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

I think Marvel probably has more freedom than Star Wars because of the basis in comics. Star Wars movies can only really be legitimized in terms of previous Star Wars movies, so things like visual style and music are going to stay pretty constant. That probably constrains the kinds of stories that are possible too. A heist movie is not a big departure in a franchise where smugglers play a big role.

You can tell all kinds of stories in the SW milieu

Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

I gave vague memories of seeing a book? Comic? That even did han solo and chewbacca in a zombie siege story

oh certainly, there's a bunch of things you can do with the SW universe(everything from Dead Trooper to Kotor 2, for example), but in terms of 90-120 min yearly franchise blockbuster releases, how much can they do before it starts getting away from the mythic space opera? Thinking about this more, I wonder if they're locked into certain tropes or aesthetics because otherwise, Star Wars turns into something more like Star Trek/Mass Effect/Firefly/Battlestar.

Then again, fuggit; some of the shots of battle footage in Rogue One has street-level urban fighting, shot with handhelds in a way that folks even on here were comparing to Battle of Algiers, which is a galaxy far, far away from space fighterjock samurai wizards. Maybe the mold should be broken.

Dead troopers, that was it

Yeah, the zombie novel was Death Troopers, by Joe Schreiber.

imagine if they did a movie that didn't have the Death Star in it, would be pretty crazy!

I keep thinking how awesome some of the characters in the trailer seem and kind of hope they're not super fleshed out, leaving a little mystery? I just keep thinking, who are these guys?! Is that guy blind? That other guy just took out a whole squad of stormtroopers!

Digging through the credits on imdb again really made me remember that not everyone has a publicist team sculpting their imdb profile because Wen Jiang has this profile picture (sorry for imdb links, I'm not going to dig around to beat their image link-busting today)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm886348544
and I'm thinking hmm, seems like a cool regular guy

and then there's this picture
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm1330189568

whoa badass!!!

btw I am five

no crawl!

http://www.nme.com/news/film/star-wars-producer-explains-rogue-one-wont-iconic-opening-crawl-1871135

whaaaaat

Would look kinda silly beginning with "Episode III.ix" anyways

It's not like Caravan Of Courage had a crawl. Or did it?

The Clone Wars animated film didn't either. It had that newsreel-type thing at the beginning.

Same with the CW series. Rebels doesn't do a crawl or a "newsreel" IIRC.

Yeah I think that's fine. Save the crawl for the proper 'episodes'.

apparently no Star Wars main theme either?

i don't get it. movies are 2 1/2 hours nowadays anyways, a crawl is like a 2-minute freebie.

It's an artistic choice, I think, to reinforce the spin off movies being tangential to the main narrative.

it's all a spin-off. the "main narrative" has been changing with every additional movie.

otherwise the first film's crawl would've been all about Anakin Skywalker and the fall of the Jedi

Can you not see how they'd want to differentiate stylistically between the more mythical main sequence and the (presumably) more idiosyncratic secondary films?

I'm not trying to be a Disney Corp stan, just explaining how the decision makes perfect sense to me.

oh yeah it makes sense from a branding perspective.

imo it would make more sense if this was about Darth Vimo on planet Uowa looking for the lost Crystal of Blimba. this is a movie about the Death Star w Darth Vader, they aren't fooling anybody that this is some "side story". they just want to keep remaking A New Hope, not that there's anything wrong w that.

like the point of the crawl was "Hey look, it's like Flash Gordon!" not "This is canonical tales from the uber important Skywalker mythology"

I would be amazed if there was more than 5 minutes of Vader in this, just because it's not a movie about him and he obviously takes up all the air.

would be more than in Attack of the Clones and he was plastered all over coke cans for that one

er, Revenge of the Sith

hopefully his cameo is someone asks a question and he walks in and says "Noooo!"

"Do you like sand?"

Actually the lack of crawl is because this is an in-universe film, made about 10 or 12 ABY in the New Republic, based on the true story of the brave men and woman of Rogue One.

Executive producer has ties to the Solos and all that

imo the question is whether there is any Tarkin content or if Vader has been put in this film as a stand-in

For some reason I'm very excited for Mon Mothma in this

tmi

As it seems unlikely Vader gets to do anything exciting in this they could've just gone with only showing him via hologram - paralleling the first glimpses of the Emperor in the later films.

Vader strictly uses hologram to speak to his superior, all other transactions are done as in-person threats

Guessing that following an early terrorist action in the film, Vader is called in to make sure everyone is in line

seriously when do the damn tickets go on sale

better line up now or they might run out

On sale Sunday night/early Monday morning.

we'll see if the robots at fandango agree with you Ned

xxxxxp mh how quickly we forget the tiny Vader sitting on the walker's dashboard as they approached the Hoth base.

they're leaving the crawl out of rogue one so that they can perfect the technology to somehow make the crawl go even slower on the next one

I have never acknowledged tiny Vader and will not be starting at this point

I'd like to take this opportunity to say how great marvel's current darth vader comic book is

kthxbye

Was.

I have never acknowledged tiny Vader and will not be starting at this point

love darth vader comic, want more comics with the original characters introduced in it

Good news for you then - Gillen-penned Doctor Aphra is coming next month.

I think I knew that but keep forcing myself to forget as to recreate the joy of learning it anew

There's also Vader consulting with his three Star Destroyer commanders by hologram in Empire, during which one of them is destroyed by an asteroid, implying necessarily that he's appearing as a hologram at the other end.