The common link in all your failed conversations...
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 22 January 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
TBH, I'm a bit confused too why this is set in the timeline of the original trilogy and not somewhere between RotJ and TFA...? What's the point of going over things on which we already know how they happened, instead of fleshing out some of the unknown events in the 30 year gap between episodes VI and VII?
― Tuomas, Friday, 22 January 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
We don't know HOW they happened though, just broadly what happened. I don't care when they set it really, as long as they come up with an interesting story and some cool new characters. But that's the hard bit.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 22 January 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
non-hardcore fans OTM
Christopher McQuarrie did write a Tom Cruise movie that had a very good first 40 minutes (Edge of Tomorrow) and, a long time ago in a Hollywood far far away, the overcelebrated but cute The Usual Suspects. What the hell is a Rogue One?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 January 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
It's a one that has gone rogue
― latebloomer, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
you mean a 7
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
A one with an combover
― latebloomer, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Man-bun One
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
I did like that promo cast pic they put out.
http://cdn.idigitaltimes.com/sites/idigitaltimes.com/files/2016/01/06/star-wars-rogue-one.jpg
Where my reactions were:
1. Whoa, this looks different. This looks cool. Okay, I can dig this.
2. Alright, Donnie Yen in a SW flick. Let's do this.
3. Man, Felicity Jones is...very, very attractive.
Really not looking forward to the two months of "they don't look like bothans!"/"they're not bothans, idiot; that was the 2nd one" exchanges tho.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 22 January 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how much Rogue One was either pitched or constructed years ago as the studio(s) hedging their bets against a new SW flick bombing out? "Ok, folks might not dig the new chapter, so let's play it extra-safe and set it back in OT times"
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
what's with that gaudy red plate that guy is wearing? clashing so sharply with the nice dull palette of brown and grey they have going on. tone it down, buddy!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
is this Star Wars or a Lisa Frank lunchbox?
looks like mandalorian armor
― ﷽ (diamonddave85), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
https://secure.static.tumblr.com/1abf429207b6eb04c20119407a2a3ca5/y9tpqya/wc3n85aln/tumblr_static_tumblr_static_5zgqb2cc0accsc8kksks004w8_640.jpghttp://cdn.idigitaltimes.com/sites/idigitaltimes.com/files/2016/01/06/star-wars-rogue-one.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
the excitement coming from that picture is just too overwhelming
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
this is gonna be GREAT so stoked
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LSSmvgd.jpghttp://cdn.idigitaltimes.com/sites/idigitaltimes.com/files/2016/01/06/star-wars-rogue-one.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
haha, sorry, i'll stop
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to think the movie will just be that photograph Clutch Cargo-ed for two hours.
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
they should really carry this idea through to other franchises. imagine a Harry Potter without magic and without Harry Potter or any of his friends. GOLD!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
is that a promo still for the new USA series Stargate: Alderaan?
― nomar, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
xpost I don't know if you're being ironical but there's a Harry Potterless Harry Potter movie coming out later this year.
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Star Wars: Redecorating the Kitchen in a Subleased Ranch House in Newport, CT
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
xpost i was not being ironic, lol i must have forgot that is actually happening
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
lol what is this Harry Potterless movie, Dudley Goes to Camp?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Star Wars: Weekend Shift Workers Pausing To Watch the Chiefs Lose Thanks To Andy Reid's Clock Management
― nomar, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
cast photo looks like another sw w women/minority characters driving the action, so that's a point in its favor already
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, January 22, 2016 11:37 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Eddie Redmayne in magical early-20th Century NYC!
― Meat Sheet (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
a shed full of set photos and such for Rogue One
http://imgur.com/a/N75pb
Donnie Yen apparently tweeted some new helmets, get excited
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Thursday, 28 January 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
http://io9.gizmodo.com/why-rogue-one-is-as-important-to-star-wars-as-episode-v-1761067899
(maybe onus is a better word)
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Presumably, this will also be the first Star Wars movie not to include a Jedi (or possibly even anyone with Force sensitivity). Perhaps most importantly, it’s going to be the first Star Wars film without a Skywalker at its center.
I guess the writer hasn't seen the two Ewok movies?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
rob fuckin' bricken
980 words to say 'disney will make more movies like this if this one makes money'
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I have a piece in the pipeline offering the counterpoint that if the movie underperforms it may affect Disney's willingness to take similar chances in the future. It's a lid blower.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Rogue One has the opportunity (maybe onus is a better word) to realize this fundamental quality of the Star Wars universe on screen—to attempt to see if the depth that has always seemed a part of the franchise is in fact real, or merely an illusion.
fyi: nothing about star wars is real
also this is a horribly formed 'sentence'
The answer depends entirely on the fate of this first stand-alone film, and thus it will shape the future of the Star Wars movies far more than the Force itself. Are the pilots of Rogue One up for this integral mission? I’m sure they’re standing by.
