Wheat Loaf posted:

"It turns out Padme didn't die after all! In other news, Natalie Portman became the highest-paid actor on the planet today when"

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"I'm looking at everything right now. I'm honestly just in this very nice 'OK, what is this thing going to be?' phase. Really, the only goal I have is to think about how Star Wars made me feel as a kid. And that's it. I'm trying to capture: what is that, if it's not iconography that we recognize, necessarily, from the original trilogy? What captures that spirit? What can be that for a kid who's never heard of Star Wars? It's getting back to the very fundamental questions of what makes this what it is."

Wheat Loaf posted:

Interesting if true. Is any of this online in any more detail or is it entirely insider stuff?

I wonder what they will try to course-correct? You mentioned young fans not biting as hard as they might like (I'm curious whether that was a problem for the prequels as well - I was one of those young fans in 1999-2005 so I have no idea) - my impression is that a lot of the things you see people complain about on the Internet aren't really the sort of things that must be urgently corrected to get the kids to turn out, so I'm not sure what the solution there is.

Of course, I have no idea what kids actually like these days. I guess they like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson so I suppose the obvious answer is

cargohills posted:

What? They were very popular films, especially with children. I'm pretty sure bullies don't pick their targets by their taste in Star Wars films. (If they did life would just be a little bit funnier.)

cargohills posted:

I'm not trying to tell you that you weren't bullied but by definition an inconsequential thing doesn't really matter. I'm sure somewhere there is a bully who is beating up kids for playing hockey or whatever but hockey plays a very small part in that equation.

chiasaur11 posted:

The Last Jedi leaves a good deal done and settled. We know who Snoke and Rey were (nobody important), what Snoke's going to be doing in episode IX (pushing daisies), what the conflict is in the next one (the First Order: Still assholes), and if Rey can beat Kylo (easily). The narrative is less a clean slate and more a Sudoku puzzle with almost every answer filled in.

No Mods No Masters posted:

The real question is, who will disney sell star wars to

Waffles Inc. posted:

Teek posted:

It's probably one of those bad Wal-Mart collage posters.

Gonz posted:

LIES

DECEPTION

Gonz posted:

I just hope it's a legit trailer and not a lame-o teaser.

leaks subreddit posted:

Just a quick gloss over of some of things hinted at in the 3 MSW trailer review podcasts - this is all recorded on a portable mic and much more casual, so kinda hard to transcribe

- Rey and Kylo meet for the first time for the film in the Jordan desert, the scene from the trailer, early in the film
- when they meet again later in the film they force link
- they start fighting in locations that neither of them are actually at (confusing) -it’s a continuation of the force Skype stuff from TLJ
- Jason wonders if the forceback in VII is a flash forward to the bit from the teaser
- Jason keeps saying he knows a lot
- he said he knows what happens with Kylo, but might have been being facetious
- he said there’s something to do with a graveyard or cemetery
- seems like this movies gonna get heavy spoiled pretty early

Making Star Wars posted:

The main sequence takes place between Adam Driver and Harrison Ford or Kylo Ren and Han Solo.

One source called it a surprise intervention of sorts.

A source that did not work on or see the sequence believed it takes place when Kylo Ren asks the burned Darth Vader helmet to show him the darkness again.

Luke Skywalker appears to be the twist in the encounter.

The source was paraphrasing but Han Solo tells Ben Solo it isn’t too late and the sequence has a tone of forgiveness and understanding to it.

He’s not a “force ghost” in the classic sense and he’s part of a “vision” or “dream” type moment induced by Luke Skywalker.

High Lord Elbow posted:

I am upset on the internet about a movie that hasn't happened yet.

feedmyleg posted:

Haven't checked these out yet, but the problem with every fan documentary I've ever seen is that they just spend the whole time jerking the subject off. Like, a lot of these films deserve really interesting and in-depth documentaries made on their influenced and their effects on the industry, or an examination of their thematic elements and breakdown of what makes their character moments so engaging and effective.

But in reality they just end up being a bunch of third-tier talking heads going "Isn't this movie amazing? Gosh did I love it as a kid." over and over again.

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“This has been in the blueprint for a long time, yeah. We had not landed on exactly how we might do that, but yes, it was always [to be in Episode IX],” Kennedy told Yahoo Entertainment’s Kevin Polowy.