Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Official Teaser Trailer #2
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Bobby Roberts
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Me too.
Even though Sucker Punch was terrible, I always liked his role in it as well.
Cross-Section
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He was great in A Most Violent Year.
Jack Scofield
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Any hi-res, 4K screencaps of the crashed Star Destroyer yet? I'm currently using the 4K shot of the Millennium Falcon flying into the Super Star Destroyer (which looks absolutely gorgeous, by the way. Looks like a painting), but I would love to have the first shot of the trailer in 4K resolution.
I feel like the canon time period between Jedi and episode 7 is going to be a crazy 30 years with a dense amount of story to tell.
For example.....
The rebellion in episode 7 are referred to as the "resistance" and the empire as the "first order". This was proven by the prop descriptions at celebration. However, also canon is that 1 year after Jedi there was a "Battle of Jakku" that the downed super star destroyer from the trailer comes from. Well the funny thing is during that battle - the canon two sides were called the New Republic and the remenamtes of the empire.
Here is the PR for the game that called it out: "Battlefront" will also include a free downloadable level available two weeks before "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in theaters Dec. 18. It's set on Jakku, the battle-scarred desert planet glimpsed in "Force Awakens" teasers. The expansion, dubbed "Battle of Jakku," will explore the moment following "Return of the Jedi" when the New Republic confronted Imperial holdouts on the previously unseen Outer Rim.
To go from rebels to forming a new republic and then back to a resistance - there must be a hell of amount of stuff that went down in just 30 years.
Then again - from episode 3 to Jedi is probably about 25-30 years and that is essentially the rise and fall of the empire.
For example.....
The rebellion in episode 7 are referred to as the "resistance" and the empire as the "first order". This was proven by the prop descriptions at celebration. However, also canon is that 1 year after Jedi there was a "Battle of Jakku" that the downed super star destroyer from the trailer comes from. Well the funny thing is during that battle - the canon two sides were called the New Republic and the remenamtes of the empire.
Here is the PR for the game that called it out: "Battlefront" will also include a free downloadable level available two weeks before "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in theaters Dec. 18. It's set on Jakku, the battle-scarred desert planet glimpsed in "Force Awakens" teasers. The expansion, dubbed "Battle of Jakku," will explore the moment following "Return of the Jedi" when the New Republic confronted Imperial holdouts on the previously unseen Outer Rim.
To go from rebels to forming a new republic and then back to a resistance - there must be a hell of amount of stuff that went down in just 30 years.
Then again - from episode 3 to Jedi is probably about 25-30 years and that is essentially the rise and fall of the empire.
Zeyphersan
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Lucas is the worst part of the entire series and any drafts he made should be first copied and preserved because it's still art and second burned because they're probably horrifically bad
Frosty Droid
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And he turned down the Dr. Strange role! Now we're stuck with Benedict Cumberbatch.
PhoncipleBone
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Good. I like that Han looks like he's seen some shit in these last 30 years.
Personally, I'm hoping that when the inevitable reboot happens, they do a reimagining instead and base it off The Star Wars (rough draft) or Adventures of The Starkiller.
But that will never happen.
Wasn't Luke a girl and Han Solo a Wookie in the original script?
Not a joke, I remember reading this somewhere.
Luke was a indeed a girl in one of the drafts. The name Han Solo was originally applied to a Ureallian, a green alien with gills.
BocoDragon
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This all makes me re-consider what I thought the universe of The Force Awakens is like.
I thought that with stormtroopers still around, there couldn't be much subtlety there. I took that as "the Empire is still around", and any idea that the Empire had declined or been defeated by the Rebels at the end of Jedi was some EU crap that Disney had thrown in the garbage. And I liked that idea... it made me think that the Rebels didn't finish the job after all, and the old enemy was still around just with Palpatine and Vader out of the picture.
But now, with this "the First Order" stuff, it seems almost like the status quo of the EU. The Empire was set back and splintered after ROTJ, and this First Order is just another imperial remnant, the kind of which turned up time and time again in the EU.
And even calling it the New Republic and the Imperial remnant in an era right after the end of ROTJ....? It seems like far less of the general concept of the EU was thrown out after all.. just individual stories.
