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Doctor Spaceman posted:Presumably, yeah. No actor promo at least. A lot of films are getting pushed because of that alone
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The Lando series is apparently still alive and Donald Glover will be reprising his role from Solo https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/donald-glover-stephen-write-lando-series-disney-justin-simien-exits-1235681988/
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I know a lot of people have put forward the idea of having old Lando narrating his adventures as a young man and I am totally here for that. Every episode has Billy Dee Williams sitting on a park bench or something, chatting with a pretty girl about his old adventures, with young Lando played by Glover.
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Jul 28, 2023 16:06
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I know a lot of people have put forward the idea of having old Lando narrating his adventures as a young man and I am totally here for that. I mean, we know Billy is super easy to get back so that’d actually be plausible
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Jul 28, 2023 16:09
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I’ll accept this only if Old Lando is an unreliable narrator boasting about everything he did, while Young Lando is having a much less smooth time of things. Mostly I just want a framing device that lets us put all the more bombastic and kiddy Star Wars (which I love) down as overly heroic stories told by nostalgic vets wearing rose-coloured glasses.
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I don't know if we really need intimations that billy dee, pushing 90 by the time this show would enter production, is putting the moves on pretty girls. But hey I guess he did it to his own daughter in star wars 9 so perhaps nothing's beyond the pale for galactic superstar lando
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Parkingtigers posted:I’ll accept this only if Old Lando is an unreliable narrator boasting about everything he did, while Young Lando is having a much less smooth time of things. It's a pretty funny mental image to cut out of Glover fighting to within an inch of his life to Williams talking about how everything went off without a hitch to a rando woman at a space bar e: Googled Billy Dee Williams to support and Old Lando still womanizing and he's been married for 50 years, nice.
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Yeah that's the perfect framing device. "I remember it fondly. The Selonian Queen was no match for my charms, and was soon under my spell." Smash cut to Childish Landino getting the poo poo slapped out of him by an otter lady.
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Jul 28, 2023 17:03
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That concept reminds me an old FPS named of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger a bit. That game had a lot of fun with an unreliable narrator.
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Parkingtigers posted:I’ll accept this only if Old Lando is an unreliable narrator boasting about everything he did, while Young Lando is having a much less smooth time of things. So kinda like the movie Big Fish? I can get behind that. Owlbear Camus posted:Yeah that's the perfect framing device. lol even better.
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Speaking of... https://twitter.com/realbdw/status/1684962452528918528?s=20 Curious how the timing of all this lines up with the strike.
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No Mods No Masters posted:I don't know if we really need intimations that billy dee, pushing 90 by the time this show would enter production, is putting the moves on pretty girls. This is Lando you’re talking about. The tone for his interaction with women is set by a movie in which he starts macking on Leia from the moment he sees her, despite her obvious disinterest, the presence of her kinda-boyfriend, and the fact that he is in the process of selling her out to imperial goons
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I know a lot of people have put forward the idea of having old Lando narrating his adventures as a young man and I am totally here for that. So basically young indiana jones but with Lando instead? Sounds 
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Mama Calrisian always said Life is like a box of [some extremely goofy starwars name for chocolate]. "
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If they decide to go ahead with the "Jannah is Lando's long-lost daughter" thing, he's even got a built-in road trip partner to call bullshit on his tall tales.
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I really thought the lando/jannah relation had been confirmed, though a quick search confirms you are as always correct. Honestly good for them, not that that character is worth caring about or revisiting but it's the right call
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I think that was part of a bunch of pre-release leaks, and likely WAS in earlier cuts, but got removed for more of a "wink wink she could be lol" resolution for the 2. Either way it was stupid.
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I thought it because I was aware there was a book that came out after star wars 9 establishing lando had a daughter who got kidnapped and turned into a stormtrooper by the first order. But it turns out that was not jannah apparently
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No Mods No Masters posted:I thought it because I was aware there was a book that came out after star wars 9 establishing lando had a daughter who got kidnapped and turned into a stormtrooper by the first order. Doesn't he say that in the movie? Or imply it? Which is why Jannah + the ending is so weird. Not only way too convenient but annoying that there are 3 black people in star wars and 2 of them are related.
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poo poo on me if you must, but I don't think having one of like four black people in a galaxy far far away be related and having them just run into each other for no reason to find out is a good thing.
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JJ filmed EP 9 so ofc they were related because he thought it would be cool to have everyone on screen tied together somehow
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Rian: Your parents are nerf herders, nobodies. Real basic bitches. JJ: You all might be related to Jar Jar, coincidentally.
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Jerkface posted:I think that was part of a bunch of pre-release leaks, and likely WAS in earlier cuts, but got removed for more of a "wink wink she could be lol" resolution for the 2. Either way it was stupid. This was the same movie with Finn saying her had to tell Rey something and then it never happened. It's all the same crap.
