Star Wars Weekly Social Buzz.
There’s been a lot of social buzz this week. Read on for the latest from John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill and more…
Let’s first start with John Boyega, whose birthday was yesterday. He was asking on Twitter if anyone had any suggestions what he could do on this special day. The guys from Empire Magazine replied and invited him to their offices. Guess what, John accepted and paid visit to the surprised Empire crew.
It’s been a funny sort of day. We invited @JohnBoyega over for some cake, and he actually came… pic.twitter.com/O4hX1CgZgL
— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) March 17, 2016
Here’s the birthday boy @JohnBoyega, posing with the Empire team, and a special R2-D2 cake. pic.twitter.com/WXSOhxqqiu
— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) March 17, 2016
Just left @empiremagazine offices! These guys are amazing. Short notice but they made me feel all warm inside pic.twitter.com/XkA6t8jwTF
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) March 17, 2016
Also Boyega made an incredibly touching gesture, visiting a few sick children in a hospital dressed as Finn.
Next is Daisy Ridley who was asked on a formal by one of her fans. Davidson College student Kevin Carlock made the proposal last month via a rap video posted on youtube.
Daisy saw the video and was kind enough to post a reply to the guy.
@kevincarlock your video made my day! Can’t believe I only just saw it! Thank you!!!
A photo posted by @daisyridley on
Kevin replied back not missing the chance to tease Daisy about Rey’s heritage:
Rian Johnson on spoilers:
@AngelEinstein7 If you don’t want to see any non spoilery bits over the next year your best bet is probably to block my account.
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 13, 2016
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Rian Johnson. It is confirmed, Episode VIII will rely mainly on CGI!!! …. I kid, I kid. 🙂
HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY!!!! pic.twitter.com/InGLtklSOD
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 17, 2016
Mark Hamill continues with the trolling. 🙂
They accuse ME of leaking spoilers? @rianjohnson pic includes shadows of 2 exotic new #EP8 droids! #RianRuinsReveal https://t.co/TJIOFLoV68
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 17, 2016
@HamillHimself I like your style 😉
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) March 18, 2016
Carrie Fisher getting a hair makeup probably at Pinewood:
Gary & I getting out hair & make up done…will tweet you proper after… pic.twitter.com/Q0HFnP3RAc
— Carrie Fisher (@carrieffisher) March 16, 2016
And now the best part. The latest interesting tweets by Pablo Hidalgo!
Constable Zuvio did appear in The Force Awakens after all. Kinda…
@clubjade There are three frames of him during the marketplace chase. Three frames. Autographs start at $60.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 14, 2016
Lucasfilm Story Group takes over Indy as well:
@GrantGalactic It’ll the same group of folks.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 15, 2016
Change in size of the Finalizer:
@korpil If I recall correctly, it was changed during post production to look all the more imposing.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 14, 2016
On the similarities between Kylo and Rey and Jaina and Jacen:
@BFett_ @Gen_Kenobi896 @BrunoDenturri @TrueTanker @rebelrealcanon though it was entirely possible it was to avoid overlap.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 18, 2016
The ideas of the standalone movies came from George Lucas including the third unrevealed one:
Fun fact that you may have missed at Celebration. With the exception of Rogue One, the standalone ideas came from George Lucas.. 1/2
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 12, 2016
Some VFX shorts from HP:
Some cool short VFX pieces showing off @ILMVFX‘s work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens here. https://t.co/Pi5jwvfZcb
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 14, 2016
Stay tuned for more next week.
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John Boyega is one cool dude:
1. Just shows up at multiple cinemas to watch TFA with everyone else
2. Makes sick kids dreams come true
3. Hangs out with the Empire crew to celebrate his birthday
I like this guy.
Hes doing what few others involved with Star Wars have done, and it’s to embrace the experience
I think she’s just kind of shy. VII was her first feature film, so she’s in very unfamiliar territory.
Me too. He seems very nice, so I hope he doesn’t get a big head.
He seems pretty genuine, down to Earth and all that.
He’s already got a kind of pumpkin-sized noggin…ohhhhh, sorry, I get it.
RACIST! WE GOTTA RACIST RIGHT HERE!
What?! Dude has a MASSIVE noggin – look at the size of that thing!
leelz
So Constable Zuvio was in TFA for THREE WHOLE FRAMES?! Nice!
Anyway, will Lucasfilm ever show us something about Rogue One?
Little Rey is awesome.
GARY CAMEO!!!!!
Looks like George Lucas got to guest-direct a scene!
– Pomojema
Did I miss something?
It’s just me joking around about the greenscreen shown above.
– Pomojema
Seriously!? Kicking a mine while he’s down and adding insult to injury!?
-_-
As a SWNN mod, you better check that humor and not step over the line if you know what I mean (I would think someone like you would know better)…
Chill out, it’s just a joke. I have great respect for George Lucas and the six SW films that he worked on.
– Pomojema
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Can Don Cheadle please be in episode 8? Like if you want Don Cheadle in starwars as an X-Wing pilot 🙂
And then can he demand to be paid the same as the leads and get his ass fired?
what do you mean? did he do that for avengers?
you’re confusing him with terrence howard. don cheadle is the one who actually replaced him when terrence was fired.
Well, that’s what I get for not paying enough attention to who was in which one. That’s right, I remember now – Cheadle actually shows up in Avengers, right? D’Oh.
Cool
The third spinoff was Lucas’s idea? Maybe it’s about Yoda after all then?