UPDATE! Rumor: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Scenes/Characters Described – Part IV. New Concept Art Revealed.
Remember our old pal King3000 from our message board, The Cantina? We posted three articles about information he’s leaked, and recent reveals from the Vanity Fair image shoot have strongly supported what he’s brought up. Get a good look at what’s been confirmed with him, along with other new scenes and characters described, by making the jump below.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS
Firstly, before I get into the spoilers, I would like to establish that I strongly believe in King3000 as a source. Some of what he has posted so far has been proven in the last month or so, and what hasn’t been confirmed yet has some support in other rumors that have popped up since he’s made these posts. I’d like to highlight what that is before getting into discussing his latest batch of rumors.
One of the biggest details that King3000 has consistently reported is that Lupita Nyong’o is providing the voice and acting of the alien, who we now know is named Maz Kanata. Furthermore, Maz Kanata would physically be portrayed by either Lupita “standing” on her knees, or by a little person on the set, who would provide for the body language and physical action of the character in more dynamic scenes (with Lupita’s motion-captured face inserted digitally). While the part about motion-capture has been clearly confirmed, the bit about the little person is a bit uncertain, but plausible, as it is speculated that Maz Kanata is the little alien in the recent trailer that hands Leia the lightsaber.
In addition to dear old Maz Kanata, he’s talked a lot about the sequence where she is introduced. He described Finn and Rey as wearing similar attires to the ones that were shown in the recent trailer. A character he has alluded to, a man with an Original Trilogy-era Stormtrooper helmet with black paint, can be seen in the back of the “Pirates” image (more on that later). So, as you can see, he’s been right about a lot we’ve heard about so far. Now it’s time for the good stuff: what he’s talked about since February. He started off with some details about the place setting that Maz Kanata occupies:
- There are “spiral” type staircases leading upstairs and downstairs, these only have 4 to 5 steps on them and don’t actually lead anywhere (Set trickery). There is an extremely large fire pit in the centre of the set with animals on a spit and some awesome chairs made out of Xwing/Tie Fighter seats.
- Poe Dameron is definately NOT in this scene.
- Here is something interesting, I specifically asked if Maz Kanata takes the others somewhere to sit and talk, my guy said he has not seen footage of them going “downstairs” so to speak, but this was obviously done on another set if its in the move BUT and this is kinda telling, she does take them to a table in the corner of the Cantina and begins using Jedi powers to make bowls of food and fruit hover in the air around the table, these were old school “on strings” special effects. Whether this shot will be edited to make it look like they are elsewhere and the bowls replaced with “Flashback visions” floating around them I don’t know sounds cool though.
- Another cool thing which I can’t figure, on the exterior shot where the cast ere told to react to a planet being destroyed (Might be the Castle or a moon, space station who knows) with the big greenscreen. The only other standout prop in this scene is a cockpit, don’t know what its doing there, or if its from a crashed ship but its sitting out the front of the Cantina (well not sure on distance but its outside).
Furthermore, the characters revealed in the below image apparently only account for a third of the characters that appear in the “Pirates” area, where Kanata is introduced. He also added a lot more to these assortment of rogues (click the image for a closer view of these characters):
- Okay I mentioned several months ago that Hermi Odle would be making a return as a butcher in the scene. My guy got that wrong, well he mistook him for another alien. At first I thought it was the hooded creature to the left of the red guy. But its not, its actually the creature stood up behind them, this is the butcher of Maz’s establishment, he has 1 are and 1 leg longer than the other.
- The 2 Pirate type guys in the bottom left, are just that pirates/traders etc, it seems on this planet people trade in “Stones” there is alot of them being shifted around, weighed on scales etc, seems this might be there currency.
- The guy lurking behind the gold droid I “think” is the guy I mentioned a while back, the one who is all painted up in tribal patterns, we see the end of his blaster but apparently its a pretty big gun.
- To the left of the gold droid, this guy was in A New Hope and I am not 100% sure if he is playing the same character.
- The big guy in the middle, I mentioned a couple months back not much else to say about him, I only had a vague description but we can all see him now, the girl sat on him is basically his property.
- The short alien at the front wit the blue beard, i think I was told is one of the band members, along with Warwick Davis.
- Then we have our favourite black hatted stormtrooper.
