Star Wars Weekly Buzz: New Rogue One Info on IMDb and More.
The week on our Star Wars Weekly Buzz!
The Rogue One IMDb page gets an update; StarWars.com sits down with “Ahsoka” author E.K. Johnston; a couple of cool retro b-film Star Wars posters released; Disney’s new Big Sleeve edition Blu-ray and DVD packaging; Boyega’s commuter train comedy; video with the full writers roundtable from NYCC and more!
This week we start with the news that recently the info on the Rogue One IMDb page got a big update. As you know IMDb can easily be edited by anyone, but this info seems pretty legit. For example they have updated the writing credits. Now they have:
- Chris Weitz … (screenplay) and
- Tony Gilroy … (screenplay)
- John Knoll … (story) and
- Gary Whitta … (story)
Also there are a few new characters listed like:
- Jonathan Aris – Senator Jebel
- Ned Dennehy-Prisoner Shina Shihoko Nagai-Mother of a Lost Child
- Daniel Eghan- Partisan Style Y – Militaman / whatever that means
- Tyrone Love-Rebel Marine Commander / Marines confirmed.
- Steen Young-Vault Officer / Keeper of the DS plans? or a bunker commander?
A new filming location has been added : Morocco.
- Zakaria Alaoui… line producer: plate shoot, Morocco
Several new stunt doubles were added – 9 are marked as “re-shoot”, 3 as additional photography, and the rest are normal:
- Dacio Caballero… stunt double: Diego Luna re-shoots
- Leo Woodruff… stunt double: Ben Mendelsohn re-shoots / stunt performer
You can check the whole listing here. (via StarWars-Union)
Recently, StarWars.com had a chance to catch up with the author to talk about the long wait.
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 11, 2016
Speaking of books, here’s the full video with the writers roundtable from NYCC:
Some of the biggest and best Star Wars authors discuss their approach, process, and reception to writing stories set in a galaxy far, far away. Featuring Timothy Zahn (Heir to the Empire, Thrawn), Chuck Wendig (Aftermath, Life Debt), James Luceno (Tarkin, Catalyst), E.K. Johnston (Ahsoka), Charles Soule (Lando, Obi-Wan & Anakin, Poe Dameron) and Kieron Gillen (Star Wars: Darth Vader). Moderated by Lucasfilm’s Michael Siglain and Jennifer Heddle.
Dreadcentral.com has revealed two posters designed by Illustrator Mark Daniels in which he re-imagines two famous creature encounters from the Star Wars saga. The two posters involve Jabba the Hutt’s dancer ‘Oola’ and Tatooine’s very own Tusken Raiders looking like ‘old school’ retro B-Movie 1950’s horror poster.
Star Wars Gets A B-Movie Horror Makeover In New Posters https://t.co/gkVmzgeo8j via @dreadcentral
— Dreaded Dominions (@DreadDominions) October 11, 2016
Boyega does comedy on a commuter train.
Commuting to the London suburbs, Star Wars actor John Boyega decided to assist in making announcements at each of the 15 stops, telling anecdotes at each one – such as the fact his grandad pronounces Penge ‘Pen-gey’ and also made a few Star Wars-related jokes.
Boyega uploaded a video of his antics to Instagram with the caption ‘So decided to assist my sister @blessingboyega and her amazing colleagues at south eastern rail with some informative announcements. Hope everyone on the 2:40 train to Orpington had fun listening to me talk rubbish #Imrandom.’
He also noted it on his Twitter account also:
To all the passengers on the 2:40 south eastern train to Orpington, thank you for listening to my nonsense 🙂
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) October 7, 2016
Disney reportedly will release Star Wars and other films in ‘Big Sleeve Edition’ collectable vinyl packaging going into 2017.
Get ready for a brand new way to experience and treasure the movies you love, with the Big Sleeve Edition. Presented in a stunning 12-inch sleeve, this beautifully-crafted collector’s item comes with a Blu-ray™ and DVD of the movie, and exclusive 12” art cards you’ll cherish forever. So take home a movie experience the whole family will enjoy, with The Big Sleeve Edition.
