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Suddenly they're throwing out clips left and right:

The Kiss

The Skiff

SilverWook said:

Ah, the Imperial Troop Transporter. Probably the first ever EU vehicle. I still like the design, but only carrying six guys, (besides the drivers) in a standing position must suck for long trips. Not to mention being a mobile shooting gallery for a potential sniper. ;)

I can't properly express how excited I am that the Troop Transport is going to be in the series. One of my all time favorite Star Wars vehicles. Judging by the design for the Rebels version I'd say it looks like it could probably hold up to 9 plus drivers. With the hatches opening up partially so they can aim out like in the original design as well coming down to be used as ramps. At least that's how I imagine that it'd work in a practical vehicle.

Gravity (2013)

Had to wait longer than I cared to finally see this. Definitely worth the wait. Loved this film. Beautiful visuals, great action and pacing. Loved it all. It also was the best 3D I've seen in a long while. I had to keep flinching during one scene because stuff kept flying at my face. It was fascinating because I was aware it wasn't real but I couldn't stop from flinching every time.

Fun Fact: Princess Leia got to wield a double bladed lightsaber in Masters of the Teräs Käsi.

Also: The Inquistors have been a part of the EU for a loooong time now.

I just learned that Voyager had a shuttlecraft built into the saucer section that they NEVER. ONCE. USED!

A warp capable shuttlecraft that totally makes the Delta Flyer redundant...man that show had some terrible people in charge.

imperialscum said:

ray_afraid said:

we just didn't see it happen.

If we don't see it than it didn't happen, as simple as that. If we started to claim something that is not seen in the film then one could claim, with equal weight, that Luke had sex with Yoda - we just didn't see it of course.

I don't know about that but his training was pretty involved...

Archie's work on the Marvel comic was fantastic. It quickly declined after he left. The early newspaper strips were done by Russ Manning. It wasn't until after he passed that Al Williamson and Archie took over and stayed with it until the end.

cain spaans said:

Well the marvel Star Wars comics are really just a blur now but what if some of the continuity in these new movies could be based after the events in those comics from 1977 to 1985.

The Marvel comics were pretty great up until the release of ROTJ and then...

"Basically, it is like 'The Godfather'; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution..."

- Rick McCallum

"[It will reveal the] greasy, seamy underbelly of 'Star Wars.'"

- Steve Sansweet

That was a great interview. Based on that interview plus one Kathleen did for Celebration Europe, I think it's pretty safe to say we'll be seeing multiple animated series in the future.

Hopefully one of them will be set Post-ROTJ.

I'm still mad I missed my window to watch 2010 IN 2010. Still haven't gotten around to seeing it.

Uh yeah....I don't think we'd ever see the live action show on a Disney channel. At least not if it stayed true to its original premise. They wanted to go really dark with that show.

randomposter said:

Is there any reason to suspect Leia wasn't referring to Queen Breha when she spoke of her mother?

Oh I dunno....how about:

LUKE

Leia... do you remember your mother? Your real mother?

LEIA

Just a little bit. She died when I was very young.

The live action Star Wars show was to be about the underworld in Star Wars. Think the Sopranos in space and you're just about there.

They wrote a bunch of scripts and then realized it was too cost prohibitive to do for television and so they put it on the backburner and were going to wait it out for the costs to go down.

1313 was supposed to be a sort of tie-in to the show and kept going forward into production long after they shelved the show. Then of course that eventually got cancelled.

Rebels is an all new show with no ties to any of the previous efforts.

Jaitea said:

At least Tim Curry's accent sounds English, the actor who's doing Tarkin's voice sounds a bit Australian

J

I think Stephen Stanton did an excellent job as Tarkin.

Oh no...I just realized they'll probably bring Palpy back. When the brilliant Ian Ambercrombie passed away they replaced him with Tim Curry. I like Tim Curry as an actor but he's AWFUL as Palpatine. =(

emanswfan said:

New episodes confirmed to premiere in Early 2014!

https://www.facebook.com/DaveFiloni/posts/10151886663275053

New episodes of the Clone Wars in early 2014, premiere of Rebels in the fall of that year.

NeverarGreat said:

Star Wars: The Tournament of Death would be an awesome stand-alone movie.

Captured by Shark Men, not so much.

