Movies and TV Star Wars Episode VIII SPOILERS thread - Page 6

**DaneMcCloud** · 02:08 PM

For all things Episode VIII related info including spoilers.

The release date is now December 15, 2017.

The Official Synopsis from Star Wars.com

“In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in U.S. theaters on December 15, 2017.”

New footage in Japanese Trailer

**Gadzooks** · 03-15-2016, 11:49 AM

These pics are looking very prequel-like in terms of the character and set designs.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-15-2016, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Gadzooks

These pics are looking very prequel-like in terms of the character and set designs.

I get the feeling that it's a gathering of senators that weren't on Hosnian Prime when it was destroyed by the Starkiller Base.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-19-2016, 12:59 PM

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-20-2016, 10:59 PM

Ahh...More good news for fans of the Prequels

POTENTIAL MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

Dern's filming did not include scenes which were shot in Croatia over the past few weeks, instead she shot all her work at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom on a set built to look like a medium to large sized Resistance spaceship. The site adds that she seems to be playing a captain of a ragtag group of Resistance fighters who have seen plenty of battle.

They have details of two scenes being shot - one in which she says "they are the last of the Resistance" with her stepping in for General Leia who is receiving medical treatment after being severely injured. In the same scene, she and Poe share an antagonistic exchange. In the second scene Poe and his team take over her ship, even holding her at gunpoint briefly.

The site goes on to say "Star Wars: Episode VIII" might pay more of a homage to the prequel films and themes due to a larger political story arc in play. They also say this will be the first live-action "Star Wars" movie to ever feature scenes set on a beach.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-20-2016, 11:03 PM

This sounds more like The Phantom Menace than A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back

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As the production on Star Wars: Episode VIII (Space Bear) finishes off its (fifth?) week, the photo leaks from Dubrovnik are still most of what we know about the plot. Well, that and it looks like the movie will pick up with Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill on Ach-To, pretty much where we left off.

This week, I have something to contribute to what we might know about Space Bear. Unfortunately it’s kind of vague, but it is from the stuff being shot at Pinewood Studios, not the location things that we’re all getting peeks at. This information comes from a source that isn’t as nitpicky about specific details as I am, but it is new info nonetheless.

There’s a stage setup like the interior of a starship. I don’t know what kind of starship, but it is large enough to have a crew and lots of droids manning it. The set has a bunch of practical effect robots and “hairy” alien creatures on it, and given that The First Order seems to be keeping up with the “humans only” hiring policy of The Empire, that suggests it is not a First Order ship to me. In one of the scenes shot in this stage, a rag-tag group of Resistance fighters have seen some battle. Cut and bruised, they and Poe Dameron are on this ship when Laura Dern, playing some sort of captain or officer. She tells the fighters that they are the last of the rebellion/resistance (I’m unclear on the exact phrasing of the line, so no capitalizing the Resistance) and that Princess Leia has been gravely injured and is receiving medical attention.

Oscar Isaac and Laura Dern have an antagonistic exchange of words and Dern’s character is blunt with Poe, like she has some sort of authority over him. Things must be tense between these two characters because another scene we’ve gotten wind of has Poe leading a group of Resistance fighters as they take over what is presumably Dern’s ship. The scene included fighters under Poe removing technicians from their computer stations and Poe pointing a blaster at Dern’s character. That’s all we’ve got. But with Episode VIII so locked down with the production in London, that’s a lot.

Before I speculate a bit, this seems like the perfect time to bring up the recently leaked synopsis of Claudia Grey’s Star Wars book Bloodline, which will tell a Princess Leia Organa Solo story set six years before The Force Awakens: The entire generation has prospered during an era of peace. The New Republic, governed by the Galactic Senate on Hosnian Prime, has held power for more than two decades. The wars that divided the galaxy are fading into legend. Yet conflict has begun to take shape within the Senate.

Two unofficial but powerful factions have formed – the Populists, who believe individual planets should retain almost all authority, and the Centrists, who favor a stronger galactic government and a more powerful military. As the political gridlock threatens to cripple the fledgling democracy, Centrists leaders have called for the election of a “First Senator”. It is their hope that this powerful position will bring order to the divided Senate. But Populists like Senator Leia Organa Solo know all too well the price of such order. Even as the election nears, the divisions between the worlds of the galaxy are growing wider… At first glance, this is Star Wars politics, which is a very prequel thing to focus on. From what we’ve seen of Space Bear, it looks like this movie isn’t afraid to start treading on the ground of the prequels in terms of echoing theme and larger plot arcs.