Sci-fi blockbuster “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is getting a new ‘Big Sleeve Edition’ release in November – https://t.co/xJDmIWY21O
— SteelBookBluRay (@SteelBookBluRay) October 7, 2016
‘The Force Awakens’ is nominated for a AMA…….
#TheForceAwakens is nominated for Top Soundtrack at the @AMAs! RT and vote here: https://t.co/xsO5tbNJjb #AMAs pic.twitter.com/euoX1X3D0M
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 12, 2016
Rogue One writer Gary Whitta has an interesting comment about the latest episode of Rebels (which he wrote as well):
This week’s #StarWarsRebels feels like it could have been a mission right out of Larry Holland’s Tie Fighter flight sim pic.twitter.com/tvTR8FfZDi
— Trader Samhain’s🍹 (@Oda_CM) October 9, 2016
Nothing happens by accident. https://t.co/kAGqhIPlMm
— Scary Whitta (@garywhitta) October 9, 2016
It seems that we will have our first look at the Gigoran species in the upcoming comic series Doctor Aphra. As a big fan of Moroff from Rogue One, I can’t wait to find out more about these aliens:
Awesome! It appears we will be getting some backstory on the Gigoran aliens in the upcoming Dr. Aphra comic series.https://t.co/O05iuGMlA8 pic.twitter.com/73AZmYcdRK
— SWNN (@StarWarsNewsNet) October 14, 2016
New concept art from the Star Wars Commander expansion trailer:
Check out some of the concept art that we created for our recent Star Wars Commander expansion trailer! https://t.co/a43P21z6Cc pic.twitter.com/4GYiQqRnbZ
— The Sequence Group (@theseqgroup) October 11, 2016
“Very funny. Very funny”. – Short Round: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Star Wars Emergency Room pic.twitter.com/vLFYbxe2Id
— Darth Vader (@DepressedDarth) October 12, 2016
The latest episode of The Star Wars After Show is here:
This week on The Star Wars After Show; Andi Gutierrez sits down with Lucasfilm employees and Star Wars Fans Leland Chee, Justin Bolger, and Cara Pardo talk about the new Rogue One trailer, their thoughts on the new poster, and the newly announced Doctor Aphra comic.
The Pablo Hidalgo Spot
Maz likes to knit in her spare time!
Fun fact: The name of Maz Kanata’s ship in the Complete Locations book is a knitting term. 🙂
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) October 11, 2016
That’s not Qui-Gon in the Jedha sand.
@DCCutlerSports It’s gotta be far, far older than Qui-Gon.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) October 14, 2016
Considering the above comment, it surely is not Obi-Wan as well, but that doesn’t mean that the fans can’t speculate on that.
@Mikey_Brennan Nah, the trailer only just came out. Now’s the time for rampant rumors.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) October 13, 2016
The aliens that we’ve seen in the Rogue One trailer are new ones.
@GlenEwing Yep.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) October 13, 2016
I guess the case is closed about Vader’s inner cape.
The best gift? Finally have something to point to when Rogue One Vader inner cape fret tweets fill my timeline.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) October 13, 2016
Are we ever going to see George Lucas’ story for Episode VII?
What is Disney’s influence on all new Star Wars projects.
Stay tuned for more newt week.
“From the fertile mind of Gary Whitta’!!
Both flawed movies, but both with excellent concepts and some great moments.
Book of Eli was great. After Earth was written to the specifications of Will Smith.
and the “church” of Scientology. 😉
Book of Eli isn’t bad at all. After Earth was a Smith family vanity project, which I suspect impacted the script. He hasn’t written anything else. Hardly a body of work to judge him by.
John Boyega is the Mark Hamill of the new series, kind and affable, my kind of star
Does this mean that Boyega’s career will tank after 2019?
