It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

God forbid I be glad the man who helmed the prequel trilogy not be involved in this movie.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

God forbid I be glad the man who created the entire goddamn story not be involved in this movie.

Fixed that for you since your memory is about as long as your dick apparently.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Think about it this way.

Would you rather have Lucas involved and meddling in the new shit ( ), or have him like this, as hands off and disinterested as possible?

He got paid to leave it alone, leave it alone. But disrespect for what the man accomplished is a bad look.

Get paid 4,000,000,000 for something you made up while smoking weed brehs.

[Steve Contra]

Considering the trailer looks like a soulless carbon copy of the originals for bitter nostalgics I see no reason Lucas should need to weigh in.  "Gee, I guess it looks like a movie I made in the 70s".  Abrams 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

God forbid I be glad the man who created the entire goddamn story not be involved in this movie.

Fixed that for you since your memory is about as long as your dick apparently.

So because he started the series he gets an automatic pass for doing more harm to the franchise than good?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

God forbid I be glad the man who created the entire goddamn story not be involved in this movie.

Fixed that for you since your memory is about as long as your dick apparently.

So because he started the series he gets an automatic pass for doing more harm to the franchise than good?

Again, you do better then. I enjoy star wars and thank him for bringing it to me and my kids.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Apparently creation is a prerequisite for legitimate criticism, dudes.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Excuse me while I make a Star Wars so I'm allowed to say something bad about Star Wars.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Apparently creation is a prerequisite for legitimate criticism, dudes.

Easy to pick on the guy who built the car when all you do is drive it, breh.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Apparently creation is a prerequisite for legitimate criticism, dudes.

Easy to pick on the guy who built the car when all you do is drive it, breh.

If I could undrive the prequels I absolutely would.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Apparently creation is a prerequisite for legitimate criticism, dudes.

Easy to pick on the guy who built the car when all you do is drive it, breh.

If I could undrive the prequels I absolutely would.

God I hope not but the potential for JJ to make you miss George is larger than you think. I look forward to a tremendous amount of lens flares though.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Apparently creation is a prerequisite for legitimate criticism, dudes.

Easy to pick on the guy who built the car when all you do is drive it, breh.

If I could undrive the prequels I absolutely would.

God I hope not but the potential for JJ to make you miss George is larger than you think. I look forward to a tremendous amount of lens flares though.

What I'm saying though is if George were involved it'd be lens flares AND dry, wooden dialog about space taxation.

[TakingBackSunday]

Nerds.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Nerds.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Nerds.

THIS IS IMPORTANT

[bork]

Considering the trailer looks like a soulless carbon copy of the originals for bitter nostalgics I see no reason Lucas should need to weigh in.  "Gee, I guess it looks like a movie I made in the 70s".  Abrams 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Yep. That's great. Not sure how or why you're reading my post about being happy he's not creatively involved with the new movie as me saying he's a bad man.

[chronovore]

I don't know anything about it.

Best Star Wars news yet.

Well, I guess we'll just wait for you to create a better universe and plot then. Should we get a coffee or will you be able to conjure this up quickly?

 

God forbid I be glad the man who created the entire goddamn story not be involved in this movie.

Fixed that for you since your memory is about as long as your dick apparently.

You’re being a jerk.

Lucas made something special which struck a chord with a lot of us. Then he made the Prequels, which were not good movies. And in retrospect, Return of the Jedi is weaker than the first two. It doesn’t mean GL is a bad guy, but I’m happy he’s not going to be involved with the series from here on out, because it felt like he was phoning it in.

[Himu]

Official character names revealed via official trading cards













http://imgur.com/a/6DJ1p

[bork]

The sith guy seems to be Irish.  Kyle O'Ren...henceforth known as Darth Shamrock?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

The sith guy seems to be Irish.  Kyle O'Ren...henceforth known as Darth Shamrock?

Darth Hungoverious

[Barry Egan]

I can't help but feel that the Clone Wars were like the monster in a horror movie: it's far more effective if you don't get too many details about actually what it is.

Naa that makes it seem like it would have inevitably sucked no matter who was at the helm.  Lucas didn't see how making the Clone Wars awesome would have yielded more sales in plastic toys so he didn't care to make it interesting.  As you suggest, a more competent team could have made something really special.  Imagine if the build up to the Clone Wars was more than just trade negotiations. :-|

[bork]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/12/shocking-new-reveals-from-sony-hack-j-law-pitt-clooney-and-comparing-fincher-to-hitler.html?via=twitter_page

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams’s continuation of the Star Wars story, will hit theaters late next year, and there are several other planned Star Wars films by Rian Johnson (Looper), Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), and Josh Trank (Chronicle). An email dated September 20, 2014, from Michael De Luca, President of Production for Columbia Pictures, to Amy Pascal discusses the plans for Disney’s upcoming Star wars films—and may have spilled some interesting new details.

“Star Wars: Any studio would have lost josh trank and rian Johnson to this, it's freaking Star Wars. Your After Earth writer Gary Whitta is writing Gareth Edwards stand alone Star Wars film. Simon Kinberg is writing Josh Tranks. No one knows what they're about but Boba Fett is rumored to be the subject of one. Rian Johnson as you know is doing the main ones, episodes 8 and 9 of the Luke and Leia story lines, after JJ. Not sure anything is gained by looking at what Lucasfilm is doing except we are stalking all these people too, except Whitta whom I think blows.”

 

[Himu]

Gary Whitta is fucking terrible.

