Or it could cause hyper-production, make Disney extra-greedy, so instead of one SW film per year they would start ordering two or three.
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens
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or double the budgets for the planned projects...Or it could cause hyper-production, make Disney extra-greedy, so instead of one SW film per year they would start ordering two or three.
I do hope for a great film, but Hollywood mostly just stares at the numbers to decide what to do next.
'Star Trek- the Motion Picture' grew from a TV show into a big budget film due to 'Star Wars' & 'Close Encounters' doing so well.
So, if the guy with the robotic hand is Luke it means the only original character not appearing in the new trailer is C3P0...
Fun fact: the least-successful Star Wars film at the box office (if you don't count the 2008 The Clone Wars movie released in theaters to promote the new TV series) has been Empire, which earned a total of about $291 million in all of its North American releases between 1980 and 1997. It makes one wonder what a live-action Star Wars film would have to earn to be considered unsuccessful or a flop when the low end of the franchise's domestic earnings scale borders on $300 million, a number that only a relative handful of movies in film history have reached or even surpassed.
Indeed.
"Leia's Theme" was from ANH and something entirely different.
ABSOLUTELY brilliant! And it includes the scene of Poe being led about the stardestroyer.
The more Poe, the BETTER!!!
Quoth the Raven: Never more!!!!!!
I just watched the CinemaSins thing "sinning" the trailer, and the end contains several theories about Luke. The first of which being "He's Kylo Ren and Adam Driver is just stunt casting". Um, why won't this theory just die a horrible death? It literally makes no sense and the more I see it perpetuated the more I roll my eyes.
Luke might be evil. He might be a hermit. He might have legitimate reasons to be in hiding, and they're saving his reveal in the film for a very specific moment. But he's not Kylo Ren. Jeez.
Luke might be evil. He might be a hermit. He might have legitimate reasons to be in hiding, and they're saving his reveal in the film for a very specific moment. But he's not Kylo Ren. Jeez.
Only by folks that take this stuff way too seriously. The rest of us will understand that people were simply making guesses about a movie they hadn't seen yet.
or double the budgets for the planned projects...Or it could cause hyper-production, make Disney extra-greedy, so instead of one SW film per year they would start ordering two or three.
I do hope for a great film, but Hollywood mostly just stares at the numbers to decide what to do next.
'Star Trek- the Motion Picture' grew from a TV show into a big budget film due to 'Star Wars' & 'Close Encounters' doing so well.
William Shatner STRONGLY disagrees with this idea
You should see his angry tweets on this subject.
"angry tweets" creates a wonderful image of a really pissed off chickadee stomping up and down...
I could see if they were being vague, or hadn't revealed an actor for Kylo, but I can't believe they'd go through all of this stuff promoting Adam Driver if it was all a fake out. Now as for the possibility of him being related to Luke............
While Shatner is right, he's also wrong. He of all people should know that it was Star Wars' success that made Star Trek Phase II morph into TMP.
That's what I was thinking. IRC, Phase II was foundering and heading for failure, Star Wars sparks off and Paramount and Gene both said "Hold up, we've got a ready made audience, the cast, the sets (mostly), why waste this? Beside we'll just dump the Phase II costs in the movie's budget...win win"
According to Shatner's own ST Movie Memories book, it was Star Wars (released in May '77, after Planet of the Titans had already been cancelled) that initially made Paramount give up on a ST movie (figuring "No way in hell THAT kind of lightning will ever strike twice"). Until Close Encounters came out in November (when Phase II was nearing production) and did exactly that.
I stand corrected. For some reason I had it in my head that the 'Love Theme' in ESB reprised some of the melody from 'Leia's Theme' in ANH. Listening to them both now it's clear they're distinct tunes. Similar, but clearly distinguishable and yeah, it's the theme from Empire that they're using in the trailer (a version of it at least.)
Still, the point remains valid. Han/Leia theme = heroes, Luke's Theme = villains.
I'm not saying this is by any means proof of anything plot-wise, but it's clearly a deliberate choice meant to evoke something very specific for whatever end.
