Star Wars Episode VIII Production Thread (Principal Photography Complete)

Mr Cola said:
In this thread you can say anything about EP7, not sure about avatars, but i doubt most people will care
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Yeah to be honest without having seen the movie or Mark Hamill recently I would have had no idea what was him.

He looks like one weathered duded in that scene and it's awesome.

Is there any news of novels coming out in between the events of 7 and 8? It seems like most of the new books are being set in the past.
 
Mr Cola said:
I avoided jurassic world because of word of mouth, watched it a few weeks ago on the off chance and its fine, its neither groundbreaking or terrible, its fine and fun and forgettable and theres nothing wrong with that, I also have 0 reason to doubt Disney because I loved TFA (After seeing it a few times that is)
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It's definitely not groundbreaking but I don't think they were going for that. TFA isn't groundbreaking either. It was the first Jurassic movie I've loved since the original. Nothing can really recapture that magic or break that sort of ground as... how do you break ground twice with the same damn thing? Maybe it's possible, but out of most director's league. The same guy who made the original turned around and made a huge piece of shit sequel just a few years later.

What Trevorrow did was fine, it wasn't perfect or trend-setting, but I thought it was the first great sequel, well made and with actual new story ideas that the other sequels lacked. I have no reason as of right now to doubt Trevorrow.
 
peppermints said:
Is there any news of novels coming out in between the events of 7 and 8? It seems like most of the new books are being set in the past.
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Not a novel, but has there been any word as to when that Noto-penned Poe Dameron comic's taking place? I mean, Before the Awakening pretty much covered how he got into the Resistance, there's not much else in his backstory that hasn't already been addressed by that and the Shattered Empire comics.
 
peppermints said:
Yeah to be honest without having seen the movie or Mark Hamill recently I would have had no idea what was him.

He looks like one weathered duded in that scene and it's awesome.

Is there any news of novels coming out in between the events of 7 and 8? It seems like most of the new books are being set in the past.
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Well considering ep8 "seems" to continue directly after ep7 (Given the new scenes, the fact they shot there in nov) theres not much to fill in :D
 
brandonh83 said:
It's definitely not groundbreaking but I don't think they were going for that. TFA isn't groundbreaking either. It was the first Jurassic movie I've loved since the original. Nothing can really recapture that magic or break that sort of ground as... how do you break ground twice with the same damn thing? Maybe it's possible, but out of most director's league. The same guy who made the original turned around and made a huge piece of shit sequel just a few years later.

What Trevorrow did was fine, it wasn't perfect or trend-setting, but I thought it was the first great sequel, well made and with actual new story ideas that the other sequels lacked. I have no reason as of right now to doubt Trevorrow.
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I think the striking thing about ep7 is that it actually created a new genuine Star Wars film, which I think over time will be seen as more of an accomplishment than it does now, it actually did it. I think this could easily be the weakest of the 3 films, especially if the next two expand the horizon while still feeling Star Wars, but as an accomplishment its huge, I love these characters, they feel like Luke, Han and Leia to me (Though Luke is still my favourite).

To me thats kind of mindblowing, of the myriad of ways they could have fucked this up and the weight put on them not to, they actually succeeded.
 
Mr Cola said:
To me thats kind of mindblowing, of the myriad of ways they could have fucked this up and the weight put on them not to, they actually succeeded.
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So much of the heavy lifting has already been done. Abrams and Kasdan created all these new characters and events which requires considerable creativity and imagination as it is. I'd imagine that was the hardest part, creatively. I also trust Johnson to do the same. By the time Colin gets to it he'll have even more of a crazy sandbox to play in. That's not to say that Colin and company won't bring new things or create their own stuff as all movies need new things, but sitting down and being like okay I'm making a new Star Wars movie and setting up a new trilogy must be fucking terrifying and Abrams killlllllled it.
 
Laura had sort of reddish hair at the 2014 Oscars:

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Didn't they film more scenes at Michael Skellig at the end of TFA's production, especially for VIII?

Those clips in the trailer are obviously from that shoot, given the statement mentions Pinewood.

Now gimme a Rogue One teaser.
 
Nodnol said:
Didn't they film more scenes at Michael Skellig at the end of TFA's production, especially for VIII?

