Mocata

rocknroll41 said:

Mocata said:

Oh yeah that’s definitely for a callback when Ahsoka shows up.

Ahsoka is still lost in another galaxy and season 2 of her show doesn’t come out until after this movie. I doubt she’s in this.

Depends when this is set. Or if she just finds a way out through space magic. Can they resist her appearing and referring to him and Little Stinky?

There are bits and pieces in the “Art of” books he also wrote but not much. I assume the storyboard process (along with CG animatics) are done at a later stage of pre-production.

Oh yeah that’s definitely for a callback when Ahsoka shows up.

Acbagel said:

The IP is in a terrible place in general public opinion and you are releasing a film intentionally with no overall plot significance with a 50s “pulpy” cheesey/cute adventure story in a way that looks blatantly like a TV to movie low budget production. Just not sure what they expect to happen here… Do they really expect this to bring the masses back?

I doubt people will come back for this, they can barely get people to see new MCU releases now. In reality this feels more like “8 episodes are expensive what if we cut the vfx down to what we need for 2 and dump it”. Rather than any serious attempt to get a large audience excited.

BABY YODA!
BABU FRIK!
AT-ATs!

Well, I always assumed this was a re-purposed season 4… I just never thought it would look so much like one. Disney logo is probably taken off so people don’t immediately think of the “Disney Plus click” and wait until streaming. Which I will be doing.

Oh here’s the trailer…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1KLXuW0Y

Left me with a lot of questions. But mainly… why is this a movie?

It looks exactly like the show without any real cinematic vibe at all. Especially the Sigourney Weaver scene. Why see this in IMAX exactly?

Yeah they must have been there for 3-6 months at least. I’m sure there was another debate about it somewhere on here, some argued it was only like a week or that each scene represented a day of progress.

Tickets are apparently around $150 each so if people are already paying that and ignoring the bad effects SW seems like a way to make easy money.

That horrifying AI Wizard of Oz Dome thing is making a lot of money, now its operator is looking at giving other movies the same treatment.

In the latest quarter, the Sphere reported an operating loss of $83.4 million. Excluding some expenses, it had a profit of $24.9 million.

Dolan is in the market for more film titles, many of them more contemporary. From the Edge, a documentary featuring five athletes doing extreme stunts, will debut next year. Dolan has also spoken to Warner Bros. about additional titles, including Harry Potter, and he’s spoken to Walt Disney Co. about a few titles, including Star Wars.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-07/-the-wizard-of-oz-is-grossing-2-million-a-day-at-the-sphere

Director said:

I will do a reel sample video showcasing the scenes on YouTube within 9-12 September. I don’t understand the imgur system here so I will make a video. I will send the link here when done.

Imgur hosts screenshots, so you should take all of 2 minutes and host one and share it with us here.

They even managed to plan things and write a good script after (if true) 5 seasons were changed to 2. It’s almost like studio think tanks and second guessing how to please the audience results in crap.

But in that case it was cutting edge not cutting corners.

Yeah but that’s if the Rey movie ever materialises. I could imagine them just dropping the episode/trilogy format.

timdiggerm said:

Mocata said:

Those kind of machinery / vehicle effects always stand out, but they are nice, I remember them in The Rescuers Down Under. Years later they’d be in all kinds of stuff.

On a related but not-CG note, did you know there’s one shot of a rotoscoped bell ringing in Disney’s Robin Hood?

I probably would see it if I watched it now, been many years. They weren’t against cutting costs in that era.

Sure, but puppets and animation at least have the tangible feeling that human hands were involved, and there was really something there on the day (or after on a scale go-motion set). Your brain can just tell somehow. Bad opticals on the other and might be more of a problem, but there aren’t really many in SW.

Those kind of machinery / vehicle effects always stand out, but they are nice, I remember them in The Rescuers Down Under. Years later they’d be in all kinds of stuff.

Cool pic I guess, I wonder what the set behind the speeder will be…

Sheev was so dumb that instead of getting the secret from his master he killed him. Or wasn’t there a comic where they both shot their evil force into the universe to create Anakin… so maybe he did know the secret? I dunno.

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For the 50th anniversary they will probably edit the movie down into 50 vertical Tiktok videos to help the social media generation.

Seems more like a checklist of things that have been said already, I guess he just wants to say he’s done with it all. Which I can relate to anyway. Josh did a very good George Lucas at least.

Channel72 said:

ANH in particularly has lots of non-Zoomer-friendly scenes, like C3PO and R2-D2 slowly walking through the desert. That was so 70s.

I find this sentiment horrifying.

The ewok time warp segment is real though LOL

To be honest I was mainly just confused about what the last part even meant. Then I remembered that Filoni stuff and wished I didn’t.

Vladius said:

Mocata said:

JadedSkywalker said:
For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.

Groan. I get that the actor himself has seen warmer reception recently, but any new Vader stuff is just key jangling, especially in recent streaming shows. Which I guess these fans are okay with despite the same Disney source.

Dude he’s the Chosen One and he mastered both sides of the Force and can switch between them whenever he wants, he replaced the Father

Sure he did.