Star Wars 7 shit talk

they're still trying to write a Darth Maul double-lightsaber dick joke that works.

"If you think my double lightsaber is impressive, you should see my dick!"

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If you're watching Star Wars Rebels on Disney XD, they released a season 2 trailer today. I got shut out of seeing the season 2 premiere early -- the queue line, for a 5:30 screening, was full to capacity by 2:45pm. I missed it by about 15 minutes. Anyway, shit's going down in season 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av8GjpGK98A

I did attend the panel this morning with the producers and voice cast. Freddie Prinze, Jr. hit the jackpot with this and he knows it.

How so?

Voicing a well-liked cartoon character means paid appearances at all kinds of events for decades, I'd guess

Freddie prinze jr became a writer for the wwe (or whatever they call it now) in the last decade. I think he may just be an enthusiastic nerd.

hopefully it's not just Fast and furious 8: in space

I wouldn't mind that

A well-made action-adventure with a very diverse cast wouldn't be a bad role model, no.

I don't see a reason to believe that it wouldn't have enough depth, if that's what's being implied via F&F8 comment?

i have the same worry, cf: new trek movies

Everyone else already answered, but yeah, what I meant by Prinze hitting the jackpot is that he is clearly a huge nerd (he had several anecdotes during his panel about growing up a Star Wars fan, including one about the scar on his chin, which he got when he and his brother snapped a plastic flagpole in half to make lightsabers). And now he's on the inside of it and couldn't be happier. He came out from backstage taking video of the crowd on his phone, and was just beaming through the entire panel.

(Also fun: Tiya Sircar, who voices Sabine on "Rebels," used the words "serendipitously" and "trepidation" when answering questions. I can guess who always finishes the crossword while waiting around at the production office.)

We now know who's responsible for the BB-8 technology: http://time.com/3826420/bob-iger-star-wars-sphero/

And they appear to be making an official toy: http://toyland.gizmodo.com/is-this-our-first-look-at-spheros-official-the-force-aw-1698993843

we can get one for shakey

it'll be 'funny' if BB-8 turns out to be a Jar-Jar-like annoyance in the new film

their animated division has been doing a decent job of scripting droids with personalities

BB-8 speaks in a Jamaican patois and is known for constantly shitting everywhere.

MJR-LZR-8

Any film can do FF8: in space. Star Wars has the untouchable element and it should use it. Not just be a CGI pornsplosion fest, as much as it pioneered imagery. I always kept it in balance.

Super8 was so terrible and unimaginative I have no trust in JJBRAMS as competent.

Good set of photos from the small and mostly spoiler-free prop exhibit for Episode VII at Celebration, including two other new stormtrooper models: http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15458

Two teasers and a convention in, we've yet to lay eyes on Adam Driver, Lupita Nyongo, Max Von Sydow or Andy Serkis. It's been all Ridley/Isaac/Boyega, so they must be the Leia/Han/Luke of the new deal.

we've yet to lay eyes on Adam Driver, Lupita Nyongo, Max Von Sydow or Andy Serkis

they're inside BB-8, pedaling furiously

^ irl lol

Being into Star Wars does not make you a nerd it's 100% dominant monoculture by now.

Let's just call it brand loyalty.

It's more Ridley = 'Luke'; Boyega = the 'Leia' character, by the look of it so far. The chemistry between the leads is going to be crucial if this film is going to be anything other than a purely visual spectacle.

Boyega was really solid in Attack the Block IIRC, had a real "this guy is going to go places" feel for me. Haven't seen anything of Ridley's (pretty short) C.V., what's the word on the street? As I think I said above, I like that this cast is (veteran cast members aside) mostly fresh faces plus Von Sydow and Nyongo, perhaps in the Alec Guiness/Peter Cushing kind of positions.

Although now that I think about it that could also basically be said of the prequels - I had them in my head as involving more stunt casting, but Portman and McGregor were maybe at an Adam Driver level of exposure back then. So who knows.

McGregor was more famous than that I reckon - though maybe more so in the UK than elsewhere.

Ha, thinking about it TPM may be the film that first set Liam Neeson on the trajectory away from films where he does serious acting towards films where he kills a load of people and/or wolves.

yeah mcgregor was in some hit films and already a leading man, but like, that makes him no more a stuntcasting than alec guinness

samuel l jackson fits the term better than anybody though, esp with his proudly declaring he asked for a unique lightsaber for his nothing role

'he kills a load of people and/or wolves.'

Enh, he was always in genre pictures(Excalibur, Krull, Darkman), but I think the turn wasn't until made big money in Taken and the death of his wife to become the token Old White Action Guy for the early 21st-C.

Until he made, rather

lol Darkman

after Trainspotting McGregor felt like a very much bigger name than Driver does now. but yeah UK only i guess.

naw, Trainspotting was kind of a cult hit in the US

I was thinking that Natalie Portman was more of a known name but being in The Professional/Heat probably only made her known among the "men professionally shooting things" film fans

Although now that I think about it that could also basically be said of the prequels - I had them in my head as involving more stunt casting, but Portman and McGregor were maybe at an Adam Driver level of exposure back then. So who knows.

I feel like between The Professional and Mars Attacks!, Natalie Portman was more famous than this by the time Episode I came out but this is largely due to the types of entertainment I pay attention to

lol I think we made the same post from different angles, Dan

*hi-five*

I'd completely forgotten Liam Neeson was in Krull.

Trainspotting was def a way bigger deal in the states than Attack the Block... but setting aside Jackson (who is barely in TPM, right?), Liam Neeson was probably the closest thing to a "household name" at that point, not for Krull or Darkman (which rules) but for Schindler's List (including Oscar nom).

And Jake Lloyd for Jingle All The Way.

Remember all the kids at Halloween who were like, "I'm Jake Lloyd from 'Jingle All The Way?'"

"I'm Not To Be Confused With Haley Joel Osment!"

yeah but "stuntcasting" usually means grabbing big names for roles that don't need it, rather than grabbing a respected actor for a role that needs gravitas

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

haha i actually had no idea peter cushing qualified (and i don't think gene hackman should - why SHOULDN'T Lex Luthor be a name?)

yeah I'm probably not using it correctly - at this point more than anything I think of bad animated or part-CGI films shellacked with guest stars animated to kinda look like them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxJZMK9S6yI

but probably that needs/has another name

"sharktaleing" iirc