In the battle of Seats vs Premier Seats won so I’ll be viewing Rogue One on the 16th instead of the 15th. It’s my fault though as I waited until I was getting ready for work to order the tickets. Even at 3 in the morning you’re not safe.
Site bugged out on me while I was trying to get premier seats, so I’m sadly missing that.
Going at 3PM opening day though. I’ll take it!
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
END OF LINE
(It hasn’t happened yet)
I got my ticket for the wendsday 14th midnight viewing in 2D at the local cinema… Stayed up for the tickets and got exactly the seats I wanted, so I’m pretty happy with that. 😃
‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Replaces Its Composer
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first stand-alone movie in the Star Wars franchise, will be whistling a new tune.
Michael Giacchino, the composer behind such films as the Star Trek reboot and Pixar movies ranging from The Incredibles to Inside Out, will score the upcoming pic, stepping in for Alexandre Desplat, who was originally slated to work on the movie.
The recent reshoots are behind the switch, according to sources.
Rogue One underwent extensive reshoots this summer that saw writer Tony Gilroy take on a filmmaker role during the shoot and the postproduction process as Disney and Lucasfilm sought to clarify story and tonal issues for the pic that is set to open Dec. 16.
But the reshoots also altered the scoring calendar and Desplat, who won an Oscar for The Grand Budapest Hotel, was no longer available. Disney and Lucasfilm then turned to Giacchino, who has a long relationship with the studio and its various divisions.
For Pixar, the maestro created the music for Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up (for which he won an Oscar), Cars 2 and Inside Out. For its live-action film division, he has worked on Sky High, John Carter and Tomorrowland. For Disney Animation this year, Giacchino scored its surprise hit Zootopia. And he’s making his Marvel Studios debut with Doctor Strange, which opens Nov. 4. (With Rogue One, he will end up working for all four of Disney’s film arms.)
Giacchino also is a Star Wars fan and appeared as a storm trooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by his pal J.J. Abrams and for whom he has scored films and television shows.
Giaachino will now become the first composer to work on a Star Wars movie other than the film series’ iconic mainstay, John Williams, who is slated to return for Star Wars: Episode VIII.
The Disney-fying of Star Wars is now complete.
The Hollywood Reporter isn’t the best source of information in the world.
Where were you in '77?
Huh, that’s cutting it pretty tight. He only had a month to do the score:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you were a late addition to the Rogue One crew…
MICHAEL GIACCHINO: Yes, literally the last thing I expected I’d be doing this month would be this. I mean we were literally planning a vacation when I got the call asking if I could come and talk to them about it. At the time, it left me with literally four and a half weeks to write. So it was one of those decisions where you’re like, okay, well… And I was talking to my brother about it. He goes, “Oh, come on. You’ve been writing this score since you were 10! You can do this.”
The Hollywood Reporter isn’t the best source of information in the world.
They’re usually pretty reliable, what wrong with that article?
The Hollywood Reporter isn’t the best source of information in the world.
They’re usually pretty reliable, what wrong with that article?
Not that article specifically, but they quoted a lot of questionable web sources with regards to how Stanley Kubrick treated Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining recently. Things anyone involved with the production would tell you aren’t true. They couldn’t even get a simple factoid about when Kubrick was married right. Shoddy lazy journalism.
Where were you in '77?
So, this is a thing: http://www.regmovies.com/StarWarsRogueOneUltimateTicket
Geez. But you know, if you actually did want to see it that many times (or even see it in IMAX 6 or 7 times), that’s actually a pretty good deal…
But that’s a LOT of time watching the same movie for a month or two straight…
Have a long flight tomorrow so seriously considering getting the Catalyst audiobook.
I planned on getting opening night tickets, or at least opening day, but I only just found out that I have final exams on the 16th which I, of course, can’t miss and shouldn’t be out past midnight before. *sigh*
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I planned on getting opening night tickets, or at least opening day, but I only just found out that I have final exams on the 16th which I, of course, can’t miss and shouldn’t be out past midnight before. *sigh*
responsibility is no fun. but you can at least reward yourself by going on the 16th right?
