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Do you think the knights of Ren are gonna be all girls under those masks.
Maybeeeee
Maybeeeee
Locked STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER v.2
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Ive watched so many rumor vids on youtube that it doesnt matter what vision in real. Theyre all laughably bad.
Overlord or doomcock, whatever that assholes name is, he was making me laugh today during the latest mound of shit coming out.
This is the first time, ever, of any franchise, that im all over the spoilers.
Thats how ya know the boycott is real, boys n girls.
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That's the only chemistry I see in this trilogy. Me personally, I don't like/want lovey dovey shit in my Star Wars. I want to see sabre duels, force battles, and taking care of business saving the galaxy.
But if they MUST, that was the only remotely plausible chemistry I saw between those two.
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The way he was explaining saying, swears, which he doesnt do a lot, had me laughing.
Some of the descriptions remind me of that awful scene in Crystal Skull where Shia is playing Tarzan with monkeys.
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Same here man, same here.
And the epic video games.
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This. If any of the rumoured endings turn out to be true, this will be a dumpster fire of legendary proportions.
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Same I have never touch spoilers before this
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Do you know if the mainland police recruit Gweilos? Asking for a friend...
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I maintain that their scenes together in TLJ and Serkis' performance as Snoke (and the coolness of seeing Hamill back, despite the problems with the way the screenplay dealt with Luke) were the bright spots in that film. But, that's really not a whole lot of the running time. The stuff with Haldo, Isaac, Finn, and Rose- slow-speed chase through the galaxy is rife with issues.
One thing I like is that even though a lot of people have an issue with Rey being overpowered to the extent that she loses nuance as a character, there haven't been many critics of Ridley's performance itself. I like that cause I think she's doing a solid job with what she's been given. I definitely think her career will be in a good spot subsequent to these movies.
Driver, meanwhile, has shown himself to be a quality actor. Probably going to be up for a lot of awards from that Noah Baumbach film this year.
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Reminds me of Sheldon's, "apology" to Howard for making fun of him for being an Engineer,
"Howard, I have never said you aren't good at what you do. It's just that what you do isn't worth doing"
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I see great on screen chemistry with them for sure, but maybe it's because of early theories I get brother sister vibes or platonic soul mates or the like. I was just wondering if anyone thought it was romantic between them.
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Star Wars recent goodies:
The Episode 9 final cut was completed on November 24th 2019
The Rise of Skywalker is “two hours and 21 minutes,” (141 min) Abrams says (and then added “I believe,” which could add a minute or so of end-credits wiggle room).
Here’s the list of Star Wars run times:
JJ Abrams interview
When did you decide to bring Palpatine back? Was this discussed during The Force Awakens? Or was this more because Snoke is gone?
Well, when you look at this as nine chapters of a story, perhaps the weirder thing would be if Palpatine didn’t return. You just look at what he talks about, who he is, how important he is, what the story is — strangely, his absence entirely from the third trilogy would be conspicuous. It would be very weird. That’s not to say there was a bible and we knew what happens at every step. But when Larry Kasdan and I worked on The Force Awakens, we didn’t do it in a vacuum. We very purposely looked at what came before. We chose to tell a story that touches upon specific things and themes and ideas that we’ve seen before, to begin a new story. But we examined all that came before to ask where does this feel like it’s going?
So there were discussions about that at the time. Yet, like any beginning, you want to put the threads in, but you don’t want to necessarily be literal about everything. And then when Rian was brought on to do The Last Jedi, we met and we talked about things and he wrote his story. And when I read it the script, I realized this didn’t get in the way of anything Larry and I talked about that I thought I’d get to. There were some very specific things we did get to do in this movie that we were laughing and going, “Oh my god, we’re finally doing that thing we talked about five years ago.”
In the book that showed the art of The Force Awakens we see a drawing of Rey swimming to the ruins of the Death Star. Which is something we will kind of see coming up in this movie now.
