Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release)

[Solo4114]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

Chloe Grace Moretz tweeted she is watching the prequels and found it "productive". As actually watching those films by any estimate could only be called mildly distracting, perhaps she is boning up for a read at Bad Robot?

Huh. She seems a bit...young.

I'm also confused re: the timing of this. It's basically fall 2013. The film is "supposed" to be released in May, 2015. (Well, 2015, but May is a safe bet.) That seems...ambitious as far as pre-production, shooting, and post-production work that'd be required. I mean, I know Disney has gobs of cash to play with, but this just seems like a REALLY tight timetable, particularly if they haven't even cast anyone yet, no?

 

[Bryancd]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

Early 20's? That would bode well for being one of the principal character kids.

 

[Solo4114]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

She's in her early 20s?! Man, she looks REALLY young.

 

[seelsa73]

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I don't know how trustworthy any of that is, but all I can say is that A New Dawn would make a good name, especially with the obvious parallel to A New Hope.

That's exactly why I think A New Dawn is not the right title for the movie. It's much too derivative...i think this thing needs an original title, much like The Phantom Menace was for Episode 1 (regardless of what you think about that movie, you have to agree that the title was original).

 

[The Terminator]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

I really liked the title The Phantom Menace

She's in her early 20s?! Man, she looks REALLY young.

Born in 1997 - making her 16

 

[Bryancd]

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I really liked the title The Phantom Menace



Born in 1997 - making her 16

Shows you what I know..

 

[The Terminator]

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Shows you what I know..

I didn't know either, I just checked the IMDB

 

[JD]

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Chloe Grace Moretz is a great choice if this holds up to be true. She's been great in everything I've seen her in - Let Me In and Kick Ass being notable. Her and Elizabeth Olsen should be the female actresses of this current generation.

If the Cumberbatch and Moretz rumors become truth - at the very least, we should have some good performances.

 

[cboath]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

That makes the abbreviation AND

SW AND....and what?

 

[rodneyfaile]

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Hit-Girl with a lightsaber? Bring it on!

 

[Wolfsburg]

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Yeah, Chloe Moretz is only 16 but personally I think she looks and acts older than her years. I think she could pull off playing an older character pretty well. I've only seen her in Kickass but I wouldn't be opposed to her getting a shot at Star Wars. Rachel Hurd-Wood and Saoirse Ronan are also names that have been floating around in the rumor ether too.

Peter Mayhew just had his knee replacement surgery so maybe we'll see the mighty Chewbacca back on the silver screen once more.

 

[binkleywalker]

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No kidding- how great is Elizabeth Olsen? Her twin sisters should be ashamed of themselves for all the awfulness they have brought upon us.

Brian

 

[Wolfsburg]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

That's an interesting thought too. Seems like she might be the only one of the three that possibly has her head on straight.

 

[Edwardowan]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

Chloe Grace Moretz tweeted she is watching the prequels and found it "productive". As actually watching those films by any estimate could only be called mildly distracting, perhaps she is boning up for a read at Bad Robot?

Chloe Grace Moretz would be a great choice. She is awesome as Hit Girl and is a fan favorite without being an over exposed well known actor. I do hope if she is boning up for Episode 7 she watches the OT and not just the prequels.

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Peter Mayhew just had his knee replacement surgery so maybe we'll see the mighty Chewbacca back on the silver screen once more.

I find it interesting that, although he needed this surgery for some time now, that he chose this time to actually do it! interesting timing me thinks!
My wife had knee surgery a few years ago on one knee and believe me the pain is excruciating like you've been set on fire.. even with meds! so I feel for Mayhew right now.

 

[The Terminator]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

I find it interesting that, although he needed this surgery for some time now, that he chose this time to actually do it! interesting timing me thinks!
My wife had knee surgery a few years ago on one knee and believe me the pain is excruciating like you've been set on fire.. even with meds! so I feel for Mayhew right now.

I have had knee surgery, both of them though I didn't get anything replaced. The pain is definitely great! Sitting down and getting up.... like being in hell and don't get me started on getting in and out of bed. A lot of cursing is a must.

Would and hopefully will be awesome to have the original Chewie back in action!

 

[Lutso]

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Not totally stoked about these newest rumors. I love the fact that the Falcon will be playing a role in the film (granted it's done in a proper way, not a "here we go again old buddy!" way), but the title and the location I'm not crazy about.

A New Dawn is just cheesy and inappropriate for the series. Face it, that sounds like something a middle-schooler would name his English assignment while trying to be cinematic. It sounds shallow (not that Star Wars is incapable of having bad titles, but I think we should get away from that trend, not cater to it) and predictable. Simple titles are good, but they need to have SOME weight to them.
Also, it, uh...sounds really close to being a New Hope. Yeah, I get that we're trying to draw parallels and stuff, but...come on.
I think we'll know the good title when we hear it.

