oh certainly, there's a bunch of things you can do with the SW universe(everything from Dead Trooper to Kotor 2, for example), but in terms of 90-120 min yearly franchise blockbuster releases, how much can they do before it starts getting away from the mythic space opera? Thinking about this more, I wonder if they're locked into certain tropes or aesthetics because otherwise, Star Wars turns into something more like Star Trek/Mass Effect/Firefly/Battlestar.
Then again, fuggit; some of the shots of battle footage in Rogue One has street-level urban fighting, shot with handhelds in a way that folks even on here were comparing to Battle of Algiers, which is a galaxy far, far away from space fighterjock samurai wizards. Maybe the mold should be broken.
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Dead troopers, that was it
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the zombie novel was Death Troopers, by Joe Schreiber.
― (rocketcat) ππ± ππ (kingfish), Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
imagine if they did a movie that didn't have the Death Star in it, would be pretty crazy!
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 20 November 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
I keep thinking how awesome some of the characters in the trailer seem and kind of hope they're not super fleshed out, leaving a little mystery? I just keep thinking, who are these guys?! Is that guy blind? That other guy just took out a whole squad of stormtroopers!
Digging through the credits on imdb again really made me remember that not everyone has a publicist team sculpting their imdb profile because Wen Jiang has this profile picture (sorry for imdb links, I'm not going to dig around to beat their image link-busting today)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm886348544and I'm thinking hmm, seems like a cool regular guy
and then there's this picturehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm1330189568
whoa badass!!!
― mh π, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
btw I am five
― mh π, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
no crawl!
http://www.nme.com/news/film/star-wars-producer-explains-rogue-one-wont-iconic-opening-crawl-1871135
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
whaaaaat
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Would look kinda silly beginning with "Episode III.ix" anyways
― βa tub of horsesβ (Myonga VΓΆn Bontee), Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
It's not like Caravan Of Courage had a crawl. Or did it?
― nashwan, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
The Clone Wars animated film didn't either. It had that newsreel-type thing at the beginning.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 25 November 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Same with the CW series. Rebels doesn't do a crawl or a "newsreel" IIRC.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 November 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I think that's fine. Save the crawl for the proper 'episodes'.
― chap, Friday, 25 November 2016 09:49 (seven years ago) link
apparently no Star Wars main theme either?
i don't get it. movies are 2 1/2 hours nowadays anyways, a crawl is like a 2-minute freebie.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
It's an artistic choice, I think, to reinforce the spin off movies being tangential to the main narrative.
― chap, Friday, 25 November 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
it's all a spin-off. the "main narrative" has been changing with every additional movie.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
otherwise the first film's crawl would've been all about Anakin Skywalker and the fall of the Jedi
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
Can you not see how they'd want to differentiate stylistically between the more mythical main sequence and the (presumably) more idiosyncratic secondary films?
― chap, Friday, 25 November 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
I'm not trying to be a Disney Corp stan, just explaining how the decision makes perfect sense to me.
― chap, Friday, 25 November 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah it makes sense from a branding perspective.
imo it would make more sense if this was about Darth Vimo on planet Uowa looking for the lost Crystal of Blimba. this is a movie about the Death Star w Darth Vader, they aren't fooling anybody that this is some "side story". they just want to keep remaking A New Hope, not that there's anything wrong w that.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
like the point of the crawl was "Hey look, it's like Flash Gordon!" not "This is canonical tales from the uber important Skywalker mythology"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
I would be amazed if there was more than 5 minutes of Vader in this, just because it's not a movie about him and he obviously takes up all the air.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 25 November 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
would be more than in Attack of the Clones and he was plastered all over coke cans for that one
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 November 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
er, Revenge of the Sith
hopefully his cameo is someone asks a question and he walks in and says "Noooo!"
"Do you like sand?"
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Actually the lack of crawl is because this is an in-universe film, made about 10 or 12 ABY in the New Republic, based on the true story of the brave men and woman of Rogue One.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Executive producer has ties to the Solos and all that
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
imo the question is whether there is any Tarkin content or if Vader has been put in this film as a stand-in
― mh π, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
For some reason I'm very excited for Mon Mothma in this
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 25 November 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
tmi
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
As it seems unlikely Vader gets to do anything exciting in this they could've just gone with only showing him via hologram - paralleling the first glimpses of the Emperor in the later films.
― nashwan, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Vader strictly uses hologram to speak to his superior, all other transactions are done as in-person threats
Guessing that following an early terrorist action in the film, Vader is called in to make sure everyone is in line
― mh π, Friday, 25 November 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
seriously when do the damn tickets go on sale
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:05 (seven years ago) link
better line up now or they might run out
― qualx, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
On sale Sunday night/early Monday morning.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:39 (seven years ago) link
we'll see if the robots at fandango agree with you Ned
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:42 (seven years ago) link
xxxxxp mh how quickly we forget the tiny Vader sitting on the walker's dashboard as they approached the Hoth base.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
they're leaving the crawl out of rogue one so that they can perfect the technology to somehow make the crawl go even slower on the next one
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 November 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
I have never acknowledged tiny Vader and will not be starting at this point
― mh π, Saturday, 26 November 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
I'd like to take this opportunity to say how great marvel's current darth vader comic book is
kthxbye
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 26 November 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Was.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 26 November 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
love darth vader comic, want more comics with the original characters introduced in it
― mh π, Saturday, 26 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Good news for you then - Gillen-penned Doctor Aphra is coming next month.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 26 November 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
I think I knew that but keep forcing myself to forget as to recreate the joy of learning it anew
― mh π, Saturday, 26 November 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
There's also Vader consulting with his three Star Destroyer commanders by hologram in Empire, during which one of them is destroyed by an asteroid, implying necessarily that he's appearing as a hologram at the other end.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
inserted for movie continuity, totally not canon
― mh π, Sunday, 27 November 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
fight me
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Sunday, 27 November 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
I just rewatched that, lols @ dead guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZx5BFwPCI
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 27 November 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link