I was on my way to post this!

Aaaaand I’m starting to worry about oversaturation. They have announced two film series before the one we’re working on is done.

I’m still mostly excited, partly worried. The world building and character development mostly comes from George RR Martin. I’m not sure how they are at it, and considering Benioff wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine I’m slightly concerned.

I mean I’ll be there opening week for sure anyway.

I wonder what their release schedule will be like. And how many D&D will have.

Episode IX
Something: A Star Wars Story
Rian Johnson’s Trilogy part 1
D&D’s Series part 1
Something: A Star Wars Story
Rian Johnson’s Trilogy part 2
D&D’s Series part 2
Something: A Star Wars Story
Rian Johnson’s Trilogy part 3
D&D’s Series part 3

That gets us up to 2028 with one every year. Or 2025 if they drop the anthology movies.

Emila Clarke is already in Solo. Star Wars Universe is going full GoT. Next up, Jon Snow!

That’s a good point about the order. I’m going to need to buy some more shelves to hold all the Star Wars movies before it’s over with

Rather than add a new post to the already Star Wars heavy front page...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/6/16981232/star-wars-series-disney-streaming

The new D&D series of movies will be based around a specific moment in Star Wars mythology. That’s an intriguing premise. I wonder which moment. The forming of the rule of two? I can’t think of any major piece of mythology that we haven’t seen that would outclass that.

Also in that link, news that there are MULTIPLE Star Wars TV series’ in development for their streaming service. We knew about one, but this ups the ante.

I don’t want to subscribe to another streaming service but the deal keeps getting more compelling.

> Aaaaand I’m starting to worry about oversaturation. They have announced two film series before the one we’re working on is done.

Seems like they are trying to load up the future path for Star Wars and it LOOKS like it's not going to keep being the Skywalker Saga. I like that they are looking to broaden things and i'm really hopeful for that.

I'm not worried about oversaturation because Marvel figured it out and I bet sooner or later Lucasfilm will make it work. Or they won't but I imagine some of the movies will be good and if they are too many I can just skip seeing them in the theater. I do that now with movies and that's fine.

They must have other films in the works too because after Solo, Ep 9 they don't have anything on the table enough to launch unless that new Johnson joint is ready to start filming this year and I don't think it will. My guess it we will get some kind of Obiwan movie they can get out to fill that year and then after that we might be on the new Star Wars story path with Rian Johnson and the Game of Thrones guys. The Thrones guys can only start after the last season of Thrones is done right which is like when again?

Next season of GoT comes out in 2019

I imagine we will hear news about the next anthology movie after Solo has been out for a few weeks. They initially said they were going to do three and see how that went right?

That was a fun video. It's not quite a DIY guide and skips a lot of steps (downloading linux and such isn't shown) but it's not really hard to do if you are motivated. After Nintendo is done with all the Classic relaunches I think i'm gonna do one of these for fun. That said, hacking my Classics to load up the games I own sounds good too

You gonna make on at some point?

Hahahaha that was awesome.

Still don't know how Jar-Jar became my favorite character but he does make horror movies fun!

Sorry, every time I read the title I think of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oQEPfe-O8

The music reminds me of the Japanese lounge/swing that's been popular for a few years. The Katamari games are full of it, and I loooove it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmDUVxBxA0

This game looks like total insanity. I'm so incredibly confused and intrigued.

I felt bad for the frog.

This is a great trailer. It teases plot points without giving anything away.

And plus it's new Star Wars!!!

Yep, this trailer was really cool and I am excited for The Last Jedi even more now. If Disney keeps going at this pace and with the movies as good as they have been I think I'll be watching them excitedly for quite some time.

Adam, that may be true about the Han Solo movie, I'll hold judgment until a trailer at least.

But for now I AM ONE WITH THE HYPE AND THE HYPE IS WITH ME

I finally have a couple things to say about this trailer so hold on to your butts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W6as8oVcuM

Sorry that wasn't a Star Wars reference.

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

Episode One - More About The Force Awakens

Firstly I want to link to our Force Awakens trailer discussion. Fun to read that two years later knowing what we know now. It's nice to have these discussions easy to find. I know i'll get a kick out of reading them YEARS later. You know, like now only much older...

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/2479/star-wars-vii-the-force-awakens-trailer-2-launches

Firstly I want to step back a bit and say I think the Force Awakens is getting a but too much negativity amongst some fans. The fact that it was made as quickly and was as good and made as many people happy and again, was good is a miracle. I think the Movies With Mikey review sums it up well even though Mikey does tend to get a bit gushy the end of his reviews. Regardless, Force Awakens was a movie I still stand by as "liquid joy" and one of the more magical theater going experiences i've had lately. Until I saw Arrival then that topped it, but Force Awakens was superb and as a fan very satisfying.

I could get into the biggest criticisms of it, but I won't because we've talked about that before. All that to say, my guess is Last Jedi will be incredible and in many ways better than the Force Awakens because the Force Awakens built up so much The Last Jedi can now pay off and kick the world building and incredible parts of Star Wars up 10 notches. I think because of this there will be some new fan share on the Force Awakens because the Internet loves picking apart things and jumping on bandwagons. Or not. But we'll see.

TLDR; Force Awakens is a great movie that builds up an incredible world the Last Jedi can play in so well it will be a really great film.

Episode II - Attack Of the Trailer Speculation

I think you can take Luke wanting the Jedi to end in a couple ways. Both are interesting and i'm not entire sure which it will be.

1. Luke actually wants to rid the galaxy of anyone with force ability. Let's face it, the Jedi are ultra powerful and it seems from the films having them around causes a huge amount of problems. Luke might believe that having such ultra powerful people might be too much for the galaxy and he wants to stop anyone from getting that power and using it for bad. This is a parallel between what Vader did, which was for entirely different reasons but the same kind of action. It would be an interesting juxtaposition and since, my guess, Luke is the most powerful person in the galaxy and seemingly for good but not it could create an interesting story. Further speculation on this line is that Luke might train Rey to help him take out the First Order and the Knights of Ren something she might like but Luke might take it too far for her or be too extreme?

2. Luke is speaking more metaphorically and he wants there to be less "evil extreme" Jedi and "good to the point of being dumb" Jedi. He thinks being Grey is actually better and will try and sway Kylo to the middle. I've only heard about the Grey path recently and it's an interesting concept outlined on Wookipedia below.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi

3. Something else entirely.

"fan share" => "fan shade"

> (Kylo's helmet is broken in the trailer, maybe he's trying to turn to the light side in this one?)

I actually thought that was Darth Vaders burned helmet but it could be Kylo's which does make more sense.

I think this trailer is one of the best trailers i've seen. Also, I like Luke as a Yoga Teacher. "Breeeeaaathe!"

Where is C3PO and Chewbaca? Are they back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi

Looks like they are in the movie credits.

There's no way they don't put threepio in it. Anthony Daniels has been in nearly every single Star Wars property and he's still kicking.


If Anthony Daniels is alive in 20 years when Star Wars Episode 18 comes out and takes place 500 years in the future from Episode 8, Threepio will probably still be there.

The CG Roundtable talked Chick Tracts first! We are the trendsetters!

Thanks for sharing this it was really great. Didn't know he was such a RLM fan.