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

TMZ and NY Daily News reporting that Debbie Reynolds was taken to the ER from her son's house, possibly for a stroke.

i wonder how far into writing 9 they are? is there a writer and director announced yet?

Rian Johnson was supposed to be writing the story, if not the script. Colin Trevorrow is directing.

not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly

i just cracked up while watching tv because a new tv promo takes film footage where they say "rogue one" followed by the base flight control saying "there is no rogue one!" "there is now!"

"First hit this beach switch to tell them we're going to transmit THEN drag this cable back THEN plug it in and hit a comm switch THEN plug in the tapes THEN hit another transmit switch oops your shit is misaligned? Somehow? so THEN make your way out to another switch THEN return to the transmit switch"

frankly i was surprised it was that easy!

but... no backups i guess? the empire totally just nuked its ENTIRE archive of technical research!

no-look force choke was doooooooope

saw it a 4th time today. overheard when I was leaving: "Only C3PO, R2-D2, Leia, and Darth Vader were in this from the originals. Where's everyone else?".

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tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm

"not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly"
wait, what else in the franchise has he written?

"tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm"

2 hour film of someone herding nerfs

give the people the bela tarr star wars film they're demanding

the obvious side film, already several short stories and books, is obi wan on tatooine pretending not to be a jedi and dabbling in local affairs to both protect his charge and help the small-time frontier people he's sympathetic toward. like a western, but with sand people for natives and hutts for local crime

he can't be known so he is already the man with no name. writes itself

there's a great comic about that

wouldn't be bad to give ewan mcgregor a chance to redeem his obi wan in a good movie

no no let's definitely do a CGI alec guinness

there's a movie where mcgregor plays jesus wandering the desert that is basically this idea

I was referencing comics when I said short stories :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51_HeycfunA

If you mute the world's most obnoxious host, there's a lotta great archival footage in here of the cast doing media tours back circa 1977-1983. Peter Cushing, even. Interspersed with original toys commercials, recording sessions with Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones for a 1-800 number, etc.

Skip to 9:32 to see Carrie on David Letterman in 1983.

btw my stupid gripe upthread about "when" they stole the Imperial ship was answered directly in the dialogue and I just must have been focused on something else the FIRST THREE TIMES when Cassian tells Bodhi "go get us a ride home" and dismisses him so he can *do what he came there to do*

also really appreciated Felicity Jones' smiles in this movie, they're always just a slight show of guarded pleasure.

apparently, Ewan McGregor is actually campaigning to Disney for an Obi Wan flick too -- he'd even be the right age if they set it between Ep III and IV. As this is clearly a good idea, I don't expect it to happen.

I just remembered how much I liked Mendelsohn's reaction when the Imperials see all the bombs go off at the landing pads, and he turns around and everyone's just standing there.

haha yeah I always laugh at his exasperated "are we BLIND?"

yeah Obi-Wan solo flick. don't tell me Disney just gonna leave that money on the table.

on the bright side we will finally learn the origin story of Obi Wan's Tuscan Raider-scaring voice-imitation powers and why no other Jedi or Sith seems to use it.

~places nerd hat firmly on head~

ACTUALLY, that was covered in the (now out of continuity?) novel Kenobi by John Jackson Miller, which was pretty much a Fistful of Dollar-type Western. IIRC he learns it from some mechanical sirens that settlers have set up to fend off Tusken attacks.

thanks for that video kingfish

obi-wan solo flick, though totally unnecessary (come all these prequels are) could actually work because we still have Ewan McGregor with us and he was the most consistently solid part of the prequels

Beautifully rendered star destroyers in this. Very 2001-esque bright diffuse white. Or like photos from the moon with washed out white spacesuits against pitch black. Better sense of scale than seen in a Star Wars movie in a while.

There was something pristine and.. er.. model-like about the spaceships, partic the star destroyers? During one shot my 8-y-o leaned over and said "it looks like Lego!"

yeah there was one shot where the star destroyer looked like a happy meal toy

first 45 minutes was a real jumble, it took an extraordinary amount of effort on my part (maybe i am dim) to work out what was happening. the mind-reading monster wasn't even that scary because it wasn't foreshadowed or set up, it was just suddenly there. and then it was over. and dude was fine after a 5-second talking to. and it was obvious that riz was a good guy anyway. so there was no suspense. compare with the ear worm in khan!! i felt 5 steps ahead of all the other characters yet somehow still struggling to make sense of things. still fun tho!

