Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[HD Canuck]

Originally Posted by aiman04

Anyone in the media talked to George Lucas yet? I'm really curious on what he has to say about the new trailer.

Ask, and you shall receive...

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS EPISODE 7 TRAILER 2 GEORGE LUCAS REACTION - YouTube

[master gandhi]

Originally Posted by HD Canuck

Ask, and you shall receive...

[Show spoiler]STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS EPISODE 7 TRAILER 2 GEORGE LUCAS REACTION - YouTube

Wow, talk about a lazy video with no quality punchline...thanks...

I will also be curious what Lucas thinks of these sequels. But really, his opinion isn't too important anymore. He'd just keep updating his opinion over the years because he didn't feel he had the proper technology to express his thoughts before.

[Himmel]

Kraft has released a new line of macaroni and cheese to celebrate the new Star Wars film, "Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens." It's a box full of tiny Yodas, Darth Vaders, R2-D2s and C-3POs, all made out of pasta.

The new "Star Wars" macaroni and cheese boxes are available now, and the suggested retail price is $1.29.

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...505-story.html

[R3P0]

RUMOR: JJ Abrams teases what may end up being a very special Easter egg in Star Wars: The Force Awakens...

Putting this in spoilers as some may want to find it on there own

[Show spoiler] JJ Plans to Kill Jar Jar Binks

Well, on this one, you can't accuse director JJ Abrams of not giving fans what they want. As he continues to put together the final cut of this December's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, more of his chat with Vanity Fair magazine has been published. And he's teased a demise for gungan of doom, the notorious Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Working in the edit suite, Abrams said that "I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binks bones in the desert there", whilst pointing out a frame of his new film. "I'm serious! Only three people will notice, but they'll love it".

We'd wager hard cash that if he did that, far more than three people would notice. And whilst it's not what people are necessarily queuing up to see in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we doubt it'll inspire an internet petition of protect.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives on December 18th 2015.



Read more: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star...#ixzz3ZSHSV6Dw

[spectre08]

ok, now that is just straight up pandering

[Darkstream]

Is Joss Whedon in Line to Direct Star Wars IX?

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_...news/?a=120222

I'm calling it now. Rather than Joss Whedon taking on one of the Star Wars "Episodes" movies, he'll most likely be directing one of the Star Wars "Anthology" movies --- specifically the Boba Fett solo movie, now that Josh Trank isn't involved with it anymore.

Whedon has gone on record as saying that after doing such a big team-up movie like Avengers: Age of Ultron, he's spent and wants to scale down by taking on a solo character story of some sort with his next film. Everyone knows Whedon's a huge Star Wars fan, which also happens to be owned by Disney along with Marvel, so it's not like he's jumping too far from ship-to-ship.

Personally, I thought the honor of a Boba Fett movie should go to Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Captain America: First Avenger) who not only is a capable director, but started out at Lucasfilms as a designer, and is actually the creator of Boba Fett! But I can totally see Whedon doing it, since he's done space-western bounty hunter stuff before with Firefly/Serenity. And it seems the timing is just right since the whole recently rumored debacle with Josh Trank and the release of Whedon's Avengers 2.

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

I'm calling it now. Rather than Joss Whedon taking on one of the Star Wars "Episodes" movies, he'll most likely be directing one of the Star Wars "Anthology" movies --- specifically the Boba Fett solo movie, now that Josh Trank isn't involved with it anymore.

Whedon has gone on record as saying that after doing such a big team-up movie like Avengers: Age of Ultron, he's spent and wants to scale down by taking on a solo character story of some sort with his next film. Everyone knows Whedon's a huge Star Wars fan, which also happens to be owned by Disney along with Marvel, so it's not like he's jumping too far from ship-to-ship.

Personally, I thought the honor of a Boba Fett movie should go to Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Captain America: First Avenger) who not only is a capable director, but started out at Lucasfilms as a designer, and is actually the creator of Boba Fett! But I can totally see Whedon doing it, since he's done space-western bounty hunter stuff before with Firefly/Serenity. And it seems the timing is just right since the whole recently rumored debacle with Josh Trank and the release of Whedon's Avengers 2.

Great get ready for some sexist 70's era Star Wars remarks.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by Terminated

Great get ready for some sexist 70's era Star Wars remarks.

What exactly was said in Avengers 2 that's being viewed as "sexist?" I always thought Whedon was more of a feminist.

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

What exactly was said in Avengers 2 that's being viewed as "sexist?" I always thought Whedon was more of a feminist.