srs q: is english rob bricken's first language
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
his entire premise is flawed bc The Phantom Menace proved you could make an absolute crap Star Wars and people will still want more
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
also the other two prequels
Rogue One: Integral Mission, winter 2018.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah but will people see an absolute crap star wars that doesn't have a skywalker in it
people love skywalkers dude
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
you're right people unanimously think Anakin is the best part of the prequel trilogy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
People were very into the character of Anakin but iirc the unanimous praise was actually directed towards the actors who portrayed him.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Someone saw Rogue One footage at a Disney shereholder meeting:
Most of it was very quick. A shot of the black stormtrooper, possibly called Death Troopers as previously reported, another pic of that same style of helmet and armor but all chrome, reminiscent of Captain Phasma from The Force Awakens, an image showed two AT-ATs that had a slightly different look with the door panel on the side of the body painted a lighter beige color. And a couple cast photos were shown, one of Felicity & Diego Luna and another of Donnie Yen. The clip featured Felicity’s character on what looked like the inside of a ship or shuttle with her arm up holding on and the hatch/ramp open behind her. I wish I could remember what she said as part of the sizzle but it went by too fast. The new stormtroopers looked great. …It all looked great, had a classic Star Wars/A New Hope look & feel. Bob Iger said that they didn’t have footage but that it & Episode VIII had been filming as previously stated. I’m definitely more excited for the film since it will be set close to the classic trilogy time & like I said it definitely had a similar look/feel.
It all looked great, had a classic Star Wars/A New Hope look & feel. Bob Iger said that they didn’t have footage but that it & Episode VIII had been filming as previously stated. I’m definitely more excited for the film since it will be set close to the classic trilogy time & like I said it definitely had a similar look/feel.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 5 March 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
the most teasery of teasers, maybe a second of footage
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/717841838044872709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link
a burning moisture vaporator? jesus fuck.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
You a fan of moisture vaporators?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
i prefer their earlier work
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 April 2016 09:28 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/718043194378682373
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
Gotta say I love the siren.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Can't beat a quality British accent on the villains.
Epic Forest Whitaker + burly dude with dreads is producing a mild Battlefield Earth flashback, but it'll pass.
Also more tears from the MRAs +++++++
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
I can't tell from the IMDB page who is playing Mon Mothma, but holy hell that's good casting. I would almost swear they face-mapped the original actress onto someone. And the costumes and sets look terrific as well. Looks like we finally get to see a Grand Admiral actually doing things on screen instead of just sitting at a conference table.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link
actually got chills when Donnie Yen popped up with some badassery - and i'm not a man who often chills
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
Poll on when it gets cancelled?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
Can’t wait to see the subscription model they use to lock folks in before they get a look at it
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
It seems pretty obvious that the main reason they cancelled the first series because they decided to go with this other series. This idea being thrown around that game of thrones is suddenly really unpopular is a weird one.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
Nah. If you've already shot a pilot for one show, hired a full cast and crew, you don't normally go 'but let's do a different series!'.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Probably not, no, but I don't suspect is has anything to do with the franchise being "toxic", otherwise they wouldn't announce another show.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Fair enough. Let's say it's still in the process of becoming toxic. Once they cancel this show as they find out there really isn't enough of a show in Fire & Blood (it's basically hundreds of pages of 'my dragon is bigger than yours!), and then just make a cheap Duncan & Egg buddy comedy, which then fails, THEN we can say it's toxic :)
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Still, though. A remarkable amount of bad stories about Benioff & Weiss and GoT this week.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
get these damn throne games off my goddamn star wars thread!
― mh, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
A War of Stars. A Strike of Empires. A Return of Jedis.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
They reshot and recast the original GoT pilot and HBO have shot plenty of pilots (with starry casts and directors) that haven't been picked up
Doesn't really mean anything that they've decided to go with another GoT show
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
HOW BOUT THAT MANDALORIAN
― mh, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
was not expecting to see Bill Burr in the trailer but here we are
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Whoa, I had somehow missed Taika Waititi's involvement:
Series Directed by Deborah Chow ... (2 episodes, 2019)Rick Famuyiwa ... (2 episodes, 2019)Dave Filoni ... (2 episodes, 2019)Bryce Dallas Howard ... (1 episode, 2019)Taika Waititi ... (1 episode, 2019)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
he is also the ig-88-style killbot
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
wow only one of those directors is a white man
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
ig-88-style killbot
this 1.5 seconds had me the most hyped of any star wars stuff I've seen in ages - I was totally obsessed with IG-88 when I was a kid a and the five seconds of screen time in empire didn't come anywhere close to satisfying me.
Also as someone who has zero knowledge of non-film star wars canon, is carbon freezing for transfer by bounty hunters an actual thing? I always thought it was something they did to han solo out of necessity - like fuck it, we've got this carbon freezer, maybe this will work?
― joygoat, Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
totally. see also, obi-wan's "blast helmet plus lightsaber" one-off from the first film, rendered as a standard three-credit tuesday/thursday class with Yoda in the prequels
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
^^ otm, the carbon freezing thing is what bugged me most about it. BUT given the setting of the show five years after ROTJ, I'm wondering if Boba Fett spent some time telling his bounty hunter buddies how convenient of a method it is before his untimely demise.
