UPDATE 3! New Video With Luke Skywalker and Rey Announces the Start of Principal Photography for Star Wars: Episode VIII! Main Cast Revealed! Day 1 Finished!
StarWars.com officially announced that Star Wars: Episode VIII is now filming. They chose the best way to announce it, with video showing cast and crew during the filming on Skellig Michael last year. Read the full press release plus a video announcement…
From StarWars.com:
Star Wars: Episode VIII Now Filming
Cameras roll and the cast is confirmed for the next chapter of the Star Wars saga.
Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga, Star Wars: Episode VIII, which began principal photography at Pinewood Studios in London on February 15, 2016.
Star Wars: Episode VIII, which is written and directed by Rian Johnson and continues the storylines introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, welcomes back cast members Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyongâo, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, and Andy Serkis. New cast members will include Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, Academy Award nominee Laura Dern, and talented newcomer Kelly Marie Tran.
As you can see there is no Harrison Ford in the credits. Also we have two new cast names – Laura Dern and Kelly Marie Tran.
Full press release at StarWars.com
The excitement in the air is almost tangible as we prepare for another year and ten months of announcements, rumors, and speculation as we await the next episode of the saga. Stay tuned to Star Wars News Net, your source for news for all things Star Wars. Here’s where the fun begins…
UPDATE!
We all know who Benicio Del Toro and Laura Dern are. The newcomer Kelly Marie Tran is the one that is interesting. You probably remember THIS rumor about an Asian actress getting the role that Bel Powely and Gina Rodrigues were up for. Obviously the rumor was true since Kelly is an Asian-American actress. Or will there be another Asian actress?
It’s interesting that Kelly Marie Tran’s agency is listing her as a lead in Episode VIII:
Also most of her appearances seem to be comedic ones. Here are two commercials with her:
So what do you think? Could she play a comic relief character in the movie? Do you like the new cast additions? Tell us in the comments below.
Thanks to emberliner for the heads up.
UPDATE 2!
Mark Hamill’s hilarious comment on the teaser announcement! đ
An adventure just beginning…. #StillNoDialogue #RianHasMoreLinesThanMe #Wait4VIII #StarWars #StarWarsEpVIII https://t.co/rdQ9cxFApe
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 15, 2016
Love the hashtags #RianJohnsonHasMoreLinesThanMe and #StillNoDialogue. We love you Mark!
UPDATE 3!
Rian Johnson and John Boyega shared on Twitter that the first day of filming is already in history!
https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/699317711684431874
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/699316473693605888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It’s really great that we’re getting such little snippets from the filming process. We do hope that Rian and John will continue their Twitter activity in the future as well.
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I’m getting unreasonably excited about this.
Nonsense, all levels of excitement are reasonable for Episode VIII âş
So… Han Solo is truly dead.
Well, I don’t think we needed to see this video to know that. I don’t see what the video adds to or takes away from this question anyway.
I was alluding to the line Luke says in Return of the Jedi “So my Father is truly dead”
OGOMGOGMGOG GOGMGOGMGOGMGOGMGOGKGOGMGOGMGOGM
I KNOW!!!!
I cried, I really did. And I watched that announcement too many times.
More Luke in that clip than Episode 7!
Hahaha
F baddass man !!
HOLY SHIT wasn’t expecting that! Now all we need is for them to reveal the title!
I’m hoping Heir to the Sith.
That’s actually pretty great..
damn i got already so hype for episode 8.
but wait is so long…
Yes yes, but in 10 months we get Rogue One, then only a year after that we get Episode VIII! Keep positive my friend!
Star Wars, the only franchise where 2 seconds of new footage makes me excited.
I’m right there with you. I squeeled a little bit, and then realized I’m a grown man at my office at work. *Must hide the feels*
Aw screw it. *SQUEEEEEEEE!!!*
Mark looks like a pissed-off Gandalf! ROFL!!!!
So Laura Dern… Luke’s wife? Rey’s mother? Or villain?
Kylo Rens anger management councilor?
Paleobotanist.
obviously Laura Dern is Darth Plagueis
LOL!! I spit up coffee on my laptop! Thanks a lot!
np, u can always send the repair bill to team JJ
SLOW CLAP – well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Rey must’ve been standing there holding that saber for a long time. It was cloudy when she got there, sunny when she finally hands it over.
I’m totally confused by that as well… it’s possible the clouds may have moved… it was a sunny day when the falcon was flying to skellig
It’s also possible that it’s not in the film at all… just a publicity shot?
I could be interpreted as one of those partly sunny days with gray clouds overhead. The kind where the Sun pops in and out.
That was filmed in September on a different day as the last shot you saw in the film.
Yeah, I know. I was being sarcastic.
ehm ok, GOOSEBUMPS from 2 seconds….
