Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[cooleddie74]

Re: New Casting and Story Rumors re: EPISODE VII

So far he seems to be nailing what makes Star Wars a great and beloved part of global pop culture. The actors, sets, physical props, puppets, makeup....he's clearly taking what Lucas, Kershner and Marquand did long before him and building on it all, while likely doing his best to avoid the mistakes made by George during the Prequels.

 

[davejames]

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Where are the new pics of Chewie?

Only one pic so far, from a tweet you can see on this page:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-05/06/abrams-star-wars-video

 

[davejames]

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One of the most interesting things for me to watch as more elements of this triology unfolds is if JJ earns the wrath he got from some Trek fans and adherence to canon or not of heretofore film/books.

It's just an impression but Wars fans tend to be far less critical on things like, 'blue nacells,' as some Trek fans can be related to minor details.

From early appearances Abrams is on track with the actors he chosen and in terms of returning to some of the basics of the franchise.

Well SW also takes place in much more of a fantasy world, so there's a lot more room to bend the rules than in Trek. And the technology is a lot simpler as well, so there's no possibility of doing crazy and ridiculous things with the transporters, for instance.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

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Where are the new pics of Chewie?

Only one pic so far, from a tweet you can see on this page:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-05/06/abrams-star-wars-video

OMG he looks like Chewie .. I mean the one I know from my childhood

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[cooleddie74]

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The pieces are falling into place, that's for sure.

 

[Corran Horn]

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It's hard to put into words but when I saw the picture of the Falcon's cockpit being built in a real space, I got chills. It really feels like Star Wars is coming back in a way that I haven't felt since I got to see them on the big screens for the first time during the Special Editions re-release in 1996-97. Combine that with the amazing set pictures, Chewie's perfect costume and (at least from a visual point of view) this film is going to be amazing.

Yeah totally agreed about Chewie. I absolutely hated the way he looked in ROTS, but thankfully they were able to make him look like his old self again.

Yeah, none of the prequel-era Wookiees looked right to me.

 

[B.J.]

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Sweet. It's not quite the completed Falcon, but just seeing it under construction is exciting enough. And I can definitely see some design changes to the X-Wing as well (particularly to the engine pods), which I'm okay with, since this is 30 years later and it only makes sense that things would have evolved a bit.

Actually those engines look a lot like the McQuarrie concept art for the X-Wing.

 

[cooleddie74]

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The images from the past 24 hours show quite a few nods to Ralph McQuarrie's conceptual art for the Original Trilogy. I'm really liking them.

 

[kirk55555]

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Those Falcon pics are really cool. Its also nice to see an X-Wing being built. Its going to be awesome to see them on screen.

The pig monster/animal thing looks pretty impressive, I wonder if it will get any significant ascreen time? It seems like a waste to put so much effort into it and then make it just walk around in the background.

 

[Skywalker]

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Behold the Millennium Falcon!!!

OMG OMG

What a piece of junk!

 

[JD]

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I'm loving what we are seeing here. I love that they do appear to be using at least a some practical effect a. I don't mind CGI, but it's still cool to see to see them going back some old school stuff.

 

[Mr Light]

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Has anyone entered into the charity contest yet? I donated $20 (ie, entered twice) this morning. Thus guaranteeing my spot in the movie!!!

 

[Doctorwhovian]

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I'm wondering if this is a sort of hanger set, one can see some of what looks like a wall that sort of resembles the Rebel ship hanger seen in ROTJ in between the ships and the pig.


Doesn't explain the other pig monster though. Maybe it's ground-based?

That's doubly impressive if so, the rebel hanger and Falcon background seen in ROTJ was mostly realized through a painting that wasn't that well composited with Han and Lando IMO.

Also regarding the Falcon, it did appear in ROTS, and ships of it's type were seen on Naboo in AOTC. But of course that was all CG and blink and you'll miss'em camoes.

 

[B.J.]

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I'm wondering if this is a sort of hanger set, one can see some of what looks like a wall that sort of resembles the Rebel ship hanger seen in ROTJ in between the ships and the pig.

No, it doesn't look like a hanger. It does look like a hangar, though.

 

[sojourner]

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Wait, where is this X-wing image everyone is talking about?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

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Picture 10 in the gallery

 

[Reverend]

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Have a closer look at pictures 4 & 7. Unless I'm mistaken it looks like they're building an actual internal set in there too? Perhaps they're planning to do a tracking shot from inside to out (or visa versa) without cutting? If so, that'd be *really* cool.

Still, bit of a trick considering the outside was always smaller than the internal set. Possibly it'll only a partial internal set with a little green-screen set extension?

And yes, that X-Wing is clearly inspired by the McQuarrie painting. If it's meant to be a "new model" fighter then it might cause a little continuity problem with the new rebels series since they're also on an RMcQ kick and I'd bet good money they'd also planned to use that same basic design...of course if it's meant the be an older model, then there's no problem after all.

 

[Samurai8472]

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Have a closer look at pictures 4 & 7. Unless I'm mistaken it looks like they're building an actual internal set in there too? Perhaps they're planning to do a tracking shot from inside to out (or visa versa) without cutting? If so, that'd be *really* cool.

Still, bit of a trick considering the outside was always smaller than the internal set. Possibly it'll only a partial internal set with a little green-screen set extension?=

I have a feeling it's similar to Star Trek 2009's corridor shots

but please. No weird camera angles!

 

[davejames]

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That's doubly impressive if so, the rebel hanger and Falcon background seen in ROTJ was mostly realized through a painting that wasn't that well composited with Han and Lando IMO.

Also regarding the Falcon, it did appear in ROTS, and ships of it's type were seen on Naboo in AOTC. But of course that was all CG and blink and you'll miss'em camoes.

Which is a shame, because they actually built the full size Falcon for the sandstorm scene that ended up being cut. But they couldn't afford to keep it around for the hangar scene for whatever reason.

In fact I was horrified to read in the recent Making of Jedi book that they actually made a giant bonfire out of it afterwards. Here's hoping they find a way to preserve this new one (and perhaps install it at a Disney park afterwards), since it's the last one that'll probably ever be built.

 

[RoJoHen]

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That's doubly impressive if so, the rebel hanger and Falcon background seen in ROTJ was mostly realized through a painting that wasn't that well composited with Han and Lando IMO.

Also regarding the Falcon, it did appear in ROTS, and ships of it's type were seen on Naboo in AOTC. But of course that was all CG and blink and you'll miss'em camoes.

Which is a shame, because they actually built the full size Falcon for the sandstorm scene that ended up being cut. But they couldn't afford to keep it around for the hangar scene for whatever reason.

I was horrified to read in the recent Making of Jedi book that they actually made a giant bonfire out of it afterwards. Here's hoping they find a way to preserve this new one (and perhaps install it at a Disney park afterwards), since it's the last one that'll probably ever be built.

Unless it blows up when Han sacrifices himself to save the universe!!!