LMAO

LMAO

So I just began watching this. So far I like it. Though it's not really Star Wars. It doesn't feel like SW much at all. It reminds me most of a western. In particular this old black-and-white western (I think, we only had a B/W TV until I was 9 or so) where this gunslinger discovered a baby and spent the rest of the movie trying to find a nice family to give the child to, and in the process came to love the kid.

But it's pretty good regardless. At least thru episode 4.

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It's mythology. Heroes and anti-heroes, journeys of discovery, the purity of youth versus the wisdom of the elders, all that jazz.

They have been saying Star Wars is a Western in space since the first one back in the 70's.

They were wrong in the 70s then. Lucas was/is a big Akira Kurosawa fan. Everybody should be a fan of Akira Kurosawa, actually. So SW is closer to a Ronin Samurai Sci-Fi Fantasy. Just look at how everybody dresses in SW. Nearly all of it is inspired by traditional Japanese clothing. Vader's ****ing helmet only makes sense if you see it in that light.

No they ****ing weren't.

Han is a ****ing outer space cowboy.

The entire cantina scene is like an homage to saloon scenes in westerns.

You're thinking of Ford's film '3 Godfathers'. It was one of my stepfather's favorite films. I've seen it at least a dozen times in my 35 years. My stepfather loved Westerns. All Westerns. He read every Louis L'Amour book multiple times. So I grew up watching Westerns endlessly. It's ok though, I made him watch Godzilla with me.

Slightly more off-topic, but my stepfather and stepbrother liked to bring up a random western they never knew the name of and could never find. They were watching a western one night that started out pretty decent then suddenly dinosaurs appeared and all hell broke loose. I recently found a copy of The Valley of Gwangi (1969) but unfortunately, both have already passed away.

Cool, man. You're absolutely right, that scene is probably based off of countless westerns. The Hidden Fortress has a similar scene as well, but that was most likely based on some early Ford Westerns.

Loved the Russian Doll

Dane, know anything about this project?

A new “Star Wars” series is in the works at Disney Plus, Variety has learned from sources. The series hails from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “Russian Doll.”

Details of the exact plot of the series are being kept under wraps, but sources say it will be a female-centric series that takes place in a different part of the “Star Wars” timeline than other projects. Headland is said to be attached to write and serve as showrunner on the series, with the show currently staffing.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sta...us-1234587493/

Thanks! yeah, pretty sure that's the movie.

And SW can be both derived from old spaghetti westerns and Kurosawa films. Because many of the 60s and 70s westerns borrowed heavily from Kurosawa movies. "The Magnificent Seven" being just the most iconic one.

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I've heard rumors about a 3rd Star Wars TV series for the last year and had heard her name bandied around. The premise is supposedly "female-centric" and set either in a different era or "alternate timeline".

That said, I'm fully prepared to be disinterested. I like the hiring of Debbie Chow to run the Obi Wan series and love the showrunners of the Rogue One Prequel series but to be completely honest, I'm really not excited about essentially starting over with a new or alternate era and completely new characters.

As much as I've wanted it to be, Disney's version of Star Wars just isn't that appealing to me.

For me, it's lost its magic.

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The showrunner is a lesbian so there's been some chatter that this show will be about Dr. Aphra, a newer lesbian character created by Marvel Comics for Lucasfilm, but I'm not sure about this due to the reported timeline.

Aphra is an archeologist who is hiding from Vader and the comics are set Post-RotS, so I'm not sure how much stock I put in those rumors (none of which have come directly from friends at the MouseHouse).

Jesus Christ. ANOTHER ONE?

Jyn, Rey, Rose, Holdo.

When is Disney going to learn their try-hard femme fatales are all ****ing awful and mostly the worst part of the shit they make?

Star Wars is a boys fantasy, let it be that. You can still have good female characters.

Sheer idiocy.

While I have no problem with strong female characters set in the SW universe (Leia was a badass ass kicker when she wanted to be all the way back in 1977, and Gina Carano's character is just fine in the Mandalorian), I agree wholeheartedly with this.

