Boyega really is the chosen one.

 

Yeah, the trailers have done a very good job of building hype and fueling speculation without actually giving away anything substantive about the movie.

 

I actually loved the trailer and really can't wait to see this movie, but just to play Devil's Advocate, this isn't the first Star Wars trailer that had us all really pumped up.

 

And Daisy Ridley.

 

Disney paid $4 billion for Star Wars.

Quick google search had the movie estimated to cost $175-$200 million (from a year ago, who knows how accurate that is?)

I trust disney not to fuck up that much of their money, because people are already halfworried over another Phantom Menace.

 

Disney has such an exhaustive supply of revenue that they could use dollar bills for toilet paper in every company restroom for a thousand years, and their stock wouldn't drop an inch. Money thrown at one of their flicks is not a good indicator of their dedication to quality.

I mean... remember John Carter? 300 million plus overall budget and it turned out to be one of the shittiest and most forgettable sci-fi movies of the last two decades.

A better indicator that a Disney film is going to be quality is the level of care and effort they put into their hype/marketing campaigns. And this particular campaign has been fucking masterful so far.

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Is it bad that I've rewatched the trailer 23 times in 4 days?

 

Well, I can see why they scrapped the entire EU now.

 

Not the entire EU, as I understand it. Just the post RotJ stuff.

 

Slightly more than that really. Only the six movies, the Clone Wars tv series and film are firmly canonical material from before April 25, 2014. Everything else gets filed under "Legends." So Shadows of the Empire or even KOTOR is probably Legends material. Things after April 25, like Star Wars Rebels, the new novels, and the various comics are presumed to be canonically until the story group says otherwise.

This just means that Cindel Towani's adventures on Endor are no longer canonical. My childhood fears of the big spiders of Endor were for naught!

 

I have high hopes for this, there doesn't seem to be a single Jar-jar in sight. Still though, the fact that the emporer and his right hand were killed and the rebels were celebrating the birth of a new republic makes me wonder just what happened between then and now.

It's like all the character's went through in the original movies meant nothing. :/

 

Oh, fair enough then. Hadn't realised that.

 

What the Star Wars Uprising mobile game (which is a bit shit but kindof playable) basically established is that the reach of the new republic was incredibly limited in its infancy. There were entire galactic sectors in which the Empire pretended Palpatine was still alive, and their rule went on, business as usual. Maybe that's still supposed to be the case. The republic is stuggling to establish a footing, vying with the First Order for dominance.

 

Part of me is actually quite sad by this. Really bummed out, actually. As bad as some portions of the Star Wars EU got, the peaks were really, really good. Not everyone was a fan, but I actually really enjoyed a lot of the post-ROTJ stuff, particularly NJO which everyone finds polarizing. I guess that means we're not going to get a FOTJ continuation, which is disappointing.

At the same time, EU has been flagging for some time, arguably since post-NJO is when things started taking a nosedive. Insofar as the era surrounding Anakin, Luke, and the others are concerned, there's fewer and fewer places to tread new ground. One could always pull a KOTOR and explore a completely different time period, but that's fairly risky and unlikely to draw people in.

I'm really hyped for this because as it much as The Force Awakens throws virtually all of the EU (given how old Han, Luke, and Leia are in this) -- both good and bad -- into the trash compactor, this is going to be taking Star Wars in a completely new direction and I have no idea what to expect. And it's going to bring about a completely different EU and we could easily see another thirty odd years of novels and material, similar to how the original EU started.

And that's kind of awesome.

 

On topic, I have to agree with Rayndeon that it will be fun to see them doing something new with Star Wars. Though it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if Abrams slipped in a sneaky reference or two to the high points of the EU.

 

I feel like they must be keeping or reusing some ideas from the EU. They're keeping the New Republic at least.

 

Jar Jar was a Sith Lord all along.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdAUiyeJMFQ

New japanese trailer for TFA, with loads of new footage. Be warned, some of it is a bit spoiler-y.

 

So I lasted all of 10 mins before I gave in and watched the trailer. Not as spoilery as I feared, but I think we have enough now to piece together the first ~25mins of the movie.

Speculation, but still spoilery:

Spoiler

Scene 1: Jakku. Rey is scavenging, finds BB-8, hints that she's waiting on her family but we don't know who.

Scene 2: Space. Finn's TIE fighter has an accident and he crashes on Jakku near Rey's settlement.

Scene 3: Villains. Kylo Ren introduced, he's hunting down the leaders of the Rebellion.

Scene 4: Jakku attacked by the First Order, including Captain Phasma and Kylo Ren, based on intel that a leading member of the Rebellion is there. Millennium Falcon swoops in to rescue Rey and Finn.

Scene 5: Rey and Finn meet with Han Solo. If Rey is Han's daughter, for some reason he hasn't told her about what happened before. I lean more towards her being Luke's daughter, both because the way she looks at Han in the trailer doesn't seem familiar enough for him to be her father, and because some of the things she says (e.g. the line about hope) are vaguely Jedi-ish.

 

One has to admire the near-perfect sequencing of the leaks and trailers on Disney's part. The hype build-up is surreal.


/hypedoffthesolarsystem

 

I would say it's closer to 40 minutes, but yes, it gave us enough context to guess how it will all start. I'm a little surprised that after all this secrecy and showing as little as possible, Disney made a quite normal trailer for Japan, as if they forgot that everyone else will watch it too.