Star Wars: Episode VIII Social Buzz! Boyega, Ridley and Isaac Training for the Movie. Liang Yang (FN-2199) Returns!

Liang
John Boyega vs. Liang Yang (The Force Awakens)

 

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:

 

 

Mark Hamill replied to this tweet “Not been tweeting for a while, unusual of him, probrobaly too busy with EPVIII.” with:

 

 

 

Carrie Fisher and Gary spotted in London. We do hope that this time Gary will get a role in the movie.

 

tumblr_o28mt8n6z61sofauzo1_500

 

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.

 

 

Website | + posts

Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.

Born on April 24, 1980.

Val Trichkov (Viral Hide)

Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.Born on April 24, 1980.

50 thoughts on “Star Wars: Episode VIII Social Buzz! Boyega, Ridley and Isaac Training for the Movie. Liang Yang (FN-2199) Returns!

  • February 11, 2016 at 8:15 pm
    Permalink

    nice. cant wait to see what adam driver is doing

    • February 11, 2016 at 8:38 pm
      Permalink

      He’s probably locked himself in a dark room somewhere with Vader’s mask and some quaaludes. 🙂

      • February 11, 2016 at 9:13 pm
        Permalink

        We can hope…

      • February 11, 2016 at 10:50 pm
        Permalink

        Accurate.

      • February 11, 2016 at 11:48 pm
        Permalink

        Confirmed…

      • February 12, 2016 at 1:10 am
        Permalink

        The Heath Ledger treatment….I see.

        Too soon? Ever? Maybe? Sry…

  • February 11, 2016 at 8:47 pm
    Permalink

    Is Adam Driver working out, too?

    • February 11, 2016 at 9:37 pm
      Permalink

      No need, Adam has the Force!

      • February 11, 2016 at 10:50 pm
        Permalink

        So did Luke. Didn’t stop him from working out with Yoda.

        • February 11, 2016 at 10:52 pm
          Permalink

          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!

        • February 12, 2016 at 10:13 am
          Permalink

          old man Sidious still managed to kick his butt though, so all that training was a waste tbh. 😀

          • February 12, 2016 at 5:12 pm
            Permalink

            Oh really? Being electrocuted repeatedly must’ve been the equivalent of 1,000 stomach crunches. Where did you think he earned that stamina? 😉

    • February 12, 2016 at 6:53 am
      Permalink

      Driver has to. He lost a ton of weight for Silence with Scorsese. Unhealthy amounts.

      • February 12, 2016 at 9:13 am
        Permalink

        Good to know.

    • February 14, 2016 at 4:55 am
      Permalink

      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.

  • February 11, 2016 at 10:06 pm
    Permalink

    Gary needs to be in Star Wars

    • February 11, 2016 at 10:48 pm
      Permalink

      Mo-capped alien pet for General Leia.

      • February 12, 2016 at 1:09 am
        Permalink

        Like Shadowcat/Sprite/Kitty Pryde’s pet dragon Lockheed!

  • February 11, 2016 at 11:20 pm
    Permalink

    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

    • February 11, 2016 at 11:50 pm
      Permalink

      I’m frightened he may not be a good actor anymore, similar to Leia.

      • February 12, 2016 at 1:11 am
        Permalink

        Sure no Oscars are going to be handed out but I thought it was passable given the screen time.

      • February 12, 2016 at 4:37 am
        Permalink

        Not sure about onscreen but his voice is still good in Rebels.

      • February 12, 2016 at 8:16 am
        Permalink

        What was wrong with Leia? I thought Carrie gave a really good performance, what there was of it.

  • February 12, 2016 at 1:10 am
    Permalink

    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 😛

    • February 12, 2016 at 3:06 pm
      Permalink

      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.

  • February 12, 2016 at 3:45 am
    Permalink

    “I have Oscar Isaac in the background cheering me on”

    A #FinnPoe fan can dream…..

    • February 12, 2016 at 5:42 am
      Permalink

      shipping finn and poe so hard.

      • March 6, 2016 at 3:32 pm
        Permalink

        You don’t know what “shipping” means.

        • March 6, 2016 at 8:48 pm
          Permalink

          huh?

          • March 7, 2016 at 9:59 am
            Permalink

            Shipping means transporting something, not this stupid crap people use it for. It’s called a RELATIONship not a “ship.”

          • March 7, 2016 at 8:40 pm
            Permalink

            i’m not sure why you’ve assumed the position of headmaster dictionary.. but i’ll use shipping the way i want. thanks..

          • March 8, 2016 at 5:35 am
            Permalink

            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?

  • February 12, 2016 at 4:36 am
    Permalink

    I thought his name was TR-8R. Didn’t they make an announcement on the site about that?

    • February 12, 2016 at 8:24 am
      Permalink

      That’s his fan-given name (because it sounds like traitor). His actual name is FN-2199.

      • February 12, 2016 at 12:36 pm
        Permalink

        They’ll need to get the voice actor back too because it wasn’t this guy.

        • February 12, 2016 at 2:11 pm
          Permalink

          I’m guessing that the character himself won’t actually be coming back.

          • February 13, 2016 at 6:21 pm
            Permalink

            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.

          • February 15, 2016 at 5:16 am
            Permalink

            The voice was David Acord, a sound editor with Skywalker Sound who does occasional voices.

          • February 15, 2016 at 1:19 pm
            Permalink

            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.

  • February 12, 2016 at 4:53 am
    Permalink

    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???

  • February 12, 2016 at 4:54 am
    Permalink

    Anthony Daniels always says something snobby towards the film on Twitter. Must be a dick in real life

    • February 12, 2016 at 6:51 am
      Permalink

      Here we go again is also a line C3PO says… So…

  • February 12, 2016 at 10:11 am
    Permalink

    Traitor!

  • February 12, 2016 at 2:59 pm
    Permalink

    I wish Finn had a rematch with FN-2199 and kicked his a$$. I mean, he deserves it, doesn’t he ?

    • February 12, 2016 at 3:17 pm
      Permalink

      He’ll probably get to kick Phasma’s butt this time

  • February 12, 2016 at 4:43 pm
    Permalink

    It cannot be easy to fight with that in stormtrooper armor

Comments are closed.

LATEST POSTS ON MOVIE NEWS NET