Meh. Write a good story and I’m in. The characters you listed fell victim to bad stories

They were also shitty characters, for the most part.

Rogue One succeeded despite Felicity Jones.

Unfortunately, it appears Lucasfilm has an agenda in regards to this series.

And while smaller movies with agendas can have some success with their target audience, it's much more difficult to obtain a wide appeal.

I think it would have been a far more appealing press statement had they just announced the untitled series and showrunner, rather than blatantly indicating that it's "female-centric".

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The Mandalorian documentary series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian is freaking awesome, IMO.

Are they still doing filming for season two or do they pretty much have a product to put out already? I just don't want to have to put up with a Better Call Saul wait time for the next one.

Season Two wrapped filming late last year and they’re currently in Post.

Endgame had around 2,000 VFX shots.

Season 2 of The Mandalorian has more than 4,000.

:eek:

Fake news.

Morrison may have been hired for Season 2 but my money is on him playing Rex, not Boba Fett.

Jeeeez. At least the filming is done though.

I haven't heard anything yet about a delay. Still talking like it's out in October.

All of the filming was finished last year.

The Post Production team has been working from home since early March and while it's slower than it would be if they were onsite, the series will start on time in early October.

Pre-Production for Season 3 began last year as well, although filming has not begun as of yet.

What I remember reading was that they wrapped in February or March (I think the cinematographer's tweet about it was in early March), rather than last year, but either way, yeah, it finished shooting before the widespread covid quarantining started.

Katie Sackoff is Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian, Season 2

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-mandal...on-2-bo-katan/

Battlestar Galactica star and Star Wars veteran Katee Sackhoff is joining The Mandalorian season 2. We have exclusively learned that Sackhoff will be playing a live-action version of Bo-Katan Kryze, a Mandalorian warrior she previously voiced in Dave Filoni’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and later Star Wars Rebels.

Good for her, she's carved out a nice little career.

It makes me feel for Ashley Eckstein, who portrayed Ahsoka in The Clone Wars and Rebels, because she was passed over in favor of Rosario Dawson whereas Katie Sackhoff will portray her character in both the animated and live-action versions.

It's pretty clear that you'll be able to draw a fairly straight line between The Clone Wars, Rebels and now The Mandalorian in terms of storytelling and story arcs and how it's all interconnected.

Dave Filoni truly is the future of Star Wars.

I kinda feel like people keep wanting Katie Sackoff to happen and she just doesn't.

I dunno - maybe it's because I just didn't watch Battlestar Galactica so I don't appreciate her at all. But I've seen her in a few things and I've seen her as a highly touted addition to a series/movie or two and I've just never though "oh hell yes, she'll make that a lot better..."

She's just there.

I don't believe I've ever seen her in anything, save for the animated Star Wars series, but I do like the continuity this casting brings.

That makes total sense, casting her. Fans of Clone Wars will like it.

I saw a blurb yesterday, per our earlier discussion, that Disney has gone on record now saying that Season 2 will not be delayed.

Yeah, I don't hate Dawson or anything, but I'd think Eckstien would be the better play there. But I don't know shit about casting.

She was good in Longmire.

Just feels like an underdog story. That's all. I'm no huge fanboi or anything. I'm just glad she is finding success.

What is your opinion on the casting of Dawson? Was it for name recognition alone? Is it because RD has shown she can do some action on screen? I agree that it sucks that Sackhoff won't get the chance, but I have full faith in Filoni.

I, like other Star Wars fans, would have liked to have seen Ashley Eckstein get the role because she's not only the voice of Ahsoka, she also performs as Ahsoka through Motion Capture technology. So her facial expressions, gestures, walk, lightsaber fighting and movements are all hers.

But with that said, I'm sure that Dave Filoni would have hired her if he felt she was the best person to portray Ahsoka in a Live-Action setting and since he's done an absolutely amazing and wonderful job with The Clone Wars, Rebels and now The Mandalorian, I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to casting.

Rosario Dawson is a damn fine actress and I'm sure she'll be excellent in the role. I'm also sure that people like me will "get over it" as soon as we see her performance onscreen.

