You're correct. It was confirmed at Hitflix that it is indeed Serkis doing the narration. They haven't confirmed his role in the film, other than it will be brief, but pivotal.
I'm suddenly even more encouraged about the potential for these new films.
"(The ideas) that I sold to Disney and everything, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those. So they made up their own. It’s not the ones that I originally wrote.” George Lucas, Deadline.com 1/22/2015
I'm suddenly even more encouraged about the potential for these new films.
"(The ideas) that I sold to Disney and everything, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those. So they made up their own. It’s not the ones that I originally wrote.” George Lucas, Deadline.com 1/22/2015
I've read about 15% of the way into Star Wars Ring Theory, but I really hope that Lucas knew that he was doing it and that Abrams, Kasdan, and Rian Johnson are at least aware of it, if not told by Lucas about it.
I've read about 15% of the way into Star Wars Ring Theory, but I really hope that Lucas knew that he was doing it and that Abrams, Kasdan, and Rian Johnson are at least aware of it, if not told by Lucas about it.
I may have made it 15% as well. (I'll slog on when I have time to kill.)
Fascinating.
However, I hope Abrams, Kasdan, and Rian Johnson are aware of it and largely ignore it.
I had noticed the overall structural parallels, if not their crazily meticulous nature, and I feel that that meticulousness is part of the problem with the prequels: there is so much emphasis on structure, that there is very little room for spontaneity (or life).
Even by the time he was making Return of the Jedi, you can feel Lucas working very hard to repeat and scale up motifs from Star Wars; in the prequels, this affectation becomes increasingly heavy-handed and ultimately strangles the series.
I'd contend that it took the far more anarchic and sprawling Clone Wars (both series) to breathe life back into the setting, much as the anarchic and sprawling novels had done several years before.
I THINK it's just using the line from the original trilogy. Plus some new content...but I'm pretty sure it's re-purposed old audio being used to keep things vague for us.
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I don't even really know the cast, and I don't care. It's Star Wars, baby! :p
"John Boyega is Finn, Daisy Ridley is Rey, Oscar Isaac is Poe Dameron, the mysterious figure is Kylo Ren, and the soccer ball droid is known as BB-8."
"(The ideas) that I sold to Disney and everything, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those. So they made up their own. It’s not the ones that I originally wrote.” George Lucas, Deadline.com 1/22/2015
Fascinating.
However, I hope Abrams, Kasdan, and Rian Johnson are aware of it and largely ignore it.
I had noticed the overall structural parallels, if not their crazily meticulous nature, and I feel that that meticulousness is part of the problem with the prequels: there is so much emphasis on structure, that there is very little room for spontaneity (or life).
Even by the time he was making Return of the Jedi, you can feel Lucas working very hard to repeat and scale up motifs from Star Wars; in the prequels, this affectation becomes increasingly heavy-handed and ultimately strangles the series.
I'd contend that it took the far more anarchic and sprawling Clone Wars (both series) to breathe life back into the setting, much as the anarchic and sprawling novels had done several years before.
However, as to your last point I can't comment as I haven't seen Clone Wars.
:D
(Or at the very least, specific episodes.... like the Darth Maul episodes and the Mortis Trilogy.
Edit: Apparently this has been around for a few years. Still awesome IMO.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
annnnnddddd BOOM goes the dynamite..
(Someone tell my kids to fend for themselves)
"My father has it..."
HAS it.
Not had. HAS.
Hmmm...
PS- This is speculation about what is actually in the teaser. If anyone actually knows a spoiler on this, please keep it to yourself.
AWESOME.
Han said it for me.