- The short fat hooded alien appears to be a guy of wealth or importance because the guy to his right (red guy) acts like his bodyguard, also underneath that red helmet is make up, black covering the whole head, with a skin pattern like a “tire-tread”.
Furthermore, King3000 noticed that there is a large Medieval-Fantasy influence on this film, describing the plot in these terms:
- I mentioned a while back how what I was told about everything on set was that everything seemed to have devolved, especially on Jakku. But I see a larger re-occuring theme and wanted to see how much medievil influence we can see from the brief glimpses we have seen of this movie and whether or not it might help us understand/dissect the movie anymore.
- The crossguard/broadsword sabre.
- Castles now seem to be the way forward for both bad and good guys.
- The new slingshot/catapult weapon we have heard of.
- Captain Phasma’s gleaming suit of armor with cloak draped over shoulder.
- Is Anakins sabre the new Excalibur? Is Finn the guy who can wield it?
- Oh another one, burning the village to the ground xD
- So……… The king of the castle takes his army, lead by his silver armoured 2nd in command and burns down a village in a search of a mystical sword once wielded by a legend, little does he know a group of young warriors are in possession of the sword (insert excalibur) and are on there way to a castle to find out about the sword from a small wizard (Maz). The angry king returns to his castle, assembles his army and destroys the wizards castle with his giant catapult……………………then shit gets heavy in space, lasers, pew, pew, people die etc. Sounds epic
Also the avatar King3000 uses on our message board for many months now is absolutely identical with the character in the above photo. He also described the writing “fear” that is on the helmet months ago.
Other miscellaneous of information worth noting include the following:
- I have seen photos only a couple of the forest of dean filming, only of Stormtroopers in mid battle.
- Plus theres the Slave I chalk drawing on the wall in Rose’s Cantina which is bound to be a TFA easter egg.
- Lupita is the small alien that hands the sabre to Leia, had this confirmed for me today. On set there was reference pictures of her and the cast were also shown pictures of her character whilst doing scenes with her for reference. She is an authority figure at her cantina/castle. Her “body double” the small person is seen marching towards Han, pushing pirates and aliens out of her way. She knows Han, or of Han, she says “Han Solo, you have 20 bounties on your head” or something to this effect. She has the ability to make items levitate (Practical effects done on set, old school objects on fishing wire stuff) Also I think I read recently that she speaks with a Russian accent? or something similar. It would make sense now as whenever he lines have been paraphrased to me, there’s always been an accent implied. The “Han Solo” becomes “Harn Zulow” if you get what I am saying.
The image of what appears to be J. J. Abrams’s answer to the famous Cantina sequence from A New Hope (or, more accurately, the Jabba’s Palace sequences in Return Of The Jedi) was a highlight for me, and hearing more about the lore behind these characters is fascinating. Especially trying to find out how Maz Kanata, the Force-sensitive pirate, fits into all of it.
Thanks again to King3000 for being a conduit of interesting inside information!
UPDATE!
And now the guys from Indie Revolver revealed another concept art image from TFA, this time with Lupita’s character Maz Kanata, the one we so thoroughly discussed above. It appears that the art is an early one, since you can see in the trailer that Maz has orange skin. Or maybe it’s just the lighting.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
I am super excited for this movie. Everything I have read thus far keads me to believe that this movie will be great…..I hope
Thanks king3000 and pomojema for pylling all this info together for my enjoyment…….snoogens
The cantina creatures all dressed the same in the same color outfits, except the one in red. Not original. Too much like Aliens 3. Alien says, “Harn Zulow.” It has a Dexter feel to it(alien in diner that knew Obi-Wan in Episode 2)Possibly in Russian accent. That is too Jar Jarish, just not in Italian. This movie is starting to suck. Almost prequel like.
HUH?????
Russian accent? Lupita is Kenyan born in Mexico City. So it would be a safe bet to assume she’ll probably speak in an African accent.
This movie is going to suck! Hahahaa based on one image of pirates and a rumor with nothing being confirmed besides the character. I love how people judge so quickly.
The article stated Russian accent, or something similar. I read it, I didn’t write the article. And I also said, ” It’s starting to suck, not that it will suck.” If you’re going to bash me, read the whole article first and quote me correctly.
Same shut dude “This is starting to suck” just because you read some rumors now you know that something sucks? You are a genious..
