Star Wars Saga Discussion

**Skitch** · 12-23-2012, 03:35 PM

**Ezee E** · 12-23-2012, 05:40 PM

Vaguely remember the idea of reading the first two, but know nothing of them now.

**Gamblor** · 01-24-2013, 08:54 PM

J.J. Abrams is directing:

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/articl...xclusive-74596

**Kurosawa Fan** · 01-24-2013, 09:01 PM

"Little Miss Sunshine" screenwriter Michael Arndy is penning the script.

:crazy:

Still, if I was going to get excited about any viable choice to keep the franchise going, it's Abrams.

**number8** · 01-24-2013, 09:21 PM

Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)

:crazy:

He's part of the Pixar braintrust. Disney trusts those guys with their big guns.

**Watashi** · 01-24-2013, 09:27 PM

I'm okay with this. It's way better than the alternatives.

Plus Giacchino will now do the score.

**Skitch** · 01-24-2013, 10:05 PM

I'm very okay with this.

**DavidSeven** · 01-24-2013, 10:29 PM

I would have been fine with ignoring the rest of this franchise forever, so I would have actually preferred them to hire a filmmaker I have no interest in.

**Fezzik** · 01-24-2013, 10:35 PM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

I'm very okay with this.

I'm not. He did fine with Star Trek, but do I want him to be working on both at once? When he gets interested in a new project, he seems to move away from one of his existing properties and it falls by the way side.

I was hoping they'd give this to someone who could focus on IT and not have to tend multiple irons in the fire, as it were.

Then again, maybe I just think his work is underwhelming. Outside Trek, I haven't really been impressed with anything he's done.

Love the Giacchino selection, though.

**Watashi** · 01-24-2013, 10:44 PM

You knew it had to be a Jew.

**Henry Gale** · 01-24-2013, 11:04 PM

Wow. I guess I'll actually look forward to it now.

Especially surprising because he said this in late December:

Quoting J.J. Abrams

Because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn't even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I'd rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

Assuming these reports are entirely true, I'd now be curious to later hear what changed his mind. Aside from $$$$$$$$$$, that is.

**Dukefrukem** · 01-24-2013, 11:26 PM

JJ is fine adapting previous franchises. He's not fine with new material. So I'm OK with this too.

**Skitch** · 01-25-2013, 12:19 AM

*waits patiently for the Star Wars lens flare meme*

**Acapelli** · 01-25-2013, 03:45 AM

Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)

JJ is fine adapting previous franchises. He's not fine with new material. So I'm OK with this too.

no love for super 8?

**number8** · 01-25-2013, 04:01 AM

I thought Super 8 was him taking over the Spielberg franchise?

BAM.

**Dukefrukem** · 01-25-2013, 11:29 AM

Quoting Acapelli (view post)

no love for super 8?

I think I enjoyed it in theaters, and enough for me to BUY it... but after a second viewing there's just so much wrong with it. We talked about it a lot in the Super 8 thread but, the monster reveal is too late in the movie where they barely use drama surrounding the actual super 8 film (you know, the thing the movie it titled around?) the wreck is so over the top its annoying, the whole train model to space ship model comparison is broken, why the alien didn't kill the kids in the tunnel is broken... The only thing that was suburb were the kid actors.

**Kurosawa Fan** · 01-25-2013, 01:32 PM

Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)

I think I enjoyed it in theaters, and enough for me to BUY it... but after a second viewing there's just so much wrong with it. We talked about it a lot in the Super 8 thread but, the monster reveal is too late in the movie where they barely use drama surrounding the actual super 8 film (you know, the thing the movie it titled around?) the wreck is so over the top its annoying, the whole train model to space ship model comparison is broken, why the alien didn't kill the kids in the tunnel is broken... The only thing that was suburb were the kid actors.

Everything you mention here, aside from the train wreck (which is admittedly over the top), I find to be a strength. I love that the film is about the kids more than the monster, I enjoyed the train to space ship model as a way of connecting the monster's pain to Joe's pain, and the alien not killing the kids in the tunnel is very well explained in the film, and completely logical.

**Dukefrukem** · 01-25-2013, 04:14 PM

Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)

is very well explained in the film, and completely logical.

Oh you're right.

**Gamblor** · 01-28-2013, 08:16 PM

The 3D Star Wars prequel re-releases have been axed: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...medium=twitter

**Morris Schæffer** · 02-05-2013, 05:28 AM

Some rumours are popping up that episode VII might focus on the Yoda character.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60757

**Dukefrukem** · 02-05-2013, 11:45 AM

Yoda's not dead?

edit: oh it's for the first stand alone film. Not Episode VII.

**Neclord** · 02-05-2013, 10:12 PM

Please, no more prequels. I beg of you.

**number8** · 02-05-2013, 10:26 PM

I'll bet anything that the second movie will be a Boba Fett movie.

**Ezee E** · 02-05-2013, 10:38 PM

Quoting number8 (view post)

I'll bet anything that the second movie will be a Boba Fett movie.

Directed by Joe Carnahan.

I want a Max Rebo musical.

**Watashi** · 02-05-2013, 11:59 PM

Bib Fortuna movie or GTFO.

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