McGregor was horrible and the prequels should never be referenced again. Even Smits was pushing it.

http://i.imgur.com/RtJv4Dy.jpg

that ignores the fact that the jedi had to go live in the fucking sticks off the grid while organa got to keep his senate job and luxury real estate and etc etc

or maybe that is the point I dunno

it's been a long day

"first 45 minutes was a real jumble, it took an extraordinary amount of effort on my part (maybe i am dim) to work out what was happening"

maybe you are, because I didn't hink it was a jumble at all and I wasn't even paying that much attention

v possible! and maybe the sound was bad too, i dunno

it all felt real dark and claustrophobic and small and jangly and difficult to move forward

saw the movie again

the "new"tie model really looks like a dumber version of one of the Jedi starfighters. I guess they wanted to draw a line between the movies

this is a much better movie on second viewing

Got back from a second viewing myself just now and agreed -- I loved it first time through but the second time I was surprised just how wrought up the ending made me, which I honestly didn't expect. And small things I had missed on the first viewing flowed much more smoothly throughout; every major action in response to something else is pretty clearly spelled out, but can be easy to miss in the initial flow.

I will add this -- for all the fixing of larger plot holes (why does the Death Star have a flaw, etc.), surely this film raises a new one -- if Leia etc. are already on board the flagship during the battle tucked away in their own ship, then what are C3PO and R2D2 doing hanging out on Yavin for their cameo when it sounds like said flagship was already heading to Scarif?

I too was confused why their cameo wasn't at the very end - seems like a logical place to put it

Extensive discussion of such continuity issues here

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/5kfk0s/star_wars_the_reason_darth_vader_seems_so/dbnqxop/

... to a degree that might make one regret having started taking continuity issues seriously.

"So there are several things we need to take into account here.

First, The distance between Tatooine and Scarif. So this was tricky since on Wookiepedia there is no distance between Scarif and Tatooine nor is there a distance to the center so Trigonometry won't help us. Luckily there is a simpler solution. This is a map of the Star Wars Galaxy, and it has a useful feature of telling us the coordinates of each thing on the map. Unfortunately for us they are not in light years. Here we find that Tatooine is 43,000 ly from the galactic center and using the distance formula here we can find that the distance on the map is 12,526.5 units from the center. Some simple calculations give us that 1 unit is roughly 3.4 light years in the galaxy.

So doing the same thing here we find that the distance between Scarif and Tatooine is 958.328 units or (using our 3.4 to 1 conversion) it is 3258.3 light years between Scarif and Tatooine.

Now for the speed of her ship. A CR90 Corvette can travel at 950 kph in an atmosphere. In terms of space and lightyears that is ridiculously slow. Like it would take Leia over 3 trillion years to get to Tatooine. But thats not how hyperdrives work in Star Wars. Hyperspace we can see from the bottom of the article has a rough travel time of 5000 lightyears is about 16 hours. and that is using a class 2 hyperdrive which conveniently is what the Cr90 and Darth Vader's personal Star Destroyer both have. So some more simple math, and we get that it would take ~10 hours to get from Scarif to Tatooine for both Leia Organa and Darth Vader."

Doesn't account for if they get waylaid by a Predator ship.

In ANH, I always had an issue with why would Princess Leia be able to take command of her rescue, "somebody has to save our skins" and be so calm in the battles she is in. Later, she is made a general? Why? Why would a princess have these qualities?

yeah how could a princess have these qualities must be a plot hole

still haven't seen this yet but the torrent of people bending over backwards to really dig into the logic of these films kinda making me not want to.

ignore them. it's all nitpicks frankly

Interesting find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmN3N5v0W4

Carrie Fisher(along with many other familiar late 70s NYC women) popped up in a bit on Mr Mike's Mondo Video, about 28:00 in.

caught the last half hour of this new movie. oh hey they re-created the Death Star firing sequence shot for shot. and Tarkin says "Fire when ready" just like the does in SW. and the Red Leader/Gold Leader guys are plucked right out of the first movie. Vader did look cool doing a Yoda. glad they let the director bring his Darth Vader action figure.

i get the desire to end the movie right when ANH stars and have it lead into that but it kind of really distorts the intro imo. there's no floating debris from the massive space battle that just ended. Vader/the Empire seems to have mellowed out and done a complete 180 on killing everyone in sight. hopefully we get another movie to explain these plotholes.

caught the last half hour of this new movie

did you wander into the theater after watching a film you actually cared about, or ?

naw it was a bootleg, i tried watching from the start but got bored. wanted to skip to the good stuff.