BronsonLee
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Female lead in a Star Wars film is a pretty good opportunity to grab
btw you can get Oscars and do blockbuster shit too
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Han Solo Film: Frontrunners for female lead
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Female lead in a Star Wars film is a pretty good opportunity to grab
btw you can get Oscars and do blockbuster shit too
The Faceless Master
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i really thought this was just sarcasm until i saw the follow up post.
Gavin Darklighter
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If it's Sana that's gotta be a first that an EU character shows up in a movie
How much freedom do the writers have, though? If the story group wants Sana in the movie, do the writers really have a choice?
SketchTheArtist
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I feel like the comic book reveal of her character was to test the water for her making an appearance in a lead role for a future Star Wars Anthology movie. I dig it. The dynamic could be really fun.
Gavin Darklighter
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This isn't Marvel. At Lucasfilm the director and screenwriter call all the shots on the movie.
Was just coming to say this. Perfect choice.
I love Donald but he doesn't have that kind of 'swag' needed for Lando
The Get Down was pretty much a greatest hits audition tape for Shameik.
This is how black women don't get work, just look at Oscar winner lupita.
UnemployedVillain
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They didn't even allow her to show her face in Star Wars lol
Lifejumper
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Saw Gerera(?) from the clone wars animated show will apear in Rogue One.
Deadly Cyclone
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All you hating on Donald must have only seen him in Community.
I think Clone Wars is part of the official canon. I'm not sure, but I think I've seen a timeline or something. Anything else is considered EU and non-canonical.
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So if they wanted to, they could just kill Han Solo, right?
They're gonna avoid stepping on toes where they can. "Han ends up with Sana to some degree" isn't a major stipulation.
IIRC, the entire reason this movie exists is because Lucasfilm wanted Lawrence Kasdan and he wanted to write this movie.
So a lot of freedom.
Messofanego
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Lifejumper
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Everything since Lucasfilm rebooted the EU is canon.
BronsonLee
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omg all these people with fancy haircuts are staring at me
Gavin Darklighter
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That's completely different since George Lucas himself was in charge of that show and made all executive decisions.
They can basically do whatever they want although Kennedy could always enforce things if she chose. The story group mostly exists to keep everything tidy, not tell the writers what to do, but they have more influence on books and things of that nature where sometimes they come up with the idea (like the book Lost Stars) and then hire someone to put it together.
Kasdan doesn't care about he canon at all and will write whatever he wants. He already said so. This leaves us with two options - either he came up with Sana and Marvel slotted her in to get people used to her, or the character in the movie isn't Sana. I'd bet on the latter since Naomi Scott isn't black (shes half white half Indian).
LilWayneSuckz
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He doesn't. Shameik Moore is the better choice....and he's younger too
Rastafarian42
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Shamiek would be dope.... his swag in the Get Down is off the charts. Tessa doesn't really need this role tbh she's already in Thor 3.
Killer Queen
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Bronson on that "I don't see color"
It's ok I got u fam
DontBeThatGuy
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Yeah, Naomi Scott testing does suggest a different character.
Of all the projects Lucasfilm are working on, this is literally the least interesting of them to me, and I have no desire to see it. Harrison Ford is Han Solo. Period. This isn't a case where it's been over a decade since the last actor portrayed an iconic character (Alec Guinness), and audiences are open and ready for a new actors take on a younger version (Ewan McGregor). Harrison Ford played Han Solo in a film 10 months ago. And he was perfect. It's the only character that's made him give a shit about acting in over a decade.
For fucks sake.
Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, but this movie just feels pointless and inappropriate.
And he was fucking murdered. You can't just have the character die in one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the series, and then recast him and have him go off on one of his youthful misadventures. I'm supposed to enjoy this with the knowledge that his son fucking murders him in the back of my mind the whole time?
Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, but this movie just feels pointless and inappropriate.
hodayathink
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
Junior Asparagus
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I'm a Donald Glover fan but I dunno if I see it...
How does that change the fact that Saw is the first EU character to show up in a movie?
Discotheque
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He doesn't look like him as much as glover could. But glover just can't shake off his nerdy vibes. It works well for him in Atlanta tho but still he is the definition of #swagless
Shameik can pull off Lando a lot better I imagine. Shaolin Fantastic was a boss.
Yes because that's far more important than being able to actually play the character.
Sana did not appear in the old EU. She made her first appearance in one of the new comics which is part of the unified canon.
