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Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread


I'm sure OT purists will rejoice. Nirvana comes again.
The whole film-on-film festival looks great - more fine work from the BFI (as usual - some truly amazing preservations and restorations over the years; we even got nitrate film screenings a couple of years back)...

www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-film-film-festival-line-up-star-wars-twin-peaks

It'll be more than OT purists rejoicing - those with an interest in Star Wars history, along with fans of film on film will also be pleased - especially as it is an IB technicolor print (that has been well looked after by the BFI themselves).

Some quality films (and TV), in many various film formats, will also be shown. Should be a top weekend for many a film fan. :techman:
 
Wish i could be there. ( not just for SW )
They really do put on a cracking event - as well as showcases and demonstrations, workshops and talks. Staff are really friendly and helpful too.

Even when passing it is worth popping in to the BFI if you're ever in the area.

They've put on some quality outdoor screenings over the years (https://richcreate.co.uk/portfolio/bfi-film-outdoor-cinema/)

With a little luck we'll see some press write-ups and fan blogs for this one as well.
 
Star Wars: Orville the Legacy?

It stars Luke Skywalker teaming up with Captain Seven of Nine to head to the "STAR TREK:ORVILLE universe, when they receive a interdimensional call for help from the crew of the Orville. Darth Vadar has returned to the living and has joined forces with Kaylon to conquer their universe. Thankfully their is one person who can get them their and that is Mace Windu who did not die but was sent to the Prime Trek timeline where he has been living ever since.

But first they will need a ship so they use the Enterprise-D which is in the museum to get their. Once their they join forces with the Orville crew and together they stop Darth Vadar and the Kaylon. Luke who has returned to living bring Anakin back to the afterlife at the end. Windu decides he wants to be part of Seven's crew on the Titan. The Orville gang celebrates a wedding between Ed and Kelly for they have found love again.
 
I was watching Andor this morning and they panned past a sign, and it got me wondering, is there an official alphabet or some other system for Aurabesh or is it all just gibberish?
 
I was watching Andor this morning and they panned past a sign, and it got me wondering, is there an official alphabet or some other system for Aurabesh or is it all just gibberish?
Well let's see, aside from Aurebesh there's Protobesh (created for the Jedi Sacred Texts props IIRC), Domabesh & Dishabesh (both made for 'Rogue One', mostly seen on Jedha), which are all basically just stylistic variations on Aurebesh. There's also a couple different variations used at Galaxy's Edge IIRC; one for the droid shop, and I think another for various signage, plus a roman alphabet version done in a similar style.

The "Old Tongue" script (based on a Ralph McQuarrie painting comisioned for an art book in the mid-90's) shows up on basically anything ancient; from Sith Temples, to Jedi and Nightsister ruins, and most recently: old pirate hideouts.
Speaking of Nightsisters: 'Ahsoka' introduced a new Dathmiri script that muggins spent a lot of time decoding a few years back.

The prequels gave us two separate Naboo alphabets; Futhark (seen most prominently on the N-1s) and Futhork (used for the computer displays), two for Tatooine: an Outer Rim alphabet, and a Huttese alphabet. Plus an alphabet specific to the Trade Federation. There's also a Mando script that showed up on Slave I's displays that which I think may have actually been fan made, or at the very least and EU thing, and has since shown up in TCW and I think 'Rebels' too.

The one made specifically for 'Andor' is called Bazeese, and it's what's used on the funerary bricks.

As for whether they always mean anything or are just gibberish; that seems to mostly depend on the respective art directors/set decorators/costume designers/prop masters etc. etc.
In the OT, it being the pre-digital printing era, such things were mostly done by altering/mix-matching characters from rub-on letterhead transfer sheets (the only way to get fancy fonts back then), with little care taken to establish a coherent cipher, let alone bothering to write any meaning into it (and indeed, why would they?) These days, with things being done digitally, the most efficient way of doing such things is by making a custom font, that pretty much does the cipher part of the job by default, so more often than not it does indeed have a meaning . . . though not always an entirely coherent one . . .

