Several New Star Wars: Episode 7 Rumors.

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The rumors come from Latino Review’s latest article on Star Wars. Although they’re just rumors they have some very spoilerific content, so be warned…


From Latino Review:

Since we won’t be getting any help from JJ Abrams and the official team until stuff like TMZ photo leaks forces them into it, I think it’s safe to say that I’m 75% sure I know how Star Wars: Episode VII ends. But I’d be a fool to tell anyone that or put it in a column, because that’s something you should get to choose about when it’s revealed to you. I have no doubt we’ll start talking about it sometime, but we have a long time until next December’s release.
So what can we talk about in terms of what we know about Star Wars: Episode VII?
Here are some fun bullet points that have solidified enough through different channels to be reportable:

  • There will be a female villain. Over 50% sure she’s a Sith. I’ll follow up on this in later weeks.
  • Despite having 30 Years after Jedi to set one up, there is NO New Republic at the start of Episode VII.
  • Boba-Fett-similar armor is around. Probably not for the man himself. Mandalorians? Clone drama? Still unclear on a plot/character connection.
  • John Boyega isn’t a Jedi or a Padawan at the beginning of the movie, he’s the one that has the story arc that brings him into Star Wars’ greater universe. It has echoes of Luke’s arc in A New Hope.

As always take this with the proper dosage of salt.


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121 thoughts on “Several New Star Wars: Episode 7 Rumors.

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:03 pm
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    FIRST!

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:20 pm
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      …To be fed to the Sarlaac. :>

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm
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      …To be transferred to Alderaan. ;>

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:43 pm
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      ….To be frozen in Carbonite

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:51 pm
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      …..To be throwen down the pit by Darth Vader

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:51 pm
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      …..To be force choked by Darth Vader

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:13 pm
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      ….To get pussy because you Star Wars nerds are busy playing with your toy figurines.

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:15 pm
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      Anon 11:13 PM is a Spock-knocker. Move along.

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:53 pm
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      Anon @11:13 PM be transferred to Vulcan!

    • June 7, 2014 at 4:12 am
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      …..To be eating pancakes

    • June 7, 2014 at 8:54 am
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      … to bump into Jar-Jar.

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:31 am
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      …To become Jar-Jar.

      I’m so evil!

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:55 am
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      …To become sucked down into a Mario bros. pipe.

    • June 10, 2014 at 8:24 am
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      ABELOTH is there

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:05 pm
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    “I’m 75% sure I know how Star Wars: Episode VII ends. But I’d be a fool to tell anyone that or put it in a column, because that’s something you should get to choose about when it’s revealed to you.”

    Does anyone else have a hard time making sense of this sentence?

    • June 6, 2014 at 9:12 pm
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      lol ikr. But it’s Latino Review so hardly surprising

    • June 7, 2014 at 6:06 am
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      What he really meant: “I’m 75% sure that I DON’T know how Star Wars: Episode VII ends. But I’d be a fool to tell anyone that or put it in a column, because I would be FIRED from LATINO REVIEW”.

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:04 am
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      Really? I thought it made perfect sense. What he’s saying is, if he was to write the ending to the movie in a column before the release date, he would a) be sued to hell by Disney et al., and b) ruin the surprise of the story for millions of people worldwide and probably receive death threats. Plus, by simply posting the end of the movie in the middle of a random article that was not specifically entitled “WARNING: EPIC SPOILERS AHEAD – SW7 Ending Revealed!”, those that didn’t want to spoil the movie before seeing it would be really disappointed. Why was that confusing?

    • June 7, 2014 at 1:46 pm
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      “Why was that confusing?”
      What? Nothing you just explained was in that sentence. ‘because that’s something you should get to choose about when it’s revealed to you.’ is a confusing mess. It says nothing about being sued by disney or death threats or whatever else you are rambling on about. wtf?

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:07 pm
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    Female villain? Gwendoline Christie all the way!

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:17 pm
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    No way, Lupita will make an exceptional villain.

    • June 7, 2014 at 8:56 am
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      Perhaps both of them will end up playing villains, possibly different types.

    • June 7, 2014 at 4:51 pm
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      EpV11 – Star Wars: A New Villain.

    • June 7, 2014 at 5:41 pm
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      Despite my preference for her as a sympathetic gray-morality character in the end of TCW, the fan-art picture of Nyongo as Ventress is thought-provoking.

