star wars 9 grim resignation thread

oh yeah that had budding franchise written all over it, see also Alita xp

― Simon H., Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:32 AM (eight minutes ago)

Alita did $400m worldwide and will get a sequel if I pray hard enough

Did Hobbit TV get axed too?

Nope, thriving. New casting news the other day, J. A. Bayona's arrived in Auckland, second season confirmed. Trust me, having a Tolkien podcast means you know these things.

Cameron doesn't get involved in a project these days without securing half a dozen sequels from the outset. He's planning to alternate the upcoming Avatar installments with Titanic follow-ups iirc.

we should do a poll of never-completed would-be blockbuster film franchises a la Golden Compass, Narnia, Maze Runner etc

― Simon H., Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:27 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the golden compass got rebooted as an hbo series

was thinking the other day that almost everything i dislike about the last jedi is a result of the corner kasdan/abrams wrote things into for force awakens

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:57 AM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

for example: maz kanata, who is nearly written out of the last jedi but we still had to see her in hologram form. really terrible character

Hm, reminds me that I haven't seen a mention of her at all for the new one.

She kills a Jimmy Hoffaesque Jawa

ok rise of skywalker has one thing going for it xp

the golden compass got rebooted as an hbo series

I am aware. diff cast/crew years later doesn't count imo!

Narnia failed to complete two separate times!

I have to give them credit for plugging forward instead of starting over each time.

I liked Maz but some of that character's role could have been given to others

Narnia failed to complete two separate times!

and did complete two other times tbf

I remember watching the BBC Narnia production in late elementary school but can't remember how well it landed

I loved it at the time

They tried to do Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising, but only made one film, which I think was a complete flop? Probably for the best that it flopped, I can't imagine Hollywood ever capturing the tone of the books, which is very different from the "next Harry Potter" I presume they were aiming for.

I liked Maz too, her design reminded of Raz from Psychonauts, i.e. the best video game ever.

Hmm, Raz, Maz, I hadn't realised the resemblance of their names before... Maybe the similar design was intentional?

rooting for gleeson to be the secret backstabby hero in this.

Wait, all the way to the Last Battle?

(I agree with the view that there's an edge of "armed goon just out of sight" about some of the cast quotes)

I predict Maz shows up with Lando and it's implied they're doing it.

i predict maz shows up with lando and it's graphically depicted that they're doing it.

On top of Poe's corpse

saw this gif and it made me feel hyped for lightsaber battles

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)

Cinematography by @steveyedlin
Directed by @rianjohnson
Learn more about this movie from the director's commentary: https://t.co/v4HYoxSCfO pic.twitter.com/aiK6YLgZmR

— One Perfect Shot (@OnePerfectShot) December 11, 2019

re: Maze Runner: you might be thinking of the Divergent series? that one def fizzled after 2 movies of the 3 (?) books

The third movie did come out but only part 1 of 2

doing some rewatching in the background here, and I’m once again wondering how accurately the subtitles reflect what was actually said when they translate non-Basic-speaking characters

In ROTJ, they *claim* Jabba says Han is now “bantha fodder” when he clearly says “bantha poodoo” which seems more like “bantha shit”

justice for non-basic speakers!

I reread the novelisations more than I saw the films and "bantha fodder" rings familiar tbh

Bantha is about as much a warrior as Will Ferrell

banthas seem like they should be herbivores, but who knows?

I encoded the SW films for my home server a few years ago and accidentally left off subtitles. They’re very understandable without, in that the intonation and a few soundalike words pop up in dialogue. Not a master class in alien language writing, but at some point someone made the wise decision that reading subtitles wasn’t necessary to get the plot.

But in Phantom Menace Jar-Jar steps in what is clearly supposed to be crap and calls it "poodoo!"

(How he knows Huttese is an open question)

Could just be that it is basic slang and they’re fucking with us!

I am wondering, if there is an Emperor, ghost or otherwise, if he’s gonna pull out “my young apprentice(s)” in this new one

There’s a teaser clip that is SPOILERY out there now that you may want to avoid

let me just say,

SITH TEMPLE

is Kylo going to destroy the Sith texts with Darth Sidious's ghost?

Baby Yoda is running it all from the sith temple

the Force is just karate

pretty sure that wasn’t the Emperor blowing up at the end of ROTJ. that was him going through a portal to SITH TEMPLE

they should have palpy winning at the end and making rey his underling after giving kylo ren the old force lightning after he turns goody

they won't obv

I would cackle with glee

he gives Rey the title of Darth Skywalker to really rub it in

Darth Icky

Rian Johnson healthily seems to take this attitude even to rabid Star Wars fans, insisting that the hundreds of misspelled Last Jedi abuse replies on every tweet he makes about baseball games are a tiny proportion of the actual feedback he gets overall.

lol

Met @JRichardKelly in film school. He came in with his super 8 film & propped an anamorphic lens in front of the projector. HE SHOT HIS SUPER 8 FILMS ANAMORPHIC. I was like “son of a bitch!” Been friends ever since. He’s a great filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. https://t.co/hgAYySmvoX

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) December 13, 2019

Dear Rian Johnson,

Fuck you, you ruined Star Wars

— Sauce (@AndrewCsaucey) December 13, 2019

cool an account that was created only to yell at Rian Johnson, dude's got some good priorities???

why post that swill here sic

They call him sauce... cos he gives everyone gastritis

I found it hilarious how insanely petty it was, like what a fascinating little fact about the inventiveness of a director whose first feature showed a promising creative voice, offered up by someone who had a chance to marvel at that inventiveness even earlier. And what it says about Johnson that he takes the opportunity to share that admiration in a concise anecdote rather than just RT a plug and move on... just met by a mentality that can't comprehend generosity or creativity as concepts. Whose adoration (?) of Star Wars has not managed to impart any notions of the value of kindness and tolerance from the text, or of interest in or appreciation for clever solutions to filmmaking challenges, that combine vision with hands-on craft. Remembered my post from the other day, and thought how aptly this illustrated the ineffectual nature of those gnat-bite responses.

Then I clicked through on Mr Sauce's account after posting and regretted it tbh.

lol fair nuff

If Star Wars was real, Sauce would be Hux's mixologist