Star Wars Universe Thread: May The 4th Be With You

[jaypesoz]

I've been rooting for JJ Fett movie for years. I'd rather have him do a separate Fett movie since I know he'll make the movie Fett deserves. A Joe Johnston directed Boba Fett movie is probably my #1 most wanted movie I want done.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

It's funny, my 8 year old son & I were watching Empire the other day & he said the Fox/Lucasfilm opening was awesome... I was amazed he said that because I've never said how cool I thought that was too...Sad to know that will be gone but small price to pay for what should be good movies...

 

[david bowman]

dont see any bad choices so far

i didnt love how boba fett went out  i heard he actually survived in one of the books, is that true?

 

[CP1708]

dont see any bad choices so far

i didnt love how boba fett went out i heard he actually survived in one of the books, is that true?

You have no idea my friend, no idea.....

Well damn. There you have it. Maybe, just maybe, Johnston will be able to do a Fett movie someday now that the vault is open. Vader comebacks, Fett movies, young Han Solo. Yes yes and more yes.

 

[jaypesoz]

Yeah, besides the small handful of stubborn people who don't want to admit anything outside of the OT happened, he's alive in everything expanded universe.

 

[noblekane]

i want del toro to do the movies. I like that he uses puppets and animatronics still. hellboy, pans labrynth, blade 2 were all good to me

 

[KingParappa]

I all for a fett movie... psh I'm all for a Mandalorian story.

 

[jeepneykid]

I'm excited!
So much stuff Disney could do with the extended Universe.
I also trust Disney with their movies because they own Marvel Studios and those movies post buy out are solid.

I'm hoping for a Cade Skywalker & Darth Talon movie.

 

[offwhitewhite]

Someone who earned it should direct this. Brad Bird or John Lasseter come to mind.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

New issue of Entertainment Weekly has a Star Wars cover & a feature on Kathleen Kennedy. She's quoted as saying they'd like to make 2-3 movies a year if they could....Got damn that would be cool...Can you imagine a Pixar-Star Wars spin off?


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[gatzbygordon]

george could've gotten soooo much more outta this deal.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

george could've gotten soooo much more outta this deal.

He probably could have, but that's not his steelo. He's already worth like $6-$7 billion dollars, most of which is liquid. How much more money does one need. The fact he's giving most if not all the dough he's getting from the sale to educational charities speaks to this. Plus things like putting director Joe Johnston through film school & other instances like that....He pledged to use a majority of his wealth for charity back in 2010...That's the way to do it when you have that type of cash IMO...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-lucas-2010-philanthropy-pledge-384948

 

[CP1708]

New issue of Entertainment Weekly has a Star Wars cover & a feature on Kathleen Kennedy. She's quoted as saying they'd like to make 2-3 movies a year if they could....Got damn that would be cool...Can you imagine a Pixar-Star Wars spin off?


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This will be in my mail box tomorrow.

But again, the ****** helmet looks so damn stupid. That ain't the og helmet.

Kathleen Kennedy. She's quoted as saying they'd like to make 2-3 movies a year if they could

This warms my soul. Certainly no way they could actually do it, but if they have that mindset already, then maybe they will find ways to have a diff movie every year, or even every other year, AFTER the next trilogy. Like I've said, this franchise should surpass Bond in terms of total number of films, and they could do it in 2 decades easy. There's no reason not to have 7-8 different Star Wars movies per decade. None. And that's even if they just erase all the Expanded Universe stuff, that's fine, just off the movies alone they could still come up with a ton of different ways to go.

Imagine seeing Han and Boba Fett when they were younger, and how they knew each other. Or how Han and Lando met, and bet on the Falcon. Darth Maul origins. Old Republic stuff. These are all movies they can make off the main storyline that would do HUGE numbers regardless. Star Wars fans are going to DEVOUR this ****. We never thought we would get anything more. ****, Phantom Menace sucked balls and it did 430 million domestic and almost a billion worldwide. We crave more. Long as they keep makin it, we'll keep goin.

Same as why I went and saw Bond 23 last night. It's part of American movie history. The name Bond will get people to go see it. The name Star Wars will too. So they should absolutely have that mind set to make as many movies as they possibly can, and not worry about how or where the material comes from. Just make sure to flesh out the scripts correctly, have competent direction, and it'll be like printing money.

 

[jaypesoz]

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[CP1708]

Actual writers being brought in to put these sequels together. That means no ******g Jar Jars or lovesick teenagers.

