Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

after playing that star wars battlefront game, seeing people scattering in the trailer in front of a couple at-ats really kicked in my impulse to run

mr veg & i had a v silly conversation about the at-ats wherein i posited that they had rocket boosters on their feet & mr veg was like lol those things can barely walk as it is, etc

picturing them *trying* to fly is v funny

One of my favorite t-shirts I own has this image on it:

http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/feeding-the-chicken-walkers.jpg

<3

disney will really be missing out on an audience of hip young millennials if we don't see at least one at-at twerking

at-ats w palm trees in the background Thrilled me tbh

summoned to the battlefield from an alternate robodimension where they graze peacefully and forced into battle by the power of the dark side

lol @ this, reminded me of much happy childhood study of the manual for starcraft

Yeah, palm trees definitely gets us into a new climate. Was so ready for an unfamiliar setting after TFA.

This trailer doesn't seem to show any aliens. Possibly one at 1:04-1:05 behind the character in the foreground. Hands/arms look to be the wrong proportion for a human.

technically all the organisms in the trailer are aliens tbf

The great debate: Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

I think reading that thread years ago was the first time I'd realised the Star Wars crew are all filthy alien scum

I did waffle for a minute over how to differentiate between basic human-type space people and less human-ish space people, but just decided that everybody would know what the hell I meant. Is there any wookiepedia-approved guidance for delineation between bipedal space species?

lol we got the scoop on gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com/the-death-star-has-the-most-impressive-public-transit-s-1769764825

This makes the 8th movie where shit happens on planets. Can't they just shoot a camera off into space and film the void or something?

You'd think it was called "Planet Wars" or something.

Has anyone even fought a star in these movies yet? Such a ripoff.

Wow I've learned a lot abt At-At transport today thx ppl

Are AT-STs the babies of AT-ATs? I've always wondered.

DEATH stars, if those count xp

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GLtQuylw--/18mnsllx67vt6jpg.jpg

this is mechanically separated AT-AT. it's what the empire uses to make their AT-STs. disgusting

So AT-STs are basically walking dinosaur nuggets.

Chicken (McNugget) Walkers

(That took me way too long.)

This has nothing to do with Rogue One (or does it...?) but since this is currently the happening Star Wars thread, I thought I should post here that I just learned the name of the Tusken Raider that attacked Luke, and his name is URoRRuR'R'R. That is precisely the kind of name I used to give imagined characters in elementary school. It's stupid and I love it.

The best part is when you pronounce the name backwards

http://www.balloonsabuzz.com.au/images/stories/virtuemart/product/scooby-doo-ruh-roh.jpg

roislecxe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatanna#/media/File%3AZatanna_by_Brian_Boland.jpg

please note I stated this back in January so I guess I scooped Mads Mikkelsen about his own job?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/mads-mikkelsen-might-have-just-dropped-a-huge-rogue-one-1773632382

I wouldn't put it past Mads to be making a silly Star Wars joke

young han solo, everybody
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/35/22/4c/35224c0084fcb54ded5713bbbfee0715.jpg

Coen Brothers continuing their scouting work for Star Wars, there.

he was good in that coppola film as well.

ruh roh!!!

The much-anticipated “Rogue One” is due for release on Dec. 16, but we’re told bosses at Disney are not fully satisfied with the first cut from director Gareth Edwards.

One Hollywood source told us, “The execs at Disney are not happy with the movie, and ‘Rogue One’ will have to go back into four weeks of expensive reshoots in July.”

let me guess everybody died at the end and nobody liked it

The source added, “Disney won’t take a back seat, and is demanding changes, as the movie isn’t testing well.”

yup

Just slap a new Blake Shelton song over that bleak ending and get ready to watch some focus group faces light up.

they can just add a scene where someone yells "oh wait they're not quite dead" and throw all of them in a dumpster of bacta

(Honestly would not be at all surprised to learn that some of the complaints were along the lines of "Where's Rey?")

xpost Or like the ending of Freddy Got Fingered, where a kid walked out of the shot and into a plane's propellors, showering everyone onscreen with blood just before the studio-mandated paste-in of the kid saying "I'm okay!"

What, somebody didn't read the script? "Hey, we can't sell any dead Han Solo action figures this way."

(Honestly would not be at all surprised to learn that some of the complaints were along the lines of "Where's Rey?")

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This boils down my son's complaint about the trailer. "This doesn't have anything to do with the last movie. I have to wait for three years to find out what happened in that one?"

I'm bummed. The trailer looked so so good to me.

Back in my day, kid, we had to wait three years AND suffer through issue after issue of Starlog to get production reports and rumors! Suck it up!

Maybe the director spent the entire SFX budget on blow and all of the battles wound up with him smashing old-school Kenner vehicles into one another against a green screen while his coke buddy goes "PEW PEW P-PEW" offscreen.

i never ask the entertainment-industrial complex for anything but i did ask for a cynical girl space fighter jock star wars movie so of course it's getting cold feet now

Edwards is obviously good at making things look cool, but he's yet to demonstrate the ability to tell a good story. Or even make a non-boring movie. Trailer tells us nothing really.

Man, the trailer before Civil War looked incredible on the screen.

Current best trailer-to-worst movie ratio champ is Jarhead but if this is bad it would come close.

thought it looked cheap & dull, but the at-ats picked things up a bit

Star Wars universe is supposed to look cheap and dull

ehhh the Rogue One trailer wasn't that good imo
xp nah, Star Wars looks used and lived-in, not cheap and dull

Rumour: 40% of R1 is being reshot.

Some crew initially heard J.J. Abrams was supervising the reshoots.
Gareth Edwards is doing the reshoots himself but with a partner, Christopher McQuarrie.
Christopher McQuarrie, the final writer on Rogue One will be working extensively with Edwards onset to make sure they’re on the “same page” with the most recent draft of the film.
Christopher McQuarrie’s draft of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was considered superior to the film they shot previously.
It was not Edwards’ fault as McQuarrie’s draft wasn’t completed when much of the film was shot and revisions kept coming in that made the film feel uneven.
32 sets have been recreated for the reshoot.
The crew expects they are reshooting 40% of the film.
They are working 6 days a week for 8 weeks.

http://makingstarwars.net/2016/06/how-extensive-will-the-rogue-one-reshoots-be/

this is why I give no fucks when hollywood complains about films not making enough money because of piracy or whatever bullshit

Do you care to clarify that line of reasoning at all?

Anyway, sounds like they rushed it, if McQuarrie was that far from finished when they started shooting. I liked the trailer a lot, though! Especially in the theater.

Just that Hollywood should stop flushing its own money down the toilet before they accuse their audience of stealing from them