star wars 9 grim resignation thread

Jar Jar please

Mace Windau

I wonder if Force Ghost Luke will finally get those power converters he was supposed to pick up forever ago.

Toshi Station has his picture behind the counter lest any of their clerks ever gets suckered into ordering shit that some fershlugginer Skywalker won't ever wind up paying for.

I wasn't sure I was spelling Toshi Station correctly but I looked it up and my spelling was 100% correct. Whew!

change thread title to Egg Raid On Lobot imo

Since I didn't go to Star Wars Celebration this year for the first time since 2012, I've been at home this weekend watching all the livestreams and stuff. Not a lot was revealed during the Episode IX panel aside from the title, some stills (new costumes, Naomi Ackie's new character, Rose and Rey talking in what appears to be a Resistance base, etc.). But yeah, I was watching when the Ian McDiarmid thing happened, and the room went pretty insane.

Also watched the livestreams for the upcoming new "The Mandalorian" show, which actually looks pretty good. The sizzle reel and trailer that were shown were blacked out on the stream, but they've leaked to Reddit and some other places. (Recap and photos at https://www.starwars.com/news/swcc-2019-9-things-we-learned-from-the-mandalorian-panel) They're using a lot of practical and in-camera effects and models, and the actors are doing a lot of their own stunts.

Anyway

https://i.imgur.com/8AKM3n7.jpg

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

well they have to establish Jorus C'baoth first

and we'll need to know about his teenage years

not related to the new movie, but got a bit of a scare when I went to look up Boushh on Wookiepedia the other day and was met with a distressingly short article. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Boushh

Fortunately, I realized that they had divided each page into Canon and Legends tabs: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Boushh/Legends

"Legends" is obviously where the ridiculousness lives.

Episode IX trailer would have been better with Billy Dee's laugh in place of Palpatine's

Only the Legends are real imo.

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