Empire Magazine's Twitter account just posted this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/645035349006159872
Empire Magazine–Verified account @empiremagazineAt a Q&A tonight John Landis dropped that Disney are finally going to re-release the theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy.
5:43 PM - 18 Sep 2015
Spoilers are now leaking from children's costumes on the backstory.
http://www.buycostumes.com/p/809233/star-wars-episode-7-mens-kylo-ren-deluxe-costume
When Kylo Ren joined his fellow knights, and the quest of the First Order, it was all a part of the mission to claim the galactic power once held by Palpatine and the Empire. Over the last thirty years, that government has crumbled into near nothingness, yet few remnants - powerful remnants - still remain. This is the tale that unfolds in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, and it’s one of the stories that you may embody with Star Wars costumes on Halloween.
"I am immune to the light."
Ugh.
And Luke is apparently the "last Jedi" 30+ years after RotJ.
Exactly what have our heroes been doing since defeating the Emperor and Vader anyway?
Luke must have been sitting out sulking somewhere by his lonesome all this time. The Rebels still can't manage to stamp out the Empire.
There better be some good explanations for all this, but I suspect I won't see them.
Very poor pose choice for Old Han in that poster. Possibly makes him look more old and frail than Ford in real life.
Here's a link where you can see Cloud City outfit Luke as a figure being offered in the Force Awakens toy line.
http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15959
Today some Force Awakens action figures got leaked online. The backs of the cards have so far only shown one new alien, but what interested me is that Luke in his Cloud City outfit is included in the line. There were previous mentions of Darth Vader alao being included in the line.
I'm taking this information to assume there will be a flashback to Cloud City in the movie and the lightsaber Luke lost there really is some key plotline. Not a good plot to pursue, IMO, but its looking more likely now.
Right now I'm of the opinion that the originals will be released on blu-ray/4K for the 40th anniversary in 2017. If not then it'll never happen.
Why all the villains save for Yoda on the covers? Disney doesn't want to pay royalties to the leads?
New steelbook versions of the currently existing blu-rays will be released this year. No new content it seems. Unaltered 4K dreams will remain just that this year.
SilverWook said:
IIRC, Leonard Nimoy's appearance in STID was kept under wraps. And these days, you can shoot a simple scene just about anywhere you can set up a green screen.
I figure we'll see a few hologram/video-screen only cameos in the upcoming Star Wars sequels like Leonard Nimoy's in Into Darkness. Hopefully if Lando does return it will be a bit more substantial than that.
Speaking of Into Darkness, JJ's transparent lies about Benedict Cumberbatch not being Khan means we shouldn't be so trustful about who will show up on camera in The Force Awakens. Finn's last name is still being kept under wraps. We may wind up seeing Lando as his dad/grandfather(?) in the course of the film as some type of "surprise."
SS4DarthPayne said:
I've seen some mixed thoughts on Poe's X-Wing color scheme, but personally I'm a big fan of it.
I have no problem with the color scheme. My issue is that Poe has a special hero X-Wing just for merchandising purposes.
Luke didn't need a distinct X-Wing in the original series. Poe shouldn't require one either.
I would say The Empire Strikes Back shrunk the timeline of the Empire down to about 20 years. Simply due to Vader being Luke's father.
At that point a date was set for when Anakin turned to the Dark Side and the age of Luke sets that date about 20 or so years in the past.
Maybe Threepio was working with the First Order undercover or unwillingly for a while? I say this after seeing the toy for the new TIE Fighter as it has a red painted left-side like C-3PO's red left arm.
I remember some thinking/hoping the new sequels would ignore the prequels. Myself included in that.
Here we see the first bit of merchandise packaging and about half of the text is dedicated to explaining the prequels and Clone Troopers.
Didn't Abrams make the claim that he's filming this sequel in 35mm to better match the original movies?
It just seems that he's wrecking his own vision for this movie by indulging in modern colorization techniques which weren't seen in the originals.
SS4DarthPayne said:
Ok this was cool:
http://www.gadgetlove.com/blog/watch-han-solo-and-chewbacca-get-40-years-older-in-2-seconds
Direct link to the GIF:
Going by that GIF Chewie got younger over the last 38 years.
Look at how coarse he looks in 1977 compared to his smooth 2015 appearance.
AntcuFaalb said:
This image makes Carrie look significantly older than 58, unfortunately.
I'm not saying she looks bad, but I am saying that this leak makes her look worse than she does.
It seems that age has hit all the returning actors pretty hard, and Carrie definitely looks older than 58 in that image.
It does seem odd with the legitimacy the rebellion should have received after RotJ that they're still resorting to spare parts for their droids.
ZkinandBonez said:
SilverWook said:
Is this the first SW film to have it's own alcoholic beverage? ;)
What's up with C-3PO's red arm? He's got like a Hellboy thing going on.
I think even earlier in this thread there's been speculation about Threepio having a red arm in the sequels from some photos of some chairs that a company was producing.
Nobody was sure if his arm was red or if it was a red light reflecting off his arm. Now we know C-3PO has had yet another spare part added.
Ryan McAvoy said:
Star Wars: Uprising Announce Trailer
^ Trailer for game set between ROTJ and TFA. Probably raises as many questions as it answers about the field of play going into TFA.
This trailer shows the Death Star II blowing up with the ring from the Special Editions.
The SE is still the official canon and all those celebrations shown after the Empire was defeated at Endor that were inserted into RotJ somehow still aren't representative of what actually took place since we're getting sequels set 30+ years later.
Good to hear Andy Serkis is not a "Darth", but " Snoke?"
Doesn't have the same ring to it as Palpatine did, but maybe they're going the OT route and calling him just the "Supreme Leader" in the movie much as they just called Palpatine the Emperor in all three of the originals.
With the current lack of new "Darth" so-and-so names in official material and plot rumors I'm thinking they're going to go light on prequel terminology and rules.
The only design I liked from the prequels was the Destroyer droids. The things with cobra-like upper bodies that could fold into rolling balls. They seemed pretty imposing. At least next to the skeletal dog-faced battle droids in the prequels anyway.
The trailer showing what appears to be Luke's original lightsaber/Anakin's saber does appear to make these plot rumors seem true.
I'm just hoping that the saber itself is a replica made by a sentimental Luke that was found. Not the original one that should have been floating around the gas giant Bespin after Vader cut off Luke's hand.
The worst bit of the alleged plot spoilers to me is the Luke lightsaber macguffin.
Seems really cheap and silly. I can only assume the saber itself contains something important. Otherwise that may just be the hokiest excuse to keep a plot moving that I've read.
Here's to hoping its all false.
