Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16) *SPOILERS*

[Darkseed]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - $439,714,705
Captain America: Civil War - $408,084,349

Damn that was fast. Civil What?

Add Dory......Disney killed it in 2016

 

[mrdbios]

Gives me chills to think about the Death Star conference room scene in ANH; Tarkin sits in what was supposed to be Krennic's seat, and there's an empty seat (actually I think 2) during the meeting.

Yep, these two movies complement each nicely.

 

[jye4ever]

Add Dory......Disney killed it in 2016

Yeah I guess it doesn't matter if RO beats Dory does it lol.

 

[jye4ever]

Gives me chills to think about the Death Star conference room scene in ANH; Tarkin sits in what was supposed to be Krennic's seat, and there's an empty seat (actually I think 2) during the meeting.

Yep, these two movies complement each nicely.

Yeah they do!

 

[Darkseed]

Yeah I guess it doesn't matter if RO beats Dory does it lol.

Nah....just the order 1,2,3 plays out. My preference is R1 being top grossing film but I get nothing from it either way beyond personal satisfaction. Still pretty impressive for short time it's been out.

 

[mrdbios]

Yeah I guess it doesn't matter if RO beats Dory does it lol.

Disney exec 1: "It looks like Civil War and Finding Dory won't be the highest earners this year"

Disney exec 2: "Crap, the Mouse won't be happy"

Disney exec 1: "But they're being beat by another one of ours, this crazy stand-alone Star Wars movie"

Disney exec 2: "...
yay us!"

 

[jye4ever]

Disney Chairman of the Board: "Fire the teams from the # 3 and # 2 spot"

Satan: "That's how you do it"

 

[Wor-Gar]

Death Star conference room scene in ANH; Tarkin sits in what was supposed to be Krennic's seat,

Wait -- how do you get that's Krennic's chair?

Tarkin's been with the project from the beginning -- he's clearly seen with the Emperor at the end of ROTS and he even says as much in RO (that the performance on Jedha is exactly what he promised the Emperor when he started the project). So why would Krennic ever get the big boy chair?

I think you're over-estimating Krennic's chances.

 

[mrdbios]

Wait -- how do you get that's Krennic's chair?

Tarkin's been with the project from the beginning -- he's clearly seen with the Emperor at the end of ROTS and he even says as much in RO (that the performance on Jedha is exactly what he promised the Emperor when he started the project). So why would Krennic ever get the big boy chair?

I think you're over-estimating Krennic's chances.

I don't think Tarkin was linked to the project in ROTS. He just happened to be standing by the window when the two big fish showed up. He was probably staring out wondering where he parked his shuttle or something. Him saying he was working with the big guys from the beginning is probably like my saying I met Amy Grant once (even though she just walked within 3 feet of me).

Kidding aside, I'm not saying that Tarkin wouldn't have parked his butt in the chair anytime he was there, but I'm also sure that Krennic called that his chair the entire time he was in charge of the project, at least until Tarkin relieved him in RO.

 

[Khev]

Kathleen Kennedy discusses the possibility of just doing stand-alone movies for the foreseeable future instead of immediately jumping into another trilogy after Episode IX. Just the fact that that's even a possibility gives me comfort that at the very least Episode IX should offer a significant sense of resolution without just being a lead-in to Episode X.

“There are [possible movies] that we have been talking a lot about,” Kennedy told EW. “But we are planning to sit down in January, since we will have had The Force Awakens released, now Rogue One, and we’ve finished shooting Episode VIII. We have enough information where we can step back a little bit and say, What are we doing? What do we feel is exciting? And what are some of the things we want to explore?”

That means it’s not certain that a new Saga trilogy will follow Episode IX. Nor will all the movies have to tie into already known stories.

“That’s a conversation going on right now, too,” Kennedy said. “I have to honestly tell you, could we [do nothing but standalones]? Sure. But I don’t know. We are looking at all of that.”

She continued.

“I think [the idea of new stories] is exciting for fans,” Kennedy adds. “It’s certainly exciting as a filmmaker, the notion that we can explore these stories that genuinely have a beginning, middle and an end, and don’t necessarily have to tie into something specific.”

https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-how-close-we-were-to-getting-a-boba-fett-movie-di-1789274929

 

[Wor-Gar]

Episode X just has such a great sound though.

