Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015, Abrams) S: Hamill, Ford, Fisher
05-01-14, 09:45 AM
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http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0501...-says-gleeson/
Speaking to RTÉ TEN, Gleeson said of the script read-through session captured in the photo. "It was totally surreal to me; surreal is the word. And amazing."
He continued: "Getting to see those people from your childhoods... Getting to see them still be amazing, still just nail it in the room was ridiculously exciting and something [his casting] I did not expect to happen. So it was a weird, brilliant day."
He continued: "Getting to see those people from your childhoods... Getting to see them still be amazing, still just nail it in the room was ridiculously exciting and something [his casting] I did not expect to happen. So it was a weird, brilliant day."
05-01-14, 10:07 AM
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015, D: Abrams) S: Hamill, Ford, Fisher, Serkis, von Syd
It still sounds like a stale idea, but I guess it would depend on how it was executed.
Then Yoda's final wish would have gone unfulfilled. I'm sure his Force ghost would have haunted Luke until he got his ass in gear and started training some padawans.
Plus, I feel Luke had made peace with who his father was and knew better than to succumb to a similar path. I'll be sorely disappointed if he hasn't passed on Yoda's teachings after three decades. I can see him doing it in seclusion to shield the order from potential enemies, but letting the Jedi fall into extinction doesn't seems like the choice Luke Skywalker (at least where we left him in ROTJ) would make.
Uh... they aren't?
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Then Yoda's final wish would have gone unfulfilled. I'm sure his Force ghost would have haunted Luke until he got his ass in gear and started training some padawans.
Plus, I feel Luke had made peace with who his father was and knew better than to succumb to a similar path. I'll be sorely disappointed if he hasn't passed on Yoda's teachings after three decades. I can see him doing it in seclusion to shield the order from potential enemies, but letting the Jedi fall into extinction doesn't seems like the choice Luke Skywalker (at least where we left him in ROTJ) would make.
Uh... they aren't?
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05-01-14, 10:34 AM
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015, D: Abrams) S: Hamill, Ford, Fisher, Serkis, von Syd
Then Yoda's final wish would have gone unfulfilled. I'm sure his Force ghost would have haunted Luke until he got his ass in gear and started training some padawans.
Plus, I feel Luke had made peace with who his father was and knew better than to succumb to a similar path. I'll be sorely disappointed if he hasn't passed on Yoda's teachings after three decades. I can see him doing it in seclusion to shield the order from potential enemies, but letting the Jedi fall into extinction doesn't seems like the choice Luke Skywalker (at least where we left him in ROTJ) would make.
Plus, I feel Luke had made peace with who his father was and knew better than to succumb to a similar path. I'll be sorely disappointed if he hasn't passed on Yoda's teachings after three decades. I can see him doing it in seclusion to shield the order from potential enemies, but letting the Jedi fall into extinction doesn't seems like the choice Luke Skywalker (at least where we left him in ROTJ) would make.
Maybe the real reason Luke never rebuilt the Jedi is because Yoda never taught him how to do a midiclorian count on potential candidates.
05-01-14, 10:38 AM
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05-01-14, 10:42 AM
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It will be interesting to see in the new movie if Luke has actually trained Leia in the Force (as he semi-promised in Return of the Jedi) or if she never developed her skills. I agree it might be rather goofy to see Carrie Fisher fighting with a lightsaber, but using the Jedi Mind Trick on Han might provide for a funny moment.
I don't think mind tricks would work on Han
But I do want to see her trained. The fact that both Carrie and Mark have gotten into shape gives me hope we'll see her doing at least some defensive stuff at some point.
05-01-14, 10:52 AM
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"Pass on... what you have learned." He clearly didn't want the Jedi to go extinct.
The Mirror interviewed Daisy Ridley's father about her joining Star Wars. I love his comment about Harrison Ford:
That he does, sir... that he does.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...ridley-3481110
The Mirror interviewed Daisy Ridley's father about her joining Star Wars. I love his comment about Harrison Ford:
“He’s a very sweet guy, though he looks terribly grumpy. She said he looks much better than he does in films and he’s a much nicer guy.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...ridley-3481110
05-01-14, 11:20 AM
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05-01-14, 01:14 PM
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How can Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) get back in the role as he needs a cane to help him walk?
05-01-14, 01:18 PM
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05-01-14, 01:28 PM
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05-01-14, 01:58 PM
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I think we can skip the spoiler tags for the EU stuff, most of it anyway.
Think this is it?
Ridley - Solo daughter.
Boyega - Lando son.
Driver - Sith.
Sydow - Sith.
Isaac - stormtrooper.
Gleeson - bounty hunter.