About this cantina thing. I'm getting bad vibes here.
Over the years the cantina in Mos Eisley has achieved this Las Vegas-like status it seems, becoming some sort of galactic beacon where people flock to in order to socialize. I never thought that was appropriate. It's established very clearly in ANH that Tatooine is a complete backwater farming planet, basically a wilderness, with only slices of civilization that are extremely crude in nature and really only serve as stop-offs for long flights. Obi-Wan and Luke go to Mos Eisley because it's the only way to really get off the rock, not because it's a hangout. Nobody important ever hangs out on Tatooine. That's part of what made the meeting with Han in ANH so exciting - it was pure chance that he would be there, almost as if it were destiny.

The appearance of Tatooine in TPM, ANH, and ROTJ (to a lesser degree) made sense. But in AOTC it just felt misguided. There was no real reason that Tatooine should have been involved in that movie at all, and it feels forced. It's almost as if they realized how misplaced that entire movie was, and they only threw Tatooine in in order to get the audience to realize that this was still Star Wars (ironically, those were my favorite scenes in that film, but that's not the point). I think we should get away from Tatooine, because it's not important. It's just not.

Only my thoughts, I'm not making the film so who knows what they have in store. But I can say that while I think nostalgia is a VERY important thing to have in these new movies, remember that they are NEW movies...so don't get hung up on all the same stuff...

 

[cboath]

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I tend to agree - not so much with the title, which i think will be different, but from the potential sets.

Why go back to tatooine? Why do we need the cantina? WHY would that cantina still be around 30 years later?

I could see Luke setting up shop there as an out of the way place and shunning the rest of the galaxy or teaching students (can't be many distractions on tatooine). But it echo's something I read people say about the prequels - you've got an entire freaking galaxy, yet, you hit the same places over and over. Explore, expand, show us new wonders. I don't want luke finding an ancient jedi temple on tatooine or dagobah or something it's be too lame. New worlds, new locales. I can see a vast ancient complex being discovered on an unknown or abandoned planet. There's nothing in the rumor's about any such plot line, i know, but I could see it 'right under our noses the whole time'. It's a galaxy - explore. Wouldn't bother me at all if all planets in the ST were all new. Corscant never even appeared in the OT and that was the empire's home base. It's not a requirement. If there's valid story elements, fine, but the fear is they're using what they can to make it feel more like the first ones.

 

[niennumb1]

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Maybe it could be Star Wars: Into The Darkness. That way for years you would have very confusing conversations when asked if you've seen Into Darkness or Into The Darkness.

 

[Darth Lars]

Re: Star Wars Episode VII

An actress tweets that she watches Star Wars on DVD => Star Wars fans get crazy, believing that she would have been cast for SW7.
The next day, the same actress tweets that she watches Serenity on DVD.

Let's not blow things out of proportion.

 

[Solo4114]

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I tend to agree - not so much with the title, which i think will be different, but from the potential sets.

Why go back to tatooine? Why do we need the cantina? WHY would that cantina still be around 30 years later?

I could see Luke setting up shop there as an out of the way place and shunning the rest of the galaxy or teaching students (can't be many distractions on tatooine). But it echo's something I read people say about the prequels - you've got an entire freaking galaxy, yet, you hit the same places over and over. Explore, expand, show us new wonders. I don't want luke finding an ancient jedi temple on tatooine or dagobah or something it's be too lame. New worlds, new locales. I can see a vast ancient complex being discovered on an unknown or abandoned planet. There's nothing in the rumor's about any such plot line, i know, but I could see it 'right under our noses the whole time'. It's a galaxy - explore. Wouldn't bother me at all if all planets in the ST were all new. Corscant never even appeared in the OT and that was the empire's home base. It's not a requirement. If there's valid story elements, fine, but the fear is they're using what they can to make it feel more like the first ones.

This. I feel the same way about bringing back all the old characters. "Let's put Lando and Chewbacca and Luke and Han and Leia and Wedge and Obi-Wan's ghost and and and..." I just wanna say "GO WATCH THE OLD MOVIES, THEN!!! GAH!!!"

I tend to think this is just the typical myopia of fans -- they can't think past their previous experiences. They can't say "Wait. We could have, like, the new Jedi academy set up on Dantooine, which we've never seen. Or on Seldor, at the top of a nearly sheer rock spire like the monastery of St. Stephen." You can do damn near anything. THINK BIG.