Can't wait for future cloning and casting with their younger selves lol
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Official Teaser Trailer #2
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Can't wait for future cloning and casting with their younger selves lol
Guerrillas in the Mist
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I want Boyega's character to say "use the force, fam" at some point.
Wow...that YouTube video was priceless
Gordon Shumway
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I can see it now..lol.
Joel Was Right
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Guys, I've never really been into Star Wars lore - more of a Sector 001 kinda guy if you know what I mean.
Can you recommend some literature/media to consume that will ultimately give me a backstory to this universe?
Can you recommend some literature/media to consume that will ultimately give me a backstory to this universe?
Damn.
With the canon-reboot, there's no more "backstory". New novels and other things are being made but at the moment, they don't expand the universe much.
Arguably the films tell everything relevant. And The Clone Wars and Rebels series are canon, and the most developed things after the films.
Of the old expanded universe, i'd recommend Thrawn Trilogy (by Timothy Zahn), and most books by James Luceno.
(And of course The Clone Wars which is also part of the old continuity.)
EDIT Follow Spoony Bard's advice, below.
SpoonyBard
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Watch the original trilogy (New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi). That's all you need.
obin_gam
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Well since they rebooted everything this november, you dont have that much work ahead of you
Canon as of April 2015
SeventhSon
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To add to this, search for the "despecialized" edtions.
triplestation
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this here is pure gold
They can't just get rid of the prequels. Too much of the new canon media directly refer to them. The boos, comics, the new Rebels TV series. Etc. it's an all or nothing deal.
Specific plot points could be kept in remakes, while redoing everything that was done badly.
(Or just reboot the EU again
)WadiumArcadium
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The prequels are done now. All of the new films in the foreseeable future are set long after that period of time anyway.
If you haven't seen already; Dinner For Five with Mark Hamill and JJ Abrams from 2005
SeventhSon
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Mr. Plinkett examines the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWKMgJs_Gs&list=PLZJ2yOBfQ1hr3wacUOgHhY_ZFZ2ujxAEo&index=7
Byron Bluth
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned the second voice in the trailer when Luke is talking?
You can really hear it when he says "my sister has it".
Sounds like Serkis' character from the first trailer.
You can really hear it when he says "my sister has it".
Sounds like Serkis' character from the first trailer.
teen natalie does indeed resembles and angel, goofy pod racer kid.
thats him, the X-wing pilot? Goddamn, the dude just melts into the chars.
Rebels is on screen canonSpecific plot points could be kept in remakes, while redoing everything that was done badly.
(Or just reboot the EU again
It's not going to happen. As Bobby said it would only happen in a full reboot. Which obviously won't happen any time soon, we are just about to kick off the sequel trilogy after all. The prequels are heavily integrated into the stories across the timeline in this franchise, they aren't going away. There is Natalie Portman as Padme front and center in an issue of the Leia comic after all. People need to accept the prequels are here to stay, no one says you have to like them but they are not going to be going away.
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
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Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
WadiumArcadium
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Definitely some kind of evil sounding echo. Could be Serkis.
My thought is its Finns character abandoning the ship
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
Mine too
WadiumArcadium
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I think you're probably right. Trailer seems to hint at that.
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
How cool would it be if you could say "I played a Stormtrooper in a Star Wars movie".
Damn.
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
Same here. Love that solitary stormtrooper flying in the air ha.
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
And yet I always feel bad for that storm trooper who shot into the air lol. I didn't think he survived that
triplestation
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lol thanks for this
Would be good place for it actually.
BTW, about that scene. Study the TIE Fighter. Note the gun placement, on the bottom, possibly in a turret, unlike in a normal TIE. Also note the wing/hull attachment points, they are wheel-like, unlike in a normal TIE. And finally, the cockpit window is a stripe, not like a spider-web like in normal TIEs.
Yet we see normal TIEs in the trailer as well.
Also note how the TIE's color scheme is new, white solar panels, black hull, reflective glass (compare to ESB where TIEs on Besbin), and considerably brighter laser emitters than before (they've always been red but not so bright).
Dreams-Visions
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I thought I was the only one that thought so. Very similar facial shape. Brow, smile, that box-y jaw line and all.
Byron Bluth
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Yeah it is definitely another character. Sounds like Serkis from the first trailer for sure.
I thought he was going to be Kylo Rey since it seemed that was the voice from the first trailer and the focus on him at the end.
Mrs. Manky
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And Keira Knightley was the handmaiden/double for Padme, who was played by Natalie Portman.
And Padme was the mother of Luke and Leia.
And it looks like Daisy Ridley's character might be a Skywalker or a Solo.
So...good casting.
God that part makes me cringe every time.
Hasnt been mentioned but my favourite part of the trailer was actually this bit
Im not even sure why, maybe it was the music hitting a crescendo, or that it genuinely looks real and practical, it just looks star wars to me.
This scene screams of the scene from Into Darkness when Khan is in the shuttle craft firing on Federation HQ. You can tell its a JJ framing. I like it.
Joel Was Right
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I was watching the panel and saw John Boyega admit that his character is a Stormtrooper. JJ didn't seem happy. Was that a genuine slip or was JJ having fun with the audience?
Calcium
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Probably just him having fun. If you look at the trailer there is a shot of a TIE Fighter firing on fellow Stormtroopers. There are also shots of him in the armor. It's pretty obvious at this point that Finn is a Stormtrooper that defects for whatever reason.
Indeed.
I reckon it was just having some fun.
JJ being like "dammit, you admitted something everyone can see".
ColdLasagna
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My body is ready.
Loved some of the landscape shots and the Han quick tease.
<insert Chewie howl>
Loved some of the landscape shots and the Han quick tease.
<insert Chewie howl>
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I wonder if this will have more practical effects and actual stagework and all, or if it will be another greenscreen fest out of the CGI machine.
Please be good :/
Please be good :/
Master Yoshi
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You're going to be pleasantly surprised.
WadiumArcadium
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JJ's already said several times they've tried to use more practical effects. The new droid BB-8 is a physical prop for example.
See I initially saw these clips interspersed into the Plinkett reviews and thought Plinkett was the one pointing out how much of a mess the making of this film was, but after actually watching The Beginning (the documentary all of this is taken from) I'm convinced the documentarians absolutely knew this too, and they edited it together in such a way to try to communicate that to viewers. At every turn they seem to go out of their way to stop and focus on mess of things going on. I love that there's the montage of Anakin screen tests, and they show a kid who's pretty decent, and then follow it up with a really, really terrible Jake Lloyd delivery where he royally fucks up his lines. They didn't have to use that take in the documentary, but they do to point out how horrible George Lucas' decision making is. It's painfully obvious just by watching the documentary that it's an absolute clusterfuck - an out of control train, teetering on rails without a brake.
Well, not quite. Watching these trailers I'd hoped that he was an enlisted Storm Trooper - that's fresh and a cool direction that we haven't seen before, but I had a sneaking suspicion this was just another case of "Rebel in a disguise infiltrating enemy base" situation - straight out of ANH. If you saw a trailer of ANH there'd be a pretty decent chance audiences would assume Luke was also a rogue Storm Trooper.
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