I might be instituting a policy in which each hotlink-broken image comes with a seven-like One of These Days You Assholes Will Learn penalty.
Call me when there's a Kit Fisto movie. Now there's a mysterious badass who deserves a fleshed out story.
Your wish has been granted, a Wookieepedia article on Kit Fisto that's longer that Wikipedia's article on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Not appearing on Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Long-ass articles about minor Star Wars characters.
I dunno. I think it might be covered by that desire for sexual gratification. You know....for some people....if that's your thing...not that I would know anything about that...YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME
Nice try, but I'm not reading anything that includes whatever EU fanfics have been made. The brief scenes with him in the movies and the couple episodes in the Clone Wars with him fighting underwater and being awesome made Kit Fisto into the Jedi equivalent of Boba Fett. I don't need to ruin that with some amateur sci-fi romance author's idea of what he did on his vacation.
Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed for investors that his company has lined up Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to work on stand-alone Star Wars movies.
That makes sense. It also means it ain't going to be about Yoda, unless everything takes place in a haze of blue magical fart. I actually like this idea, provided that they actually do it right. I wouldn't mind having Star Wars as an annualized property if the studio got smart about it and did a variety of different stories about different people instead of just Lord of the Ringsing two hours of one story into our face every year, with the requisite mounting degradation in production quality that would have to accompany such a thing. Hell - Marvel's been polyannual for awhile now and it hasn't been the worst (and they will be again at at least a couple of points in Phase II with the number of films they're planning on putting out in there). Also, I'm sure this story was re-reported elsewhere, but Disney is again considering the possibility of a live action television series. Nothing formal, aside from the fact that it would almost undoubtedly end up on ABC, but if S.H.I.E.L.D. turns out well, I wouldn't be shocked at all to see something barreling into production two seasons from now. I do wonder how long it's going to take for Clone Wars to hop from Cartoon Network to Disney Channel, though. That seems pretty goddamn inevitable.
The latest rumour now is that Disney plans to do a Han Solo / Boba Fett spin-off movie that takes place between Episodes III and IV.
That sounded kinda cool for a fraction of a second. Then I realized that it would involve a non-Ford Han Solo.
It's 2 separate movies, according to that article. A Han Solo movie between III and IV, and a Boba Fett movie between IV and V. It does seem more reasonable that they'd do a single Han Solo / Boba Fett movie, since the characters were more closely linked to each other than Fett was to anyone else.
I personally rather see a live-action tv series or tv movies series where they focus on the Star Wars universe in general. Would the non-Star Wars geek public care to see non-trilogy Star Wars related movies? Hell, why not go back a thousand generations to the time of The Old Republic when the Sith were as numerous and powerful as the Jedi?
He looks older now than Han Solo in the first movies. (looking it up: because he's 48 now, Ford was 35 when A New Hope came out).
You'd be happy to know that Lucas has fifty scripts written and Disney is considering it. Man, it might make the ideal pair with SHIELD.
Not surprised at all that a Boba Fett movie is in the pipeline, but god I hope they don't go with Temuera Morrison to play the role. I know it's unfair to judge anyone based on their acting in the prequels, but he was especially wooden. Yeah, but they're Lucas scripts.
"Reviewed for development" doesn't mean ready to greenlight. If it did become a series, those Lucas scripts would either be revisited or dumped. You wouldn't even think of going to broadcast with 50 episodes of a prime time series. Hell - that's what was most wrong with the first season of Smash. It's not unheard of to go with a short season already in the can, but I wouldn't think you'll see anything more than 13 already developed before shooting started. Of course, I also think you're a minimum of three years out at this point regardless. It's not impossible that Disney could go to series before the movies hit, but I would think that they want their first entry into the franchise to be the one that they're paying far out the ass for with Abrams. Plus, then they could have Abrams direct the pilot and get the series from Bad Robot. And with Lindelof already working for Disney on Tomorrowland, I wonder if they couldn't get him to run it and pitch it as being from (most of) the creative team behind Lost. I could have sworn I read about him getting a television development deal somewhere, but the dumbass says so many things online that I can't track it down now.
I remember reading on multiple accounts that the Star Wars TV show was being held back due to issues of getting the effects for a small enough price. That might effect things a bit, even if it's not as relevant now as it was.
The television show was held for multiple reasons. For starters, Lucas wanted to get the entire thing produced and in the can before he even approached a network looking for buyers. For another, he never cared that much about it. Given that the man owned ILM at the time, I'm not sure that the effects budget would have been much of a concern, since it would all have been in-house.
I would blame Lucas as director for any wooden performances first before the actors. The Star Wars prequels had plenty of good actors but Lucas failed to use them properly. I've read about a number of actors, including Terrance Stamp, who weren't happy with Lucas as a director.
That's why I said I know it's unfair to judge an actor based on the prequels. Unlike Stamp or most of the principals, however, Morrison doesn't have a very impressive film resume outside of the prequels, so I still wouldn't want him to headline a Boba Fett movie.
I would watch the shit out of the movie that covers how he parseced the Kessel run in 50 nanosecs or some shit.
One of the EU books came up with a silly explanation for why they used parsecs, a unit of distance, to represent speed. It was something along the lines of the whole area being covered with black holes and most ships had to take the long way around, but the Falcon was so fast that it could take the direct route and not get sucked into oblivion.
Much though I want to see everyone demand and fail to get Nathan Fillion as the lead for a new Han Solo-centric movie, I kind of want to see something new. I guess maybe the experimentation comes after the initial cash grab to recoup costs.
Coming soon to a cinema near you: "When Hannie Met Chewie" A hilarious bromance from Judd Apatow, starring Zack Galafianakis and Paul Rudd. [Interior - an anachronistic 50s-style diner on Coruscant. Robotic waitresses with wheels at the end of their chrome legs whizz around, delivering food to customers. A female hutt with copious amounts of saliva running down her ample face and chest area stuffs a baby jawa into her huge mouth. Chewie and Han sit at a table, facing each other. Han looks bemused] Chewie: Rawr... rawr... rawr... RAWR... RAWR... RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR Female hutt [to waiter]: De wanna ooga! [Subtitles: I'll have what he's having.]
Philistines, all. The explanation given (which was DEFINITELY NOT a retrofit for whomever was responsible for the original line of dialogue not knowing what the hell a parsec is, no sir) was that the Kessel run is a notoriously dangerous hyperjump path through an unpredictable part of space that allowed ballsy smugglers to avoid Imperial patrols. Han and his great stonking cajones cut the tightest path through the black holes and such ever recorded, making the total distance traveled under 12 parsecs. Also: I will now triumphantly push my glasses up my nose so that I can properly look down on all of you lesser nerds.
Also, Jesus. Utinni Effects. I loved that game, but Decipher went way down the rabbit hole before they lost the license.
That's kind of his bag, so I wouldn't be surprised. Walter Bishop was probably the widest role he's ever had (or ever will have) where he's not a villain. He's also not the most expensive actor he could get. I would approve. Granted, another wrinkly old turd is basically more of the same, but I'll still take it if it's there.
Various outlets are reporting that Harrison Ford has signed on to play Han Solo in the sequels. As Kris Straub put it:
So I would assume they're making the sequel movies around the same timeline as the novels where the three main heroes are older and have kids, matching the actors' age. My question is: Will they have Mara Jade and who will the cast?
