Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD * — Page 190

Not really footage from the movie, but this new commercial certainly has that Original Trilogy feel to it.

https://youtu.be/MnAiUd4_Z8E

Chewie’s retained his aversion to mouse droids, I see.

First look at Constable Zuvio.
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/exclusive-first-look-brand-new-star-wars-character-constable-zuvio/

Looks much more menacing since he’s not CGI.

starsighstar
I guess everyone has seen this by now 😭

Bingowings said:

starsighstar
I guess everyone has seen this by now 😭

hahahahah

From Empire Magazine:

“It was quite an unusual situation,” Serkis tells us in the new issue of Empire. “I worked specifically with Domhnall Gleeson and with Adam Driver. My first day was basically standing on a 25-foot podium doing Lord Snoke without the faintest idea what he looked like… or in fact who he was! I was very high up, totally on my own, away from everybody else, but acting with them.”

“He is severely damaged. Although he’s a powerful leader, he comes across as vulnerable. Very scarred and disfigured.” But the actor assures us that Snoke is a guaranteed force to be reckoned with: “we used sort of a ‘Kongolizer’ method of having sound come out of speakers to give a sense of scale and distance for the character. So it was very challenging and scary, in fact probably one of my most scary film experiences I’ve ever had.”

towne32 said:

From Empire Magazine:

“It was quite an unusual situation,” Serkis tells us in the new issue of Empire. “I worked specifically with Domhnall Gleeson and with Adam Driver. My first day was basically standing on a 25-foot podium doing Lord Snoke without the faintest idea what he looked like… or in fact who he was! I was very high up, totally on my own, away from everybody else, but acting with them.”

This is purely based on some kind of subconscious free association process in my own addled brain rather than facts or evidence, but when I read that I immediately thought he must be some kind of serpentine creature reared up vertically like a cobra. The first place my mind went was to this:

and after that, to this:

I’m probably just conflating this new info with the early concept art where he had a snake head, but who knows.

Also, here’s the actual soundtrack art:

George being weird about the new movie and angry about Star Wars in general: http://www.wired.com/2015/11/george-lucas-jar-jar-video/?mbid=social_fb

I really hope that once all the dust has settled he’ll mellow out and have a real conversation with JJ about TFA on camera or in print. I’m really curious about how he’ll respond to the actual movie itself.

To be fair, “Jar Jar is his favorite character” is a huge mischaracterization of what he actually said on the writer’s part. In the video the exchange actually goes like this:

Interviewer: “If you could be any Star Wars character, who would you be?”
George: (clearly exasperated) “I don’t know. I like all the characters. Jar Jar Binks.”

He goes on to get himself all flustered about how much he hates being criticized and it’s really cringe-y. Completely aside from the franchise, I think it’ll probably good for his mental health to be out of the public eye.

All I’ll say is this: As a person, I love George Lucas. As a filmmaker, I hate his doggamn ducking guts.

My problem with many of you is the vitriol is like he deserves to be murdered, like Hitler or something, or like he’s molested a real living child. When it’s not even near the level of any of that. It’s a damned set of movies. Entertainment, fiction.

Anchorhead said:

His poor relationship with the fan base is all his own fault.

When a film maker changes a beloved scene of a beloved character, receives worldwide backlash over it, then decides to change it even further, and finally goes so far as to market & sell a T-shirt making fun of those very fans - he deserves all the vitriol the world can send his way.

Eh, I’m not willing to go that far. I have serious problems with what he’s done with his franchise for the past twenty years or so, but he’s still a human being who seems to want to do good based on how he’s been spending his Disney money. I think he’s really actually kind of nuts and I sort of feel sorry for the guy. Even if he was ultimately in the wrong (which he was), I don’t think anyone deserves the kind of unrelenting abuse he’s been on the receiving end of for decades just for fucking up a movie.

Reason I brought up Hitler is because he is regarded as one of the worst people on earth. I could have put in Charles Manson or Jeffery Dalmer or whatever.