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Star Wars Universe Thread: May The 4th Be With You
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I wouldn't sell them too short. Where do you think Kathleen Kennedy been getting her ideas for this last trilogy?CBR is the last place I would ever believe a rumor from. Those clowns have the most blatant clickbait headlines I’ve ever seen.
I like how they start the article off with “take it with a grain of salt”
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Looks fun...Corny, but fun...
Also it’s super depressing that it took them until the third movie to get them on screen actually doing something together...
ALSO also...Still can’t get over the bikes with treads on them...
Also it’s super depressing that it took them until the third movie to get them on screen actually doing something together...
ALSO also...Still can’t get over the bikes with treads on them...
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Honestly, I don't think Kathleen has ANY idea about Star Wars and what direction it should go. She probably just stands back and let directors have free reign over each story, even if it's not cohesive. As long as they're filled with a strong and diverse cast of women characters, she'll co-sign. It may be a reason there's a revolving door of so many directors that get hired/fired. They're not checking off her boxes.
Mandalorian may be the current exception as she probably gives no dambs about tv shows.
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I don't think someone as experienced as Favreau would put up with her meddling too much.
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Yeah, Favreau and Fiege are Disney's two golden boys when it comes to bringing in money to the Mouse's pockets. I'm pretty sure those two don't have to go through her and have direct lines to Iger, even if she's still in charge on paper.
Every other director who's stayed under her have been "yes, ma'am" type dudes. All the ones fired so far don't come across as that type.
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J.J. Abrams On ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ And The Return Of Palpatine (An
Abrams also discusses the fate of Snoke, why C-3PO has such a big role this time, and we just had to ask about "Maclunkey."
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I know you are known for being secretive about plot points, so I wanted to start by asking what happens to all the main characters at the end of the movie?
Well … I’m happy to tell you.
Oh great.
But once you see it, hopefully your question will be answered.
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?
[Laughing] Go see the movie!
Rey’s name is Rey Maclunkey, isn’t it? That’s the secret.
Hey, you never know!
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This dude JJ really talking like he was always going to do episode IX
Just read about JJ and this mystery box bull ****. Dude is such a ******* hack.
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All I really want from this movie is a good lightsaber duel that isn’t edited to hell
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^ That's pretty cool. But I'm just here for...
Wait. How did they make the Lightsabers flare up on contact?
Wait. How did they make the Lightsabers flare up on contact?
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JJ is a clown for saying there are questions that still won't have answers yet expecting people to leave satisfied.
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^ That's pretty cool. But I'm just here for...
Wait. How did they make the Lightsabers flare up on contact?
They have electronics in them that you program to control the sound and what the lighting does. This dude made his saber light up unevenly and flash randomly just like kylos
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Seriously?! Looks bootleg AF.
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Grogu, affectionately known as The Child or Baby Yoda | shopDisney
He may look like “Baby Yoda,” but this lovable creature is called Grogu, known to many simply as "the Child" Find plush, toys, shirts & more at the Star Wars: The Mandalorian shop at shopDisney.
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Lmao. Someone dropped the ball and misread how popular the character would be so now they're scrambling with screen printed junk anyone can do themselves.
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I need them to make that responsive doll
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I don't think that's what it is. With toys or merch, there's a lot of pre-production that inevitably leads to leaks. They really didn't want there to be a hint of The Child, which I think paid off for a lot of people that watched the show on day one.
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I could buy that, no way they would be able to keep that secret once it's sent for production.
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Still a big problem for Disney+, which wasn't available worldwide on day 1. Then they had Ming Na and co Tweeting pics of him days later. Secret was out and surprise was ruined for a lot of people.
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A tracked speeder with some lame rocket propulsion system when it would be easier to just use the same type of speeder as the rebels in that clip.
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Seeing Order 66, from a different perspective on Fallen Order, is just wow.
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Protecting the Wannabe: Darth Emo.
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Protecting the Wannabe: Darth Emo.
Literally highlighting him as a target with their bright red camouflage.
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There's something about this same with the trailer where it doesnt feel like Star Wars anymore. It feels dated. Low tech.
Like thats something I expect to see in G.I. Joe. Not SW.
