georgec said:
Let's hope Lucas and Kennedy "Arndt" making a mistake choosing him.
zing!
This forum really needs a "like" feature.
I dunno. I'd like to see Han Solo again. And not some other actor playing him either.
Bingowings said:
Imrahil said:
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
I liked the Vong.
The idea of living beings that are not connected to the Force is ignoring the most basic "rules" of Star Wars. The idea of an enemy coming from another galaxy opens a whole can of worms and is too far-fetched for me to accept. So is living spaceships and the like.
I'd stay away from most of the classics of science fiction and space opera if I were you then.
Can't see the correlation.
Most of the classics of science fiction and space opera have organic ships and intergalactic invasions in them at some point.
If you find these concepts far-fetched you will not enjoy those classics.
You keep saying this. Let's see:
2001 - nope
Foundation Trilogy - nope
Dune - nope
Martian Chroicles - nope
Anything by William Gibson - nope
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
The only thing I can think of at all that has these living ships you're talking about is stuff like Babylon 5 or Starship Troopers.
2001 might not have them but the monolith builders become organic spacecraft on their way to becoming stitched from the fabric of the universe itself.
Alistair Reynolds, Iain M Banks, Anne McCaffrey, Peter F Hamilton.
Put on hold Babylon 5 for a minute and list almost any television Space Opera and it will have at least one.
Battlestar Galactica, Lexx, Doctor Who, Farscape, Blakes 7, Star Trek.
Then you have films like Alien, even the remake of Invaders Of Mars has a bioship for crying out loud.
It's a trope that's employed at least as much as hyperspace.
If you aren't aware of it you obviously don't read or watch enough science fiction.
You said science fiction greats. TV shows =/= science fiction greats. I read plenty of actual science fiction--of which Anne McCaffrey isn't.
When was there a living ship or galaxy invaders in Galactica?
Farscape? Sure. Hardly a giant in science fiction. Same with Lexx, which is basically low-grade porn. I don't know where you're getting that the monolith builders have "living ships," because it isn't in the novels that I read.
I've not read those other authors you listed.
And Harrison Ford on it:
Surprisingly, he's...interested?
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
I liked the Vong.
The idea of living beings that are not connected to the Force is ignoring the most basic "rules" of Star Wars. The idea of an enemy coming from another galaxy opens a whole can of worms and is too far-fetched for me to accept. So is living spaceships and the like.
I'd stay away from most of the classics of science fiction and space opera if I were you then.
Can't see the correlation.
Most of the classics of science fiction and space opera have organic ships and intergalactic invasions in them at some point.
If you find these concepts far-fetched you will not enjoy those classics.
You keep saying this. Let's see:
2001 - nope
Foundation Trilogy - nope
Dune - nope
Martian Chroicles - nope
Anything by William Gibson - nope
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
The only thing I can think of at all that has these living ships you're talking about is stuff like Babylon 5 or Starship Troopers.
Why does everyone keep saying this? Did the blu rays not sell well? Where do you get this information?
lth said:
If they do anything other than adapt one of the many existing post-ROTJ stories then they are asking for trouble, IMO, because so much EU stuff exists now.
They really ought to film the Thrawn trilogy by Tim Zahn, because the books are excellent and in the same tradition as the films of high adventure and good fun. Either rotoscope the likenesses of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher et al, or recast.
In fact, I can't overstate how awesome Thrawn on the big screen would be. I really want to start a petition...
Mara Jade is an awful fanwank character though. She's a Mary Sue for Zahn. We've had enough of that with Doctor Who already, thank you.
I'd rather they didn't use the original characters at all, and set it some other time completely.
In fact, I'd rather they didn't make any new movies, but that's not an option any more.
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
I liked the Vong.
The idea of living beings that are not connected to the Force is ignoring the most basic "rules" of Star Wars. The idea of an enemy coming from another galaxy opens a whole can of worms and is too far-fetched for me to accept. So is living spaceships and the like.
I'd stay away from most of the classics of science fiction and space opera if I were you then.
Nonsense. Just because you liked the idea doesn't mean it's prevalent in "most of the classics of science fiction and space opera."
I personally hated the idea of the Vong because it was basically done in GI Joe. It was stupid then, and doubly stupid in Star Wars.
Regardless, Fox still owns the OT, not Disney.
TServo2049 said:
IMO, we don't owe our continued existence solely to George Lucas' magnanimity. We owe it to the fact that we're small fish in a big pond. I don't think Disney's lawyers are going to care about us any more than Lucasfilm's lawyers (who I'm sure will still be in place under Disney ownership).
If someone wanted to to shut us down, they'd have done it a long time ago. I'm not losing any sleep over this.
Disney shut down a series of day care centers for daring to have images of Mickey and Donald in them.
Anchorhead said:
Alexrd said:
To me, anything Star Wars related...has to come from his mind
Considering I'm the polar opposite - I only follow\own\care about Star Wars that is non-Lucas - this has the potential to be positive.
