UPDATE! No New The Force Awakens Footage to be Shown in Amsterdam on October 7th!
One of our readers from the Netherlands sent us a very interesting article posted on a local newspaper. According to this piece, on October 7th an exclusive The Force Awakens featurette will be shown during an event in Amsterdam, in a place called De Melkweg! Read on for the full details…
From Telegraaf.nl: (translated via Google)
The magazine Shocking News reports that on October 7th a special Star Wars night will be held at De Melkweg in Amsterdam to prepare the fans for the new film The Force Awakens, which will premiere mid-December.Â
There is also going to be a screening of a special ‘featurette’ exclusively provided by Disney!
I think it’s safe to assume that the featurette will have some new footage from the movie or from the making of it, especially since it is exclusively provided by Disney. Or could this be the Behind the Scenes footage from SDCC? We just have to wait 6 more days to find out.
October has just started, and there are already several indications that this month will be particularly interesting. Just a few hours ago we received another report from another source that J.J. Abrams will be doing a screening of The Force Awakens this week. We don’t know any more details on the screening, but the same source also added that there will be yet another event happening in the next 2 weeks in the US. He was not sure what it will be, but he suggested that it could be something that could lead to the new trailer later this month.
Special thanks to Bart for the heads up.
UPDATE!
We received a word from one of our sources, who confirmed that there will be no new footage shown in Amsterdam. They will be showing the BTS video that premiered at SDCC as well as the second TFA teaser trailer. Not sure why the quoted site above tried to mislead the fans.
We also learned that before the full trailer is released, no new footage from TFA will be shown anywhere. The next thing we see from TFA will be the full trailer! Now the question is when…
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Yes, the next phase begins! 🙂
Sounds like marketing fluff that will just tell us what we already know but I hope not.
I’m assuming they are saving all the good stuff for the final trailer.
Seems cool, but wouldn’t surprise me if the featurette provided is the one they showed at SDCC or a re-edit of it.
I’m sure JJ is very nervous right now because he wants it to be perfect. I feel for the guy. It’s a lot of pressure. Hopefully he doesn’t over think it and over tweak it the edit. Let it be natural JJ!
*Like he cares what I think. haha
I think you’re right. Biggest project of his whole life. Could make him a legend.
There is no “could” about it. After this project, he will either be a Legend, or a Failure. Star Wars fans are relentlessly extreme in either direction.
Google translated (Dutch to English):
Yeah. I don’t want it to be perfect. I want it to be good.
The (long confirmed to be true) leaked synopsis sure as hell doesn’t SOUND like JJ was trying to make it perfect, or even remotely good. In fact, it’s so f***ing terrible it seems more like he went out of his way to make the worst movie he possibly could. What an unbelievably despicable hack.
Meds, take them now.
lolz
Fine, don’t believe me. Wait until the film comes out, and you can see just how godawful it is.
Hey, a planet that looks just like Tatooine, but isn’t? And the other two planets are a clone of Endor, but not, and a clone of Hoth, but not? “Resistance” instead of “Rebellion,” “Knights of Ren” instead of “Sith,” “The Starkiller” instead of the “Death Star” (and yet ANOTHER superweapon, after RotJ got criticized for that rehash). Wow, seems awfully UNORIGINAL. Like Star Trek into Darkness all over again, only this time even WORSE.
Hey, where’s Luke Skywalker? What the hell was up with that Entertainment Weekly article that said his screentime was “still in question?” Luke’s gonna be in it, right? RIGHT? How about the other part of that Entertainment Weekly article that said “what if Luke were LESS than what we knew?” What? What do they mean “less?” What, are they going to make Luke some kind of jerk or bad guy now? What the hell? He’s this immensely beloved fictional character who was active and compassionate and cared about his friends, why the hell would they ruin his character, this is Atticus Finch all over again.
FYI all the answers to these questions are out, and of course the answer to all of them is the worst thing imaginable. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of stuff wrong with TFA.
You didn’t take them, did you?
You are taking the supposed rumors as fact?! It’s not even confirmed yet! You just need to calm down and watch the movie.
Oh, while usually I tell people that I understand their concern for this movie, your don’t, because your words are nothing but poison and pessimism. imagine when the film comes out and you call it the worst simply because of JJ, are people gonna take you seriously for that? No way, that is not a very mature verdict for a very hyped movie, keeping a low level for it will make it very damaging for your psyche because you wasted all of your negative energy into something great, go and learn that please.