There are things from that book that we came close to finally doing for sure. But the specifics of Palpatine? I wasn’t supposed to do this movie. So I had a couple of years off. So when Kathleen Kennedy called and I got back on that train, I started asking where does this go? So, suddenly, we were there having to do it. The rubber was hitting the road. So, we went back to the threads that were exciting to us and then we found new ones.
By the end of this movie will we have a better sense of who Snoke was? Or is that another story for another time?
I will say, without giving anything away, knowing this movie is an ending is, for me infinitely more challenging than a beginning. We knew we needed to provide answers. And while there may be some things that aren’t entirely demystified by the end of it, we wanted to make sure people left feeling that they were satisfied. So I hope, on a number of issues, people will leave and feel like that it’s a true ending and not an advertising ploy. We really are bringing it to an end.
When I was a little kid, George Lucas told us C-3PO and R2-D2 would take us through all six, nine, or twelve movies — depending on when he did the interview — but that hasn’t really been the case. But now it appears Threepio has a huge role in The Rise of Skywalker?
He’s very center to this story and truly wonderful in it. Anthony (Daniels) gets to do some things…
He had to be excited when he found out, right?
He was. And there were times he was, you know, bemoaning having to do something…
Anthony Daniels bemoaning?
[Laughs] I was like, listen man, you wanted this! But he’s wonderful in this. I don’t think he’s ever been better.
Why was it so difficult to make them integral before? Even in the Prequels, and the last two movies?
Obviously, you do the best you can. You focus on what the story is and you respond to what your gut is telling you is working. And what the story seems to want. You know, I don’t know how strategic one can be working on something like that, thinking about how little or how much certain characters are used. Which is to say, you want to use them to serve the story. It turned out, we didn’t strategize this is the one Threepio has to be in more scenes than he’s ever been in. It just turned out that the story was best served using a character that has been underused to see a new side of him and tell the story. So it was very much a utility, but it felt inspired that you got to see a character in a whole new light.
I’ve noticed you seem to have a desire to put iconic spaceships in strange situations. In Star Trek Into Darkness the Enterprise is underwater…
Yes.
In The Force Awakens, we see the Millennium Falcon dog-fighting over Jakku…
Yep.
Now we see a Star Destroyer coming out of an ocean.
You know, I’m not thinking about it in that way, but I do feel like when you look at the Falcon or the Destroyer. There are ships that you’ve seen in all sorts of situations. And usually in space, or either leaving a planet or landing on a planet or an asteroid. The idea of having the Falcon bursting through trees, or barely taking off from Jakuu, those felt like fun ways of using it. When we were doing Star Trek Into Darkness, that was really about, we just really wanted to give the Enterprise a kind of reveal in the movie. In this case, and you’ll see how the Destroyers come into play, this was partly we don’t just want to see the Destroyers. We don’t want too just cut to a shot of this ship or this fleet. Part of it is wanting to give people something they haven’t seen before, and yet still have it be the vernacular Star Wars.
I know I started this out with my little dumb joke about your secrecy. And I’ve seen the “mystery box” brought up in recent interviews, which you’ve been asked about for years now. But I feel this time around you’re being a little less close to the vest about a lot of stuff?
Well, yeah. Here’s the thing. People who are aware of the “mystery box” thing ask about it. And I think people have different senses about what it is, as I do. For me, it’s not anything I ever think about. It’s not something I apply to my work. It’s simply a deconstruction that any good story makes you want to know what comes next. Usually it does that by implying something.
But why on this one are you being at least a little less secretive?
None of that is strategic. But I do feel about this movie, because it is the end of something everyone knows — I don’t want to be coy. I feel very confident about what the movie is. And I feel like we’ve found a way to do something that doesn’t need — and I don’t feel the need — to do smoke and mirrors at all on this. I feel we have a story that’s pretty huge in scope. While I don’t want to tell the whole movie to people and ruin it and I don’t want to spoil things, I feel like we need to be able to have a conversation about how, yes, Carrie Fisher appears in this movie. And I’m happy to talk about how we did it, in so much as, people know, it’s really her. We didn’t do a digital Carrie. Yes, Palpatine is in this movie. I don’t want to talk about what that is and how. SO I’m not unguarded, because I want to make sure people enjoy the experience when they go. But I feel, about this movie, a little more open, I guess, than I have before.
