Star Wars 8 shit talk

not sure where else to put this but jeez, living hard to the end.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death.

The report released Monday states Fisher may have taken cocaine three days before the Dec. 23 flight on which she became ill. She died four days later.

It also found traces of heroin and MDMA, which is also known as ecstasy, but that they could not determine when Fisher had taken those drugs. The findings were based on toxicology screenings done on samples taken when the Star Wars actress arrived at a Los Angeles hospital.

that is tragic

a sorrow indeed

nice journalism there, well done 👍

the only good part of the AP report was her brother's comments which boiled down to "who gives a fuck, my sister is dead"

i feel really sad but conflicted about this because she was an addict yes but whether any of these drugs in her system contributed to her death is not really established? also how *much* was in her system isnt really covered? some of these stay in yr system for a while so to the layperson it makes it sound like she was partying her tits off or on some kind of "tragic bender" or something

not to be captain save a carrie but releasing this without concurrent analysis/explanation seems p irresponsible because it allows the the opportunity to misinterpret given her history of substance abuse

tl:dr

seriously though, todd fisher's statement is basically that. she ate bad foods and smoked a lot and had heart disease. neither her suddenly dying nor the fact she'd had some drugs is a mystery, when she talked about all of those things all the time in stage shows

yeah exactly

someday my family will be like, "he died like he lived, drinking a little too much and being a complete klutz" when I manage to trip and fall down an open manhole outside the bar

Glimpses of characters (including Finn in Imperial/FO uniform and pink haired Laura Dern) and creatures (a wolf made of ice?) and most importantly CasinoWorld here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye6GCY_vqYk

Loving the look of it!

little characters that are kind of cute but probably not dominating 1/3 of the movie like the ewoks would be pretty great

in other news I did trip while exiting a bar this weekend

Looking ahead one movie, meantime: can an interview be described as 'beige'?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/colin-trevorrow-defends-star-wars-episode-ix-directing-gig-book-henry-reviews-1021534

The director — who also helmed Safety Not Guaranteed and Jurassic World — also thanked Italy for its history of supporting the arts and said, "In America right now, it is difficult to make art."

lol

fingerpaint embargo

I...don't understand anything about that quote.

Except maybe that it might be difficult for Colin Trevorrow to make art, in America or elsewhere.

Sadly this is evidently not the case!

But is it art?

That last Jurassic thing is the dumbest thing I've paid to see in the theater in aaaaages. Entertaining enough in the moment but really dumb and instantly forgettable.

Trevorrow sounds like a bit of a putz

Lots of new pictures/details here:

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/09/star-wars-last-jedi-porgs-caretakers/

But there is another alien life-form inhabiting the primeval Jedi temple.

“They’re kind of these sort of fish-bird type aliens who live on the island,” Johnson says. “They’ve been there for thousands of years, and they essentially keep up the structures on the island.”

The Caretakers are slightly more anthropomorphic than the porgs. They’re animated with a person inside (Daisy Ridley said a friend played one of them) and they wear clothes and speak in an alien tongue.

“They’re all female, and I wanted them to feel like a remote sort of little nunnery,” Johnson says. “Neal Scanlan’s crew designed them, and costume designer Michael Kaplan made these working clothes that also reflected sort of a nun-like, spartan sort of existence.”

They can communicate with Luke through what Johnson describes as “a blubbery sort of Scottish fish talk” but they’re not thrilled to have him hanging around. Johnson says they “tolerate” his presence.

The Force is connected with life. Yoda’s world of Dagobah was a swamp, teeming with flora and fauna, and so this ocean world would naturally evolve beings who are drawn to this sacred place. Johnson said they’re amphibious and may have risen up from the seas to tend to the buildings on this craggy archipelago eons ago.

“You get the sense they did at some point or maybe they occasionally do [return to the sea,] but when we see them, they’re land creatures,” Johnson says. “They’re these big matronly creatures, but they have these little skinny little bird feet. They were really fun to work with on set.”

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/000263243hr.jpg?w=2700

“a blubbery sort of Scottish fish talk”

cultural appropriation imo #boycottstarwars

For not being Henson's Creature Shop creations, those characters are really Hensony!

The Caretakers, that is. The porgs have kind of a different feel

Yeah, my first thought was that these were urRu a few thousand years down the evolutionary line.

My second thought was that I am a fucking nerdo for remembering they're called "urRu," idiosyncratic capitalization and all.

Looking sharp Snoke's Praetorian guards.

http://media.comicbook.com/2017/07/snoke-praetorian-guard-3-1011967.png

https://icantunseethatmovie.com/2017/07/29/last-jedi-photo-shoot-stills-reveal-new-guards-and-costumes-images/

We haven't seen a non-hologram version of Snoke yet right?

i'm snoke

, mates,

We haven't seen a non-hologram version of Snoke yet right?

sure that isn't Burgess Meredith's corpse

I'm still not sure if that's legit or some sort of red herring

Was that in EW or from a specific source?

Pretty sure it was in the batch of character shots which were obtained somehow and then removed at request of LFL.

on a related note, I poked around looking at fan websites, and that makingstarwars website has some really bad content!

they've gotten a little better, but the "here's a sketch of this character we heard about/what luke skywalker's new cloak looks like" drawings are pretty bad

I kind of want to start a site where I post sketches of fake leaked ideas and they all look like a first effort of someone who just bought "how to draw star wars characters"

if you just follow the link nashwan posted, the snoke pic and better shots of the red guards are all there

I want to do a bizzaro gazzara thing though let me try this out

luv2snoke jedis

lol awesome that was more fun than I thought

if you just follow the link nashwan posted, the snoke pic and better shots of the red guards are all there

Yes, I was referring to nashwan's link!

Yeah I completely misunderstood your question, sorry

http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170310_n_nerdistnews_snoke_feature.jpg

Is this dress white and gold or black and blue?

are we all still embodying the theory that he's a Wizard of Oz-esque projection

I'm intrigued because, barring a second trailer that has more lot teases, I'm really not sure where they're going with this movie at all! I've been keeping up on all kinds of Star Wars junk and there are a bunch of things that could possibly tie in, but it really seems like they've done more fleshing out of the universe than anything.

I think most of my fears about it all going wrong, plot-wise, really only apply to the 9th episode. This one's wide open.

the main "projection" going on is fans wanting to believe he is an interesting villain who is part of an interesting story, for which unfortunately there are no clues, crumbs or easter eggs in ep 7.

man, remember how mysterious and evil the emperor was before George Lucas decided we needed to see him in episodes 1 - 3?

how cool would it have been if he only showed up at the tail end of episode 3, and used evil sith magic to enthrall the senate and set himself up as emperor, no real backstory

I think most of my fears about it all going wrong, plot-wise, really only apply to the 9th episode. This one's wide open.

mainly i wonder how much ep 9 is going to be affected by carrie fisher's death