You’re a fucking moron. It’s not pessimism, it’s the terrible awful truth. OBVIOUSLY I don’t hate it just because of Abrams, not that he hasn’t given filmgoers plenty of reason to do so, but originally I thought he’d probably do a fine job. I hate it because it’s fucking terrible for the reasons I’ve said, and we know it’s fucking terrible at this point.
‘Hey, a planet that looks just like Tatooine, but isn’t?’
Don’t forget that he named the planet after himself and Kathleen Kennedy. Also, there’s the pathetic Beastie Boys references with Ello Asty etc. He’s being embarrassingly self indulgent with something that means so much to so many.
‘the unforgivable hack job which has the exact same things happen all over again for no reason’.
Cantina scenes, cell breaks, hiding in the smuggling hatch of the falcon, The plot being about Luke / Anakin’s old lightsaber (which Luke didn’t care about when he lost, he just made another one and moved on).
Lazy storytelling and exposition (flashback scenes?) and mistaken fan service. We don’t want to see the same thing again – we want something new, a proper continuation in the same Star Wars spirit.
Patience man! Just have some patience!
THIS: “a proper continuation in the same Star Wars spirit.” All this new Star Wars garbage that’s coming out is a lazy and inferior rehash of what’s come before and, especially in the case of Rogue One and with some of Force Awaken’s tone issues etc, not even close to the Star Wars spirit.
Oooh maaan (nunur & leymi)… These very valid points hurt my hopes and expectations a bit… I understand why you are upset.
Still, let me ask you this : would you rather they stopped production and canceled the movie right now (star wars would remain 6 movies), or give them a shot and see the result before destroying it in your brains before seeing it ?
Personally, I think one very awesome thing in the prequels is still here right now : the anticipation. Even though the result of I II & III were not exactly as high as I would have wanted, imagining it before it came out was incredible. And even right now… How many hours reading all these comments of yours, just daydreaming about this universe we all love in our mind…
So I say to you, I understand your points, but let those guys dream as well… JJ can direct for sure, Kasdan write cool lines, ILM will definitely make some good images, the music will be good… I mean, the best in the world are working on this thing… And will it be a movie that fulfills everyone’s expectations? Maybe not, but before we actually see it, let’s be positive guys please…
It’s a new Star Wars movie! It’s fun! Let’s talk and be disapointed after seeing it! Come on now.
Fuck positivity. I’ll say what the hell I think based on what’s been presented. I’m fucking sick of the nazi-like censorship of saying anything negative about this film on garbage sites like the Jedi Council Forums (the worst website on the internet, everyone there can fucking die). Star Wars fandom has become theonering.net and it fucking sucks ass.
Oh okay I see. Of course you can say whatever you feel like, no one said otherwise. As I said before you made some valid points. I don’t feel my message was so nazi like but hey, everyone have their own feelings.
“Fuck positivity” sounds a bit harsh though. Honestly it’s not what I could say even if the movie sucks in the end. And let’s not forget you have only seen 2 teasers, not even a trailer.
Then you spend all your time on jedi sites to hate on the return of star wars that makes everyone dream and happy because you don’t approve the few decisions you are aware of from the guys who paid 5 billion bucks to get the license and hired the best in the business to be creative with it?
I don’t know who you are and what you do, but it seems to me you sound like a guy who is over reacting.
If I may give you some kind of friendy advice, I think you should try to insert your penis into wether a vagina, or your hand, depending of the opportunities you have. Not only it feels good, but it also usually takes the edge off afterwards.
For a while at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHqOrbsgNXc
You are confusing the lead-up to TPM with TFA
No, I’m referring to the unforgivable hack job which has the exact same things happen all over again for no reason out of ridiculous laziness and cynicism and steals everything else from a comic book, changes Luke Skywalker from a compassionate character who cared about his friends to a lazy selfish jerk who sits around on a mountain and does nothing while his friends die- and by the way he only has a pathetic cameo at the end, makes Han a jerk who walked out on Leia and the Rebellion for no reason, splits up the Big 3 for decades, and makes it so Han died before we see Luke so they can never have a Big 3 reunion ever. This sh!t makes Phantom Menace look like the best thing ever by comparison.
My advice to you is to go see the movie first. This Co. written thee man, Lawrence Kasdan. You can’t knock it if you haven’t even seen the movie.
Mad innernets comment posters gonna mad.
Might want to wait and see the movie before you hate it, though that would delay/ruin the hatred you enjoy so much.
