Star Wars VII - Cast Announced

[King Gizzard]

Empire Magazine ‏@empiremagazine

News! Disney has bought Lucasfilm. And announced a new Star Wars film for 2015. More on this story soon.


what.

[Shaun]

oh christ

let's hope it's just an animated thing

[Marcus.]

another one

[InOne]

They've done a few animated things already though haven't they? Wasn't there that whole Clone Wars series

[MTVN]

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/10/30/disney-purchases-lucasfilm-including-the-star-wars-franchise-for-4-05b-in-cash-and-stock/

Media giant Disney has purchased movie and TV production house Lucasfilm for $4.05B in cash and stock. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga. Lucasfilm founder George Lucas will act as a creative consultant for the next film.

Sounds like it might be a proper new film according to this :suspect:

[Maia]

Not sure whether this is good news or bad news. I do love Star Wars though

[King Gizzard]

I suppose it will probably primarily be focused on Palpatine being reborn? and Leia/Hans/Lukes kids? The possibilities are endless

[King Gizzard]

I don't want it to turn into a running Saga like James Bond :( 1-2 films maximum

[Maia]

They can try and they can try but they'll never have another Darth Vader

[King Gizzard]

One of my least favourite Characters :laugh:

[Novo]

Hopefully it's about the Old Republic and is set thousands of years before the events of the previous six

[King Gizzard]

Yeah thinking about it they can't really lead straight on from the ROTJ because they won't have Ford/Hammill/Fisher, unless they be dicks and completely re cast them

So it will have to be the Old Republic or the next Skywalker/Solo generation

[Maia]

One of my least favourite Characters :laugh:

Don't be so stupid :idc:

[MTVN]

A film based on KOTOR would be amazing

[GypsyGoth]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hrk8IfVp1qmqh7go2_500.jpg

[King Gizzard]

Don't be so stupid :idc:

The way he moves/talks is just so offputting and not evil at all

Epitimized by the ''NOOOOOOOOO'' at the end of Revenge of the Sith

[Samuel.]

A film based on KOTOR would be amazing

Yes please.

[Marc]

oh..

[King Gizzard]

Weird how KOTOR is set ages before but everythings basically the same

[MTVN]

Agree about Vader, bit lame how he can only trudge really slowly around everywhere :idc:

[Novo]

Think if they made the film of KOTOR they would obviously have to go with the ending of Bastila going to the darkside and joining Malak i forgot what the other ending was now i think you could join Bastila and kill everyone of your companions or something

[King Gizzard]

Agree about Vader, bit lame how he can only trudge really slowly around everywhere :idc:

The Obi Wan vs Darth Vader in A New Hope is just cringeworthy

[Novo]

Found it funny how there was white wookies in that game as well

[MTVN]

Think if they made the film of KOTOR they would obviously have to go with the ending of Bastila going to the darkside and joining Malak i forgot what the other ending was now i think you could join Bastila and kill everyone of your companions or something

Think some of them stay with you after you join her but some refuse, can remember if you were really being a bastard you can force the wookie to kill Mission to stop her running off

[Maia]

Agree about Vader, bit lame how he can only trudge really slowly around everywhere :idc:

What on earth is wrong with you both how can you not love him, he is very clearly one of the greatest and most iconic sci-fi characters of all time

[Novo]

It was hard to take him seriously because Obi Won made him look weak, he took the piss out of Anakin all the way through Episode II and III by telling him he wasn't ready yet and then shortly after he left him disfigured and crippled and then in Episode IV he let him kill him

[King Gizzard]

Obi Wan would have finished him off as well :idc:

Don't know why he's so popular, probably just the mask

He had no emotion at all anyone could act him

[Maia]

Had lots of emotion he did

[MTVN]

Darth Maul was the best Star Wars villain, bit of a joke how he died

[King Gizzard]

I'm sensing a large disturbance in the force originating in you, young Mollie.

[King Gizzard]

Darth Maul didn't properly die either, they saved his head and put him on a robot or something

[MTVN]

Read that in some Star Wars comic did you

[King Gizzard]

no comment

[King Gizzard]

There should be something on Yoda's story, pretty cool

[Iceman]

oh no didnt want this.