If The Force Awakens took vague shapes from the OT movies, maybe this one is going to have some politics and urban centers. The politics is the linking factor about all this Princess Leia talk, and the report that she may be physically incapacitated at some point in the movie, causing a rift in the Resistance. When I made my wild guesses about who Laura Dern could be playing, one of my guesses was a new political force, and now I’m feeling even better about that.

Since Hosnian Prime was blown up, whatever “good” side of government that had been working for so long is once again in chaos. Leia is a Populist, so one assumption would be that Laura Dern is her opposite, a Centrist. Poe being as close to Leia as he is, that would put him in natural opposition when Dern tries to take power when Leia is down and out. WHEW! That’s a lot of speculation. Hopefully as weeks go on, more on Dern and this politics plot (or, honestly, any information that can prove me wrong, we’re all in this together) leaks to the internet’s anticipatory ears.

Speaking of leaking, you can’t shoot in Dubrovnik and keep it all a secret. Space Bear wrapped their exterior scenes shot there this week, and there are a few more things of note since the last time we talked. Namely, there were some aliens.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-20-2016, 11:07 PM

I guess Finn is going to wear this jacket throughout the entire trilogy, just like Han and the vest...

Huffmeister · 03-21-2016, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

They also say this will be the first live-action "Star Wars" movie to ever feature scenes set on a beach.

Except for the Wookie battle in Episode 3.

keg in kc · 03-21-2016, 02:50 PM

Hearing word of politics scares me. The original trilogy was good because it was action-adventure space fantasy. The prequel trilogy was not good because it tried to be everything but that.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-30-2016, 01:23 PM

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/29...filming-update

Adam Driver on filming next Star Wars: 'I can't wait to get on set'

Peace will not wash over a galaxy far, far away by the time the next Star Wars film arrives in theaters.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly correspondent Joe McGovern during a special screening of Midnight Special on Monday night, star Adam Driver – who played villainous Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens – teased that the First Order and Resistance are still at odds in the Star Wars universe.

“They’re still at war. It’s still Star Wars,” Driver joked of Episode VIII, which is filming now. “They’re not at peace.”

Set for release on Dec. 15, 2017, the next Star Wars film will see its main cast return, albeit with a new director steering the ship: Rian Johnson, who stepped in for J.J. Abrams after The Force Awakens.

“Their temperaments are different,” Driver said when asked to compare the two filmmakers. “I feel like there was so many moving pieces in the first one – just trying to solve it and set the vocabulary for what it was. There’s a lot of that anxiety is gone, because people have developed a language. I think it’s more of a testament to Rian coming into something very established and making it [his own]. I can’t wait to get on set, just because he’s so unassuming and intelligent and approachable. The script they’ve come up with is really great.”

Driver currently plays an NSA agent in Jeff Nichols’ science-fiction chase movie Midnight Special and is still appearing weekly on Girls. But did starring one of the biggest movies ever made change his life?

“I didn’t turn into a new person,” he said of life post-Force Awakens, which grossed more than $2 billion around the world. “Nothing happened to me. But a lot of people saw it, and that was good. I guess my Christmas is kind of easier now – the toys and things for family. Kids is a big thing: I feel like before parents kept me away from their kids; now it’s like, go get a picture.”

**DaneMcCloud** · 04-01-2016, 09:58 AM

The complications for filming at Skellig Michael are pretty well known to Star Wars fans that followed The Force Awakens’ production and more recently that of Star Wars: Episode VIII.

Much of the filming for the Luke Skywalker refuge planet of Ahch-To will take place over several locations, which appears to be taking place at Pinewood Studios where a full replica of many parts of the Skellig Michael location has been recreated.

Toby Waller · 04-02-2016, 07:48 PM

I hope episode 8 is a guy lead.
too much pc crap with a girl and the force or what ever LOL.

and the guy who played the heavy in 7 wasnt working. more wussy pc crap

**Bowser** · 04-02-2016, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smellypitts

I hope episode 8 is a guy lead.
too much pc crap with a girl and the force or what ever LOL.

and the guy who played the heavy in 7 wasnt working. more wussy pc crap

There is literally no thread big or small that you don't try to troll. You're a bad mult.