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He was going to tell her he needed to poop
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I'm trying to temper my expectations because I had such high hopes for years for an Obi Wan series, but Donald Glover was the best thing about Solo and and he's also an incredibly talented writer in addition to actor so gently caress it, I'm setting my hype levels to unreasonable!
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CelticPredator posted:He was going to tell her he needed to poop Finn: Rey? Rey can you hear me? Rey: Yeah. Finn: There's something I have to tell you. Rey: What? What is it? Finn: I cheated in the contest. Poe: What? Rey: What? Finn: The contest - I cheated. Rey: Why? Finn: Because I'm a cheater! I had to tell you. Rey: Great - I won.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Mama Calrisian always said Life is like a box of [some extremely goofy starwars name for chocolate]. " Blentus Fritters
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Lucas has a pretty long history of fighting against unions - the opening credits thing actually happened all the way back in the 80's. They let it slide for A New Hope, but he resigned from the guild when they fined him for it on Empire. It definitely makes things consistent across all the movies, but I wonder if it hurt Irvin Kershner or Richard Marquand's careers at all to not have their names right up front. Lucas also clashed with the unions when filming the Original Trilogy - mainly on A New Hope, since the British crew didn't give a gently caress about the movie aside from doing the work and getting paid, so he couldn't get them to stay late or delay their breaks if he was in the middle of filming something when they were supposed to stop working. Then Gary Oldman dropped out of Revenge of the Sith after recording dialogue for General Grievous because he didn't want to break union rules. They ended up replacing him with one of the sound editors. Later in 2005, Lucas clashed with the unions over contracts for the hundred or so sound editors working at Skywalker Ranch. They wanted a national contract that would allow their benefits to transfer more easily across the country (Skywalker Ranch about a 6 hour drive from LA, so most people working there would have moved from somewhere else, potentially leaving behind family to do so). During the 2007-2008 strike Lucas was unaffected because, even though The Clone Wars was in production at the time, the WGA and IATSE couldn't agree on which union actually represented writers on animated projects. I imagine he would have been pretty pissed if his brand new, very expensive show was delayed due to the strike though.
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Robot Style posted:Lucas has a pretty long history of fighting against unions - the opening credits thing actually happened all the way back in the 80's. They let it slide for A New Hope, but he resigned from the guild when they fined him for it on Empire. It definitely makes things consistent across all the movies, but I wonder if it hurt Irvin Kershner or Richard Marquand's careers at all to not have their names right up front. To expound, he left the Directors Guild because they were pissed that he had the Fox and Lucasfilm bumpers only before the crawl. They let him slide for ANH because he was the director, but they rightly objected when he did it to Kershner for ESB. He also broke SAG rules with THX 1138, in that the bald cult members he'd recruited to be background were actually mic'ed up and directed, either of which qualifies you for principal pay. I expected him to have broken the rules by getting the cult members in the first place, but it turns out no one wanted to shave their head for a couple extra bucks. Side story: I was working on a lower budget show and one day had a bunch of guest principals. The SAG rep was standing at village watching to make sure we were playing by the rules and saw a boom mic over some background and raised a complaint. They ran playback and you could hear the mixer say "oh, go somewhere else, I think those are background" and our line producer did a whole little dance. SAG-AFTRA is a great union and I hope they take the AMPTP to the cleaners.
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That sounds like a cool story of I knew what any of it meant. (And I want to know)
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I'm not sure what context you're missing, but background actors are paid a certain rate, and they can't have any spoken lines or they have to get bumped up to another rate.
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Breadallelogram posted:I'm not sure what context you're missing, but background actors are paid a certain rate, and they can't have any spoken lines or they have to get bumped up to another rate. I don't know what the following is/are: Guest Principals The village The second use of background Why being told to stand elsewhere matters, but you explained that one
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HootTheOwl posted:I don't know what the following is/are: Guest principal actors: speaking actors on SAG contracts just there for two days. There were a bunch of them and the sound dept didn't know who was whom. Village: Video Village. The screens where everyone watches what's being filmed Background: used as a noun for background actors after the word "extra" was retired
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I'm nearly done with Rebels now. I'm surprised that the introduction of time travel hasn't completely torn the fanbase apart over the last few years.
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stev posted:I'm nearly done with Rebels now. I'm surprised that the introduction of time travel hasn't completely torn the fanbase apart over the last few years. People keep suggesting it as a way to retcon the sequels despite it being a terrible idea.
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I mean, if that doesn't happen at some point in Ahsoka, then Filoni is perpetrating malpractice. I just automatically assumed everything he's done up to this point with regards to Star Wars was building up to that exact event. The Longest Game.
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