I’m anxiously awaiting UPS Star Truck Alpha, also known as Episode 3.6, in which the plans for the DEATH STAR have been stolen, but need to be transported to the Rebel Base. Starring Jason Statham.
And yes, the movie ends with the successful destruction of a 1:64th scale model of the DEATH STAR that the Empire was using for prototyping and test purposes. Ewoks rejoice!
I suppose you’re right to some extent. It’s easy for me to forget that not everyone was as influenced by the movie as I was. It’s 39 years old; if someone had wanted to watch a 39-year-old movie in 1977, they could have watched The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
Sigh.
Ewoks are just 1:64th scale Wookies.
I was going to say when I first heard about this movie I thought based on the original dark forces game…im disappointed
Or just “Old Hope”.
“Misbegotten Hope.”
“Previous Hope”.
“The Hope that Noped.”
“Hopeless.”
“Hip-Hope.”
“Anna Paquin Does Not Appear In This Movie.”
I’m not even sure you can assume most people have read and even remember the crawl. Sure, it’s iconic, but not for what it says. And most non-nerds I know don’t really read long text in movies. “tl;dr” became a thing for a reason.
I can’t comment on any of the rest of the thread, as I’ve not seen the trailers at all. They’d have to air it with the Super Bowl for me to see it, or the ad would have to go viral because everyone likes/hates/makes fun of it. Or maybe somebody reacts to it in a hilarious fashion.
Eh - it’s not about people being unaware of basic Star Wars things, it’s just a bad marketing move that doesn’t matter, because anything with Star Wars on it will make a crap-ton of cash. A friend of mine on Facebook commented that “I’m a huge Star Wars fan, but they’re seriously going to make *another *Death Star movie?”
And of the trailers, I think I’ve seen one on TV (I think it premiered during the World Series) - the rest are online. The one I’ve seen was extremely vague, more of a teaser. But it seems like that Nissan commercial has been running non-stop.
Ewok Movies?
Yes?
From your own link:
What is this “A New Hope” of which you speak? I remember that as the crawl for Star Wars when it came out in 1977.
/tongue in cheek
No no no no no. No.
“Many Bothans” did not die. Manny Bothans died. He was from a planet on the edge of the Empire, brought into the service of the Rebellion when his wife’s cousin’s daughter’s prom date died when the original Death Star destroyed Alderaan. There is a statue of him outside the Coruscant government center but everyone who has seen it wonders if it truly captured his likeness.
“made for tv”.
“released theatrically in Europe”
I haven’t seen any trailers, but I have seen a couple of TV commercials. I think it’s perfectly possible that someone who, if asked, “What happened just before the original Star Wars movie started?” could think a minute and say, “Rebels stole plans for the Death Star and hid them inside R2,” could watch the TV ads and not realize the new movie tells that story.
Everything I’ve read about the movie mentions it’s a prequel. Nothing in the commercials mentions it.
I get the plot and the fact that it’s a prequel (what the fuck was all that Jar-Jar Binks shit, then?), what I don’t get is - am I supposed to be as crap-in-my-pants excited about this as I was required to be about The Force Awakes, and which I’ve already been ordered to be about Episode VIII? That is to say … is this an actual according to Hoyle Star Wars canon movie, authorized by St. Lucas and everything or is it some cheap indy-licensed thing that the real Star Wars people tolerate because of all the greenbacks?
Lucas has nothing to do with Star Wars any more. He sold it all to Disney. And this is an actual, according-to-Hoyle Star Wars canon movie, brought to you by the people at Disney who run the Star Wars division — the same people who brought you The Force Awakens.
The plan is for Disney and Lucasfilm to release a new Star Wars movie every year for the foreseeable future. It will be alternating between a Saga movie like the Force Awakens, and a non-Saga-but-still-canonical movie set elsewhere in the Star Wars timeline about other side characters.
[ul]
[li]2015: Episode VII The Force Awakens[/li][li]2016: Rogue One[/li][li]2017: Episode VIII[/li][li]2018: Han Solo[/li][li]2019: Episode IX[/li][li]2020: Currently unreleased, but rumours include Boba Fett, Obi Wan Kenobi, or even Yoda as possible subjects[/li][li]2021: Potentially Episode X, unconfirmed[/li][/ul]
Whatever. The Rogue One film isn’t about this.
…as far as we know.