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I mean I figure Paul going to the desert with the Freman has to be where you end the first movie but thats like a third of the way into the book iirc?
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I mean I figure Paul going to the desert with the Freman has to be where you end the first movie but thats like a third of the way into the book iirc?
Just about. They usually skip over a lot of the political intrigue and stuff with the Imperial court in adaptations so I'm hoping they cover a lot more of that in Part I if they have to even them out.I mean I figure Paul going to the desert with the Freman has to be where you end the first movie but thats like a third of the way into the book iirc?
Just about. They usually skip over a lot of the political intrigue and stuff with the Imperial court in adaptations so I'm hoping they cover a lot more of that in Part I if they have to even them out.
- Luke and Lea training sequence is no longer the opening of the movie, it may be cut or moved. The opening of the film is now on Exogol. A control tower rises from the ground and transmits a signal, some rumbling below the surface of the pplanet then Sith Fleet Star Destroyer break through the rocky surface
Lando believes the First Order wanted to turn children of Rebellion heroes into stormtroopers as revenge for the Empire
Star Wars has never been big in China like the MCU has.That didn't really work with TLJ very well and apparently Chinese audiences saw through it.
I have a feeling the upcoming MCU shit will be cringey, so just wait and see.
so basically like Yamato / My Youth In Arcadia?some rumbling below the surface of the pplanet then Sith Fleet Star Destroyer break through the rocky surface
I haven't seen anybody talk about it, but that was my thought too. Sadly, I wouldn't even be surprised.With Matt Smith being in this movie, and rumors of time travel, have people come up with the obvious/autistic conclusion?
if you think they won't allow ep9 to fail, they will never get rid of star wars, or only when shit gets really really bad. selling it would be acknowledging that the did fuck all with it, everybody would see they didn't make their money back (unless they sell for a ridiculous sum, which given the current state is highly unlikely) and it would bit a much much bigger PR blunder then have ep9 bomb.
disney is also still banking on it pushing disney+, else they wouldn't pump 25 million per episode into the mandalorian (or at least that was the plan till galaxy edge interested almost no one).
they also have much less pull now than they did with TFA and even TLJ, scc is taking a look too so they can't fudge the numbers like they want to as easily.
That didn't really work with TLJ very well and apparently Chinese audiences saw through it.
I have a feeling the upcoming MCU shit will be cringey, so just wait and see.
I have no doubt Disney will commit some kind of fraud and pump their numbers up, I'm just wondering if they'll get away with it. Hype is low, spoilers are rampant, the film is possibly still being shot, and diehard fans have been alienated from the comics and video games due to their poor quality and the treatment of said fanbase. Disney pumped the numbers on Solo, possibly Captain Marvel, etc, but they can't hide this forever. Galaxy's Edge is empty. The comics and merch sales are tanking. The video games released so far have been commercially panned and haven't sold as much as they projected (by as much as 50%), and Disney's name is now synonymous with "corrupt, shitheel monopoly that ruins franchises and meddles with copyright law" across large chunks of the Internet.EPIX tanking alone wouldn't cause them to sell Star Wars/LFL - but we're likely to see any further movies get stuck in development hell for a few years. Unless acted on by external factors, Disney could afford to just sit on the license and collect nostalgia dollars and let Marvel push some issues of the comics. Their investors will be unlikely to allow that happen, and Disney brass may not want to even if the investors would let them.
EPIX tanking AND the Disney investors believing Disney+ to be a bust (regardless of whether or not it is) would cause it to happen. Star Wars is a widely known and EXCLUSIVE property - there's no other Star Wars TV shows or movies that Disney doesn't own. They can stream Star Wars and Disney shit as much as they want, where they want, accross what ever borders because they own the whole thing now.
I don't know how hard or how long Disney will push Disney+, or if they'll be successful. My gut says no, but I've been wrong about these things before.
Disney spent 4 billion dollars on star wars, that's a lot of capital to have tied up in something not producing a return. If Disney+ flounders, they will be under pressure to slim down under-performing assets from investors. If disney+ tanks, the exclusivity of Star Wars is less valuable - if you aren't doing the streaming, who cares if you own the global rights free and clear?
They need to make investors believe Star Wars is still valuable, and they need to make any potential future buys believe its valuable. Investors might make them sell star wars - it is a recent acquisition, not fully integrated into the Disney portfolio (Jokes asside, wonder why Leia hasn't shown up in any Disney Princess horsehit?) and could be split off and sold very easily. (There is no way to sell off Maleficient/Sleeping Beauty without a huge licensing cluster fuck. You take your "Well, it was #1" loss and move on.) If you sell, you would need to convince buyers the property is a valuable, audiences still want new films, and if EPIX tanks the only way to do that would be release a film that DOES do well.