I reckon the opening sequence to this movie is going to be grand like the the The Hope opening with a the Star Destroyer that u see crashed buried in the sand on Jakku. I reckon we will see the a opening battle sequence with the Star Destroyer being shot down crashing.
This will open up nicely to seeing the new female lead character speeding upto the Destroyer taking parts off the ship for her to sell too scum on the planet doing shady deals. If I was making the movie I would start it off with a grand opener and then mellow the storey out and let it unfold. I guessing opening sequence will involve a Star Destroyer battle.
sounds great to me!
Sounds fucking superb
MoviePilot say that their source confirms that MvS character is indeed Boba Fett. It’s all grains of salt people.
They also said that the whole “Joss Whedon is directing Episode IX” thing was made as an experience to test how clickbait spreads. That’s why we didn’t report on it – it sounded fishy. So we are taking what they say with a boulder of salt – at least unless we run it through a source and they say that they’re on the right trail.
Nonetheless, I would love it if it were true. Of course, they’d need to explain why Boba Fett went from being Maori to European…
I thought you guys already had a source lead you in that direction:
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2015/03/star-wars-the-force-awakens-plot-and-character-rumors-part-ii.html
It also partially explains the discrepancies between the Fett characters
Pablo Hidalgo already confirmed that the Boba Fett you see in the Original Trilogy is the same one as “Baby Boba” Fett in the Prequel Trilogy and The Clone Wars. But I think that the “kill-and-replace” idea was actually discussed, but since Pablo Hidalgo said no to that, it’s not the story they’re going with.
I hope they think about it again and someone tells Hidalgo how much the whole Jango-Boba story sucked and hurt the character. To me, Boba in V and VI will never be the same stupid child and will never had a father that was an excact copy of him.
The whole Jango/Boba storyline was awesome!
Whoa… Medieval-Fantasy influences? Floating practical effects supported by fishing wires?! Badass pirate Force wielder with a Russian accent?!!
This is awesome! This is awesome!! THIS IS AWESOME!!! q=D
Doesn’t take much to get you excited.
Maz Kanata = voodoo lady on Pirates of the Caribbean.
Let’s pray I’m wrong.
Maz = vima from Dark Empire
Great call!
Anon 22:11 PM
Don’t be so sour. There’s a lot to be excited about! 😀
Are you standing in front of a mirror. Nice reply to your own previous post. We can all see it’s you posting over and over.
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sounds boring, sorry folks! Same tiresome clap trap executed, nothing different no apparent change from the last six movies. Am losing faith rapidly.
sounds boring? They’re scenes that develop the story.. I suppose you only want to hear about how big the explosions are.
Can you not read? The story isn’t shaping up to be all that interesting, it’s looking very safe and formulaic.
The irony is that people like you are actually getting all excited over the visuals and try to act like the opposite is true.
Wah! Wah! Wah! Your life must be boring.
Oh please!! Spare us the drama! We know nothing of the movie except rumors. What do you want, for JJ to spill the beans and give us the entire synopsis?
Would JJ spill the beans and give us the entire synopsis if the film wasn’t as good as many are hoping, I wonder?
Oh yes, TFA could suck. The film could end up being more like TPM than TESB. And I for one I’m glad to see that not everyone is praising TFA as if it were a given that it’ll be as good as TESB. Makes no more sense than saying the film will suck before watching it.
We know plenty actually. This is rocket surgery, some of us actually work in the industry and are capable of disseminating a lot of information from the marketing.
All signs point toward a fairly standard retelling of the heroes journey.
So i’m guessing you don’t really have an important job in the industry if you’re wasting time in the comment section lol!
I think you mean extrapolate not disseminate, industry boy.
Rocket surgery?? What the hell are you talking about boy? Brain surgery. Rocket science. Think you got all mixed up there sweety pants. Only industry your in is the bullshit industry kid.
Rocket Surgery is a Trailer Park Boys reference.
Jesus you people are stupid. Dorks… It’s not formulaic – it’s a myth. It’s not a journey it’s an allegory. Fable.
Among the ancient uses of the hero myth one thread is the same. Plucked from obscurity, adversity overcome and usually magic.
It’s supposed to be familiar both because it’s Star Wars but also because for a hero myth to resonate it must be rooted in a reality the audience member can relate to.
