Star Wars Weekly Buzz! Mark Hamill Defends Jake Lloyd, Josh Gad Continues to Troll Daisy Ridley and More
This week in our Star Wars Weekly Buzz: it’s the 20th anniversary of the Star Wars Special Editions, Josh Gad continues to annoy Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill defends Jake Lloyd, Conan O’Brien explains the meaning of The Last Jedi, new Rogue One LEGO mini movie debuts, the latest from Pablo Hidalgo and more…
Twenty years ago Star Wars returned to a theater near you!
On January 31st 1997, audiences took a trip to a galaxy far far away like never before, when the Star Wars Trilogy returned to cinemas across the world in a brand new, digitally remastered version.
Part 3: Rogue One, ILM’s Digital Humans Sci-Tech Award winning pipeline
FXGuide shows you how John Knoll and the team at ILM used Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to push the boundaries of visual effects. Just how did Tarkin come to life? Find out!
You can read the entire article here.
Josh Gad continues to try to find out some The Last Jedi spoilers from Daisy Ridley.
Had follow-up w/ Daisy Ridley on set today to apologize for #StarWars #TheLastJedi sneak attack last week. Suffice it to say didn’t go well pic.twitter.com/keVz0xgqLQ
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) February 1, 2017
Mark Hamill Defends Jake Lloyd
Mark Hamill spoke with Vulture about how he’s “still angry about the way people treated young Jake Lloyd” for Lloyd’s performance in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. He says Lloyd and the prequels got a bad wrap.
“He was only ten years old…[Lloyd] did exactly what George wanted him to do.”
You can see the entire Vulture interview below….
Conan O’Brien’s “exclusive” footage from Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
On Wednesday night’s episode of Conan O’Brien, the hilarious late night talk show host announced to the audience that the show was able to obtain some “exclusive” footage from upcoming “The Last Jedi” film. An excited crowd awaited the arrival of the footage and here is what they saw! Spoilers
New Rogue One LEGO Star Wars – Mini Movie Infiltration
An all-new Lego mini movie clip has hit the net. The clip features Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus fighting along side Jyn Erso and K-2SO as they infiltrate Scarif in search of the Death Star plans.
A better look at John Swartz’ character from Rogue One.
#RogueOne #StarWars another cameo revealed in the latest #StarWarsShow , co-producer John Swartz pic.twitter.com/ZtpiFJJbDg
— SW Comlink (SWNN) (@starwarscomlink) February 1, 2017
Time magazine has a new interview with Riz Ahmed.
Meet the ‘Rogue One’ actor who scored the role of a lifetime https://t.co/F0EKonULeD pic.twitter.com/DzeYv7c2Sp
— TIME (@TIME) January 29, 2017
Some pretty interesting and self explanatory tweets from StarWars.com:
Happy birthday to Warwick Davis AKA Wicket, AKA Wollivan, AKA Weeteef Cyubee, AKA… well, you get the idea! pic.twitter.com/3gG37ylM1V
— Star Wars UK (@StarWarsUK) February 3, 2017
At George Lucas’ suggestion, Glyn Dillon’s concept for #RogueOne‘s stormtrooper tank commander incorporated a unique helmet design. pic.twitter.com/q0tbiJNc3B
— Star Wars (@starwars) February 2, 2017
An unconventional Imperial. #RogueOne pic.twitter.com/8198lvb9J4
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 31, 2017
We talk to the CEO of Hot Toys, makers of some of the coolest and most realistic Star Wars figures around.https://t.co/49Yvu3r5OK pic.twitter.com/Widy4YeoDg
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 30, 2017
Imperial couture. #RogueOne pic.twitter.com/ycZlhiywso
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 30, 2017
The Pablo Hidalgo Spot!