What the hell? I’m not going out of way to post about this out of enjoyment, or that I like taking down Star Wars or anything like that, at all. I HATE this, I HATE that the most beloved franchise ever was run into the ground by a stupid lazy hack, I HATE that this film that I’d been looking forward to was handled so poorly. And I already know that this film is going to be bad. Of course I’ll see it- probably on some internet site for free so the hacks who ruined it don’t get a penny from me- but by now it’s a matter of how bad it’ll be, there’s no chance I won’t hate it at least to some extent.
Um, you DO realize what the word “rumor” means, right?
It’s all been confirmed at this point through officially released materials. Anyone still denying the validity of these “rumors” is a fucking idiot.
Splitting up the Big 3 is the best thing about this movie. Wars hurt people, sometimes wars break people. People aren’t friends forever. Having Luke go into exile and breaking up Han and Leia is a hell of a lot better than the happy happy fun time shit that the EU peddled to us.
You’re a fucking idiot if you thing Star Wars is or ever has been supposed to be a realistic take on the harshness of war. Star Wars is a romantic fantasy escapist story that pretty much follows the hero’s journey archetype and is about the characters, with everything else to serve that end. The war has always been in the background and a black-and-white, good-vs-evil conflict, never about gray morality or how the good guys are evil or anything like that. I don’t want to see this happen to the characters, ad if ti happens then it is totally and thematically hugely dissonant from the originals. If you do, then you probably didn’t like Star Wars in the first place, and you also show a complete lack of care or sensitivity for these characters that so many people like myself care so deeply about. So, it’s not a good decision, and you can go to hell. Also, I’m no expert on the EU, but from what I understand it wasn’t really “happy happy fun time shit” at all; it was pretty tonally consistent with the other Star Wars films, there were wars and conflicts and people sometimes die, etc.
While I actually do agree with some of your points, and some points made by others below you, in critisism of some of the story lines (especially re-hashing the Super Weapon bullshit); IF THE MOVIE IS GOOD, good script, good acting, lots of action and it FEELS LIKE STAR WARS; all the rest will be forgiven. Are you not even willing to give it a shot based upon those points?
Make Luke a selfish asshole and forgoing the possibility of a Big 3 reunion is unforgiveable and means that this film will be inevitably ruined. Stop giving it a pass for every f*cking sh!tty hack decision Jar Jar Abrams makes. FYI, I’ll probably be pirating this one, Red Box if I’m feeling generous,; I ain’t paying theater admission to see a lazy rehash of a movie I’ve seen before but worse where characters I love get ruined.
i do wonder how long they are going to work on it before he is satisfied. one has to guess its done or very close to be completely finished.
Hope it’s new footage!
I JUST moved here (to Amsterdam)! I’m so going! I’ll give you the full report. xD!!!
If I had just moved there, Star Wars would be a couple of places further down the list of nightlife to visit
If you “moved” there, I would think you would have plenty of time for recreational activities after the Star Wars event. Heck, why not stop by a coffee shop on your way to the event.
Amsterdam is incredible…… The end haha.
WHERES THE TRAILER?!?!?!
Maybe it’s in Amsterdam!
Its in the future. Unfortunately, its always in motion and difficult to see.
Never knew if Yoda was saying ’emotion’ or ‘in motion.’
I’m almost positive he was saying “in motion”.
difficult to see, always in motion is the future
mood
Google translated: Dutch-English
99% sure it is just the SDCC BTS video subtitled.
Hi, flying dutchmen here….
on the website of the melkweg itselfs said nothing about new footage, just that it will show old star wars trailers and tv ads, and exclusive photos from the premiere evening of the first star wars film.
see link if you can read it :p
http://www.melkweg.nl/nl/agenda/star-wars-schokkend-nieuws-116-the-blast-off-07-10-2015
The AD newspaper has it wrong I guess, and further more Amsterdam really is not this big that it will have the preview of new footage, altough Amsterdam is world famous it is nothing compare to a city like London.
so Nothing to see here, move along
Next week’s event is already sold out.
The Amsterdam event is already sold out. Must be popular.
Well, the Telegraaf is the Dutch version of Fox News, not very reliable… The website of the magazine that organizes the event (Schokkend Nieuws) doesn’t mention a special featurette at all. Only old trailers and rip-off’s.
http://www.schokkendnieuws.nl/nieuws/4087-star-wars-schokkend-nieuws-116-the-blast-off
Last night’s text from a friend working on the new trailer
Last night’s text from a friend working on the trailer
WHY MUST YOU TEASE US SILLY HUMAN!
uh…what kind of trac phone is that.
Well I hope trailer will be better than his spelling is.
This is no news folks – De Melkweg is just a nightclub ( a nice one ). Been there a few times, don’t expect anything Earth shattering to get launched there 😉
anyway im there. whatever they are showing.
