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Lucasfilm hired acting coach for Han Solo star's performance
- Thread starter Lights and Waves
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Had GAF existed in 1968 there would be just as many of you bitching about how they should end the James Bond movies without Sean Connery.
BronsonLee
Member
I am a GREAT man
President Trump?
Glass Rebel
Member
Ant-Man has an 81 RT score.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Damn.
Bubble Walrus
Member
Amen.
Camp Freddie
Member
A Han Solo movie sounds really difficult to make. He's not really a good guy, especially before his redemption scene at the end of A New Hope.
So you're stuck making a prequel about a good guy before he was good.
Star Wars has to be kid-friendly so you can't make him too much of an anti-hero, but making him a regular hero contradicts what his character is about.
At the end, he has to become the jaded, cynical down-on-his-luck smuggler that we meet in Mos Eisley. That's not a good note on which to end a film (or trilogy of films because this is starwars after all).
So you're stuck making a prequel about a good guy before he was good.
Star Wars has to be kid-friendly so you can't make him too much of an anti-hero, but making him a regular hero contradicts what his character is about.
At the end, he has to become the jaded, cynical down-on-his-luck smuggler that we meet in Mos Eisley. That's not a good note on which to end a film (or trilogy of films because this is starwars after all).
MaddenNFL64
Member
Ron Howard can't salvage this piece of shit.
God why did they even try to make this...
God why did they even try to make this...
lol
BronsonLee
Member
SWNN stands by their assertion that "various sources" specifically praised Alden Ehrenreich's performance. You may remember these folks saying two days ago that Ehrenreich personally approached the higher-ups about his concerns with the way the film was coming along. I don't buy this, but I suppose it's possible.
Oh, yeah, and uh...
Oh, yeah, and uh...
Doctoglethorpe
Member
Not sure I trust SWNN, considering earlier this year they were reporting their sources had seen printed materials advertising a soon to be announced Obi-Wan spin-off at Star Wars Celebration.
I mean sure, I get all these websites can stumble in their reporting from time to time, but that site did a lot to earn my ire for raising my hopes and dashing them so expertly.
I mean sure, I get all these websites can stumble in their reporting from time to time, but that site did a lot to earn my ire for raising my hopes and dashing them so expertly.
I won't lie, I'd be up for a Rogue Two centering on an eccentric gang of Bothans doing whatever they were doing in relation to the Death Star II.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah great at getting us into trouble
Lol, this is actually good
Rogue One had too much stuff in it that never came together.
It's like, almost a movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Hey, if the cult would be so kind as to find Personality an answer: Did we ever find out why hiring a great cinematographer for a comedy was such a bad idea?
One among my flock was suggesting that yesterday.
One among my flock was suggesting that yesterday.
-ImaginaryInsider
Member
Just another conflicting leak from this thing.
It's the greatest too-comedic-not-actually-too comedic-not-enough-of-a-western-yet-too-western-that didn't-film-enough-options-but-somehow-filmed-too-many-options-with-great-acting-yet-needed-an-emergency-acting-coach-featuring-complete-creative-freedom-with-no-creative-freedom ever committed to film.
BronsonLee
Member
What's life without a little conflict?!
I know shit all about Star Wars but it sure seems like he's one step below Kennedy on the totem pole, which puts him way above them
bonesmccoy
Banned
Ooof, if that story about Ehrenreich going to the Lucasfilm brass is true...
Lights and Waves
Member
My inner queen is loving this influx of updates and drama. From the looks of Kathleen's husband's retweet...I think there's about to be a lot of blackballing in Hollywood for those two young men. Good luck to them :/
neoism
Member
😂😂😂
yea the lead they picked for this is just terrible his not a good actor..
hell i bet woody will be the best thing about the film.. 😂😂
jack_package_200
Banned
RIP Bobby
Gotta pour one out for a fellow Oregonian
Gotta pour one out for a fellow Oregonian
Monocle
Member
No amount of glib forum comments can make Rogue One a bad Star Wars movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Okay, hold up.
Hate to break kayfabe here (Bronson, I'm doing that right, right? Wait. I'm doing it. So of course I'm doing it right) but Lights latest post has me thinking a couple little piggies have gone through the looking glass, and I don't wanna dive all the way in, so:
Once that stray shoelace got stepped on and some of the softer tissue on the forum got irritated and weepy, I was pretty sure I could tell who was playing and who was actually just being an insecure little shit letting a spitwad fly once they thought it was "safe" or whatever.
But... does Lights know that GOB is mocking people who legitimately believe I've ever pretended to be black?