No it means he will be a legendary voice actor that basically plays every animated role that’s iconic and beloved by the generations that follow them.
nice cop-out on Pablo’s part regarding the absence of classic aliens. i have nothing against introducing new species but completely discarding the OT/PT ones is rubbish
That’s one of my biggest gripes with the new movies. If we’re not seeing Rodians and Twi’Leks, it just doesn’t feel like the same galaxy.
exactly, to me it ruins the continuity a lot. plus a cantina scene in TFA that did not feature a single original cantina alien felt like a middle fingner to Lucas saying ‘see we can have a cantina scene too and have only our own aliens in it!!’. it just doesnt makes sense especially with most of them bein utterly forgettable. to me TPM had the best balance: all of the original ones + some new ones (gungans, dougs, Watto species and all of these Boonta racers)
” cantina scene in TFA that did not feature a single original cantina alien felt like a middle fingner to Lucas saying ‘see we can have a cantina scene too and have only our own aliens in it!!’.”
more likely it was “That cantina scene was so cool, we want to try our own!”
I seriously doubt anything was a middle finger to Lucas.
It wasn’t a middle finger. But given the number of new aliens, would it really have hurt just to throw in one or two established ones in the background as fan service? I don’t really accept the argument that they couldn’t. It wouldn’t have inhibited their creativity, especially considering that overall the look and feel of TFA is far more slavish to the OT then the prequels ever were.
They have, there are Mon Calamari.
What the fuck is anyone even arguing over here?
There are no Mon Calamari in the cantina scene.
But the werewolf looking guy wasn’t an explicit callback to the one in the original cantina scene?
No. That was based on old Ralph McQuarrie art.
http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2012/03/04/2adccc16-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/resize/620×465/342191cd1cb515525d0186061aa12dd3/McQuarrie_SW7.jpg
As was the original one
Considering they did in other places, it’s not a big deal.
And since it was a sequel to the OT, the look and feel should have felt more like it than the PT.
There were at least two original trilogy aliens in Maz’s castle. The old man looking one, and the Wolfman looking one.
Lots of great new alien designs in TFA, all a mix of classics SW and something new. Like Jabba’s palace, which also introduced a lot of new designs (plus a single Rodian and native Jawas)
That’s kind of childish to me. I want to see new aliens, not the same old.
Why not both?
I want to see new things AND old, but I don’t get upset when things I have already seen are not in the new movie I am saying.
Being a Star Wars fan doesn’t make one childish.
That depends on who you ask.
Man, you must hate ESB
That doesn’t make any damn sense at all. It’s my favorite movie ever. Care to elaborate on that comment? Because it seems very silly to me right now. You likely missed the point I was trying to make, so try again, please.
By how it deviated from the alien standard.
Things like that don’t have an affect on a movie’s quality to me. I am not like some of these other people who demand to see what they want and cry if they don’t get it. I have no expectations or demands on any aliens in any movies, Star Wars or otherwise.
Show me new, show me old, but mostly, show me a good story.
ESB apparently didn’t feel like the same galaxy to you either.
ESB was on a barren ice planet, in space, and on one mining facility run by a specific race of aliens. So no, it didn’t bother me.
You’d think there would have been more on Cloud City.
Yeah, but it’s just one location in one film, so I can accept that we happen not to see any familiar ones. When we start seeing multiple populated locations in multiple films and not seeing any aliens that we commonly see, it starts looking off. This all probably bothers me because I grew up with the Prequels and The Clone Wars, where new and old species were always present in most populated locations.
Maz’s Castle is not exactly a populated PLANET.
I didn’t say planet
I sure as hell didn’t expect there to be tons of aliens on Starkiller base
No. Jakku and Maz’s castle should have had something at least. Even if it’s just a couple.
They had the one obscure one that was in the Mos Eisely Cantina. But so what? People bitch about it being a rehash then bitch about not enough rehash aliens.
We all have preferences, and we come here to voice them. What I would have preferred is a new story in the same galaxy. What I feel we got was the same story in a new galaxy (characters and vehicles aside). So yes, I’m going to bitch (or critique, as I like to call it).
Was a Stennes Shifter like in ANH in Maz’s place. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stennes_Shifter
Good catch, I hadn’t noticed that. But this species is so obscure that it does nothing for my feelings about the issue. Same as the werewolf guy in Maz’s castle (which was only in the original version of ANH if I’m correct). There are common aliens that seem to be in most places (Twi’Leks and Rodians for example, which is why I mentioned them), that we should be seeing, and just make the galaxy feel like Star Wars. Even Rebels has been doing this very well.