So, will any character say, “Maclunkey,” in this movie? (last George Lucas edit to the first movie: now before shooting Greedo says "Maclunkey" with no subtitles then fires at the same time with Han Solo in the last version of Episode IV A New Hope that was upped to Disney+)
[Laughing] Go see the movie! Clippy
Rey’s name is Rey Maclunkey, isn’t it? That’s the secret.
Hey, you never know!
The Episode 9 final cut was completed on November 24th 2019
The Rise of Skywalker is “two hours and 21 minutes,” (141 min) Abrams says (and then added “I believe,” which could add a minute or so of end-credits wiggle room).
Here’s the list of Star Wars run times:
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: 121 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back: 124 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: 131 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace: 136 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones: 142 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith: 140 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens: 138 Minutes
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: 133 Minutes
- Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi: 152 Minutes
- Solo: A Star Wars Story: 135 Minutes
- Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker: 141 Minutes
JJ Abrams interview
When did you decide to bring Palpatine back? Was this discussed during The Force Awakens? Or was this more because Snoke is gone?
Well, when you look at this as nine chapters of a story, perhaps the weirder thing would be if Palpatine didn’t return. You just look at what he talks about, who he is, how important he is, what the story is — strangely, his absence entirely from the third trilogy would be conspicuous. It would be very weird. That’s not to say there was a bible and we knew what happens at every step. But when Larry Kasdan and I worked on The Force Awakens, we didn’t do it in a vacuum. We very purposely looked at what came before. We chose to tell a story that touches upon specific things and themes and ideas that we’ve seen before, to begin a new story. But we examined all that came before to ask where does this feel like it’s going?
So there were discussions about that at the time. Yet, like any beginning, you want to put the threads in, but you don’t want to necessarily be literal about everything. And then when Rian was brought on to do The Last Jedi, we met and we talked about things and he wrote his story. And when I read it the script, I realized this didn’t get in the way of anything Larry and I talked about that I thought I’d get to. There were some very specific things we did get to do in this movie that we were laughing and going, “Oh my god, we’re finally doing that thing we talked about five years ago.”
In the book that showed the art of The Force Awakens we see a drawing of Rey swimming to the ruins of the Death Star. Which is something we will kind of see coming up in this movie now.
There are things from that book that we came close to finally doing for sure. But the specifics of Palpatine? I wasn’t supposed to do this movie. So I had a couple of years off. So when Kathleen Kennedy called and I got back on that train, I started asking where does this go? So, suddenly, we were there having to do it. The rubber was hitting the road. So, we went back to the threads that were exciting to us and then we found new ones.
By the end of this movie will we have a better sense of who Snoke was? Or is that another story for another time?
I will say, without giving anything away, knowing this movie is an ending is, for me infinitely more challenging than a beginning. We knew we needed to provide answers. And while there may be some things that aren’t entirely demystified by the end of it, we wanted to make sure people left feeling that they were satisfied. So I hope, on a number of issues, people will leave and feel like that it’s a true ending and not an advertising ploy. We really are bringing it to an end.
When I was a little kid, George Lucas told us C-3PO and R2-D2 would take us through all six, nine, or twelve movies — depending on when he did the interview — but that hasn’t really been the case. But now it appears Threepio has a huge role in The Rise of Skywalker?
He’s very center to this story and truly wonderful in it. Anthony (Daniels) gets to do some things…
He had to be excited when he found out, right?
He was. And there were times he was, you know, bemoaning having to do something…
Anthony Daniels bemoaning?
[Laughs] I was like, listen man, you wanted this! But he’s wonderful in this. I don’t think he’s ever been better.
Why was it so difficult to make them integral before? Even in the Prequels, and the last two movies?