I planned on getting opening night tickets, or at least opening day, but I only just found out that I have final exams on the 16th which I, of course, can’t miss and shouldn’t be out past midnight before. *sigh*
responsibility is no fun. but you can at least reward yourself by going on the 16th right?
yeah.
For the last two years, finals were on Wednesday and Thursday, so last year I got to see TFA Thursday night. I assumed it would be the same this year, but then I checked the schedule today and now they’re on Friday and the following Monday.
Anyway, it’s a bummer, but at least it’s only another day to wait.
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Ol’ George paid a visit to the Rogue One set:
Gareth Edwards said:
There are two things that are incredibly surreal that you could do in your life, and I think number two is having to show George Lucas your Star Wars movie. Like it was really crazy, and I think number one is to be George Lucas and have someone show you a Star Wars movie. And so I felt for him and he was incredibly gracious. He joked a lot about how we should do more in the computer and not build so much. We didn’t take his advice, we tried to shoot as much in camera as we could.
I don’t think he was joking, Gareth.
But did they make him go and shoot some second unit stuff? 😉
Where were you in '77?
George liked a design of Helmet…The Tank trooper Helmets that you can see in the trailer so they altered their costumes to use the design of the helmets on those troopers. Because that particular design jumped out at George so they put it in for him.
And thus the Tank Trooper was born.
Well I only have to wait 10 more days until then I watch some Sex And The City 😉
By the way Han shot first.
Great new interview with Gareth about the making of -
Here are some highlights:
“Rogue One” has a grittier, more naturalistic feel than any previous “Star Wars” movie. Did you know from the start you wanted that tone?
If I was going to do it, I felt like I just didn’t want it to be a glossy, disposable popcorn kind of blockbuster. I take my “Star Wars” quite seriously. There’s humor in the movie, but as a fan I just wanted it to feel real. That involved being a bit more subjective and hand-held and like a documentary crew to some extent.
Stylistically we knew to some extent it was going to be a war movie, so we looked at footage from Vietnam, the Gulf War and World War II. In the edit, we did a rough version of the movie using pieces of war footage and photography just to see what the rhythm and feel of that would be like.
It felt so strong when you took real footage from a real conflict and instead of a Huey you put in an X-wing and you put Rebel helmets on the guys who are in a trench scared for their lives. You just look at that image and go, “Oh my God, I’ve always wanted to see that.”
This summer, the Internet went crazy over reports that the studio was nervous about “Rogue One” and the movie was undergoing major changes. What was it like for you to be in the middle of that — and how much truth was there to the rumors?
It’s really hard to read things online sometimes because you want to say something but it’s pointless. It’s futile to get involved.
What happened was that I’d say a third of the movie or more has this embedded documentary style to it, and as a result we shot hours and hours and days and days of material. Normally when you put a film together it goes together like A-B-C-D-E and you move on. Whereas we had so many permutations, so many different ways it could be constructed, it took longer in the edit to find the exact version.
We’d always planned to do a pickup shoot but we needed a lot of time to figure out all this material and get the best out of it. So that pushed the entire schedule in a big way. Then Disney saw the film and reacted really well and they said, “Whatever you need, we’re going to support you.” Our visual-effects shot count went from 600 to nearly 1,700, so suddenly we could do absolutely anything we wanted. To design 1,000 visual effects shots should take a year, so it was all hands to the pump and we never came up for air really until about a week ago.
I really enjoyed the interview there. I’m anticipating a rocky start. But after that I feel like we’re gonna get to go on a hell of a ride.
Even Star Wars is not immune from the intersection of Politics and Fake News.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/09/trump-supports-threaten-to-boycott-star-wars.html
Yeah, I stared into that abyss a little too long yesterday. Wake me when these gullible fans throw out their entire collection.
Where were you in '77?
“Despite the boycott calls, the film is still expected to do well this year.”
Good summary there… Not. As if this ‘boycott’ will actually be a thing.