I have seen people mentioning an Aqualish in Rogue One (I haven’t seen him myself), but that would be more along the lines of what I’m personally looking for.
Behind Jyn in her cell is an Aqualish, Pablo Hidago confirmed it. It’s a quick shot in the trailer. You have to freeze frame.
That’s more like it
Though not technically an Ithorian but an off-shoot of the species, the character of Praster Ommlen is an Ottegan. As described in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary
Yeah, I saw that guy. I don’t know why they didn’t just make him an Ithorian instead, though. I wouldn’t have had to be this skeptical of them.
Have they not shown a Mon Cal is going to appear in this movie?
And Ackbar was in TFA, but that’s just one species. There are so many others that used to seem much more prominent than the Mon Cal, that we haven’t been seeing at all.
Still you cannot really call something absent when their are two or three of them in the new movies.
You’re right, but still, that’s just two Mon Cals and a Wookiee (two of whom are characters who could not be left out, so shouldn’t really count) among humans and scores of unfamiliar aliens. The rest of the classics are completely absent.
Were we on the same planets as the other films?
Humans aren’t the only species that live on more than one planet, so they shouldn’t make it look that way.
Sorry, I just can’t understand this thinking. By showing us new and showing us how much bigger the galaxy is (which is what Lucas always tried and wanted to do), how does this DISCARD the OT/PT aliens? They can’t always have Rodians.
No, they could use of the other 213 species we have seen so far that inhabits this galaxy
Or make new ones.
There’s a ANH:SE alien sharing a cell with Jyn Erso
No he ended up being a new one, but an Aqualish is in there with her too.
its some blatant alien washing on disney’s part and i won’t stand for it.
Big galaxy?
I actually made a list of how many alien species that has been introduced in Star Wars canon so far, i got to 215.I personally think it is time to stop introducing new ones and use what is there.
Do you have a lot of time on your hands?
That half of a day it took me, yes i had nothing else to do and i was curious
Fair enough.
I too would like to see some returning ones, and I don’t think there have been enough. One of the few things I liked about the prequels was that Lucas had both a smattering of old and the new.
However, I don’t agree that the new movies “completely disgard” older aliens. After all both have Mon Calamari and a Sullustan.
Do you want the Star Wars galaxy to expand? Or shrink?
This movie already has a lot “shrink” built into it.
TIE Fighters. X-Wings. Imperial Star Destroyers. Y-Wings. The original Death Star. Stormtroopers. Familiar Rebel capital ships.
This is part nostalgia, part requirement due to the time frame the film was shot in.
Makes sense that aliens was the easiest way to add to the Universe rather than just keep things static.
He also said it would be a mix of old and new. Just because they didn’t add any old to Maz’s Castle. Double edged sword people bitch if it’s rehash then they bitch about not enough rehash.
why does it matter what lucas wrote? we should be looking forward, not backwards.
I don’t think it “matters” per se. But the saga is his story. He created it all, so from the point of view of curiosity it is interesting to see how he may have done it. It’s a bit like wondering how Gene Roddenberry would’ve approached a third Star Trek series had he not died and had Deep Space Nine not been made.
Of course, there will also be the anti-TFA who want to read it just so they can proclaim it vastly superior… lol 😉
its probably heresy among trek fans to say this but i’m glad roddenberry didn’t because DS9 was my favorite series.
anyway, the point is lucas willingly sold the company and stepped away, so his opinions on the ST don’t matter. its like asking your ex wife what she thinks of your new girl friend. nothing good will come from it.
Well, like I say, it’s not about it mattering. For most it’s simply curiosity. I don’t see what is so wrong about curiosity. It’s not as if his versions will ever get made.
thats true. for me i just want to put it to bed instead of opening a whole new chapter of the pro – anti lucas war. this is the golden age of sw after all, we should be happy. 😉
The pro/anti Lucas stuff is never going away. After all, it’s almost 20 years since Phantom Menace!
All the more reason to put it to bed.
