Star Wars Weekly Social Buzz!
This week on the Star Wars Social Buzz, Mark Hamill’s receives a very cool looking art piece from Jim Lee, we check out one of George Lucas’s original film he created as a student in college, the car company Nissan goes ‘Rogue’, Billionaire Bill Gates agrees that Star Wars can be used as a learning tool, Pablo Hidalgo sets the record straight on a fan remembering of Bothans, an extended version of Kevin Smith’s interview on ‘The Star Wars Show’, and more…
This week we start with Daisy Ridley and her appearance on the My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast that we mentioned yesterday. Here’s a selection from the podcast in which Daisy talks Episode VIII and gave a few tine hints about the movie:
Mark Hamill receiving the piece that artist Jim Lee created just for him (as we shared on a previous Buzz).
A photo posted by Mark Hamill (@hamillhimself) on
New art book titled Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy will be released on October 25.
“Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy” arrives October 25. More: https://t.co/KS4ATM2gmf pic.twitter.com/IqieNoN14U
— Star Wars (@starwars) August 26, 2016
Next up! IndieWire recently uncovered a student film from George Lucas before he built his Star Wars empire. Back in those days, George was a simple a student at the University of Southern California film school where he made a very cool three-minute short called “Freiheit,”!
Check out this rarely seen student film below.
Nissan goes Rogue.
The automaker begins its partnership with Lucasfilm in a promotional campaign in support of the Rogue One film. Much like Duracell and others did with their marketing campaign last year for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, General Mills, Gillette and Verizon also have joined the Rebellion for the marketing campaign of the spin-off film. Note: Notice the Death Star’s reflection in the cars windshield? Very Cool!
More on the Lucasfilm announcement of its Rogue One promotional campaign sponsors can be seen here…
Lucasfilm announces “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” promotional campaign partnershttps://t.co/GCv9edIdMH
— Inside the Magic (@InsideTheMagic) August 22, 2016
Bill Gates agrees that ‘Star Wars’ can get kids excited to learn. He talks about it in a recently released Forbes magazine article. Gates wrote about Nate Bowling on his Gatenotes blogspot, Nate was 2016’s Teacher of the Year in Washington state. The teacher uses Star Wars to get kids excited about education. Gates even admit he has been a long time Star Wars fan… Bravo! Mr. Gates!
Check out the video here!
Disney’s Star Wars Land Update!
Concrete walls are being built at an amazing speed at Disneyland for its “Star Wars Land” project. Recently, construction crews have built the first walls around the new channel for the Rivers of America in Frontierland. You can check out the progress being made in this video courtesy of the OCregister.com.
An extended clip from Kevin Smith’s interview, which aired on Episode 15 of the ‘The Star Wars Show’, was released this week on the official StarWars youtube channel. Smith talks more about how Star Wars has created a generation of dreamers and filmmakers. Check it out!
The latest episode of the Star Wars After Show is here. This week Andi and her guests talk about the history of Star Wars and Disneyland, the new Stormtroomers in Marvel Star Wars, and more!
WhytheLongPlayFace.com via Collider has posted a series pop cultural imagery that takes classic shots of Star Wars characters and meshes them with similar poses and aesthetics from some of music’s most timeless album covers. Artist Steven Lear, a.k.a. WhyTheLongPlayFace, has meshed images that include Harrison Ford’s Solo replacing David Bowie’s on the Heroes album cover, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon essentially becoming Dark Side of the Death Star, and several more. You have got to check the entire collection out. Very cool indeed!
And last but not least, here’s a different take on the Rogue One trailer…
The Pablo Hidalgo Spot
Pablo posted a few interesting Tweets via his Twitter page about fans misremembering the cold hard facts about Bothans.
Just based on ROTJ, the Bothan data told the rebels 1) where the DS2 was, 2) that it wasn’t operational 3) that the Emperor was there.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 23, 2016
Odd thing: Beyond people misremembering the Bothans stole the first DS plans, they never stole plans at all. pic.twitter.com/i4mMtAF0OR
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 23, 2016
On the Story Group involvement with the Marvel comics:
@ForrestJSS The team works pretty closely with the editorial team in publishing and at Marvel.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 25, 2016
On Luke, Leia and Han’s agein TFA:
@SamMarksGreen Luke and Leia were about 53 or 54. Han’s age is unknown (I don’t think he’s ever known his actual age)
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 24, 2016
On the conflicting info from TPM and AOTC novels:
@Retzius75 I’d go with what’s in the TPM movie. Yoda says he’s against it. Always go with the movie.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 24, 2016
This one doesn’t need comment:
@Joseph_Plant @jamesjawa @MagnesD3 i don’t want to be a clickbait headline. LFL Guy Sheds Light On Huge Mystery (by stating obvious)
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 23, 2016
On who came up with Snoke’s name:
@JediMasterPlant Either JJ or Larry. Don’t know which.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) August 22, 2016
On if Kylo is a Sith:
On Rey’s Force-Back:
On padawans:
On the guidelines and limits for new stories in comics and books:
Stay tuned for more next week.
