wait til you guys hear about the Jabba the Hut and Darth Maul movies
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Heard the first spin-off will be Han/Yoda fan fic. "Use the force," etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Would totally watch a Jabba sit-com.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
Jabba of the House.
Jabba the House.Jabba's WorldHome is Where the Hut Is.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised it hasn't been done yet!
Star Wars Holiday Special was more or less a solo spin-off for Chewbacca.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
30 'lacc?
― schwantz, Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEV_sLEglI
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― abanana, Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
No Sarlacc spin-off, no credibili ... oh, wait.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
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, 7 February 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
We need a 3-D concert movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://theblueraft.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lips.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 7 February 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
the originals basically ARE 3d concert movies at this point.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 February 2013 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 February 2013 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
so what will become of "G-level canon" now that a main-sequence movie sans G is going to come out?
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 8 February 2013 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 February 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 February 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
(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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 February 2013 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
"there are no official"
afaik there's no spinoffs of The Godfather
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
There's a videogame at least, but I think that follows the plot of the movie?
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
Little bit of question-begging going on w/this statement.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 8 February 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
There are a lot of solo Star Wars spin-offs on my blog. Also, the characters have sex with each other a lot.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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.
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Let him direct, shit
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
he would know: http://youtu.be/zyTsGx1q1EQ?t=4m20s
― abanana, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Well here we go
http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/carrie-fisher-princess-leia/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
would be rad if the originals were the actual stars of this movie
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Really they just should re-release episode IV as episode VII. It would rhyme, like poetry.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Old Harrison Ford starring in a late sequel with a flame from the first movie. What's the worst that could happen?
― No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's basically gonna be "amour" with mark hamill playing the isabelle huppert character
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
empty posturing from a loathsome senator? tell me more
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
lol wrong thread sorry
well theoretically you could be talking about palpatine
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
maybe an element of the 'rise and fall of jar jar binks' spinoff movie.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
lmao shakey
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― The Mini-Mamas and the Mini-Papas (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
I assumed Jabba would be CGI
― calstars, Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/how-disney-bought-lucasfilm-and-its-plans-for-star-wars#p1
Pretty interesting.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
if this film is as good as IJ & KCrystal Skull, count yr blessings.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
"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?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost this is why no-one invites you to their birthday parties anymore, George
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link