I know some of you don't actually understand how a "cult of personality" works, which is fine, a lot of you only just learned yesterday that "bathos" was a real word and not just something a YouTuber made up. But while I can buy that ol' Lacey seriously thinks I am trying to cultivate a cult here (because I guess that would make sense... ish? What would I do with it once I had it?) I guess I'm unsure as to how many of you baby birds cheeping at me actually believe in that gamergatey sour grapes bullshit.
Like, if it's just your basic forum marks taking shit too seriously and getting upset when someone talks to them as opposed to stepping sideways as shitty opinions sail by, that's one thing. But if it really is a bunch of you honestly believing that gater conspiracy theory shit, that's another.
Anyway: It's just Star Wars talk, kiddoes. Being wrong about Star Wars is okay. I do it all the time.
I live.
I die.
I live again.
Speaking of Star Wars:
If filming/reshoots (and I'm guessing they're just being folded into each other with a small 2 or 3 week break packed in there) is going until September do you think they're actually gonna try to let the May date stand, or will they crack by D23 and announce it being pushed back?
Hate to break kayfabe here (Bronson, I'm doing that right, right? Wait. I'm doing it. So of course I'm doing it right) but Lights latest post has me thinking a couple little piggies have gone through the looking glass, and I don't wanna dive all the way in, so:
Once that stray shoelace got stepped on and some of the softer tissue on the forum got irritated and weepy, I was pretty sure I could tell who was playing and who was actually just being an insecure little shit letting a spitwad fly once they thought it was "safe" or whatever.
But... does Lights know that GOB is mocking people who legitimately believe I've ever pretended to be black?
I know some of you don't actually understand how a "cult of personality" works, which is fine, a lot of you only just learned yesterday that "bathos" was a real word and not just something a YouTuber made up. But while I can buy that ol' Lacey seriously thinks I am trying to cultivate a cult here (because I guess that would make sense... ish? What would I do with it once I had it?) I guess I'm unsure as to how many of you baby birds cheeping at me actually believe in that gamergatey sour grapes bullshit.
Like, if it's just your basic forum marks taking shit too seriously and getting upset when someone talks to them as opposed to stepping sideways as shitty opinions sail by, that's one thing. But if it really is a bunch of you honestly believing that gater conspiracy theory shit, that's another.
Anyway: It's just Star Wars talk, kiddoes. Being wrong about Star Wars is okay. I do it all the time.
I live.
I die.
I live again.
Speaking of Star Wars:
If filming/reshoots (and I'm guessing they're just being folded into each other with a small 2 or 3 week break packed in there) is going until September do you think they're actually gonna try to let the May date stand, or will they crack by D23 and announce it being pushed back?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Much more important question
Who the fuck do they get to score this thing
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Can that person bear the pressure of having to write the first ever theme for Han Solo?
Who the fuck do they get to score this thing
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Can that person bear the pressure of having to write the first ever theme for Han Solo?
I think this pic gets delayed. #TeamDelay
Giacchino again? He can bear it but he can't refuse to pun it. He'll call it...
Han "Solo"
Giacchino again? He can bear it but he can't refuse to pun it. He'll call it...
Han "Solo"
March of the Crabs
Member
Tegan & Sara ft. The Lonely Island
Damn, didn't think about there being a Han theme.
Weird
In fact the whole idea of this damn film is just weird and off to me, the more I actually imagine sitting down in a theater for it
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Some have been pitching Zimmer since he and Howard apparently have a relationship (I didn't know it was that strong, but hey)
I don't know about Zimmer doing a Star Wars film, though. Not to say that he can't, because he can (and sometimes still does) work in leitmotif. He's at least able to do it. But I don't know if that's a place he would even want to go.
Then again, he's a HUGE John Williams fan, and the opportunity to step into those shoes must be hard to turn down. He couldn't resist it on Man of Steel.
I like to imagine you have that in a muted tab whenever you're here. Just waiting. Like a gunslinger's hand hovering over the butt of his colt.
I don't know about Zimmer doing a Star Wars film, though. Not to say that he can't, because he can (and sometimes still does) work in leitmotif. He's at least able to do it. But I don't know if that's a place he would even want to go.
Then again, he's a HUGE John Williams fan, and the opportunity to step into those shoes must be hard to turn down. He couldn't resist it on Man of Steel.
I like to imagine you have that in a muted tab whenever you're here. Just waiting. Like a gunslinger's hand hovering over the butt of his colt.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I've always liked you, Jeff.
John Powell is a really interesting choice. I like that.
I'm also curious as to if/when whatever Desplat wrote for Rogue One gets out. The sheet music sometimes leaks from these replacements, and fans then try to recreate what it was going to be. I'd LOVE to hear what he had in mind for that movie.
C-3PO is fully assembled. 0/10 not lore specific
jesus thats a deep cut
The most offensive thing to me in this video is that the lyrics are about being free from carbonite while dancing in the very place he gets frozen
Ruining the metaphorical attempt the entire song is built on