Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

it must fit my fanfiction to a tee or i'm not watching it

If BB 8 and R 2 D 2 aren't in a homosexual robot relationship by the end, I'll be looking for blood

edited 21st Jan '16 1:00:32 AM by MadSkillz

2017 only? Even though the last movie came out last December? And every other Star Wars movie took three years or so to make? Honestly, I'm still worried.

10 years from now we will be at "Star Wars Episode 12: Revenge of the Knights of Ren. "

And I will be trying my hardest not to gut someone in my frustration.

Artists (Which GL is for all the questionable choices he made) tend not to spam their work so much. Industrialists tend to be prolific about their stuff.

I'm not worried. One, I really loved TFA, but Rian has had much longer to work on his script than JJ and Lawrence Kasdan did (he's had like almost two years already). Two, I have every confidence in Rian Johnson, and both Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have praised the script (as has JJ for that matter). And three, I think that they have the broad strokes of the trilogy mapped out already, it's just a matter of specifics/details.

Also lets not pretend that GL wasn't about business either. The man isn't some auteur who's only in it for the art, far from it. And, good for him. His business success has actually been quite impressive.

Well he personally funded TCW since it became his pet project and kept pouring more money into it.

Then he sold Star Wars and gave the money to charity.

On the other hand, he invented Jar-Jar solely to appeal to kids. Jar-Jar is perhaps the most shameless marketing scheme ever in the franchise. One can be both a charitable auteur and yet still not mind getting tons of money... so you can donate it and make more stuff.

Yeah, he could pander with the best of them, and he's been doing it since at least 1983. And he built a merchandising/marketing empire out of SW as well.

Weren't the Eewoks created to market towards children? And because the original Wookie idea wouldn't have worked since Chewie had been using advanced tech a lot.

Like most everything, there is a balance. Having an eye towards what will be appealing to an audience is not a bad trait to have.

It's just some have worse eyes than others.

Holy kriff, read a BIG spoiler by accident. TURN BACK NOW if you want to stay even slightly spoiler-free.

Rey confronts Kylo, but decides it's not her fight, it's Chewie's. Chewie puts in a good showing with his Wookiee strength, but Kylo, with the Force, proves to be too much for him. Just as Kylo is about to land the deathblow, however, Chewie's son Lumpy sneaks up from behind and clubs Kylo to death with the transmitter he got for Life Day.

Would never have seen that coming in a million years.

edited 11th Feb '16 5:22:49 PM by HamburgerTime

...Just what do you think you're doing?

Just trying to be funny.

Of course I really have no idea what'll happen in Episode VIII.

edited 11th Feb '16 5:42:22 PM by HamburgerTime

Highly doubtful spoilers for Episode 8 even exist at this point.

I would like to see a Kylo vs. Chewie grudge match in theory, but there's really no way I could see it being even remotely even. Force 2 OP plz nerf.

If Chewie does get killed by Kylo, I hope that at least the former puts up some good fight.

I think Chewie will probably live. It's been done.

Given that they JUST started filming, there won't be any real spoilers yet. Not like they finished rewriting that long ago. (Have they actually finished or just decided to start filming the stuff they know they aren't going to change?)

I could see Chewie manning a machine-gun and forcing Kylo to play ping-pong by deflecting as many blaster bolts as possible.

Which gives me this idea of having a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo involve them Ponging one of Chewie's plasma bolts back and forth at one point, and filming them dueling in zero-gravity using a Vomet Comet a la Apollo13 at another.

Originally Episode III was supposed to open with a montage of the Clone Wars, and one of the proposed scenes was a zero gravity fight with an entire squad of Jedi.

Would it fulfil the "severed arms" quota if Chewie ripped Kylo's arm off?

He's of Skywalker descent so I would say it would. It would be an inversion of the usual situation where the bad guy maims the good guy, so I wouldn't mind it.