Star Wars 7 shit talk

The RedLetterMedia guys put out a commentary track for Jedi and I never noticed Carrie Fisher's cocaine fingernail before:

http://io9.com/5947334/and-now-princess-leias-coke-nail-from-return-of-the-jedi

imo the "I will finish what you started" line from the trailer most likely refers to Vader's day job of killing the rest of the jedi

small chance that the task at hand is "finish turning Luke to the dark side"

I love the idea of Luke being the ultimate baddie of the new trilogy, not sure Disney has the balls for that though.

Most Mark Hamill's best-known post-SW roles have been bad guys (The Joker, Ozai, Trickster, etc), so it'd be cool to see him play an evil Luke.

mark hamill doesn't look cool enough

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/30/1406737736295_wps_9_US_actor_Mark_Hamill_atte.jpg

Join me, and together we can tour mid-sized theaters as roadies for Hot Tuna.

excelsior

can't wait for him to deliver the "I can't recall ever having a droid" line right before R2 zaps him and he cracks up laughing

has this been posted? this thread is fritzing my browser so who the heck knows

http://www.avclub.com/article/watch-mark-hamill-basically-pitch-evil-luke-skywal-227192

My wild-ass guess is that Luke Skywalker is actually going to be dead in this movie's continuity, and any scenes in which Mark Hamill appears will be flashbacks.

I'm gonna say he's dead and has one ghost scene.

how is all this going to remain secret beyond the first weekend? or even the first day? total avoidance of the internet until showtime is the only way i think.

After the final scene, the camera pulls back to reveal that the entire movie has been projected on Luke Skywalker's bare ass.

"Gooood. I can feel your anus."

honestly, a lot of things will be pretty spelled out by mid-december. it looks like they're holding back a bunch of toys and assorted items for the last release of merchandise due to the fact the packaging will spoil plot points.

looks like the ebook version of the novelization is released the same day as the film

i love that jj abrams is credited as 'writer - taking care of business' in that av club interview clip. to think there was once a world where jj abrams was just a humble man, hunched over his keyboard, bashing out a regarding henry here and a forever young there. innocent, carefree days.

I love the idea of Luke being the ultimate baddie of the new trilogy, not sure Disney has the balls for that though.

same

no, you don't have to revise everything.

Most Mark Hamill's best-known post-SW roles have been bad guys

cartoons huh

yes, everyone was shocked when hamill made the leap from the sober, understated drama of the star wars trilogy to the world of animation

i've never watched the "special editions" but the few clips i've seen are really appalling. it's incredible that lucas did that to his films.

to his film, and two other director's films! though from my reading i get the sense he had a really huge (and heavy-handed, minutia-oriented) involvement in jedi.

i do wonder what the DGA thought of that.... i guess lucas is the uncontested "auteur" of the star wars films.

Well, Marquand was dead by the time the Special Editions came out, but Lucas took a bullet for Kersh, so he was probably fine with whatever:

To preserve the dramatic opening sequences of his films, Lucas wanted the screen credits to come at the end of the films. While this practice has become more common over the years, this was a highly unusual choice at the time. The Writers and Directors Guilds of America had no problem allowing it on Star Wars, back in 1977, because the writer-director credit (George Lucas) matched the company name, but when Lucas did the same thing for the sequel it became an issue because Lucas had his last name on the start of the film (Lucasfilm), while the director and the writers had theirs on the end. They fined him over $250,000 and attempted to pull Empire out of theaters. The DGA also attacked Kershner; to protect his director, Lucas paid all the fines to the guilds. Due to the controversy, he left the Directors and Writers Guilds, and the Motion Picture Association.[15]

interesting!

directors often make really meddling producers, coppola being probably the most egregious example. but i guess Lucas owns (or rather, owned) the I.P. to star wars which makes it more complicated.