It’s an Archetype
star wars has always been straight up stories with recognizable themes. it doesnt have to be insanely complex. it IS a retelling of classic hero journeys, and thats just fine. and the settings and starships, etc are all part of the just losing oneself in the magic. it doesnt have to be…ahem…rocket science… its escapism at its best. bring your childlike sense of wonder and perhaps youll enjoy.
Please.. I do not want Lupita using a Russian accent..
If you go to making star wars, you will see a leaked concept art of Maz Kanada. If this is accurate, Disney has completely wasted Lupita’s talent and good looks.
Who cares about looks? She was cast for her talent and will do a great job with her mocap performance.
Nonsense.
If an actor can deliver a memorable role and be remembered as an iconic character on any film, without showing his/her actual face, that’s got to be a SW film. Just ask James Earl Jones and/or Frank Oz.
The question is if Nyongo’o’s character will be as good to be remembered as Vader and/or Yoda. But based on the woman’s talent, if the character’s good, she’ll make it shine even if it’s not her actual self that’s on the screen.
… and Max Von Sydow continues to be conspicuous in his absence …. Those that think he’s got just a bit part as a “relics dealer”, I think, are WAY off base ….
Welp moviepilot’s source is clearly wrong. You can’t get more wrong than a Samoan kid growing up to be a tall, gangly, Swedish ginger old man.
I’m still banking on that rumor that MvS killed the “original” Boba Fett years ago, before ANH. If the other rumors are true and the second anthology movie is Boba Fett-centered, this could make for a great plot-twist/retcon. Boba from AOTC? Not MY Fett!!
Yeah, right. That’s why Temuera Morrison was brought in to do Fett’s lines for the DVD/Blu Ray editions: so that Boba sounds NOTHING like a clone of Jango, because he was killed prior to ANH.
Based on your “amazing” talent to come up with a plot, I seriously doubt anyone in the world would wish to see your “Boba NOT from AotC!!!” on the screen.
I highly doubt the Blu Ray films will be the final version of the OT. For better or worse, they will continue to edit it until the continuity fits.
Perhaps. But Morrison is Boba’s voice for now, and not just on Blu Ray, but on DVD too.
Moreover, there’s many ways to change the man behind the Mandalorian armor *after* RotJ, with no need to compromise the saga further by retconning time and time again.
…and possibly they will release the OT in 4k and be done with the SE tastelessness.
To be perfectly fair Attack of the Clones was a complete turd and Boba Fett’s origin anything but cool, along with even further changes to his voice in TESB.
But quite frankly if you really think Max Von Sydow is playing anything but an unimportant support character that doesn’t need to be all over the marketing, you’re out of your mind, let alone he’s some guy that’s been posing as Boba Fett, which us plain stupid.
Why would they literally white-wash a character in this climate of political correctness?
Maori is not Samoan
Max is used to being made up before with makeup and look completely different…. Ming…. An asian alien. We’ve seen no pics of him… They couldn’t get him to resemble an aged Temura? And I’ve never read any books but Fett was the only character with a Jetpack..
Little people! The greatest “practical effects” of all! ;B
LOL! i hope it juggles or something.
With I-III they went too far off course and now with VII they stay too close to famiøiar territory. I’ll take the latter any day but I do hope there will be a feeling of freshness to the film and not just one long nostalgic nod to the OT.
I hope Poe Dameron is as cool as he looks on the publicity shot with his X Wing. And that his character isn’t a replacement for Han Solo but rather a different take on a classic archetype.
The film needs some fresh air in the sense that it needs to continue the story without hitting the same plot beats.
There are a number pf shots in the trailers that scream “seen it before” too loudly but fortunately a few scenes that seem to showcase something fresh as well.
I think that even if it seems quite familiar, Maz’s pirate cove will have a very different tone. 100% sure about that. And good/bad guys using castles is not really a medieval fantasy th8ing, first drafts of Star Wars included a “Darth Vader’s castle”
Because the early Star Wars drafts came before medieval fantasy?
black trooper is boba
Has king3000 said anything about Luke?
AFAIK, nearly all of King3000’s knowledge about the movie comes from information based on or around the scenes involving the “Pirate Cove”. On another note, this is another reason why I think he’s the real deal with his information – he only knows a certain amount about the movie, which is more believable than someone who claims to know exactly everything that will be in the film (like Spoilerman). I don’t believe he’s said anything about Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, or the others.
