Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Pre-release)

So, according to an interview with Riz Ahmed, Bodhi Rook is a Jedha native and merchant pilot in the service of the Empire.

Bodhi Rook, Ahmed’s character in Rogue One, is an everyman, working as a cargo pilot for the empire because his home planet, Jedha, is occupied.

Director Gareth Edwards describes Bodhi as “the guy in a war movie who isn’t supposed to be there. Everyone on the team is a soldier or warrior in some way and there’s this guy who is there by accident but realises he has to step up and make himself valuable.”*

“Bodhi is actually sanskrit for ‘awakening’,” says Ahmed. “That’s what makes him so interesting. In Star Wars we have so many characters who are someone’s kid or grandkid and they are born into a legacy of greatness. Bodhi is just a guy who has to step up to the plate. He realises that he has to make choices and take risks that are way above his pay grade. It’s interesting to have a character amid this band of assassins, spies and soldiers that really doesn’t belong on a battlefield. It will make him quite a relatable character, I hope, someone who you can feel the PTSD coming from. He is bringing a lot of guilt to the table. I think he feels he has a lot of debts to settle. But that’s true for many of the characters in this film.*
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Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/c...-waking-up-to-political-reality-a3393676.html

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I think we can all agree that they picked a bad actor for vaders part, but they did it and we have had no say in it. Sure we can all find someone who would have been better for the part, but either way he is in it.

Alex
 
Everything they've showed us of Vader has looked bad. The shot from behind of him looking out the window: his shoulders looked too narrow. The shot of him walking: he was walking too fast. The profile shot of him: his arm and hand looked skinny and small, but worst of all, his chest/back are so thin from front to back that it makes the helmet jut so far out in front of his chest he looks like Rick Moranis in the costume.

They can say all they want "don't judge stuff in the trailer as it may not even be in the movie", but this pattern of him looking off--sometimes hideously off--is not a good sign.

The Wook
 
Spencer.jpgProwse was built when he played Darth Vader no doubt, but he wasn't competing in bodybuilding at that time. His legs didn't seem extraordinarily large to me, but the Vader costume pants aren't exactly skin tight either. There is wiggle room when the costume isn't exactly always form fitting He also has the billowing inner cloak covering part of his legs. david-prowse-alec-guinness-star-wars1.jpgtumblr_n4aegsillF1sqh01ko1_1280.jpg
 
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The thing is,....things change

Peter Mayhew is retiring

Dave Prowse can hardly walk

Kenny Baker has passed away

Those actors were great,....making those characters their own...BUT....it's time to pass on to other costumed actors,....

J
 
I'm still not sure how involved Kenny Baker was in bringing artoo to the screen

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Reelo said:
So, according to an interview with Riz Ahmed, Bodhi Rook is a Jedha native and merchant pilot in the service of the Empire.



Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/c...-waking-up-to-political-reality-a3393676.html

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Interesting read. Like how he points out the crew is mostly non-legacy descendants. That's the main appeal of the movie for me.
What's with the writer at the end of article? Sequel? For him or the movie? It's called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. I'm betting not many of the crew get out alive. .
 
The scene of Vader walking was all of 1 second in the trailer (time it for yourself) and he did stride pretty fast at time especially in Empire when heading for the Falcon on HOTH. I fail to see any significant size difference in the shoulder size/ armor.
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I don't see how you can tell exactly if Vader is walking faster in the 1.5 second (At most) shot of him walking fast toward Krennic. Anyone have a speed radar gun? Not a very large sample size there. And let's say for a moment he was walking a bit faster than seen other times. I say, so what? He's seen diving from the stairs at Luke on Bespin and you never saw him doing that before in the suit, or after that in the suit in the movies, now did you? Did the act of him doing that make him all wrong because he never was shown doing it before or after? The camera moves with him in this clip from ESB

And again people still forget Bob Anderson's size difference.
 
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The Rots Vader, suit and actor, was by far a lesson in how to fumble Vader and Wilding is way closer to Prowse than Christiansen and the suit is a huge improvement*. Whatever minor quibles I might have (and I do) the clincher R1 would be if JEJ weren't providing the voice. To me that's a vital part of Vader that I'm glad has retained continuity.

*(pending seeing how that terribly positioned mask is actually shown in the movie)
 
The thing is Hayden was in a thickly PADDED muscle suit, they didn't just put the suit on him, as Don Bies said, there was very little difference in size, if any at all. And Don said that one these very forums, And the also said they reshot part of that scene at ILM in CA with another actor playing Vader. Remember, Bob Anderson and Hayden were about the same size, and nobody had an issue with Bob.
 
Yes I saw Pablo's tweet, it's just how something so glaringly awful could be allowed in something they knew would be so scrutinized that still has me wondering if they have their eye on the ball.
 
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