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:25 pm
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    I just want to know who everyone’s playing. There’s so many actors. I’m not even sure if there’s going to be a clear trio of characters at this rate.

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:33 pm
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    The guy said absolutely nothing. We’ve speculated more than he has . . . And as far as “no republic” . . . is he saying that there is anarchy? There is always some type of government . . .

    • June 7, 2014 at 2:06 am
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      “And as far as “no republic” . . . is he saying that there is anarchy?”

      No Republic means just that: no Republic. Doesn’t mean anarchy (which is not even what most people believe the concept to be, btw). Simply that there is no one body ruling over the entire galaxy.

      Every civilized planet/system that we’ve seen in the films so far (and even in the cartoons and EU) has had one form of government or another in place.

      They all could’ve easily chosen to stay away from a global gvmt., based on all the grief that the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War brought to the galaxy. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out, if this were the case.

    • June 7, 2014 at 1:43 pm
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      Is there cheese in the star wars universe??

    • June 7, 2014 at 6:42 pm
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      Of course. They make it from blue milk.

    • June 10, 2014 at 4:31 pm
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      blue cheese……

  • June 6, 2014 at 9:48 pm
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    Female villain = Ventress = Bounty Hunter = Mandalorian = Played by?
    Also got thinking who makes a better Ventress Lupita or Gwendoline? But also thinking that Gwendoline is Ventress and Lupita is Ventress?

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:14 pm
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      Finkle IS Einhorn

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:49 pm
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      This comment has been removed by the author.

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:51 pm
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      No. Einhorn is FINKLE!

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:07 am
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      Yeah, that’s all well and good, but don’t forget that Abrams has said that casting is still ongoing, and he’s also very secretive, so it means that a) Nyong’o or Christie could be the bad guy, b) someone else unannounced has been cast as the bad guy, c) the bad guy has still yet to be cast, or d) we’re all totally wrong and the bad guy is male. *Shrugs*

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:57 am
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      On going my butt. The cast has been done months ago, and they’re doing this bits at a time releasing info to get the hype going. Think about it!

    • June 9, 2014 at 1:09 pm
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      Gwendoline is a Mandalorian. They like the way she looks in armor in GoT.

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:12 pm
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    FACTS……PT & OT had!
    1.Mentor dies
    2.Monster or two
    3.Bounty Hunter
    4.Chase scene
    5.Bar scene
    6.???

    Ventress would be the Bounty Hunter Fact for ST.
    I don’t think we’ll have another Tattoonie bar scene but else where.
    Mentor dies? Han solo? Don’t think they’ll kill of Luke in this one.
    Monster? Who knows…Hopefully not that pig thing we’ve seen LOL.
    Chase scene no idea.

    • June 9, 2014 at 1:12 pm
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      Luke will die in Ep 8 to give that feeling of hopelessness — like when Dumbledore died.

    • June 10, 2014 at 4:36 pm
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      Thank God you’re not writing these movies…..everything would be “like” something else….HACK

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm
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    John Boyega: love child of Obi Wan and Ventress.

    You heard it here first, folks.

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:10 am
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      Well then hopefully there will be some awkward banter between the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan and Anakin over Obi-Wan giving him grief for having a relationship and attachment. I notice Obi-Wan pretty much got away scot-free over Duchess Satine in TCW…. 😛

    • June 7, 2014 at 2:50 pm
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      Keep it in your tail.

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:37 pm
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    How about the idea Han went his own way after all…giving way for Lando to move in on Leia.

    • June 6, 2014 at 10:38 pm
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      Yeah. Set up a great relationship over 3 films then take a dump on it for no reason. Genius.

    • June 6, 2014 at 11:01 pm
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      Plenty of reason, Anon. A lot can happen in 30 years. Just because two people were in love at the end of one movie doesn’t automatically mean they’ll still be together several decades later.

      Be a little more realistic. I’d love to see Han and Leia still together, but there are other possibilities, too.

    • June 7, 2014 at 5:47 pm
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      Though I doubt it, it’s sure a good reminder to check our expectations.

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:50 pm
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    You must unlearn what you’ve learned

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:56 pm
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    It is a galactic alliance like an EU NATO combo but not a republic imperial factions and lots of independent worlds.

  • June 6, 2014 at 10:59 pm
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    I too am 75% sure I know how episode 7 ends… with credits.