Thanks. I’m still of the opinion that Luke’s scenes were top secret and that’s why we haven’t heard anything about them, but I do think Mark Hamill is in at least 2 or 3 scenes and maybe more. It only makes sense given that he was on set for weeks in Pinewood and then on location in Skelling.
I think your 100 % right Billy, especially when you consider that they had to cover him up to prevent drones taking pictures of him. The rumour reported by MSW about Luke having such little involvement has always baffled me, doesn’t make any logical sense when you consider all the factors
Luke has to be in way more then one scene. He filmed a scene with Daisy at skellig michael and if i’m right he’s in a scene during the 3rd act of the film during the final battle with kylo Ren. So i assuming he shows up in the second act of the movie.
He was at pinewood filming for a few months if I’m not mistaken
While there’s no definitive proof for me to say one way or another, I am personally inclined to agree with you. I don’t think that they would make Mark Hamill grow a huge beard and lose weight for a single scene in a movie.
That gives him more time to get in shape for next episode?
It is possible Mark gets paid based on one contract for multiple projects.
Iiiiiiiiiif………….he didn’t shot his scenes from the whole trilogy………
Jesus u people are stupid. Mark is in 2 scenes. The set was filled with nostalgia and Mark could have been confirmed contractually obligated to participate in the films stealthy ness.
Luke is apart of 8.
In away episode
7 seems like a setup for 8,9 c10?
spinning bowls of fruit – get the **** outta here with that
Lupita’s been rumored to be a mocap character for over 6 months now.
I know. I just haven’t said anything because of all the butt-hurt fans who want to be surprised.
Yes, but my point was that he was one of the first people to report it over seven months ago – before anyone else.
People have been speculating that Lupita voiced and Mocapped the ‘small alien holding the saber’ since the concept art was leaked.
It’s funny that JJ Abrams ripped off the Cantina/Jabba’s palace scene right after he made it clear in the interview that he wasn’t going to imitate the OT for the sake of doing so. Liar.
Liar? What, are his pants on fire or sumthin’?
/tss sss
Another zinger from Chip
that isnt at all what he said inthe interview, he said there were references to the original trilogy… but some had to be cut, becuase he basically didnt want it to be Star Wars’ greatest hits.
You can only rip off one thing or another. If it’s a mix between Jabba and Cantina, it’s something completly new. We never saw a pirate cove, with a forcer user in between and all that stuff. The reason why Cantina and Jabbas palace are mentioned, because these were scenes with many aliens in it and a bit of normal life. Having that in the movie, mixed with a pirate theme doesn’t make it a rip off.
Yes, its very space-westerny.
Which is a good homage to what SW actually is.
cool. but some of those pirates just look really lame. the aliens look too similar and just ugly. i think they should have stuck with rodians and the old cantina species. also maz seems kinda weird. is this supposed to be like a yoda type character female version..
oh my god…. you’re right about the female yoda I fear…. and I wouldn’t be surprised if Han has had a sex change. Add in the Russian speaking characters and we have a generic blueprint used in all films over the last fifteen years (politically correct crap and russian villains) but set in space.
Hopefully it won’t get too medieval. The recent interview with J.J. gives me hope that he will push the right buttons for the most part.
I’m hoping it isn’t too medieval also, seems game of thrones-ish – a bit corny. Also hope Mickey and Minnie don’t live in one of the castles.
Uhhhh…Star Wars has always had a medieval influence. Sometimes I wonder which movies some of you have actually watched. Star Wars is not sci-fi; it’s fantasy.
Myself I’ve always thought of it as a combination of King Arthur/Samurai/WWII/Western in Space
Fantasy.. Yes. Medieval.. not as much.
Sure there are plot and theme similarities, but in terms of visuals, style and cinematography definitely closer to Japanese Samurai and Spaghetti westerns.
I’m fine with some medieval influence, just don’t want a whole slew of new castles showing up and bunch of scenes taking place in dark forests. Definitely would seem like bandwagon jumping at that point.
Star Wars isn’t sci-fi? Chuckle. Duh.
Medieval?? Has it?? Point that out instead of just throwing it out here. It has more of a Japanese westerns feel to them. Don’t see the medieval side. You just made that up?? It’s now going game of thrones route and looks shit.
