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

Maybe the director spent the entire SFX budget on blow and all of the battles wound up with him smashing old-school Kenner vehicles into one another against a green screen while his coke buddy goes "PEW PEW P-PEW" offscreen.

i never ask the entertainment-industrial complex for anything but i did ask for a cynical girl space fighter jock star wars movie so of course it's getting cold feet now

Edwards is obviously good at making things look cool, but he's yet to demonstrate the ability to tell a good story. Or even make a non-boring movie. Trailer tells us nothing really.

Man, the trailer before Civil War looked incredible on the screen.

Current best trailer-to-worst movie ratio champ is Jarhead but if this is bad it would come close.

thought it looked cheap & dull, but the at-ats picked things up a bit

Star Wars universe is supposed to look cheap and dull

ehhh the Rogue One trailer wasn't that good imo
xp nah, Star Wars looks used and lived-in, not cheap and dull

Rumour: 40% of R1 is being reshot.

Some crew initially heard J.J. Abrams was supervising the reshoots.
Gareth Edwards is doing the reshoots himself but with a partner, Christopher McQuarrie.
Christopher McQuarrie, the final writer on Rogue One will be working extensively with Edwards onset to make sure they’re on the “same page” with the most recent draft of the film.
Christopher McQuarrie’s draft of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was considered superior to the film they shot previously.
It was not Edwards’ fault as McQuarrie’s draft wasn’t completed when much of the film was shot and revisions kept coming in that made the film feel uneven.
32 sets have been recreated for the reshoot.
The crew expects they are reshooting 40% of the film.
They are working 6 days a week for 8 weeks.

http://makingstarwars.net/2016/06/how-extensive-will-the-rogue-one-reshoots-be/

this is why I give no fucks when hollywood complains about films not making enough money because of piracy or whatever bullshit

Do you care to clarify that line of reasoning at all?

Anyway, sounds like they rushed it, if McQuarrie was that far from finished when they started shooting. I liked the trailer a lot, though! Especially in the theater.

Just that Hollywood should stop flushing its own money down the toilet before they accuse their audience of stealing from them

because they're reshooting some stuff?

40%? jesus christ.

Literally all American films of any size are represented wholly and specifically by anything Gareth Edwards ever does.

It was not Edwards’ fault as McQuarrie’s draft wasn’t completed when much of the film was shot and revisions kept coming in that made the film feel uneven.

rly love the visual here, spectacled man sitting at typewriter alone in windowless room, intern coming in whenever a page falls free & dashing carrying it aloft to the full-scale exploding galaxy mockup in the next room

lol worse things have been done

I think they admitted that the James Bond film that was shot during the writers strike had a lot of Bond dialogue written by Daniel Craig

It was really weird in that scene where 007 went on and on about his favorite Pokemon

oh wow you're not kidding http://collider.com/daniel-craig-quantum-of-solace-script-problems/

lol latebloomer. I think if Craig did another Bond film he would probably be irritated enough to talk about pocket monsters all day

xp lol that explains a lot about how bad that movie was

I liked how it was straightforward plot progression and action scenes without Mendes' sloppy emotional beats tbh

the problem with mendes is he really think he's a maestro at composing a beautiful shot but his films grind to a halt when he's not shooting action scenes (and sometimes even then too.) skyfall was about as exciting as road to perdition when craig wasn't riding motorcycles on top of trains. He's terrible at narrative momentum. forster wasn't especially a good pic for QoS but I think the Bourne-style pacing kept that movie going forward pretty briskly. Said this elsewhere but I kinda want to tell these producers that no one really cares who's directing a bond film, you just need a craftsman like Martin Campbell. You don't need a name. Cf goldeneye and CR.

Gareth Edwards is more mendes than anything unfortunately, I did like the Rogue One trailer but parts of it skewed towards a skyfallian portentousness.

