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

It would appear that Gareth Edwards and his team have been drawing heavily from the Clone Wars + Rebels cartoons for their notes on setting and tone which means this is probably going to be AWESOME and also most of the characters are doomed

Giant gun backpack dude = toast
Yip Man = toast
Felicity Jones = redemption martyr toast
Forest Whitaker = "Nah, I'll sit right here while they blow up my house with me in it" toast
Droid = the droid always survives
Diego Luna = witness

NO SPOILERS TOMBOT

Rosebud was his lightsaber.

Anyway, international trailer, couple of new bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XWkN0jBQY

all the rebels look really dirty and haggard, so you know they got that right

maybe not in the command center. Mon Mothma still looking senate-ready

Many Bothans died getting her dry cleaning

v good

Ok, this is cute. I dig the klaxon mixing.

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

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m8qgvg1A--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sjqq32orf3wyzxd5anqk.png

Why does this dude need to carry around so many iphones, though

Amazed he gets reception out there

one for each carrier, too difficult to swap sim cards on the run while wearing Death Gloves

'everything that has transpired has done so according to my design'

https://spfaust.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/62535_jelanimemory1.jpg

https://youtu.be/sC9abcLLQpI

the dialogue looks terrible ("save the dream"???) but i'll watch the shit out of that

the dialogue has always been terrible

it was relatively good in the last one

true!

this movie looks amazing, I don't care how corny the dialogue is

yeah this looks great

damn, that's an exciting trailer

the overhead shot of the giant half-buried jedi blew me away

jedi statue, i mean

this must be the trailer where they're afraid some of the audience won't understand the setting/premise because it sure spelled it all out

Starting to look like Edwards was a good choice for this -- his tendency to concentrate on the human scale rather than spectacle, that got him noticed with Monsters, kinda backfired on him with Godzilla, where people just wanted more Godzilla. But this is a better sci-fi sandbox in which he can work that stuff out.

Certainly looks gorgeous

most definitely

the original trilogy had some lush planets but it was the forests of endor where it was fairly nondescript forest, or dagobah where the greenery was so dense it seemed claustrophobic

the beach/palm trees battle stuff in this looks ridiculous

that's a generous interpretation of Godzilla Phil

Well, yeah

oh cool a death star

lol did you just drop in here having read and seen nothing about the movie

you bet!

all I did was watch the preview

it also has a darth vader

*whew*

Love everything about this trailer except for the music.

That ain't A Death Star it's THE Death Star. Check yo'self, foo.

felicity jones seems kind of a bad actor - not sure about the plummy delivery

Οὖτι, it has THE Death Star. Well, the first one. It takes place before the original 1977 film and they steal the Death Star plans and do all the junk that was in the opening crawl of the first film to be released.

There, you know it all now, no need for further introspection

That line about hope seemed really off and I'm wondering it if was a voiceover recorded for the trailer

so i guess they are going to cover the info getting to Princess Leia in this, since ANH starts and she already has it. so maybe we'll see a cameo of young Leia.

One would hope

Was there a rumor or confirmation Jimmy Smits was seen on set? I think they possibly did the next best thing and have the intel handed off to Leia's father at the end, with the implication one of his secret cells will handle it. They've structured a lot of the recent books/cartoons around the different rebel cells leading up to this point, with Leia making some appearances but most of it being handled by intermediaries, or in the case of really important intel, Bail Organa himself

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/05/rogue-one-star-wars-jimmy-smits

btw anyone else notice the orchestral theme in this trailer is an interpolation of the Star Wars main theme, where the last one was an interpolation of the Imperial march? very well done versions, imo

mendelsohn looks perfect in this

Can we just watch the trailers and forsake the films

I feel like Mendelsohn looks sort of ...neutralized? His best roles have been as fun, quirky bad guys and this character just seems comparatively cookbook

Just wish he could keep his accent. Boba Fett's a Kiwi now, why can't we have Imperial Australians?

Do we know who's in the Vader suit? Prowse is both too old and persona non grata at Lucasfilm, so I'm curious.