Star Wars 7 shit talk

Sony is paying Disney now to use a Marvel intro for Spider-Man. So whats the big deal about paying to use the fox fanfare?
Btw paramount's fanfare always sounded suspiciously like the opening to Star Wars which was always disconcerting to hear after every episode of tng.

as above, the only one I'm really rooting for is Ben Burtt as Artoo. Wouldn't object to a bearded and be-robed Hamill, which would be probably the least-forced thing if the new movies are about Jedi, since Luke presumably is the one founding the new jedi order even if nothing whatsoever of the EU is used as a source. Would think Ford is less likely than Hamill/Fisher to participate without Lucas?

James Earl Jones cameo as an anthropomorphic leonine alien.

seems hard to discount the possibility of ghost-Yoda as well

Disney got ILM and Skywalker Sound in the deal so they will presumably be making cameos as the VFX and sound design outfits

Would think Ford is less likely than Hamill/Fisher to participate without Lucas?

see link in the OP!!

cgi alec guinness as ghost-obi wan. involved in capers with ghost-jar jar.

I could see JJ throwing in someone yelling "It's a trap!" and other SW memeworthy references.

I hope the Jedi academy isn't in some sparkling faceless CGI city but some ancient temple overgrown w crazy vines and ancient carvings.

luke's son listening to yub nub on his lightradio

u think disney is going to pay $4billion for something and then use another company's branding

― zero dark (s1ocki), 27. tammikuuta 2013 20:32

Use the Disney magic castle intro, but at the end the camera pans to the night sky, which becomes a field of stars + get John Williams write a new bridge called "When You Wish Upon a Star Wars" = problem solved.

What is the rhyming thing Philip Nunez mentions above?

nerdcore rappers

hl: clip of George Lucas justifying one of the various examples of pointless callback/recycling of story elements with less impact in the prequels: ''See, it's like poetry, they rhyme.'' Referred to frequently in the long Redlettermedia reviews of the prequels as evidence of GL's creative bankruptcy. See the ''crimes of george lucas'' thread for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc

It does lead to an interesting question that I'll be curious to see how Abrams addresses it, though, namely: What constitutes "a Star Wars movie?"

With the Trek property, he could basically do whatever he wanted because it was explicitly a reboot and because there isn't so much formalized structure to "a Star Trek movie." But for Star Wars, there's a very formal (ritualistic) structure to the opening few moments. I have to assume that Disney wants to stick with that, but I guess we'll see.

All further SW opening credits to be done like Enter the Void.

Would pay to see that, as long as the movie ended after the credits.

So Han Solo, Yoda and Boba Fett solo movies as well as SW VII, VIII, and IX all in a span of 6 years? I guess "market saturation" is a non-word?

Doesn't appear to be a problem for the Marvel franchise.

Not saying I think its a good idea, but all of the Avengers spin-offs from the last three years or so have done well enough to at least justify their existence.

not quite the same. All the Marvel movies were leading up to the Avengers, these Star Wars solo films don't have any reason to exist other than fan service/money

plus they're prequels. And we know how that goes

Number None otm - Avengers thing is totally unique actually

spinoffs FIRST, ensemble movie last

Marvel characters have existed as self-sustained characters for decades. Dudes like Yoda and Han Solo have only ever been seen in the Star Wars context. They haven't had their own parallel solo titles since the 60s or whatever.

lol as if the whole avengers thing isn't one THOUSAND percent fan service

/ money

This would be like giving Kermit the Frog or Miss Piggy (in more ways than one) their own solo spin-offs.

in other words UTTERLY UNTHINKABLE

Surprised it hasn't been done yet!

wait til you guys hear about the Jabba the Hut and Darth Maul movies

Heard the first spin-off will be Han/Yoda fan fic. "Use the force," etc.

Would totally watch a Jabba sit-com.

Jabba of the House.

Jabba the House.
Jabba's World
Home is Where the Hut Is.

Surprised it hasn't been done yet!

Star Wars Holiday Special was more or less a solo spin-off for Chewbacca.

30 'lacc?

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

Avengers made crazy money ($1.5 billion in ticket sales) and most or all of the character movies made money too. I'm not surprised they're trying to do it again. This high-concept kiddie shit is even more profitable now that over half of the world population can afford to see movies.

It's kind of funny all this stuff happening, it's basically all stuff GL was saying right after the first movie came out. Do prequels, do sequels, do movies that follow one or two characters, get different directors to put their own spin on it, etc. All that stuff pretty much should have happened right from "Empire". My guess is "Holiday Special" was such a horror that it scared him into ever letting go of the franchise again. Or at least until 2012.

No Sarlacc spin-off, no credibili ... oh, wait.

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

We need a 3-D concert movie.

http://theblueraft.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lips.jpg

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.