Star Wars romantic comedy based on When Harry Met Sally
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 04:08 (one year ago) link
As noted on the Clone Wars/Rebels thread, we got Ahsoka trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzNZ0Mdx4I
Plus the overall news so far out of London:
* Footage from Skeleton Crew and season 2 Andor shown
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-skeleton-crew-trailer-footage-description-1850298799
https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-2-first-look-star-wars-celebration-2023-1850310089
* Three new movies planned:
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-new-film-announced-2025-live-action-1850308047
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy introduced thethree directors for the next three Star Wars movies: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold, Mandalorian and Clone Wars architect Dave Filoni, and Ms. Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The three films will span across the entirety of the known Star Wars timeline, which will now include the Dawn of the Jedi, 25,000 years before the events of the Skywalker films, and the time of the New Jedi Order, 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker.Mangold’s film, set during that earliest period of the timeline, will tell the tale of the first Jedi ever in what he described as a “biblical epic.” Dave Filoni will direct a new film set in the time period of The Mandalorian, culminating in the conflict between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. Lastly, Obaid-Chinoy reintroduced Jedi Master Rey Skywalker, Daisy Ridley herself, who will rebuild the Jedi Order in a new film.
Mangold’s film, set during that earliest period of the timeline, will tell the tale of the first Jedi ever in what he described as a “biblical epic.” Dave Filoni will direct a new film set in the time period of The Mandalorian, culminating in the conflict between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. Lastly, Obaid-Chinoy reintroduced Jedi Master Rey Skywalker, Daisy Ridley herself, who will rebuild the Jedi Order in a new film.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
Oh and there's only been scattered talk on here and a couple of other threads but second season of The Bad Batch was really pretty great! Ended on just the right cliffhanger.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
Rebels is back... in live action form!
― mh, Friday, 7 April 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
Zeb got intro'd the other week on Mandalorian, so here come the rest...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
Forgot to mention -- Acolyte footage shown too:
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-the-acolyte-trailer-footage-high-republic-1850307646
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
Pleased about the new movie news (including return of Rey). I've totally checked out on the TV stuff, but will check out new films for sure.
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
Mangold becoming their next in-house guy given this is after his Indiana Jones film.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
I don't know much about him, but see he directed Logan, which is a thumbs-up from me
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
And based on the action sequences in Ford vs. Ferrari -- seriously, the Daytona sequence in the middle of the film was amazing -- I am all down for whatever action madness he can bring to this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
I'll be interested in seeing if the Filoni film is the crossover thing he's been regularly hinting at for the various TV series in that time period (of which there will now be four at least -- Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew).
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
if they can keep jj abrams extremely far away from Star Wars films* I feel better about their future prospects.
*and cinema in general
― omar little, Friday, 7 April 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
Chopper and the Rebels crew in live action is great to see
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 7 April 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
Abrams has really been keeping a low profile lately... he and Bad Robot were such a big thing for a while, but seem to have cooled off?
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Friday, 7 April 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
Sad Robot
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
Think he's got some new HBO show soon with Sawyer from Lost
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
Yeah I checked out the Wikipedia page, looks like lots of TV producing (plus some long-gestating film projects in development)
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
So Lars Mikkelsen will play Thrawn in Ahsoka, another Rebels reprise from a voice actor in question, plus...
Dave Filoni announces a second season of #TalesoftheJedi: https://t.co/jdc1IKZAhI #TheCloneWars #StarWarsCelebration pic.twitter.com/t5rjmqAcnL— Star Wars (@starwars) April 8, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
Plus we've got the new Star Wars: Visions season shortly and Young Jedi Adventures for the kids. (Seen a short one of the latter they previewed on YouTube, perfectly fun.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
A making of look at the Aardman Visions short #StarWarsCelebration #StarWarsVisions pic.twitter.com/OMl3kg6wjn— SFX magazine (@SFXmagazine) April 10, 2023
― groovypanda, Monday, 10 April 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link
The overall trailer is a beaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXqU92cymY
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
Also per this report, one last Bad Batch season. I admit I was curious to know how long they were thinking of doing this; wouldn't've minded more seasons but given the setting and scope I did ponder what the endgame was going to be.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
Those poor clones get one more season of avoiding getting tossed in a wood chipper by the Empire, I guess
― mh, Monday, 10 April 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
Also, looks like a new Ghibli hypershort is on the cards:
This Is A New Day, A New Beginning. pic.twitter.com/3fq2VvW4FQ— スタジオジブリ STUDIO GHIBLI (@JP_GHIBLI) April 10, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
that's part of the second iteration of Visions, innit?