Also otm re excitement for IG-11 (iirc). That had me really excited and my 8 year-old nearly jumped off the floor with excitement ("IG-88! IG-88! IG-88!"). And I know it's boring to hear, but it does really make me feel far kinder to the franchise when I get to watch him geek out over it in unexpected ways.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
― joygoat, Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:28 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
As an IG-88 fan with zero knowledge of non-film SW canon, might I direct you to the anthology of short stories entitled Tales of the Bounty Hunters, I think you will be pleased by elevation of a certain character's role in the franchise.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Seconded, that book was great. That's the very same story that made me an IG-88 fan.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
IG-88 used to freak me out in the Dash Rendar N64 game
― jmm, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
I think one of the worst things about Star Wars across the last 40 years has been the steady erosion of believability - as a kid (7 in ‘77) I absolutely felt these movies were glimpses of a larger world, and the idea that we would someday see e.g. the Clone Wars or the Mandalorian on TV would have blown my mind. Sometime around the prequels it devolved into eh, just some starwarsy shit someone made up. The expanded universe bullshit is a major player in that dilution. You could attribute it to me having better critical faculties at 49 than at 7 but I’m not sure you’d be right.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Nah, I think it's a thing with all of this fun junk that gets endlessly spun out without ever really exceeding the bounds of its initial concept. Like I watched The Terminator last night, and it's great! And that's probably all we ever needed! Particularly when each additional iteration acts like the entire universe revolves around the Connor family and whatever robots they happen to be encountering in a given moment. There's a whole world beyond those two people, y'all.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
I think the key selling point for carbonite cell was that, aside from presumably low maintenance costs, your captive is suspended with some pained expression ideal for crimelords to show off as a deterrent. It would be weird if throughout the SW Exp-U it had never been used on anyone but Solo, would be cool with seeing it in The Mandalorian.
― nashwan, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
I think C3P0's comments implied that carbonite freezing was relatively safe and not uncommon, although without referring to bounty hunter captures
The Bespin industrial facility wasn't really set up for freezing people, though. Maybe gases?
― mh, Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
If it was a regular practice you'd think crimelords would get creative with it, maybe put their captives in like the Coppertone baby pose before hitting the freeze button, something super humiliating like that.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
I'm wondering if Boba Fett spent some time telling his bounty hunter buddies how convenient of a method it is before his untimely demise.
I'm picturing him presenting a paper at a conference where like zuckuss calls him out for using too small of a sample size and storms out while a bunch of young bounty hunters start looking for vc funding and plan their ted talk about disrupting the bounty hunting business
― joygoat, Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
if that's what The Mandalorian is like i guess i'm signing up for D+
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
I'm still planning on ditching verizon's overpriced phone service at some point, but apparently I might get D+ "free" with my plan for now? hrrm
― mh, Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
the Blank Check podcast's Patreon feed just did a commentary-track episode, where they watched Rogue One with one of the screenwriters, Chris Weitz. pretty interesting if you're into the behind-the-scenes of this stuff.... he doesn't drop any gossip bombshells, and he is polite and professional about his role as someone brought in to work on a project on which someone else had already done writing, and which in turn was passed on to other people after his tenure. but you get a lot of little things about directions he was taking the story, stuff he thought was cool and put in, etc. i'll share just one tidbit (for fear of undermining their patreon efforts) - - -in his draft, Kassian was an Imperial double-agent, who was initially with the group only because Saw Gerrera's extremist rebellion methods had led to the death of his wife (or his family... something like that). so his initial goal is just to get to Gerrera and get revenge. i liked hearing this because i always thought Gerrera's "too extreme" tactics were very vague, along with the whole rest of his role.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
Whitaker's bizarre performance vs Del Toro's annoying one in a nu-SW walk-on guest-off
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Whitaker's all day.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
I'd rank Whitaker as the number 2 most off-putting element of nu-SW behind the blue milk thing
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
Saw Gerrera is a The Clone Wars deep cut, no?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
Exactly
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
I guess I need to get into clone wars
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
in my mind's eye, whitaker was great. i also thought del toro was fun tbh. casting has for the most part not been an issue in these movies - their bigger problem is wasting great performances by leaving them on the cutting room floor.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
rewatching Rogue One for at least the fourth time. Not much more you can say imo
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
Whittaker is the only misstep in this flick imo, otherwise the best nu-SW by a considerable distance
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 17 May 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
It feels more like Star Wars in its own funky way than any of the others. There’s also some awesome shots!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 17 May 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
I guess it’s all been covered itt
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 17 May 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
doesn't matter it's great and worth talking about again! I was kind of amazed at what a sausage factory the production was. Considering the mess behind the scenes they really pulled it together. The last 30 min are just killer.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 17 May 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
Totally agree with you. It's the only one that, for the most part, captured the classic SW feel. "Solo" feels like a big budget TV movie by comparison.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 17 May 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
(from when such things as TV movies existed)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 17 May 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link