It will come. In time.

 

[Khev]

I wonder if one day my kids will get to see "Star Wars XXX".

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Episode X just has such a great sound though.

It will come. In time.

Episode X: It Will Come. In Time.

Sounds like a Ron Jeremy film.

 

[Khev]

We know from the behind the scenes documentaries about the prequels that one of George's favorite things to do when developing the films was to walk into the designers' workshops and say, "I like this, we'll use that," and so on.

It honestly makes me happy that Gareth Edwards extended that courtesy one more time so that George's direct input could be involved even if ever so slightly in the greatest prequel of all:

Disney purchased all of Lucasfilm from George Lucas back in 2012 for more than $4 billion. While they have maintained respect publically for the creator of Star Wars, he has had little involvement in the new movies. At least as far as we know. It turns out that he actually had some influence on director Gareth Edwards and the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Gareth Edwards recently spoke to Games Radar/Total Film about the upcoming Star Wars spinoff movie. George Lucas paid a little visit to the set and during that visit, the creator of a galaxy far far away saw some things that he liked, but weren't going to make it into the movie. The opinion of George Lucas changed that. Here is what Gareth Edwards had to say.

"Whatever [Lucas] liked was pretty much guaranteed to be in the film."
There was a particular item that George Lucas pointed out while looking at the design department. According to Gareth Edwards, it was "a helmet we loved but didn't know where to put it; there wasn't really an opportunity to use it." But when George Lucas walked past it and said "'That's cool, I like that,'" things changed. The helmet made it into the movie. Apparently, this happened with other things as well, since the director said anything he liked made it into Rogue One.

Even after George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he still wanted to have some of his ideas included in the franchise. He reportedly commissioned a script for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Disney rejected it entirely in favor of what J.J. Abrams ultimately did. The last thing George Lucas did for the franchise was direct the three Star Wars prequels, which didn't make nearly as much at the box office as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and they surely weren't as well received. But Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a technically a prequel, and George Lucas has made his mark on it.

https://movieweb.com/rogue-one-star-wars-george-lucas-contributions/

 

[mrdbios]

I hope the stand alone movies move more towards actually standing alone. Other than RO, we have a Han prequel coming up and what's generally assumed to be an Obi-wan prequel. I actually quite liked that RO was about people we didn't know anything about.


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[Khev]

This is hilarious:

George Lucas to direct Rogue One sequel!

As of Rogue One's first week in theaters, the film has grossed an impressive $420 million globally, $220 million of that being earned domestically. After such a profitable release and a plethora of positive reviews LucasFilm has tapped George Lucas to direct the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sequel! Based on a screenplay written as well by Lucas and starring Hollywood favorites Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, the sequel will introduce audiences to the iconic characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and many more as they combat the tyrannical Empire.

The Rogue One sequel titled A New Hope will arrive in theaters on May 25th, 1977.

https://www.scified.com/news/george-lucas-direct-rogue-one-sequel

 

[mrdbios]

This is hilarious:



https://www.scified.com/news/george-lucas-direct-rogue-one-sequel

I hope they're able to decipher those plans and defeat the Death Star

 

[pixletwin]

One thing, RO related, that is bugging my OCD:

Years ago when Sideshow released their Princess Leia figure it included the plans which she gave to R2. These plans had an Empire emblem on them. How did they get that? Was Sideshow just exercising some artistic discretion? Was there an actual prop from filming which Sideshow used?

 

[Khev]

That doesn't look anything like the disc she inserted into R2. And from the beginning Vader said that "transmissions were beamed to this ship, what happened to the plans they sent you" suggesting that any hard copy that existed would be an Alliance disc, not Empire.

 

[matticus]

One thing, RO related, that is bugging my OCD:

Years ago when Sideshow released their Princess Leia figure it included the plans which she gave to R2. These plans had an Empire emblem on them. How did they get that? Was Sideshow just exercising some artistic discretion? Was there an actual prop from filming which Sideshow used?

Non-canon. Just like most of the other stuff I love about Star Wars besides the OT.