[Great Rumbler]

Dude wrote some kinda decent Fallout fanfiction and GAF thinks he's some kinda nerd messiah.

[Himu]

gary whitta's walking dead 1 chapter was the worst thing

[Barry Egan]

Come on, the guy is still early in his film career and he's already been nominated!  Buncha haters. 

[bork]

Come on, the guy is still early in his film career and he's already been nominated!  Buncha haters. 

I just can't get over him logging back onto GAF just to delete or edit his old Star Wars bashing posts! 

[toku]

a paycheck changes things b

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Seriously...stop hating on a fella...fuck.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Seriously...stop hating on a fella...fuck.

[Phoenix Dark]

Whitta is living his dream and finds six figure checks in his mailbox. I'm not going to hate on him.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Since when is merely earning an income a valid deflection for criticism? Are we gonna act like his body of work isn't mostly awful? There are plenty of worse people out there, but dudes track record is straight trash.

[Mupepe]

Book of Eli was pretty entertaining up to the twist. That was garbage

[Phoenix Dark]

Meh, my reaction is who cares. Dude is a fanboy I used to talk nerd shit with who is now writing Star Wars movies. Is he a bad writer? Sure. Do I give a shit? Nah. Good for him.

[Human Snorenado]

Thera ended up having a shitty show on MSNBC, who cares

[Great Rumbler]

Book of Eli was pretty entertaining up to the twist. That was garbage

Whitta lucked out on that one by getting attached to a really visual director and a producer who could pull together a decent cast.

[bork]

Thera ended up having a shitty show on MSNBC, who cares

Who is Thera?

EDIT: Ronan Farrow.  Never seen him.

[toku]

I liked Book of Eli, twist and all.

[bork]

Disney ditched my ideas for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' George Lucas says

The creator of "Star Wars" says Disney "didn't really want" to use his ideas and came up with something new instead.

 "Star Wars" creator George Lucas may have relinquished control of his space-faring franchise when he sold the rights to Disney back in 2012, but those wondering how much of the director's influence will find its way into the plot of the upcoming seventh installment may now have an answer -- not much.

Following comments that he had started to craft some ideas for a new "Star Wars" trilogy before Lucasfilm was acquired, Lucas was asked in an interview with Cinema Blend published Tuesday to divulge some of the ideas he had cooked up for new "Star Wars" material.

"Well, the ones that I sold to Disney and everything, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those," Lucas told Cinema Blend. "So they made up their own. It's not the ones that I originally wrote."

There will doubtless be many sci-fi fans claiming relief at the news that Lucas' ideas won't be making it into "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", which is scheduled for release in December. Widespread criticism of the CGI-heavy prequel trilogy that arrived between 1999 and 2005 has seen Lucas' cachet within the geek community drop. This even led to viral hits such as a mocking rework of the first "Force Awakens" trailer that imagines what the new film could look like with Lucas in the driving seat.

Are "Star Wars" fans altogether too eager to give Lucas a hard time though? I'd argue that while there's little to redeem the prequel movies, Lucas is the father of the "Star Wars" universe beloved by so, so many. It's his world we're daydreaming in when we spend long, dull meetings imagining epic lightsaber battles, or spicing up a boring commute with some Duel of the Fates. If I was in Disney's position, I would have thought long and hard before casting aside any ideas that poured directly out of Lucas' grey matter.

[Madrun Badrun]

Great now if 7 sucks, everyone will be like 'they should have kept with GL's vision.'

[Great Rumbler]

I'm sure some of his ideas are still in there somewhere, but it's kind of a good idea to get a rewrite by someone who is actively involved in the movie.

[chronovore]

GL burned through three chances to get Star Wars right, and blew them all.

[seagrams hotsauce]

I'd bet Disney probably had an idea what they wanted to do with the story before they payed four billion dollars to get SW out of Lucas' hands. Of course they immediately threw his ideas in the incinerator.

[Phoenix Dark]

to be fair...

[I'm a Puppy!]

Now we'll never know how Darth McPoopyPants was ever going triumph against Snoo Snoo the lovable apelike monster!

[chronovore]

Now we'll never know how Darth McPoopyPants was ever going triumph against Snoo Snoo the lovable apelike monster!

Yeah, when GL started letting his kids name characters in the Prequels, and then made everyone someone else’s father, including See-Threepio, I was like:


The original trilogy is a lovely frayed mesh of references to things which are never seen or heard from again, allowing the viewer’s mind to extrapolate a rich background. Perhaps the Prequels greatest offense was showing us that, no, Lucas really only had a few characters and the worlds were at best sketched out. He’s no Tolkien.

[Tasty]

Better but still kinda aimless. Gonna give it a pass since it's a teaser though. Looking decent.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'd rather have an aimless trailer than one that gives away the whole damn movie.

[Phoenix Dark]

lol, I left the house to return from my lunch break shortly before the trailer was released.


Now I have to wait until this evening to catch it, all while dealing with nerds who no doubt took lunch off JUST to watch it.

[TakingBackSunday]

That got me hyped as fuck

[Joe Molotov]

Get over a trailer release, brehs.

[zomgee]

Kinda losing my mind with how happy I am with that trailer. If I don't reel in my expectations it's going to be Episode I all over again.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

That looks great. More pulpy sci-fi action adventure, less space politics. Hopefully, anyway.

[Atramental]

[ToxicAdam]

It looks good, but Star Wars just doesn't give me the 'charge' it used to. The prequels really ruined the magic of those movies.

[demi]

Good teaser. Still no Kyle Katarn though.

Jedi Knight

[Quaker]

Never forget.