Basically; just remember to always take it with a pinch of salt. And if you want to dig a little deeper, Aurekfonts has some pretty good resources.
 
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I was watching Andor this morning and they panned past a sign, and it got me wondering, is there an official alphabet or some other system for Aurabesh or is it all just gibberish?
In one of the video games I was looking around the upper level of a multiplayer map. There were several metal plates of some kind, sort of like manhole covers, with an aurebesh message on them. So just for the hell of it I decided to translate it and I quickly discovered it was actually backwards aurebesh. It said:
STRUCTURAL PANEL
REQUIRED GROUND
RUN AND FLIGHT
 
Tony Gilroy has said he thinks Disney has a Star Wars horror project in the works.

Gilroy spoke to Business Insider on the "Andor" season two red carpet in London on Thursday.

Asked what he would do with a "Star Wars" horror project, he said Lucasfilm and Disney already had one in development: "They're doing that. I think they're doing that. I think that's in the works, yeah."

Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
Technically I don't think either of those incidents would count as cannibalism since they were not eating members of their own species. It's still a kinda disturbing, but not really cannibalism.
Well let's see, aside from Aurebesh there's Protobesh (created for the Jedi Sacred Texts props IIRC), Domabesh & Dishabesh (both made for 'Rogue One', mostly seen on Jedha), which are all basically just stylistic variations on Aurebesh. There's also a couple different variations used at Galaxy's Edge IIRC; one for the droid shop, and I think another for various signage, plus a roman alphabet version done in a similar style.

The "Old Tongue" script (based on a Ralph McQuarrie painting comisioned for an art book in the mid-90's) shows up on basically anything ancient; from Sith Temples, to Jedi and Nightsister ruins, and most recently: old pirate hideouts.
Speaking of Nightsisters: 'Ahsoka' introduced a new Dathmiri script that muggins spent a lot of time decoding a few years back.

The prequels gave us two separate Naboo alphabets; Futhark (seen most prominently on the N-1s) and Futhork (used for the computer displays), two for Tatooine: an Outer Rim alphabet, and a Huttese alphabet. Plus an alphabet specific to the Trade Federation. There's also a Mando script that showed up on Slave I's displays that which I think may have actually been fan made, or at the very least and EU thing, and has since shown up in TCW and I think 'Rebels' too.

The one made specifically for 'Andor' is called Bazeese, and it's what's used on the funerary bricks.

As for whether they always mean anything or are just gibberish; that seems to mostly depend on the respective art directors/set decorators/costume designers/prop masters etc. etc.
In the OT, it being the pre-digital printing era, such things were mostly done by altering/mix-matching characters from rub-on letterhead transfer sheets (the only way to get fancy fonts back then), with little care taken to establish a coherent cipher, let alone bothering to write any meaning into it (and indeed, why would they?) These days, with things being done digitally, the most efficient way of doing such things is by making a custom font, that pretty much does the cipher part of the job by default, so more often than not it does indeed have a meaning . . . though not always an entirely coherent one . . .

Basically; just remember to always take it with a pinch of salt. And if you want to dig a little deeper, Aurekfonts has some pretty good resources.
Wow, I didn't realize they got that detailed with all of the languages, but this is Star Wars, so I guess shouldn't be surprised.
 
Technically I don't think either of those incidents would count as cannibalism since they were not eating members of their own species. It's still a kinda disturbing, but not really cannibalism.
Yeah we know, but we don't really have a word for eating other sentient beings. (Unless we do)
 
I don't think either of those incidents would count as cannibalism since they were not eating members of their own species. It's still a kinda disturbing, but not really cannibalism.
"Cannibalism" is apparently an applicable term for eating a sentient being. I've gone down this particular rabbit hole many times with the people who argue Mirror Georgiou is a cannibal because she eats Kelpians.
 
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