There is a theory that the Vader/Krennic Death Star scenes were done incase the Tarkin recreation didn’t work. Like in ROTJ Ackbar’s lines during the battle were also shot with General Madine.
I’m trying not to get my hopes up, you still have to deal with Fox who is ok with kissing Lucas’ ass. They might block it on the grounds of not wanting to go against his wishes.
My nephew will be 2 this January. I would love for him to see a nice version of the Original Trilogy when he is old enough. I already jokingly threatened to call CPS if he’s shown the Prequels or the SEs.
I thought Trank was attached to Episode 9? Hard to keep track of these things nowadays. We’re hip deep in new Star Wars projects. 😉
Trank was going to do an Anthology film- then Fan4stic bombed hard at the box office and there were stories of him going unhinged and wrecking the house he was staying at and I think drug use. Don’t forget the infamous tweet about the amazing version of the FF film that we will never see.
The Prequel dislike has softened because they have been pushed to the edge of the Star Wars franchise. Disney is clearly taking an OT-first policy in regards to classic content. Its not like when Lucas was still around and the PT was shoved down our throats. Its far easier to ignore them and therefore have less of a bitter taste.
I have mine in a box far from my regular movies. It’s not hard. And hyperbole isn’t going to get around the rules about owning the media people are making fan edits/restorations with.
I don’t have the other restorations. I have the GOUT. I saw Harmy’s demo reel/mini documentary on youtube.
I bought the Blu-rays because I love Harmy’s work and I’m not a pirate.
I enjoy what I’ve seen of Harmy’s work, I just can’t let the SEs or the PT into my home. I’m afraid they contaminate the other movies.
I still refuse to buy the SE Blu Ray. The only Star Wars I own on blu is TFA and I will add Rogue One to the list if I think its good.
Release the OOT and its a day one buy for me. But I won’t give up my hard earned money on badly mastered shit.
Wasn’t there a rumor that the first scene of the Boba Fett movie was going to be Clone Boba getting his ass killed and a new character taking the armor and name?
The Emperor was killing Luke slow to torture him. Windu got a full blast.
ESB takes at least a few weeks. It probably takes Han and Chewie 2-3 days on the Asteroid to do repairs than another 2 weeks to travel to Bespin. Then 2 or so days waiting while Lando repairs the Falcon.
Every time I hear about Hayden possibly coming back, I get sick. TFA managed to put the PT in its proper place- off to the side and only mentioned briefly. If we lose screentime to him in this, it could ruin the movie for me. Bring back Yoda. Hell, even bring back Vader as a spectre to haunt Kylo, but not Hayden.
I read somewhere that Vader in Rogue One is a recreation of the Star Wars 77 costume, and they did their best to get it accurate.
I’m a Friend of Dorothy, so girl’s things are a bit out of my everyday shopping habits. I just know that when I was middle/high school age the big female heroes were Buffy, the Firefly women, Veronica Mars and even going back a few years to Ivanova. I know there was merch for them available.
I don’t see how would having a female lead be more inclusive than having a male lead.
This is so dumb it’s not even worth explaining to you.
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My young daughters love Star Wars and Rey has a lot to do with it.
It is not dumb. You just don’t get it, despite being very simple.
If you have a female lead then young females will be able to associate/relate more. If you have a male lead then young males will be able to associate/relate more. Either way you “include” one more than the other.
The point of the thread is that strong female leads have been few and far between, and therefore having one opens up the universe to more people, making it more inclusive.
If you want to pretend that you don’t understand the thread, that’s on you.
Strong female leads have been a staple of Science Fiction/Fantasy for the past 40 years. It might be different in other genres, but not here. It gets me when people say that Rey is something amazing and new.
New EW article. Basics:
Reshoots were planned in advance, this is common practice with blockbusters.
4-5 weeks of reshoots- due to the logistics of the actors being available at the same time- some are working on other films.
Mostly character development and personal scenes that fit in with what was shot.
