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Star Wars Episode VIII Production Thread (Principal Photography Complete)
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Holy cheekbones.
WadiumArcadium
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Heh. From Empire:
brandonh83
Banned
How are Daisy Ridley's teeth and now eyebrows so perfect? It's bizarre.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Just taking a quick peek in this thread made me realise that this may be the first time I've felt joy about Star Wars. The previous movies happened and they were good or bad but Episode VII was actually fun. Episode VIII looks like it's off to a great start. I think I'm finally won over by Star Wars.
thecouncil
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Translation: "They live on the moons of Iego, I think."
WadiumArcadium
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Making Star Wars have got some info on Laura Dern's role in VIII. I've posted it in the spoilers thread for those of you who are interested. Some interesting stuff regarding Leia as well.
As for non-spoilery stuff, apparently Poe's costume is a bit of a mix of his casual Resistance clothes in TFA and Han's costume. Seeing I liked both costumes it should be cool.
As for non-spoilery stuff, apparently Poe's costume is a bit of a mix of his casual Resistance clothes in TFA and Han's costume. Seeing I liked both costumes it should be cool.
WadiumArcadium
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The Elite
BOSS
That's great to hear.
BrokenFiction
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I like this a lot, because I feel like Adam is a no bullshit kind of guy. If it sucked, he probably wouldn't say anything, but if it really is good, he's gonna say so.
phazedplasma
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Can you recut it without the prequel stuff pls griffy.
That's good to hear, though I'm surprised he hasn't been on set yet, given how long they've been filming. He must not be at any of the locations they've shot in yet.
While well put together it just reminded me how infuriatingly awful the prequels were, and how they borked both the story and the visuals.
Boyega posted this to his Instagram, some hints as to how Finn evolves:
Haha, you know what? I might have a crack at it once I get my Blu-ray of TFA. I think the idea behind the video is cooler than the execution, because the prequel stuff winds up being kind of contradictory especially when paired with Obi Wan's voiceover from ANH. It's still cool to see the journey of the saber.
Haha, you know what? I might have a crack at it once I get my Blu-ray of TFA. I think the idea behind the video is cooler than the execution, because the prequel stuff winds up being kind of contradictory especially when paired with Obi Wan's voiceover from ANH. It's still cool to see the journey of the saber.
Boyega posted this to his Instagram, some hints as to how Finn evolves:
Damn, everything they're saying is basically exactly what I want to hear.
With TFA coming out on video next week, I keep thinking over how much I've fallen in love with these characters. I'm not looking forward to the action, or designs, or music, though I'm sure they'll be great. I want to know what happens to Rey, Ren, Finn and Poe. I want to see them together again and just bouncing off each other. I just want to spend more time with these great characters.
That is, ultimately, TFA's great legacy, bringing a new set of characters together, as much as anything else it pulled off.
That's what I was thinking too. Surprised he's not on set.
Boyega posted this to his Instagram, some hints as to how Finn evolves:
Wow, that's truly some exciting stuff. Gave me goosebumps. Very interested in this direction.
Yup, good post. That's what a lot of people forget -- the main goal of TFA was to introduce us to characters we would love and care about for three movies (maybe more?). That's no easy task and they really pulled it off. I can't wait to find out what happens to these characters and how they overcome their challenges. Isn't that was SW is all about?
I imagine he spends a good chunk of the film licking his wounds and completing his training with Snoke, so he wouldn't be filming with the other cast at these first locations.
I don't think all of the sets so far have been in the beginning of the film though? I thought one was actually towards the end.
I'm not sure on that, but in any case I gotta assume he's gonna be isolated from the "hero" characters except for specific sequences.
WadiumArcadium
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Boyega posted this to his Instagram, some hints as to how Finn evolves:
I really liked Finn's arc in TFA but it's good to hear.
I still blame the marketing in some respect for people's reaction to Finn. With Finn wielding Luke's lightsaber in the final trailer and in the posters, some people were always going to jump to the the conclusion he was 'the Jedi' and be disappointed with him.
I'm glad JJ and Kasdan decided to keep the idea of a stormtrooper leaving his post.
I've always thought Poe was more likely to die earlier but I think all three of them will make it to IX now with the reaction they've had.
