Daisy Ridley Practices Swordplay While TR8-T0R Fumbles.
A brief behind-the-scenes look at Daisy Ridley practicing a bit of swordplay takes a turn to the unexpectedly funny when her instructor Liang Yang (who played FN-2199/TR-8R) falls over backward while filming her.
Aside from the laugh that this provides, this also lets us know that filming for one of Rey’s lightsaber scenes has either recently happened or will soon happen – roughly two months into production, for frame of reference. If Episode VIII ends up having a similar production cycle as The Force Awakens, that would suggest that filming for the movie will wrap up by September or October, and that roughly a quarter of the movie has been filmed so far. The shooting schedule for the movie (jumping from Ireland to Croatia and back) suggests that the movie isn’t being filmed in-sequence, so it ought to be interesting to see what information leaks out about the other scenes shot on location. We’ll be sure to cover more on this subject and others in this week’s Star Wars social media recap.
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.
Good to see that Rey’s lightsaber technique is going to improve dramatically, because her fighting stile in TFA WAS bad, contrary to what the Internet believes.
i think her poor LS mastering in 7 was intended. but the final moves before throwing Kylo Ren on the ground were well executed.
I know that. However, many people that rush in and say that Rey is a Mary Sue don’t seem to notice her lack of lightsaber prowess.
She fought with the staff well earlier in the movie.
It’s more the fact that she beat a trained force wielder with her shoddy skills. My major gripe in the film is not that she is a Mary Sue, but how much of one she is. If you compare her to Gary Stu Anakin from The Phantom Menace, you see that 9 year old Anakin doesn’t solve every problem in the film, whereas Rey does.
Rey solves every problem in TFA? News to me.
I think he was comparing Anakin in ep 1 with Rey in ep 7? Just a reminder… Anakin (a 9 year old kid, or was it 8?) destroys the core of the enemy’s ship…
I think it makes much more sense how Rey advances and I think the force is guiding her since she touched Luke’s lightsaber.
You can like the explanation or not but at least they gave some…
That’s not how the Force works!
I think Anaking was guided by the force… Just because thinking he made it “by accident” is even worse…
The lightsaber didn’t gave Rey force powers… The force spoke to her throught it, the same way you can find it on a stone, trees or everywhere else.
I don’t know how the force works, but for sure Yoda didn’t know either when he stated Luke was too old to be trained, or Darth Vader would never come back to the light side.
I think there are no good or wrong statements when talking about the force just as there aren’t when talking about some other philosophical or religious subjects in real life.
As far as i know and saw from him in duel, he’s more an assassin than a swordmaster. it was maybe his first duel against Rey. The way he killed his father and the unknow Jedi from Rey’s vision is enough to understand the guy is an evil bastard. for me Kylo Ren as no honor. i think Rey is winning the duel because at the moment where their lightsabers are locked, she close her eyes and let the Force guide his arm.
A trained Force user that was bleeding out. We saw multiple times the power of Chewie’s bowcaster throughout the film, and while Kylo took the hit without flying like a stormtrooper, he took a hit from a very powerful weapon. He wasn’t fighting at 100%.
And he was an arrogant youngster, which always help to get too overconfident and lower his performance.
Also the reason she knows the Falcon better than Han – Han had been shot with a bowcaster – speaks every language of every character in the film, including droids she’s never met before – they were all shot with a bowcaster – can outfly a squad of fighter pilots – all of them? shot with bowcasters – instinctively knows her way around the inner workings of a top secret base – SKB? Yep, it was shot with a bowcaster – why she spontaeously developed fully-fledged force powers – TK Daniel Craig? Bowcaster, Kylo? Well, premonition of bowcasters – and why everyone loves her unconditionally – Leia, Chewie, Finn, Kylo, Han? Bowcaster, bowcaster, bowcaster, bowcaster, aaaaaand bowcaster.
Your screen name suits you.
She sneaks around, climbing, jumping, hiding just because she was used to do so scavenging parts from ships. Accomodated people cannot understand it… But try to have such a hard life in desert for so long… Is not that difficult to believe.
Languages… Well, about droids first: I am a developer myself… I know many programming languages, and I’m not a genious… Why is so hard to believe someone who has spent all her childhood with ships and technology surrounding her and playing/working on it, is capable of learning how to communicate with it?
Chewbacca… The problem would be the same on any previous movies, he just roars… He doesn’t really speak for sure… So this complaint could be said on earlier episodes as well. But I always asumed it was a mistake on dessigning the character, he in real speaks and his language/dialect can be common to many other alien forms in the galaxy. Jakku seems a place where you could find lots of aliens and need to communicate with them. Exactly the same way some of them speak english and it wasn’t their mother tongue… Right?
