lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
I had to go see Wing Commander because the Phantom Menace teaser was supposedly attached. Sat through that entire piece of crap (including the credits) and they never played the trailer.
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Star Wars: In Production [Rumors/SPOILERS for All Films Past, Present, & Future]
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I had to go see Wing Commander because the Phantom Menace teaser was supposedly attached. Sat through that entire piece of crap (including the credits) and they never played the trailer.
I don't honestly think this is an effective strategy anymore. No matter what they do it'll be online somehow pretty much right away, and that's probably enough to tide people over until it gets more broadly attached or comes out officially.
obin_gam
Member
back in the day, people didnt have cameras connected to youtube instantly.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I AM READY. RELEASE THIS NOW PLEASE
Can Crusher
Banned
And back in the day Star Wars wasn't coming off the stench of a stinker of a trilogy.
graffix13
Member
Heh. I still remember going to see Monsters, Inc. JUST to see the Attack of the Clones trailer. My plan was just to leave after the trailer because I didn't want to sit through some stupid Pixar cartoon movie. I changed my mind and decided to stay because I didn't want to waste my money on just the trailers.
A good decision. Monsters, Inc. is probably my favorite Pixar movie to this day.
I wonder if we will get a full length trailer for star wars next may?
going by the release of the avengers 2 full trailer. That came out with 7 months to go until the film gets released. Based on that i wonder id the full star wars trailer therefore will be attached to avengers 2 next may.
6 months from now is not that long really.
going by the release of the avengers 2 full trailer. That came out with 7 months to go until the film gets released. Based on that i wonder id the full star wars trailer therefore will be attached to avengers 2 next may.
6 months from now is not that long really.
WadiumArcadium
Member
That would have been a big mistake. Monsters Inc. is great.
There's really no question that there will be a trailer with Age of Ultron.
Yup. Yup. So excited.
I hope it debuts sooner rather than later. It's probably gonna be a bit though.
bananafactory
Banned
Lots of potential details here
http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/11/rumor-force-awakens-trailer-synopsis.html
http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/11/rumor-force-awakens-trailer-synopsis.html
So that concept art made it into the final cut? I was kind of mixed on the look of that lightsabre in the art, so I'm hoping the final design wins me over.
Link?
this is a dumb strategy because only dedicated fans of the franchise will go to a movie just to see the trailer
debut it on network television and blammo you have everyone seeing it, from plebs who didn't even know there was a new star wars movie coming out to the hardcore and everyone in between.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
One of my coolest Star Wars theater moments was getting to see Attack of the Clones in one the early digital projection theaters. Before the show started, the theater staff walked down the aisles to the front of the theater. They all held up film reals and the main guy announces, "The age of film is dead," and the staff all started rolling the rolls of film down the aisle. I was on the aisle and grabbed it, and realized it was actual film from one of the episode II trailers. I snipped off a section and kept it. If only the movie had held up to that moment.
fastford58
Member
This trailer can not come soon enough.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I like the idea but boy that looks useless.
EvilKatarn
Member
Secret Fawful
Member
Why hold it at that point? It looks like you're going to stab your hands off. Just use the Force to control it?
It'll be really interesting to see how they implement that if it's real.
Bucket Mouse
Member
I'm not opposed to the lightsaber crossguard- in fact, I think it's a rather shrewd attempt at creating this trilogy's "double-bladed lightsaber" moment. Lightsabers already defy the laws of physics and seemingly stop at an arbitrary length, so the idea of having smaller blades perpendicular to the main one isn't that absurd.
Moreover, I like how they are incorporating European medieval influences. It would be cool if this dude had some sort of lightshield to really double down on the concept (which would also hark back to McQuarrie's stormtrooper shields.)
Moreover, I like how they are incorporating European medieval influences. It would be cool if this dude had some sort of lightshield to really double down on the concept (which would also hark back to McQuarrie's stormtrooper shields.)
bananafactory
Banned
Damn, a lightshield done well would really be a great concept
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Apparently AJ Edwards was giving a reddit AMA yesterday, and mentioned he's been in talks with Lucasfilm to make the third spinoff movie.
Which would, according to him, be a Mace Windu movie.
At which point they need to do whatever they can to get this scene adapted into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj07qh51zPI
Which would, according to him, be a Mace Windu movie.
