star wars 9 grim resignation thread

agreed

With the return of the Emperor, can Luuke Skywalker be far behind?

does abrams have the stones to bring this epoch-spanning, generation-spanning series to a close with the epic reveal of mark hamill playing his own evil clone? only time will tell

If JJ cannot be persuaded, perhaps we will have to enlist the services of JJJJ.

j jonah jameson... junior?

JJ Abra'ams

guys what if jj abrams is the evil twin of j abrams

jj bottom

OMG, it would be the dumbest and most beautiful thing in the world if like Chewbaca and IG-8 and Jar Binks suddenly showed up out of nowhere to confront the clones that had replaced them years earlier.

jj binks

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jean-jaude jan jamme

btw Gina Carano being so excited about being in the SW universe is absolutely freakin adorable

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

Carl Weathers too, actually

Action Jaxxon

Please don't tease.

I'm watching the Episode I 20th anniversary panel while I'm at work, and based on that and an interview with Ahmed Best on the show floor yesterday (this is his first appearance at a convention), Lucas was prescient about one thing - the kids who grew up with Jar Jar love him. Who knew.

yeah, kids definitely like all kinds of stupid crap

eg star wars

quite

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Lucas was prescient about one thing - the kids who grew up with Jar Jar love him. Who knew.

But the Ewoks were cute. And competant!

Ewoks weren't stepping in dogshit and tripping over their own body parts. They were expert hunters and warriors.

people who hate the ewoks are just displacing their guilt over america's instigation of innumerable wars of imperialist aggression

this is canon

The saddest part in any Star War is when an Ewok tries to wake up his mate who's been killed by a laser.

This is true, yeah.

star war is hell

xxp: definitely.

I would've gone with 'Jedi Rocks' as the saddest moment but I guess I can see where y'all are coming from.

Star Wars Episode 7 The Rise of Skywalker. The Emperor lives.

— Gabriel Garcia (@GabbyG41) November 22, 2012

https://youtu.be/LAf0QnLFS7Q

Vanity Fair's Episode IX issue is out, as always with these issues including a photo shoot by Annie Liebovitz.

Cover story: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-cover-story

Photo gallery: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2019/05/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-exclusive-photos

Who Are the Knights of Ren? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-the-knights-of-ren-make-their-long-awaited-return

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5ce426151c0b0773cacd1121/master/w_800%2Cc_limit/star-wars-feature-vf-2019-summer-embed-05.jpg

Composer John Williams conducting the Star Wars score, drawing on themes and motifs he has woven across four decades. “I didn’t think there would ever be a second film,” he says.

i like to imagine he said that with a long, drawn-out sigh of grim resignation

They don’t do it that way because it’s easy. Abrams and his crew had to build miles of road into the desert. They basically had to set up a small town out there, populated by the cast and extras and crew—the creature-effects department alone had 70 people. The Jordanian military got involved. The Jordanian royal family got involved. There was sand. It was coarse and rough and irritating and it got everywhere.

“This trilogy is about this young generation, this new generation, having to deal with all the debt that has come before,” Abrams says.

otm

He needed Leia to tell the story, but Abrams didn’t feel like a digital Carrie Fisher could do the job, and there was no way Lucasfilm was going to re-cast the role.

But then a strange thing happened. Abrams remembered that there was some footage of Fisher left over from The Force Awakens, scenes that had been changed or cut entirely, and he dug them up. “It’s hard to even talk about it without sounding like I’m being some kind of cosmic spiritual goofball,” Abrams says, “but it felt like we suddenly had found the impossible answer to the impossible question.” He started to write scenes around the old footage, fitting Leia’s dialogue into new contexts. He re-created the lighting to match the way Fisher had been lit. Bit by bit, she found her place in the new movie. “It was a bizarre kind of left side/right side of the brain sort of Venn diagram thing, of figuring out how to create the puzzle based on the pieces we had.”

i have a bad feeling about this

if there's one thing abrams is known for, it's his uncanny ability to successfully navigate and resolve narrative puzzles

lol Zorri Bliss
another nice costume tho

shit I forgot Richard E Grant signed up

“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says. “I think that has to permeate the storytelling and the reaction to the stories and how they’re set up. It has to feel differently because we’re different.”

At the end of May, Disneyland will open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, a massive, 14-acre, $1 billion attraction where you can fly the Millennium Falcon, be captured by the First Order, and drink a blue milk cocktail (it’s actually nondairy) and Coca-Cola products out of exclusive BB-8-shaped bottles at the cantina.

Disney presumably using the proceeds to commission all those experimental films George Lucas now finally has time to make

Ah yes, the famous post-Vietnam-&-Watergate innocence.

xp since they own LucasFilm lock, stock, and barrel he'll presumably be creating GeorgeFilm and shopping his new work around to multiple distributors

(it’s actually nondairy)

this is the lost innocence part

It is however a heavily-dyed beef slurry.

I refuse to drink it if I don't get to fill a bottle from the teat of a weird sea creature,

Ah yes, the famous post-Vietnam-&-Watergate innocence.

well, innocent in that those things still seemed like relative outliers in the historical landscape for many people and not, like, a tuesday

“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says.

check out the juxtaposition of the quote and who said the quote

haha