Just when I thought I was out THEY PULL ME BACK IN….. THE HYPE IS BAACCK
This movie had better take place at least a few years after ep7 if they are to stay true to what’s come before. All rumours have suggested it takes place fairly soon after TFA which shouldn’t be the case IMO.
I have debated extensively about this, fully supporting this opinion but very few actually listen to me. Yes, WE HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN as an audience from watching our main protagonist being trained for more than 2 hours. Best to have Rey as a novice Jedi from the start and do flashbacks from her training with Luke. That way you build hype and mystery while at the same time telling the story.
Give me something new they said. The Force Awakes is a retread they said.
This looks like it literally picks up exactly where TFA ended
I’m assuming he shot that scene for JJ, or we were never suppose to see Luke in Episode VII. It does kinda feel tagged onto VII, so maybe the felt there would be an uproar with no Luke at all.
Let Rian to his thing, man. If the movie ends up great, a time jump probably won’t matter.
First look at Rogue One black trooper?
No. That’s a photoshop of a Hot Toys EU Shadowtrooper.
You’re not wrong.
Here’s the actual TOY…
Debunked!!! Gracias Pinche Memo
Yehaaa! Let’s go babies!!!
http://cdn.themetapicture.com/media/funny-gif-Hugh-Jackman-The-Fountain.gif
Laura Dern? NOOOOOOOOOO! Jurassic Park meets Star Wars đ
http://resumes.breakdownexpress.com/524309-2927031
This CV claims Kelly is playing a lead đ
so this cast reveal confirms no Harrison Ford or Max Von Sydow in flashbacks ?
Yep. KK was just trying not to spoil the movie.
Or, again, there was a rewrite, or KK’s quote was simply misunderstood.
She was at the movie’s European premiere, talking to a crowd of fans. She said that the entire cast was returning (so as to not spoil the deaths of Han and Lor San Tekka). Not everything is a rewrite/conspiracy theory. Rumors and speculation are not confirmed facts.
Does this mean Luke will be on the poster?!
Finally the insane theories about Han coming back will end
Oh, I am sure people will continue to talk about this until Ep. 8 comes out. They will say he is not listed in the official cast as a way to keep his appearance a surprise. I am sure Ford will be spotted in London at some point during Ep. 8’s filming and that will feed the fire.
You’re probably right that people will talk about it, but I really hope there are no flashbacks with him.
It’s the one and only scene of Luke in Episode VIII and they already spoilered it đ
And i feel no sorries for them if they haven’t seen it by now.
It was a joke, learn roman numerals.
I think he meant Episode 8… but just for the record, what about Star Wars fans who have been in a coma, and only just came out today? Would you feel even a bit sorry for them if someone spoiled the movie for them? đ
Even the person that was in a coma, if big SW fan could not expect people not to talk about the movie online after it’s been out over a month. If I was a coma victim I could not expect that out of people.
A Jurassic Park Star Wars cross over. Just the best!
That’s why they brought on Trevorrow for Episode IX: The Velociraptor Wars. Laura Dern is reprising her role as Dr. Ellie Sattler. đ Tagline: “The Force finds a way…”
Does that mean we’re about to hear a bunch of Ahch-to = Isla Nublar fan theories? I don’t think I’ve fully recovered from the Jakooine madness.
DAMMIT – you beat me to it! I was going to go with something more along the lines of “Life creates it, makes it grow…and finds a way”
“There is no chaos…there is harmony…now that’s…that’s the chaos theory…”
– Jedi Master Malcolm
Based on the cast list, it looks like there was indeed a major rewrite. Is Finn’s alleged love interest gone ?
Too much speculation to assume there was a major rewrite.
All the actresses who were supposedly on the run for Finn’s love interest part are out of the final cast list. Unless Kelly Marie Tran got that part, which I doubt, the only possible conclusion is that the part was scrapped from the script, which imples a major rewrite as rumored.
Those were all rumors. We won’t ever really know if the rewrites were major or not. Nothing was confirmed.
All rumors. Plus, Rey was heavily suggested as Finn’s love interest in TFA if that’s something the writers want to explore further.
Losing a love interest on its own doesn’t necessarily imply a huge rewrite actually. The character could easily have just been a bit of side business for Finn.
maybe he looks older woman ?
I love it, but they didnt reveal anything about the movie coming out this year but they do it with the movie that will come out later. Wow.
It is still the bigger film.
Laura Dern is/was Luke’s love interest.
Maybe Rey’s mother ?
My body is ready.
So is mine TUD, so is mine.
I’m just stoked about Lupita being back – Maz was one if the stand out characters in TFA for me.
Will Maz be Finn’s mentor ? It’s hard to see what role she can play in Episode VIII.
She’ll be brought back specifically to NOT answer how she ended up with Luke’s sabre.
“eet is a fahsinating stoohrie….which I’m not going to tell you.”
What a shtory Mark.