Abrams got Star Trek back to it's roots, so maybe Disney can give the world something Star Wars other than the twirling colors, small galaxy, children's films that Lucas turned them into in 1983.
Abrams didn't get Star Trek back to any roots I'm aware of. He made up his own version of Star Trek that bears only a superficial resemblance to the actual stuff. If you meant to use him as an example to show that it's going to be "more like Star Wars," I think you failed.
ratpack1961 said:
adywan said:
Just posted by starwars.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqlTi7lkhY&feature=share
I was never that much of an EU fan, for me if Lucas didn't touch it, it wasn't canon. Now its all extended universe from here on out. Yeesh.
This sums it up so well for me. :(
adywan said:
At first i was quite excited that there now may be a chance we could see a restored version of the OUT, but then realised that Disney owning the rights to the Star Wars franchise will probably spell the end of anything fan created as their lawyers will be ready to pounce
This. Better get that finished up quick, Ady, even if it's not "perfect," because Disney's lawyers are absolute sharks.
Re: These covers--I like the conceit; to me the trees on dagobah are too similar visually to the Endor trees, so I don't love that. The other thing is that the foreground creature in both SW and Jedi are "aliens" so it's weird to have one of our "heroes" in the foreground on Empire. And finally I hate that ROTJ title treatment, which was invented for the SE releases. :) That's just personal preference. I sort of feel like the credits blocks are a bit weird too and could use some text spacing or something.
I think they're executed very nicely from what I can tell. Good detail on the landscape on tatooine and the speederbike looks great.
Finished my Kenner-inspired BD covers for both trilogies + bonus disc.
I sized them for 6-disc cases because I put in the DVDs (Adywan's, etc) in the cases with the BD.
Get it here:
Password: otforum
Please do not share these elsewhere.
b0bafett said:
@Imrahil- That is the artwork I've wanted forever but not having the photoshop skills, couldn't do.
If you do make blu ray versions of those, are you planning on sharing them on here?
Sure. I'm working out the kinks in the design right now; the spine will probably change slightly, and I need to figure out a way to make the back pictures a bit more visible. Something that works on an 8X10 cardback sort of disappears a bit on a 5" blu ray cover. ;)
Been on a "play with vintage packaging as a blu ray cover" kick lately. Darth Vong did a set of DVD covers based on the Kenner cardbacks:
LukeGorgeous said:
I've just been reading back through this thread and seen some covers with awesome preview pictures, but long-dead links. Does anyone have copies of PepsiOtaku's box sets, ChansawAsh's VHS-inspired covers, or Plamdi's 1993 & 1995 Laserdisc-inspired ones?
I've tried Google and the Wayback Machine to no avail. Help me, OT forummers, you're my only hope!
EDIT: Imrahil, are these by DarthVong the Kenner-inspired covers you're looking for?
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9561/episode1.jpg
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3195/episode2s.jpg
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6931/episode3.jpg
http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/6051/episode4oldart.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2799/episode5oldart.jpg
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/7827/episode6oldart.jpg
DarthSolo posted them over in The Custom DVD Cover Request Thread
They're awesome; I wanted to do something similar for blu-ray cases, but keep a stronger "vintage" feel, so I took the idea and ran in a slightly different direction. The back of this one is based very heavily on a Kenner 20-back card (down to the P-O-P).
Here's my SW:
LukeGorgeous said:
I've just been reading back through this thread and seen some covers with awesome preview pictures, but long-dead links. Does anyone have copies of PepsiOtaku's box sets, ChansawAsh's VHS-inspired covers, or Plamdi's 1993 & 1995 Laserdisc-inspired ones?
I've tried Google and the Wayback Machine to no avail. Help me, OT forummers, you're my only hope!
EDIT: Imrahil, are these by DarthVong the Kenner-inspired covers you're looking for?
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/9561/episode1.jpg
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3195/episode2s.jpg
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6931/episode3.jpg
http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/6051/episode4oldart.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2799/episode5oldart.jpg
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/7827/episode6oldart.jpg
DarthSolo posted them over in The Custom DVD Cover Request Thread
The very ones! Thank you! These are an awesome idea.
Thinking about doing a Topps set. I've got multi-disc cases holding my SW BDs, with various fan edits and documentaries tucked inside.
Here's a Star Wars mockup.
Thing is, I like the SW card designs better than the Empire or Jedi ones, so I'd probably want to use them for all 3 OT movies.
Am I imagining it or did I see a really great set of covers in here modeled on the Kenner action figure cards?
Wow, I'm just now seeing that link; pretty awesome.
Bingowings said:
ALTARE (A Long Time Ago REvisted) would be a fun alternative (it even sounds a bit like alter what with it being Latin for altar).
But only in the ablative singular.
Turkish?
Who's "Ian McDiarmond"?
Filesonic has also gone dark for downloading.