Star Wars 7 shit talk

the originals basically ARE 3d concert movies at this point.

I'm not sure if you know this, but in the Star Wars "extended universe", i.e. SW comic books/novels/video games, there have already been numerous solo stories for Han Solo, Yoda, and Boba Fett... And I'm almost certain Jabba and Dart Maul have had ones too. So it't not like this is some shocking new development.

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Also the Jabba and Darth Maul films are a joke.

so what will become of "G-level canon" now that a main-sequence movie sans G is going to come out?

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Is it really? Lots and lots of big fiction franchises have done spinoffs based on popular characters, why would it be shocking or weird that SW has done that too?

And I got it that Jabba and Darth Maul movies were a joke, my point was just that it isn't a very good joke, since spin-offs about them most likely already exist.

Yes, but most fiction franchises that have done this (I'm curious as to which ones you mean, though) don't have a history of grossing half a billion dollars per instance*

*The Clone Wars is admittedly a bit of an exception here, more on the lines of the Ewoks films.

(I'm curious as to which ones you mean, though)

Superman, Batman, X-Men, Indiana Jones (if you count Young Indy as a separate character from Old Indy), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, The Mummy, , etc etc. The only really big fiction franchise I can't think of that has (AFAIK) no spin-offs whatsoever is Lord of The Rings, and I assume that's because Tolkien's estate forbids to create any new spin-offs that aren't based on his original writings.

And yeah, the Ewoks movies are actually a good example of Star Wars already having done this.

Though I guess LoTR RPGs and computer games are technically "new fiction" based on Tolkien. But AFAIK there no official LoTR movies, TV series, comics, etc that wouldn't be based on Tolkien's own material.

"there are no official"

afaik there's no spinoffs of The Godfather

There's a videogame at least, but I think that follows the plot of the movie?

It's shocking to fans who don't give a shit about the comic books / novels / video games, which is most of them.

Little bit of question-begging going on w/this statement.

There are a lot of solo Star Wars spin-offs on my blog. Also, the characters have sex with each other a lot.

Mark Hamill is awesome:

They're talking to us. George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts – they would write us out. … I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed — on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am. . . .

When I found out [while making the original trilogy] that ultimate good news/bad news joke – the good news is there's a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she's your sister – I thought, 'Well, I'm going to wind up like Sir Alec [Guinness]. I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots . . .

I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway. And another thing I'd want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee and Tony Daniels, everybody that's around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody's on board here, rather than just one...

I hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings — I'm sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that's unfortunate. … If they listen to me at all, it'll be, 'Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.

<3

Let him direct, shit

otm

he would know: http://youtu.be/zyTsGx1q1EQ?t=4m20s

Well here we go

http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/carrie-fisher-princess-leia/

would be rad if the originals were the actual stars of this movie

Really they just should re-release episode IV as episode VII. It would rhyme, like poetry.

Old Harrison Ford starring in a late sequel with a flame from the first movie. What's the worst that could happen?

it's basically gonna be "amour" with mark hamill playing the isabelle huppert character

empty posturing from a loathsome senator? tell me more

lol wrong thread sorry

well theoretically you could be talking about palpatine

maybe an element of the 'rise and fall of jar jar binks' spinoff movie.

glad these characters are coming back. I've seen more star wars movies in teh past two weeks than I care to admit (all of them, multiple times, thanks to my kid). back to back with the originals its obvious how terrible the prequels are, muddled plots, no humor, heavy heavy heavy and long. Obv cast is too old to do the full action thing here but I'm sure Abrams will find the right balance.

lmao shakey

We need a Max Rebo Band movie that follows them as they tour the dives - and hives of scum and villainy - of the universe.

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i'd watch that before i'd watch a "young han solo" movie 4 sure

I assumed Jabba would be CGI

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/how-disney-bought-lucasfilm-and-its-plans-for-star-wars#p1

Pretty interesting.

if this film is as good as IJ & KCrystal Skull, count yr blessings.

"I mostly say, ‘You can’t do this. You can do that,’ ” Lucas says. “You know, ‘The cars don’t have wheels. They fly with antigravity.’ There’s a million little pieces. Or I can say, ‘He doesn’t have the power to do that, or he has to do this.’ I know all that stuff.”

Billionaire entrepreneur or your know-it-all best friend from 7th grade?

I really like how he trolled Disney w 'The final trilogy is all planned out' for one last epic troll probably worth millions of dollars.

xxpost this is why no-one invites you to their birthday parties anymore, George

“I don’t want to overcommercialize or overhype this,” he says. “It’s my job to prevent that.”

Says the president of Disney, which just bought Star Wars.

Love this bit, about another guy:

The transaction gave Disney a new source of hit movies. Jobs also became a Disney board member and its largest shareholder. Periodically he would call Iger to say, “Hey, Bob, I saw the movie you just released last night, and it sucked,” Iger recalls.

Also, that Pablo Hidalgo fellow mentioned early on is a friend of a friend -- hope I can chat with him sometime about all that!

apparently Lucas would come around Lucasarts when they were working on Star Wars games and provide random input. made up example: they'd be working on a level and he'd say "well you know Darth Vader could just fly to get himself out of trouble, right?"

"what?"

"sure he's a master of the force, of course he can fly."

of course this would break canon in a bunch of ways ... so he'd leave and the designers would pretend it never happened.

I've already told the story about Lucas bringing his son to the screenings of the dailies for Phantom Menace right

Yup.

I heard his questions about utility data were incorporated throughout.

haha

Lucas interjecting his stupid nonsense all over the place all goes back to his feeling thoroughly burned at the initial industry and critical reception of Star Wars - everyone told him how stupid it was and how wrong he was and since he proved them all wrong that one time, he automatically discounts any and all criticism. That, and he's surrounded by people who are complete sycophants.

Lucas bringing his son to dailies? Is that in another thread?

Yeah, those Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominations musta really stuck in his craw. I'd be fucking pissed.

I'm talking more about the resistance he got to getting it made, before it was such a huge industry-changing hit. of course everyone was on his dick after that

Of course.

just a big ol' dickload of everybody

I would like to break a cannon over the head of anyone saying "break canon" in my presence.