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Since we've got one for Marvel & DC I figured why not with today's announcements: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-episode-viii-gets-release-date-spinoff-movie-called-rogue-one-1201451449/* Episode VIII (8) release date will be May 26, 2017 - Rian Johnson to write & direct * The first Spin-off was given a title, "Rogue 1" Release will be Dec 16th of next year. - Speculation was that this will focus on Wedge based on the name but as it stars Felicity Jones I doubt that. New speculation is it focuses on young Leia - Written by Chris Weitz who wrote Disney's live action Cinderella that starts tomorrow. * Second spin-off is still under-wraps. Also, for those who haven't followed, Asoka (Anakin's Padawan) made her appearance on Rogues' season finale. Son was thrilled, I less so, but they dropped Vader at the end so hopefully she dies.  |
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Aww I like Ahsoka. As much as she was annoying at the beginning of Clone Wars they really fleshed her out more than anyone else. Good to see she wasn't forgotten about, but now we know why she was absent from the last season.
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DraconianOne
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So Rogue One will be set betweetn Ep 3 and 4 and be about the group of rebels trying to steal the Death Star plans. No word on whether Kyle Katarn will feature (but I'm guessing not).
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Evildrider
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So Rogue One will be set betweetn Ep 3 and 4 and be about the group of rebels trying to steal the Death Star plans. No word on whether Kyle Katarn will feature (but I'm guessing not).
Katarn is in the rubbish pile next to the rest of the EU unfortunately. |
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Not the rubbish pile, the "Legends" pile.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Felicity Jones
Now there's a change in "acceptable" behavior for Star Wars actors. Bai Ling's minor character was completely cut from the prequels because she had appeared in playboy. Felicity Jones has done nude scenes god knows how many times. Almost all of it 3.6 seconds after she turned 18. Ahsoka even being in Rebels so she wasn't really expected the first season. I don't think it was until the end of the season people started doing voice analysis on the voice of "Fulcrum" and proved it was her. As far as why she wasn't in the last season of Clone Wars there was no mystery at all about that. People want to see some sort of Ahsoka running into Darth Vader thing, but given what is actually canon after Rebels I doubt it would play out the way people want. I did think that Clone Wars was overall a great show, especially the way it portrayed Anakin willing to stretch things further and further to conceal his relationship with Padme as well as protect/rescue the people he felt he was responsible for protecting - Padme and Ahsoka. Especially when he started force-choking that one guy. Then the one time he decided to put his faith in the Jedi Council and wait to see what happens, his padawan gets framed for all sorts of shit and quits the Jedi. That's two out of the three people he seemed to care about leave or die because he failed to protect them. The series really helped to make the 3rd prequel feel a lot less full of retarded angsty choices. |
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Khaldun
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So Rogue One will be set betweetn Ep 3 and 4 and be about the group of rebels trying to steal the Death Star plans. No word on whether Kyle Katarn will feature (but I'm guessing not).
They really should have called it "Many Bothans Died". |
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Speaking of Rebels. There's a new trailer out and it features the return of an older Captain Rex!
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Cyrrex
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So Rogue One will be set betweetn Ep 3 and 4 and be about the group of rebels trying to steal the Death Star plans. No word on whether Kyle Katarn will feature (but I'm guessing not).
They really should have called it "Many Bothans Died". If I was directing this movie, I would include a single scene where a bunch of random Bothans just get blow the fuck up for doing nothing but being bystanders, with no explanation at all. Just to show that a lot of Bothans did, indeed, die. |
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If you directed that movie and included that scene, I would take to the forums in a massive nerd rage about how the stupid director doesn't know anything about Star Wars. |
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Given it'll be directed by the Lego Movie people, PRATT CONFIRMED.  |
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I have just the actor for that role. He is loose, spontaneous, always willing to laugh at himself.  |
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Evildrider
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I have just the actor for that role. He is loose, spontaneous, always willing to laugh at himself.  As much as I'd like to see Pratt, I'd rather he ended up as Indy. I actually wouldn't mind like Zachary Levi as a young Han. |
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sickrubik
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Ford did both, why not Pratt? :D
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Evildrider
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Ford did both, why not Pratt? :D
Pratt is already in 3 franchises. Not that I don't think he'd be awesome.. it's just finding time to do all of it. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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Ford did both, why not Pratt? :D
Pratt is already in 3 franchises. Not that I don't think he'd be awesome.. it's just finding time to do all of it. They won't cast Pratt because it's not a reboot. Pratt can do Indy because they will likely be completely redoing the originals but for the Solo movie they are trying to fit it in the existing movie canon. This means that not only will they need to pick an actor a good bit younger than ford was in '79 but they are also going to have to find as much of a look-alike as they can and Pratt while awesome, doesn't look like Ford at all. |
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Does anyone else think this is an awful idea?
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Evildrider
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It's the kind of stuff that fans have always wanted though, and at least it's not some of the old EU nonsense. Hell, if that Boba Fett movie ever gets made, that shit will draw fanboys like no other.
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Does anyone else think this is an awful idea?
Only because it'll make Han too Disney-fied. It'll be Han shoots second dialed-up to 11. |
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Does anyone else think this is an awful idea?
Right Here. |
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Does anyone else think this is an awful idea?
Right Here. I'm with this guy (as usual). If they did something Dark Knight-ish there could be possibilities for fun, but no chance they will risk the franchise. It will be soulless and awful. |
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Who is Aaron Paul?
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Who is Aaron Paul?
Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. He plays a moron rather well. I can't see him playing Han. |
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Ironwood
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No, that would be a horrible casting decision. What the fuck.
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Someone on grantland put it well; the only good thing Lucas did in the prequels was not involve Han.
He arrives as a fully formed character in Sw IV, peeking behind that curtain will just be crap.
Frankly same goes for the Bobba Fett
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HaemishM
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No, that would be a horrible casting decision. What the fuck.
Yeah, this. I'd rather they go with Chris Pratt than Aaron Paul, and I really like Aaron Paul. Unless the plan is to have Han Solo be 16 and really stupid, Paul just doesn't have the look. And he's well past 16. Of course, a prequel Han Solo movie would have to go into his time as an Imperial Academy student? Or is it just roguish Han doing Han shit? |
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Lantyssa
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Who is Aaron Paul?
Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. He plays a moron rather well. I can't see him playing Han. Not that I knew him, but that was kind of a joke on finding an unknown if he's only been in one show. |
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Evildrider
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No, that would be a horrible casting decision. What the fuck.
Yeah, this. I'd rather they go with Chris Pratt than Aaron Paul, and I really like Aaron Paul. Unless the plan is to have Han Solo be 16 and really stupid, Paul just doesn't have the look. And he's well past 16. Of course, a prequel Han Solo movie would have to go into his time as an Imperial Academy student? Or is it just roguish Han doing Han shit? Is him being an Imperial Academy student part of canon, or is that EU stuff? Personally I'd like to see him up and coming, him saving Chewy and getting a hold of the Falcon, and working for Jabba or something. Also, this isn't Lucas anymore. If it was I'd think these movies would all be terrible ideas. |
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Ironwood
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But wait, those books were actually ok. So filming that shit would be a bit redundant, no ?
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Evildrider
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But wait, those books were actually ok. So filming that shit would be a bit redundant, no ?
Other than .001% of film goers have probably read or heard about them. |
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Yeah, but fuck those guys, right ?  |
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