Katee Sackhoff played a bit of a throw away character in Riddick, but she looked pretty fine in a blink-and-you-miss-it scene...



I've seen a few interviews with her, and she looks to be legit hilarious. Worthy Hollywood crush.

She also on the cancelled the revival series The Bionic Woman as the the primary antagonist

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Poor Ewan McGregor. Guy acted his ass off on that trilogy and there was just no way he was pulling Hayden Christiansen along with him.

That particular scene was some of the best acting in the whole Star Wars universe.

As a fan of Katee since BSG, my only concern for her is that I feel like she's becoming type-cast. At least through BSG, Longmire, Another Life and some other piece i saw last year.

As a new fan of The Mandalorian, I just hope she's not playing the same character I've already seen her do multiple times already.

:facepalm:

She's playing the same exact character in the Star Wars universe that she's voiced since January 2012.

And? Is that Star Wars character basically the exact same person as Starbuck? Or Niko from "Another Life"? Vic from "Longmire"? Because if not, your point isn't releveant to what I posted.

LMAO

Seriously, your dumbassery knows no bounds, from football to film and TV.

Well, considering you haven't watched BSG, I'm guessing you have no idea what I'm talking about, sweetie. But don't let that discourage you. You seem to be all pent up. Just try to be interesting.

Good god, more proof that you're a complete and utter moron.

See what I mean? Unfortunately baseless, repetitive, uninformed, uninteresting. Try again.

What the **** is wrong with you? Seriously. Of course I've watched BSG; Bear McCreary is a friend of mine.

You're a mouthy, punkass bitch that doesn't bring a goddamned thing to ANY subject, so kindly go **** yourself with your sister's favorite dildo.

Oh, did I get you confused with someone else? Okay, I retract that statement.

As for "mouthy, punkass bitch" look in the mirror, dipstick. You're the one that's been yapping like a chihuahua for the last couple days.

I'm struggling to think of how her performance of Starbuck was like what she did with Bo-katan. Although it's kind of difficult to compare a voiceover performance to a live action one. But the voices were different. Starbuck was almost shrill. Her presentation of Bo-katan was deeper and slower, and even changed over time, as the character itself went through a tremendous amount of change and development, and simply aged between Clone Wars and (near) the end of Rebels.

In any case, it'll be interesting to see how she lost the Darksaber to Gideon.

Oh, Jesus ****. We a have a Live one here. A Know-Nothing butt****ing moron with a Napoleon Complex.

Good luck with that, MegaTurd.

I don't recall any similarities but it's been a while since I watched Galactica. I'd imagine her performance would be the same as the animated series, otherwise, Filoni would have hired someone else, as he did with the role of Ahsoka.

That said, I never understood the Katie Sackhoff "thing". I thought Grace Park was and is the better actress yet Sackoff certainly has her legion of followers.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...lorian-1294788

Timothy Olyphant is the latest actor to be captured by The Mandalorian.

Olyphant, who most recently starred on Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet, will appear in season two of the Disney+ Star Wars series, multiple sources tell Heat Vision.

It is unknown whether the actor will play a new character or a returning favorite in a new guise. Mandalorian has finished shooting under a veil of secrecy, but certain actors names have leaked out. Terminator star Michael Biehn will be involved in the new season, while The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Temuera Morrison has returned to the Star Wars galaxy and is playing fan favorite Boba Fett (or at least someone under that familiar suit).

Lucasfilm and Disney had no comment.

Mandalorian season two is slated to bow in October on Disney+. Directors such as Alita: Battle Angel’s Robert Rodriguez and Ant-Man’s Peyton Reed have joined returning director Dave Filloni and show creator Jon Favreau, who also is directing an episode. Olyphant seems like a good fit for the gunslinging worlds in which the Mandalorian jetpacks around. The actor gained a following for playing a sheriff in HBO’s revered Western Deadwood and a tough lawman on Justified, an FX series that ran six seasons.

Yep. Sand sucks!

Big fan of Timothy Olyphant, although I've never watched Santa Clarita Diet.

