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

The CGI Cushing is a weird case. I knew at once watching it that it was a recreation, but several people I know who didn't know who Cushing was had no idea he wasn't a real actor in the film. The uncanniness does seem to depend on prior knowledge.

OK, this show is going to be . . . something.

https://www.starwars.com/news/pedro-pascal-revealed-as-the-mandalorian

Pedro Pascal (Narcos) has been cast in the title role as a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. He is joined by Gina Carano (Deadpool), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers (Predator), Omid Abtahi (American Gods), Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), and Nick Nolte (Affliction).

wtf

STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN

EXT. MANDALORE - DAY

CARL WEATHERS fires a blaster at WERNER HERZOG’s hip.

WERNER HERZOG
It was not a significant blast; I am not afraid.

— hikikomori povich (@SarahSahim) December 12, 2018

already more interesting that solo

that’s an... electic cast

No less notable, though this news had already appeared:

Currently in production, The Mandalorian is written and executive produced by Jon Favreau, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode and serving as executive producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson. Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).

I will definitely be interested to see how Filoni handles live action, since he's done a very good job with animation.

I also can't wait to hear Giancarlo tell Boba Fett he'll fuck him up quick, two times.

pic.twitter.com/LyzbK7v7dL

— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) December 12, 2018

Okay, I've just discovered that I can instantly make myself laugh by imagining any line of SW dialogue as uttered by Werner Herzog.

have zero faith in Favreau (so weird that this is where his career went) and I can't imagine Werner's role will be enough to make this interesting tbh

but it is intriguing

I want Herzog to narrate the opening crawl.

Hell maybe the whole project should be like one of his documentaries and he's just narrating the action as it happens.

"from...my point of view...it is the...Jedi...who are evil"

"I ask one of the Jedis if it is possible for a droid to go insane"

If you had told me back in the day that Monica's chubby, MMA-obsessed boyfriend on Friends would be shepherding part of the future of the Star Wars franchise 20-odd years later, I'd have laughed in your face.

“The Force is not with you. Nothing in this broken universe is with you. The sound of a TIE fighter’s ion engines are a mournful scream sent into an uncaring void. We are all chained to Jabba.” https://t.co/Z10KpZiOsA

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 12, 2018

The internet is totally going to ruin this in like a day's time, but I'm enjoying it while it continues to be enjoyable.

whoops missed it, too late for me

Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates)

read that as (Dolemite)

lol at Dolemite

Would watch

solo was good, agreeably small scale and the better for it

uncanny how they got a guy to be such a ringer for liottas han

Thought it was rank rotten

fuck me, if deems likes it I may actually have to subject myself to this

Emilia Clarke is v wooden.

Done the thing these star wars movies do and explain backstory that was better off unexplained (kessel run, Solo actually having been a good guy and not just a selfish thief prior to a new hope).

Glover's Lando way more compelling than what's-his-chops' Solo but still mibbe too much of a Billy Dee Williams impersonation.

Woody decent as usual.

Darth Maul at the end? Fuck off

i kept my expectations low but yeah this is better than fine.

granted if you havent resolved yr issues with backstory references going in youve wasted yr ticket money so yknow caveat empire but standalone it did what rogue one managed (not to as strong an effect for the obv reasons that the ending to that wasnt available) in keeping it sw, keeping it fun and a nice tight job with the character beats

plot didn't get in the way of my fun. all i ask.

emilia clarke is vvvvv pretty and did just fine. i liked the obvious arc i mean jesus i left a gf waiting twenty minutes while i went to the bar once and she had done worse on me by the time i got back cmon han buck wise up

nah this is still hot garbage from the jump

u have a dilemma tombot

Agree this film is fun enough to watch at least once. Didn't like Glover in it as much as many do though. As for Clarke, well, she doesn't deserve any more stick than Bettany.

idk that i want to boost this movie all *that* much but bettany is better than fine in this role

Solo was fine and entertaining enough and nothing was particularly bad about it except maybe the basic premise of trying to retrofit some kind of explanation of what the Kessel run is

I liked what they did with droids in this movie and the whole idea of sentient droids basically being treated as slave labor is something I'd like to see addressed more in Star Wars movies

Feel like that was sort of hinted at in the original movie with contrast between Jawa's treatment of droids vs Luke's.

the angle that droids arent just tools is obviously comfortably the worst thing about this movie but the actual droid character pushing it was good

enjoyed it as a nice sly dig at that type tbh it was good

Okay so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOC8E8z_ifw

Looks good!!

So this is happening.

Watch EWAN MCGREGOR confirm his return to Obi-Wan. THE ENERGY IN THIS ROOM! #d23expo @disneyplus pic.twitter.com/sBVptBYUOD

— Tiffany Mink (@minkus) August 24, 2019

Well, I'm glad Werner got paid.

https://youtu.be/yCm3ar5uw64

I’m more interested in this than 9

Well well

https://deadline.com/2019/10/star-wars-setback-game-of-thrones-duo-david-benioff-d-b-weiss-exit-trilogy-1202771184/

Yeah had a hunch that wouldn't pan out.

"So anyway, Ms. Kennedy, like we said at the panel, it turns out we weren't remotely qualified or ready and they gave us $6 million an episode anyway!

. . . we'll show ourselves out."

Maybe they were talking about taking out all the space and force and Jedi stuff, and the producers got nervous.

They did a decent enough job after an uneven start of making a fantasy swords and sorcery series into some real HBO bait. Not a very good record of working with a larger writing team or coming up with original material, which is about half of the Star Wars job.

Uh, original material as in plots that aren't pre-written. There's... not a lot of original other material being added to Star Wars.

The only thing that bums me out about this is watching all the keyboard nerd rage warriors tweeting out "WE DID IT!!!", "WE WON!", etc etc ad infinitum.

avoid those comment sections imo

obvs, but those tweets kept popping up in the middle of otherwise reasonable takes on the announcement.