As cool of a story as I’m sure that is, why does everyone want to know how Maz got the saber? It’s not important, is it?
It’s only important because it’s so insanely, mind-bogglingly improbable that the thing would have survived the fall form the gantry, and even MORE imporbable that anyone would have found it, and EVEN MORE imporbable that it somehow made its way from that person to Maz that they really need to show their work on that one.
Then give it to us in a short story. Like I’m not trying to say that it bothering you is stupid, I just don’t see how it’s a glaring problem. I see WHY, I just don’t see HOW. It just really doesn’t bother me.
It’s “imporbable”, apparently. REPEATEDLY “imporbable”. FACE….PALM.
It simply can’t be porbed. Makes sense.
But will there be Asians in this movie? THIS IS IMPORTANT DAMMIT!!!!!
Yeah, I can’t believe JJ dignified that question with a response. How ridiculous.
Not only dignified it, practically fell over himself PROMISING that there would be sufficient Asian representation in the film. Just fuck me…
No, JJ was almost mocking them if you watch that panel. Listen to how he responds “First of all, GO ASIANS!!!” Hahahaa
He seemed sort of bored with that question, like why would you even ask that question??
Ugly fat asian girl? Hell no!
I didn’t know racism was still a thing.
That’s not racist. It’s dumb and ignorant, but it’s not racist.
Well it is, he specifically mentions she’s Asian … as if it would have been ok/better if she would have been anything other than Asian
Saying “Asian” doesn’t make anything racist and more than saying “woman” makes something sexist. STILL not racism.
@Cavin West Oh shut the hell up idiot. I can tell by that ignorant statement alone that you don’t know sh## about life.
Laura Dern in Star Wars? Awesome!
Oh, I DO hope she makes a squinty-puckery face in the movie. Fingers crossed!
I can’t tell is these are just unused angles from 7 or if this is actually new stuff. Rian and crew are clearly on Skellig Michael but I wonder if this is just a ruse to make us think 8 starts directly after 7.
They’re new stuff. I made a pretty silly image but the point is that they were shot at different times. I believe the footage in the teaser was shot last september when the weather was still good.
So one film later and Rey is still trying to poke Luke with the sabre? “Come on, take it!” “Nah, I’m good” “TAKE IT!” “I don’t WANT the sabre!” “Come on, pleeeeease?” “Oh, okay, I’ll take….PSYCH! NOT TAKING IT!” “JUST TAKE THE DAMN SABRE!” “#nottakingthesabre” poke-poke-poke.
*saber*
Boom.
Not the way countries that, you know, ACTUALLY speak English spell it it isn’t.
I’m talking specifically about lightsabers, a word which only has ONE spelling. Boom.
Okay, let’s get pedantic – if I’d said ” ‘sabre”, contracting and omitting the “light”, I’d concede on this one. Since Lucas couldn’t keep it (or wookie for that matter) straight, and since on Canadian packaging from the ’70s, when I started getting SW toys, it appeared both ways, and it’s how it’s spelled here? Boom – doubling down, brah! We can all at least agree that bit of business went on too damn long in TFA as it is, and continuing it over to the start of the next film is profoundly silly, which was the point. And now back to ripping that idiot above a new one…
Lol yes.
“Lightsaber” may be the trademark spelling, but it is perfectly correct to write “sabre” (or “fibre”, “centre”, “metre”, etc,) not only in the UK, but I guess almost everywhere else in the English-speaking world (Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc.)
Canada….
I come from the UK where it’s “Sabre” HOWEVER “Lightsaber” is a registered trademark and thus should be spelt like that.
See, you know what’s up.
BTW, Americans write “spelled” rather than “spelt”.
Actually Americans use both spelled and spelt. It’s just one’s preference.
Being an American myself, I find that anyone who says “spelt” becomes an instant laughing stock. It’s “spelled” over here.
Really? I guess you have to be in a part of the country which does not use it. Which part is that exactly?
I move around a lot, but mainly the south. But no matter what people SAY, it’s still considered grammatically incorrect here in ‘Murrika to say “spelt”.
Well I hail from AZ and in my 6 decades I’ve always used Spelt instead of Spelled so I don’t think this matters.
Spelt is past tense of Spell…Spelled is a magical incantation.
Maybe in Britainland, but in ‘Murrika not so much.
Canadian spelling is a mix of American and British usage. For example, Canadians write “centre” , “labour” and “offence” like the Brits, but “organize” and “spelled” like the Americans.
You’re probably right, this also could still be different angles from 7 just shot on a different day
Pinned! Too funny!
If we learned something from all TFA trailers is nothing is what it seems đ and lots of images from trailers were cut. I think they will play with us again.
But you have a point here!! haha đ Could be a very different scene or a discarted one from TFA in a different angle. The difference is obvious. Even the palette of colours.
