SilverWook

Some people avoid trailers, believe it or not. Edit the title, or I will.

Did this require it’s own thread? And major spoiler either way…

https://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-plot-spoiler-policy-please-read/id/16764

I don’t think Xizor has the recognition Maul has with casual fans and the general public though.

It’s possible what you’re remembering is a collage of clips someone threw together for a Access Hollywood type program?

Internal to the franchise, yes. But if they missed an existing non SW property that had trademarked a title they wanted? IIRC, there was some legal wrangling over Ghostbusters, because there was a 1970’s Saturday morning show that had already used the name.

You’d think they would have a database of all SW titles just so this doesn’t happen?

At the very least, I would think someone at Lucasfilm would at least check to make sure there isn’t some obscure thing out there already called The Phantom Menace, or Attack Of The Clones, the owners of which who could potentially sue them later?

It was an issue of the old Marvel comic. 😃

ChainsawAsh said:

SilverWook said:

Ron Howard probably wasn’t deep enough into the material to know if it was a good idea or not. If he shot the Maul footage in the first place.

Peter Serafinowicz(sp?) was on a podcast recently where he talked about recording lines for Maul for Solo, and he said Ron Howard talked with him for like an hour about where Maul was at this point in his life, and his motivations and such. It was before they shot Ray Park’s live action portion - Park performed to Serafinowicz’s performance.

Then the powers that be decided to go with Sam Witwer instead for more continuity with the animated Maul, and Serafinowicz wasn’t told until after the premiere that his VO had been cut.

So Howard is who shot the Maul stuff.

Thanks for clearing that up. 😃

I wonder if they’ll do some sort of one night theatrical screening event of the premiere to promote this?

Ron Howard probably wasn’t deep enough into the material to know if it was a good idea or not. If he shot the Maul footage in the first place.

If this is truly the end of the main saga, I hope they give it the running time it needs. If Endgame can push three hours, so can Star Wars.

Interesting and thought provoking first post. 😃

So, basically a DIY OOT restoration kit? I could possibly live with that.

OutboundFlight said:

What’s funny is, I don’t think anyone really loves the Death Star as much as the filmmakers think.

Even Death Star 2 was generally disliked, and after ROTJ everyone seemed to be against more Death Stars. It popping up in the PT rolled eyes. Starkiller was universally despised, and I wonder if J.J. was expectiting it and purposefully left it out of marketing. But Disney just couldn’t help themselves with RO, could they?

I didn’t mind the plans showing up in the PT. It’s that erector set DS at the end of ROTS that’s pushing it. Even Lucas jokes on the commentary about the issue of it taking 20 years to build the thing.

I honestly don’t remember much criticism of DS II back in the day.

I guess Robot Chicken was onto something when they did a whole SW episode from Palpatine’s point of view. 😛

Hal 9000 said:

With the 2004 release of ESB adding a line of dialogue to Palpatine and TLJ’s “Death Star tech,” the only film (in their current official presentations) NOT to invoke the Death Star in some way is The Phantom Menace. 😦

Uh…

Let’s not turn this into the TLJ debate thread?

And I don’t think Palpy qualifies as a big dumb bad guy. He engineered a decades long plot to put himself into power and played both sides against each other to do it. Sure, it was almost Rube Goldberg in excecution, but you can’t deny the twisted old fart had a plan.

ScottZill said:

SilverWook said:

ScottZill said:

Does anyone here have the Japanese dub of “Hey Arnold! The Movie”?

Quick unrelated question. Are you able to translate Japanese?

No.

Okay. Thanks for the quick reply. 😃

ScottZill said:

Does anyone here have the Japanese dub of “Hey Arnold! The Movie”?

Quick unrelated question. Are you able to translate Japanese?

Everything that happened on Endor in ROTJ probably took place within walking distance of each other. I never thought the entire planet was as Ric would say, one big forest. 😃

Would be cool if we saw some Duloks as a nod to the old Ewoks cartoon.

Imagine if there was internets when Flash Gordon was in theaters! 😉

nl0428 said:

SilverWook said:

Are we all forgetting how the EU brought Palpatine back more times than Jason Voorhees? And if we look to one of Lucas’ inspirations, Flash Gordon, Ming The Merciless always survives somehow to menace another day.

There was even a fan edit around here where Palpatine was going to survive ROTJ. Don’t know if it was ever finished.

The old Expanded Universe were wiped away from canon for some pretty good reasons. One of those being the cloning of familiar characters. Ever since George Lucas introduced the concept of cloning in Attack of the Clones, some writers have written some pretty silly stories.

There is, of course, the army of clones Palpatine had archived that became a threat to Luke after Return of the Jedi, and there are the evil clones Luke had as well. Their names were “Luuke”, and “Luuuke”. And let’s also not forget about the clones Vader made of Starkiller in The Force Unleashed II.

Whatever Lucasfilm does with Palpatine’s role in The Rise of Skywalker, it will be much more well written and better told for how Palpatine returns. Whether he survived, or he is a Dark Side Force spirit, we’ll see what happens this December. It will also be exciting to see that Palpatine will not only be a threat to Rey, but a threat to Ben as well.

I think Marvel cornered the market on clone saturation long before Lucasfilm did. 😉

If Thrawn can be plucked from the EU and used in Rebels, than ideas can be cherry picked from it as well?

LordZerome1080 said:

Let’s hope the cycle ends this time as that was George doing that before. That and Disney said they wouldn’t be making anymore edits.

We broke this cycle the minute the first film print got scanned around here. We don’t have to climb the hill Lucasfilm has covered with banana peels anymore. 😉

nl0428 said:

NeverarGreat said:

With the Knights of Ren apparently actual characters in this, I assume that the TIE attacking Rey is piloted by such a Knight since it’s quite clearly not Kylo’s design.

It’s just that a lot of people are assuming it’s Kylo in that TIE, which I don’t see at all.

JEDIT: As for bringing Palpatine back in some capacity, I don’t hate it, and have argued in the past that it makes a lot of sense to have the big bad from the first six episodes cast a shadow long enough to cover the entire saga.

If you match the interior shot of the cockpit in the trailer with the cockpit image of Kylo Ren that was revealed at the panel, you’ll see how they match up.

Maybe Kylo’s ship was another one-off prototype like Grandpa’s. and it was lost at the end of TLJ? Now that I think of it, I’m a bit dissappointed we never saw Vader in ship to ship combat in the movies again after Episode IV.

Are we all forgetting how the EU brought Palpatine back more times than Jason Voorhees? And if we look to one of Lucas’ inspirations, Flash Gordon, Ming The Merciless always survives somehow to menace another day.

There was even a fan edit around here where Palpatine was going to survive ROTJ. Don’t know if it was ever finished.