    • June 6, 2014 at 11:13 pm
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      Wrong it ends with music…:P

    • June 7, 2014 at 4:47 am
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      aahmm…it ends with both credits and music.

    • June 7, 2014 at 4:03 pm
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      I hope it ends properly rather than a rip-off of something pre-established. They way epiosde III just used the binary sunset thing was stupid. Come up with something memorable because it’s awesome not because it’s copied! I love the ending where Luke see’s Yoda and old-ben as ghosts then Anakin crops up. Very clever. I want to see new memorable moments. All these rumours about cantina scenes and the milenium falcon comming back. Yeah it’s fun but I’d hate a rehash

    • June 7, 2014 at 5:52 pm
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      It was a symbolic tie-in for a mythology-based story. At the end of EpIII, Luke’s leaving Obi-Wan’s care and transitioning into the Lars family. In the beginning of EpIV, he’s leaving the Lars family and joining Obi-Wan. This is a good device.

    • June 7, 2014 at 6:48 pm
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      Yes but the actual shot was a copy. It was a ripoff of the binary sunset for a cheap fangasm. I’m saying I hope episode vii doesn’t do this. George could have done something clever with the end but instead he just copied an iconic shot.

    • June 10, 2014 at 4:42 pm
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      No that’s not true….. That’s impossible!
      I will NOT see it for a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,…,…,…,…
      if there is a scene after the credits like the Marvel movies…….

  • June 6, 2014 at 11:16 pm
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    I don’t know so many people think Lupita is playing Ventress?
    What if Lupita is playing Lando’s Daughter?
    And what if Gwendoline is playing a Wookie?

  • June 6, 2014 at 11:41 pm
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    Has Latino Review ever been right about anything?

    • June 7, 2014 at 2:09 am
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      Well, at least their “rumors” make a helluva lot more sense than some speculation you get to read in these comments more often than not.

    • June 10, 2014 at 4:44 pm
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      Have you ever heard the Tragedy of Darth Plaugus? I thought not….. it’s an old sith legend…..

  • June 7, 2014 at 12:55 am
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    Fact : Every Star Wars Movie Has had a big character die except
    ep V ESB
    and ep v is considered the darkest SW movie to date.

    • June 7, 2014 at 3:58 am
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      which died in episode 2?? I was just trying to think and i couldn’t remember XD

    • June 7, 2014 at 5:28 am
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      You’re forgetting about Episode III, which concerns itself with the government turning fascist and genocide occurring on a massive scale. And that about half the cast dies, and almost all of the other half ends up being screwed over for two decades.

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:12 am
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      Then there’s the whole “slaughter of the younglings” thing…. Pretty frickin’ dark, if you ask me….

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:41 pm
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      Ep III and Ep V are close in terms of darkness? I don’t think so. Agree with Anon@6:28 & Starkiller, the “slaughter of the younglings” and “fascist gov” and “genocide” and etc for sure puts Ep III as the winner in the “Darkest SW movie” (to date) category.

      So lets take a look at some of the darker moments in Ep III:

      -mother dies giving birth to twins (just sad sad sad and dark), are kids watching this movie to think this is what happens when twins are born! I mean wow!
      -many younglings are slaughtered along with the rest of the Jedi at the Temple (never thought they would actually show or even elude to this)
      -a Sith has his hands cut off and is decapitated on command
      -A pregnant woman being force choked (I mean come on)
      -a Jedi and future Sith losses multiple limbs and is flat on the ground suffering while on fire and with badly burned and charred skin (maybe the darkest moment along with the younglings slaughter), and he is still alive thats dark people!
      -A burnt man with no limbs is reassembled in a medical bay 🙁
      -Order 66, and the assassination of so many Jedi (both sad and dark)
      -and probably a few I have forgotten!

      I think Ep III wins that one going away! Its not even close. Even a fan favorite like Ep V can’t compare in the “darkness” category with the Over the Top Darkness and Death in Ep III.

    • June 8, 2014 at 3:55 pm
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      – Nute Gunray and the rest of the Trade Federation leaders are violently slaughtered by Vader.

      – Yoda decapitates two clone troopers on Kashyyyk and later throws his lightsaber into the chest of another one on Coruscant before yanking it out.

      – Palpatine makes quick work of the Jedi extras before fighting Mace. Mace later loses his hand before being violently electrocuted and thrown out the window of a tall building.

