You're not very bright and have a very uncreative mind if you think the resolution to all of their lives is "okay" because "life doesn't have a happy ending".

No shit?

Movies, especially movies like Star Wars, are supposed to be an ESCAPE, not a reminder that life sucks.

But just keep drinking the Mouse House Koolaid.

They're going to need people like you to make any money going forward.

First off, Star Wars isn't Science Fiction. It's a Fantasy story. Secondly, Science Fiction has a long history of great stories - as does Fantasy. Third, if you think Star Wars set the bar insanely high for either genre of movies then you just haven't exposed yourself to quality examples from each.

It is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Too late for you.

LMAO
Do you find these or make them up yourself?

You are truly dumb as ****

I can't speak for others. Obviously, you disagree. But, yes, I will be excited to see those characters again in 32 years.

But the OT wasn't as meaningful to me as it was to others. For me, Rey is a much more compelling character than Luke. But, again, I don't pretend to speak for anyone else.

As we all know, Star Wars was a powerful moment in cinema history. Will anything ever match that? Probably not. But, for me, this thing is as alive as it's ever been.

The Force Awakens renewed my faith in the franchise. I started watching The Clone Wars and Rebels because of it. I read my first Star Wars novel last year: the first Star Wars novel I've read in my life.

We may be few but there are those of us that love this new version just as much as others love what came before.

I think Rey and Kylo are good characters. Poe, Finn and Rose are ****ing horrible, and their excessive screen time in TLJ are my biggest problem with the film. I’m ok with Luke, Leia and Han dying. Old people die. People in conflict for years die. I don’t need a happy ending, but it could have been done so much better IMO.


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Not a chance. All of those characters are imminently forgettable. I liked Rey in TFA, but she's pretty much useless in TLJ.

The best thing that could have happened to Finn would have been self-sacrifice on salt planet. Instead it's yet another plan of his that leads nowhere.

I agree with this. Poe is a stupid character that just does stupid things. Finn is a terrible actor. Rose was unnecessary.

According to this LEGO set, Woody Harrelson will be portraying Tobias Beckett, Emilia Clarke will be stepping into the shoes of Qi’Ra (man, they love that name Kira, which was originally Rey's name), Thandie Newton will bring Quay Tolsite to life and finally, Amanda Waller-Bridge will lend her voice to DD-BD, the film’s female droid


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Why don't we wait until the final installment before declaring the entire new trilogy a bag o' dicks?

Because so far the new trilogy has undone the six previous movies — there is nothing special about the Force or the Jedi or the Sith and their laser swords.

I thought the Solo trailer was coming this past weekend?

They should just save it for the Super Bowl at this point.

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Nice paydirt.

I'm digging this "Rebolt" character.

Looks cool.

Looking forward to taking a look at Kessel.

I guess they wrote Shrike out. He was the captain of a ship that Solo worked/slaved on before leaving to join the Imperial Academy.

Kasdan never wrote that character into the script

I believe I read here at CP some posted material, less than a month ago, referring to Harrelson as "Garris Shrike"?

Wrong

Prove it

I thought he was playing Beckett?

No, it definitely called out Shrike.

Your ignorance is astounding. I've never heard anyone spout off more while actually knowing less.
You're as phony as it gets. Go take a TMZ tour or something. You'll double your current knowledge of what is going on in your own town.

Reportedly, 3 more weeks of reshoots begin later this month.

They're cutting it close...

They better hope they have a great product here because I could definitely see a lot of people who would have normally saw this without question will now wait till after some reviews come out to make up their minds. All due to the crap fest that was TLJ.

Agreed.

I also believe it's in their best interest to move off the May 25th date but so far, they've held firm.

The longer the stench of TLJ is out of people's noses, the better.

Media reviews won't work either. You've got 90% on TLJ for pro movie critics w/ Disney's cock in their mouths, and 49% for the general audience. Yea, I'll be waiting for a few weeks at least until word of mouth gets around on how good it is.

Yeah, you've followed 9 Stars Wars movies so far--you don't want to risk $10 to see the new one before you hear what other people think about it first!

That’s not the problem. The problem is going back to earlier stories knowing that the underpinnings of the Star Wars universe have been completely undone by Rian Johnson’s shitshow. The Force, the Jedi, the Sith aren’t special thanks to Episode VIII re-writing all the rules.

