Episode Eight Pre-Release Thread

The Episode stories are said to be the tale of the Skywalker family. Therefore there either needs to be a resolution by the end of Episode IX (end of the family) or there needs to be a chance for the family to continue. Either via Kylo (redemption or no) or one would assume Rey. Unless Kylo has some sibling or cousins, the family tree doesn't have a lot of branches from Shmi Skywalker forward.

 

I'm sure Luke sowed a few wild oats in the interim either way. There will always be another Skywalker.

 

According to Pablo Hidalgo on twitter, Episode 8 will not be a Co-Production like TFA was (LucasFilm Co-produced it with Bad Robot)

I wonder how that will effect production Quality. Rogue One was 100% LucasFilm, and it looked great.

 

^Why would anyone think it was? Bad Robot is JJ's company and he was only ever going to make the first one.

Keep in mind, until just recently Lucasfilm itself hasn't been an active feature film production company for over a decade (does 'Red Tails' count?) It takes time to ramp up to that sort of thing and one imagines Bad Robot picked up a little of the slack for them in that department. Now they're clearly caught up so they shouldn't need any outside support.

 

So if Abrams not involved with Ep VIII or Ep IX at all then? I thought he was still a producer and working on the story or something.

 

Abrams has nothing to do with the story, save for what he set up in TFA. Episode VIII was written by Rian Johnson, who also wrote a treatment for Episode IX (so I assume he'll be getting at least a 'Story by' credit in that movie).

 

The title has been revealed: The Last Jedi.
http://www.starwars.com/news/the-of...-wars-episode-viii-revealed?cmp=smc|785924799

 

That's some sithy colouring they got there on the title image.

 

Nice, but I bet i'm going to mix this title up with Return of the Jedi.

 

Cool title, I wonder if there is a specific reason they have the Star Wars in red instead of the usually gold/yellow.

 

Any predictions when we'll get a teaser trailer? Super Bowl?

 

Prossibly Super Bowl...that or they'll wait for Star Wars Celebration in April.

I wonder if they were waiting for Rogue One to break a Billion dollars gross before making the announcement...so it could have the time to stand on its own before the next movie hype started.

 

I'd say teaser trailer with Super Bowl, then full length trailer in April. No way they'll wait for the latter to be the first public appearance of Ep VIII.

 

I confess my memory tends to be foggy, especially past about last Tuesday, but didn't we get our first quick tease of TFA during the Super Bowl two years ago? If I'm remembering at all right, it didn't amount to much in terms of actual footage, but it definitely seemed to build the hype. Unless I'm completely out of my gourd again.

 

There was a Superbowl teaser, but it was not much more than the earlier November teaser. Since we haven't seen anything at all, it seems reasonable to expect that (plus, every big movie seems to have a Superbowl ad).

 

Episode 9 Will be blue!

 

But Jedi aren't allowed to love, Remember "Attack of the Clones"?

 

Only attachment is forbidden.

 

Pretty sure Luke never got that lesson.

 

I've always thought that the Jedi did a crappy job in teaching its acolytes about attachments. They seemed to be more interested in enforcing a rule, instead of realizing that individuals will form attachments, whether they want to or not.