Star Wars: Episode 7, 8... and BEYOND!

[Shademp]

Well, "The Lord of the Rings" movies were shown again in select theatres when "The Hobbit" trilogy was complete, so ...

What are you talking about? The Hobbit trilogy remained in development hell for so long that Peter Jackson admitted that now it's too late to make those movies. Now we'll never get to see what those movies would have been like.

 

[Tetsujin]

Well, "The Lord of the Rings" movies were shown again in select theatres when "The Hobbit" trilogy was complete, so ...

I don't live in select theater land, so...

 

[Tetsujin]

Watch in order

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPrs3UFlHXv/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/joshgad/status/826858035981197316

https://twitter.com/joshgad/status/829326748970000385

 

[X-SOLDIER]

That build up was fucking spectacular.





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[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/BurnettRM/status/830816741726969856

LAST JEDI scoring update. Last Thursday was John Williams' 85th Birthday. He's conducting. Rian Johnson wants to use the score for editing.

So apparently Ep VIII might be edited to the music rather than the other way round?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

That's not entirely out of the ordinary, but I'm not convinced it's a good practice. I think the initial cut of Advent Children was done that way?

 

[X-SOLDIER]

At the very least it's MUCH better than the current problematic practice of editing to a temp track and then having the composer attempt to mimic it. I think that so long as there's a solid connection between the two, it can work going both ways, but I've little knowledge or experience on that practice.





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[Hisako]

If that's what it takes for me to feel fully-engaged in another Star Wars soundtrack, I'm cool with it TFA was good but I felt like it had a hard time hitting the same sort of iconic beats that the prequels (or even the originals) did

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Jimmy Vee (who played Bannakaffalatta in Doctor Who) has taken up the role of playing R2-D2 in The Last Jedi.





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[tangerine]

Spoiler: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

 

[X-SOLDIER]

We now know that the Episode VIII title is plural! Thanks, foreign languages!!!





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[Nanaki Skywalker]

Death hoaxes are dick moves in general. Those that come nearly 2 months after the real thing happened to the subject's co-star take this bullshit to a whole new level.

To whoever was responsible for cooking up the Mark Hamill death hoax, you're an asshole and you can go fuck yourself! Thankfully, Hamill is so alive and well that he took the honors of busting the hoax himself via Twitter.

 

[Tetsujin]

We now know that the Episode VIII title is plural! Thanks, foreign languages!!!

Be glad that localizations are much more coordinated these days. Return of the Jedi was all over the place with the plural/singular

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

New novel reveals what became of Jar Jar after Episode III

 

[Nanaki Skywalker]

New novel reveals what became of Jar Jar after Episode III

Why am I not surprised? I don't even know what fate he deserves to be quite honest. I must say the new canon writers are really milking his unpopularity.

Spoiler

And you can kiss Darth Jar Jar goodbye.

All I know about him in Legends is that he succeeded Padme Amidala in the Senate in the aftermath of her death and was in turn succeeded by Padme's youngest niece, Pooja Naberrie (who befriended Leia in the Senate, not knowing they were cousins).

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Dave Filoni's talking a bit about the nature of the Force. I fully expect that The Last Jedi starts delving into this with how much all of the auxiliary Star Wars stories have been focusing on establishing it. Given early ideas about why Snoke took interest in Ben, I'm not at all surprised, but always endlessly excited.

Hopefully we'll get some more tiny hints of it in two months.





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[Animexcel]

 

[Tetsujin]

Brilliant

 

[Charles Xavier]

Just wondering, but does the title of Episode VIII seem typical of Rian Johnson in keeping his movies very cryptic and mysterious? Still haven't seen his movies BTW.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Just wondering, but does the title of Episode VIII seem typical of Rian Johnson in keeping his movies very cryptic and mysterious? Still haven't seen his movies BTW.

I don't really find the title all that cryptic/mysterious tbqh. His titles are all pretty straightforward, especially insofar as films like Looper & Brick they're always just directly referring to the core subject matter of the film. The Last Jedi is the same way, since the Episode VII opening crawl directly refers to Luke as, "the last Jedi" and that's also a title that Yoda bestowed upon him in RotJ. This also has the added advantage in English of also being able to refer to Luke & (likely) Rey – given that the foreign languages revealed that the title is intended to be plural.





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[X-SOLDIER]

I cannot wait to find out why Finn needed to talk about Bio-Hexacrypt in Episode VIII.





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[Charles Xavier]

Lookie lookie new still.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Lookie lookie new still.

That's the official version on what was revealed on that empty toybox, yeah?




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[Nanaki Skywalker]

Lookie lookie new still.

Qui-Gon Rey.

Enough said.

 

[Hisako]

Fuck being a descendant of Obi Wan, it's actually Qui-Gon I bet

Those other theories are all bullshit now right