      – Bail Organa witnesses a young boy fight off several clone troopers before being violently blasted away.

      – One of Grievous’ henchmen is beheaded before Obi-Wan realizes he’s not defeated yet.

      – Obi-Wan blasts Grievous several times in his heart. It’s somewhat disturbing… burning flesh and organs.

      Ummm, yeah… they call that “Star Wars”. o_0

  • June 7, 2014 at 1:44 am
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    Lupita will not be a Sith, she’ll be a Night Sister, that’s why they are “50% sure”, because someone who doesn’t know what a Night Sister is must have told them that she is a Sith.

  • June 7, 2014 at 2:21 am
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    Its pretty fucking stupid to say that there won’t be a “New Republic” 30 years after ROTJ. Of course there will.

    My predictions:

    -The Republic and the Jedi Order has been standing strong without any sign of threats.
    -The Jedi Order has already been well developed.
    -A Sith Lord will emerge with an apprentice and a dark agenda.

    I personally hope that the rule of two will be broken and many Sith will be recruited. It would be so awesome to see a Jedi VS Sith war on film.

    • June 7, 2014 at 2:49 pm
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      That all depends on what exactly happens between VI and VII. A lot can happen in 30 years.

    • June 7, 2014 at 3:59 pm
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      I think the start of the film will start out all fine and dandy. Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order, Han being Han, Leia probably the new chancellor. Then suddenly they get some threat and it all goes to hell. Or maybe the empire is still around who knows.

    • June 8, 2014 at 5:38 pm
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      ^ I agree. I doubt the empire is still around though.

    • June 10, 2014 at 4:49 pm
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      Thank God you people aren’t writing these movies. Read the EU much?
      ahem I mean legends…..

  • June 7, 2014 at 4:30 am
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    I think Han’s character will be much more served if if he was actively engaged in something important or distressing. He doesn’t work as a character without active conflict. It makes him come alive. If he is going to have a larger role, then he is going to have to be at the center of something, right?

    If the big 3 were separated for the majority of the movie, it would give the film a grander space, imo,

    I think it would also be great if they could have the film working on one level as an introduction to the arc of the new stars, while establishing active conflict and friction at the beginning with Han and Leia (and maybe Luke, but he could e saved for later).

    Discovering new, dark elements of the force could be and exciting introduction.

  • June 7, 2014 at 5:35 am
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    I’m kind of hoping that the main antagonists of this movie AREN’T Sith. Call me crazy, but I think it would be interesting that, since the Force was balanced at the end of _Return Of The Jedi_, that some other threat could take the place of the Dark Side. Maybe said threat could have been suppressed only by the Sith, and that the Jedi are unwittingly causing it to rise once more. And maybe there could be a fragile alliance between Sith survivors and the new generation of Jedi in order to quell the threat for good – which would then lead into a Sith-Jedi war once the threat is out of the question.

    Of course, that’s probably not going to happen in the Sequel Trilogy, but it’d be cool. They could at least feature a non-Sith antagonist for one of the three/four spin-offs that they have planned.

  • June 7, 2014 at 7:23 am
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    I know the ending

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:13 am
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      Lies, all lies.

    • June 7, 2014 at 9:36 am
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      Yeah, it’ll go to black and say, “Directed by JJ Abrams,” in blue text and play the SW theme prior to rolling the credits. I’m putting my money on that.

    • June 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm
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      it’ll end with a disney logo… than a PG ratings card. the lights will come up, and hopefully i’ll be really happy.

    • June 8, 2014 at 3:44 pm
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      Hopefully, your happiness will not interfere with mine. o<|;P

  • June 7, 2014 at 7:25 am
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    Well, from the earlier script, not 100% on this new one

  • June 7, 2014 at 9:56 am
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    If there’s no republic yet it would be because there is still pockets of empire support and the alliance is struggling to pull the systems back together. This could make for a good story line! Which planets still support an empire and which don’t!?

  • June 7, 2014 at 10:51 am
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    Star Trek functions as an allegorical tool highlighting issues such as racism, homosexuality, death, AIDS, sentience etc. Star Wars Is for Republicans.

    • June 7, 2014 at 1:39 pm
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      No, the OT maybe, but the PT and especially the Clone Wars leaned Liberal.

