ATMachine

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

ATMachine said:

“Who is Luke Skywalker? It’s better for the mystery if the audience never finds out, really.”

What is this even supposed to mean.

I think it means that Robert Patrick should have directed Episode IX.

Heh!

Abrams’ answer to Kathleen Kennedy’s question “who is Luke Skywalker” is supposedly what got him the gig to direct TFA in the first place. Unless his answer was “a mystery box,” there’s no sign of that in the film.

Or maybe Abrams just had difficulty translating from the German (where the equivalents to English “who” and “where,” wo and wer, have swapped meaning).

I think you’re confusing that with 2001.

“Who is Luke Skywalker? It’s better for the mystery if the audience never finds out, really.”

I don’t even know if I want to bother seeing SW in cinemas anymore. Why pay for mediocrity?

“Who is Luke Skywalker? Heck if I know.”

I’m worried because I remember Star Trek Into Darkness.

I have also asked this.

The idea of Vader and Anakin being the same person seems to date from the making of ESB, as you say. But the notion of Vader being a secret Skywalker (Luke’s brother, uncle, illegitimate father) seems to have been present even on the first film: in a 1975 conversation with Alan Dean Foster, Lucas said the second SW film was when we would “learn who Darth Vader is”.

derp, stupid Markdown blank posts

Stunt Doubles are nature’s way of making Kwisatz Haderachs in this particular timespace.

GlastoEls said:

YodaFan67 said:

How to direct a Disney Star Wars film:
#1) Please Kathleen Kennedy.
#2) Always make sure you know what #1 means.

To be fair, she knows her away around a successful film production…

She certainly knows how to make directors go away. 😉

ZkinandBonez said:

SilverWook said:

There was a magazine sized issue part of the Marvel Super Special run and an oversized giant edition.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vinatge-Marvel-Super-Special-Magazine-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Comic-Adapt-/272839730037
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARVEL-SPECIAL-EDITION-2-Star-Wars-The-EMPIRE-STRIKES-BACK-Oversize-100-Pages-/132322596548
Can’t recall what version of Yoda appeared in them though. I probably had the oversized edition but those things were hard to store with one’s regular sized comics.

I have the Norwegian version of that edition, and Yoda looks more or less normal in it. He’s still smaller than in the movie, but his face looks like the proper final design.

I’ve read (and own) several versions of Marvel’s ESB adaptation and I’ve only seen two versions. In both he’s too small, and in the second Williamson mostly just re-drew Yoda’s face/head.

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11124/111247379/4753904-dsc00139.jpg

The gradient shading in those pics! A great example of how “realistic” Special Editionist re-coloring of vintage comics has infected the modern comic book industry. Not even an inset illustration in a book can go without “improvement”.

Not only that, it’s the color of Sebastian Shaw’s eyes rather than Hayden Christensen’s.

ray_afraid said:

Did he shoot a laser out of his eye or what??

Maybe it was Force Lightning.

lovelikewinter said:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/star-wars-episode-8-colin-trevorrow-firing-explanation.html

Apparently Trevorrow tried to go up against Kennedy and had a big head from the success of Jurassic World.

Have to wonder who that “veteran movie producer” quoted at the end of the article is. It couldn’t be, say, Frank Marshall?

One more indicator of Lucasfilm’s active determination to screw over the fans.

Really? What release was the third edition published in?

Honestly I’m really sick of how so many SW stories since ROTS have had Vader get battle damage to expose the burned skin & prosthetics beneath his suit. It was edgy & “kewl” the first time but it’s way overdone now.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world, we live in Disney’s world.

She had a MasterCard?

No, but Josh Trank was.

DrDre said:

NeverarGreat said:

I think he meant that Disney keeps extending copyright duration so that their old titles don’t fall into the public domain.

The maximum term of copyright protection (including renewal) became 95 years in 1998 for all works published after 1964.

Perpetual copyright on the installment plan. I doubt we’ll ever see the year 1930 come into the public domain.

Also, there was that time in the 1974 Star Wars rough draft where a 14-year-old Leia was gang-raped offscreen by a group of nine scaly green-skinned fishmen.

…So, that happened.

Ha, copyrights that run out! That’s a nice one.

NeverarGreat said:

And look over there - The entire villain is one big mystery box. Note the question mark on his forehead.

Snoke is mirror universe TPM Concept Art Obi-Wan. CONFIRMED!!!