MHWilliams
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Because they wrote a Han Solo movie with female lead.
Why does there need to be a Han Solo film? Why do there need to be Star Wars films at all? Why make films even?
Zazie Beetz
Rabbi_Vole
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I really hate that this movie is happening. At the beginning of a new hope, Solo is a filthy unscrupulous scoundrel. How are they going to give Han an arc when the starting point in ANH is set so low?
This movie will be "Greedo shot first" times a gajillion.
This movie will be "Greedo shot first" times a gajillion.
Chuckie
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Did he and Leia break up in the EU? Or is this pre-Leia?
Well I guess they also broke up in the regular movies.
It plays before Ep 4.
Kyle Katarn is in Rogue One right? Are the games not technically EU now?
Ignoring the whole should this movie exist (it's happening):
1. It's been pointed out the story behind the movie is based on idea that GL had.
2. GL generally didn't bother with the old EU and ignored it and overwrote it, but there were some do NOT touch subjects, the prequel era (Anakin's fall, the twins' mom), Yoda's species and oddly, a certain number of years of Han's life. If you go and look at the Han Solo books in the old EU that take place before the movies, there is a gap around where he meets Chewie etc. So yeah, I do believe GL had an idea and wanted to do SOMETHING with it. Would it have been a movie? Dunno.
3. On whether or not it could be Sana based on the fact she first showed up in comics. This is actually WHERE the story group does come in. All these projects are on different timelines and they are the ones that keep track of what is going. I'm pretty sure early work on this movie started before the arc where Sana was introduced got going, so it is entirely possible that there was a character in the early story treatment for the movie, that when the SW comics writer came around and said "so hey I wanna do this woman from Han's past" the story group could say "WELL WE HAVE ONE." Pablo has said this is how Saw ended up in Rogue One, they wanted a character who'd been fighting for so long etc and the SG was like ah hah. When the SW comic writer pitched a group of special Stormtroopers who do NOT fit the mold, the SG told him to go watch the Bad Batch episodes of CW and get their DNA from there.
4. Anyway, Tessa was great as an annoying character on Veronica Mars, so I'm glad she's going places.
1. It's been pointed out the story behind the movie is based on idea that GL had.
2. GL generally didn't bother with the old EU and ignored it and overwrote it, but there were some do NOT touch subjects, the prequel era (Anakin's fall, the twins' mom), Yoda's species and oddly, a certain number of years of Han's life. If you go and look at the Han Solo books in the old EU that take place before the movies, there is a gap around where he meets Chewie etc. So yeah, I do believe GL had an idea and wanted to do SOMETHING with it. Would it have been a movie? Dunno.
3. On whether or not it could be Sana based on the fact she first showed up in comics. This is actually WHERE the story group does come in. All these projects are on different timelines and they are the ones that keep track of what is going. I'm pretty sure early work on this movie started before the arc where Sana was introduced got going, so it is entirely possible that there was a character in the early story treatment for the movie, that when the SW comics writer came around and said "so hey I wanna do this woman from Han's past" the story group could say "WELL WE HAVE ONE." Pablo has said this is how Saw ended up in Rogue One, they wanted a character who'd been fighting for so long etc and the SG was like ah hah. When the SW comic writer pitched a group of special Stormtroopers who do NOT fit the mold, the SG told him to go watch the Bad Batch episodes of CW and get their DNA from there.
4. Anyway, Tessa was great as an annoying character on Veronica Mars, so I'm glad she's going places.
Gavin Darklighter
Banned
Because clone wars isn't EU because it's Lucas's direct creation. EU is stuff expanded on and added by other creators in the books, novels, video games, etc. why the hell do you think they kept clone wars canon anyway? It was only made canon because of Lucas (that's the reason the original clone wars cartoon and the excellent John Ostrander series were not part of the new canon)
Dagobert Duck
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Whenever I hear the name Donald Glover I have to think of the internview where he said that his name is weird and he could never go with just "Don" because of his last name...Don Glover...
Gavin Darklighter
Banned
I dunno is he? That's a pretty big spoiler if true
No he's not lol
Does Boba Fett count? Guy first showed up in the Holiday Special.
Damnit noooo! I thought he was meant to be the main character.
Well, there goes all my hype for the movie.
I don't get why people keep talking about Kyle Katarn. Yeah, Rogue One is about stealing the Death Star plans, but that's such a fucking minor part of the character. Why would you want a Kyle Katarn movie to be based entirely around the first level of Dark Forces?
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