Star Wars: Episode VIII Social Buzz! Boyega, Ridley and Isaac Training for the Movie. Liang Yang (FN-2199) Returns!
We’ve made a collection of several interesting Twitter and Instagram posts from the last few days to tease you up for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VIII. Definitely things are in motion now…
First Daisy Ridley gave us a better look at actor and stunt performer Liang Yang – the guy who played the fan favorite Stormtrooper FN-2199 aka “Nines”. Yep, that’s the “Traitor” guy. It’s nice to see him back for Episode VIII, although it will be most likely for another character.
Daisy Ridley already training hard for Episode VIII:
John Boyega is training as well, and he has company – Oscar Isaac. That’s really interesting. We’ve never seen or heard Oscar Isaac training for his role in The Force Awakens. That was not surprising since he spent most of the time in the X-Wing cockpit. Could this mean that Isaac will have more physical and bigger role in Episode VIII? We surely hope so.
VIII A photo posted by @john_boyega on
Also John is ready to get some more autographs on his favorite toy:
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/697471175719587842
Anthony Daniels on the Episode VIII filming:
Here we go again.
— Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) February 10, 2016
Mark Hamill replied to this tweet “Not been tweeting for a while, unusual of him, probrobaly too busy with EPVIII.” with:
Probrobaly… https://t.co/jK7SYpTi09
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 8, 2016
Carrie Fisher and Gary spotted in London. We do hope that this time Gary will get a role in the movie.
Also it’s nice that director Rian Johnson is pretty active on Twitter. We all do hope to see more from him in the upcoming months.
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nice. cant wait to see what adam driver is doing
He’s probably locked himself in a dark room somewhere with Vader’s mask and some quaaludes. 🙂
We can hope…
Accurate.
Confirmed…
The Heath Ledger treatment….I see.
Too soon? Ever? Maybe? Sry…
Is Adam Driver working out, too?
No need, Adam has the Force!
So did Luke. Didn’t stop him from working out with Yoda.
Going to be funny with Luke riding in Rey’s backpack while she does flips. That’ll be worth the price of admission by itself!
old man Sidious still managed to kick his butt though, so all that training was a waste tbh. 😀
Oh really? Being electrocuted repeatedly must’ve been the equivalent of 1,000 stomach crunches. Where did you think he earned that stamina? 😉
Driver has to. He lost a ton of weight for Silence with Scorsese. Unhealthy amounts.
Good to know.
I’ve seen some shots of Driver, relatively recently, wearing t-shirts and stuff. Dude used to be a Marine and appears to have kept in shape. Even if he has to put on some additional muscle mass, I doubt he’ll have much difficulty doing so.
Gary needs to be in Star Wars
Mo-capped alien pet for General Leia.
Like Shadowcat/Sprite/Kitty Pryde’s pet dragon Lockheed!
Billy Dee Williams has not tweeted in about a month. It’s interesting because he seems to have been tweeting pretty consistently beforehand. Hmmm?
https://twitter.com/realbdw?lang=en
I’m frightened he may not be a good actor anymore, similar to Leia.
Sure no Oscars are going to be handed out but I thought it was passable given the screen time.
Not sure about onscreen but his voice is still good in Rebels.
What was wrong with Leia? I thought Carrie gave a really good performance, what there was of it.
You always hear about the actors working out but WOW. I didn’t know they worked that hard on something like this. They didn’t look that jacked in the movie. Good job keeping them looking normal… but secretly super strong 😛
I believe they have stepped up the workout for Episode VIII because Episode VIII is rumored to be far more “physical” than TFA; Boyega himself is not a hunky type, but young adult males like him generally build up muscle mass very quickly with appropriate training and diet.. I am more concerned about Daisy Ridley. Although she is fit and has a background in gymnastics, her lightsaber fight with Kylo Ren looked awkward to me and she will need to improve a lot to look like a credible Jedi in Episode VIII, where I suppose she will do a lot more fighting.
“I have Oscar Isaac in the background cheering me on”
A #FinnPoe fan can dream…..
shipping finn and poe so hard.
You don’t know what “shipping” means.
huh?
Shipping means transporting something, not this stupid crap people use it for. It’s called a RELATIONship not a “ship.”
i’m not sure why you’ve assumed the position of headmaster dictionary.. but i’ll use shipping the way i want. thanks..
You do know you sound like an idiot. If you said that stuff around any older adult, they’d think you were messed up in the head. I don’t know why so many people are so easily influenced by others on the Internet. You do know, you don’t have to use these stupid terms that people come up with. If you wanted to say the same thing but have it make more sense, you could say, I promote a relationship between them so hard, assuming that’s what you mean. But honestly, what is the pount of teaching English at schools when they just throw it out the window when they’re on the Internet?
I thought his name was TR-8R. Didn’t they make an announcement on the site about that?
That’s his fan-given name (because it sounds like traitor). His actual name is FN-2199.
They’ll need to get the voice actor back too because it wasn’t this guy.
I’m guessing that the character himself won’t actually be coming back.
If they do it wouldn’t be that hard since I’m pretty sure he’s just a random crew member and union to boot.
The voice was David Acord, a sound editor with Skywalker Sound who does occasional voices.
Nice to see they are sticking with Lucasfilm’s cheap tactics of using in-house talent. Nothing is more jarring than when they have to recast.
Boyega looks like he’s wearing a dress in that first shot. Could it be we are FINALLY going to get our first transvestite Jedi???
Or it’s to simulate the feel of a robe.
Should we assume Finn will weaing a robe in Episode VIII then ?
It’s a pair of shorts and it’s from rehearsals for the previous movie, here’s the same rehearsal from another angle http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/568d4ae3dd0895d92e8b45db/boyega1.gif
… its a weighted belt lol
Anthony Daniels always says something snobby towards the film on Twitter. Must be a dick in real life
Here we go again is also a line C3PO says… So…
Traitor!
I wish Finn had a rematch with FN-2199 and kicked his a$$. I mean, he deserves it, doesn’t he ?
He’ll probably get to kick Phasma’s butt this time
It cannot be easy to fight with that in stormtrooper armor