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

Fleabag is playing a hologram supposedly. i'm all for it.

(best thing i've seen on BBC in about 10 years)

Yeah we're only two episodes in and it's just amazing.

everyone just chilling in their street clothes except for chewie who doesn't even get to take off his bandolier :(

#freechewie

lol Fleabag is in this??

Thought this was a reference to Chewie

just shoehorn in that "hail, caesar!" line somewhere and i'll see the solo movie

would that it were so, sith lord

Wth is "Fleabag"?

excellent bbc dramedy written by and starring phoebe waller-bridge, who will apparently be playing a droid in this thrilling new han solo adventure

This movie's gonna suck, isn't it?

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles)

Nah I think it could be fun and might entertainingly piss off a load of purists.

Michael K. Williams is joining the cast.

Best news I've heard about the project so far.

Gareth Edwards directed Rogue One. A key locale in that film is called “Scarif.” Gareth and Scarif sort of rhyme. Mere coincidence? Apparently not. During a talk at SXSW, Edwards explained that he came up with the name of the gorgeous planet where the film’s big battle goes down after a coffee shop employee bastardized the spelling of his own.

This all came about, he explained, when writer Gary Whitta, who had been thinking up most of the monikers, tasked Edwards with devising one. Edwards then decided to mull it over with some coffee, and went to a ”particular, very well known” establishment. (We’re going to go ahead and guess Starbucks.) When he got his beverage, he had a Eureka moment. “When they asked for my name I must have said, ’It’s Gareth,’ because they wrote, ’Scarif’ on the coffee,” he said. “I just came back and I slid the coffee cup and I went, ‘It’s Scarif.’”

Glad I wasn't the director.

"We'll call it Nerd."

lol

to both posts

I've had baristas write my name as both 'Mill' and 'Dill'. I need to enunciate.

it might be their fault, Gil

lol

"Scarif, I like it!"

I want to find the person who thinks strongly enough that "Scarif" is a person's name that they wrote it down on a cup. It's like the Barney/Swarley joke on "How I Met Your Mother" come to life.

Surely he must have said "It's Gareth" in a rushed mumble, in response to "and your name?" I mean, I can see how that happens.

I've witnessed my friend Cedric become Sedrick and Sedgwick when it comes to transcribing what was heard

Mine would be Charine

I've been "Fill," which is technically correct (the best kind of correct) and also "Bill."

"Fill" is a+

Especially written on the side of a cup that's handed from cashier to barista

"That's what I do with all of them, why are you being a dick?"

http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/20/rogue-one-alternate-ending-revealed/

but what happened in the filmed ending that was scrapped!!

they keep hedging but I think the implication is they didn't cut full scenes

so there's maybe a minute of dialogue between characters, and a half dozen takes of people jumping in and out of ships, and a hundred takes of people running on beaches from different angles, but nothing edited together

tbh holding off until Beach Runner Edition

xpost - They had a game of beach volleyball, shirts vs. droids.

just imagining them doing multiple takes

"I can't believe you almost left me back there!"
"I can't believe you left me back there!"
"I'm glad you came back!"
"I'm glad you went to pick up a TIE fighter before coming back"
"Why didn't you bring a ship?"

then just figure out the best plot in editing

Maybe most of the takes are them running along the beach singing like the Smurfs.

Rewatched "Rogue One" last night and yeah I love this film. However, there's a planet called Yobani. Someone was eating yogurt (Chobani) in the writing process.

It was originally called Yanni-Yanni-Yobani-Banana-Fana-Fobani

ilx chobani correspondent la lechera to thread

No it's because Bomani Jones was also at the coffee shop

They originally planned on "Yomami" but then got the side eye from Jimmy Smits.

xxp: lol

Some more fun

http://io9.gizmodo.com/there-was-yet-another-ending-planned-for-rogue-one-and-1793523977

lol

3) The Blue Carbuncle

"We had considered for the final act scripting a loose adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Darth Vader would be the Holmes character. Unlike the Holmes story, the "carbuncle" in this case (the plans) would not be discovered immediately, but Vader would engage in a similar search through the immediate planetary system. However, similar to the ending of the story, Vader would let Jyn and Cassian go free, arguing to Grand Moff Tarkin that imprisoning them would only radicalize them further. Their absence from subsequent films would actually prove Vader correct."

I knew

Reading between the lines here, I'm pretty certain neither of those endings ever existed outside his head.

4) Step Up to the Empire

"We had several fantastic dance battles choreographed by Stephen "tWitch" Boss that we were really sorry to see hit the cutting room floor. Hopefully we can repurpose some of them as interludes in the Young Han Solo movie."

5) Empire

"They're all Queensryche fans and--"

these are all trial balloons

^90% joking

6) "Initially we had written a script that would be the first of a new, separate trilogy. Rogue One was about who and why? The sequel would be getting closer to who designed The Death Star and for what reason. The third film would have a five army battle and also a giant space bear."

I'm sure some talented new canon novelists are already working out the details of how Jyn and Cassian were saved just before the shockwave hit.

Star Trek crossover, they get transported to the Enterprise at the last second