EPIX needs to appear to be a success and I am assuring you the reported BO will be just around a billion, and I am anticipating that will then drop off like TLJ (though holding off judgement until the exact quality of the film is seen. LOL). I'm not expecting too much fuckery on merch sales - nothing like the abandoned tractor trailers of Barbies, probably little cooking.
Disney won't be too concerned about fudging Merch sales. Even if D+ is a huge and immediate failure, any LFL sale would be a few years out. All you need to do is work with Hasbro on some new OT & PT toys, reduce your cut to move more units, push them out and then in the sale package show decent merchandising unit movement; its a quick fix. If EPIX, the most recent SW theatrical film, is under a billion, the only way to fix that will be release another film that pulls in over a billion - so two years and another 300-400 million, and that's providing they don't fuck it up again.
Plus Rose was dirty viet mudperson and not a White cutie or Han waifu, so why bother.
Oh please, let that shit be real.![]()
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Apologies if this has been posted. Apparently the opening scene was changed
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There's also this:
This deal is getting worse all the time. I might actually make popcorn for the "final" trailer
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Rally around the (Disney) family
With a pocket full ofshellsshills
With Matt Smith being in this movie, and rumors of time travel, have people come up with the obvious/autistic conclusion?
So they're now stealing the flight of the Lusankya![]()
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Sadly yes. First thing that people and clickbait articles started saying when the rumor was going around was "OMG Dr. Who is in Star Wars/is Canon!" It didn't last long though.With Matt Smith being in this movie, and rumors of time travel, have people come up with the obvious/autistic conclusion?
Okay, but before I write another TL;DR piece, here's everything I knew about the game back in June so I don't have to repeat that part of the info:@GeneralFriendliness I'm interested in that info about Fallen Order, if there's anything aside the lightsaber customization stuff you posted already. TYFYS
I look at this and the nicest thing I can say is, that it looks decent to okay. But it feels like a God of War game with SW. It also feels like its trying to be a new version of Force Unleashed rather than something more competent like Jedi Academy, which seems to be the case judging from what I keep reading about this game and its lore in that much like in Force Unleashed, its about a little jedi kid/teen who survived the purge, was raised and trained by a force user, and his fate somehow ties into the founding of the Rebel Alliance and the game also features a junkyard planet and both games start on Kashyyyk, so this feels like Disney's attempt at replacing/succeeding Force Unleashed with the main difference being this kid/teen is a rogue jedi rather than a sith in training and that his parents aren't ever mentioned. Something about the aesthetics feels off, especially on that meh-looking droid sidekick which just feels DisneySequel-ish while also trying to look like an 80s product. The time-stopping mechanic isn't doing much for me and it reminds me more of that shitty Kylo Ren's trick from TFA than Prince of Persia, and that just opens a whole can of worms that never needed to exist. But even if this game does turn out to somehow be good or (unlikely) great, I just can't support it on principal... the principal that EA are douchebags and I refuse to give them my money after all the shit they've pulled in so many years of sleazy douchery. They've given me no reason to trust them, and their little subordinate company that's designing this game is only known for making meh to average games, so that gives me little motivation to be interested or trust them either. My next point is a bit nitpicky, but the guy's "alien best friend" from his flashback is the same obnoxious alien that keeps showing up in nu-Wars, and I really can't stand his design since he's ugly and his kind has effectively become a replacement for mon calamaris. And if even by some miracle this game does turn out to be some kind of GOTY masterpiece (and even if its not), it will still be followed by a typical EA scam like lootboxes (only reworked while EA claims they're totally not lootboxes this time), "DLC" which is actually locked content, or worse, finding out that the main story is actually just a small part of the game and that the real game is actually some multiplayer event full of transactions and pay-to-win shit.
In short, I don't trust EA for shit.
On another note, here's everything I know about this game story-wise for anyone interested. The main guy's name is Cal Kestis. He survived the purge as a kid and was raised by this androgynous black man/lady/genderfluidwtf jedi (pictured below holding a holocron) named Cere who is the secondary protagonist. Next is that R.O.B. wannabe sidekick on his shoulder whose name is BD-1. BD-1 and Cal were together since the purge, and before the game's storyline they were members of the "Scrappers Guild" that rummaged through old ships. During that time, the two became friends with the ugly alien dude from TFA and all Disney media named Prauf. Prauf died before the game's events.Deez NutsGeez Dritus is the pilot of the game's signature ship, the Stinger Mantis. Greez is a four armed alien with a giant fuzzy onion for a head (pictured below). In the picture below is also the game's main villain, the Second Sister, she's an androgynous Vader fangirl who became his personal apprentice. She became an inquisitor and is now hunting down Cal and his band of rejects. She wields a helicopter sith saber with double blades. The black Che Guevara from Rogue One will also be in the game along with his "militia" the "Partisans".
