It will be something insipidly stupid like Rise of the Force, or Return of the Sith.
Star Wars into Darkness,lol. With Benedict Cumberbatch.
Mavericks said:
NeverarGreat said:
The comics and the movie are two different takes on the character. Different universes. The EU means Expanded Universe, not Different Universe. This is why Lucas specifically forbid writers from delving into the Clone Wars period and tried to make the prequels fit with the EU instead of disregarding it completely. However, since he doesn't have a good grasp of continuity as it is, the effort was rather wasted.
The worst thing about this is that in order to UNDERSTAND a movie, you need to read/watch a bunch of related books, comics, mini-series which is a supportive role, spin-off, instead of relying just on events being properly unfolded in the original movie/movies that should serve the purpose of exploring the main storyline. And THAT storyline should hold the gravity center of depicting various events - not side projects.
Totally agree and its also quite hilarious that the clone wars were not really shown on screen nor the Jedi purge its all comic books, or video games, cartoons.
No actor wants to be typecast. Is all i was saying. He wanted to be seen as an actor, not as Luke Skywalker a non existing fictional character.
He wanted to be treated seriously like Harrison Ford was after star wars and Indiana Jones he became a respected actor.
Making fun of the Joker role are you serious. Its likely he will be remembered as the best person not live action to ever play the role.
I pointed it out because it was something he did to live outside the Luke Skywalker shadow.
Like when he did the play Amadeus and wanted people to see him as as Mozart not Luke Skywalker.
Its funny because literally no one George Lucas included thought Mark Hamill would ever return to the role or that the sequel trilogy would be made.
I am talking about the modern era here, the production years of the prequels, not what they thought in 1983. Where George had a vague notion of doing sequels in like 1982 before his marriage broke apart and star wars cost him literally everything he cared for but his money.
As for the actor thing it makes sense were one an actor. Its like every time someone walks up to Sean Connery and asks him about being Bond, or Shatner about being Kirk. As if they did not play other roles. Same with Harrison ford always being tasked to talk about being either Han Solo or Indiana Jones.
Sometimes actors try to divorce themselves from a role and it ends tragically as in the case of George Reeves, or they embrace it as did Christopher Reeve when the heroism he showed in fighting to live after his tragic accident became woven into the heroic mythos of superman.
What about Star Trek VI. The blu ray is the theatrical scope and there has always been debate over what the intended ratio was since they shot it on super35.
I have never been able to find a satisfactory answer for why Meyer used super35 instead of the same format as wrath of khan.
As for tv broadcasts of films and tv shows being not oar but zoomed in or fake widescreen that is another whole topic and something that disgusts me as much as dvnr if not more.
Aaron Allston Star Wars EU author has passed away.
Had the thankless task of following Mike Stackpole on the X-wing books and found to be not as good. Though those books were not terrible his fate of the jedi books though were garbage. I still am saddened by his death.
I would have recommended recobanchou but they are closed at the moment i think and don't have that many vhs or vhd tapes listed.
I myself have looked for an obscure tape final yamato 35mm first version on VHS or beta but don't want to pay upwards of seventy dollars for it.
and nine times out of ten people claiming they have it turns out to be the regular final 70mm version.
Even the studio could not find a good copy and left it off the blu ray. Sure they could have just used the first issue vhs but that would not look so good, i just wish they had included it as a bonus.
The quality of even the released deleted scenes from the Berman era is pretty poor.
Poor quality with time code and no finished score or adr, no foley.
Most of the so called deleted scenes are alternate takes, trims and useless footage as with most films.
DuracellEnergizer said:
SilverWook said:
Vector Prime got a lot of publicity when it was published in 1999. IIRC, it was the only EU novel to have a tv spot.
I find it pathetic that the first and only Star Wars novel to receive advertising on television is an entry from one of the worst Star Wars series ever.
Shadows of the Empire had a commercial. The Vector prime one was a big deal however because it was the first time Hamill revisited his role since 1983.
Long before the sequel trilogy was a glimmer in the Disney companies eyes. People pretty much figured he would never do the role again.
He had turned down voicing the character in several Lucasarts games as far as i can remember.