It’s like Rian Johnson had a problem with mystery and myth and sat out to destroy everything that fans had come to know and love about Star Wars.

LMAO That's what I was thinking.

Agreed.

Outside of Star Wars movies, I'm not a "First Day" guy. I take the kids to animated films before noon at AMC theaters because they're essentially half price (and I don't feel like paying $17.79 per ticket plus $4 dollars parking and concessions for something like The Emoji Movie) but Star Wars movies are events.

Now, with a rumored three more weeks of reshoots this month with a release that's less than 5 months away, it's truly difficult to get excited about Solo, especially after The Last Jedi was so far off the mark.

Hopefully, Solo is closer to Rogue One in execution but I'm just not very amped up about it at this point.

This film will be SHIT.

Not bad - SHIT...

That's always been a possibility due to the re-casting of Harrison Ford.

But IMO, it would be in their best interests to delay the opening so that it will give Ron Howard more time to get this film as "right" as possible.

On the other hand, re-casting Luke with Sebastian Stan should be a no-brainer and IMO, a Luke Skywalker film that's set between Episode 4 & 5 would have been a much better direction to go, especially after the success of Rogue One.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h....-dates-1073560

Fox is shaking up the release schedule of its X-Men movies, giving Deadpool 2, New Mutants and Gambit new opening dates.

In what is sure to be a treat for Deadpoolfans, the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2016 Ryan Reynolds smash is being pushed up two weeks, from June 1 to May 18.

The move put the action comedy against Sony's Slender Man, but more importantly, has it opening one week before Disney's Solo: A Star Wars Story. It’s a strategic play as even second weeks have been exceptionally strong for Star Wars movies. (The (Last Jedi earned a big $71.5 million in its second weekend in December.)

Fox Smells that Solo Blood in the Water.

Good I hope when the movie bombs Rian Johnson is mentioned as much as possible.

:facepalm:

Disney owns Fox

Not yet.

Untrue.

Also, the reason why Deadpool 2 was moved up two weeks is because Gore Verbinsky dropped out of Gambit today and Josh Boone's New Mutants, which was supposed to open on April 13th, has been delayed 10 months.

There's no overlap between New Mutants and Deadpool now.

This is true for me as well.

The re-casting has never been an issue for me. I come from a theater background. I'm used to seeing different people play iconic roles. It's more that this just doesn't seem like a story I ever needed to have told to me.

But given the backlash and the true "underdog" nature of this, I'm totally pulling for it. I want this to be a great movie.

Where's the trailer?

None of the editors can make anything coherent out of it, hence three more weeks of reshoots.

I don't know why people address questions to Dane. He's been wrong about every single thing that he talks about.

You'll note that nobody is pointing questions to you as nobody gives a flying feces what you have to say.

That’s borderline incredible if it really is reshoots and not pick-ups.

I’m surprised Disney has give KK this kind of blank check given that only one of the films didn’t have major problems or alienate half the fan base.

For sure.

I wonder if it's Thandie Newton's character, as she has said many times that she wasn't involved in the reshoots and that 90% of her work was done with Lord & Miller? Maybe the "tone" of her character was "off" when compared to Ron Howard's vision?

All I know is that it's weird and they're spending a bundle to crack this nut.

I'm surprised, too. Unless Solo is a hit, she might not be long for Lucasfilm, especially considering all of the issues surrounding Alden Ehrenriech's portrayal of Han Solo and a Page One reshoot.

No offense to Stan (who I think is a great actor) but if you do that after the fan backlash of TLJ it would only get worse.

You can't piss off all the fans with making Luke a jaded asshole, then kill him off, then recast him and rewrite his past.

Just, no...

Disney's latest synopsis:

“Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy.

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.”

They don't have to rewrite his past.

There's plenty of adventure and do-gooder Luke tales to be told in the space between ROTJ and TFA.

Harrison Ford easily does the cool, sarcastic, tough but laid back, scoundrel but not totally bad guy. I envision the new guy doing a Han/Harrison Ford impression and it's going to come off douchey.

This has been picked up by all of the aggregate sites in the past 8 hours and to me, smells like Disney PR trying to get ahead of the game.

That is just too much.

It does tick off all the boxes, but is hardly believable.

