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

It's funny that Lucas never "fixed" the Death Star plans in the OG Star Wars along with all the other stuff he "fixed," necessitating Rogue One using those plans that show the dish/laser on the equator, even though he stuck this into Revenge of the Sith:

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/e/e0/The_Ultimate_Weapon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091007163903

Compared to:

http://jeffbeaty.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/death-star-plans-on-screen.jpg

I like to think of one of the reasons for making Rogue One being to fix the giant plothole as to why the Death Star was able to be destroyed by two proton torpedos

like the original frankly. it fits more with the ridiculous limitations on their technology (storing plans on a floppy disk in a tower)

"I like to think of one of the reasons for making Rogue One being to fix the giant plothole as to why the Death Star was able to be destroyed by two proton torpedos"

this too

yeah i loved that. could have been stupid and unnecessary ala "midichlorians" but pretty clever and fitting imo

finally saw this; had no idea about the carrie fisher 'cameo' at the end so found that a bit touching actually; you only see the face for maybe 4 seconds.

this kind of thing will always be really freaky to me. I found it really unsettling in the new Tron movie too.

I didn't mind either cameo but I feel like these are just the first shot in the future of this franchise where there will be luke skywalker stories with Mark hamill avatars as the central character.

tbh we all knew they've been heading in this direction with the technology for decades. thankfully we'll get zombie hologram Marilyn Monroe before Skynet kills us all

so I understand that shooting for episode 8 is all done and wrapped up - unfortunately the likelihood of using a cgi Leia for episode 9 is pretty high, no?

Deathstar having a structural weakspot is not a plothole, it's the main plot driver for several of these movies.

pretty much everything Obi Wan says and does in his fight w Vader at the end of ANH on the other hand was rendered nonsensical by the following films.

i imagine they'll kill her off between 8 and 9; if they are sensible they will. i wonder how far into writing 9 they are? is there a writer and director announced yet?

Fisher mentioned in Wishful Drinking that Lucas owned her likeness, so I'm guessing that would extend into the current films

Some minor bit of solace:

http://www.avclub.com/article/billie-lourd-will-take-care-carrie-fishers-beloved-247774

I demand all Leia dialogue be performed by George Lucas wearing a Leia mask and a metal bikini

God, to sell your likeness...that seems very sad

TMZ and NY Daily News reporting that Debbie Reynolds was taken to the ER from her son's house, possibly for a stroke.

i wonder how far into writing 9 they are? is there a writer and director announced yet?

Rian Johnson was supposed to be writing the story, if not the script. Colin Trevorrow is directing.

not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly

i just cracked up while watching tv because a new tv promo takes film footage where they say "rogue one" followed by the base flight control saying "there is no rogue one!" "there is now!"

"First hit this beach switch to tell them we're going to transmit THEN drag this cable back THEN plug it in and hit a comm switch THEN plug in the tapes THEN hit another transmit switch oops your shit is misaligned? Somehow? so THEN make your way out to another switch THEN return to the transmit switch"

frankly i was surprised it was that easy!

but... no backups i guess? the empire totally just nuked its ENTIRE archive of technical research!

no-look force choke was doooooooope

saw it a 4th time today. overheard when I was leaving: "Only C3PO, R2-D2, Leia, and Darth Vader were in this from the originals. Where's everyone else?".

...

tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm

"not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly"
wait, what else in the franchise has he written?

"tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm"

2 hour film of someone herding nerfs

give the people the bela tarr star wars film they're demanding

the obvious side film, already several short stories and books, is obi wan on tatooine pretending not to be a jedi and dabbling in local affairs to both protect his charge and help the small-time frontier people he's sympathetic toward. like a western, but with sand people for natives and hutts for local crime

he can't be known so he is already the man with no name. writes itself

there's a great comic about that

wouldn't be bad to give ewan mcgregor a chance to redeem his obi wan in a good movie

no no let's definitely do a CGI alec guinness

there's a movie where mcgregor plays jesus wandering the desert that is basically this idea

I was referencing comics when I said short stories :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51_HeycfunA

If you mute the world's most obnoxious host, there's a lotta great archival footage in here of the cast doing media tours back circa 1977-1983. Peter Cushing, even. Interspersed with original toys commercials, recording sessions with Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones for a 1-800 number, etc.

Skip to 9:32 to see Carrie on David Letterman in 1983.

btw my stupid gripe upthread about "when" they stole the Imperial ship was answered directly in the dialogue and I just must have been focused on something else the FIRST THREE TIMES when Cassian tells Bodhi "go get us a ride home" and dismisses him so he can *do what he came there to do*

also really appreciated Felicity Jones' smiles in this movie, they're always just a slight show of guarded pleasure.

apparently, Ewan McGregor is actually campaigning to Disney for an Obi Wan flick too -- he'd even be the right age if they set it between Ep III and IV. As this is clearly a good idea, I don't expect it to happen.

I just remembered how much I liked Mendelsohn's reaction when the Imperials see all the bombs go off at the landing pads, and he turns around and everyone's just standing there.

haha yeah I always laugh at his exasperated "are we BLIND?"

yeah Obi-Wan solo flick. don't tell me Disney just gonna leave that money on the table.

on the bright side we will finally learn the origin story of Obi Wan's Tuscan Raider-scaring voice-imitation powers and why no other Jedi or Sith seems to use it.

~places nerd hat firmly on head~

ACTUALLY, that was covered in the (now out of continuity?) novel Kenobi by John Jackson Miller, which was pretty much a Fistful of Dollar-type Western. IIRC he learns it from some mechanical sirens that settlers have set up to fend off Tusken attacks.

thanks for that video kingfish

obi-wan solo flick, though totally unnecessary (come all these prequels are) could actually work because we still have Ewan McGregor with us and he was the most consistently solid part of the prequels

Beautifully rendered star destroyers in this. Very 2001-esque bright diffuse white. Or like photos from the moon with washed out white spacesuits against pitch black. Better sense of scale than seen in a Star Wars movie in a while.

There was something pristine and.. er.. model-like about the spaceships, partic the star destroyers? During one shot my 8-y-o leaned over and said "it looks like Lego!"

yeah there was one shot where the star destroyer looked like a happy meal toy

first 45 minutes was a real jumble, it took an extraordinary amount of effort on my part (maybe i am dim) to work out what was happening. the mind-reading monster wasn't even that scary because it wasn't foreshadowed or set up, it was just suddenly there. and then it was over. and dude was fine after a 5-second talking to. and it was obvious that riz was a good guy anyway. so there was no suspense. compare with the ear worm in khan!! i felt 5 steps ahead of all the other characters yet somehow still struggling to make sense of things. still fun tho!

McGregor was horrible and the prequels should never be referenced again. Even Smits was pushing it.

http://i.imgur.com/RtJv4Dy.jpg

that ignores the fact that the jedi had to go live in the fucking sticks off the grid while organa got to keep his senate job and luxury real estate and etc etc

or maybe that is the point I dunno

it's been a long day

"first 45 minutes was a real jumble, it took an extraordinary amount of effort on my part (maybe i am dim) to work out what was happening"

maybe you are, because I didn't hink it was a jumble at all and I wasn't even paying that much attention