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Star Wars Episode 7 - Thread of Pre-Production
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Anticitizen One
Banned
well at least you believe in free enterprise
BattleMonkey
Member
KOTOR and the like would make for great one off animated flicks for direct to video. I will keep saying that they should go the Marvel/DC route with making animated one shot films for other eras and fan favorite EU material.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That was a terrible movie. Not a single competently composed mise-en-scene.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Mission Vao isn't a jedi I don't understand your comparission?
R2D2 and Chewbacca have shown their personality and character throughout the trilogy, wtf are you talking about!?
Huh, now you have to diss a human being for not looking 0815.Jeez Amy Allen actually looks like an Alien:
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Tsk, tsk. That was the point, old chap. Free Enterprise was the personification of Artaud's theatre of cruelty. Denying audiences any traditional or comfortable notion of the sensory motor schema.
Being more than a named female Twi'lek I guess.
You're right though, Aayla is a much bigger character.
Anticitizen One
Banned
if cheese eating snoots were in charge of Star Wars we would never get cool shit like Max Reebo's band. The mere thought upsets me.
God I miss the 80s
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God I miss the 80s
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Quite so. I have embarrassed both myself, and the lodge.
That would be so great, but possible with Disney?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
You'll be devastated to know that I've rescinded your offer to join the country club - not two days before the bi-annual box social.
BattleMonkey
Member
Well they used to with Marvel and some of their animated films, but guess they don't do that anymore really? DC keeps pumping them out though. It seems like it would be perfect cash in opportunity to give the hardcore fans stuff like the Thrawn trilogy while keeping it in it's own continuity. Marvel and DC continuity is all over the place so works well for them. Obviously not going to see this stuff done in live action.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
shira
Member
Anticitizen One
Banned
Well it looks like she got hired for her guns.
and I might I say they are some of the finest in the galaxy
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Bay, you old dog.
Frank Jaeger
Member
Don't throw poop at me if this has been said already - at least there's nothing in the OT - but Alice Eve said at the BAFTAs, that JJ Abrams is in charge of Star Wars now. Check the video at the link:
http://nerdbastards.com/2013/02/11/star-trek-into-darkness-khan-or-not-update-alice-eve-says/
Or I'm not making the right interpretation of "taken on"... could be this!
http://nerdbastards.com/2013/02/11/star-trek-into-darkness-khan-or-not-update-alice-eve-says/
Or I'm not making the right interpretation of "taken on"... could be this!
Lawrence Kasdan on New movies
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02...-wars-episode-vii-and-standalone-films?page=1
someone didnt like the prequels
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02...-wars-episode-vii-and-standalone-films?page=1
someone didnt like the prequels
Anticitizen One
Banned
I just hope Kasdan's still got it
edit: My god did you guys hear Alice Eve in that interview? What a snob!
edit: My god did you guys hear Alice Eve in that interview? What a snob!
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
That news is 18 days old.
Thug Waffle
Member
Why do you think she sounds snobby?
Should've kept him in carbonite
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I don't know if it's CONFIRMED confirmed, but El Mayimbe over at Latino Review was the one to break the news.
The Elite
BOSS
This thread is now devoted to the shitty Clerks/Swingers hybrid rip-off "Free Enterprise".
So bad it's good.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
He seems to not know that George Lucas is no longer involved.
Guy's like 80. Cut him some slack :lol
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's not. shit, I'm trying to remember where I recently read it, but I believe it was that Kathleen Kennedy profile in Variety where it was basically outright stated that Lucas gave her the keys knowing he basically gets no say from here on in. If she wants to check with him, she can.
Plus, he's declared his intention to sell the Disney stock he got in return for the sale, so basically, there's absolutely zero stake left for him once he starts dipping into that.
Re: Williams, yeah, I know he's 80, I just didn't wanna clown him or make jokes at the expense of his age. I think it's just he's heard there's a new Star Wars movie and he just assumed Lucas is still in charge, because why wouldn't he be? I don't get the sense Williams pays attention to what goes on in Hollywood unless he's hired by someone in Hollywood to do a job.
Isn't Lucas Creative Consultant for the future SW films? Or did he retire completly?
He is Creative Consultant. He is basically taking on the Roddenberry Role now with the movies. He will still have the influence but the studio etc. can basically overrule him if they decide too
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Roddenberry was pretty thoroughly ignored by anyone/everyone after The Motion Picture, though. He didn't really have any influence. The title was honorary more than anything, and it was given to him as a means of placating him. Lucas doesn't want or need the placation, as he was the one who instigated the sale of his property in the first place. "Creative Consultant" is more of a political move to reassure people who are worried that Disney is going to ruin Star Wars that Lucas still has a role.
But he doesn't, really.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I think it was mostly the money. This interview with Phil Tippett, given after a screening of Jurassic Park at the Alamo Drafthouse, suggests that the Prequels were directed by Lucas solely because it was a condition in the $3 billion endorsement deal with Pepsi. He wasn't going to direct ANY of them until that deal was signed, and then he agreed to direct all three.
If it was all about the money why is he giving everything away to charity?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
He's a ruthless philanthropist?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
So as to have more money to give away to charity? I dunno. But Tippett says his directing the prequels was a condition of getting $3 billion from Pepsi, so he directed. The films were profitable before a single frame was ever shot.
If you're someone who believes in doing as much as you can to help out in the field of education, and you had the means to raise BILLIONS to that end, why wouldn't you do that if given the opportunity? It's what he's doing with the Disney stock, too.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Pepsi wanted that Star Wars license. They figured Star Wars was going to ignite a huge merchandising firestorm like it did in the late 70s, and they wanted a HUGE piece of that. They figured if they paid for the right to put Star Wars on their products, people would buy those products JUST BECAUSE "Star Wars" was on it. They figured that was worth 3 billion to them, but (again, according to Tippett in that interview) they wanted Lucas directly attached to Star Wars, I guess to ensure the new movies maintained a sense of legitimacy or something? I guess? I dunno, but yeah - Pepsi essentially paid for Star Wars in return for the rights to sell billions of dollars in food/merchandise with Star Wars printed on it.