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#101 QuickTidal

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 05:45 PM

Briar King, on 01 November 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:

I remembering hearing it out of Fords mouth that he would never do a SW film with Lucas at the helm yrs and yrs ago.

I'm surprised they got got Fischer honestly. She's gonna have to shape up big time. Her EU self is still the skinny spry hot girl from movie just with mostly gray hair, and a Jedi to boot.

I can still hope since the actors are age accurate now they could save most of the EU and film something after the latest series Fate with an all new adventure....

My gf recently saw Fisher's stage show based on her autobio and said that she was much more slender than she used to be...but to be honest I don't mind an older more naturally shaped Leia as it rings more truly to a woman in her 60's.

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 09:25 PM

Briar King, on 01 November 2012 - 08:37 PM, said:

ED: Ive logged back onto Theforce.net. The place is abuzz as you can imagine...

You might even say that there's a great disturbance in Theforce(.net)......

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 10:11 PM

Cocoreturns, on 01 November 2012 - 09:25 PM, said:

Briar King, on 01 November 2012 - 08:37 PM, said:

ED: Ive logged back onto Theforce.net. The place is abuzz as you can imagine...

You might even say that there's a great disturbance in Theforce(.net)......

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 09:10 AM

I logged on theforce.net the second I heard the news about this and it barely worked - I think most the users tried logging in.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 10:23 AM

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 11:25 AM

Apparently the story will be "totally original, not related to any EU material", and that came from a "Lucasfilm source". Nothing there to back up the claim though, make from that what you will.

Still can't wait though.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 01:14 PM

KallorsUnusedMoisturiser, on 02 November 2012 - 11:25 AM, said:

Actually that's not entirely accurate. They said it would be "an original story"...not "totally original"...meaning that it won't be a specific EU arc...the distinction is clear as the other solidified thing is that it would in fact "draw" on the EU for characters and ideas...but that it would not be an already existing book or tale.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 01:29 PM

Hmmm, so first official rumour and speculation is out...apparently Disney has a secret big budget sci-fi epic named 1952 in production with Damon Lindelof in the writers seat and Brad Bird (MI4: Ghost Protocol) in the directors chair....and some folk think that 1952 is a cover title like Blue Harvest was for JEDI and that this mysterious sci-fi project is actually Episode VII already in production.

Interesting. Lindelof is decent enough, but I hope if it's him he brings his A game and not his B or C game....but Bird is perfect choice for Director. MI4 was really good and he handles live action big budget with a deft hand.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 02:38 PM

I really think the Yuuzhan thingy books are awful material for films. It's been a decade or so since I read them but from what I recall they were utterly depressing, tragic and devoid of a glimmer of hope until about three books from the end?

They're going to make entertainment, not suicide assistance literature.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 02:51 PM

They were/are VERY bleak and contain a few of the bigger, more depressing (albeit heroic) deaths in the series...but I think it's bleak for so long because it was 19 books long...had it been 3 books long it would have been the middle book only that was bleak.

You make a very good point though, and that is they could NEVER do the entirety of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion as it stands in the books because of length and emotional drain.

I'm still in the camp that sees them cherry picking things from the EU and making a new story with it.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 03:22 PM

I'd love them to do a series based on Stackpole's Rogue Squadron books. Not the for big trilogy, just as a kind of serial thing.

Other than that, I don't know. I don't think they could do it post YV because too much shit has happened by then.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:20 PM

Yeah, my guess is you won't see the YV at all...you won't even see other storylines from the EU....I think all we might expect is characters and long arcs of those characters....otherwise you won't see much of the same and Disney will blaze its own path....and I'm actually all over that.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:22 PM

QuickTidal, on 02 November 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:

Blue Harvest was for A New Hope. Revenge of the Jedi was cover for Return.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:46 PM

HoosierDaddy, on 02 November 2012 - 04:22 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 02 November 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:

Blue Harvest was for A New Hope. Revenge of the Jedi was cover for Return.

*in a robot voice*: Incorrect. It was indeed for JEDI.

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Blue_Harvest

REVENGE was the actual proper working title of RETURN before Lucas decided that "revenge" was not a very Jedi-like trait and changed it to RETURN. It was still called Blue Harvest when they were shooting it.

A NEW HOPE didn't need a hidden production name as no one had a clue what STAR WARS was prior to the release of A NEW HOPE.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:53 PM

Huh. Guess you are right flesh-bag.

Now why did I think that....

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 05:14 PM

HoosierDaddy, on 02 November 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Huh. Guess you are right flesh-bag.

Now why did I think that....

I know the answer to this one too: You thought it because the FAMILY GUY Star Wars ep for A NEW HOPE was called BLUE HARVEST...

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Posted 03 November 2012 - 09:35 PM

Looks like LucasFilms makes 1/3 of their money from the films. The rest come from other licensing deals.

That's some big time EU/Lego/Videogame money.

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Posted 04 November 2012 - 10:05 AM

I just heard on bbc news that the next films will be the Thrawn trilogy.

Or does everyone know that already?

Oh, and that Harrison Ford has been asked, but says no way.

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Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:25 PM

Actually, that's quite a mislead statement. If the BBC announced it that way, they are way off base with what is officially known.

EW spoke with Timothy Zahn and what he said was:

"The original idea as I understood it – and Lucas changes his mind off and on, so it may not be what he’s thinking right now – but it was going to be three generations. You’d have the original trilogy, then go back to Luke’s father and find out what happened to him [in the prequels], and if there was another 7th, 8th, or 9th film, it would be Luke’s children. The Thrawn Trilogy really would have fit into the gap"

the bolded section is the key bit...the "gap" being the time between JEDI and Episode VII....basically that Zahn's trilogy always existed only as books because the new trilogy beginning with Episode VII would pick up afterwards.

As much as I want to see Thrawn, I truly doubt we'll get the Thrawn trilogy in film form.

And I'm pretty sure Ford hasn't been officially asked yet, that would be monstrous news and it's not up at any of the news sites.

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