Star Wars 7 shit talk

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.