Rogue One is different than TFA, a war film, and that is intentional.
Outside of Lucasfilm only Bob Igar and Alan Horn have seen a cut.
I’m guessing that if anything violent would be cut, it would be because of a potential R.
OOT
Droids Cartoon
Ewok TV Movies
Han Solo Adventures (Star’s End, Revenge and Lost Legacy)
Shadows of the Empire
Those are the main ones that aren’t official. I did read Lost Stars and have Twilight Company and Bloodline sitting on my to read shelf after I slog though the last 200 pages of Atlas Shrugged.
The writer was on twitter saying the rumors were bs. So who knows?
Episode 1 and 2 could have been one good Star Wars movie. Have a movie where the Clone Wars start, Obi-Wan finds Anakin and Palpatine becomes Chancellor. The films as they are now have to little going on of importance and the rest of the time is filled with stupid crap.
I find it ridiculous that someone would consider Empire a good ending and TFA a cheat, and give reasons like “ESB felt solid” and “Luke needed dialog.”
TESB follows our main characters as they get split up and try to get away from the Empire. Luke goes to train and ends up back with them as they all try to finally get away. The ending gives us our remaining characters safe on a ship in the rebel fleet. Luke and Leia bid Lando and Chewy good luck finding Han and the two take off on a quest. The big story is wrapped up - the rebels are again safe, but they have lost Han. In TFA, the quest was to find Luke… then what. Showing that they found Luke was a weak ending. It’s like if TESB ended with Lando and Chewy landing on Tantooine and learning that Han is on display in Jabba’s palace. The unfinished quest worked better as an ending. Either no Luke or give Luke something interesting to say that makes the scene worth including. What they did didn’t work for me.
TFA follows Rey, and Finn as they become part of events and accept their destinies. That was more important than the quest to find Luke. Finn finds something to fight for that he believes in- The Resistance and real friends (Rey, Poe, Han and Chewie). With Rey, she accepts the call of the Force, accepts that the belonging she desires will not be found by staying on Jakku, and only at the end is she ready to find Luke and begin her path to becoming a Jedi.
That’s why they meet the heroes as they do, they take further steps into the larger galaxy. First Han and Chewie, then Leia and finally Luke. Luke is not the main star of TFA, Rey is.
As for Han and Chewie finding the Falcon, he fucking said they tracked it. Hyperspace in Star Wars works however the plot demands in. Remember the Emperor sensing Anakin in danger and got from Coruscant to Mustafar in time to save his burnt ass? No more reaching than Han arriving so soon after the Falcon’s transmitter started working.
The music.
Ewan did a good job with what he was given.
Some of the ship designs were pretty cool. The Naboo Starfighters were a favorite, though I might be biased because of how awesome it was in Rogue Squadron, which I played heavily at the time.
well, in all fairness, SAND.
the PT still uses some sets and miniatures, so its not entirely CGI.
The sets and miniatures are coated in layers of CGI, so it doesn’t really count.
Wouldn’t it be cool if they got their act together and put up the Ewok movies and the Ewoks and Droids animated series?
He didn’t just get a burn, he was on fucking fire. His clothes seared to his skin. If you look at him in Jedi, he looks really good for a burn victim.
Lucas would never have collaborated like JJ did. So no Kasden. He couldn’t have gotten the performance out of Harrison Ford that JJ did.
What performance? Harrison was rather at his average in TFA. Even in ROTJ, when he obviously didn’t want to try too hard, he seems amazing compared to TFA.
I found Harrison Ford to have put in a better performance in TFA than he has done in a long time, certainly better than Crystal Skull. It was Han Solo, not grumbly old Ford like so many of his recent performances.
Lucas might have convinced him to come back via the method of “truckload of money”, but Harrison would have half-assed it. Of course Lucas would have half-assed it as well so it would be consistent.
Lucas would never have collaborated like JJ did. So no Kasden. He couldn’t have gotten the performance out of Harrison Ford that JJ did.