So it “looks shit”?
I would debate you sir, but it appears you don’t speak English.
Japanese westerns?
You mean about FEUDAL Japan? That is medieval.
i wonder if jj ever reads this site and thinks “they have no idea” haha
True story: JJ stands for Jar Jar Abrams
Fishing wire? I am pumped for this movie and I love all the practical effects so far but not EVERYTHING needs to be practical. I hope they CGI it at least a little, since the whole “erase the strings” special effect seems pretty dated.
Agreed.
To add to the “medieval” element.. someone was obviously watching Game of Thrones because they hired 2 or 3 actors from there..
Casting for this film was made in part by Nina Gold (according to IMDB), who also is casting director for GoT. There’s your answer.
Kanata’s cantina floating food trick CANNOT be any worse than Anakin’s lame attempt to impress the former queen of Naboo. And the only way MvS can be Boba Fett is if they proceed with the Fassbender movie rumor that its the armor that makes the bounty hunter and not the clone template.
Without saying I believe the rumors or not, the only thing that I can think of aside from what you mention is if after he was thrown into the pit, it damaged him so badly that what we see is really a bandaged, perhaps with his voice damaged, old battered soldier whose face and skin tone you never really get a good look at.
Either this or somebody else (MVS’ character) picked up Fett’s armor and reputation after the original Boba was swallowed by the Sarlacc.
The rumour that MoviePilot is going with is that MvS’s Boba Fett’s character is going to be a cybernetic character due to the Sarllac f**cking him up. We don’t find out who he is until the 3rd act. All a bunch of salty hail stones that damage your car beyond repair.
“I’m not afraid of flying fruit”
“You will be…you will be…”
RIGHT! How to defend yourself against a dark lord of the Sith armed with a banana!…
I Kanata wait for this movie. I called the whole Excalibur metaphor awhile back. Gonna rock.
I doth think, me lords and ladies, they be jousting on horses with lightsabers
On speederbikes perhaps? 😉
Jousting with Tauntauns – that I would pay to see at Medieval Times!
And that concept art of Lupita’s character looks like the bastard offspring of ET and Yoda.
ET+Yoda+Oracle from the Matrix.
I’m not feeling it(been there, done that) but hopefully this character will have its own unique personality and not feel like Yoda part 2.
My first reaction was similar
I wish this character was a full on puppet like Yoda =(
I’m Hering that José quedou is in talos with licasfilm To direct a star wars movie!
Han,Luke,Poe,Kylo,Serkis and Gleeson’s character not to mention most of the First Order and the majority of the resistance I’ll wager.
One girl,a tall woman that would kick 99% of any comic con geeks arses and a black guy?
I don’t think it’s propaganda,just inclusive and so it should be.
edit,that was supposed to be a reply to a comment waaaay up there ^^
We are the Jedi Knights of Neee! Oh, and Ex Machina was a great film that showed issac’s and Gleeson’s acting chops. Isaac is awesome.
I’m personally excited about the mideval influence, but they shouldn’t go too far with that. It would take away from the star in star wars or space in space opera.
I think the medieval influence will only be one of many in Star Wars. Just like Westerns, Flash Gordon and WW2.
In other words, using numerous influences is a major part of what makes Star Wars work.
Um, actually the medieval stuff has always been there. You know as in swords (laser or no), knights and dark lords.
um um um
He didn’t say anything to the contrary
Neither did I, O Great Dark Lord of of the Reading Comprehension.
ya existia una escena sobre ese personaje, en el arte concepto
Star Wars has always been influenced by King Arthur, Excalibur and the like. It’s not a new thing. I am so happy to see these influences in the new movies.
Thank you. Someone who finally gets it. King3000 made it seem like it’s a new idea with his post.
One thing that is making me really sad is the complete lack of news/spoilers about Luke. I’m afraid those creepy rumors about Mark Hamill having one or two scenes might be true. Too bad. Luke is the number one hero in the saga, and a fan favorite.
It’ll be so fucked up if Luke is in only a couple of scenes. But, I cant imagine Hamill going through so much effort and time to lose all that fat and shit just to appear in a few scenes. If that were the case Disney/Lucasfilm wouldn’t have required him to get in shape.
Sounds awesome. The universe entering a “dark age,” characterized by barbarism and warlordism is exactly what I wanted to see in a sequel trilogy.
