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

thanks for clearing it up fellas. so in reality they meant he "makes his name" in this movie, as in, a bullshit phrase that can be applied to any film ever where a protagonist does a thing

Han Solo, First Of His Name

It'll have something to do with him being an orphan and being given the name "Solo" as an infant because his parents are unknown.

Started off as "Dawn Solo" but transitioned young.

Started off as "Roger Miller" iirc

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really wish I developed thicker skin to be able to survive in the entertainment industry. the BILLIONS of dollars they straight up waste on shit is amazing. they could be wasting all this money on me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTGUE4dPq8

It's officially Ron Howard: http://www.starwars.com/news/ron-howard-to-assume-directorial-duties-on-the-untitled-han-solo-film

Which kinda makes my head spin thinking about young Ron Howard being directed, along with young Harrison Ford, by young George Lucas on American Graffiti and now old Ron Howard will be coming in to direct the young version of an old character created by Lucas.

Just checked because I couldn't remember anything he'd directed recently beyond the DaVinci Code nonsense, and...dear christ, what a filmography.

Apollo 13 > Splash >>>>> the rest of the filmography

(j/k mostly. Cinderella Man was OK aside from the hatchet job on Max Baer. Parenthood and Cocoon were fine. Night Shift was regular viewing for me on HBO as a kid.)

where's the Yoda movie? that's my only SW question

ron howard is like the platonic ideal of the stolid, journeyman director

Ron's got a hell of a work ethic, at least

have we done a ron howard poll btw? if not, maybe the time is right

Kathleen Kennedy: "I aim to make sure the Han Solo movie as good as it can be by hiring the best directors."
Ron Howard Voice: "She didn't."

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) June 22, 2017

nobody who made Frost/Nixon is the platonic ideal of anything

it must be a weird feeling (at least until the check clears) to be the guy people think of immediately when what's needed is a director with baseline competence but no other discernible/detectable qualities

I wonder what character Clint will show up as

No Ron Howard poll as such, but there's a lot of overlap in this equally essential poll: Babaloo Mandell and Lowell Ganz: A Match Made In Heaven

have any actors from a Star Trek OS episode been in a SW film?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/708/657/1024/balok.0.jpg

no

Pretty sure Elisha Cook, Jr. played Dengar.

Felix Silla, apparently.

https://www.chaostrophic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/felix-silla-star-trek-star-wars1-700x350.jpg

Ron Howard forever excused for his appearances on The Simpsons tbh

just heard they've replaced alpen stevenreich in the title role with this guy:

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Is Ron Howard today's Robert Wise?

Chakka teaming up with Chewbacca would be cool.

There's always money in the Millennium Falcon.

When Kennedy felt that these measures did not get the production on track, she asked Kasdan to come to London. Kasdan is said also to have been unhappy with the limited shots and displeased that Lord and Miller were calling out lines for the actors to try from behind the monitor rather than sticking with the script that he had written in collaboration with his son. (Lord and Miller had input on the script before shooting began.) “As a writer, producer and part of Star Wars world, you get on a plane when that happens,” says a person with knowledge of the situation.

But Lord and Miller were not prepared to have Kasdan become a shadow director. With an impasse reached, Kennedy finally pulled the trigger. The next day, when the crew was told that Ron Howard would take over as director, sources say they broke into applause.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-han-solo-movie-firing-new-details-behind-phil-lord-chris-miller-exit-1016619

right after Coccon, some (clowns) judged Ronnie to be Spielberg II

okay lol

Narrator: He wasn't

You know who they should've gotten instead of Ron Howard? George Lucas

And, not entirely satisfied with the performance that the directors were eliciting from Rules Don't Apply star Alden Ehrenreich, Lucasfilm decided to bring in an acting coach.

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omg, perfect

Snoke is Mace Windu.

maybe Harrison Ford? "They can write this shit, kid, but we sure can't say it."

Lucas is almost certainly going to direct another Star War before he dies, isn't he? Almost certainly by the time they're cranking out two or more of these things per year.

afaik the only way that'd happen is if Disney approached him and asked very nicely

I could imagine some sort of non-movie live action thing, done for an anniversary of the films, could have them reach out. No way a full length feature gets made with him directin

I'm not sure anyone in the world wants that?

there's some adult out there who was five when Episode I came out and really fucking loves pod racing

still only really interested in a Lucas story. Absolutely get someone else to direct it.

and write

and edit

There's also the weird contrarians who think the prequels are the only good Star Wars films, e.g. Richard Brody

wait what

even as someone who mostly likes the prequels, this seems like an insane position to take

The labyrinthine opening shot of “Revenge of the Sith”— of Anakin and Obi-Wan giving chase to Dooku through the space vehicles on the planet of Coruscant—is a mighty and audacious gauntlet-throw, the digital equivalent of the opening shot of Orson Welles’s “Touch of Evil.” It wheels and gyrates and zips and pivots with a vertiginous wonder that declares, from the beginning, that Lucas had big visual ideas and was about to realize them with a heroically inventive virtuosity. And the rest of the movie follows through on that self-dare.
If I had seen “Revenge of the Sith” in real time, in a theatre upon its release, in 2005, I think that, at the moment when Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), sizzling in the blue lightning that Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) reflects back at him, cries out to Anakin (Hayden Christensen), “Power! Unlimited Power!,” I would have leaped out of my seat yelling with excitement. The entire movie is filled with an absolute splendor of the pulp sublime, and that moment is its very apogee. Lucas reaches historic heights in the filming of action: the martial artistry of Anakin and Obi-Wan’s double duel versus Dooku, the gaping maw of outer space and of the airshaft into which the heroic duo drops, Obi-Wan’s light-sabre fight with the four-armed Grievous, and, above all, the apocalyptic inferno of the confrontation of Obi-Wan and Anakin (which, regrettably, cuts back to Yoda and Emperor, a much duller battle). I watched these sequences over and over—happily, with the sound off to get rid of the musical score—and was repeatedly and unflaggingly amazed by Lucas’s precise, dynamic, wildly imaginative direction.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-the-seven-star-wars-films-reveal-about-george-lucas