As long as India doesn't get into the act. You know what they did to super heroes.
Posted on 04/29/2014 10:24:04 AM PDT by notsofastmyfriend
Luke. Leia. Han. Chewie. Artoo. Threepio. All present and accounted for as StarWars.com unveiled the official cast of "Star War: Episode VII" Tuesday.
Here's the full release:
The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.
Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud."
Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on Dec. 18, 2015.
While original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford had dropped hints that they would be reprising their roles for the new chapter, which takes place around 35 years after "Return of the Jedi," nothing was confirmed until today. The trio will be joined by longtime castmates Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca).
New additions include Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver, who recently appeared together in the Coen brothers' 2013 folk music drama "Inside Llewyn Davis." Also onboard: Andy Serkis (best known as Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), Domhnall Gleeson ("About Time",) and the legendary Max von Sydow ("The Exorcist"). Fresh faces John Boyega ("Attack the Block") and Daisy Ridley (who has appeared in just a handful of BBC dramas) round out the cast.
Shockingly spot on there. My most recent viewing of her was a cameo in “The Big Bang Theory” for about 5 seconds, wielding a broom or bat.
Yes, they were models and puppets in the originals, but models and puppets are "real" physical things and look and behave like "real" physical things.
While No matter how good CGI gets, it will always basically be nothing more than just a cartoon.
Jabba was into some kinky stuff, I heard...
There was the story of that six-”pronged” Valdusian pleasure bot that he kept on the leash, perpetually dunked in a barrel of WD-40 for Leia...
The hair on my neck is standing up just imagining that.... Brr...
In that top image...isn’t that Marjoe Gortner?
“Wrath of Khan”
Best of all of them...
Yep, that bald Captain Picard was sure a sissy, a joke to put him in Kirk’s chair on the bridge
Where Kirk would flip the bad guy over his shoulder Cap Sissy would Challenger him to game of chess.
Great adventure, should have stopped there.
“..Fighting the insurance companies for the last 30 years over her claims for Alderaan took a toll....”
Well, that three billion Tattoine Crudmars deductible was a BITCH to come up with...You SHOULD know that!!!!
haha!
“...If that’s really her ....”
Good point. It DOES look like her though.
Pure speculation on my part, but Ms. Fisher looks like someone who has had gastric bypass surgery, along with some plastic surgery to remove the skin layers left by the effects of the rapid weight loss.
Ol’ Max is certainly no stranger to sci-fi.
He was ‘Ming the Merciless’ in ‘Flash Gordon’
He was ‘Dr. Kynes’ in ‘Dune’
He was ‘Director Burgess’ in ‘Minority Report’
He was ‘Chief Justice Fargo’ in ‘Judge Dredd’
Just one more to add as a notch on the ol’ belt for him.
As long as India doesn't get into the act. You know what they did to super heroes.
Saw some program one time (SNL? SCTV? something else?) where two characters were talking about special effects in some movie (and this would've been in the 1980s) trying to distinguish between "bad fakey" and "good fakey" effects.
I think ultimately it comes down to the exhilaration an audience gets from the sequence. The Ray Harryhausen stop motion effects are obviously "not real" but then again the creatures that have come to life are "unreal" as well. Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s use a lot of trampolines and wires to depict people running in midair, making incredible leaps, etc. but the overall effort has a delirious effect on audiences.
Computer effects can leave an audience cold (the camera eye never stops moving and it is obvious that you are watching a "realistic" computer cartoon). as well. Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s use a lot of trampolines and wires to depict people running in midair, making incredible leaps, etc. but the overall effort has a delirious effect on audiences.
Computer effects can leave an audience cold (the camera eye never stops moving and it is obvious that you are watching a computer cartoon.
The rule of thumb is, "does it look cool?"
When you're Jesus, you get to live forever...
Also, Jeffrey Hunter got to be in Star Trek after being Jesus, so it's only fair that Max gets to be in Star Wars.
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Yes, they do! I have an advanced copy of the script.
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Bob: The earth planet had been, like, devastated by nuclear intergalactic war....Lucky for me I'd been off-planet on vacation at the time of the war.
There wasn't much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked, so I spent most of my time looking for beer. One day I was out looking for a nice place to build a city for my children when I spotted a mutant in the forbidden zone. I landed my vehicle to pursue and destroy this genetic freak before he could warn other mutants in the underground caves. I was kind of like a one man force, eh, like Charlton Heston in Omega Men, did you see that? It was a beauty.
[Doug leaps out and confronts Bob]
Bob: Fleshy-headed mutant, are you friendly?
Doug: No way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!
Bob: Alpha base, this is Bob McKenzie. I've spotted a fleshy-headed mutant in sector 16B. [shoots Doug with ping-pong ball gun]
Doug: Ow! Take off, you hoser!
END EXCERPT
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....or something like that.
I remember sitting in the theater with my girlfriend for the first movie; she’d been bugging me to take her to see it.
When the Imperial Star Destroyer cruises in from the top of the screen at the beginning, chasing the Rebel ship, and NEVER seemed to end, I was thinking “This is beyond cool...”
It was amazing. Giant theater screen, surround sound, the whole place reverberating with the blasts of the weapons...
The TIE fighters, and of course the Death Star attack scene “STAY ON TARGET!!!!” all of it.... Very cool... momentarily forgot my girlfriend’s considerable, err, “attributes” beneath her blouse... (yeah... I know, I’m a pig)... :^).
The “Chinese food” of movie going experiences?
Yeah, we all grow older...
But we’re still kids at heart, who can enjoy a good sci-fi or monster movie!!
That’s the difference between growing older, and BEING old, I think...
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