I just hope that kelly marie tran girl is not the jar jar of this film, she isn’t that easy on the eyes either but we shall see
Wow, yeah, so I guess there’s a place you actually went.
You must be fun at parties.
What, you mean because he’s a fucking clown? Listen, bud, nobody…NOBODY likes clowns.
You catch on quick.
THOSE ONES CONTROL THE PITCH!
I dont think he catched on, he just made an assumption. it is not good to jump to conclusion hence the reason why I said we shall see
yeh I haven’t heard that on the internet before, classic yet typical attack on character
You know, as opposed to calling into question the potential contribution of an actress because you personally wouldn’t put your dick in her.
bruh, I never mentioned my dick
You are like, particularly slow, aren’t you?
I mainly oppose cos I’m worried if she can act, college humour is not the best for acting calibre and there is nothing wrong with spotting that out
In all fairness, that’s not what you pointed out originally. You said that she might be the next Jar Jar and then talked about how she was ugly. Forgive us for not seeing the validity in that.
I said she might be the next jar jar cos she seemed annoying in those ads just like jar jar, and I did mention how she is not really attractive
I don’t think you understand the problem with Jar Jar very well. Jar Jar operates on a completely different level of annoying. Even you don’t operate on that level.
yeh I guess but I don’t want a annoyingly humourous character like that again and I’m just hoping she can bring range
No, you’re worried about how you dick feels about a fat chick. Let’s be real here.
that is what you want me to say but honestly I dont care about if she is fat, I’m more worried if she can act. I’m not gonna lie I like good looking women but that is not what I see movies in cinema for
I realise how you like to try and attack character too, that is good on you but I don’t really care
Says the person who just insulted an actress’s appearance.
I didn’t insult nothing, I said she is not that easy on the eyes that is not an insult
You saying that someone does not look good is an insult. If I tell you that you are ugly, I am insulting you. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
For some it is I guess.
Why oh why couldn’t Laura Dern be in Jurassic World?
No need for another old fossil
badum tss
what a tease on my balls
SPOILER: Benicio Del Toro and Laura Dern are Ezra and Sabine… or Darth Plaguies, it can go either way…
How about they just become brand new, unique characters? I like that better.
Dude, do you even have a life? You post on this site all the damn time. I guess you must not have many friends nor a social life, much less a meaningful job, if you have all this free time to post on this site.
-_-
Or maybe.. he’s a bigger Star Wars fan than you! Wow! What a concept!
I’m talking about his frequency of posting on here, not his fan level. It’s like the dude has to get a word in all the time like a narcissist thinking that he’s all that and everyone wants to hear him out.
Correlation does not mean causation bruh!
Well, let’s look at your life. 49 posts on a private account with a measly 39 upvotes.. most likely all from yourself. So when do you leave mom’s basement??
*hands John some ice to apply to that burn*
Losers defending losers I guess.
And yeah, I have a low post count because I actually have a vibrant and social life compared to many who post here all the time that seem to not have anything else better to do.
Like I told the other guy, I’m done wasting time with no-life plebes/cretins/peasants that continue to roam this site (which from the looks of things, sounds like you’re one as well).
Have a nice life
No, you have a low post count because it’s just one of your many troll accounts you use. Period. Have fun in the basement.
Dude, just stop. He called us “losers”. There’s no way we could ever hope to recover from such a sick roasting *sarcasm*
I smell something in the air all of a sudden. I think it’s…salt.
And here you go again thinking you’re clever with your comeback quips. Keep trying to cover your sad and pathetic life with your “ways with words”; your comebacks are surely defeating me and making me feel bad.
Dude, chill. I don’t have to prove anything to you. You don’t know anything about my life, and don’t think for a second that you do. Take a chill pill. Just be careful not to OD.
Uh huh, whatever.
I’m done here wasting time with a plebe/cretin/peasant such as yourself.
Good luck in life because from the looks of thinks, you’re going to need a whole lot of it.
I have no words, lol. Melodramatic doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
You ever heard a joke?
geez man get a sense of humour
Don’t even.
no I will, get the log out bro
I will start banning people if the pointless quarrels continue. This is directed to all of the people that replied to this post, which I already deleted. There’s a new SW movie filming right now and you guys argue for pointless things. Final warning.
Thanks dude! It’s the first time I comment here and all this quarrels begin! I love your site BTW đ
You just wanna suck the joy out of everything.
Laura Dern for Rey´s mother/Luke waifu.
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/15/who-is-kelly-marie-tran-star-wars
Thanks for the info as always, WB! đ
i bet these star wars folk are reaaaaaally good in bed.. what a tease.
L. Dern = Mara Jade
http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3029490/laura-dern-golden-globes-2014-red-carpet-01/
I just hope she Will be Lukes wife. No need for Jade
If they pick the lady that looks like Jade (hair and such) and don’t call her Mara Jade, they’re trying too hard.
