Star Wars, Episode 7 The Force Awakens (2015) [SPOILERS]

[Elster88]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-disney-to-buy-lucasfilm-for-405-billion-20121030,0,4262864.story
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/10/30/star-wars-three-new-movies-lucas-wont-write-or-direct/
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/60944/star-wars-episode-vii

Edited November 3, 2012 by Guest

[Ceetar]

looking forward to it.

[Edgy MD]

Didney.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Writers announced for trilogy threeinclude Lawrence Kasdin who contributed the best script to the franchise with Empire Strikes Back.

[Edgy MD]

Ka-POW!

Potential for historical greatness and historical badness with that many chips on the table.

[seawolf17]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/chewbacca-crashes-harrison-ford-kimmel-interview_n_3108073.html

Harrison Ford on Kimmel. This is brilliant.

[Edgy MD]

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The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film. Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud." Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on December 18, 2015.

On one hand, how cool that they can't do a read-through without R2D2 sitting in the corner.

On the other hand... NO LANDO?!?!

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Maybe that one African-American guy in the room will be Lando's sassy nephew.

[Edgy MD]

I like that they had to have R2D2 in the corner of the room for the read-through.

I noticed that Kenny Baker isn't in the picture. Maybe he felt he had to crawl back in the can and do the read-through in costume. That would be hardcore.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Kenny Baker: Method Actor.

[TransMonk]

The best part about that picture is that George Lucas does not appear to be in the room.

[Edgy MD]

The low-res black-and-white photo and the modular furniture sure gives this a 70s feel, though don't it?

[Edgy MD]

TransMonk wrote: The best part about that picture is that George Lucas does not appear to be in the room.

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Clockwise from robot: Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Producer Bryan Burk, Kathleen Kennedy, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Writer Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. "Dyn-O-Mite" Abrams.

[metsmarathon]

that galaxy far, far away sure is a sausage fest, isn't it?

[Edgy MD]

A lot of folks talking about that.

The original cast was full of men too. Wars are full of men.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Commentary on Star Wars sausage fest. The comparison to the new BSG is apt.

It shouldn't be surprise from Abrams who cast Alice Eve so he could feature her underwear scenes in the movie trailer.

[metsmarathon]

yeah, i'd read that pretty much just before making my comment. also, the other day, minimm had stated that only boys are allowed to play star wars. after i told him that girls could play, too, if they wanted, offering up princess leia as a person they could be (and also stating that a girl could play as luke skywalker, or yoda, or darth vader, if she wanted), minimm countered that a girl could also be luke's mom.

mind you, he hasn't seen the prequels, so doesn't really know that padme amidala is a viable character. i think he was referring to either aunt beru, or possibly just the theoretical mom that luke must surely have. meaning, there are no roles for women in the original star wars universe, especially as presented in the first two movies (IV and V), beyond either princess leia or a generic female.

it was then that i realized i'm glad i only have boys.

[Edgy MD]

What a sausage fest your family is.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Surprise additions to the sausage fest: women actors!

[TransMonk]

The 7-year-old boy inside me awakens.

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Though, even with less than a minute of footage in this trailer, I can already tell JJ Abrams is going to use to much fake lens glare.

[Vic Sage]

oh my, i am sporting quite a chubby.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Did I miss it, or did none of the characters from the original trilogy appear in that teaser? They're the ones I want to see most.

[TransMonk]

Then the tease worked!

Having old (new) school Stormtrooper unis and the Millennium Falcon was enough for me considering there's another year before this thing comes out.

[Elster88]

What Vic said

[metsmarathon]

the contrails coming off the millenium falcon were pretty cool. probably unrealistic from an aerodynamics standpoint, but cool.

i do wonder how well that thing would fly irl. its stabilizing and maneuvering thrusters must use a shitton of fuel. assuming htat's how it steers itself around terrestially, of course, as i see no control surfaces.

[Edgy MD]

No doubt it stores absorbed solar/stellar energy.

[metsmarathon]

well, sure, all of our fuel is a byproduct of fusion, one way or another. but how does the millenium falcon expend it's fuel to cause itself to turn in an atmosphere, is my question.

[MFS62]

Thrust vectoring, Like in the newer Russian Sukhoi and MiG fighters and the US Harrier and F-35 VTOL version.

Later

[Vic Sage]

in a universe with a magical "force", these sorts of questions become moot, don't they?

[Edgy MD]

Until they tell me the Millennium Falcon runs on a Force engine, I would think not.