Kasdan is a key guy. Empire alone makes him a made man.

Now that Academy Award winner Michael Arndt is working on writing a script for "Star Wars: Episode VII", Disney is wasting no time in getting things in line for "Episode VIII" and "Episode "IX". On Tuesday, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg have been hired to draft the sequels for the new "Star Wars" trilogy.

Lawrence Kasdan worked on the screenplays for both "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi", as well as "Raiders of the Lost Ark", so he has plenty of experience working in the Star Wars universe as well as writing for Harrison Ford. This could come in handy as Ford has said he'd be willing to reprise the role of Han Solo in the new trilogy.

Although he doesn't have experience writing about lightsabers and Jedi, Simon Kinberg has written "X-Men: First Class", "Sherlock Holmes" as well as writing the screenplay for the upcoming "X-Men: Days of Future Past", which will be directed by Bryan Singer. On "First Class", he worked with Michael Vaughn, who is rumored to be in the running for directing one of the "Star Wars" sequels.

Speaking of directors, while Disney and Lucasfilm have not officially extended any offers, it hasn't stopped several big name directors from passing on the chance to bring that galaxy far, far away back to the big screen. Recently, Brad Bird ("Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol", "Iron Giant") went on record that he would not be directing "Episode VII". He joins J.J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Ben Affleck and Steven Spielberg as directors who have squashed fan speculation that they could be in line for directorial duties.

 

[duba169]

WOW back to the future got so much correct it's scary. Baseball team in Miami and star wars haha. There's a list of a bunch of things posted a while back

 

[danger style]

That's a really bad photoshop up there. It's supposed to be Jaws V in 3D or something

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Haven't seen this thread bumped in a lil bit....Looks like David Fincher could be a possibility...I really don't want to see Favreau get the gig. I just don't think he fits...Although I like his filmography, not sure about Fincher...Also art critic Camille Paglia calls Revenge Of The Sith greatest work of art of the past 30 years (in all of the world's history)....huh? Paglia has always been a lil bit crazy...

http://www.slashfilm.com/david-finc...-directorial-job-jon-favreau-also-in-the-mix/

The speculation over who might direct Star Wars Episode VII is downright ridiculous. It’s at the point where people are analyzing every single quote from actors and directors, word by word, to try and figure out who Kathleen Kennedy and Disney want to make the movie. But let’s face it: it’s fun, and a fantastic topic for discussion because we never thought anyone but George Lucas would make a Star Wars film ever again.

The only name that’s been discussed seriously over the past few weeks is Matthew Vaughn, while most directors have come out and flat out denied any involvement. A new report on Deadline, though, confirms rumors we’ve culled from Twitter that Jon Favreau is, indeed, attempting to get the gig. It also adds a sort-of-surprising new name into the mix: David Fincher. He’s reportedly “game for one of these news films” and has a strong relationship with LucasFilm’s Kathleen Kennedy, who produced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

There’s more below, including a video of Fincher’s talking about working at Industrial Light & Magic.

A big hat-tip to The Playlist for picking up the following quote in a seeming un-Star Wars related article on Deadline:

As much as I’ve heard the Vaughn rumor, I’ve also heard Jon Favreau is panting after this job, and even that David Fincher, who apparently worked for Lucas’s ILM in a menial job as a teen, might be game for one of these new films. Unfortunately, we are getting nothing out of Lucas Land on what they call speculation. I broke a story recently that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg will write future Star Wars installments, most likely the second and third installments of the new trilogy, I’d heard. Lucas, through Disney, denied every speck of this, but I ran it anyway. They won’t comment or clarify these things because they want to announce it themselves on their own Twitter or website or whatever they’ve got.

Favreau recently had the movie he was working on, Jersey Boys, go away and Fincher has yet to commit to a new film – though it seems like once likely 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was slipping away. That film, too, was supposed to be with Disney, LucasFilm’s new owner, so maybe that’s where discussions started. It’s also interesting that one of Fincher’s earliest jobs was as an “assistant cameraman” for ILM working on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He also worked on Temple of Doom and many of his films have had their effects done at ILM.

Fincher is well-known for being a demanding, meticulous force on set, which might not blend with the corporate interests a new Star Wars movie brings. That said, I don’t see this actually happening, but I do find it cool that he’s interested. Do you think Fincher would actually direct a Star Wars film? What would that be like?