[Iceman]

oh lucas is involved so thats a plus I suppose...

[King Gizzard]

one plus side is there will be good special effects for once, even some of the prequels they were terrible

[Scarlett.]

From the sounds of it, its out of Lucas' hands, this might be a good thing

[King Gizzard]

I had no idea Disney made the latest Marvel films :suspect:

I am an idiot

But they've been good so there's more hope.

[Ramsay]

WE WANT ALL THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS ON BLU RAY PLEASE DISNEY
that is all

[Ramsay]

and the christmas special for good measure

[Brother Leon]

Darth Vader is top 10 movie character tbh :idc:

[Munchkins]

George lucas has really sent the franchise to the ****ter
he already killed it when he kept selling the characters to advertisements
:(

[Ramsay]

George Lucas vs The People is a really good documentary

[King Gizzard]

Am I the only one that prefers puppet Yoda to CGI Yoda

much better

[GypsyGoth]

I thought Jar Jar Binks was a great character.

[King Gizzard]

blu ray can kiss my ASS

[King Gizzard]

I thought Jar Jar Binks was a great character.

disney will introduce 4-5 Jar Jar Binks type characters probably :bored:

[Roy Mars III]

Am I the only one that prefers puppet Yoda to CGI Yoda

much better

CGI Yoda is terrible.

[Ramsay]

Honestly though this came straight into my head after all my first few minutes of rage

Ag1o3koTLWM

[Roy Mars III]

I thought Jar Jar Binks was a great character.

the worst character in fiction.

[King Gizzard]

CGI Yoda is terrible.

Swear I mentioned it before on here and everyone loved CGI Yoda

[GypsyGoth]

disney will introduce 4-5 Jar Jar Binks type characters probably :bored:

He'll prob get his own movie :laugh2:

But yea I didn't see what all the fuss was about. He was funny and sweet, sure he wasn't brave or heroic but that was part of his charm.

[Ramsay]

Yeah Jar Jar was the worst thing to happen to the world of film ever

[Roy Mars III]

maybe they will include the greatest Star Wars character ever, Thrawn from the novels

http://suvudu.com/files/2011/09/Thrawn-172x300.jpg

[GypsyGoth]

the worst character in fiction.

:laugh: Why?

[Novo]

CGI Yoda is a lot more serious, Vintage Yoda was crazy in the original trilogy

[Roy Mars III]

Swear I mentioned it before on here and everyone loved CGI Yoda

that does not surprise me at all

[MTVN]

CGI Yoda is better but some of his dialogue was pretty awful, like the "around the survivors, a perimeter create" line in Episode II

[Roy Mars III]

:laugh: Why?

he is a character created entirely for commercial reasons

[King Gizzard]

http://i.imgur.com/diH4J.jpg

[Shaun]

I thought Jar Jar Binks was a great character.

and there goes any chance of a top ten placing in Most Loved 7.

[GypsyGoth]

:laugh:

He was a clumsy frogtype alien who spoke kinda jamaican. What's not to like?

[Samuel.]

Didn't think 1-3 were as nearly as bad as people make out.

[Shaun]

3 was really good. One was okay, 2 was terrible.

[King Gizzard]

I said it before I prefer the prequels

[Novo]

2 was pretty bad at the start because it was just about Anakin and Padme for the most part but when it got to the Arena battle and then the Yoda and Anakin fight with dooku it was amazing

[Ramsay]

3 was really good. One was okay, 2 was terrible.

Aye 1 was never as bad as people made out and 2 was by far the worst

[arista]

http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/poster/2012/10/31/121031Lucasfilm_6846813.jpg
There is a Big Amount of Online Anger at this Deal.

As Disney's Input is for there children market products.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/30/disney-lucasfilm-star-wars-deal

[Ramsay]

I want to be sick

[Roy Mars III]

:bawling:

[SharkAttack]

We need more Ewoks...loads of Ewoks. Disney-designed Ewoks. :idc:

[arista]

We need more Ewoks...loads of Ewoks. Disney-designed Ewoks. :idc:


No Disney
are not good for Star Wars Future/ Lucasfilm


This Mega Money deal has angered millions

[King Gizzard]

Time to watch TESB and drown my sorrows

[Tom4784]

This will only end badly.