Levitating stuff with strings, though? Seriously? That sounds stupid and completely unnecessary. Come on, guys–just because you *can* doesn’t mean that you *should*.
They do it because a real object always looks better than a cartoon, especially in close up well lit shots.
Nonsense. Stuff dangling from a string looks like something dangling from a string. It will look completely fake, close-up or not.
You obviously don’t know how good suspension rigged float can look. At least watch some films made before 2000 before you get all pissed about it. CGI can do some amazing acrobatics that are impossible with suspensions rigs, but if the effect isnt supposed to be flashy or complicated, real objects with dimension and weight to them look 100x better.
looks just like her lol
That’s not a storm trooper helmet, that’s an old McQuarrie design for rebel helmets
I bet the guy with the stormtrooper helmet is Gleeson 🙂
Yup….. Looks like Disney are jumping on the Game Of Thrones train and throwing all the design influence they can into the works.
Looks like Disney and JJ used all of the old concept designs from McQuarrie because they are truly just unimaginative. We’ll see that the entire story was just bits and pieces of EU that was tossed out in order to gain full credit for it’s “originality” for E7.
Bla bla bla…bla bla bla bla…
Oh no… the new Star Wars movie… feels like a Star Wars movie…
What horror…
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If he did something totally different, you would be b**tching about how different it feels – _ –
@ Dan’s Voyage
You aint lying, man. I think a lot of peeps are bitching just to hear themselves bitch right now. Sometimes SW fandom is just pointlessly and embarrassingly way over the top.
I used to argue against people like you on this very issue – until today.
I miss yesterday. :/
the characters in the pic look cool, if maybe a little cliche and homogeneous. I really like hearing the back stories of these background characters, just like it was always cool to read random facts about a cantina character back in the day. The thing I love the most about a Star Wars story is the immersion into another universe; a fantasy universe. The plot should not detract from that feeling and needs only to provide a rollercoaster ride of immersive entertainment to be a success in my mind.
The yoda variation thought did cross my mind at first glance of that concept art, but let’s hope for the best.
At first I didn’t like the idea of MvS being Boba, but a couple of the other posts got me interested in the possibility. Maybe they can just have the PT/CW Boba killed off in some stories that come out before TFA and there you have it! All is explained and nothing already done needs to be changed. I also expected more from a Fett backstory then was provided up to this point.
oh, and dude from Sydney, I get where you are coming from and I don’t judge, but don’t forget that Luke is in this movie. We haven’t lost our hero that we can relate to! There are just a few new ones that will hopefully deliver and be characters that have some soul…..and good dialogue!
I’m not sure what mean with your point about Boba Fett. He *was* killed off before Ep.7. If you meant before Ep.4, that leaves the problem that his voice sounds identical to that of his “father.”
I meant before ep7, as everyone “knows” or believes that he lived through the sarlaac. If they somehow make MvS into Boba, it will have to be explained in stuff that comes out this year prior to ep7 because I guarantee that they will not use the movie to explain it. It’s easy enough to accomplish.
Meesa CGI alien. Meesa generate fan backlash.
CGI characters aren’t the problem. Poorly-written characters are.
Nobody complains that Gollum is a CGI character in Lord of the Rings.
I complained
Great article guys;does anyone know what the significance of the lightsabre is? – the movie seems to revolve around it,what`s so special about it,& why`s Kylo desperate to find it?…Andy.
Symbolism, plot macguffin, and Kylo Ren’s desire to possess it.
From the spoiler leaks it sounds a bit shoehorned into the movie though.
Well, I like the designs.
Only I do hope to see lots of familiar aliens, like Gran, Rodians & Klaatu, Barada, Nikto. Otherwise you have to ask “where the hoth are all those ‘old’ species and where the han did these new ones come from?”.
Anyhoo, I’m wearing a cape ’cause I’m super excited.
I hope they use familiar aliens sparingly. Sure there were one or two rodians and jawas in Jabba’s palace but if there had been much more than that it would have felt like fan fiction, catering to people’s small minded desire to see again what has become quantifyable and knowable rather than getting lost in a fiction that’s as threateningly strange and mysterious as real life.
King3000 is full of shit.
Ive seen fortune tellers at county fairs with better skills…
I could have come up with all that bullshit in my sleep.