It’s just a curiosity.
some of it is, but i think others are looking for ammo to use against TFA. there is no way to know what his version would have looked like on the screen yet they’d compare the two endlessly anyway.
Well his version was just a treatment and treatments change drastically. But the morons have no idea about things like that.
In every movie we have the chance to See new aliens, For example, We have rodians, in ANH, ithorians, biths none of them appears in ESB neither ROTJ, actually every film in the OT had new characters and aliens. It’s until the PT that we have a larger inclusion of old and new aliens, and its almost in every “senate” scene.
For me The Mon Calamari are one of the most popular and Iconic races out there, just as popular as Twilikes and Togrutas and I’m happy to see them again, I really don’t mind at all that we have new alien races and only 1 or 2 of the Old Ones.
BUT is not the Case despicte many people think, we had good old familiar alien species in TFA, Cosians for example, Mon calamari and Sullustans.
Just because they din’t put a Twilike or the alien race you like that doesn’t mean they are only geting “new” aliens. Besides isa mo**** f**** GALAXY!!!! you know how many alien races are out there?
Currently at least 215
TBH I have never care less for “Legends” alien species, in the movies are only 45, and a lot of them are pretty ugly and have that 70’s cheap sci fi movie feeling around them.
To be honest we didn’t have like a LOT of alien species to work with that really have a good appeal, and the better example is that in TFA there are at least 8 of old species that no one cares about… This is just like all of the hate to Disney and/or TFA have, is for a childish reason and missinformation not real facts.
There are far more than 45 alien species in the movies and you can’t ignore all the other canon TV-shows, comics and novels that have been produced over the last two years now
i’m waiting for them to bring the ETs back. they are canon after all.
Nobody seems to have work out yet that Elliot’s ET was a force user.
How else do you explain the bike and the mind tricks?
so it wasn’t the power of love then? 😉
Not unless you’re saying ET was a paedo.
Dammit, you’ve ruined it for me. I’ll never look at his glowing red finger the same now…..
don’t check out ET the porno then. 😉
There’s a porno?? Say it ain’t so!
yep. the cinema snob did a review of it several years ago(I don’t have an ET fetish i promise).
Rodians and Bith do appear in ROTJ, well the special edition anyway. But I take your point.
But at the same time, the more movies you have set in or around the same time, the less sense it makes that you don’t see already established aliens. It’s like making a movie about a city like London or New York and featuring a new type of immigrant each time, but not going back to include those you know already live there. Sooner or later you ask, “we know they’re there, why not feature them from time to time”? Plus, they tend to act as a connective tissue that can link the whole saga and spin offs together IMO.
True but then a Galaxy is so incredibly huge it’s downright laughable to even compare it to a city. Or one planet for that matter. I completely get the comparison you’re making…but even if they made 100 movies, with new species in everyone, and barely any recognizeable ones, it could still be more than feesable.
Always been a Rodian in RotJ
An Aqualish was confirmed by Pablo, it was seen near Jyn in the trailer.
ESB has the least amount of sentient aliens overall. Ugnaughts which we never saw in the movies again before or after.
Tarkin is in Rogue One, everyone thinks it’s Krennic in this scene, but Krennic is in front https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/889cfb78f2cfc3c0deb776f1231a5c19ab4a26872b3160da93b8f32175a3d39f.png
i want that to be tarkin, but isn’t that hair a little too dark?
Tarkin might be in Rogue one, but that ain’t him. Hair is too dark and not thinning enough.
I personally think he looks a lot more like General Tagge than Tarkin, but everyone seems to be plugging for the latter.
I hope they’ve managed to find a convincing, non creepy way of having Tarkin is in this, but I don’t think that’s him.
Wrong head shape, and his hair is infinitely too dark.
Bail Organa
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d8dee1bfffe39dd08d9eab2d6f5626f4aebff8b3d9535c0e2bd58ail
Bail Organa
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d8dee1bfffe39dd08d9eab2d6f5626f4aebff8b3d9535c0e2bd5888cd14ef0e7.jpg
Nice, I was wondering where people were seeing him in this trailer.