Anyway… Fire and sound on space… Isn’t it unreal? But this is a sci fi movie, a conjeture, a fantasy… Nothing will be fully coherent and to enjoy these movies or stories you need to be opened to this.
THANK YOU! Some people just refuse to look at the proof within the movie, just so that they can whine about “plot holes” and “Mary Sue”.
Her Lightsaber skills were too advanced… Her Lightsaber skills were bad. I wish the Internet would make up their mind.
“Star Wars 7 is too similar!” “Ghostbusters 3 is too different!”
“AAA games shouldn’t charge that much!” “No Man’s Sky isn’t a AAA game, only those deserve to charge that much!”
Me fuckin’ too.
Hopefully they are keeping these twirlies for deflecting blaster shots
Moves beautifully. Doesn’t seem a double-blade. I thought her stick in VII sugggested it.
too bad for this theory. maybe in 9 ?
Then again, Luke might just not have a double-bladed lightsaber lying around as these were not very common among the Jedi. I’m still holding out hope that when she goes to constructing her own that we’ll see her wielding a saber staff.
Blue double-blade in Satele Shan manner would be perfect for her.
Oh, yeah… 🙂
A lightsaber staff would be great – would fit well with her character and be new, though of course could be cut down to size 😉
But… the picture on top is spoilerific! Shows Rey using a lightsaber at the end of episode VII
There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
She was just borrowing it…..
Rey was the most amazing part of Ep. 7, and will prob be one of the most amazing parts of Ep. 8.
*Kylo was the most amazing part of Ep.7, and will probably be the most amazing part of Ep.8.
Fixed it for you lol.
Rey was the most amazing part of Ep.7, and will prob be one of the most amazing parts of Ep. 8.
You sound like the crybaby.
Poe was the most amazing part of Ep VII and will probably be the second most amazing part of Ep VIII. Because ass kicking Jedi awesomeness Luke Skywalker will be the #1 most amazing part of it, and nothing else will be even close!!!!
BB8 was the most amazing part of Ep.7, and will prob be one of the most amazing parts of Ep. 8.
Never underestimate a droid !
Sounds like you guys discovered “opinions”!
Wh-what are those?! They sound dangerous!
They are. Tread carefully.
Everybody was the most amazing part of Ep.7 and will probably be one of the most amazing parts of Ep. 8.
There! Truly fixed now!
TR-8R was the most amazing part of Ep 7 and will probably be the most amazing part of Ep 8!!
LOL
Daisy needs to put out a work out video though like the Alyssa Milano one of the 80’s, I think too many fans would wind up self-abusing themselves to it….
TMI
“… suggests that the movie isn’t being filmed in-sequence…”
Most films aren’t.
Ahaha, may as well say “This suggests that dogs and cats don’t get along. More at 11.”
Fighting the frizzies.
I’m anxiously awaiting for anything regarding Adam Driver on set…
I would have never pegged you as a Kylo Ren fan. 😉
https://49.media.tumblr.com/f605e9346c7c6de08d35833038df76cd/tumblr_o64texnpUf1um5ccoo1_500.gif
Can’t believe I just saw this…a thousand apologies but enjoy this GIF!
Pretty sure he fell over laughing because she looked a bit goofy, despite kinda’ nailing it.
Think this is just a training session. The concept art for Episode VIII clearly has Rey with her trusted staff, the weapon seems ingrained in her character’s identity. Wouldn’t write off Rey using some kind of double-bladed lightsaber at some point in the trilogy, especially as her trainer is a wushu master (Ray Park is a wushu practitioner).
Are we returning to the twirly style of lightsaber fighting from the prequels?
Hopefully a mixture to connect all the films. It was said that the prequels were the Jedi in their prime, with Vader’s prosthetics hindering his ability with a lightsaber. That being said Luke should of evolved his style, so as /i said something in-between would be good.
“Its coming sooner than folks think”
Actually Mark Hamill stated that he and his trainer for the Original Trilogy tried to convince George Lucas to incorporate that style into ESB and RotJ. He vetoed of course stating that “Lightsabers were really heavy like Excalibur”. Of course he used it in the Prequels as his own idea… 🙂
“Lightsabers were really heavy like Excalibur”.- brilliant! I’ve a prop replica and often imagine what it would be like to wield considering the ‘light/plasma’ or whatever, isn’t going to really effect the weight. Not having the balance of a sword, the handle makes it quite weird to wield on its own, but its not going to have the weight of a sword like Excalibur.