Ok wait apparently it's not McQuarrie, it's Tony Gilroy, and there were no test screenings.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-writers-behind-jason-bourne-is-now-helping-w-1780449151

Something is happening, for sure!

it's me, I'm actually on set and not on a vacation right now

the problem with mendes is he really think he's a maestro at composing a beautiful shot but his films grind to a halt when he's not shooting action scenes (and sometimes even then too.)

wait, "he really think[s] he's a maestro"? you have it on some authority that his hubris dominated the editing? i ask because the most riveting moments in the last couple bond films were consistently the most beautiful: the skyscraper assassination setup and manor approach in skyfall, belluci's walk through her house and the casino approach in spectre.

God knows what I want out of a bond movie is not pacing or a sense of momentum but a riveting building approach.

i don't really like bond movies, so an interesting moment or two is fine by me

I talked to Mendes and he assures me his hubris was meant to take center stage, and then he asked me a few times if I saw American Beauty and kept saying things about winning awards

kind of agree that Bond movies are about crazy moments and sequences and not being actually good films at all

http://io9.gizmodo.com/weve-finally-got-some-solid-details-on-rogue-one-a-sta-1782419027

http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars-rogue-one-characters/2642918_forest-whitaker

???? (Forest Whitaker)
This character has a past that Star Wars completists will recognize immediately when they see his name, even if he looks very different than the way they've seen him elsewhere. (He even looks different from when we saw him in the teaser trailer.) There's so much to say about this character, we’re going to save his revelation for later today. Check back to EW.com around 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT for a deeper exploration of this shadowy figure ...

I'm calling Garindan or IG-88.

Casual attendees of Rogue One: "Where's Rey?"
Those same people seeing episode 8: "Where's Darth Vader?"
Seeing episode 9: "Where's Benjamin Button-ized Han Solo?"

Jar-Jar's dad, Bowl-Bowl Binks.

Well, that's unexpected -- he's a character from the Clone Wars series:

Meet the Rebel fighter who’s so extreme that the other good guys aren’t sure if he really is one.

Forest Whitaker’s character has been one of the more closely held secrets of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but Lucasfilm is ready now to make his identity official: this shadowy freedom-fighter is Saw Gerrera, a figure with a surprisingly deep background in galactic history.

The warrior — seen in the Rogue One trailer asking, “If you continue to fight, what will you become?” — was actually first seen in season 5 of The Clone Wars animated series, when he was a young man on the planet Onderon, unleashing guerilla combat on the droid army of Separatists who took over his world.

Along with his sister, Steela, he fought alongside Darth Vader — back when the Sith lord was just an impetuous young Jedi named Anakin Skywalker. In the episode A War on Two Fronts, which aired in October 2012, Saw and Steela were part of an insurgent group being unofficially trained by Anakin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the padawan Ahsoka Tano.

Nice

The recent in-canon, between RotJ and Force Awakens, novel Bloodlines has a tossed-off line about the terrorist tactics of some factions during the rebellion with that character namechecked.

That's cool but I hope for once they don't waste the top-tier folks they've got in this cast with, like, five minutes of onscreen time a la Von Sydow in TFW - or Terence Stamp (!) in one of those prequels. I want to see more Donnie Yen/Whitaker/Mikkelsen actually survive through most of the film at least. But --- err -- wishful thinking, right?

I want to see more Donnie Yen/Whitaker/Mikkelsen actually survive through most of the film at least. But --- err -- wishful thinking, right?

also TFW s/b TFA etc etc

i will be happily surprised if any of those characters survive this film (2x for minorities)

Rogue One panel happening at Star Wars Celebration Europe right now, new poster just revealed, new trailer at the end of this panel.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13729090_1208749735843292_4187951896588660538_n.jpg?oh=8cbd0dc9f0299468dc41ecd46ab2a3eb&oe=57ECC9B9

tight

I like the new beachy look. Summer fun wars!

lol Gwendolyn Christie just gave Felicity Jones the very first Jynn Erso action figure

http://imgur.com/E3XIvr3

http://i.imgur.com/E3XIvr3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/62PmXkH.jpg

Ha

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-look-at-the-making-of-rogue-one-a-star-wars-stor-1783734715

^ BTS

https://twitter.com/gavzilla71/status/753984085165563904

^spoilerish re: trailer