As for the other debate in this topic.

3>2>1.

[Ramsay]

But two was borrrring
and at least one had Darth Maul and Qui Gon

[Ramsay]

QOCiqcwbaHQ

:worship:

[Roy Mars III]

Empire Strikes Back is amazing. New Hope is good. Return of the Jedi is okay. 1, 2, and 3 are all as terrible as one another

[arista]

Disney Control its Output
thats what stinks here

[King Gizzard]

Wish Qui Gon didn't have to die

[Ramsay]

Yeah Empire is great..DAT ENDING :worship:

[Roy Mars III]

Disney Control its Output
thats what stinks here

Disney own Marvel. Avengers was good wasn't it?

[Ramsay]

Should of kept Darth Maul instead of having that shyte Dooku

[King Gizzard]

How to ruin a franchise in 5 seconds

WWaLxFIVX1s

[King Gizzard]

Man Vader is so terrible

[arista]

Disney own Marvel. Avengers was good wasn't it?


Yes But Marvel Control more.



Lucas has taken big Cash
for his fat ass

[Petershaw1984]

Money money money......never seen a star wars film so dont know if its a good thing or not

[MTVN]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20156816

How great is the real life R2 D2

[King Gizzard]

called star wars a kids movie

**** head

[MTVN]

I know what he means though, most people probably got into SW as kids

[smeagol]

star wars 7 mickey mouse v darth vedda

he done the right thing selling it make a ton of cash as the last 3 movies were crap he has no clue anymore and i doubt disney will either. so nice sale

[Saph]

Disney aren't that bad, they did POTC and they were ok

[King Gizzard]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwoza4gZjI1r609h6o1_500.jpg

[Ramsay]

Oh my

[King Gizzard]

pretty much all the gimmick characters

[Ramsay]

hUkCJDkG3fg

[King Gizzard]

Some good news at least

Original #StarWars trilogy scribe Lawrence Kasdan attached to new trilogy, plus Simon Kinberg http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/lawrence-kasdan-new-star-wars.html

[Scarlett.]

I dont get why people are scared of Disney doing Star Wars, you didnt see them put Micky Mouse in the Avengers did you?

[King Gizzard]

The only hold up I have is all the spin offs they'll have and how many Jar Jar Bink characters they'll introduce. there is unfortunately room for those type of characters in these films unlike in the Avengers franchise, where the characters were already there

[GypsyGoth]

Hopefully Yoda will stop advertising phones now Disney own him.

[King Gizzard]

Think they are carrying on afterwards, so they are going to have to skip the start of the New Republic for a bit, unless they can get all the original characters back and have them as older figures with their kids being the main characters

[Ramsay]

I dont get why people are scared of Disney doing Star Wars, you didnt see them put Micky Mouse in the Avengers did you?

Yeah i know but i just plain dont want any more movies
Episodes 1-6 were fine

[King Gizzard]

jj abrams turns it down

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/25/j-j-abrams-has-officially-turned-down-star-wars-episode-vii/

[King Gizzard]

JJ Abrams directing apparently afterall

[GypsyGoth]

I wish he would make up his mind.

[Roy Mars III]

This is terrible news. Probably the worst guy they could have gotten. The guy has not made one decent thing in his life

[King Gizzard]

yeah I'm not particularly excited. At least it's not really confirmed yet

[Roy Mars III]

Abrams is too business/success minded to make a good film. Abrams knows what will make a financially successful better than anyone but he doesn't know how to make a good film

[MTVN]

Super 8 is a great film

[Roy Mars III]

it was very 'meh'

[arista]

I wish he would make up his mind.


With all the Orders on his laptop

He has to go through all of them


It takes time

[arista]

JJ Abrams directing apparently afterall



There is a Fight over CGI Budgets
Money is the problem.

JJ does not want a cheap budget.

