This convention should’ve been named “The Dave Filoni Likes To Talk” Celebration …
I hate that hat so much. Wish someone would knock it off his head and light it on fire.
Do you think that they only invited Lucas as a courtesy and didn’t think he would come? Then he did and turned the 40th panel into a PT mess?
Did people miss this? It’s kind of slight, but it’s a series of animated shorts, featuring the actresses reprising their roles, that’ll be put on Youtube and then as a TV special:
http://www.starwars.com/news/rey-ahsoka-tano-and-more-iconic-heroes-to-star-in-new-star-wars-forces-of-destiny-animated-micro-seriesI imagine it’ll probably be aimed at young audiences and they are really short (2-3 minutes) but it’s still a cool little concept.
The toys they are putting out are terrifying. Don’t look for the Chewbacca one if you value your sanity.
The Resistance ships look like a take on the Blockade Runners/Republic Cruisers/Legends Corellian Gunships. They have the same aesthetic.
Books! Real books!
No Chewie… 😦
I’m excited.
Dunno why some people expected an OOT release. The vast majority of people I speak to don’t even know there’s different versions, and releasing them around the same time as TLJ would be sort of pointless.
They must be educated and taught the error of their ways. Or mocked for liking crap.
From what I saw I prefer the Grindhouse versions. I really like the filmness of them, if you know what I mean. I’m just pissed off and not having a good day/week/month/year due to a family member slowly fading and Star Wars is one of the few things I still get any joy from.
The Carrie Fisher tribute was nice. I wonder how many meetings there were to find a joke of her’s clean enough for all audiences.
Fuck it. I’m so tempted to buy the burned Despecialized Blu-Rays off ebay. I’m beyond sick of this. Fuck you Lucas you old bastard. No one likes your Prequels no matter how hard you whore them.
Its so sad that when I see Lucas I think “For fucks sake” rather than “Yay! Creator of the thing I like!”
We’ll take the next chance and the next chance until we win or the chances are spent.
We’ll take the next chance and the next chance until we win or the chances are spent.
When he says midnight, is that east coast or west coast time?
He clarified EST.
https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/852334295091949569
Breznican says something is going down tonight at midnight.
Could it be?
Who knows.
What time does the OOT nonsense speculation finally end? Is there a cut-off?
When Kennedy specifically says its not happening.
I’m pretty sure there’s more bonus material for the prequels in the complete saga Blu Ray set
That could be a matter of them being made in the DVD age where special features are planned for. That didn’t exist in 1977-1983.
Do the fans who really like the PT care about the other cuts? Aren’t they usually the ones who prefer the SEs, or whatever Lucas’ vision is this week?
If we get an OOT announcement, I will be nice to the Prequel fans for at least a month.
Was there any official confirmation if we get season 4 / how many more seasons will we get?
Yes to Season 4, no word on how far they want to go.
It helps if you don’t get worked up about small things like “a special GMA announcement.”
GMA appeals to the lowest common denominator, it was never going to be the OOT announcement venue.
They mentioned a private screening of ANH at Skywalker Ranch in the FFC video. I do hope an OT.com member can win and confirm just what version it is! 😉
I wonder if I would get kicked out for going “Nope” when it was the Special Edition. Though I would kill to see the archives.
And the original theatrical is on Blu Ray to boot.
Remastered from the original elements. Something that has yet to happen to Star Wars. What a messed up world.
The biggest problem I have with TPM and the Prequels in general is Obi-Wan and Anakin’s friendship was pushed aside and not addressed then suddenly we were supposed to care when Anakin turned dark. Obi-Wan really should have been in the Qui-Gon role like the rough draft. Then you could devote time to their friendship in the first film. It would help to make Anakin 20 or so so they really could be brothers.
Instead of Battle Droids, have the Trade Federation hire and use Madalorian Super Commandos with Destroyer Droid back ups. No stupid cute Roger, Roger shit.
Spend 5 minutes and explain why the Sith were thought to be extinct and why they hate the Jedi. Its in the novelization and would make a pretty good scene to have Obi-Wan explain the conflict and their demise of a thousand years ago. Kind a call back to him telling Luke about the fall of the Republic and the betrayal of Vader, but without the retconned lying.
I do wish Maul had continued as the main villain and taken Dooku and Grievous’ place. You can still have him get cut in half and his return in Attack of the Clones would have been a shock to Obi-Wan and it would make sense Kenobi would be the one to track him down and eventually end him on Utapau.
The GMA thing could easily be something as pedestrian as announcing the trailer for TLJ will premiere at Celebration and showing a brief segment of that.
Y’all need Jesus.
Man I cannot believe what people pay for photo ops at cons anymore. I wouldn’t pay that unless they get Joonas Suotamo to dress up in the Chewbacca costume. That I would pay for.
Hayden won’t be at the Last Jedi panel at Celebration! The chances of him in the movie went down!
I quite like how the prequels were included in Rogue One. There were a few subtle callbacks like the Turbo Tank and Coruscant that didn’t really affect the story, but they were nice to see if you wanted a more cohesive/connected universe, and they were easily ignorable if you hate the prequels. Other callbacks to the era like Saw Gerrera, Bail Organa and so on all made sense within the context of the story.
I loved how they made the bigget PT era character (Saw) an insane mess who had a crappy CGI pet. Very meta.
1999-2012 were so PT heavy that the pendulum has swung the other way. Had Lucas not sold the company, the PT bias would still exist.
It’s also over explaining why he isn’t in Star Wars. (Or the end of ROTS.) It’s logical to presume he simply passed away in the intervening years.
How about he died from an infection in his leg due to bad medical treatment and a general apathy from losing his wife? He stopped caring for himself. That way he technically died from a broken heart, but its not Lucas level stupid.
As for the Prequels, they happend but Disney should focus on the good aspects of Star Wars going forward. No Hayden in The Last Jedi, though if he was in it and say the movie only did 1.2 billion they could blame it on him and you would never see a major PT reference in a Star Wars movie again.