It exposes the Disney PR spin by saying “people who didn’t like Episode VIII will like it because of all the ‘fan service’” when a lack of “fan service” was not why “older fans” didn’t like it. It sucked and was just a terribly boring and very stupid story.

k guys

everything disney turns to shit now and the lowest-grossing star wars film they've made was actually the best one!!!!11one

So are they ever going to release a trailer or is this thing going straight to video?

Lol

Every time I see this thread bumped I expect to see a trailer for the movie.

Probably soon. Attached to Black Panther or Wrinkle in Time.

that sounds about right. I do keep forgetting that this film has a May release though. Kinda figured it was being released in December (esp with all the re shoots )

That's internet speculations.

Not a word has leaked from Disney, other than that PR stunt posted by Hammock Parties.

Perhaps, in a movie marketing first, they will release the trailer on the film it is promoting!

LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">According to local media Mtime, Official Chinese title of Solo: A Star Wars Story is Ranger Solo(游侠索罗). And STAR WARS(星球大战) is abandoned in Solo’s local title after Star Wars: The Last Jedi flopped in China. <a href="https://t.co/FsOTZcxENW">pic.twitter.com/FsOTZcxENW</a></p>&mdash; Gavin Feng (@weier1231997) <a href="https://twitter.com/weier1231997/status/956880384192425987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As you can see in the tweet above, a fan pointed out that, when translated from the Chinese characters, the film isn't referred to as "Star Wars" at all.

China isn't the only territory where the film will be getting a title tweak, as it will be released in Spain as "Han Solo: A Star Wars Story" to avoid any sort of confusion about who the film focuses on.

It seems as though the title change in China, on the other hand, is a direct attempt to confuse audiences, or at least distance the spinoff film from the world of Star Wars.

With The Last Jedi being the third Star Wars film released in three consecutive years, China is seemingly overwhelmed by the amount of content necessary to understand the whole story. The Last Jedi was pulled from virtually every screen after less than three weeks, with its opening weekend numbers failing to even surpass Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

“For a lot of fans, the story of Rogue One made us think of our own country’s revolutionary history,” Chen Tao, who runs a Chinese Star Wars fan forum, pointed out. “A lot of characters in it were just like the Communist Party members who sacrificed themselves for the revolution.”

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize this but there is the answer to why Lucasfilm hit the reset button with TLJ.

They nuked all the importance of the past lore and reset all the mysteries of TFA for a single reason: China doesn’t get it. They eradicated everything we knew about Star Wars so they could reboot all the concepts in a China-friendly way.

Count on it.

Again, I can’t believe I didn’t connect the dots earlier.

If we assume that Solo bombs or as a pile of shit on screen, maybe it is a good thing. Two disappointing films in a row might force Disney/Abrams to present a fresh film that is well written and directed.

:rolleyes: :facepalm:
ridiculous

There is nothing "disappointing" about a film that banks 1.3 billion and has 91% positive reviews.

What's your position at Disney again?

Rumors that it’s getting bumped from it’s May release date

Duh

Par for the course for the new Star Wars films.

Except the exceptionally well-made, on-time and under budget, THE LAST JEDI.

You go right ahead and run with that theory. LMAO

That money was made the first two weeks the film was released.

The Asian market hated it, it has the least "return viewing" (going back to the theatre to watch it) of any modern (prequels and sequels) SW's film.

It's now at or under 50% on every major reviewing site that allows reviews by customers.

That said one bad film won't ruin the property. If SWIX is HORRIBLE, just terrible, it will still make 3 quarters of a billion dollars. It will.

If every negative thing everyone has said in this thread is true, and only becomes worse, it will still take in $750 million +...

If Episode IX only earns $750 million at the box office, it'll be a loser and will force Disney to make serious changes.

That said, I'll be surprised if it doesn't earn at least $1.1 billion, minimum.

Solo, on the other hand...

Apparently, the first trailer for Solo will be on Good Morning American Monday morning.

Disney/Lucasfilm didn't want to air it during the Super Bowl...

Makes sense, the massive amount of viewers between the two is so close that I have no idea what the **** they're thinking. It's a shame they don't have the money to buy the advertiser space to air it....

Thats odd?

Teaser during the game, full trailer on GMA, right?