Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[Mondragon]

I believe R1 Scarif was originally going to be in the deep tropical jungle and rain setting, invoking Vietnam. Yet to save cost and for shooting ease, they moved it sunny beach side.

 

[wormlander]

Didnt her dialog include boasting of being intimate with a Jawa?
ha.ha.

I believe that scene is from one of the "Mando" episodes of The Book Of Boba Fett. While she was already testing my patience in Mando seasons 1&2, it was only later that they completely butchered the character, together with Grief Carga and mr. Fett himself...

 

[JAWS]

The whole Rey trilogy makes no sense. Why does she need her own trilogy? Didn't she already have one?

Mando's all they got until they let KK go and bring someone in with some damn sense. I'm guessing that Disney is just too infected with the wrong kind of people to ever truly course correct though. Unless I'm proven wrong I'm fine just walking away and letting it burn. I've already got all the SW I'll ever need.

We need Andor season 2

 

[JAWS]

This is exactly the right way for Star Wars moving forward i.m.o. Well made one-off stories on exotic planets, not tied to the overarching saga. I'd personally prefer a jungle setting to Hoth though, especially since we recently got another great horror/ice planet episode in the Mandalorian...

Personally for me, Star Wars is only truly Star Wars when it takes place during the Vader timeline.

It doesn’t have to have any original characters from that timeline but it needs to be related or you might as well just make a new Sci Fi film saga.

Now I’ve never read any Old Republic books or played the games but I’m just not happy if I don’t see a Stormtrooper or hear the screech of a Tie fighter lol

 

[Khev]

We need Andor season 2

Well yeah but that's already in the can. I meant going forward...

 

[xipotec]

Personally for me, Star Wars is only truly Star Wars when it takes place during the Vader timeline.

It doesn’t have to have any original characters from that timeline but it needs to be related or you might as well just make a new Sci Fi film saga.

Now I’ve never read any Old Republic books or played the games but I’m just not happy if I don’t see a Stormtrooper or hear the screech of a Tie fighter lol

You car hear it right?

 

[Wor-Gar]

How many can remember a time when they could NOT hear that? When those strange ships were just pictures in a magazine of a 'coming soon' movie that looked like it made no sense.

 

[xipotec]

How many can remember a time when they could NOT hear that? When those strange ships were just pictures in a magazine of a 'coming soon' movie that looked like it made no sense.

I had the Star Wars Story book, so yeah

 

[a-dev]

How many can remember a time when they could NOT hear that? When those strange ships were just pictures in a magazine of a 'coming soon' movie that looked like it made no sense.

 

[Mondragon]

How many can remember a time when they could NOT hear that? When those strange ships were just pictures in a magazine of a 'coming soon' movie that looked like it made no sense.

This guy can still hear that droning sound of vacuum tubes, sparking tesla-coils, and sputtering combustion engines.

 

[choombaz]

Interesting picks. McQuarrie and Del Toro I have no qualms with.

But why do Affleck/Damon, Bigelow, and Soderbergh jump out at you? They make good movies, for sure, but I don't see something like Star Wars in their wheelhouse.

Same question about The Daniels, I know nothing of them apart from EEAAO, which was a great movie, but what about their skills would be a great fit for star Wars?

All I was really thinking about was that they could do interesting takes on SW. Tony Gilroy is someone who in a million years I would have never thought of for SW. All he’s done of note is write most of the Bourne films and made the great legal thriller Michael Clayton.

Most of these filmmakers I would have picked more appropriate for SW and look how wrong I am.

Affleck/Damon wrote The Last Duel which I love and Affleck has directed some pretty good films like Argo and The Town. He can do pretty much anything.

Bigelow is a great visual stylist. Go and look at Hurt Locker or Near Dark.

Soderbergh can do anything. Go and look at Haywire for action but Logan Lucky is probably most indicative of what he could do with SW. He’s a massive film nerd and turned Raiders into a b/w film one time when he was bored probably.

The Daniels again can do pretty much anything. Action, drama, real LOL comedy.

The whole point is any filmmaker who knows what they are doing could do SW. If you listen to Gilroy talk about it, he had zero affinity for SW before he worked on R1.

 

[abake]

I had the Star Wars Story book, so yeah
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I had that one as well. Loved it! It had so many cool photos.

 

[choombaz]

I had the Star Wars Story book, so yeah
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I’ve still got it somewhere

 

[Asta]

Since I've run out of completed series to watch I started on A New Hope - The Final Cut, and this line from Luke suddenly jumped out at me:

Now that's a word I haven't heard in Star Wars in a long time.

In ANH, Luke says "If they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to. And that would lead them...home!"

This is the ONLY time that droids are referred to as robots. Was this deliberate, or was it something that just slipped through the net?

In the 1st draft of the script, "robots" is used throughout in the scene descriptions, but only the word "androids" is ever spoken

In the 2nd draft, "robot" is never spoken, but "android" has been placed by "droid" in the dialogue

In the 3rd draft, exactly the same. No "robots" in the dialogue.

So, why just the single utterance of "robots" in ANH?

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/why-does-luke-call-the-droids-robots.29943008/


Did Mark Hamill get the line wrong?


I think it's still a rarity for the word "robot" to appear in Star Wars, though in S01E05 of Rebels Ezra said, "No grumpy robots, no smelly lasats."

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Wor-Gar]

Did he stop growing?

 

[ScoutingForToys]

Did he stop growing?

According to imdb he's 5"7 but I went down the rabbit hole on this one, looking at celebrity heights sites and he's more likely 5"5.
Poor kid. First he's in Phantom Menace then only grows to 5"5 (5"7 at best).

 

[Wor-Gar]

According to imdb he's 5"7 but I went down the rabbit hole on this one, looking at celebrity heights sites and he's more likely 5"5.
Poor kid. First he's in Phantom Menace then only grows to 5"5 (5"7 at best).

See, actors always lie about their height if they're under 6 foot.

 

[jye4ever]

You know what’s crazy, really really crazy?

Even with the movie sucking!

Even with the ridicule!

Even with him being bullied!

Even with the fan outrage!

He still could’ve rode it out long term and earned millions riding the franchise into eternity!

When it comes to SW no matter how abysmal it gets (Acolyte), it will always have their hardcore paying fans!

But noooo…

Boo hoo bullying, boo hoo depression, boo hoo drugs, boo hoo mental disorders.

**** all that noise SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Hey Jake you know what’s super loved now, the PT including your movie!

What’s that you say, you’re homeless….good job parents!

Him and Furlong, what a stupid loss of revenue on their end.

 

[jaztermareal]

He will always be 6'4" in our hearts...


His mother stated that the media and bullying at school triggered his mental health issues IIRC and that fans were always nice to him. I was really polite and happy when I met him some years back but he was visibly unhappy about being at the con (to be fair, it must suck doing the rounds so completely understand). It would be a great time for him to capitalise on prequel nostalgia now though. Embrace the fans, they aren't actually the toxic mob the media claims they are. If Tommy Weiseau can make a career off of a terrible movie then a dude who was set up to fail with awful dialogue in a bad yet beloved movie certainly can.