Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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<p>Vader hinted at in the trailer (in silhouette).</p>
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<p>Don't be surprised if R2 and 3PO are spotted in the background either. After all they were working for Leia who is the one who receives the stolen plans in the end.</p>
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<p>But yes, this will mainly be a new set of characters set in the universe.</p>
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<p>The Rouge Squadron novels (no longer canon) were cool. Like Biggles in space.</p>
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<p>Anyone can wear the suit, no issue there but I've heard some pretty lame attempts at the voice. Any chance James Earl Jones could come back ?</p>
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<p>Tem Morrison probably wouldn't mind a well paid gig as Boba Fett or a really old clone too. Mind you the leads in the recent one "only" got a few hundred grand each which really surprises me given Star Wars is the biggest thing on the planet.</p> -
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<p>Anyone can wear the suit, no issue there but I've heard some pretty lame attempts at the voice. Any chance James Earl Jones could come back ?</p>
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<p>Tem Morrison probably wouldn't mind a well paid gig as Boba Fett or a really old clone too. Mind you the<strong> leads in the recent one "only" got a few hundred grand each</strong> which really surprises me given Star Wars is the biggest thing on the planet.</p>
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<p>Pretty good for a marionette with aphasia.</p> -
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<p>Pretty good for a marionette with aphasia.</p>
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<p>I just assumed given that it was Star Wars and there was maybe a reasonable chance it would do ok at the box office they'd be getting 8 figures.......</p> -
I think they get more cash if the film grosses a certain amount. In any case, they can live off ComiCon conventions for the rest of their lives if their acting careers don't take off.
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<p>Anyone can wear the suit, no issue there but I've heard some pretty lame attempts at the voice. Any chance James Earl Jones could come back ?</p>
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<p>Tem Morrison probably wouldn't mind a well paid gig as Boba Fett or a really old clone too. Mind you the leads in the recent one "only" got a few hundred grand each which really surprises me given Star Wars is the biggest thing on the planet.</p>
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<p>Lots of tall, good looking, young women who want to be in Star Wars. Only one Harrison Ford. Now there is only one Ridley and Boyega and I imagine they will get a lot more for the next movies.</p> -
<p>Yeah pretty sure some of them charge a couple of hundy for autographs, multiply that by lots and lots of nerds and you have a pretty good cash cow there.</p>
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<p>I saw a doco on Tem Morrison and how he was basically broke, this was before that movie with him and Stan Walker but surely he could make a fucken killing at conventions from playing the dad, and the voice of, the most iconic bounty hunter in geek history. </p>
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<p>where does Tem live, if NZ I'd say that is a hinderance to him living off Fett</p>
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<p>where does Tem live, if NZ I'd say that is a hinderance to him living off Fett</p>
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<p>True.....but those conventions are only a flight away and as I said a fan favourite like him should kill it.</p> -
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Yeah pretty sure some of them charge a couple of hundy for autographs, multiply that by lots and lots of nerds and you have a pretty good cash cow there.<br><br>
I saw a doco on Tem Morrison and how he was basically broke, this was before that movie with him and Stan Walker but surely he could make a fucken killing at conventions from playing the dad, and the voice of, the most iconic bounty hunter in geek history.</p></blockquote>
My brother has a mate who is a dead ringer for that English actor Nick Frost (the fat guy in Cuban Fury). Anyway, this guy went to ComiCon or one of those conventions to get Frost's autograph. He was shocked to discover that he had to fork out 20 bucks for the privilege. 20 bucks for Cuban Fury boy! So if he can charge that, the sky is the limit for anyone who has been in a SW film. <br><br>
I remember seeing a report from ComiCon a few years back where they interviewed the guy who played Greedo. Greedo ffs. They paid him to come to the US because he wore an alien mask on screen for 30 seconds.<br><br>
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<p>My brother has a mate who is a dead ringer for that English actor Nick Frost (the fat guy in Cuban Fury). Anyway, this guy went to ComiCon or one of those conventions to get Frost's autograph. He was shocked to discover that he had to fork out 20 bucks for the privilege. 20 bucks for Cuban Fury boy! So if he can charge that, the sky is the limit for anyone who has been in a SW film.<br><br>
I remember seeing a report from ComiCon a few years back where they interviewed the guy who played Greedo. Greedo ffs. They paid him to come to the US because he wore an alien mask on screen for 30 seconds.<br><br>
Tem should be in farking clover.</p>
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<p>That's awesome. Who in the world would actually have a clue what that dude looks like, ie being famous for being sucker punched by Han Solo ?</p>
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<p>but hey, if they can make a living and were lucky enough to be cast in something like Star Wars then fair play to them</p> -