    • June 7, 2014 at 3:56 pm
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      Clearly you don’t know much about star wars. A universe full of creautures and diversity, yet the empire is full of white men. They were racist, sexist, immoral bastards. They were essentially evil summed up as an organisation and it was about fighting that. If that’s not highlighting good vs evil then I don’t know what films you watched.

  • June 7, 2014 at 3:24 pm
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    Are you moving to wordpress yet?

    • June 7, 2014 at 8:14 pm
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      Unfortunately we postponed it to June 18. Our sysadmin is off next week and I don’t want to risk it without him.

    • June 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm
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      I am guessing this is because you cannot use the free webserver like you can do with Blogger good choice going to wordpress but I would advise you to build your own system using MySQLi
      Your own work -> Anything free.

  • June 7, 2014 at 4:35 pm
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    hey guys . I am in the SW 7 cast and I am telling you that most of the rumors are true .

  • June 7, 2014 at 8:35 pm
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    I’ve read a lot of comments on a lot of these daily topics and I will now represent the book readers because I have not seen anything. Oh no, red flag, the movies aren’t going to be on the books. Case closed. Let’s talk about Clone Wars characters and no New Republics and nothing to do with the books where the new characters have originated. Okay, so now that I got that out of the way let’s start with Fate of the Jedi series. I think there is a very real possibility that the new trilogy could have a tribe of Sith and even have witches in there for good measure (they do go to Dathomir in Fate of the Jedi where there’s Witches/Jedi/Sith). And why not use Vestara as a character in the movies? She’s hot, she’s a Sith, she could really represent a side of darkness that people don’t understand rather than the usual nasty man or woman as a Sith they seem to always do, and everyone is saying Episode 7 will have Tatooine from the pictures, I’m just saying in the Fate of the Jedi series there is Klatooine where they go to which is like Tatooine. 9/10 it will probably be Tatooine because of the Skywalker legacy blah blah blah boring but I’m tossing Klatooine out there to make the point there are other desert planets. I’m not saying any of this will happen I’m just saying that’s what the current story had been and that they may take some things from that, such as Coruscant was used from the Timothy Zahn trilogy. Even the Han Solo book trilogy might be adapted to a young Han Solo stand alone movie, or they’ll make that all up again too. Who knows? It’s weird. But I’ll always be a fan, even of two Star Wars realities.

  • June 7, 2014 at 9:08 pm
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    Hey Viral Hide,

    Why is there no updates for today????

  • June 7, 2014 at 9:13 pm
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    as I (and others) mentioned prior, and now in this article “Boba-Fett-similar armor is around. Probably not for the man himself. Mandalorians? Clone drama? Still unclear on a plot/character connection.” has been mentioned by LR, probably a good time to discuss this ST & The Mandalorian connection. Would be cool to see an article on starwars7news speculating re: The Mandalorians and their potential influence on the ST. 😉

    I still believe that Adam Driver will represent what is to become “The Mandalore” (or soon to be THE Top Mandalorian) in the ST.

    Mandalorians will project nicely into the ST due to many reasons, I think at this point we have enough canonical data points to project the Mandalorians into the ST and here they are (per the canon recognized OT, PT, CW & Rebels):

    1 (OT) – Boba Fett was a mandalorian and one of the most recognized characters visually of the OT (I mean lets be honest HUGE fan favorite for many reasons)
    2 (PT) – Jango Fett was THE mandalorian in the PT, and the father of Boba
    3 (Clone Wars) – Not only young Boba, but a ton of episodes and arcs re: Mandalore and its return to its ancient warrior ways, and why was it sooooo important to the staff of CW and George to return Mandalore to its warrior ways? wink wink I think we all know its a set up for the ST.
    4 (Rebels) – and of course their is another Mandalorian appearing as a Rebel insurgent who likes det cord and graffiti.

    So with all that said lets not over look Adam Driver’s military training and background as a Marine. Who better to play a Mandalorian than a actor with real life military experience. If not Adam Driver? Then who else might play the ST Mandalorian?

    So the real fun now (at least for me) is projecting out to the 5th (ST) data point and how will the Mandalorians be portrayed and how will they help shape the yet to be realized ST era galaxy. Do we really believe that the NEW ST will be the only trilogy in the Star Wars galaxy that doesn’t have a solid Mandalorian presence (even if it is just the armor itself representing Mandalore and its warrior ways)? Also, the obvious fact that the later CW seasons had a huge Mandalorian influence, and not to mention a Mandalorian (or at least someone wearing the armor) is a big part of Rebels, I think its safe to say Mandalorians will play a HUGE part in the ST.

