star wars 9 grim resignation thread

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

if there's one thing abrams is known for, it's his uncanny ability to successfully navigate and resolve narrative puzzles

lol Zorri Bliss
another nice costume tho

shit I forgot Richard E Grant signed up

“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says. “I think that has to permeate the storytelling and the reaction to the stories and how they’re set up. It has to feel differently because we’re different.”

At the end of May, Disneyland will open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, a massive, 14-acre, $1 billion attraction where you can fly the Millennium Falcon, be captured by the First Order, and drink a blue milk cocktail (it’s actually nondairy) and Coca-Cola products out of exclusive BB-8-shaped bottles at the cantina.

Disney presumably using the proceeds to commission all those experimental films George Lucas now finally has time to make

Ah yes, the famous post-Vietnam-&-Watergate innocence.

xp since they own LucasFilm lock, stock, and barrel he'll presumably be creating GeorgeFilm and shopping his new work around to multiple distributors

(it’s actually nondairy)

this is the lost innocence part

It is however a heavily-dyed beef slurry.

I refuse to drink it if I don't get to fill a bottle from the teat of a weird sea creature,

Ah yes, the famous post-Vietnam-&-Watergate innocence.

well, innocent in that those things still seemed like relative outliers in the historical landscape for many people and not, like, a tuesday

“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says.

check out the juxtaposition of the quote and who said the quote

haha

Kennedy graduated from Shasta High School in Redding, California, in 1971.

On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $4 billion.

Stupid fan theory as likely as any here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeOrA2in1c

is anyone even going to care about star wars beyond this one

That leads to his crazy fan theory!

I’m not gonna watch a video to find out what the crazy theory is, and I don’t really care about the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga. I’m only interested in Star Wars movies directed by Rian Johnson from now on

It's a funny video. Anyway, crazy fan theory (only partly tongue in cheek) is that having hit a narrative dead-end, JJ Abrams and the writer (who did Batman V Superman and Justice League, double ugh) will just dive in and go time travel. Their two big predictions, based on next to nothing but instinct, is that 1) Luke will return more powerful than ever a la Gandolf, and that 2) stopping the bad guy from doing the thing will involve going back in time. Who knows? Who cares?

The correct spelling is Ganondorf.

Ganondorfongolf.

I was reading on my phone, so I didn't even realise it was a RLM video - get the fuck out of here with that!

Are they bad? What happened? I liked all their other Star Wars stuff.

What will the stars do with their time when they are no longer at war?

(It just occurred to me that they put Death Stars in 85% of these movies to make the series title something more than a vague reference to space battles.)

What will the heroes do with their time when they are no longer at war with the (Death) Stars?

They should make a sequel from the perspective of the Death Star.

Yes Planet Wars would be a more accurate name for the franchise.

Or 'Planet Fights'.

Astroid Grudge

Kylo Ren tearfully visits the gravesite of millions of fallen Death Stars, taken before their time.

Speaker for the Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1T3HxHd7Y

New trailer is meh, but The Mandalorian looks dope

The scene of the scooby gang cresting a dune and finding themselves at a kite festival or something (?) looks very prequely.

rian johnson: "the past is past. acknowledge it and move on"
jj abrams: "fuck that shit--look it's fuckin palpatine!"

lol at the idea introduced with each wave of sequels that what the fans are really clamoring for is just cooler lightsabers.

very "fuck everything, we're doing five blades."

The scene of the scooby gang cresting a dune and finding themselves at a kite festival or something (?) looks very prequely.

Yes! Are people getting nostalgic for George Lucas' obsession with painting a bunch of bullshit into every frame?

Well ... Phantom Menace came out in 1999. If someone was, I dunno, 10 then they'd be 30 now. So maybe?