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Among the known enemies in the game are (obviously) stormtroopers, Viper probe droids (the ones seen on Hoth in ESB), "Purge troopers" (created exclusively for the game but were featured in Marvel's nu-Vader comic), Flametroopers from Force Unleashed (but they've been modified to resemble snowtroopers for some reason), Flame beetles (they're an old EU species from Kashyyyk first seen in the 80s Marvel comics and the MMO SW Galaxies) and Wyyyschokks (another old EU species of giant spiders from Kashyyyk that appeared in several games and books set on Kashyyyk). "KX droids" which are the same model as the "sarcastic" droid from Rogue One will also serve as enemies.
The only way that happens if Disney gets new management within the next few months should Iger get embodied in a scandal.EPIX tanking alone wouldn't cause them to sell Star Wars/LFL - but we're likely to see any further movies get stuck in development hell for a few years. Unless acted on by external factors, Disney could afford to just sit on the license and collect nostalgia dollars and let Marvel push some issues of the comics. Their investors will be unlikely to allow that happen, and Disney brass may not want to even if the investors would let them.
EPIX tanking AND the Disney investors believing Disney+ to be a bust (regardless of whether or not it is) would cause it to happen. Star Wars is a widely known and EXCLUSIVE property - there's no other Star Wars TV shows or movies that Disney doesn't own. They can stream Star Wars and Disney shit as much as they want, where they want, accross what ever borders because they own the whole thing now.
I don't know how hard or how long Disney will push Disney+, or if they'll be successful. My gut says no, but I've been wrong about these things before. If D+ takes off, or least isn't an expensive disappointment, Disney will most likely continue to hold Star Wars.
Disney spent 4 billion dollars on LFL to get Star Wars, that's a lot of capital to have tied up in something not producing a return. If Disney+ flounders, they will be under pressure to slim down under-performing assets from investors. If disney+ tanks, the exclusivity of Star Wars is less valuable - if you aren't doing the streaming, who cares if you own the global rights free and clear?
They need to make investors believe Star Wars is still valuable, and they need to make any potential future buyers believe its valuable in case D+ flops. Investors might make them sell star wars - it is a recent acquisition, not fully integrated into the Disney portfolio (Jokes aside, wonder why Leia hasn't shown up in any Disney Princess horsehit?) and could be split off and sold very easily. (There is no way to sell off Maleficient/Sleeping Beauty without a huge licensing cluster fuck. You take your "Well, it was #1" loss and move on.) If you sell, you would need to convince buyers the property is a valuable, audiences still want new films, and if EPIX tanks the only way to do that would be release a film that DOES do well.
EPIX needs to appear to be a success and I am assuring you the reported BO will be just around a billion, and I am anticipating that will then drop off like TLJ (though holding off judgement until the exact quality of the film is seen. LOL). I'm not expecting too much fuckery on merch sales - nothing like the abandoned tractor trailers of Barbies, probably little cooking.
Disney won't be too concerned about fudging Merch sales. Even if D+ is a huge and immediate failure, any LFL sale would be a few years out. All you need to do is work with Hasbro on some new OT & PT toys, reduce your cut to move more units, push them out and then in the sale package show decent merchandising unit movement; its a quick fix. If EPIX, the most recent SW theatrical film, is under a billion, the only way to fix that will be release another film that pulls in over a billion - so two years and another 300-400 million, and that's providing they don't fuck it up again.
Star Wars never really took hold in China; Star Wars requires too much understanding of what's going on to really get it.
You could watch Avengers with the dialogue replaced by complete jibberish ("replaced" LOL) and still get a general grasp what's happening in almost any scene. I'm not saying Star Wars is some high-brow complex story, but it does rely on context and character instead of a string of "HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT?"
Plus Rose was dirty viet mudperson and not a White cutie or Han waifu, so why bother.
I don't think EA will ever sell itself because of SW flops or Anthem. Not as long as their shitty repetitive sports titles keep pumping out free cash.Also @GeneralFriendliness, since Jedi: Fallen Order is coming out, do you see Electronic Arts getting sold off in the future and complicate things with Disney? I ask this because this seems like a needed hit for them after Anthem and Battlefront 2 flopped.
Hate to burst your bubble but nothing's going to happen to EA as long as they can crank out yearly Fifa and Madden titles.The only way that happens if Disney gets new management within the next few months should Iger get embodied in a scandal.
Also @GeneralFriendliness, since Jedi: Fallen Order is coming out, do you see Electronic Arts getting sold off in the future and complicate things with Disney? I ask this because this seems like a needed hit for them after Anthem and Battlefront 2 flopped.