Serkis - Sith alien.
BTW, in the EU, Luke didn't train Jedi until 7 years after ROTJ. So not like he would start right ayway either way.
Think this is it?
Ridley - Solo daughter.
Boyega - Lando son.
Driver - Sith.
Sydow - Sith.
Isaac - stormtrooper.
Gleeson - bounty hunter.
Serkis - Sith alien.
BTW, in the EU, Luke didn't train Jedi until 7 years after ROTJ. So not like he would start right ayway either way.
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05-01-14, 02:11 PM
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05-01-14, 02:34 PM
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Well we know from the OT that it doesn't take much training to be a Jedi. Just run around in a forest a bit and defeat your father. He could start up an academy any time and start churning out new Jedi in a matter of weeks.
05-01-14, 03:06 PM
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This is going to be one of those films I can't stay away from spoilers on. By the time this thing is actually released, I'll probably have read every rumor I can find.
The only recent movies I've been this way about were JJ's first STAR TREK movie and the last INDIANA JONES film. Usually, I don't care enough to bother or can stay away so the story isn't ruined for me.
The only recent movies I've been this way about were JJ's first STAR TREK movie and the last INDIANA JONES film. Usually, I don't care enough to bother or can stay away so the story isn't ruined for me.
05-01-14, 03:06 PM
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I saw Mayhew at a convention last year when he was still confined to a wheelchair. There was no one at his table, but I didn't go over because I already had his autograph from Celebration II. You kind of feel like you're wasting their time if you approach them and don't buy something at those things. He looked like he was miserable (I guess being in ill health and doing the convention circuit will do that), so I'm glad to see him back at work with the old crew.
05-01-14, 03:07 PM
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05-01-14, 03:21 PM
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How about Leia being the mother of both Han and Lando's kids? The reason Lando won't be in the film is that Han got pissed and killed him.
05-01-14, 03:43 PM
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Of course, just a theory. I can't imagine any reason JJ WOULDN'T have Lando in the movie unless (a) Billy Dee is just in too poor shape to travel (and he's not - he's doing a con here in Pittsburgh in August, and we all saw him on DWTS) or (b) he plays an important part in one of the sequels and there's a reason he's not in this one.
05-01-14, 03:46 PM
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Yeah, after I posted that I remembered that Han would never kill Lando unless Lando shot at him first and missed.
05-01-14, 04:09 PM
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05-01-14, 07:34 PM
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Love the whole idea of Luke disappearing for 30 years and the Jedi being thought extinct. I'm not exactly clamoring for more boring Jedi characters in huge lightsaber battles. I'm also not really enthused about having offspring of the big-three having any major role either so that I'm a little apprehensive about.
What we really need is to get back to more ordinary-Joe type characters without any baggage. People you can relate to who are are forced into some kind of unexpected journey and end up doing great things. That's a classic story that people like to see and pretty much always works.
What we really need is to get back to more ordinary-Joe type characters without any baggage. People you can relate to who are are forced into some kind of unexpected journey and end up doing great things. That's a classic story that people like to see and pretty much always works.
05-02-14, 05:26 AM
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Just being from 4chan doesn't necessarily mean it's bullshit; I seem to recall they've had some accurate spoilers come from there in the past. It does sort of fit in with the cast list that was released, though.
05-02-14, 05:43 AM
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05-02-14, 06:34 AM
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015, D: Abrams) S: Hamill, Ford, Fisher, Serkis, von Syd
Do you have a source on that? I googled, and there's a thread on gamefaqs that claims it was posted on 4chan a month ago.
Just being from 4chan doesn't necessarily mean it's bullshit; I seem to recall they've had some accurate spoilers come from there in the past. It does sort of fit in with the cast list that was released, though.
Just being from 4chan doesn't necessarily mean it's bullshit; I seem to recall they've had some accurate spoilers come from there in the past. It does sort of fit in with the cast list that was released, though.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/223-star-wars/69136452
05-02-14, 07:38 AM
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Love the whole idea of Luke disappearing for 30 years and the Jedi being thought extinct. I'm not exactly clamoring for more boring Jedi characters in huge lightsaber battles. I'm also not really enthused about having offspring of the big-three having any major role either so that I'm a little apprehensive about.
What we really need is to get back to more ordinary-Joe type characters without any baggage. People you can relate to who are are forced into some kind of unexpected journey and end up doing great things. That's a classic story that people like to see and pretty much always works.
What we really need is to get back to more ordinary-Joe type characters without any baggage. People you can relate to who are are forced into some kind of unexpected journey and end up doing great things. That's a classic story that people like to see and pretty much always works.