Toby Waller · 04-03-2016, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Bowser

There is literally no thread big or small that you don't try to troll. You're a bad mult.

Lol **** you,I meant what I said. This is a guy action flick.
And the actor who played the villain was a joke.
I saw him in that film with ....Jason Bateman....? Where Jane fonda as a mother is a lesbian at the end. He looks like your Jewish neighbor down the street. Not a galaxy villain lol

fairladyZ · 04-10-2016, 03:20 PM

A long time ago (last week I think) In a galaxy far, far way(@PinewoodStudios ) THIS happened! Happy Birthday Daisy! Star Wars Daisy Ridley
Posted by Mark Hamill on Sunday, April 10, 2016

**Fire Me Boy!** · 04-10-2016, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bowser

There is literally no thread big or small that you don't try to troll. You're a bad mult.

If you don't quote him, I could live a full Tapatalk life without even knowing he posted something...

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DaneMcCloud Supporter Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Hollywood, CA Casino cash: $10053648	Ahh...More good news for fans of the Prequels POTENTIAL MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD Dern's filming did not include scenes which were shot in Croatia over the past few weeks, instead she shot all her work at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom on a set built to look like a medium to large sized Resistance spaceship. The site adds that she seems to be playing a captain of a ragtag group of Resistance fighters who have seen plenty of battle. They have details of two scenes being shot - one in which she says "they are the last of the Resistance" with her stepping in for General Leia who is receiving medical treatment after being severely injured. In the same scene, she and Poe share an antagonistic exchange. In the second scene Poe and his team take over her ship, even holding her at gunpoint briefly. The site goes on to say "Star Wars: Episode VIII" might pay more of a homage to the prequel films and themes due to a larger political story arc in play. They also say this will be the first live-action "Star Wars" movie to ever feature scenes set on a beach.
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03-20-2016, 11:03 PM	#80
DaneMcCloud Supporter Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Hollywood, CA Casino cash: $10053648	This sounds more like The Phantom Menace than A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back ------- As the production on Star Wars: Episode VIII (Space Bear) finishes off its (fifth?) week, the photo leaks from Dubrovnik are still most of what we know about the plot. Well, that and it looks like the movie will pick up with Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill on Ach-To, pretty much where we left off. This week, I have something to contribute to what we might know about Space Bear. Unfortunately it’s kind of vague, but it is from the stuff being shot at Pinewood Studios, not the location things that we’re all getting peeks at. This information comes from a source that isn’t as nitpicky about specific details as I am, but it is new info nonetheless. There’s a stage setup like the interior of a starship. I don’t know what kind of starship, but it is large enough to have a crew and lots of droids manning it. The set has a bunch of practical effect robots and “hairy” alien creatures on it, and given that The First Order seems to be keeping up with the “humans only” hiring policy of The Empire, that suggests it is not a First Order ship to me. In one of the scenes shot in this stage, a rag-tag group of Resistance fighters have seen some battle. Cut and bruised, they and Poe Dameron are on this ship when Laura Dern, playing some sort of captain or officer. She tells the fighters that they are the last of the rebellion/resistance (I’m unclear on the exact phrasing of the line, so no capitalizing the Resistance) and that Princess Leia has been gravely injured and is receiving medical attention. Oscar Isaac and Laura Dern have an antagonistic exchange of words and Dern’s character is blunt with Poe, like she has some sort of authority over him. Things must be tense between these two characters because another scene we’ve gotten wind of has Poe leading a group of Resistance fighters as they take over what is presumably Dern’s ship. The scene included fighters under Poe removing technicians from their computer stations and Poe pointing a blaster at Dern’s character. That’s all we’ve got. But with Episode VIII so locked down with the production in London, that’s a lot. Before I speculate a bit, this seems like the perfect time to bring up the recently leaked synopsis of Claudia Grey’s Star Wars book Bloodline, which will tell a Princess Leia Organa Solo story set six years before The Force Awakens: The entire generation has prospered during an era of peace. The New Republic, governed by the Galactic Senate on Hosnian Prime, has held power for more than two decades. The wars that divided the galaxy are fading into legend. Yet conflict has begun to take shape within the Senate. Two unofficial but powerful factions have formed – the Populists, who believe individual planets should retain almost all authority, and the