Signature images without animation are bad enough. I block them all, as a rule. (Tobar and CatBus have the exceptions to that rule).
Ol’ George paid a visit to the Rogue One set:
Gareth Edwards said:
There are two things that are incredibly surreal that you could do in your life, and I think number two is having to show George Lucas your Star Wars movie. Like it was really crazy, and I think number one is to be George Lucas and have someone show you a Star Wars movie. And so I felt for him and he was incredibly gracious. He joked a lot about how we should do more in the computer and not build so much. We didn’t take his advice, we tried to shoot as much in camera as we could.
They’ve been in decline since at least Dragon Age II and there’s no sign of that stopping now.
Makes sense to me. Not that far off from how some of us treat Star Wars.
The real reason is Billy’s health sadly.
People are going to be surprised by who the Force sensitive character is in this film.
I’m very wary of Andromeda. ME3 ended up as such a massive disappointment and every little snippet of dialog we’ve gotten from Andromeda has sounded really bland and generic.
Marvel’s Victoria Alonso on How Her Studio Tackles VFX Differently
(jif? no, lets stick with gif)
But… it’s pronounced like “jif.” That’s just how words (and acronyms) work, man.
Yeah that’s why I got my degree in Jraphic Design. I love the jraphic arts.
Generally, an acronym is pronounced the way it would be if a single word. Since “gif” has an “I” after the “G,” the “G” becomes soft. Deal with it.
I hope you enjoy your Christmas jifts this year.
Well I’m glad Malbus’ giant spoiler he dropped at Celebration hasn’t gone far. Or else that theory would have been shot dead on arrival.
The J.J. commentary was a good listen. I only wish they had included another person, I always find it more entertaining when it’s a conversation rather than a solo-effort.*
*No need to make the Han joke unless you can come up with something really good.
Why include anyone other than J.J. since he’s the brains, sweetheart.
Well…I think there’s a pretty good argument to include Lawrence Kasdan the co-writer of The Force Awakens and writer of The Empire Strikes Back. I’d also love to hear from Kathleen Kennedy and her thoughts on bringing this all about. And then of course there’d be a lot of interest in a special commentary with Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. Heck, a commentary from the folks at ILM would be fascinating. Point is, the buck does not stop with Abrams.
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1
Pretty solid. The Netflix series origin was basically a very faithful but condensed version of this. Bonus points for being inked by Al Williamson. I look forward to reading the rest.
Everyone start working on your Rogue One avatars. I have found mine. 😉
Man November came and went in a flash. RO time has come.
Huh, that’s cutting it pretty tight. He only had a month to do the score:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you were a late addition to the Rogue One crew…
MICHAEL GIACCHINO: Yes, literally the last thing I expected I’d be doing this month would be this. I mean we were literally planning a vacation when I got the call asking if I could come and talk to them about it. At the time, it left me with literally four and a half weeks to write. So it was one of those decisions where you’re like, okay, well… And I was talking to my brother about it. He goes, “Oh, come on. You’ve been writing this score since you were 10! You can do this.”
Phew, just made it in and out before the site crashed. Didn’t get the perfect seats, but I got the ones right next to them. I am excite.
Yeah, getting that too.
Yeah that could happen, also I wonder if their will be an Asian cut of the film which is slightly different, it happens much more frequently today and many films do this to cater to Asian markets.
I think the most interesting instance of this was Iron Man 3, where they shot new scenes starring a couple of China’s biggest stars. They added absolutely nothing to the plot and it was just an excuse for some targeted product placement. Apparently the intended audience wasn’t impressed.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Fantastic film, love me some 1930s New York! It was also great to see “Hutch” land such a big role. I hope he can bank on this film to further his career.
“There goes the Sun
Here comes the night
Somebody turn on the light
Somebody tell me that fate has been kind
You can’t go out
You are out of your mind!”
―The Brave Little Toaster
FTFY
I’m in the middle of this year’s 2016 Turkey Day MST3K marathon so I can’t look it up but I believe the Maul eyes were from the animatic that Spielberg made to choreograph the chase on Utapau.
Well, just remember that “close” is quite relative when dealing with a map that covers an entire galaxy.
Yeah, I get that. It is just further shrinks the Star Wars galaxy. I understand the need to have Scarif near Tatooine in order for the events of ANH to kick off.
In AOTC, Obi-Wan’s long range transmitter is damaged and so he can’t contact Coruscant directly. Instead he reaches out to Anakin on Naboo to retransmit his message for him. Except, Anakin isn’t on Naboo but Tatooine. This places both systems within range of Geonosis.
People always underestimate the power of the theater.