Ironically, the 1997 version of these movies are harder to find that the originals, supplanted by the DVD editions and others.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) January 31, 2017
Not that I ended up with it. My friend did. He asked, can I have that standee when you’re done? They handed it over. Free. pic.twitter.com/YnhN1Obmri
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) January 31, 2017
@javi_golden If it was a really compelling story, maybe, though in all likelihood Raddus is dead.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@MeLestation They learned a certain trick from a certain someone, as revealed at the end of Episode III & The Clone Wars.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@VitasVarnas Nah. It’s a behind-the-scenes thing and should stay that way.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@GILinRealLife There was a 13 year old Anakin in one version. I don’t recall the queen being any younger.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@KruszynskiAdam Yeah, 4K is 8.3 megapixels. Episode II was shot at 2.2 megapixels. https://t.co/3yGNLRwfgk
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@ThisIsJustToSa1 Yoda’s vision strongly implies that. But who knows? Wouldn’t want to rob a future storyteller of a tale for a tweet’s sake.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 3, 2017
@twitnatreed I figured it fired as close to the tower as the angle of the orbit allowed, knowing the impact would disrupt any transmission
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
@Cash_Craig I will say Kylo feels like the right type of villain for today.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
@mojong_c I don’t know. John Knoll came up with that name, I believe.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
@chupswinnie No. Galaxy of Heroes is encouraged to draw content from EA’s current titles, including SWTOR Legends mythology
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
@therealduffcon They shuttled up to the Profundity before it left Scarif along with the rest of the fleet.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
@twitnatreed It had left Geonosis years earlier. I would guess Scarif. Or thereabouts.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) February 2, 2017
Stay tuned for more next week.
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Daisy is really cute, but I’m faithful to Felicity (love English women, Liz Hurley, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Watson…)
Ridley’s british too…
Haha !!
Re: “Ridley’s british too…”
Can’t wait to see what he’s done with Alien: Covenant too! 😉
Best. Name. Pun. Ever. Really XD
Yep, I know, but my all time crush has to be Liz Hurley
which is weird cause your so gay in this headshot. hm.
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It’s hard to believe that twenty years ago we were all finding it hard to believe that Star Wars was 20 years old.
Harder to believe that in that same span of time from now Star Wars will be 60!!!
Dude. I know. It’s crazy. And it makes me feel old. Maybe because I’m getting old. For some reason, Star Wars being 40 I’m able to swallow, but the Special Editions being 20 years old boggles my mind.
Did Daisy have Princess Leia buns in that video??
Doubtful. It’s for Murder on the Orient Express
Looks like buns to me!
Buns… Buns… just fun to say.
Pablo should just say this what happens when you make movies 40 years apart, not every little thing is going to link up and that’s fine.
That’s not really a valid defense if what you’re doing is selling a giant, interconnected universe of movies, and the question is about the actions of a main character over the span of a couple of weeks at most. That said, I’m perfectly content with “there are a LOT of blockade runners, Vader didn’t see Leia on board the ship that escaped Scarif, so he may not have had proof that it was the same ship”.
if you want to lose sleep over so trivial a problem be my guest.
Got to love Hamill. Stand up guy for defending a kid, the faults for the PT are down to Lucas and people should never attack a kid IMO.
Agreed. It wasn’t Jake’s fault for GL’s awful directing. He had no control over that. And besides; children actors good ones are a dime a dozen. It isn’t a slight on kids. They often lack of the awareness and are still developing.
It is why Stranger Things was seen as so great as the children actors there were amazing. They had prior experience. But really, Stranger Things is the exception. Not the standard.
They also weren’t ten. A couple of years makes an ENORMOUS difference at that age. As a side note, I think that you’ve got your metaphor confused – ‘a dime a dozen’ would imply that the thing you’re talking about is easy to come by, whereas I assume you’re meaning is that it’s not easy to find good child actors.
You are right about the confused metaphor. I was in a bit of a rush and when i posted it I realized it. Thanks, though for letting me know. And you are right. A couple of years is a big difference, along with some experience.
I know those kids did star in stuff beforehand, whether it be in theater or small roles on TV. Jake Lloyd I know did Jingle All the Way which was a horrible movie and he was equally as bad. But your point stands: a lack of experience also did Jake in as well as horrible direction.
I’m trying to figure out if the Gad/Ridley bits are staged.
Either way we still don’t know more.
who cares?
Obviously, I do? Or I wouldn’t have asked.
But you want to be passive aggressive in your shit talk.
You’re welcome to piss right off.
If it’s not staged then I can’t see Gad ever working with Daisy again.
Daaaamn! Daisy got buns son!