Future PhaZe
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pls seduce rey Finn
pls
pls
Films aren't always shot in chronological order. A lot of the time, bits from various parts of the script are shot in any given order. Sometimes a final scene can be shot first!
One of the things that I love about The Force Awakens, and that I was the most worried about going into the movie was Finn, Rey, Poe, and Kylo. Many of us have grown up with Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie, and the prospect of following a new group of heroes/villains is understandably worrisome.
This whole revival of Star Wars could have absolutely blown up in Lucasfilm's faces had they failed at establishing the new leads as intriguing, compelling, likable and relatable characters. Can you imagine if Rey or Finn were insufferably bad? It would have been disastrous.
While I was eager to see Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewie again, I was more interested in seeing how these new recruits were going to hold up. I was incredibly relieved to have fallen in love with all of them just like I did the original crew. The biggest get from TFA for me was Adam Driver as Kylo Ren. A complex Star Wars villain that defied expectations of just being a "Vader 2.0." As much as I adore Rey, Finn, and Poe, what Abrams and Kasdan did with Kylo Ren was brilliant, and subverted expectations, and set up a very intriguing villain arc for the next two movies.
Everyone talks about how much of a retread of A New Hope this movie was, but nobody seems to comment on how disastrous it would have been if they hadn't nailed the new cast. I am so excited to see what happens to them all in the next movie. I'm emotionally invested in their fates, and I want the best outcome for all of them. For me, that's the best result I could have hoped for coming out of TFA and into Episode VIII.
One of the things that I love about The Force Awakens, and that I was the most worried about going into the movie was Finn, Rey, Poe, and Kylo. Many of us have grown up with Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie, and the prospect of following a new group of heroes/villains is understandably worrisome.
This whole revival of Star Wars could have absolutely blown up in Lucasfilm's faces had they failed at establishing the new leads as intriguing, compelling, likable and relatable characters. Can you imagine if Rey or Finn were insufferably bad? It would have been disastrous.
While I was eager to see Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewie again, I was more interested in seeing how these new recruits were going to hold up. I was incredibly relieved to have fallen in love with all of them just like I did the original crew. The biggest get from TFA for me was Adam Driver as Kylo Ren. A complex Star Wars villain that defied expectations of just being a "Vader 2.0." As much as I adore Rey, Finn, and Poe, what Abrams and Kasdan did with Kylo Ren was brilliant, and subverted expectations, and set up a very intriguing villain arc for the next two movies.
Everyone talks about how much of a retread of A New Hope this movie was, but nobody seems to comment on how disastrous it would have been if they hadn't nailed the new cast. I am so excited to see what happens to them all in the next movie. I'm emotionally invested in their fates, and I want the best outcome for all of them. For me, that's the best result I could have hoped for coming out of TFA and into Episode VIII.
Holy shit. This is brilliant, I love it.
And it actually... made me want to watch the pequels. Even though I know they're shit. Why. Why is this happening to me.
A good point, and this is especially true with films that mix location shooting and stages. IIRC nearly all of Poe and Ren's scenes were filmed at Pinewood, they didn't do the location hopping that Rey did. So they might just be waiting for whatever location shooting to get done and for the production to move to the New Order / Snoke sets.
Oh yeah I'm well aware of this. Almost no film or TV show is ever shot in chronological order, and I wasn't suggesting that was the case here. We just happen to know that Kylo Ren is presumably going somewhere that will isolate him from the hero characters for much of the film, so it makes sense if they are shooting scenes that don't include him and the actor wouldn't be needed on set right away. Much of the Kylo shooting would be a different block then whatever it is they're filming now, most likely.
Yeah, exactly. When I was younger, I was under the impression that movies were all shot in chronological order. Lol.
I find it fascinating how filming will jump all over the script. And it's also kind of funny when you're watching a movie, and you pick up on inconsistencies like hair style changes. For example, Finn's haircut changes across the entire movie. The length of it gets longer and shorter and longer again throughout.
The same thing happened in this last X-Files season. In the first episode, Mulder has the hobo five o'clock shadow and long hair in one scene, then, in another scene after, he has short hair and is clean shaven, implying that he cleaned himself up, but THEN, in another scene that chronologically takes place after that clean shaven scene, he has the 5'o'clock shadow and hobo look again.