<p>Have been to a few Armageddon Shows in Auckland over the years. Shook hands with that bald dude from the Stargate TV series. Meet Peter Mayhew (Chewy), Claudia Black, a fat McGyver.</p>
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<p>Have been watching VII on a recording and with more time to see things you pick up on some cool detail but also some pretty poor continuity and stuff.</p>
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<p>For me that is fine. A movie doesn't have to be perfect to be entertaining and overall I still think that a pretty good job was done on this reboot. Far far better than Lucas' attempt anyway. His flaws were annoying while JJs are just minor things that pop up while the story is rollicking along. Could also be due to a lot of stuff being cut to trim the movie down.</p>
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<p>In short, in isn't meant to be something to study in film school, the intention is simply to restart the franchise with new characters, get some new audience while pleasing the old fans as well. Fairly hard ask and done fairly well.</p> -
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<p>MN5 jr the younger turned six yesterday so among his pressies his dear old Dad got him a copy of the Force awakens on DVD so great having the morning off for School Holidays to watch it with them before shipping them off to their grandparents. We did a bit of pausing and so on and so forth, given Rens weakened state it's not too much of a stretch that Finn held his own on the fight for as long as he did which at the time at the movies I found ludicrous, Chewies weapon was powerful enough to send troopers flying so Ren sure took it like a man, I guess the mental state he was in from murdering his old man accounted for him not blocking the blast. Even with the mask on he lacked Vaders aura but it's set up pretty nicely for him to be a part cybernetic badass in the next installment.</p>
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<p>The fight scenes ( ships, stormtroopers etc ) are all really well done I reckon. Having seen it four times now ( with many more to come ) I'm still unsure where it sits out of the seven, DEFINITELY better than Phantom, probably better overall than Clones, Maybe equal to Jedi ? hard to say. It has set up the story so well though cos I'm fucked if I can figure our Reys story for sure......</p> -
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<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a return to form for the Star Wars series, both in terms of storytelling and in terms of making boatloads of money. The movie was beloved enough by fans to recently earn an MTV Movie Award for Movie of the Year, and that was well after it crossed the $2 billion mark in box office earnings during its theatrical run.</p>
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<p>Some, however, felt that the movie was a little too close to its roots, particularly in comparison to A New Hope. It follows a similar group of characters (Rey as the Luke character and Kylo Ren as the Darth Vader character, for instance) and some very familiar plot points, including the basically-the-Death-Star-but-bigger Starkiller Base. Itâ€
s easy to write those things off as a bit of lazy trope recycling for the series, <strong>but director J.J. Abrams says there was a reason for the similarities</strong>.</p>
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<p>Abrams spoke to Chris Rock at the Tribeca Film Festival about that reason, and says that it was to provide a familiar jumping-off point for audiences when introducing the new storyline that will drive the sequels to come. IGN offers a transcription of Abrams†comments (via Slashfilm):</p>
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<p><strong><em>“This movie [The Force Awakens] was a bridge and a kind of reminder; the audience needed to be reminded what Star Wars is, but it needed to be established with something familiar, with a sense of where we are going to new lands, which is very much what 8 and 9 do. The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story. So we very consciously — and I know it is derided for this — we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars.â€</em></strong></p>
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<p>In other words, Abrams is saying he didnâ€t borrow plot points from the first movie in order to cut corners. Rather, he did it to offer some similarity to audiences who might have been put off by jumping into an entirely new storyline without some way to contextualize it. That applies not only to the plot, but to the characters as well:</p>
<p>“All the characters – the Stormtrooper who turns, Finn played by John Boyega, and Rey, the character that Daisy plays, the Scavenger, Kylo Ren, the son of Han and Leia, and Poe the pilot – all these were characters and sort of their roles in the story needed to exist in something that predates them.â€</p>
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<p>One could definitely argue that Abrams was successful in providing an accessible entry point to the new trilogy given the fan reaction and box office numbers. It was certainly more well-received than the first movie in the prequel trilogy, the more laboriously titled Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. That movie set off a tidal wave of negative fan reaction that would last for well over a decade, versus the relatively muted complaints about The Force Awakens being too derivative. If the next two sequels follow a similar template then fans might be less forgiving, but Abrams†comments offer a new hope that episodes 7 and 8 will have more original and surprising plots.</p>
<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on December 16, 2016, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII on December 15, 2017, the Han Solo Star Wars Anthology film on May 25, 2018, Star Wars: Episode IX in 2019, followed by the third Star Wars Anthology film in 2020.</p>
<p>Source: IGN (via Slashfilm)</p>
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