Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)

[TURINS~BANE]

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Harry ford is going to be 72 next year, i hope they make him look younger maybe dye his hair a bit, i want the Han Solo character to be the ultimate badass again not some retired old man.

its starts filming in a few months cant believe we havent heard anything yet.

 

[jye4ever]

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Harry ford is going to be 72 next year, i hope they make him look younger maybe dye his hair a bit, i want the Han Solo character to be the ultimate badass again not some retired old man.

its starts filming in a few months cant believe we havent heard anything yet.

HF can barely speak up during interviews.

 

[joda76]

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Ford will be fine guys. He has always been odd in his interviews. At least they have been more entertaining as of late.

 

[Something Sexy]

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HF can barely speak up during interviews.

https://www.healthcentral.com/anxiety/c/22705/36519/celebrities-public/

 

[pixletwin]

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Trying to make Ford appear younger will not do anything but create a cartoon character... like Liberace.

 

[jye4ever]

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https://www.healthcentral.com/anxiety/c/22705/36519/celebrities-public/

Another excuse for doing too much drugs.

 

[stshammgod]

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https://www.healthcentral.com/anxiety/c/22705/36519/celebrities-public/

Prob why he is usually lit when doing interviews / speeches.

 

[floreairfoot]

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Trying to make Ford appear younger will not do anything but create a cartoon character... like Liberace.

Exactly, lets not go down that road.

 

[lerath666]

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HF can barely speak up during interviews.

Ford will be fine guys. He has always been odd in his interviews. At least they have been more entertaining as of late.

Another excuse for doing too much drugs.

Prob why he is usually lit when doing interviews / speeches.

yup. Ford has Near Crippling Agoraphobia. So do I, for the record. there are several coping mechanisims.
For me, I'm terribly terribly nearsighted. so I simply take off my glasses, and I'm in a fog.

Ford will frequently slip into a character if it's appropriate to help deal with it. Other times, He goes mildly manic during the presntation.

this is also why his public appearences are very very minial, and he has a penchant for punching paparatzi.

 

[jye4ever]

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I wish I had that instead of my fear of spiders and heights.

Can we trade.

I would totally be useless if I encountered a spider while working at the top of the Empire State building antenna.

 

[Khev]

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The other 50% of the movie sure kicks *** though.

Ok, make that 40%.

I know you're talking about ROTJ but really I find every SW film starting with ROTJ to basically follow that tradition. ROTJ, TPM, AOTC, and ROTS. But like ROTJ the PT has so many cool designs and sequences. Even some good drama.

The quality shifts throughout, sometimes minute by minute. But there's too much good to dismiss IMO.

I "compartmentalize" the trilogies yes, but I just watched the PT again over the last week and there's a lot of cool stuff and memories from when they came out. I know I've gone on about how I'm sticking with OT collectibles to maintain the space-time continuum and whatnot but I figured "what the hell" and just preordered the Security BD, a shiny Clone Trooper, and Grievous.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

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I was wondering exactly where the new episodes would fall if they followed the Extended Universe. I found this link, here, of the Star Wars timeline. If you scroll down to about 30-40 years after ROTJ (which would more or less coincide with the original actors' current age), there's actually a lot of good, movie-worthy material. That would be about 20-40 ABY on this timeline. I'm guessing that's "After Battle of Yavin," as it appears they are using a point somewhere around the beginning of A New Hope as their year zero.

Spoiler

Around that time, Jacen Solo, Han and Leia's son, succumbs to the Dark Side, eventually becoming a Sith Lord and murdering Luke's wife, Mara Jade Skywalker. There's a lot of other good stuff, involving the reformation of the Jedi and Sith Orders, a Second Galactic Civil War, and the exploits of the offspring of the original characters. Unfortunatley, Grand Admiral Thrawn dies well before these events, so unless they take liberties with EU continuity, it's unlikely we'll see him in the main trilogy.

 

[lerath666]

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IF they were to follow the EU storyline, then it would be near the end of, or right after the second galactic civil war. Sometime after Daala is ousted as chief of state, and the sith invasion is driven off coruscaunt, i THINK.

 

[lerath666]

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TITLE and casting announced.

They just cast Nathan Lane, Ellen DeGeneres and Chris Crocker in it. the title is Episode 7: 50 Shades of Gay.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

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IF they were to follow the EU storyline, then it would be near the end of, or right after the second galactic civil war. Sometime after Daala is ousted as chief of state, and the sith invasion is driven off coruscaunt, i THINK.

The timeline has the Second Galactic Civil War occurring at about 36 years after ROTJ. I don't expect them to coincide exactly with real world time, but more to try to get the most cinema-worthy events into the trilogy, in the most dramatic fashion possible. I think the best strategy would be to start at about 25 ABY(21 years after ROTJ) and follow through 44 ABY(40 years after ROTJ) to capture all the events of the Second Galactic Civil War. Of course, if they follow the EU to a tee,

Spoiler

Chewbacca would likely die in the first movie, if not already dead by then.

Oh, and Boba Fett plays a role in that time period, as well.

 

[FQRizzo]

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The only thing I fear, is fear itself.

 

[pixletwin]

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The timeline has the Second Galactic Civil War occurring at about 36 years after ROTJ. I don't expect them to coincide exactly with real world time, but more to try to get the most cinema-worthy events into the trilogy, in the most dramatic fashion possible. I think the best strategy would be to start at about 25 ABY(21 years after ROTJ) and follow through 44 ABY(40 years after ROTJ) to capture all the events of the Second Galactic Civil War. Of course, if they follow the EU to a tee,

Spoiler

Chewbacca would likely die in the first movie, if not already dead by then.

Oh, and Boba Fett plays a role in that time period, as well.

Won't happen. I hope they completely disregard the 30 years of EU writing - and they will.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

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Won't happen. I hope they completely disregard the 30 years of EU writing - and they will.

I could see them disregarding

Spoiler

Chewbacca's death

but the rest of the material seems pretty good, at least for a loose adaptation.

 

[pixletwin]

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Nope. Won't happen.

 

[Darthrazz]

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I think it's going to be a "best of/flashback movie", like the old TV shows used to have.....

Luke, Han and Leia, C-3p0 and Chewie get locked in the Millenium Falcon's Walk in Freezer.

They radio R2-D2 for help and just sit around recalling past events, "remember when we rescued Leia from the Death Star"?..and they flashback to that, "remember the Hoth Battle"? ..so on and so until R2 rescues them...Roll Credits , the fans go nuts!!