Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[cooleddie74]

Also, the first trailer is all the movie footage we have for months, at least until the next one is officially released. Star Wars trailers always premiere months before the movie itself and the very nature of the Internet just lends itself to people debating and picking apart a two-minute trailer as if it were the actual film and trying to analyze the whole production based on a brief series of rapidly-edited images and some music. That's the world we live in, and while carried to extremes it can be obnoxious I don't mind it for the most part.

It gives us something to talk about while we wait and keeps us excited about the new film.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Trailers also might have scenes that are cut out for the theatrical release. Star Wars wise, I can think of a few...


1)Threepio ripping the warning sign off the Wampa door (part of a larger and mostly deleted subplot that would've had the Snowtroopers enter the room only to be mauled by Wampas) from Empire.

2) Some action from the Endor battle from ROTJ

3) The Naboo starfighter spiraling out of control from TPM.

4) At the nightclub scene, "I've learned this lesson before" "You haven't learned anything, Anakin!" from AOTC. Wonder why this was cut, since it's kind of awkward in the film (Anakin's "I try, Master" from the finished film was going to be the reply to that).

5) Palpatine's shuttle and escort arriving on Coruscant (Also, Vader's hands are in a different position) from ROTS.


Also, sometimes novels and comics adaptations arrive before the films, and often contain a lot of deleted stuff as well.

 

[Mr Light]

1)Threepio ripping the warning sign off the Wampa door (part of a larger and mostly deleted subplot that would've had the Snowtroopers enter the room only to be mauled by Wampas) from Empire.

the Wampa room appears (I think) in the Star Wars rail shooter arcade game, and also as I dimly recall, N64 Shadows of the Empire.

 

[cooleddie74]

Also, the TV "tone poem" trailers for Episode I had several lines of Darth Maul dialogue that were recorded and used on television but not in the movie itself. Darth Maul had more spoken lines in one TV trailer than he probably did in the entirety of Episode I!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Yes here it is
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMLem9nhF7M[/yt]

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I remember when I was young and dumb watching this and thinking maybe the skull guy was going to be the hero or something. Actually, the story in my head was probably more interesting than the final product.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slZltwxzaM[/yt]


As to The Phantom Menace, that trailer was definitely dissected but we didn't have Youtube back then and aintitcool was the big thing. TPM and its enthusiastic pimping was one of the first dings against Harry Knowles' rep. I don't think he ever fully recovered from proclaiming "Jar Jar? Meesa love him!".

 

[cooleddie74]

Episode I arguably had the best trailers of any of the modern Star Wars films and you can't really blame the fanbase for getting so excited after seeing these for the first time. That very first teaser in the fall of 1998 was a huge pop culture event and the first footage some of us had seen of a new Star Wars movie since we were in elementary school or even younger.

 

[JD]

I actually enjoy reading the analyses of trailer for things like SW, and Avengers. I like being able to see what little clues can be found for stuff that we haven't necissarily heard about before hand.
Like Andy Serkis

Spoiler: Avengers: Age of Ultron character

as Ulysses Klaue (Klaw in the comics) in the Age of Ultron trailer.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

the Wampa room appears (I think) in the Star Wars rail shooter arcade game, and also as I dimly recall, N64 Shadows of the Empire.

It was definitely in SotE. A couple of them, actually...good old "here's a thing you want but you'll get your ass kicked to get it" rooms.

 

[DarthTom]

off topic: Fan made - The Empire attacks Los Angeles

This is excellent.

 

[MadMan1701A]

That was great.

 

[DarthTom]

^^^ Yea, I love how he replaced the Hollywood sign with, Disney. LOL

 

[sidious618]

That's awesome.

 

[Corran Horn]

Also, the TV "tone poem" trailers for Episode I had several lines of Darth Maul dialogue that were recorded and used on television but not in the movie itself. Darth Maul had more spoken lines in one TV trailer than he probably did in the entirety of Episode I!

ugh - 'tone poems'. It's been a while.

 

[JD]

off topic: Fan made - The Empire attacks Los Angeles

This is excellent.

That was pretty impressive.

 

[cooleddie74]

I didn't even know that the Episode I "tone poem" trailers were even called that until long after they first aired on television. Then I did a YouTube search and was like: "so that's what they were."

 

[theenglish]

I didn't even know that the Episode I "tone poem" trailers were even called that until long after they first aired on television. Then I did a YouTube search and was like: "so that's what they were."

I just learned that they were called tone poems in this thread!

 

[cooleddie74]

To me that old Darth Maul TV trailer was "the trailer where he says more than he does throughout the entire, actual movie."

 

[theenglish]

To me that old Darth Maul TV trailer was "the trailer where he says more than he does throughout the entire, actual movie."

I remember being shocked when he died at the end of the movie because I thought he was going to be around for the trilogy.

 

[cooleddie74]

We had to wait another twelve or thirteen years and for an animated series to be produced but he did return. Now we just need more closure on the fate of his character.

Did Darth Sidious eventually eliminate him or let him go free? Did he manage to escape from his former Master? I know a later comic book technically answered that but it may have been decanonized in the big EU timeline cleanup ordered by Disney.