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

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

is that even still a spoiler

Yeah, the livestream cut away and showed the BTS reel again. Curse you, Kathleen Kennedy!

i mean idk it's not a spoiler to me I can just post shit willy-nilly if u all want

I swear there's been an article every week where someone involved with lucasfilm admits "yeah, Darth Vader is in this film"

Yeah but the reveal is that under the mask he's Sean Bean.

pretty sweet poster, looks like everyone's running to catch mark barrott's sundown DJ set on ibiza.

Finally got all the aliens that were missing last time around. This looks fucking rad. Can't wait for something with more dialogue, though.

lol at Alan Tudyk's DGAF droid

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-0cVeYf--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ft5jmvrvoewrk7meefoy.gif

he looks like the iron giant
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/902331-product-silo.png

star wars: the guns of tattooine

http://www.avclub.com/article/meet-rogue-ones-edrio-two-tubes-guy-two-tubes-239898

Meet Rogue One’s Edrio Two Tubes, the guy with two tubes

Still tippin' on two tubes, wrapped in two tubes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfW-MPUjC_0

They call him Two-Tecs, he tote two tecs

New trailer and it's pretty sharp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg

Really want some dark Battle of Algiers-style Star Wars on the screen

Well that looks sick.

What's with the black monoliths?

still not over the palm trees. goosebumps.

DOPE :D

Looks good.

this looks GREAT

Er, that's not the new one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY

(Seriously, why are embedded videos and images suddenly showing up in my browser as big black vertical rectangles?)

(I'm blaming Obama tbh)

There's a Moderator Request Forum thread about the embeds and I've emailed stet about it.

mendelsohn + "Rogue One" + tropical setting makes me wonder if plot will be mendelsohn's dad dies, leaves family death star to all children but mendelsohn, etc.

I had to switch to Firefox to check - Chrome's buggered for ILX Youtube embeds.

Chrome has started blocking Flash on all sites. The embeds should be fixed to show HTML5 ones.

Love the shot of the Death Star from below. Not enough space movies take all dimensions into account.

Yeah - the star destroyer coming out of the darkness of space at the beginning was a nice touch, gave it a sense of physicality.

this actually looks pretty interesting. a unique spin on SW cinematography at the very least.

xpost I'm using Safari, and it's still messed up for me.

I like that Death Star eclipse shot. I hope this Death Star gets blown up and the Empire had to rush out another one for Ep. IV.