― 龜, Monday, 10 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
oh nope, nevermind
― 龜, Monday, 10 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
So I've seen a couple of the Young Jedi Adventures episodes -- fun indulgences! -- but the second season of Visions absolutely knocked it out of the park. Hell of a brilliant range of studios, approaches and interpretations, and they were not afraid to go deep on an anticolonial (even anticapital) front more than once. I do recommend a watch and then when you have, read this profile of LeAndre Thomas, the creator of the short "The Pit," which in its own way is almost a SW riff on LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," but with different contexts and results.
https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/leandre-thomas-the-pit-star-wars-visions/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
not sure the right thread for SW merch that is O_o
$400 Dollars for a statue that looks like a naked Nien Nunb getting into a hot tub.
https://regalrobot.com/shop/star-wars/starwars-busts-statues-collectibles/nien-nunb-concept-maquette-replica-dave-carson-signature-edition/
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 11:13 (one year ago) link
how did they know
what i liked
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 11:43 (one year ago) link
A-Choo -Ta!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
Navigating through that slideshow of horrors, I see that the same studio (and artist?) issued a full-body nude Max Rebo with apples covering his genitals. Although it doesn't look quite as much like a geriatric's scrotum as that Nien Nunb bust does so its erotic value may be somewhat diminished in comparison.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
Release date late August:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-zia4oHuk
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
hell yeah, thrawn time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qz9Uqk55Jo
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
*Marvin the Martian voice* "Delays, delays..."
https://gizmodo.com/new-star-wars-movies-release-dates-delay-avatar-3-delay-1850533930
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:28 (eleven months ago) link
jfc that we will still be dealing with Avatar until 2031!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:34 (eleven months ago) link
I'm psyched for the Rey movie, but sounds like I'll have a while to wait......
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:49 (eleven months ago) link
oh come on, there's not going to be a 2031
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:48 (eleven months ago) link
In the year twenty-oh-thirty-oneIf man is still the one
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:53 (eleven months ago) link
by 2026, the full AI power grid will begin to fail and fossil fuel reserves will be accidentally destroyed by AI military. Movies will be a thing of the past, with gatherings in movie theatres morphing into gatherings where one person who saw a movie narrates what happened in it to engaged fans.
Initially these will be free until the movie studios commodify them and start charging $20 each for the opportunity.
by 2029 700 million people will be dead they won't be able to use WebMD to know it's time to go to the hospital.
by 2030 movies will return in the form of crude, gigantic 50 foot flip books, with pages flipped by employees getting paid $5 hour and offered no medical care for when they injure themselves.
by 2031, Cameron will die, sitting forlorn outside an abandoned movie, his last words being "if only they could have seen the world I built them"
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:54 (eleven months ago) link
by 2032 every movie stars AI 22 year old Leo DiCaprio
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
AI Scorsese finally directs the Grateful Dead biopic with the actual Jonah Hill as Jerry Garcia, but with AI Leo playing every other member of the band, including Donna. De-aged DeNiro to play Owsley Stanley and Bill Graham.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:00 (eleven months ago) link
So Ahsoka kicks in here in half an hour...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:30 (nine months ago) link
prepping the couch and cranking the volume up
― mh, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:59 (nine months ago) link
blonde sith has a Keefe Chambers vibe
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 03:25 (nine months ago) link
Not a bad start! Pace felt a little too deliberate at points but otherwise a solid Rebels vibe extension.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 06:33 (nine months ago) link
Wondering how this landed for folks who never watched Rebels, cause this really felt to me like they just dropped you in the middle of that story.
Not really feeling Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera so far but otherwise, this was ok. A lot of backstory and setup to get through
― Roz, Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:44 (nine months ago) link
Yeah looked good but could've given a bit more stuff in general e.g. Thrawn tease. Agree with some criticism that Ahsoka is a little too stoic but my biggest gripe was after Reva surviving lightsaber impalement in the Kenobi show they did the same thing with Sabine here. They don't even have Rey-like healing powers!
― nashwan, Saturday, 26 August 2023 12:08 (nine months ago) link
Show seems slow and drab
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:26 (nine months ago) link
I have only sketchy Rebels knowledge - my kids watched it so I absorbed a bit by osmosis - I enjoyed this new show without being poleaxed by it - I think they did a good job of making the characters accessible without prior knowledge, and am definitely inclined to give it a few eps grace period to find its vibe
It definitely wasn't as turgid as Kenobi / Boba Fett
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:41 (nine months ago) link
I think it’s worse - every actor is doing the same energy
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:45 (nine months ago) link