Star Wars 7 shit talk

also an a+ reading of "the regional governors now have direct control over their territories"; too bad he didn't live to class up trade embargo lines.

always liked how that little exchange sketches out this whole recent and soon-to-be-obsolete political system without showing us any of it. you got the whole republic -> empire plot in a nutshell. i'm sure the novels or something run the "regional governors" into the ground of course.

I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty so much as a bunch of 60s film-school types who'd seen Lawrence of Arabia too many times and wanting to grab as much from that as they could, like using older(cheaper) Panavision cameras, shooting in the desert, and Omar Sharif's look.

Let's talk about the stunt intro text and stunt screen wipes.

Pretty much everything about the b movie was designed for sensationalism. Low budget roots necessitated eye-catching measures.

I enjoy the premise of this joke more than the execution*. It feels like it needs another pass thru for sharpening and ejection of too-easy jokes.

http://humboldt.craigslist.org/rvs/4986649886.html

humboldt >for sale >rvs - by owner

Imperial II-class Star Destroyer (Mad River)

"First come, first serve basis. You are responsible for towing."

*(or Executor, as it may be)

Freddie prinze jr became a writer for the wwe (or whatever they call it now) in the last decade. I think he may just be an enthusiastic nerd.

― da croupier, Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait really

Wait is wrestling nerdy now I thought it was for jocks

what world are you from? the biggest nerds I know are wrestling nerds

afaik the two biggest wrestling fans I've personally met (held up giant hand-painted signs on cardboard) are now a surgeon and an international economics lecturer/researcher

John D

currently dating a wrestling nerd and it rules. kept this from the beat the champ thread as i didn't want my enthusiasm to look contingent.

I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty

It's called "getting a star." It helped sell the dopey Force.

kinda unrelated but I heard the guys on the Flophouse podcast summarize Star Wars as "old guy takes a young guy to a bar" and it made me lol

rolling (non-millenials) grabbing the brass ring 2015

about as nerdy as humanly possible

I was being kind of jokey there. Wrestling is totally nerdy. I feel like the word 'nerd' has come from meaning someone persecuted for intellectual or physical differences to someone who enjoys x y z pop media.

Like the reason original nerds were so into Star Wars and fantasy stuff was to escape their shitty lives.

Alec Guinness, box office catnip XP

Yeah, it wasn't that long ago "nerd" and "geek" were insults

Josh Trank fired from the second spin-off movie

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-a-star-wars-firing-792933

what the hell

Trank has several small dogs who were left in a rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there. According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEGfpq1WoAAMOPs.jpg

The high stakes being will Disney make all the money in the world or all the money in the solar system?

Han Polo (shirt)

High stakes = can they stave off "Star Wars 8 shit talk"

Collectors, start your engines: http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-products-to-arrive-on-force-friday-september-4

Brief featurette on that VF cover shoot shows Adam Driver in costume and new snowtroopers: https://thescene.com/watch/vanityfair/cover-photo-shoots-watch-the-star-wars-cast-on-set-for-vanity-fair-cover-shoot

And Lupita Nyongo in a mo-cap suit.

http://photos.vanityfair.com/2015/05/01/5543ca95801ffcbc36b3417b_vanity-fair-star-wars-01.jpg

+ non CGI aliens

http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/e8/6a/3ac344984aa1b2ff5ab00e0d8edc/star-wars-the-force-awakens.jpg

^^^
Proper Star Wars

Includes at least two classic Star Wars aliens, an Ithorian second from left, and one of the dude's from Jabba's palace near the right, next to the guy in red.

evil dark really really bad adam in a snowscape followed by nu-snowtroopers is really cracking me up

I'm parsing him as Imperial middle management jobsworth rather than evil dark really really bad.

I hope this is really good and everyone rubs it in Lucas's face for the rest of his life (in regards to the prequels of course)

http://i0.wp.com/makingstarwars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/phasma_big.jpg

I love that. The chrome makes it look like a sci-fi medieval suit of armour.

Game of Star Thrones

HBO's Rome in Space

Brienne of Darth

lol

So Josh Trank got fired from the 2nd spinoff movie that they hadn't even started yet

very publicly too.. he fucked up. hell hath no fury like a studio scorned.

Something about dogs messing up the house fox was renting for him?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-a-star-wars-firing-792933

Indeed, producers on Fantastic Four, set for release July 30, are said to have faced great challenges pulling the film together given behavior described by one insider as “erratic” and at times “very isolated.” Trank did not offer clear direction, this person adds, saying, "If you've got someone who can't answer questions or who isn't sure or is in hiding, that's not good."

A Fox spokesman says the studio is “very happy with the movie and we can’t wait for audiences to see it” but acknowledges, “There were definitely some bumps in the road.”

Among those bumps: Trank has several small dogs who were left in a rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there. According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property. A source says the production considers any destruction of the property to be Trank's responsibility.

Citing Trank’s work on the 2012 found-footage superhero movie Chronicle, an insider says: “No question there’s talent there. You can’t do Chronicle by accident.” But Trank seemed “like one of these kids who comes to the NBA with all the talent and none of the character-based skills to handle it. There’s equipment he doesn’t yet have.”

man, to lose a star wars movie cuz your dogs shit all over a house

It sounds like he mostly got fired because he couldn't finish Fantastic Four filing on-time and the actors keep getting yanked back in from the movies they moved on to to re-shoot scenes

i mean "filming", the filing by all accounts was fair

Yeah I assume FF is overbudget and shitty.. and the one low blow detail they can leak about going over budget is the 100k in dog shit line item

That's Hollyweird for ya!

Trank has several small dogs who were left in a rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there. According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property

$100,000?!?!!?

I'm sure the landlord came up with that estimate.