

Battle Beyond the Stars will be better than whatever atrocity Disney shits out for this next iteration

The dodgy outfit Sean Connery was wearing in 'Zardoz' will be better than anything in these sequels.

midnight showing of attack of the clones is one of the best movie tickets i ever bought, so many laughs, great times

man, attack of the clones at mann's chinese in hollywood was incredible. huge screen, pristine imagery, some of the best FX ever, astronomically epic lols for 2+ hours.

Some of the best FX ever? FX looked like a game IIRC.

Harrison on fine (if knackered looking) form here. hope he doesn't have to do too many stunts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtjDX6fZdQ

GET OFF OF MY PLANE!! OUT OF MY HOUSE.

GET OFF MY PLANET

haha Ford's looking all "I am way too high for this shit!"

Mark Hammill Reddit AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvul8/mark_hamill_here_in_an_ama_far_far_away/

Older Luke Skywalker: beard or no beard?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 2009 points 2 days ago
Well based on what has gone before, I have a feeling it's beard, but I have no confirmation of that. My wife said if you grow a beard, you'll cover up your cleft chin. That's not something that occurred to me. But I can only guess. I've never read any of the novelizations or anything but someone said to me, 'you're married, you have children.' Based on Obi-Wan I would have guessed I'd be living in an igloo or something. He was more spiritual, he didn't have a wife or children. And when you find out one of the only eligible women in the galaxy is your sister, it really cuts down on your odds of hooking up with anyone.

What was your reaction when you first met Harrison Ford?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 1721 points 2 days ago
Well I'd seen him in American Graffiti, and I did the screen tests with him. We just fell into our character roles. Luke idolizes Han Solo, it was such a great role because Hans was the cynic, he was the modern role in this fairly tale. It was just the right element in the stew for all the cynics in the audience.
I just thought Harrison was fantastic, so perfect for the part. We fell into the role of mentor/student. they couldn't have made a better choice, and he can do no wrong. He's got a great sense of humor, it was fun to try to make him laugh.

not hamill but this comment gave me a huge giggle fit

[–]franzieperez 454 points 2 days ago
I actually had a huge argument with a friend of mine about (Han Solo's) name when we were younger. My friend was convinced it was "Hans Olo". His rationale was that the character had a 'normal' first name and a 'spacey' last name like Luke Skywalker or Ben Kenobi

Carrie Fisher summed it up well when she said "I'm not famous, but I look like somebody who is famous."

Wookies or Droids?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 560 points 2 days ago
Just for the sake of loyalty, it would have to be R2 and C-3PO. Hans had the Wookiee. I love the fact that C-3PO was so unhappy being thrust into these adventures. He’d be so much happier working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?

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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 2498 points 2 days ago

You know, warm and cozy. I also got inside a Bantha, those creatures that were outside the cantina. The inside of it was pasted over with newspapers and glue to give it substance, I thought, 'This is really odd.' I also got inside of Jabba, which was like a sauna bath, because it's like a big rubber enclosure. All the puppeteers had gone to lunch and I wondered, 'I wonder what it's like in there.'

he seems like such a good dude. his interview on the Nerdist podcast was pretty great too, I thought.

When I saw him at SW Celebration VI he really was just super cool and funny, willing to talk at length about SW or anything at all. Doesn't seem to have a mean or negative bone in his body. Ian McDiarmid is like that, too, interestingly enough.