Wow, someone phoned in the Photoshop of that Nissan Rogue. The windshield is convex and yet the Death Star reflection is completely flat. Amateur hour.
Possibly the effort reflects the bottom line value of this marketing team up. I mean, seriously, what is in this for Nissan?
Nerd dollars? I dunno. I never understood these kind of marketing deals.
“Never knew Han’s age”? That’s new, and I’m sure it fits their plans for the new Han Solo spinoff…
They used to list it as 29 in ANH but Harrison was 34, so I guess it will be within that.
Yes, I have always heard 29 as Han’s age as well. Maybe they now prefer him to be more like Ford’s actual age of 34 so as to make room for a slightly older Han in the “young Han Solo” movie they are planning. They can then set it comfortably before A New Hope, say ten years before, and still have a mid-twenties Han instead of making Alden Ehrenreich (26) play a 19-year-old.
It is however well established that Leia was 19 in A New Hope, and the age gap between her and her future boyfriend/husband would grow even more, from a full decade to more like a decade and a half. (Mysteriously, nobody ever complains about this, but it is often portrayed as incredibly creepy, weird and unnatural that Padmé was a mere five years older than Anakin. Different rules for boys and girls, hm?)
I say split hairs and make him 31.5. But if Larry Kasdan was correct he said the Han Solo movie takes place 10 years before ANH, Alden will be 27 when he starts filming the Solo movie.
I don’t get the “creepiness” if both people are adults and consent. Regardless of the age gap.
Nice point – though getting rid of this sort of bias seems just like the thing they would do in the new canon (with more racial variety, strong female leads, rumoured homosexual characters,…). Seems just about time!
Interesting to see you here, btw., mellon nín!
This is ex- Sindarin.de’s Lothenon 😉
I asked the question to Pablo on twitter around a year ago and he gave me the same answer that Han probably never knew exactly how old he was.
I would like to see the anthology film where Han Solo gets facial plastic surgery, which will explain why he doesn’t look like Harrison Ford in later movies.
I’m thinking they will do the best they can to make Alden look more like Ford, haircut, make-up, etc. This is 2016, they can do things like that a lot better than they used to.
And also, it’s a movie and parts get recast so let’s chill
Yeah, and when they start shooting the movie, it will be … 2017! Imagine all the cool stuff they will be able to do THEN!
In the FUTURE!
Yes. Alden will probably look so much like a young Harrison Ford that Harrison will be completely confused: “Why, I can’t remember playing in this movie around 1970!”
It’s not new. Even in an EU book, Han wasn’t sure about his age.
His character bio in Super Star Wars said 28.
Right, but other sources were unclear on his age or implied he didn’t know how exact age. And Super Star Wars is FAR from the most definitive source.
I know. I was just throwing this out there because it was the first time I ever remember ages for the characters published in any format.
Yeah, same here.
That’s not a reflection of the Death Star on the windshield of that car. It is a Death Star cosplayer sitting in the passenger seat while waiting for his mom to get her butt out there and drive him to Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 before he has a hissy fit.
That’s no moon… it’s my son.
Snoke – the worst new character name in new canon – discuss
Wait a tic, Pablo. If the bothans didnt steel the plans to the DS part deux, how did the rebels know both what it looked like and that they could fly into the main reactor? That seems like a hell of gamble to just assume they could.
To be fair, if they didn’t think it was operational and brought in a few cruisers like they did, maybe they thought they could just shoot the heck out of it?
It was designed to stop a large scale assault. I doubt even the entire rebel fleet could destroy it.
It was all one big death trap planned by the Emperor too. As he said.
Scout ships spying and it’s obvious it would have a power source at the center.
i’m saying how did they know they could fly into the reactor, not that it existed. they built their whole plan around that assumption. scout ships are a possibility, but if they got all the intel plus were able to case the place without the empire stopping them and they still didn’t realize it was a trap?
Obviously, they got that intel somehow or another. You usually confirm information like that, so they did. They just didn’t explain it.
Lando says to lock onto the strongest power source. They did at least have an image of the Death Star’s current state of construction.
Answered.
point.
They used the same technology as Starkiller Base, which allowed them to see something 100,000 light years away in real-time, magnified as if it was as close as a moon.
“Pablo, can you just say in plain words that Snoke isn’t plagueis?” “If I did that I would be feeding the click-bait! Soooooo….no. no I will not. ”
Sigh. I’ve got a new conspiracy theory – Pablo doesn’t really work for LFL, he’s really Supershadow.