Call me an EU traitor but I don’t actually want luke to have had kids. I want him to be celibate and so Rey will act as the daughter he never had.
TRAITOR!
*waves Z4 baton*
if they did Cast Mara Jade that would be Jessica Chastain
YESS!! This will be the best one. Jedi master Luke is gonna be epic! VIII!!
Get HYPED!
episode 8 rumor dump http://fakingstarwars.net/2015/08/18/rumor-darth-vader-was-a-knight-of-ren/
That anti-smoking commercial… ouch, how’s that convincing anyone not to smoke? Laura Dern is a great addition, will she be Mara Jade?
I was constantly waiting for Ackbar to show up and I remain disappointed. đ
WAIT!! Didn’t we supposed to get some Rogue One footage FIRST?? XD
It’s little awkward that the same scene is filmed twice, though I have confidence in Rian’s direction.
Well, recalling Looper, the same scene did get filmed to show different perspective. I did note the camera angles seem to convey that this is Luke’s perspective on meeting Rey. Now IIRC the camera shots in Looper stayed the same, but this could just be a case of the director improving on his craft.
Passing the lightsaber baton to Rian.
Rian also tweeted the first word in the script and it’s A
SPOILER ALERT!!!
First word on Episode VIII’s title maybe ?
Nope, think,what are the first words we see in front of every Star Wars movie?
He probably means “A” long time ago…
Laura Dern won’t be Luke’s wife. She may be related to Rey, but I bet she’ll be a politician who survived the First Order’s attack on the Republic’s new capital, joining forces with Leia and the Resistance, or something along those lines.
If Luke had a wife, Leia would’ve never said “Luke’s a Jedi. You’re his
father” when Han said that not even Luke could talk sense into Ben Solo.
Leia would’ve said something entirely different, because Luke would
have also been a family man at some point, and not just “a Jedi”.
At this point I’m waiting for plot leaks to even start to peg where she fits into this. Everything is in the air at this point. That said, I like the hire.
Yeah, Laura Dern’s a fine actress. She should be a great addition to the GFFA. I’m very interested to know what role she will be playing in VIII (and IX, maybe) too. I just find it odd that Han or Leia didn’t mention anything about Luke having a wife at some point, when they had their heart-2-heart at the Resistance base.
This isn’t to say that Rey couldn’t be Luke’s daughter (and Laura Dern’s character her mother). I just don’t think Luke was married. This information would be too important for his sister and brother in law to skip it all together when speaking alone about sensitive Skywalker family issues, IMO.
I think it’s intentional. ‘Wifey’ may be an ‘option play’ in this trilogy for Rian to explore at his choosing. It gives Rian more creative leeway than having him bound to how Abrams wants the story told. When you think about it most of the major characters are left in positions where they can be ‘retooled’ to Rian’s liking. Leia and Poe are really the only two that are locked in, so to speak. No wonder why ST EC is focusing on them heavily.
Wifey or not, though, Luke is still Ben’s Uncle, and this is not referenced either IIRC.
I don’t remember hearing mention of Luke’s relation to Kylo on TFA, either. But there’s obviously no need to spell this out to the audience, since we all know that Luke & Leia are twin siblings. Why, we even watched their birth in RotS, lol. The second we learn that Ben is Leia’s son is the moment we learn that he’s Luke’s nephew.
This is completely different to Luke having a wife at some point, because this is something that nobody knows. This omission could be intentional, yes, but you don’t leave out something as important as this only to make it vague to the audience so it can be saved as a big reveal later on in the story.
That would make for a terrible narrative, b/c a story’s only as good as
its characters, and people always speak about these things when they get together. Human nature is human nature even in a galaxy far, far away.
What if Laura Dern is only in a flashback scene, and plays Duchess Satine? She certainly looks the part.
Can’t comment on this, b/c IDK who Duchess Satine is. I don’t follow the EU (or w/e the stuff outside the films is called these days). All I can say is, if you’re right, a detailed explanation will be required for the general audience. Most moviegoers will also be in the dark w/regards to this character and why she would be important to the story going forward, believe me.
She’s a Mandalorian queen and former love interest of Obi-Wan in TCW.
Thanks for the info. Now I get the need for flashback(s) if Dern’s playing this character. So basically this would mean that Obi-Wan knocked her up and Rey could be their grandchild. Yeah, like I said, this would require a rather large info dump on the general audience, and that may not work well in flashbacks, IMO.
I agree. It would be kind of clunky if executed the wrong way.
”We must face them! Fight them!” Probably his lines early in the movie đ
It is a reference to Maz’s line on TFA.
Oh yea she did say that
So it looks like they are picking up filming where Episode 7 left off. This leads me to believe that Episode 7 8 & 9 are going to be one continuous, seamless story. Much like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I like this idea, rather than having several months or even a year between each episode!!! I can’t wait!!