[Shaun]

I can't imagine how the news must be going down with diehard Star Wars fans... a Star Trek director directing it...

[King Gizzard]

Boring rather get the storyline and acting right, the special effects and cgi second

[Scarlett.]

Boring rather get the storyline and acting right, the special effects and cgi second

Directing =/= Writing

[Scarlett.]

I can't imagine how the news must be going down with diehard Star Wars fans... a Star Trek director directing it...

The whole "Star Wars vs Star Trek" thing is all a bit of fun, after all, R2D2 had a cameo in Star Trek :p

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2774/4123438556_f6f510ff01_z.jpg

[Slevin]

I can't imagine how the news must be going down with diehard Star Wars fans... a Star Trek director directing it...
lol. im a Star Wars fan but not Star Trek but i never got into that crap. i do find it funny and when they throw that stuff in on tv or movies. i never watched the Star Trek shows but i seen most of the movies and i found some of em to be alright. some fans of either franchise are annoying though. especially the ones that nit pick and the smallest things. it pathetically funny.

[Locke.]

A great choice :worship:

[Marc]

I think the only director who could have kept this going to the same standard is JJ Abrams, so it's all good.

[King Gizzard]

Fan made but kind of got me a bit more excited

http://i.imgur.com/APzclxW.jpg

[Jake.]

I should really watch the Star Wars films at some point

[Ramsay]

I should really watch the Star Wars films at some point

How have you never seen them? :O
Watch Episode IV - VI first and then I-III !

[King Gizzard]

Somehow Ewan thinks he can miraculously come back to life

not to mention even a hologram Ewan Obi wouldn't work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21595978

[King Gizzard]

Release dates revealed news.sky.com/story/1079728/star-wars-release-dates-for-new-movies-unveiled

I don't like this at all, how they've got it all planned out ready as if it's a machine churning out films...I'd rather they just announced the one they're doing first and just hype that up..

[King Gizzard]

http://i.imgur.com/PaNLpc8.jpg

Apparently the script, and the red paper is to stop it from being phootcopied

[Novo]

been reading about the Darth Plagueis being responsible for Anakin's birth theory, the whole story about Plagueis/Sidious and Anakin is the most interesting part of Star Wars, love how no one still has any idea how or what was the course for Anakin's birth other then the fact he was conceived by the force

[King Gizzard]

should throw a curveball and reveal it's Yoda's and that's the real reason he was reluctant to train Anakin and Luke

[Roy Mars III]

we need Thrawn in it

[Novo]

http://images.wikia.com/fanon/images/c/cc/Ziro_the_Hutt.png

[King Gizzard]

http://i.imgur.com/ldMFS.jpg

[Benjamin]

Was I the only one to imagine this with Mickey Mouse, Donald, Pluto etc before entering the thread?

[King Gizzard]

http://i.imgur.com/LdTdjTc.gif

[Roy Mars III]

Hugh Laurie would be a great choice for Thrawn

Thrawn is a better character than Darth Vader, I hope they put him in

[Novo]

a TIBB cinema trip for Episode VII and we all have to go in star wars cosplay, i have claimed Lando

[King Gizzard]

ESB and ROTJ on Saturday and Sunday on ITV2, that's the weekend sorted

[Novo]

one of the girls in Jabba's hut in ROTJ later went on to marry Luke

[Locke.]

Han Solo and Boba Fett getting their own spin-off movies. Han's set inbetween Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/55029726/star-wars-origin-stories

[King Gizzard]

i wish they'd have just announced one for now

[King Gizzard]

Jesse Plemons in talks for the lead role apparently :joker:

[Iceman]

No to hugh laurie...god no...anyone else will do....or actually keep him and when he comes on screen I can go for a piss.

[King Gizzard]

Filming begins in May, and it'll be set 30 years after ROTJ http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-vii-set-to-roll-cameras-may-2014.html

[King Gizzard]

Lupita Nyong'o is the latest I've seen linked with a lead role, but I reckon that's purely off her popularity at the moment cus of 12 years

[Kyle]

If Disney create a creature any worse than Jar Jar Binks I swear I'll lose my sh*t.

