hemophilia posted:

The Rogue One teaser promised a really cool movie. I'm not going to comment on poo poo I know nothing about, I just hope they're doing re-shoots for good reasons and not to drastically change the tone of the movie or something.

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If there are any reshoots on Rogue One, I’m not supervising them. For any outlet to say so is not only wrong, it’s irresponsible. Gareth Edwards is a talented filmmaker who deserves the benefit of the doubt. Making a film – let alone a Star Wars chapter – is hard enough without the internet trying to deliberately downgrade one’s years of hard work. Who does that even serve? Let him make his movie in peace.

Gonz posted:

They're just editing in some BOIOIOIOIOING sound effects for when Vader decapitates about 8 dozen people.

The MSJ posted:

McQuarrie is pissed off that people are not asking him for clairifications.

Gonz posted:

They're just editing in some BOIOIOIOIOING sound effects for when Vader decapitates about 8 dozen people.

MMAgCh posted:

Don't forget the slide whistle sound effects when he turns his lightsabre on and off.

MeinPanzer posted:

I would agree, only Jason Ward has been right about a lot of stuff, including seemingly bullshit details, during TFA's shooting. He's not just some random poster on Reddit.

Teek posted:

After everything which has come out in the last 24 hours, it seems like most of the Makingstarwars report has been proven wrong, from the people he said were involved not actually being involved to the extent of the reshoots being done not actually being as extensive as what he claimed.

EW article posted:

Those reshoots were originally planned for the spring, but were bumped to mid-summer to allow for extra time as director Gareth Edwards and the creative team decided what they wanted to alter. “The changes have everything to do with clarity and character development and all take place [as inserts] within scenes we’ve already shot,” said one source on the project.

In other words, the changes involve more intimate moments – not redoing entire battle sequences or plot lines. “It’s a lot of talking in cockpits,” as one insider described the new footage.

Cross-Section posted:

With this report from EW's Anthony Breznican (who is more or less Lucasfilm's unofficial liason to the press at this point) definitively closing the book on the "film is in serious trouble" narrative.

MeinPanzer posted:

I sincerely hope that this is the case and that there's not much to the rumours. I'd really like this to be a good movie.

Fuzz posted:

Maybe it will be like Superman 2 and its reshoots. Cue Vader getting all sorts of dumb new powers and there being a trite MacGuffin explanation for any we never see any of these characters ever again that is something other than all of them dying.

Fuzz posted:

Maybe it will be like Superman 2 and its reshoots. Cue Vader getting all sorts of dumb new powers and there being a trite MacGuffin explanation for any we never see any of these characters ever again that is something other than all of them dying.

Annual Prophet posted:

Something rather different, untethered to previous plotlines, is in fact emerging:

In the post-Clone War Coruscant Underworld, disgraced and impoverished Sith Darth Vader is desperate for work to support his wife Padme, his son Luke and his daughter Leia. Despite his record of arrogance, immaturity and costly failures, he is offered a position as a low level Imperial Intelligence functionary tasked with helping the team, code named Rogue One, assigned to recovering Death Star plans, but he tells Padme that he cannot accept because the job requires that have a speeder for commuting and transport.

Undeterred and terrified for her struggling family, Padme resolutely strips their marital bed of her dowry bedsheets—​​prized possessions for a poor family—​​and takes them to the local pawn shop, where they bring enough to redeem a speeder previously pawned by Vader to raise money to feed the family. (The camera pans to show the sheets being added to a mountain of bedding pawned by other poor families.) They take the speeder—​​Padme driving—​ ​rejoicing in their good fortune.

On his first day of work Vader, looking down from the window of his cube warren within the Imperial Defense Administration building, sees a young Zabrak stealing his speeder. Vader gives chase but is thrown off the trail by the thief's confederates. The Coruscant police take a report but warn that there is little they can do. Advised that stolen goods often surface at the market, Vader goes there with several friends and his small son Luke. Finding a speeder that might be Vader's, they summon a Coruscant police officer, but the serial numbers do not match.

On their way home, they near the BlasTech Gikosphere. Inside a game of limmie is underway, while outside, rows of speeders await their owners. Vader sees a speeder unattended near a doorway. He paces distractedly, then sits with Luke on the curb, his mask in his hands. He looks as a stream of speeders rush past—​​the world seems full of other people's speeders. He resumes pacing, anguished and agitated, then gives Luke some money, telling him to take the tram and wait for Vader at their small apartment.

Vader circles the unattended speeder, summons his courage, and jumps on it. The hue and cry is instantly raised, and Luke, who has missed the tram, is stunned to see his father surrounded, pulled from the speeder, slapped and insulted—​​his dark mask knocked off. As Vader is being muscled toward the police station, the speeder's owner notices Luke, who is carrying Vader's mask; in a moment of compassion he tells the others to release Vader.

Vader and Luke walk off slowly amid a buffeting crowd. Luke hands his father the mask, crying as Vader stares dazedly ahead, unreacting even as a supply transport brushes his shoulder. They look briefly at each other. Vader fights back tears; Luke takes his hand. The camera watches from behind as they disappear into the crowd.

~End~

Gonz posted:

Are people even trying anymore with these goofy assed Episode VIII leaks? A Matrix redux? C'mon, now. No.

http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/new-star-wars-episode-viii-rumor-reveals-details-reys-jedi-history/

Looke posted:

i know a lot of this is just fan bullshit, but i always get scared that it might be true

Phi230 posted:

What makes you guys tgink that EP 8 is even going to be leaked in any way

Aaronicon posted:

Because a decent enough amount of EP7 was? I mean, yeah, it was months of stupid poo poo like you see above, but come six months out from launch we had some pretty reliable stuff that turned out accurate. We didn't know everything, but we knew poo poo like Han Solo dying from ages out.

Neo Rasa posted:

True, IIRC even Harry Knowles obtained a rough cut of the film very very early and did a full review and stuff.

Trump posted:

Yeah, that didn't happen at all.

Kelp Plankton posted:

with how many people it takes to produce something as big as a star wars movie, a few of them are usually dumb enough to leak things

sinking belle posted:

It came out a little while back that the rumour about the opening shot of VII featuring Luke's severed hand and first lightsaber hurtling through space was true and it was only abandoned because it leaked out. We'll probably get plenty more set photos and other little details, stuff like the title or the major story beats definitely won't leak.

homullus posted:

Everyone can say this about every dumb leak, though. "Well, it was true until it was leaked, then they took it out!!!! Its absence is proof it was true!"

homullus posted:

Everyone can say this about every dumb leak, though. "Well, it was true until it was leaked, then they took it out!!!! Its absence is proof it was true!"

Trump posted:

Yeah, there is no evidence it was taken out because of the leak. It was tied into the Maz storyline, which as we know got cut to pieces. It was probably an early victim of that change.

cargohills posted:

Is there any evidence it ever existed at all?

egon_beeblebrox posted:

How was the Maz storyline changed?

Calaveron posted:

I imagine whoever leaks VIII will get sued so hard they never actually existed.

Jose Oquendo posted:

I don't remember all the details, but she was a straight up force user but not a jedi. She also originally went with Han & co to the Rebel base. Remember in the first trailer when she handed Luke's saber to Leia?

Cardboard Box A posted:

cargohills posted:

Is there any evidence it ever existed at all?

Electromax posted:

This time we've built THREE Death Stars! They can't infiltrate three trenches at once!