I’ve read a rumour that it will begin like that, but the story will eventually time jump by Finn waking up from a coma.
Knowing Rian, I’d buy that rumor.
I’ve also watched MIKE ZEROH’s ,,plot leak” on youtube and its the very same there (coincidence?). So far that ,,leak” seems to be on the spot.
I haven’t. Got a link?
Its probably fake, but it begins by continuing TFA where it ended. This video most likely confirms this. Ofc it can a flashback aswell though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njkh5T9yu3g
It is obviously fake, as there is no way Snoke will kill Hux in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Besides, the dialogue on the video is pretty poor. No professional screenwriter would do such a poor job.
Hmm.. Interesting stuff. I haven’t heard of this guy before with the leaks from TFA..
The only ‘issue’ I have with it is that Poe does not pop up until Finn awakens in the script.. for a mandate to get more of the new guys in the film the first scene with Leia could have included at least some interaction with Poe. This may be from the script prior to the rewrites.
Yes, this is 100% fake.
So, that’s 4:43 of my life I can’t get back. Lol.
Dont worry, we wasted a lot more time on this website.
Out of all the “leaks” this one was the most interesting.
Cant find this plot leak on his channel. The other couple of plot leaks supposedly online are now gone now too. Makes me wonder if there wasnt something to them.
In the novelization, Finn is actually said to be in a “medically induced comma” while he recovers from his injuries. He won’t wake up on his own then.
Oh, this is in the novelization? Than its pretty much confirmed! The movie will probably being where TFA left, then time jump by waking up Finn months later.
Nah, Rey and Kylo need some training time to amp things up.
Has anyone else noticed they didn’t mention Kenny Baker or Peter Mayhew
IIRC TFA was their last ride. Kinda symbolic to have them there at the final landing site in the movie IMHO.
Chewie will now be played by Joonas Suotamo, and R2 is gonna be played by a different little actor whose name I forgot.
Warwick Davis?? Just wondering why they need anyone inside R2 nowadays. If they want Kenny Baker inside build him a VR version of R2 and have him operate R2 remotely
No, not Warwick. I’m not sure why they don’t stick with Kenny though, the new actor is about the same age.
Jimmy Vee I think is the fellow.
Correct.
Joonas is Mayhew’s stand-in he’s not taking over the role.
He was his stand-in in TFA, but if the new cast list is any indication, he’s going to be playing the role full time now.
The only shot i fully recognized Mayhew was when he looks at Rey in the MF cockpit, at the end.
They should keep using Peter for closeups. They should try to keep Chewy as original as possible, as long as possible.
That’s funny considering the only part of him that isn’t completely covered is his eyes.
Yes exactly, and that shot shows his eyes pretty well.
Is it a coincidence that Dr. Sattler found Mace Windu’s arm on an island that looks suspiciously like Ahch-to? I think not!
Hahaha…all I keep reading is “Ah-choo”.
Gesundheit!
Hold on to your butts…
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that’s Laura’s ‘O’ face
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I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY, I CAN’T HELP MYSELF!!!!!
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now i can’t un-see that, thanks. đ
If this is only the end of Day 1, then the return visit to Skellig Michael last year must have been for TFA reshoots. There needs to be some time passed between TFA and Episode VIII, otherwise the opening crawl will become redundant.
Opening crawl.. good point.
The October shooting on Skellig was for 8. It’s because Skellig has rules about shooting during bird nesting seasons or something like that, which wouldn’t have worked during this time frame. It’s the reason Rian Johnson was there and not Abrams.
Was it confirmed Johnson was actually there? Then wouldn’t that have been Day 1 of shooting? I’m not convinced.
He’s there in in the video on the island. That was the October shoot.
Today is day 1 of shooting at Pinewood.
Agreed on the crawl. But it could be months that passed by in-universe. Many things can happen in say 6 months for the crawl to work as the prologue it’s supposed to be. It doesn’t have to be years.
They only shot one scene! How many “reshoots” could they possibly have required?! What, Mark accidentally kept saying “Treadmill – with the great taste of fish!” instead of…nothing? How badly could they have screwed up a a scene with no dialogue or appreciable action?
It can take weeks to nail one scene, especially with all the constraints of shooting on location.
The crawl would technically have stuff that takes place before the end of 7. It could have been a long journey from the resistance base to luke’s planet, so the crawl could cover what Snoke/the baddies are up to and Poe/Leia/Finn at the resistance base, or leaving it and going on a mission, or whatever.
Can’t see it working. Every other SW movie takes places some time after its predecessor.
Loving everyone’s humor about this. Nice laid back feel. I know some pressure is off now that TFA has been well received but man I feel for Rian. You know he’s probably more than just a little nervous. Or he’s just one of those chill dudes where nothing fazes him.