I find it funny Mark Hamill played the Joker for twenty years and now is returning to the Luke Skywalker role he had distanced himself from.
He was also doomsday on smallville. I liked him enough in the force unleashed and in the clone wars, but he was awful on smallville.
All i can say is it is the weakest of the 3 scripts on paper. Speaking of the original trilogy of course.
I have always thought the strongest script was Empire.
So the home video was intended to be 4:3 and the cinema matted for 16:9?
Way too confusing and way way over my head,lol.
Sorry forgot about the full model on First Contact that was great. I think they made a full cgi one for the last movie however and it was not done by ILM.
I mean Nemesis.
Almost no difference in the picture framing or aspect ratio there.
Except for there being a slight more picture information on top in some of the full framed laserdisc captures.
Is jungle book supposed to be full frame or 16:9 ?
And why do some of the widescreen shots have like maybe 2% more image on the sides while chopping off the top.
Scanning using the old models/designs and updating them would also be acceptable.
No way they will look as bad as the mid 90's cgi that made its way in star wars special edition.
I think there is zero chance of anything other than cgi though since the JJ Enterprise was completely computer generated by ILM.
Only certain shots in the Next Generation films of the Ent E were of a small model. They never built a full scale like the refit/ 1701 A.
I like the Pike scene with Kirk. But it sounds like on set dialogue.
Its all very temporary feeling, no adr, no foley, no music.
The way Greenwood delivers his lines is almost Vulcan like disapproval.
Too cold and not enough emotion is shown. It is also as if Bruce is practicing saying the lines knowing he will redo them in post.
The rest of the stuff is neat to see but i can understand why they were cut these are standard trims.
The Hendrickson name for Harrison/Khan is interesting however.
Wow the Eastman stock prior to LPP is purple, ouch.
Vinegar syndrome print?
The Supergirl score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
I'm still hoping they pull the old models out of storage,I know they will probably make the Falcon with CGI.
But i can dream they will shoot it old school. Don't think any such department still exists within Lucasfilm and ILM.
So a couple of stray finished episodes suddenly becomes 13 episodes for a sixth season. So they obviously animated more episodes since the series was canceled.
A for profit entity pulls a fast one on fans who would have seen that coming?
Looks very yellow and brown is it supposed to look like that?
Its EU for a reason. Its separate from the films and solely came out out a desire to make money off the license. Aka Merchandising.
There is no need at all for Disney to nuke the EU, it was a way for others to play in George's world when his stamp was on the six movies. Now that others are making new movies that is all undermined anyways the sequels are legitimized EU.
They are not Lucas Canon being the vision of a single individual. They are the vision of the corporation known as Disney.
Yeah Lucas himself legitimized them as canon but what do you expect for 4 billion dollars.
Of course Disney wants to create their own merchandising line and continuity and who could blame them except for the fans who want the existing line to continue.
It will be the new cartoon, followed by the new comics and then new movies. None of the old stuff will probably survive though they might lift things in the same way Lucas did from the EU for the prequels and clone wars.
I still think that if Lucas could have he would have shot the original films on video and have used modern cgi had he been able to do so.
Would i have been a fan without the limitations that made the films the way they were, probably not.
He hated the films as they were made. The original trilogy prior to 1997 was only about 25% of what he imagined or wanted.
Well apparently the Italian blu ray for Once Upon a Time in the West came out and its from the same print as the US one.
Same color timing, same dvnr. Same edits. Its not the Director's cut.
Is the LeoneNut DVD of the Director's Cut still available?
Bingowings said:
I don't see the obsession with ending things myself.
Though I would like to see it evolve.
What if they shook it up by jumping five years so Bart actually got older and Maggie learned how to talk?
I said the same thing about the characters not aging.
Ric Olie formerly known as Fink replied "it must be tough to be you."
What if the sequel trilogy causes more problems with continuity. Will films 1-6 get an additional redo to fit 7-9?
I know screw continuity and canon if necessary to create a fun and entertaining movie. Is what seems to be the general consensus. I mean is not that what Abrams did with the last 2 star trek films.