I don’t think there’s a chance in hell they’ll screen it to anyone before it comes out. They’ll probably do what lord of the rings did and screen it to the production staff.
He might. It could be for some terminally ill fan. He did it for Star Trek. The man has a heart… and I could see it being hard to tell a dying fan no. Those screenings are of course super private and often just the person.
Although I doubt something like that would have leaked in such a way.
is a great idea in theory. i hope its done. there are surely some die hard fans who are on deaths door. i hope they would be given a chance to see this.
Back when the Force for Change chance to be in Ep VII was happening one of the rewards was to have an Exclusive screening with 20 of your friends. I think it was to take place no more than two days before the opening of the film. The winner probably had to donate an ungodly amount of money for this.
And to think, they could have had the same thing just by being french.
Yes. Come on guys, and visit France!
The lights of Paris in december are very nice, you might even get snow if you’re lucky. Good food as well. Come and eat some real bread, some tasty cheese and cheap wine. It’s a good trip!
…especially if you see Star Wars at the end, before everybody else (isn’t it…?), and then come back quickly to brag disgracefully.
Keep an eye on Thurs., Oct. 8. First day of New York Comic Con and several Star Wars presentations.
Quiet before the storm
made me laugh , only know of this place because of the song “prag vec at the melkweg” by Half Man Half Biscuit
Trailer? :O :3
No new footage. Just the SDCC footage. Some journalist totally took a press release from the event out of context and made stuff up.
Probably their mix of all three official teasers so far… I wish I am wrong about that though 🙂
has there been 3?
Including the Instagram/ Finn Lightsaber teaser.
Yeah, two full teasers plus shorter one from Korea that included new scenes aka Instagram trailer.
OH, duh. thanks man
ah come on! I’m getting anxious now!
If they only reveal the date of the trailer, then we would calm down at least.
“Now the question is when…”
I think that’s been the question since mid-August.
It will most likely be mid Oct a few days before the tickets go on sale. Makes sense from a business perspective
What’s the latest on Skellig Michael?
KNEW IT
Why does this not surprise me…..
10/15 – 10/16
At the NYCC we well see the full trailer.
I hope you’re right! 🙂
there better be some practical effects in that new trailer
No, just CGI.
Geez, nothing lost.
The report from is not misleading. It is factual – it IS a special featurette, it IS provided by Disney. There is no mention in the article that it is “new” or “unseen” footage, that would 100% the assumption of the reader.
The original poster of THIS article made an assumption “I think it’s safe to assume the featurette will have some new footage” – why would it be safe to assume? Nothing in the original article suggests this.
EXACTLY!!! This site made that leap and now are feeling stupid for it, so now are trying to shift the blame. Why not just say “Oops our bad; We apologize for the assumption” and keep it moving??? Very immature and a tad unprofessional. Disappointing.
Yeah, HOW DARE THEY shift blame IN YOUR PRESENCE?!?
Um….sure…. I feel so bad now… /sarc
The only thing that is “safe to assume” is the natives are getting restless!
Never would I have guessed we’d be less than 3 months away from the movie and still NOT have the 3rd full trailer. I wish they would at least tell us when the trailer will be released. Geez!
haven’t even had ONE FULL TRAILER ;(….each trailer has been 5 months apart so far! bullshit !
I think Lucas released the full one over 3 months before.
Everything J.J. Has been doing is making me angry. I was happy it was him, now I’m wonder if it was a giant Darth poop!
I bet the trailer comes the Thursday or Wednesday before Bridge of Spies. Disney owns the studio, so they probably want to put the trailer in front of that movie.
Yo this is completely off topic but I had this AWESOME dream the other night where Andy Serkis snuck into this meeting of the Resistance and then whips out a dark saber (thats a thing right?) and starts slashing everybody up. It has nothing to do with the movie at all but it somehow has made me even more excited for the movie.
Hey, here’s a crazy question. Do we seriously need a new trailer, when the film is coming out in only a couple months? We have two trailers already, as well as all kinds of story and character leaks, not to mention the new toys that were just launched. It’s not like we’re completely in the black about all of this.
I just think it’s silly to be upset about not getting an extra preview this close to release. It’s like being upset that you can’t taste the broth three times before the meal is ready. Just wait for the darn meal!
Tonight confirmed through my friend Ian, who manages a local Multiplex: IMAX tickets for Star Wars the Force Awakens will be available for purchase 12:00 am, Monday October 19.
He also confirmed that the 3rd Trailer will be released October 19 as well.