it's hard to tell exactly because mainly i'm just going off this issue of cinefex composed of interviews throughout the making of jedi. those are always super super interesting to read. and the interviewees are constantly mentioning "george" and things he wanted to do, or changed his mind about, or had planned but cut later on due to budget reasons. i don't think "richard" is mentioned more than once, if that. of course, it could be that lucas "only" meddled in the effects sequences, which of course is what the people are getting interviewed about.

but there was at least one specific bit that seemed to already directly foresage the lucas of the special editions and phantom menace, let me see if i can find it...

that reminds me of one of the "making-of" bonus features on one of the DVD sets of the "Deadwood" TV show. one the one hand you have this sad-looking episode director nominally in charge and then you have ShowRunner David Milch throwing his weight around, actually calling shots (and barking instructions to the camera operator)....

I imagine the successful auteur writer-showrunner is the most powerful person on any set, TV or film. But even then, Milch is a notorious force of nature.

although i do wonder if some of that was for the benefit of the cameras.

being a director on series TV (unless it's premium cable, i suppose) would seem to be a /lot/ less rewarding than directing films.

man, some great stuff in that cinefex. got carried away typing, realized how much of it there was, and posted to the 'crimes of george lucas' thread. huzzah.

isn't it gen thought that Kershner and Marquand handled the boring stuff GL didnt want to handle, ie the actors?

although i do wonder if some of that was for the benefit of the cameras.

I doubt it, Michael Mann had to ban him from the set of Luck at one point

xpost yeah that was definitely my conclusion reading the cinefex stuff. considering lucas's absolute ineptitude with the actor scenes in the prequels, and the godawful scripts, it seems like the one thing that might have rescued those movies to at least competence would have been finding another solid, nuts-and-bolts director to film everything but the puppet and CGI parts. john frankenheimer or somebody. obv lucas's ego was not going to let that happen in 1997.

interestingly, george miller split the direction of "beyond thunderdome" with george ogilvie in precisely that way... ogilvie handled the less logistically challenging scenes and worked closely with the actors; miller dealt with the elaborate effects shots, action sequences, and art direction...

Star Wars is pulpy with not a lot of non-plot character interaction, but once people starting relating to characters the other directors (esp. Kershner, with the minor slapstick points mentioned above and the little character interactions) really had to do the fleshing-out.

The prequel films were amazingly bad, to the point where Anakin is basically saying "But master, I thought we had to follow orders" with the most wooden sarcasm possible. And that was basically the only joke, reused, for three movies

it was like watching a very unfortunate colony of autistic children who had taught each other emotional expression :(

yeah i like to say that in the prequels it's the live-action stuff, not the CGI, that falls into the uncanny valley :(

isn't it gen thought that Kershner and Marquand handled the boring stuff GL didnt want to handle, ie the actors?

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius)

Marquand must have been concentrating on Salacious Crumb's drool then

love that dude

he didn't direct many movies

Jar Jar was a great character who was failed by the story.

I meant I liked Salacious Crumb

he also didn't direct many movies

he fed off other directors' scraps

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0Z9VJJHL.jpg

the biopic was great though

http://www.starwars.com/news/salacious-crumb-cakes

LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE MOST FIENDISH SNACK IN THE OUTER RIM!

interestingly, george miller split the direction of "beyond thunderdome" with george ogilvie in precisely that way... ogilvie handled the less logistically challenging scenes and worked closely with the actors; miller dealt with the elaborate effects shots, action sequences, and art direction...

this was less by initial design than desperation though - Miller had dropped out almost completely after Kennedy's death, and was persuaded back to shoot the fighty and chasey bits

I'm watching Empire again and it's striking how Han's "game" with Leia is made up entirely of sneering and mockery. Lines that in the script you'd probably read as a combination of teasing and straight come-ons become these seething, aggressive taunts

The original PUA

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/912eHUS3DrL._UX385_.jpg

never heard of negging, tracer?

someone please photoshop a fedora onto han solo