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

oh wow you're not kidding http://collider.com/daniel-craig-quantum-of-solace-script-problems/

lol latebloomer. I think if Craig did another Bond film he would probably be irritated enough to talk about pocket monsters all day

xp lol that explains a lot about how bad that movie was

I liked how it was straightforward plot progression and action scenes without Mendes' sloppy emotional beats tbh

the problem with mendes is he really think he's a maestro at composing a beautiful shot but his films grind to a halt when he's not shooting action scenes (and sometimes even then too.) skyfall was about as exciting as road to perdition when craig wasn't riding motorcycles on top of trains. He's terrible at narrative momentum. forster wasn't especially a good pic for QoS but I think the Bourne-style pacing kept that movie going forward pretty briskly. Said this elsewhere but I kinda want to tell these producers that no one really cares who's directing a bond film, you just need a craftsman like Martin Campbell. You don't need a name. Cf goldeneye and CR.

Gareth Edwards is more mendes than anything unfortunately, I did like the Rogue One trailer but parts of it skewed towards a skyfallian portentousness.

Ok wait apparently it's not McQuarrie, it's Tony Gilroy, and there were no test screenings.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-writers-behind-jason-bourne-is-now-helping-w-1780449151

Something is happening, for sure!

it's me, I'm actually on set and not on a vacation right now

the problem with mendes is he really think he's a maestro at composing a beautiful shot but his films grind to a halt when he's not shooting action scenes (and sometimes even then too.)

wait, "he really think[s] he's a maestro"? you have it on some authority that his hubris dominated the editing? i ask because the most riveting moments in the last couple bond films were consistently the most beautiful: the skyscraper assassination setup and manor approach in skyfall, belluci's walk through her house and the casino approach in spectre.

God knows what I want out of a bond movie is not pacing or a sense of momentum but a riveting building approach.

i don't really like bond movies, so an interesting moment or two is fine by me

I talked to Mendes and he assures me his hubris was meant to take center stage, and then he asked me a few times if I saw American Beauty and kept saying things about winning awards

kind of agree that Bond movies are about crazy moments and sequences and not being actually good films at all

http://io9.gizmodo.com/weve-finally-got-some-solid-details-on-rogue-one-a-sta-1782419027

http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars-rogue-one-characters/2642918_forest-whitaker

???? (Forest Whitaker)
This character has a past that Star Wars completists will recognize immediately when they see his name, even if he looks very different than the way they've seen him elsewhere. (He even looks different from when we saw him in the teaser trailer.) There's so much to say about this character, we’re going to save his revelation for later today. Check back to EW.com around 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT for a deeper exploration of this shadowy figure ...

I'm calling Garindan or IG-88.

Casual attendees of Rogue One: "Where's Rey?"
Those same people seeing episode 8: "Where's Darth Vader?"
Seeing episode 9: "Where's Benjamin Button-ized Han Solo?"

Jar-Jar's dad, Bowl-Bowl Binks.

Well, that's unexpected -- he's a character from the Clone Wars series:

Meet the Rebel fighter who’s so extreme that the other good guys aren’t sure if he really is one.

Forest Whitaker’s character has been one of the more closely held secrets of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but Lucasfilm is ready now to make his identity official: this shadowy freedom-fighter is Saw Gerrera, a figure with a surprisingly deep background in galactic history.

The warrior — seen in the Rogue One trailer asking, “If you continue to fight, what will you become?” — was actually first seen in season 5 of The Clone Wars animated series, when he was a young man on the planet Onderon, unleashing guerilla combat on the droid army of Separatists who took over his world.

Along with his sister, Steela, he fought alongside Darth Vader — back when the Sith lord was just an impetuous young Jedi named Anakin Skywalker. In the episode A War on Two Fronts, which aired in October 2012, Saw and Steela were part of an insurgent group being unofficially trained by Anakin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the padawan Ahsoka Tano.

Nice

The recent in-canon, between RotJ and Force Awakens, novel Bloodlines has a tossed-off line about the terrorist tactics of some factions during the rebellion with that character namechecked.

That's cool but I hope for once they don't waste the top-tier folks they've got in this cast with, like, five minutes of onscreen time a la Von Sydow in TFW - or Terence Stamp (!) in one of those prequels. I want to see more Donnie Yen/Whitaker/Mikkelsen actually survive through most of the film at least. But --- err -- wishful thinking, right?

I want to see more Donnie Yen/Whitaker/Mikkelsen actually survive through most of the film at least. But --- err -- wishful thinking, right?

also TFW s/b TFA etc etc

i will be happily surprised if any of those characters survive this film (2x for minorities)

Rogue One panel happening at Star Wars Celebration Europe right now, new poster just revealed, new trailer at the end of this panel.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13729090_1208749735843292_4187951896588660538_n.jpg?oh=8cbd0dc9f0299468dc41ecd46ab2a3eb&oe=57ECC9B9

tight

I like the new beachy look. Summer fun wars!

lol Gwendolyn Christie just gave Felicity Jones the very first Jynn Erso action figure

http://imgur.com/E3XIvr3

http://i.imgur.com/E3XIvr3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/62PmXkH.jpg

Ha

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-look-at-the-making-of-rogue-one-a-star-wars-stor-1783734715

^ BTS

https://twitter.com/gavzilla71/status/753984085165563904

^spoilerish re: trailer

is that even still a spoiler

Yeah, the livestream cut away and showed the BTS reel again. Curse you, Kathleen Kennedy!

i mean idk it's not a spoiler to me I can just post shit willy-nilly if u all want

I swear there's been an article every week where someone involved with lucasfilm admits "yeah, Darth Vader is in this film"

Yeah but the reveal is that under the mask he's Sean Bean.

pretty sweet poster, looks like everyone's running to catch mark barrott's sundown DJ set on ibiza.

Finally got all the aliens that were missing last time around. This looks fucking rad. Can't wait for something with more dialogue, though.

lol at Alan Tudyk's DGAF droid

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-0cVeYf--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ft5jmvrvoewrk7meefoy.gif

he looks like the iron giant
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/902331-product-silo.png

star wars: the guns of tattooine

http://www.avclub.com/article/meet-rogue-ones-edrio-two-tubes-guy-two-tubes-239898

Meet Rogue One’s Edrio Two Tubes, the guy with two tubes

Still tippin' on two tubes, wrapped in two tubes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfW-MPUjC_0

They call him Two-Tecs, he tote two tecs

New trailer and it's pretty sharp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg

Really want some dark Battle of Algiers-style Star Wars on the screen

Well that looks sick.