Obviously, you do the best you can. You focus on what the story is and you respond to what your gut is telling you is working. And what the story seems to want. You know, I don’t know how strategic one can be working on something like that, thinking about how little or how much certain characters are used. Which is to say, you want to use them to serve the story. It turned out, we didn’t strategize this is the one Threepio has to be in more scenes than he’s ever been in. It just turned out that the story was best served using a character that has been underused to see a new side of him and tell the story. So it was very much a utility, but it felt inspired that you got to see a character in a whole new light.
I’ve noticed you seem to have a desire to put iconic spaceships in strange situations. In Star Trek Into Darkness the Enterprise is underwater…
Yes.
In The Force Awakens, we see the Millennium Falcon dog-fighting over Jakku…
Yep.
Now we see a Star Destroyer coming out of an ocean.
You know, I’m not thinking about it in that way, but I do feel like when you look at the Falcon or the Destroyer. There are ships that you’ve seen in all sorts of situations. And usually in space, or either leaving a planet or landing on a planet or an asteroid. The idea of having the Falcon bursting through trees, or barely taking off from Jakuu, those felt like fun ways of using it. When we were doing Star Trek Into Darkness, that was really about, we just really wanted to give the Enterprise a kind of reveal in the movie. In this case, and you’ll see how the Destroyers come into play, this was partly we don’t just want to see the Destroyers. We don’t want too just cut to a shot of this ship or this fleet. Part of it is wanting to give people something they haven’t seen before, and yet still have it be the vernacular Star Wars.
I know I started this out with my little dumb joke about your secrecy. And I’ve seen the “mystery box” brought up in recent interviews, which you’ve been asked about for years now. But I feel this time around you’re being a little less close to the vest about a lot of stuff?
Well, yeah. Here’s the thing. People who are aware of the “mystery box” thing ask about it. And I think people have different senses about what it is, as I do. For me, it’s not anything I ever think about. It’s not something I apply to my work. It’s simply a deconstruction that any good story makes you want to know what comes next. Usually it does that by implying something.
But why on this one are you being at least a little less secretive?
None of that is strategic. But I do feel about this movie, because it is the end of something everyone knows — I don’t want to be coy. I feel very confident about what the movie is. And I feel like we’ve found a way to do something that doesn’t need — and I don’t feel the need — to do smoke and mirrors at all on this. I feel we have a story that’s pretty huge in scope. While I don’t want to tell the whole movie to people and ruin it and I don’t want to spoil things, I feel like we need to be able to have a conversation about how, yes, Carrie Fisher appears in this movie. And I’m happy to talk about how we did it, in so much as, people know, it’s really her. We didn’t do a digital Carrie. Yes, Palpatine is in this movie. I don’t want to talk about what that is and how. SO I’m not unguarded, because I want to make sure people enjoy the experience when they go. But I feel, about this movie, a little more open, I guess, than I have before.
So, will any character say, “Maclunkey,” in this movie? (last George Lucas edit to the first movie: now before shooting Greedo says "Maclunkey" with no subtitles then fires at the same time with Han Solo in the last version of Episode IV A New Hope that was upped to Disney+)
[Laughing] Go see the movie! Clippy
Rey’s name is Rey Maclunkey, isn’t it? That’s the secret.
Hey, you never know!
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If Abrams can get the audience score back up into the 80’s, this movie will be considered a huge success no matter how bad the ending is. That’s how shitty of a movie Johnson made in TLJ.
Get rid of Kennedy. Promote Filoni. And let Favereau become SW’s Kevin Fiege. That’s how you fix SW.
Get rid of Kennedy. Promote Filoni. And let Favereau become SW’s Kevin Fiege. That’s how you fix SW.
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Awesome info bro... thanx for presenting all this.
Gonna be a busy week. We'll keep this thread buzzing yeah!?!
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Yep the promoting really kicked into hyperdrive we are only 4 weeks away from the movie and the landscape demanded attention in other areas: Disney+ and Frozen 2 but now it's all about Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
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