What's wrong with Shark Men?

chyron8472 said:

I came here originally because Darth Marsden at the Telltale Games forums (now at Double Fine; we all moved forums after TTG screwed theirs up) brought up Adywan's ANH:R in the middle of a communal rant on George Lucas.

I was wondering where everyone went! Now it's just full of new people threatening TT and demanding refunds because this was their first TT launch day experience. =P

There a specific sub-forum everyone hangs out in over at DF?

Ryan McAvoy said:

I don't think he is saying anything he's just doing that pre speech jaw thing...

Precisely.

fgqb#19nyj said:

Adywan, whatever you do, don't die on us. :)

Ô_o Uh....

What do the dvd menus look like? Could you post a screencap or two?

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Well, I was misinformed about when the movie was coming out and so in the last week of September I burned through this book so that I had read it all before seeing the film adaptation. Suffice it to say, I was annoyed when I found out the true release date. But I found the book captivating enough that I probably wouldn't have taken much longer to finish it regardless of when I had started. I thought it was thoroughly enjoyable. Though I could have done without the siblings' subplot.

ATMachine said:

a Jedi certainly reinforces the idea that GL was already thinking about Force potential in genetic terms. On the other hand, it makes the story that Obi-Wan had to "discover" Anakin and recruit him into the Jedi Order (as Ben tells Luke in Kasdan's draft) a bit strange.

Not really. This is how I figure that would work. You have two brothers, their father was a great Jedi Knight but was killed in the line of duty. Anakin idolizes his father and wants to honor his memory and take up the mantle.

While Owen grew bitter over the loss of his father and didn't want to have anything to do with those wizards who got his father killed. So when Obi-wan comes around hoping to recruit the sons of Skywalker to help in the desperate fight against the rising clone menace Owen wants nothing to do with it.

Don't forget the NSA's Information Dominance Center*:

*no really, that's what it's called!

I feel like we're talking in circles now. Lucas involvement was discussed in detail very early on.

Here's a five part discussion with George and Kathleen about the future:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Lucas: I've always said I wasn't going to do anymore and that's true I'm not going to do anymore. But that doesn't mean I'm unwilling to turn it over to Kathy to do more. I have story treatments of 7, 8 and 9 and a bunch of other movies.

And obviously we have hundreds of books and comics and everything you could possibly imagine. So, you know I sort of moved that treasure trove of stories and various things to Kathy and I have complete confidence that she's gonna take them and make great movies.

Kennedy: We are absolutely going to make Star Wars movies and we're in the midst of the really fun part of the process. Which is sitting down with a couple of writers and we're starting to discuss ideas and we're starting to talk about what those stories might be.

I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be entirely on my own because it's important that he at least continue to be a little guardian angel on my shoulder helping me do this.

 ...

Interviewer: And what do you see your role is as Creative Consultant? What does that mean?

Lucas: I just said that I would back her up and I would be there. Especially helping with the script and making sure the script sort of...there's a lot of blank spots in the story treatment that hopefully we can fill in.

In addition, here's a great article that goes in depth on how the deal came to be:

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

At first Lucas wouldn’t even turn over his rough sketches of the next three Star Wars films. When Disney executives asked to see them, he assured them they would be great and said they should just trust him. “Ultimately you have to say, ‘Look, I know what I’m doing. Buying my stories is part of what the deal is.’ I’ve worked at this for 40 years, and I’ve been pretty successful,” Lucas says. “I mean, I could have said, ‘Fine, well, I’ll just sell the company to somebody else.’ ”

Once Lucas got assurances from Disney in writing about the broad outlines of the deal, he agreed to turn over the treatments—but insisted they could only be read by Iger, Horn, and Kevin Mayer, Disney’s executive vice president for corporate strategy. “We promised,” says Iger. “We had to sign an agreement.”

When Iger finally got a look at the treatments, he was elated. “We thought from a storytelling perspective they had a lot of potential,” he says.

Based on that article and another I can't recall at the moment, I would say that Lucas didn't write up his rough outlines for the ST until after that meeting in May of 2011. Which would have given him around 14 months before calling Iger in June of 2012.

As for the franchise as a whole, I think too much emphasis is placed on Disney. Everyone seems to forget that the torch was passed to Kathleen.

When it comes to the direction and focus of the Marvel movie franchise people don't bring up Disney, they bring up Kevin Feige. The same should go for Star Wars and Kathleen Kennedy.