I feel like their still spitting in our faces. All you did was remind me how much you piffed Ep. 7.
“They are” not their.
You forgot the comma after “‘They are'”. “‘They are'” and “not their” are separate clauses and should be divided as such. Honestly….
I know, right? Some people….
That’s not how you spell pilfered
“You” being who exactly? Hopefully, Johnson will make a point of being the polar opposite of J.J.; like “ok, no dialogue for luke eh? Well in MY movie, he gets the VERY. FIRST. LINE.! That’s how I roll!!”
Luke’s already become the face of VIII at this point, thanks to this mini-micro teaser. I think that makes it clear that he’ll have a MUCH more prominent role right off the bat.
Katy Kartwheel better be in this or me and Rian will be having words
previously, on star wars…
“Tonight, on a very special Star Wars…”
I wonder if it’s a flashback, forward, or sideways.
I want Jessica Chastain or Bryce Dallas Howard on Star Wars, i guess i can hope for episode 9, please make it happen, i would settle for Elizabeth Olsen tough
emily blunt would be my dream casting. đ
Ugh, none of them. Maybe Olsen, but the other two annoy me to no end.
you sir have terrible taste
Jessica Chastain please. Bryce was sorta okay in the Village but Chastain is on another league. I mean, she killed Bin Laden, they GOT to put her in the movie.
But she wasn’t that good in Crimson Peak imo. When she’s good, she’s really good, but I don’t think she’s consistent.
Jessica Chastain as Poe’s totally badass love interest!!!
The future couple of Episode 8.
You accidentally replaced that picture of Poe with some Asian lady.
That is Poe… after the surgery
I’d still buy it.
Yes please, some gay romance in Ep. VIII.
They can surrogate Rey uterus!
YES! Rey can be the surrogate mother! This is definitely going in my fan fiction…
They are filming the end of the movie.
This movie is about a time loop, a circle story, so it ends when it begins, the paternity of Rey will not be solved, and nothing happening in this film will matter for future films, so Ep. IX will start where Ep. VII finished…
XD
I…approve of this.
And in the end young Luke will put a light sabre through his chest to stop old Luke from killing the boy who would become Kylo Ren
Laura must be clearly Raphisa Kenobi, it is not necessary to tell wich family she belongs and also all can imagine who is her daughter.
On the footage:
1) The shoots in October might have covered reshoots as well as new footage.
2) The footage of Luke and Rey might be footage from the original shots taken for Episode VII not revealed before just to trip us up a little bit.
3) They might have faked shooting end footage from VII just to mess with us.
I’m still waiting for Luke to turn and ask; “What did I miss?”
Laura is Rey theory:
Yoda and Obi Wan have developed time traveling using the force, Luke is going to teach that to Rey.
After meeting Luke, Rey notice she is pregnant, clearly when she was unconsciuos in Starkiller Base Kylo Ren took adventage over her.
But before that, using the time force she goes to the point of some weeks before her birth, and then in that timeline she give birth a girl.
YES, Rey is her own mother.
Rey is Kylo Ren daughter also, from him comes her name Kira Rey.
Obviously growing up her child she starts to realize that her childhood memories coincide with her daughter life.
Totally scared she abandoned herself in some random planet to some random guy.
Episode VII happens, and then Rey again meets Luke, and with him is older Rey (Laura Dern), also her mom, herself around 20 years older.
Definately an cool theory! I think, however, that rape and time travel are two things Disney will shy away from in star wars universe.
Yes, I am agree, it doesnt seem to sell many toys.
Yeah, at the toy store all the rape toys are clogging the shelves
Hey, Target’s already selling those Storm Trooper dildos.
http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/star-wars-sex-toys-dildos(1)__oPt.jpg
Well, this guy murdered his father, kidnaped a girl and destroyed a solar system killing millions, all in the same one day, and they are selling millions of him.
I really hope that isn’t the case. Cause wow, that just no. I can’t even find the words to describe my feelings on that other than “no” and “unlikely”.
No offense.
Me too, it reminds so much to LOOPER!
I hope not too. It’s disney. They have to consider the little kids watching.
So kids can see a guy killing his father, destroying planets with millions of people in them, kidnapping a girl, torturing a pilot…
But they cannot see a woman having a baby?
So Rey was impregnated by the Force? I guess that’s why they call it the FORCE.
Rape jokes, I love ’em!
Well, he destroyed an entire solar system and killed his father the same day… even he had time to get angry when Rey scaped…
rey is not space jesus. (jesus, i’m sorry you had to be in this comment). đ
Anakin was!
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So should he resurrect in Ep.VIII?
So you’ve seen Predestination.
But no. Infinite times no. Time travel needs to stay as far from star wars as possible.
And btw why would Rey use time travel just to give birth in the past? Makes no sense…
I was just playing with the argument of Looper, it is not really a serious theory.