I dunno if I like that. I thought we were getting a completely alternate path from the EU for how things went after ROTJ . Now it kinda seems like the 30 year period after ROTJ was a lot like the EU... and The Force Awakens era is a lot like Star Wars Legacy - one of the imperial remnants gains power and things go back to a very OT-like dynamic.
What I liked about the Empire still being around was that they could play with the core of the galactic conflict and go in a completely different direction with it that matters. If what I'm seeing is true, then it just reads as a very EU "this Empire vs Rebels stuff just goes on forever" vibe....
ClivePwned
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Maybe there are 3 main factions this time. The New Republic, the First Order and the Resistance.
That's kind of rewriting history. He didn't just pop up in Drive and then proceed to blow up. He had significant, if not co-leading, roles in Pu-239, Agora, The Nativity Story, Robin Hood and Sucker Punch in the years before Drive. Plus smaller roles in Che and Body of Lies. General audiences may not have known him by name, but he's certainly been putting in the work. His climb has actually been quite steady.
kaiju
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I wanted to see who's handing Leia the lightsaber so I Photoshopped several frames from the trailer together to get a better look:
Looks like a big eyed alien, possibly a child considering how short they are.
It is rumored that it's Zoe Saldana's character.
EDIT: Not Zoe Saldana, I meant Lupita Nyong'o.
You mean Lupita Nyong'o.
Darth Karja
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I really don't like the name New Replublic. With throwing away the EU I thought they had a chance to change some things. But that is a very uncreative name. Why not just call it the Republic. I know we've had the republic before, but the rebels were called the Alliance to Restore the Republic. So they could restore the name too. Its not something big but its just something that has bothered me.
DangerMouse
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Yeah, I never really thought we'd get to see these two things again in a new movie, it feels great.
Never heard that one.
You act as if EU hold exclusive rights to a sort of causal history. Where fragments and remnants of one movement play into the political climate of the next decade. Just looking at our own history, that is explicitly what happens. I ask you, so what? So what if splinter factions of the Empire have reconvened. Regrouped. You wanted a story in which the remnants of the Empire were placified to the point where they were no longer the main enemy? You wanted some other story within such a climate? This is the galaxy we are talking about. What is to say the First Order isn't such a relatively smaller side conflict or insurgency occurring within a larger healing political system.
The point is no matter the scale of the conflict on paper, you narrow down your framing of the story to focus solely within that conflict. You will always get the impression that the conflict is everything in that world. So whether it is, or it isn't. I don't see the distinction really panning out. Star Wars is much more ripe for stories of large conflict, because in any world some conflicts will be considerably larger than others. The struggle between the Sith and the Jedi has been one of these larger conflicts throughout history. Starting there I don't know what it is you would rather see. In terms of side stories, we are now getting additional movies in the Star Wars universe. So those will be something to look forward to.
Monocle
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Oh, I'd wondered who was responsible for the other half of those views.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
An orange, all-CG character voiced by a black person in a Star Wars movie? I think I had a nightmare about that happening once.
And Ex Machina
SpoonyBard
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The teasers look great, but so did Phantom Menace teasers back in the day. And JJ Abrams writing, directing and producing.... well, I liked Super 8 for what it was, but hopefully Star Wars will be more than nostalgic tribute to original trilogy. Well, I can't help but be excited really, I just don't want to be disappointed again.
Monocle
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At the very least TFA will look much better than the prequels. Check out that art design. They have that shit nailed.
Monocle
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It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.
SpoonyBard
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Well, I think Phantom had pretty good art design, but the two other prequels had to deal with moving that art style towards the style seen in the original trilogy. Combine that with heavy use of CGI sets, and the results were quite terrible. And boring.
DiipuSurotu
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Daisy Ridley looks a lot like Keira Knightley.
Moff
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fuck you rick berman
The Real Abed
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What is it with Rick's?
Banjotanooki
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The fact that they showed this on the Behind-the-scenes video always makes me laugh.
Even they knew it was a disaster in the making.
exmachina64
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Forgive me if this is common knowledge, is that a young Carrie Fisher?
ClivePwned
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Ah this gem and lucas admitting there is too much going on screen and screwed everything up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxf1c3fzDOU
Found this one on youtube..dear god looking back i now know how bad those movies where.
Monocle
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I didn't get people's obsession with metal bikini Leia, but I get it now.
SeventhSon
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And the Creeper Rick meme is born!
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