 

[CP1708]

I don't think I would enjoy Fincher taking over a SW film. Which is odd, given that I want the films to be darker and not so damn Jar Jar like Lucas was makin them.

I want ESB on a grander, more modern scale.

But still, I would interpret Fincher as wanting the job for the fame, not the love of Star Wars. I want a Star Wars geek to film this ****, get it right. Make me forget the billion mistakes in Episodes I-III

 

[Fozz]

That's a really bad photoshop up there. It's supposed to be Jaws V in 3D or something

Exactly. It was Jaws and the 3D shark was coming out of the screen to eat him.

 

[generationz]

Edit- Nevermind

 

[Kimchi Papi]

http://collider.com/star-wars-fans-build-millennium-falcon/216036/

STAR WARS Fans Unite to Build Full-Scale Millennium Falcon – Don’t Worry, She’ll Hold Together
by Dave Trumbore Posted: December 5th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

“You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs!” Star Wars fans will recognize the floating hunk of junk above as Han Solo’s notoriously fickle freighter, but an ambitious group of builders are out to bring a full-scale version to life. It’s likely going to take quite a few years to get this project off the ground (so to speak) and it will unfortunately never fly. But the builders have a plan to turn the effort into a working summer camp of sorts for students to learn welding, architecture, electronics and so on. Perhaps by the time the new Star Wars sequels have run their course, the Millennium Falcon will be open and ready to smuggle visitors to fantasy land. Hit the jump to watch a video that shows the work in progress.

The following video shows the founder and one of the builders for the Full Scale Falcon project (via BBC). Another video shows the detailed 3D model the builders are using to aid in their construction. And if you want to see how much detailed information already exists for the fictional Falcon, check out the Wookieepedia page here. Where these guys are going to get a Koensayr TLB power converter or a Novaldex stasis-type shield generator, I have no idea. Who’s going to one-up them and build a full-scale Imperial-class Star Destroyer next?

 

[jaypesoz]

Back in November, the Los Angeles Times reported that Man of Steel and 300 director Zack Snyder said he had no interest in directing the hotly anticipated seventh Star Wars film. But Vulture has learned that while this may be specifically true — he won’t be doing Episode VII — it was a bit of misdirection: He is in fact developing a Star Wars project for Lucasfilm that is set within the series’ galaxy, though parallel to the next trilogy. It will be an as-yet-untitled Jedi epic loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai, with the ronin and katana being replaced by the Force-wielding knights and their iconic lightsabers. (Go ahead, say it — you know you want to: “ … an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.” Felt good, didn’t it?)

It’s not clear just where Snyder’s untitled Jedi film would fall within the Star Wars chronology, but one insider expects it will not be considered part of the “numbered” episodes, but rather a stand-alone film set sometime post–Episode VI events, meaning the next phase of the franchise development is much broader than previously thought. For those unfamiliar, Kurosawa’s influential Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven was the American remake) tells the tale of a small agrarian town in sixteenth-century Japan that’s routinely pillaged by bandits. Fed up with the annual shakedown, its farmers retain the services of seven masterless samurai to defend their harvest. One of the film's stars, Toshiro Mifune, was initially offered the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi (as Kotaku recounts here). George Lucas has cited the classic as one of his favorites, telling the Telegraph in 2005 that “it’s a brilliant, brilliant film, and every time I see it I can't believe the magic mixture of a great story and great acting and humour and action and suspense — wonderful cinema. The art of moving pictures is on every frame of this movie.”

In late October of last year, when Disney CEO Bob Iger first announced the acquisition of Lucasfilm, he’d stated that after Episode VII, “our long term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years.” Our sources also say that Snyder’s would start production after Disney starts on its planned 2015 release of Star Wars: Episode VII, and while no director has yet been set for Episode VII, clearly things are taking shape at Lucasfilm. (A spokesperson for Lucasfilm declined comment.)

In the meantime, we are left to ponder the obvious geek questions: Do Snyder’s Jedi carry just a single lightsaber or a long one and a short one, like samurai do? Oh God, why do you torture us so!?

http://www.vulture.com/m/2013/01/zack-snyder-preps-non-trilogy-star-wars-film.html

Seven Samurai x Star Wars?!? I don't wanna get too ahead of myself but this is great news, if you ask me.

 

[CP1708]

It begins.

 

[darthdeezy]

All I gotta say is Disney better stay with the opening crawl like the other 6 movies.
Or it wouldnt be the same.