Those clips in the trailer are obviously from that shoot, given the statement mentions Pinewood.

Now gimme a Rogue One teaser.
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I don't think the footage shown in today's video was filmed this week. Since they are supposedly at Pinewood right now, not Ireland. It's probably from the shoot they did in Sept 2015. Remember when Mark was spotted at that Irish Pub? Some hours or days before that took place.
 
There was already too many characters in 7. They really should have removed at least 3-4 of those before adding even more.

Daisy Ridley
John Boyega
Mark Hamill
Carrie Fisher
Adam Driver
Oscar Isaac
Lupita Nyong’o
Domhnall Gleeson
Anthony Daniels
Gwendoline Christie
Andy Serkis
+ Chewie, R2, BB8
+ BDT, Dern, Tran

I guess Issac, Fisher and Gleeson are going to the trash compacter for this next one.
 
Mr Cola said:
Title drop at celebration I think
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Probably what's gonna happen.



Also, I take it they'll be done with most of filming at that point (I remember TFA's filming went by like an eye-blink), so we might get a screenshot or an extremely small teaser of new footage (I'm talking 10 seconds at most) with it.


Everything else is gonna be Rogue One's party as it should.
 
Grover Cleveland said:
The first scene of the movie is Luke turning around, looking at Rey and then reciting what would be the opening crawl.

Problem Solved!
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I'm still annoyed we might not actually see what they say to each other after the end of the last film. Would they show it then training montage! time skip?
 
Imagine how exciting it would be to start filming this knowing how successful TFA was. Like the stress of re-ruining Star Wars is gone, so now they can just focus on making this one.
 
jelly said:
I'm still annoyed we might not actually see what they say to each other after the end of the last film. Would they show it then training montage! time skip?
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The fact that Johnson's filmed a continuation of the final scene of TFA for VIII means we probably will see that dialogue.
 
I was surprised Dern and del Toro didn't get their own thread. Very exciting news and impressive acting gets for SW, esp. Dern IMO.
 
WadiumArcadium said:
The fact that Johnson's filmed a continuation of the final scene of TFA for VIII means we probably will see that dialogue.
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Picking up right after a previous movie scene is so un-Star Wars.

But then again ending a movie on an unfinished cliffhanger scene in VII was pretty un-Star Wars too. I guess they've got to follow through with that folly...
 
BocoDragon said:
Picking up right after a previous movie scene is so un-Star Wars.

But then again ending a movie on an unfinished cliffhanger scene in VII was pretty un-Star Wars too. I guess they've got to follow through with that folly...
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Picking up where JJ finished makes the most sense with it being such a pivotal moment. The saga taking a new direction in how they do things is fine by me. JJ stayed true to the OT but they're going to try new things. I thought the ending worked really well.
 
WadiumArcadium said:
Picking up where JJ finished makes the most sense with it being such a pivotal moment. The saga taking a new direction in how they do things is fine by me. JJ stayed true to the OT but they're going to try new things. I thought the ending worked really well.
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It's definitely a betrayal of the OG format, but it is what it is.

I guess why it bothers me is that Star Wars chapters really did feel more like self-contained stories. Even when they were deliberately setting up future films, as in Episode V, I and II, they still felt like they were the end of their own little piece of time. The heroes stood together looking off into the sunset, and when we returned to them in the next movie, they were already well into a new phase of their lives.

TFA ends with a Nick Fury-style stinger "to be continued"... I guess we've given up any pretence that these are films unto themselves?

I'd actually feel better if VIII began months into Luke training Rey.
 
My hope for VIII's ending is that not only should it be a balance of satisfying and open ended, but that it finally locks-in the new crew (VIII newcomers included like Tran perhaps) as the primary "family" to focus on from here on out. I was already hoping they do that with VII and as much as I liked that film, I have to agree with Boco that the ending was a helluva pisser.

I'm thinking something like ending of JJ's first Star Trek or Guardians of the Galaxy (fuck, it is so weird how these specific films are related to SW by certain degrees). They nailed down their new crew together by the end and set-up a "Well...where to?" scenario. Though, if they do that, I hope they find some other way than a Millenium Falcon flyaway shot because that kind of ending shot is getting repetitive in any sci-fi at this point.
 
