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

the vibe seems to be that for 'character' TFA was king but for 'action' this was better and i concur.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-18/the-unseen-star-wars-archive-footage-used-in-rogue-one

Edwards & crew found some un-scanned film cans at ILM while wandering about the archives, decided to incorporate them.

wonder why Jyn's 'it's a rebellion.. i rebel' line was nixed in the end?! this may be the most memorable bit of dialogue ever cut from a film after the release of the trailer.

Chuck D threatened to sue

Some informed speculation on the missing footage here
http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoots-changes/

this is great

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-18/11-of-the-best-star-wars-easter-eggs-in-rogue-one

that line was terrible and i'm glad it was cut

jyn's character seems to have been reworked heavily in the reshoots/edits

yeah that screen rant piece looks good, trailer 1 is made *almost entirely* of unused footage supposedly.

wow they actually inserted unused ANH footage for those pilots? couldn't tell at all

v cool

I recognized the actors, but just thought they re-scanned actual footage from the film, not unused stuff. Like with the cut scenes that got released on the blu rays, I'm obsessed with seeing original unreleashed film, having viewed these movies over and over again for decades growing up.

Also, is one of the differences between Rebel & Imperial visual is Rebel guys have facial hair, and Imperials(almost always) do not? (They all have big sideburns, tho)

This stood out to me seeing the promo shot of clearly unshaven Diego Luna in officer's uniform. Youda thunk he was gunna get bitched-out for that by some superior, same way Indy does in the submarine pen scene in Raiders.

hah, i had a similar thought when I saw Luna in the uniform during the film... doesn't anyone notice he's like the only officer with a 5 o'clock shadow?

ha yeah me too re the re-scanned footage, just assumed it was pre-shot Cushing footage because you know They Can Do Anything These Days.

Do you think when George Lucas saw this and a couple characters were referred to as "guardians of the whills" that he shit his pants

Yeah, and "Kyber Crystals" tossed around

and "the senate"

hey buddy this version of the senate is the one that gets dissolved in the 1977 film, none of that actual democratic stuff

<3

https://youtu.be/3HRiRy-gooo

here is the cast acting like goofballs with your buddy Ben doing good Star Wars nerd work

Why does Darth Vader live in Mordor?

Castle sold for cheap after Sauron bailed

ok that was p fun

<3 u Ben

Vader's base being on the planet where his worst enemy, that traitor Kenobi, diced him up for bbq

Well to be fair cultivating and drawing upon feelings of anger and revenge are part of what the Sith do, so Vader building a castle near the site where he suffered the defeat that made him who he is makes a kind of sense

Also it just looks cool

http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/12/17/rogue-one-whatas-the-deal-with-darth-vaderas-castle

I hope this movie ends with them making an emergency landing on the crawl that starts New Hope.

pretty much!

best thing abt this movie is how much it enhances the viewing of ANH, imo - eg there are new layers to every bit of dialogue spoken by Imperial officers. And Vader seems even more menacing in the first few scenes now that you know exactly how pissed off he was.

Exhibit A on how to make a prequel, basically.

they have to do a stand alone that fits between ANH and ESB next.

.. on Hoth.

That's one of the few non-film periods that's covered by the new canon, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

Totally didn't realize that Riz Ahmed was Jake Gyllenhaal's poor doomed assistant in Nightcrawler.

also the star of HBO's The Night Of

yeah "poor doomed" is a pretty accurate modifier for every Riz Ahmed character going back to Four Lions

best thing abt this movie is how much it enhances the viewing of ANH, imo - eg there are new layers to every bit of dialogue spoken by Imperial officers. And Vader seems even more menacing in the first few scenes now that you know exactly how pissed off he was.

Exhibit A on how to make a prequel, basically.

otm. This was a movie made by someone who obviously loves Star Wars, and had the facility to make this story seem authentic, and completely a part of he existing SW universe. And yet also somehow not seem retro and fan-fiction-ish. Pretty amazing, really.

Did you guys read the bits about Disney supposedly wanting to downplay this movie? Still not sure what to make of that, if true.

so you're going to make a bunch of new characters and we can't put them in infinitely more pieces of side media because they all die? what the heck!

I bet at least one of them will turn up in the Han Solo movie

kind of curious how they're going to shoehorn in r2d2

I was actually thinking they could try to make a movie of what happens during the time Jyn is with Saw Gerrera -- but yeah, maybe they were just pissed it couldn't be built upon. Too bad, I rank it as the best SW movie since Jedi (which is how RYM has it at the moment too).

Saw yesterday that they're bringing Saw Gerrera onto SW Rebels, so that at least will be cool. That'll be three different media he's shown up in -- Clone Wars, Rogue One and Rebels.

best thing abt this movie is how much it enhances the viewing of ANH, imo

Agree with this, much more than I expected. It's a proper prequel, not adding unnecessary mythology, but expanding and enriching the story as we know/knew it.

(The Dracula's Castle bit was pretty silly, I admit. I think people on volcanic Vader duty got the short end of the stick compared to the troopers stationed in the Maldives.)

i like the idea that vader has a bachelor pad on the planet where his best friend and mentor cut his limbs off and set him on fire. it's metal as fuck imo

nice parallel to Kylo Ren's Vader shrine too. Dark side dudes are basically just eternally sulky teenagers

yeah if there's any place kylo ren is going to try to hang out if he gets a chance, it's grandpa's super metal volcano pad

Saw Gerrera

please tell me this is not an actual character name

that is forest whitaker's character's name. so sorry.

Better Call Saw

in theatres December 2020

"Quick, get me a rebel character name that sounds like Che Guavera!"
"How about ... Saw Gerrera?"
"Perfect!"

Vader Castle totally likehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Luminiferous.jpg

Saw Luzah

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