At which point they need to do whatever they can to get this scene adapted into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj07qh51zPI
i don't want anymore movies that involve established canonical (film) characters set before the period of ROTJ.
just who cares, we know what happens already so any story you can tell isn't going to be worth telling
if you have to do a story set in the past make it free of film limitations and set it 50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years ago
just who cares, we know what happens already so any story you can tell isn't going to be worth telling
if you have to do a story set in the past make it free of film limitations and set it 50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years ago
Septimus Prime
Member
Suppose that isn't even a lightsaber. The Sith are gone, right? So, if anything, I'd imagine that isn't a lightsaber but rather some sort of imitation used by people who wish they were Sith.
Discotheque
Banned
these spinoffs sounding lame as hell right now. relatively new directors who probably are going to be run marvel-style. yoda, boba fett, mace windu. yawn.
probably just gonna stick to the main-line trilogy in theaters unless these spinoffs turn out really good.
probably just gonna stick to the main-line trilogy in theaters unless these spinoffs turn out really good.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
B-b-bu-ut I thought they were ignoring the PT!
BlueDogAnchorite
Member
Really hope the Mace Windu spinoff movie is true. He is one of my favorite characters from the Prequel film, and tv show.
sounds like bullshit to me. Everything in there could be guessed based on past rumors
vagabondarts
Member
Same.
This is next-level hype and we haven't even seen anything from the movie yet.
My heart....
TheKaeptain
Banned
Only nerds believed that.
vagabondarts
Member
I think it's awesome. I want to see their characters in costume!
Well, its expanded universe and not longer existent, but there were not only Sith who used the dark side and used lightsabers. Also, the Sith were extinct for some decades before a Skywalker was tempted by the dark side and became a sith.
Septimus Prime
Member
I know, but I figured that after Sidious and Vader went down, there were no more Sith in the universe, and thus no one else who can handle a real red lightsaber anymore. The new bad guys, then, aren't really Sith but pretend to be, so they make their own lightsaber-like laser sword, which is why it's all weird.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Mace Windu?
much rather have Obi-Wan.
much rather have Obi-Wan.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Both of them turned out to be pretty boring non-characters under the Prequels.
Personally... I'm more interested in this series because of the bravado of Han Solo, or even Luke or Leia ("someone has to save our skins!!").
Those dry prequel era Jedis were like stoic accountants with laser swords.
GentlemanCrow
Member
A Windu movie? Three films of his doings aren't enough. Let's have a movie set around just how he became so inept. I hope we get to hear his popular catchphrase: "I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi."
Hype level: purple.
Hype level: purple.
robertsan21
Member
Any spin off movie made, should be about the dark side of the force.
I would love that
I would love that
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I hope there are scenes of him holding his hands in a Mr. Burns-like mudra, and thinking about things with a concerned look.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Eh,
Obi-Wan I felt was the best part of the prequels but I can understand that complaint.
However I feel Obi-Wan just has the most potential for a spinoff movie, they just have so many directions they could go.
Han who is probably my favorite SW character feels pretty well covered atm.
After 6 seasons of Clone Wars I actually don't like Mace at all anymore.
Boba Fett would be great though as long as that speculated "New Boba" stuff was BS.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I would only "sort of want" an Obi Wan film if it were closer to the Guinness portrayal than McGregor.
And it's not even McGregor's fault that Obi Wan was in that different direction (it was due to Lucas' lack of understanding about human emotion). He could even play the character! I think he can do it. But he would need to be reaching for that Guinness character, the wise sage, more than the dry British general of the prequels and Clone Wars.
Prequel/Clone Wars Obi Wan just feels to me like this pompous, emotionless lecturer.... while ANH Obi is this wise, lovable sage.
BlueDogAnchorite
Member
Jables Swan
Member
I would prefer Obi-Wan over Mace. I wasn't a fan of Mace in the prequels, probably because it was actually just Sam Jackson, but Mace in the original Clone Wars series was fantastic.
brandonh83
Banned
That goes right back to the fact that the Jedi in the prequels were all trained to be stoic and emotionless but when they got their asses kicked and Qui-Gon re-adjusted Yoda and Obi-Wan's perception of the Force and how Jedi should be, that's why they have personality shifts between the prequels and originals. Many complain about it and think it's some kind of flaw, but I firmly believe it to be 100% intentional. They're the same characters, but what happened in the prequels plus that 30 year or so gap full of Qui-Gon's communication and enlightenment changed them into what they are in the originals.