It amuses me greatly when I'm watching movies and tv can catch that kind of stuff.
A fun exercise is watching Return of the King and trying to figure out what they shot as part of the initial principal photography of the entire trilogy in 1999/2000, and what they shot in pick-ups in 2003. There's one scene in the Minas Tirith throne room where you can see Gandalf's beard get inexplicably fluffier between shots.
Lol! Yes, exactly! It's always fun to look for those sorts of things. Mainly after you've seen the movie a dozen times. I generally don't bother looking for those kinds of inconsistencies in a first few watches. I'm just trying to soak in the movie, but it's fun to do for movies that you've revisited a bunch of times.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy in general is a lot of fun to look back at and note stuff. I think there's another one in The Two Towers with Gandalf, but I can't think of it at the moment.
Worst? I think you mean, "best." That always cracks me up. I just don't know why they can't work the white eyes into the story (they did good in Dark Knight, as well as the armor suit in BvS), but it's like, raccoon eyes are realistic, the white eyes look cool and scary, and you won't have to worry about that hilarious conflict when he takes off the mask and the raccoon eyes are gone. I don't think we lose so much in the emoting in Batman's face if you can't see his eyes. He pretty much has two states of being when he's Batman: Angry, and Angrier.
Characters like Spider-Man often show a range of emotions when in costume, so I understand losing something with the eye pieces, but Batman is a composed motherfucker. Even when he's probably shitting bricks, he's not going to let anyone know that. The disturbing, uncomfortable white eyes would add to his mystique as a dark creature with rumored supernatural powers.
WadiumArcadium
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Making Star Wars have got a sneak peak of the Anch-To set recreated at Pinewood. No surprise given the filming conditions at Skellig-Michael weren't ideal.
The spoilers begin. Is there anyway to maintain utter secrecy these days on a film in the age of Making Star Wars?
WadiumArcadium
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An even funnier example of things being shot out of order from The Return of the King was the scene where Frodo tells Sam to "go home" on the stairs of Cirith Ungol. The shots of Elijah Wood were filmed in 2000, and the shots of Sean Astin were filmed in 2003. They were originally planning to shoot both actors' dialogue on the same day in 2000. From what I can remember, before they could begin filming Astin's side of the conversation, a massive storm hit Wellington and the tin warehouse they were filming in became incredibly noisy - rendering all of the audio unusable. So Jackson decided to hold off on finishing the scene for a later date. After a while, they'd genuinely forgotten to film Astin's stuff, so three years later while doing pick-ups for The Return of the King, they finally remembered to finish the sequence.
So in that scene you have Frodo and Sam speaking to each other three years apart. I've always gotten a kick out of that.
Count Dookkake
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https://twitter.com/IAmOscarIsaac/status/716049624642011136
edit: ok I thought it was his real account lol
edit: ok I thought it was his real account lol
Gozer the Gozerian
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I wonder if Poe will be more of a lead in Ep VIII or if they're keeping him in a supporting role. IE is he gunna be a Han or a Lando.
WadiumArcadium
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What's been leaked about the plot so far makes it sound like he'll have a bigger role.
Claude Augario
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Who are you talking about?
WadiumArcadium
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It's definitely up there. Williams' score is amazing in that scene as well. Goosebumps.
WadiumArcadium
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Nothing all that substantial yet. Maybe a small portion of the first act if that. Just avoid the spoiler thread.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
I think the real question is, how is Daisy Ridley so perfect
Kid Kamikaze10
Member
Well that's condescending as hell.
No need to deny that the marketing for VII gave plenty of viewers, namely black ones, a false idea of his plot importance. And the idea that he would be a jedi.
I've heard a bunch of people swear off VIII until they hear reviews about Finn being better in it. That's how burned some folks feel.
And I say this as someone who's favorite character in the franchise right now IS Finn.
Finn was the best character, in terms of story to acting to range, the overall arc.
Its a bait and switch what they did in the trailers but thats common, also needed to give some element of surprise.
I find it kinda upsetting people could be let down by how he was handled, the only thing I didnt like about him was "Do you have a boyfriend, cute boyfriend" line, it felt out of character.