Centrists, who favor a stronger galactic government and a more powerful military. As the political gridlock threatens to cripple the fledgling democracy, Centrists leaders have called for the election of a “First Senator”. It is their hope that this powerful position will bring order to the divided Senate. But Populists like Senator Leia Organa Solo know all too well the price of such order. Even as the election nears, the divisions between the worlds of the galaxy are growing wider… At first glance, this is Star Wars politics, which is a very prequel thing to focus on. From what we’ve seen of Space Bear, it looks like this movie isn’t afraid to start treading on the ground of the prequels in terms of echoing theme and larger plot arcs. If The Force Awakens took vague shapes from the OT movies, maybe this one is going to have some politics and urban centers. The politics is the linking factor about all this Princess Leia talk, and the report that she may be physically incapacitated at some point in the movie, causing a rift in the Resistance. When I made my wild guesses about who Laura Dern could be playing, one of my guesses was a new political force, and now I’m feeling even better about that. Since Hosnian Prime was blown up, whatever “good” side of government that had been working for so long is once again in chaos. Leia is a Populist, so one assumption would be that Laura Dern is her opposite, a Centrist. Poe being as close to Leia as he is, that would put him in natural opposition when Dern tries to take power when Leia is down and out. WHEW! That’s a lot of speculation. Hopefully as weeks go on, more on Dern and this politics plot (or, honestly, any information that can prove me wrong, we’re all in this together) leaks to the internet’s anticipatory ears. Speaking of leaking, you can’t shoot in Dubrovnik and keep it all a secret. Space Bear wrapped their exterior scenes shot there this week, and there are a few more things of note since the last time we talked. Namely, there were some aliens.
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03-21-2016, 02:50 PM	#83
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03-30-2016, 01:23 PM	#84
DaneMcCloud Supporter Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Hollywood, CA Casino cash: $10053648	http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/29...filming-update Adam Driver on filming next Star Wars: 'I can't wait to get on set' Peace will not wash over a galaxy far, far away by the time the next Star Wars film arrives in theaters. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly correspondent Joe McGovern during a special screening of Midnight Special on Monday night, star Adam Driver – who played villainous Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens – teased that the First Order and Resistance are still at odds in the Star Wars universe. “They’re still at war. It’s still Star Wars,” Driver joked of Episode VIII, which is filming now. “They’re not at peace.” Set for release on Dec. 15, 2017, the next Star Wars film will see its main cast return, albeit with a new director steering the ship: Rian Johnson, who stepped in for J.J. Abrams after The Force Awakens. “Their temperaments are different,” Driver said when asked to compare the two filmmakers. “I feel like there was so many moving pieces in the first one – just trying to solve it and set the vocabulary for what it was. There’s a lot of that anxiety is gone, because people have developed a language. I think it’s more of a testament to Rian coming into something very established and making it [his own]. I can’t wait to get on set, just because he’s so unassuming and intelligent and approachable. The script they’ve come up with is really great.” Driver currently plays an NSA agent in Jeff Nichols’ science-fiction chase movie Midnight Special and is still appearing weekly on Girls. But did starring one of the biggest movies ever made change his life? “I didn’t turn into a new person,” he said of life post-Force Awakens, which grossed more than $2 billion around the world. “Nothing happened to me. But a lot of people saw it, and that was good. I guess my Christmas is kind of easier now – the toys and things for family. Kids is a big thing: I feel like before parents kept me away from their kids; now it’s like, go get a picture.”
Posts: 88,960

04-01-2016, 09:58 AM	#85
DaneMcCloud Supporter Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Hollywood, CA Casino cash: $10053648	The complications for filming at Skellig Michael are pretty well known to Star Wars fans that followed The Force Awakens’ production and more recently that of Star Wars: Episode VIII. Much of the filming for the Luke Skywalker refuge planet of Ahch-To will take place over several locations, which appears to be taking place at Pinewood Studios where a full replica of many parts of the Skellig Michael location has been recreated.
Posts: 88,960

04-02-2016, 07:48 PM	#86
Toby Waller Banned Join Date: Oct 2015 Casino cash: $10000400	I hope episode 8 is a guy lead. too much pc crap with a girl and the force or what ever LOL. and the guy who played the heavy in 7 wasnt working. more wussy pc crap
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04-10-2016, 03:20 PM	#89
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