Not Avengers 2....it was Jurassic World where he passed comment.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/0...-gender-roles/

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by Terminated

Not Avengers 2....it was Jurassic World where he passed comment.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/0...-gender-roles/

Oh, I see. Thanks.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

What exactly was said in Avengers 2 that's being viewed as "sexist?" I always thought Whedon was more of a feminist.

Actually some very extreme feminists have written articles about Avengers 2 being sexist because of Widow being sad about being made infertile. My wife got SO angry when she read about hat (the criticism, not the movie).

[motorheadache95]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Actually some very extreme feminists have written articles about Avengers 2 being sexist because of Widow being sad about being made infertile. My wife got SO angry when she read about hat (the criticism, not the movie).

I consider myself a feminist, and they get a bad rap because of people like this-- it's like they're just sitting there waiting to pounce on something to be outraged about. There was nothing sexist about the Black Widow in Avengers 2-- she compared herself to Hulk as a monster because she was genetically tinkered with and also raised to be a heartless killer with no emotional ties.

People are freaking ridiculous.

[klauswhereareyou]

Can't take places like Huff Post seriously because their movie reviews are more concerned with social concerns than the films themselves.

[BJ Blazkowicz]

I'd rather not have a sarcastic wisecracking Boba Fett

[klauswhereareyou]

If they want to do something to make Boba Fett cool again they should have some Boba Fett story in the anthology film where it's just him on the job, his P.O.V., no talking, kind of like the opening 10-15 minutes of the Charles Bronson film The Mechanic.

[stvn1974]

Andrew on Buffy The Vampire Slayer: "I'm bored, Episode I One bored."

I don't see Joss Whedon ever doing a Star Wars film. I also don't want him to, I want him to create something new that is his own.

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Andrew on Buffy The Vampire Slayer: "I'm bored, Episode I One bored."

I don't see Joss Whedon ever doing a Star Wars film. I also don't want him to, I want him to create something new that is his own.

Yeah, I'm really not a big fan of a few big name directors making the rounds of the sci-fi circuit.

I was very disappointed to see JJ Abrams ditching Star Trek and going to Star Wars. Likewise I wouldn't want to see Whedon as a part of another franchise or making a DC movie.

I'm much more enthusiastic about David Ayer doing DC, and I was excited to see Josh Trank doing Star Wars, but I'll settle for him going over to a Marvel property for Fantastic Four.

I would very much like to see more directors with non-franchise sci-fi experience getting looped in to the franchises for a movie or two. A Fincher MCU film or Besson Star Wars film for example.

[Merlinpants]

I don't know if this has already been posted, but vanity fair revealed why they abandoned the original Lucas story treatment for the film......

[Abrams] said Lucas’s treatment had centered on very young characters – teenagers, Lucasfilm told me – which might have struck Disney executives as veering too close for comfort to ‘The Phantom Menace’ and its 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker and 13-year-old Queen Amidala. “We’ve made some departures” from Lucas’s ideas, Kennedy conceded, but only in “exactly the way you would in any development process.”

As Abrams and company worked on crafting a new story, the process didn’t always go so smoothly. Oscar-winner Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) was initially hired to pen the screenplay, but later departed – paving the way for Abrams and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan to write the script. In the Vanity Fair article, Abrams explained that the two essentially started with a clean slate, as the final narrative still hadn’t been completed as early as November 2013:

“We didn’t have anything. There were a thousand people waiting for answers on things, and you couldn’t tell them anything except, ‘Yeah, that guy’s in it.’ That was about it. That was really all we knew.”

[Himmel]

Greg Grunberg was a guest at Nerdist’s Chewin’ It podcast show and revealed some juicy details about his character from The Force Awakens…

As you know Greg Grunberg and J.J. Abrams are childhood friends and he appeared on most of Abrams’ projects. First it was believed that Greg will have a cameo in the movie, but later the actor revealed that he had filmed for several weeks in London.

Now Grunberg gave some more hints about his role, which appears to be a pretty big one:


He has signed for three movies.
He shot for 7 weeks in London at Pinewood.
He is not a CG character.
He has facial hair.
He has no prosthetics.
He never read the whole script. It was on red paper.
There will be an action figure with his character.
The actors had to wear cloaks while walking towards the set.


You can watch the whole podcast with Grunberg at Nerdist.com.

http://nerdist.com/chewin-it-108-greg-grunberg/

[GenPion]

I was wondering when Grunberg would show up in another J.J. Abrams project. Didn't really expect it to be Star Wars. He was really good on Alias.