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Fantastic! =D

The world is definitely a colder place without a film starring Elan Sleazebaggano.

So…not to pull a Ronster but I’ve been dying to bring this up for quite some time now.

Adywan, I was wondering if you’ve considered introducing a slight pulsation to the lightsaber blades?

As I’m sure you’re aware the prequel lightsaber blades were pretty uniform glowsticks. Whereas the OT blades, having been rotoscoped by hand have this certain unique living feel to them. Especially in Star Wars(1977).

Starting with Star Wars Rebels Lucasfilm introduced a new stylistic change to their depiction of blades that’s more true to the original film. Here’s a Youtube video where they discuss how they achieved the effect.

It seems they’re continuing similarly to that trend in the new film. Here’s a new commercial that features pulsating lightsaber blades akin to the OT style.

I think it’s a great effect that adds some unique feeling of authenticity to them.

From what I understand of your schedule, if you’re still held up by waiting to film additional elements. Now would be the perfect time to introduce this to the edit if you haven’t considered it already. Similarly because following this you could then introduce it to SW:RHD and the rest of the Revisited saga.

Anyway, that’s my two cents. Thanks for your time! =)

Well, we never had commercials like this back in my day!

I love the way the blades pulsate. I hope that’s true for the film as well.

Yeah, it’s pretty great. I think every six months or so they release a new season which is a new story expansion featuring original actors returning to their roles.

Here’s a trailer from a couple of seasons ago.

Personally, I always go for the 3D showing if I can. 3D has always appealed to me and it adds depth to the experience.

I don’t own a 3D television so in the theater is likely the only time I’ll ever get the experience as well.

I have little doubt about it being set in the Abrams universe given the producers. Sigh, poor Prime universe never gets any love. Outside of the MMO and novels anyway…

Saddest part about this is waiting to see why it inevitably fails. Either because the show stinks and or because of the awful choice of venue.

Either way, they’ll mark it up as due to lack of interest and it’ll be another decade or more before we even get a chance at another series.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I want to see a spinoff with a score by Tangerine Dream.

Ever Googled “Star Wars: Neon Noir” ?

Fantastic, you’re now one of my favorite people!

Harrison Ford has a non-spoilery discussion about The Force Awakens whilst wearing a Hot Dog suit

Harrison Ford chimes in on The Force Awakens

Richard Marquand said:

All you can do is tell the story your way, the best that you can. I must say I like the way George made Star Wars, the way he set it up and did it was extremely clever. He made it seem to have a very simple surface, but, in fact, it had a very dense, complex background to it.

I preferred that surface naiveté to the much more sophisticated way Kershner told his story. His style very much suited this rather more dark, metallic second section of the saga. I think this third segment has a different kind of glow and flavor to it. But, I tried to make it simple because the textures in Jedi are so very, very complex. There’s a world of new people and some of them are incredibly difficult to appreciate at first meeting.

Once George and I selected a writer, we then locked ourselves in a room for about two weeks. It was very exciting. Larry, George, Howard and I literally just gave our ideas. Each of us had a different way of seeing how the story could be structured and slowly it was built up.

There were a number of things I wanted to introduce, characters I wanted to bring into the movie. In every way, George was absolutely ready to listen and Larry and I saw eye-to-eye about many new things we wanted to do.

You could not, as a director of this extremely complicated saga, go away to England and start working unless you had examined the screenplay very closely. If you work on the script, you know it.

towne32 said:

Hah, this was a surprising little bit of marketing today involving Lucas and Abrams. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDu9SLvF_E

That was hilarious! GL was clearly poking fun at the EU purist crowd. =P

Richard Marquand said:

I fit the bill in that it seemed like they were looking for a younger man who has a great deal of experience, can work hard and fast, make up his mind and stick to it, and run a crew very quickly. I knew then what George was searching for was not the old school movie director who would wait for the weather to get the shot he wanted. He wanted someone who could improvise, think on his feet.

When we met, I felt extremely comfortable. It was one filmmaker talking to another filmmaker. It was very good. We talked about our films and how we dealt with certain problems. It was not in any sense an interview or the kind of thing that happens in Hollywood where you must put on a tremendous performance to impress somebody.

I told George that, if I was going to direct this adequately, I would need loyalty and support in the areas that were new to me. In a way, being the director of a film of this size is rather like being the President of the Ford Motor Company. You don’t necessarily have to know how to weld a car door, but you must make damn sure the guy who is doing it for you is someone you know, that you know his skills and that he’ll do a good job.

If you are the director you are really the man who says what goes. There are always stories in the movie industry about directors getting pushed around by producers. But, all those producers are people who really don’t understand how movies get made. You can only really have one person doing that job. The good thing about George Lucas is he knows that fact.

Welp, they’ve gone back to the motion posters.

Let us not forget that when they announced George was leaving and he was handing the keys over that they made a big deal about the fact that they had the entire EU to mine for stories, characters and settings.

I’d love more films without Force users. Which is why I’m the most excited about Rogue One. A series of films that cover the GCW would be awesome.

Last week’s episode was great. Loved the face off between the Clones and the Empire.

I spent a good portion of it playing THIS.

As well as listening to Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas.

TV's Frink said:

The worst part is the way it repeats.  It's like there was no editor on the show.

 ^genuine LOL

I needed that after all of the sticks in the mud that popped up in this thread. =P

Official trailer for Jessica Jones

New motion poster for Jessica Jones.

Ehhhhhhhh, I wouldn't go that far. At the very least it could be inferred that it was very rare to come across a Jedi and because of that their powers were questioned by the skeptical.

Well Ezra was born on the day the Empire was founded. They make that explicit. In ROTS it seems like the same day as Order 66 but if someone were inclined they could wave it away with some head canon.

The Inquisitors have been a part of the greater lore since the first WEG source books in the 80s, which were the very foundation for the galaxy outside of the films.