Salo Gardner next to the big alien sat down!!! He is legacy!!
Out of curiosity here, seeing as I haven’t seen it stated anywhere that Jakku is actually a planet (Correct me if I’m wrong here), could Jakku theoretically be a location on Tatooine, not an entirely new planet? If you look at some of the pictures of it from space, (E.g. http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091218162907/starwars/images/8/82/Tatooine-TOR.jpg) it’s certainly a possibility that there’s more to the planet then we see in the OT and PT, right?
Who gives a shit? Ah, you…
pretty sure Abrams called it a planet when he referred to “a planet called Jakku”
I hadn’t heard that before, but that does make a lot of sense. I dunno, thought it was an interesting theory. JJ has pulled a few tricks on moviegoers before, who’s to say he won’t again?
Daisy Ridley even says in the response to how they discover her character. The question is “Where do we discover ‘Rey’ in this movie?”
Her response is “Rey on the desert planet Jakku.”
Fair enough, I retract my theory then
It was just an idea I had, admittedly I’m probably not following this as much as some of the others on this site, so forgive my ignorance, master 😛
Speaking of theories, any word on whether or not Kylo Ren’s mask is going to be an ancient Sith artifact itself, ala Darth Revan?
The mask itself seems pretty similiar to Revan’s, and wouldn’t necessarilly be dissimilar to the information that we’d heard about Kylo in terms of collecting Sith artifacts…
Would be a pretty cool nod to some of the EU as well, no?
Yes America, once TFA is unleashed onto the public, it will be the end of your country as you know it!
Only now, at the end, do you understand.
btw, really hoping they release at least one more teaser or trailer by fall 😀
“Throughout the 20th century, Marxist elements within the US have been trying to engineer a social revolution where blacks (Finn) and females (Rey) would overthrow the white christian male (Kylo Ren) power structure.”
LOL !
Still more interesting than a Trade Federation!
Someone’s taking American Marxism too seriously. Grad school marxists thrive on being regarded as extreme and significantly outside of what we know when they’re beliefs are actually quite conventional and have informed mainstream American society both for better and for worse since at least the 1930s. Whoever wrote what is inside the quotes is flattering the left by being so afraid of them.
What about dash rendar !
http://fms01.sd54.k12.il.us/treasures/pdf/little_treasures/lt_10.3_dr_suess_abc.pdf
check out page 21 hahahahaha
Almost forgot…Maz Katana? Abrams, Kasdan or both must be NY Yankee fans, cuz that sounds a LOT like Mas(ahiro) Tanaka to me.
Maz Kanata is one of those designs where it could either work well or not. The fact that you can see the whites of her eyes brings up the danger of Disney’s biophobic-seeming tendency to overwhiten the whites of characters’ eyes. On the other hand Yoda had similarly human eyes and they looked great and not over-whitened, over-sparkly, or otherwise cloying.
The lightsaber fits in because the plot is a race to recover the mcguffian58 crystal used to them.
For those of us who aren’t thrilled with the revamped stormtrooper helmet, it’s awesome to see an original trilogy “souped-up” stormtrooper helmet in the mix.
Wish they would hurry up and release the ‘actual’ poster. This placeholder poster is generic at best.
yep
That is not a black stormtrooper but a TIE fighter pilot costume.
Also I don’t know what you mean by the alien on the left of the droid. That is a new species that looks similar to an Ithorian or are you referring to the bald white alien?
Jesus! Medieval castles? Anakins sabre the new Excalibur? This movie is doomed to fail. The Captain Phasma’s gleaming suit of armor with cloak draped over shoulder is ridiculous! It’s clear a King Arthur’s tale re-booted to the star in a galaxy far, far away. I can hear George Lucas laughting on his sofa saying “haha Now You guys knows what it’s a BAD star wars movie!!”
The concept drawing of Maz Kanata looks like Harriet Tubman dipped in green paint.
Totally ridiculous.
“The Captain Phasma’s gleaming suit of armor with cloak draped over shoulder is ridiculous!”
There’s nothing wrong with the suit of armor. The problem is that a woman is inside of it.
OK but Captain Phasma’s suit looks like a mix of stormtrooper and a cylon from 1980s battlestar galactica TV series. If we look close to what has been shown util now, there’s very little creativity here in the designs.