    This to me is one of the most exciting aspects of the new ST. Can’t wait!

    • June 8, 2014 at 4:42 am
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      “Who better to play a Mandalorian than a actor with real life military experience.” Well that experience is useless when modern mandalorians use jetpacks, flamethrowers, poison darts, commando techniques and etc.

    • June 8, 2014 at 6:07 am
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      Weapons training to use fake weapons that do not exist has no factor. Anyone can hold and point a gun and pretend to shoot things, even convincingly.

    • June 8, 2014 at 11:36 am
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      We also got the Spin-Offs. If one does deal with the subject of mandalorians we don´t know how this effect on the next Episodes…If there will be any connection with actually revelance to any SE movie.

    • June 9, 2014 at 4:43 pm
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      You seem to forget that they have officially said that Adam Driver will play the new Darth Vader like character…

    • June 10, 2014 at 5:00 pm
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      Obi Wans “granddaughter” could very easily be a Mandalorian….

  • June 7, 2014 at 9:15 pm
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    no new republic means no new jedi order

    luke is living on tatooine at the beginning of 7

    • June 8, 2014 at 6:17 am
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      Depressing…

      Seems like VII is being forced to become IV, including making Luke a hermit on Tatooine. I hope this isn’t true. Don’t JJ and Disney know better than to be this blatant with appealing to nostalgia?

    • June 8, 2014 at 5:45 pm
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      I agree with Duke. I doubt they’ll do that. It’d be stupid.

  • June 8, 2014 at 9:49 am
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    I hope there is indeed no unified galactic government and that it’s every system for itself. It’s what I proposed in my own “version” of what I’d like to see in Episode VII.

    But if they do indeed run with Asaj Ventress as a character in the film, or other similar Clone Wars/EU characters, I will be able to lay aside all hope, excitement and hype for the film and know it will be garbage. In one way, that would be nice, because right now I am checking sites like this all the fricking time.

  • June 8, 2014 at 4:57 pm
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    I guess it would make sense for there to be no unified galactic government in the ST, especially when you consider the effect that the oppression of the Empire combined with the corruption of the Old Republic had on the galaxy for so long. But of course, the problem there would be exactly what we saw in Episode I, with things like slavery running rampant in the absence of a centralized galactic authority to prevent it.

    But even if there isn’t a New Republic, there could certainly be a looser set of galactic human rights standards agreed upon by at least the major systems (particularly those that formed the Rebellion.)

    And the Jedi could be wandering knights errant rather than the bureaucratic entity that they were in the PT. I always thought that for a Jedi who was genuinely in tune with the Force, he or she would just end up where they were most needed, guided there by the Force.

    That would make for some very interesting potential points of crisis, as the downside of a more loose-knit government like that would inevitably show itself. Slavers, pirates, regional warlords, tainted blue milk… tons of shit could go wrong and draw the heroes into the conflict and adventure that we need in a SW movie.

    • June 10, 2014 at 5:10 pm
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      I did something similar with my SWRPG campaign; after RotJ the “Jedi” become the “Free.” The Free travel through a decentralized independent galaxy wherever the force takes them . Leaves the games open to a lot of possibilities.
      There are alliances and trade agreements and such but for the most part each planet is self dependent if not then they depend on the Free…

  • June 8, 2014 at 5:46 pm
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    Why is nobody talking into account that Ventress would be ancient? She’d be in her 60’s, I think. I highly doubt that the film will make mention of her.

  • June 8, 2014 at 6:29 pm
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    What if the Sith were not the villan (again)? But rather work together with the “good guys” to combat an even greater threat: The Rakata? The Gree? Nightsisters? The Son?

    There’s just so many avenues they could tackle rather than just “vilainising” the Sith once more.

  • June 8, 2014 at 7:20 pm
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    I have serious problems with this idea of no new Republic. It goes too far in undermining ROTJ and the previous films. The goal of the Alliance was to restore the Republic. Have they failed because the Empire won the Civil War? That would be insane, with ROTJ making it quite clear that Imperial defeat is inevitable. Does the galaxy decide, after the Empire is defeated, decide to go for a sort of decentralized system without any central galatic government? If so, I expect a very clear explanation on why the galaxy found that a good idea now, after thousands of years of Republic rule.

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