I don´t think Laura Dern is Rey in the future. Very different nose! Almost impossible to conciliate that, like in Looper.
In Star Wars we see solars systems exploding in real time, all we know that is impossible, solar systems are separated by Light Years in the best case, so the Light of the explosion would travel for years… the comunications are instantaneous no matter where you are… they move almost instantly to anywhere in their galaxy, no matter the distance… but you say no to time travel… well all that I have described is already time travel but in one direction, forward.
But I am agree, I cannot see time travel to the past in Star Wars.
i think thats the plot from red dwarf….. lister is his own dad….
Well, I was playing with that but genetically is not possible, only if we ignore Kylo Ren genes.
No, its not. The very first star wars movie stated that there is faster travel than lightspeed in star wars. The Millienium Falcon flies 1.5 times the speed of light, remember?
Anyways it was never intended to be an educational movie in physics.
Traveling faster than light is time travel, if it would be possible.
Yes, you are right we know it from the begining.
But we never had watched solar systems exploding in real time from a distant planet, as you are talking about light speed, that clearly is not possible. Think about it, that´s time traveling too.
And YES, we know Star Wars don´t follow many Physics as we know them, it is another galaxy, could be another universe, all is allowed.
So YES, We (me) accept it, and I like the movies.
We were talking about time traveling. Not me critizising anything in Star Wars.
I know that hypothesis. But in our universe travelling faster than light is not possible (only massless particles travel with the speed of light). So we dont really know what would happen if you’d travel faster than light. BUT! Even if you’d travel FTL, it would’t be anything like you’ve written in your example. It wouldn’t be a ,,Back to the future” kind of time-travel rather a relative kind of time-travel.
So either the SW universe has different rules of physics, or Han was just wrong and they use other method of FTL traveling (some kind of warp-drive machine, as in TFA they entered into some kind of wormhole when they jumped to lightspeed).
So it wasnt really time-travel, but simply ,,artisticly” ignoring the newtonian laws, as Finn and Han on Takodana was able to see something hundreds of lys far away from them in real time, as even if the impact was at the same time for some reason it would take them hundreds of years to notice it from Takodana.
You would be traveling faster than your electrons in your atoms. But forgetting that, you really would see the Big Ben going backward. So you were time traveling to the past or getting younger, pick one!
The shortcuts worm holes theory is better, it is not that you are going faster than light but you are doing a much shorter distance.
Would take to travel to Starkiller Base hundreds of years at 1.5 light speed too, but we just believe in it… like it was going from Salt Lake City to San Francisco by plane.
Wait. Wait, Laura Dern is in this?? How did I miss that? I literally just now caught that. Yeah, she’s Rey’s mom… and yes, she will probably be killed in the 1st act.
I vote for she being a Kenobi.
In the first 5 minutes – this IS a Disney joint after all.
good thing Star Wars has no beginning credits, then she would die during them. Star Wars has a straight-opening, so she’s guaranteed a little bit of time.
some word on why Laura Dern was cast in the film. no she isn’t Rey’s mom.
http://fakingstarwars.net/2016/02/16/laura-dern-cast-in-episode-viii-for-her-special-abilities/
So they’re casting the Asian girl to be the comic relief? Oh, that is progressive Disney, in episode 9 we get an Indian person servicing R2…
We don’t know that for sure. She could be playing a dramatic role, regardless of her previous work. It’s not wise to assume things when it comes to Star Wars casting.
@Gerardo Perez Fonseca
I’m with you that an Indian person servicing R2 would be disrespectful.
However…
I would think Asian people have as much right to be comic relief as every other human being… No? Now if an Asian girl was comic relief BECAUSE she’s Asian – in a way the Asian culture is disrespectfully and stereotypically represented – I would have a problem with it. But it would make no sense if Asian or black people could only be heroes.
IMHO this is being too sensitive… That’s like saying a woman could not be a villain or a weak character because that way they are not represented in an empowered fashion.
Having only women being weak characters would be a terrible idea, but that doesn’t mean none of them can. There are all kinds of women (good, bad, weak, funny, villainous) in the world, just as there are all kinds of Asian people. Some of them might actually be funny, so… serve as comic relief.
I thought Finn was quite funny and did serve quite a lot as comic relief, but I didn’t get any sense of not being progressive because of that…
The ideal would be to have every race and culture to be equally distributed over all kinds of roles in the movie business.
I respect your good intentions but becoming too sensitive about this kind of thing can make things worse.
Getting rid of stereotyping, racism is a paradox: the more you differentiate people based on ethnicity, skin colour, … even with good intentions, the more you drift away from true equality (witch would be that no notices these differences or see it as an important issue).
The Simpsons is all about negative stereotypes, see Apu or anyone else, and it has more than 30 seasons…
But you are right, sense of humour can lead to misunderstandings sometimes.