[Movies] Star Wars: Episode VII

Espy

Espy

Let's have origin stories of their origin stories, prequels within prequels! I mean, come on, there's a LOT of senate debate we haven't seen yet. Probably hundreds of years of it.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

If they do a true to source material Han Solo origin story, Frank Herbert's family would likely sue, since it would be about smuggling spice.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Bowielee said:
He killed younglings!
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One of my favorite Han Solo stories is from one of the Star Wars Tales issues where he keeps bringing a Correllian Cruiser through an Emperial check-point. The Commander of the check-point knows something is up, and keeps having the ship searched top-to-bottom. But they come up with no contraband. On the third fly-through the commander is absolutely astonished by the fact that sweeps of Han's Cruiser come up with zilch, even after has the entire interior stripped apart. But, just as Han gets through the check-point that third time, the commander realizes he's never seen Han Solo come back through the check-point in the opposite direction. Han's been smuggling ships!!!
 
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Shawnacy said:
One of my favorite Han Solo stories is from one of the Star Wars Tales issues where he keeps bringing a Correllian Cruiser through an Emperial check-point. The Commander of the check-point knows something is up, and keeps having the ship searched top-to-bottom. But they come up with no contraband. On the third fly-through the commander is absolutely astonished by the fact that sweeps of Han's Cruiser come up with zilch, even after has the entire interior stripped apart. But, just as Han gets through the check-point that third time, the commander realizes he's never seen Han Solo come back through the check-point in the opposite direction. Han's been smuggling ships!!!
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That's a version of the old 'stealing wheelbarrows' story.
 
Just Me

Just Me

drawn_inward said:
I've read these: http://www.amazon.com/The-Han-Solo-Adventures-Revenge/dp/0345379802
I got them at Star Tours back in the day. They were all right, but I wouldn't necessarily want to make a movie out of them.
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They are good pulp novels but not much of the original Star Wars (no Stormtroopers, no evil Empire etc.).
For Han's origin there's this one Amazon product and its two sequels. They tell young Han's way from the gutters to the Imperial Academy, out of it and to a smuggler's life. And it ends right in the Mos Eisley cantina as Chewie brings a hooded guy and a kid who have to leave Tatooine.
Nice reading, some interesting stories, not sure if I'd want movies.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Hmmm. Kasdan, mildly positive. Abrams even more involved, leaning more towards negative. Changing writer halfway through, more negative than positive.

We'll see, but it's not something that makes me especially happy.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Bubble181 said:
Hmmm. Kasdan, mildly positive. Abrams even more involved, leaning more towards negative. Changing writer halfway through, more negative than positive.

We'll see, but it's not something that makes me especially happy.
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Yeah, after Into the Darkness, I am not as confident as I once was. Hopefully, Kasdan will have a larger influence. Heck, sometimes I wish Joss Whedon was a producer.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

sixpackshaker said:
I realized what is going to be truly missing from the next Star Wars Episode...

The 20th Century Fox Fanfare. :(
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This is true. I watched the OT so many times growing up that I associate that to this day w/ SW. So, does my brother. When I was younger, I would sometimes wish that whatever Fox movie I was watching would magically transform into SW after the fanfare; that's pretty dorky.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

drawn_inward said:
This is true. I watched the OT so many times growing up that I associate that to this day w/ SW. So, does my brother. When I was younger, I would sometimes wish that whatever Fox movie I was watching would magically transform into SW after the fanfare; that's pretty dorky.
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The soundtrack album for A New Hope actually includes the Fox fanfare as track 1. Track 2 is the Star Wars opening theme. According to the booklet in the CD case, this way the moment of silent anticipation between the end of the Fox fanfare and the start of the Star Wars theme is reproduced in the soundtrack.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

bhamv3 said:
The soundtrack album for A New Hope actually includes the Fox fanfare as track 1. Track 2 is the Star Wars opening theme. According to the booklet in the CD case, this way the moment of silent anticipation between the end of the Fox fanfare and the start of the Star Wars theme is reproduced in the soundtrack.
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I know - I have them all! OT that is. I thought it was an awesome touch. We all obviously feel the same way about that particular theme. Brofists for everyone!
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Tangential to the main topic, but on the issue of associating production credits with certain movies.

I'm still a little disappointed every time I see the New Line Cinema film reel logo forming and it doesn't have the first few echoey notes of the Nightmare on Elm Street theme.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Bowielee said:
Tangential to the main topic, but on the issue of associating production credits with certain movies.

I'm still a little disappointed every time I see the New Line Cinema film reel logo forming and it doesn't have the first few echoey notes of the Nightmare on Elm Street theme.
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Every time I see New Line Cinema, I'm waiting to see it again since I'm used to watching Lord of the Rings and they run the company's logo twice for some reason, at least on DVD.
 
General Specific

General Specific

Bubble181 said:
Hmmm. Kasdan, mildly positive..
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Only mildly? Kasdan co-wrote Empire and Jedi, not to mention Raiders of the Lost Ark and being nominated for 4 screenwriting academy awards after that. If there is anyone I would want handling the Star Wars franchise, it'd be him. Plus, he already has experience in keeping a director from ruining a franchise.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Wow, I can't believe they are giving up middle May. And I can't believe that the film won't be pushed back to May 2016.

Unless ILM - or whoever gets the project has already started "filming" the special effects.
 
Far

Far

sixpackshaker said:
Wow, I can't believe they are giving up middle May. And I can't believe that the film won't be pushed back to May 2016.

Unless ILM - or whoever gets the project has already started "filming" the special effects.
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December is another big time for movies with generally less spectacle films then summer so it won't have too much competition, aside from oscar bait which is usually a totally different demographic. And having 2015 will let it fill the December release void that the hobbit series will leave for big special effect heavy journey films.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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To be honest... I'm not looking forward to any manner of Star Wars movies ever again. After taking a few interested looks into Wookieepedia after reading names of minor characters in Darths & Droids, it just feels completely idiotic how every - single - character to appear on the silver screen has page after page of backstory with links to locations and races and religions and what he bloody fuck else. The original trilogy worked on its own, but with the new trilogy and later with the Clone Wars series the backstory keeps getting filled, leaving even less and less room for any sort of imagination. The galaxy is getting cluttered to the point where the idea of even trying, say, a Star Wars RPG game would be doomed the second there's someone in the group who has immersed themselves in the Expanded Universe.

But what do I know? As long as nerds, geeks and fans like us keep throwing money at Star Wars, they'll keep making Star Wars movies.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Well the prequel trilogy didn't care about the expanded universe, and I don't think these movies are going to care either.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Enjoy for what it is, don't worry about the stuff that isn't movie. That's what I plan to do. I'm looking forward to this more than the prequels, but all is open to do, these movies don't have to end at a point that everyone is going into knowing what that point is. Then again, I won't gripe at you if you don't watch them, unless you purposely come into a thread like a certain surfer we all know.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Far said:
December is another big time for movies with generally less spectacle films then summer so it won't have too much competition, aside from oscar bait which is usually a totally different demographic. And having 2015 will let it fill the December release void that the hobbit series will leave for big special effect heavy journey films.
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Hobbit is only in for two Decembers; it's not like LOTR where we got used to it. The third Hobbit movie (unless they changed something) is set for 2014 summer. I don't know if anything big is aimed at December 2014 in its stead.
 
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