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[sandramenae]

We literally got Empress Palpatine scene in TROS

[claquetevirtual]

A Vanityfair, que tem tradição em revelar com exclusividade fotos e informações sobre Star Wars, acabou de postar uma matéria cheia de novidades e imagens inéditas sobre o Episódio IX: A Ascensão Skywalker, o último capítulo da saga que chega aos cinemas em dezembro. Segue acima alguns dos ‘sneak peeks’ mais interessantes divulgados pela citada revista! Haja coração, amigo(a)!

[tiefighters]

The First Order “Dreadnought” Revealed for The Last Jedi

The Dreadnought is classified as a Mandator IV-class warship, featuring two enormous orbital autocannons for large-scale bombardments and 24 point-defense anti-aircraft cannons on its dorsal surface. It’s also big — 7,669.72 meters in length, or 25,162.8 feet. 

StarWars.com spoke with Kevin Jenkins, Lucasfilm’s design supervisor for The Last Jedi, for some insight. Read the details below.

What can you say about coming up with the Dreadnought design and how closely you were working with Rian Johnson to bring it to life?

Kevin Jenkins: All of my work was with Rian. Direct with Rian. The Dreadnought didn’t actually come to life until we got into post [production]. We had made some passes that were similar that Rian had approved that were on set, but it kind of turned into the final version that we are seeing now when we were in the post process, and we were going into full model-build stage. Basically, it evolved from story reasons because Rian needed a new battleship in the script called the Dreadnought. Essentially, it needed to be a ground-firing gun platform, and the other limitations that Rian put on me was he needed and required a flat surface with gun turrets on it. So basically, it’s an armored gunboat, an armored gun platform. It’s sort of a heavy artillery that’s much bigger than a standard Star Destroyer, about two-and-a-half times the size of a standard Star Destroyer. That was the original brief to me.

As you were developing it, what were you looking at for inspiration? Were you looking at real-world craft or were you going back to the original trilogy and building off what came before? How did you approach it?

Kevin Jenkins: Combination of the original trilogy stuff, in the sense that I designed everything in Episode VIII as if it was to be a model. World War II and the Korean War and that era was a heavy influence in all the design, going into the ‘60s. But also using the mentality that Rian and I talked about a lot, which was an iteration-type idea. War makes you adaptive. So you start off with one vehicle, tank, gun, ship, and it evolves through combat into something else. The gun platform, of course being a larger Star Destroyer gun platform, we initially started with a giant triangle, which was the shape of a Star Destroyer. But then flattening off the top became a big design requirement. Quite late in the design phase, the under side of it was also sloped like a traditional Star Destroyer, because they are kind of a trapezoid shape if you look at them in a cross-section.

We had all sorts of design ideas and things, but when seeing an early cut with Rian, I just remember straight afterwards we talked to each other and went, “We need guns.” We tried radars because, obviously, you look at Return of the Jedi and there were radar dishes. There’s one on the Death Star. So it was also part of that retro, Flash Gordon-esque sci-fi thing, and we went down that path for a while, but then the cut just went, “Nah. Big guns. It just needs big guns.”

You can never go wrong with big guns.

Kevin Jenkins: Yeah, exactly. I spent a lot of time looking at real-world references. Looking at the big battleships, the Yamato and all those kinds of things from World War II, and the way those guns would lower or rise. So the idea of them coming out the bottom of the Dreadnought became a design feature, because rather than just being there pointing down, we wanted to imply the danger that they sort of unlocked themselves and then moved into position. Just like the big 14-inch guns you used to see on those old battleships. It was a capitol ship. That was what we were kind of going for.

[vuecinemas]

Who are the misfit rebel heroes taking on the Empire this time? Which familiar faces will be returning? Ultimate Star Wars geek Dan Maher is here to answer all your questions about Rogue One, coming to your local Vue this December.

Head to myvue.com to learn more

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Lucasfilm's Strange Magic trailer.

[brentb]

Original stop-motion puppet for Jurassic Park.

[martindemartian]

"OMG Disney bought Lucasfilm. Now Star Wars is doomed!" Oh please, cause George Lucas didn't already mess that series up...........

[nerdology]

Disney Buys Lucasfilm For 4 Billion Dollars

This is crazy. Disney just purchased Lucasfilm and now owns Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Disney isn't wasting any time with this properties. They also announced that Star Wars Episode 7 is coming in 2015. I'll repeat that.

STAR WARS EPISODE 7 IS COMING IN 2015!!

That's kind of insane to me. Are we starting a new character arc? We already saw the rise, fall, and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Are we ignoring the EU? Worse, are we adapting the EU? There are a thousand questions.

George Lucas said in the press release:

"It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers.

Be as snarky as you want. Say, "he should have passed it on before he made the prequels"  but deep down inside you know that you (and I) will have a really hard time trusting anyone, anyone else with Star Wars.

UPDATE: I have opinions, and I'm going to write them down. I just need to gather some information before I commit them to paper... er... blog. Hopefully I'll have something by tonight/tomorrow.  - Creighton

[via Disney]