MMarston said:
My hope for VIII's ending is that not only should it be a balance of satisfying and open ended, but that it finally locks-in the new crew (VIII newcomers included like Tran perhaps) as the primary "family" to focus on from here on out. I was already hoping they do that with VII and as much as I liked that film, I have to agree with Boco that the ending was a helluva pisser.

I'm thinking something like ending of JJ's first Star Trek or Guardians of the Galaxy (fuck, it is so weird how these specific films are related to SW by certain degrees). They nailed down their new crew together by the end and set-up a "Well...where to?" scenario. Though, if they do that, I hope they find some other way than a Millenium Falcon flyaway shot because that kind of ending shot is getting repetitive in any sci-fi at this point.
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"Well... where to?" Is far more Star Wars-like. I want a sense of finality for the last film and a sense that more is yet to come... but I don't want to be dragged to the door of the sequel with an "on the next episode of Star Wars..." style teaser.

WillyFive said:
I think it has been pretty faithful to the format story-wise. Only thing that was very different was that it was a moving camera shot as opposed to a still one.
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I think it factually wasn't...

If TFA was truly faithful to the format of a Star Wars trilogy opener, it would have ended at a celebration sequence honouring the core heroes.

Now, I don't need that specific level of slavish devotion at all. But clearly both Episode IV and Episode I ended with a sense that this story was completed, worth celebrating, and didn't directly lay out the opening of the next sequel with a kind of teaser. I'd have appreciated a more celebratory and self-contained end to TFA.

Even Episode V and II, which were setting up sequels, showed the darker state of the heroes' position. But it didn't actually drag them to Jabba's palace or the ship that Palpatine was kidnapped on and say "to be continued in a few years!"
 
Do you think this might be some kind of flashback/vision?

The music is very Sigur Ros at the beginning, which doesn't fit the usual John Williams score either. They said Johnson was supposed to go into some weird territory concerning the force,etc. Could the flim play with that? Maybe we see Luke's quest leading up to that point then he turns around... and Rey is there with the saber.

Or maybe Luke's just crazy. He can't even take care of himself!
 
duckroll said:
What is Episode VIII is the first SW film to have the opening crawl -after- a prologue scene? :o
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I'd be damned impressed if they do that successfully though.

Lmo911 said:
Do you think this might be some kind of flashback/vision?

The music is very Sigur Ros at the beginning, which doesn't fit the usual John Williams score either. They said Johnson was supposed to go into some weird territory concerning the force,etc. Could the flim play with that? Maybe we see Luke's quest leading up to that point then he turns around... and Rey is there with the saber.
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Pretty sure it's just Lucasfilm third party stock music. Same as the promo material for TFA

Boke1879 said:
I'm against it simply because there is no basis for it outside of internet users doing their usual "shipping".
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I'm open to any sort of relationships lifting off but yes, FinnPoe will just seems silly and forced now if it ever does happen.

BocoDragon said:
I think it factually wasn't...

If TFA was truly faithful to the format of a Star Wars trilogy opener, it would have ended at a celebration sequence honouring the core heroes.
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This is gonna sound like one of the stupid "like poetry" things, but I secret guilty-pleasure hope IX ends with an awards ceremony for the new blood. Complete with the music.
 
duckroll said:
What is Episode VIII is the first SW film to have the opening crawl -after- a prologue scene? :o
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Just drop the crawl if you're going to do that. By that point, the use of the device will have been completely misunderstood. It is to set the stage for the story in the style of a Shakespearean play (by way of Flash Gordon, which did the same)

"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,"

...that kind of thing.

At some point if they're going to abuse tradition, just go all the way and give it the late title card, with the Kyle Cooper-syle action-credits montage, no more classic screen wipes or John Willaims, and put a Wiz Khalifa track over the ending credits.



MMarston said:
This is gonna sound like one of the stupid "like poetry" things, but I secret guilty-pleasure hope IX ends with an awards ceremony for the new blood. Complete with the music.
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The time would really have been right at the end of TFA.

Obviously Episode IX ends with the Ewoks singing.
 
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