As far as Grace Park versus Katee Sackhoff, I've never really thought of Grace as a particularly good actor, either on BSG or from her run on Hawaii 5.0, but she's definitely the more attractive of the two. Although I may be biased - I have a thing for Asian women and don't generally like blondes.

I didn't mean to imply that either are the type of actresses that can carry a network TV show, let alone, a feature film.

Grace Park has been a very good and bankable ensemble TV actress whereas Katie Sackoff has not had the same type of career and appears to have less range than Park.

It's a different role for him; he's a bit goofy and a pussy.

He was basically Darren from Bewitched, except instead of being married to a pretty blonde witch he was married to a pretty blonde zombie. Outside of that the dynamic was exactly the same.

That’s a fair comparison. Though Drew Barrymore wasn’t all that attractive in the show, IMO. She was a bit on the heavy side. Either way, I found it a mildly entertaining watch.

She's certainly no Elizabeth Montgomery, but not bad.

The old adage "The camera adds 10 pounds" should really be revised to "The camera adds at least 20 pounds".

I've run into Drew several times a year in the past 15 or so years and I have to say, she looks completely "normal" in person. She isn't a girl that anyone would think off-camera is "heavy", let alone, "fat".

It's really shocking to run into most of these people in person because for the most part, they're so freaking thin, they're almost anorexic! And it's not just the women, it's the men, too. Their faces are so gaunt, their legs soooo thin - it just doesn't look "natural" in real life.

For example, we have a close friend that's a commercial actress. In person, she looks like skin and bones - literally. She's very pretty and some would say -beautiful - but she's a stick figure. But when you see her on TV or FaceTime or Zoom - she's stunning and looks amazing.

Some people just look amazing on film while most of us (myself included - I HATE seeing pictures of myself or on video chat), just can't pull it off.

Ditto on pictures of myself. I started hating myself on any kind of film as a kid and never really grew out of it. I did finally reach the point where I accept pictures as a part of life as opposed to trying to hide from them. Though the worst is my voice. I literally cringe any time I hear myself and realize that is what other people hear and not the voice I hear.

Anyway, I realize the camera has a tendency to add pounds but, it looked like legit weight gain on SCD. So I went a googling and found this -

https://stylecaster.com/drew-barrymo...-fat-pregnant/

:shrug:

People are just mean.

Most of these actresses are diet controlling substances and it's a well known "secret" that most actors and actresses spend a good amount of time bathing in Epsom salt to cut weight before photoshoots and certain scenes.

Forgive my ignorance but what does bathing in Epsom salts do?

Bathing is salt doesn't affect one's weight.

Most of these actors and actresses say they'll lose up to 12 pounds by bathing in epsom salt because it draws out excess water weight. I have no idea whether it works or not because I've never tried it but I do know that it's a very common practice.

Scott Foley, Jennifer Garner's ex-husband, explain in this article how he prepares for shirtless scenes:

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ry?id=28553149

"Drink a ton of water -- as much as you can -- don't eat anything, get in a sauna, sweat it out," he explained. "When you get home, get in a bath, as hot as you can take it. You fill it with Epsom salt and really hot water -- like 20 lbs. of Epsom salt so it's so salty that the salt doesn't even dissolve. That's going to suck all this water out of your body. You could drop 12-15 pounds by tomorrow morning."

Katie Sackoff was pretty good in BG as well.

I'll watch just about anything with her in it. I think she is a reasonably good actress, and easy on the eyes.

Oh this sounds fun.

Jesus, that has to be horrible for a person's kidneys.

Yeah. I’m not tough enough for that.

The lengths these people will go in order to look good on film is often astounding...

https://fandomwire.com/ahsoka-tano-l...r-wars-series/

Nice. So at some point, I have to imagine Mando will be on Mandalore for a bit. I wonder if the planet's environment has recovered any by this point in time.

If we've got Ahsoka, and we've got Sabine....

Could Olyphant or Biehn be Ezra?

Nah, they'd be way too old.

Ezra would be about 32 years old in The Mandalorian while Biehn is 63 and Olyphant is 51.