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*** Official *** Rogue One - A Star Wars Story (2 Viewers)

pantherclub said:
Can someone explain to me the Thrawn angle of Star Wars without giving up too many spoilers.  Thrawn is now the villain for the upcoming Star Wars Rebels and I am unsure of his timeline.  I seem to recall in other Star wars threads that he may be the main bad guy in the upcoming series but the timeline as it stands now is that he is way before where we are at in the movies.

Also its going to be curious how they weave Ezra into the movies as a bad guy because its obviously the direction the cartoon is taking him and the producers of both say the new movies and the Rebels will merge at some point
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Can I get an update here?

 
pantherclub said:
Can I get an update here?
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Thrawn's timeline, from what I know is cloudy. The trilogy revolved around him a bit as the main bad guy but I don't know how much the cartoon will touch on the trilogy parts. The trilogy takes place 5 years after Jedi and his rise to power is explained but not in some great detail or anything. Heir to the Empire is where to begin with Thrawn though.

 
Mario Kart said:
Thrawn's timeline, from what I know is cloudy. The trilogy revolved around him a bit as the main bad guy but I don't know how much the cartoon will touch on the trilogy parts. The trilogy takes place 5 years after Jedi and his rise to power is explained but not in some great detail or anything. Heir to the Empire is where to begin with Thrawn though.
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The books established that the Emperor was a racist and had disdain for non-human races. Thrawn was such a tactical genius he became the only non human Grand Admiral.  Despite his ability, the Emperor relegated him to The Outer Rim to subjugate it. That's why he wasn't in the OT.  I know in the books, several characters lament that Thrawn wasn't in charge of supressing the Rebellion and if he were....it wouldn't have lasted long. 

 
Thank Baby Jesus for keeping George Lucas far, far away from the creative process of these new Star Wars movies.  I can now rest in peace.

 
As expected there should be quite a bit of Vader sightings..

Also a nice twist, at least to me, on her connection to the Death Star and why she was chosen to lead :)

 
I'm a thousand times more excited about this than I was Force Awakens. And i was pretty excited for that.  This looks amazing.

 
MattFancy said:
Isn't it John Williams?
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no, this will be the first star wars movie ever with out John Williams.

Michael Giacchino is the guy who is scoring this movie.

Michael Giacchino has worked with JJ and Disney (via pixar) before which is where he likely got the job from.

He has worked on the Star Treks, Planet of the Apes, Mission Impossible Jurassic World, Zootopia, and a bunch of pixar movies.

 
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I was not really looking forward to this one very much, but that preview gave me a very "Star Wars Rebels" vibe and really served to pique my interest in the film. 

P.S. I think I may like SW Rebels more than my 4 year old son does (bag)

 
Jaysus said:
I was not really looking forward to this one very much, but that preview gave me a very "Star Wars Rebels" vibe and really served to pique my interest in the film.

P.S. I think I may like SW Rebels more than my 4 year old son does (bag)
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Star Wars Rebels gets better and seemingly more "adult" every episode.   The show has a completely different feel now in early season 3 than compared to season 1.  Extremely well done IMO.

 
NewlyRetired said:
no, this will be the first star wars movie ever with out John Williams.

Michael Giacchino is the guy who is scoring this movie.

Michael Giacchino has worked with JJ and Disney (via pixar) before which is where he likely got the job from.

He has worked on the Star Treks, Planet of the Apes, Mission Impossible Jurassic World, Zootopia, and a bunch of pixar movies.
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The music is interesting.  I'm kind of a movie/trailer music geek and I liked it too but the only review I've seen of the music in the trailer was panning it pretty hard, calling it too Hans Zimmerish.

If I'm not mistaken Giacchino is new to the score.  It was originally supposed to be composed by Desplat but they switched recently because of delays in filming that conflicted with his schedule.

I'm not sure which of them was responsible for the music in the very first teaser but that one blew me away, particularly at the end where they played a variation of the imperial theme over the top of a variation of the jedi theme at the same time.  I still splooge about it to this day.

 
FreeBaGeL said:
As it says in big giant letters in the trailer.

"DECEMBER 16"
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I didn't watch the trailer yet.  I am the guy who waits until the day before to watch the trailer because I hate waiting in anticipation.  

I leave any store (and drop my stuff) where there is a line at the cashier.  I don't drive between the hours of 4pm and 6pm because I don't do traffic. Luckily I always sleep in so mornings are never a problem.

 I am truly a man of leisure.  

 
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
I think they need a movie without a death star in it....
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I believe only 2 out of the 8 movies so far do not have a plot (minor (2 and 3) or major (4, 6, 7, 8) ) that involves some sort of Death Star.

Ironically they are movies #1 and #5 (which most consider the worst and best respectively in the series).

 
They haven't had a good one in over 35 years, my expectations have slowly been lowered. The trailer looks good but they all look good.

Phantom Menace

I still get jacked at that trailer...then I remember how bad it is.

 
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It's lit, so ####### lit.

I did some snooping after watching this latest trailer (skeet skeet) and Nerdist came up with a very logical explanation for the weakness to the Death Star (open exhaust port leading straight to the power source) to blow up the Death Star.

It's a potentially huge spoiler but makes perfect sense.  Check it out.

 
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CentralPA said:
It's lit, so ####### lit.

I did some snooping after watching this latest trailer (skeet skeet) and Nerdist came up with a very logical explanation for the weakness to the Death Star (open exhaust part leading straight to the power source) to blow up the Death Star.

It's a potentially huge spoiler but makes perfect sense.  Check it out.
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Can't they just put some plywood over it or something?

 
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