[King Gizzard]

probably going to be 2 hours of guff with too many special effects

[King Gizzard]

which sums up jj abrams

[Ramsay]

Cast announced:

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

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31.0-8/1075454_736620193056251_5192269333816421968_o.jpg

[King Gizzard]

Cast revealed

http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-7-cast-announced.html

[King Gizzard]

L8 :laugh:

[Ramsay]

No Billie Dee :/

[Ramsay]

L8 :laugh:

http://i.imgur.com/IPu9lxT.gif

[King Gizzard]

Does this mean the guy from attack the block is the main guy?

[Locke.]

Where is Jesse Plemons

[Ramsay]

Brendan Gleeson's son is in it

[Ramsay]

Where is Jesse Plemons

He would make an epic sith

[King Gizzard]

Han Solo apparently has a massive role

[Ramsay]

Killed off within first 10 minutes like Harrison always wanted :laugh:

[King Gizzard]

Looks like John Boyega is also a lead role, and Oscar Isaacs


Quite excited for it now, unless it ends up being like Star Trek

[Ramsay]

Gollum is in it too

[Saph]

isnt princess leia fat and old now? how are they gonna write her into it?

[Tom4784]

I only know Domhall Gleeson and Adam Driver. It'll be interesting to see what characters they're playing.

[Ramsay]

I only know Domhall Gleeson and Adam Driver. It'll be interesting to see what characters they're playing.

I'm predicting Gleeson to be Han and Leia's kid and i don't know who Adam Driver is but i looked him up and he screams sith tbh

[King Gizzard]

Oscar Isaac is blatantly going to be sith

[GypsyGoth]

Where's my Jar Jar? I didn't see him in the photo. Was he holding the camera?

http://i.imgur.com/PpHLXBi.jpg

[Shaun]

Adam's a pretty good actor, the only good thing left about Girls tbh.

[Tom4784]

I'm predicting Gleeson to be Han and Leia's kid and i don't know who Adam Driver is but i looked him up and he screams sith tbh

When he was first linked with Star Wars the reports said he'd play a Sith so you're probably right. It seems like he turned down the part of Nightwing in the new Batman films to do Star Wars.

[James]

Gareth Edwards, director of Monsters and 2014 Godzilla, is to direct a Star Wars spin-off film to be released in 2016.


British director Gareth Edwards, who made the recent Godzilla movie, is set to direct a Star Wars spin-off film, Walt Disney Co has confirmed.

The unnamed film will be in addition to the forthcoming Star Wars trilogy, the first instalment of which will be directed by JJ Abrams.

Writer Gary Whitta, who penned the script for 2010's The Book of Eli, will write the screenplay for Edwards' film.

The film is due to be released on 16 December 2016.

In a statement, Edwards said: "Ever since I saw Star Wars I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - join the Rebel Alliance!

"I could not be more excited and honoured to go on this mission."

Whitta echoed his sentiments and said the "opportunity to contribute" was "literally a dream come true".


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27533605

[King Gizzard]

Set pictures http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/2/5771814/star-wars-7-set-photos-leaked-show-giant-creature

Encouraging signs that it's not going to be one CGI ****fest so far

[Locke.]

Brienne from Game of Thrones has been cast, and that woman from 12 Years a Slave

[Saph]

they're filming just up the road from me (literally just up the road)

http://www.starwars7news.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Falcon.jpeg

A man who was taking publicity shots for a flying school returned home to find he had captured images of spacecraft from the new Star Wars film.

Matthew Myatt originally thought his pictures of the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing fighter were experimental aircraft in Berkshire.

He said: "It wasn't too clear until I viewed the picture and then realised what it was. I grew up with Star Wars so I started jumping around."

Episode VII is being filmed in the UK.

I love how they added arrows to the pic lol

[Scarlett.]

It's called "The Force Awakens"
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/11/star-wars-episode7-logo-720x245.jpg

[Ramsay]

Sounds like a spin off from Force Unleashed

[Marsh.]

Are we in the 90s? :umm2:

[James]

There's a teaser trailer coming out today.