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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Star Wars Episode 7 : Characters, Villains, Scenes, Battle Descriptions, and more...


I've got plenty of Star Wars Episode 7 leaks infos for you to start the week! And it's divide in held: the script / characters details are below and on the D&M Facebook page HERE you'll find not less than twenty-five concept-arts done for Star Wars 7 production which have been leaked last week and believe me they're the real thing, folks, so don't miss them!

Tons of Star Wars 7 infos / rumors are out there right now. and even a huge spoiler hit the internet last week saying how the movie ends - but you won't found this one below as there is limits to what is no big problem to know and what spoils everything. So what you'll read below although still potential spoilers are minor spoilers, but of course you can choose to read them or not.

The first one is coming from Star Wars 7 News, and brings possible details on a cantina scene early on in the movie in which Daisy Ridley’s character meets Chewbacca and Han Solo:

Cantina Scene.
Daisy arrives to Cantina in search of Han or Luke I believe. She is confronted by an alien, she lifts her blaster to him, he then takes it from her hand “Don’t point a blaster at someone if you are not going to use it” and points it at her. At this point Chewie (With arm Bandaged/In a Sling) intimidates the alien, “What good is a one armed wookie” Chewie then rips the guys arm off and hands the blaster back to Daisy. Ford was not present at filming this, BUT……….
Cut to the outside of the Cantina as a Planet/Moon is blown up outside, Han is present here (Wearing a thin cut, waist length leather jacket, boots etc, a “Matching outfit”) oh and he still has his blaster :) I don’t know if he has just arrived to meet up with Daisy and Chewie, but he is cutting through the crowd of onlookers as everyone is witnessing the destruction of “Whatever” was blown up in the sky.
Note, not 100% sure if Boyega was in the scene but he was present, wearing “Rags” or “Untidy” Clothes. [sic]

This scene sounds like it could be a legit description, so we'll see next year if it is or not. The next rumor comes this time from JediNews, and clarifies previous rumors that we've heard about Luke Skywalker being missing since 10 years and Han and Chewbacca finding him with the characters played by Ridley and John Boyega. It also gives us a different reason why these characters are looking for Luke Skywalker.

The concept of “Luke is missing/needs to be found” in Episode VII is being approached somewhat from the wrong angle in other rumor reports. The source says the “find Luke” premise is based off the cast of young characters (Ridley, Boyega, others?) trying to deal with a problem they uncover that they feel they can overcome themselves, presumably something relating to the machinations of the Sith and/or Empire. They feel confident in their abilities to attack this challenge head-on and quickly realize they are severely out-matched and way out of their league. So they alter their plans and scramble to enlist the aid of Luke, who is unaware of the situation ( and how rapidly it escalates to a problem that requires his immediate attention ) at the time of his “searching” by the young cast.

Then, we have a scene description that features a new droid, a lightsaber, and apparently also another kind of Stormtrooper that we'll see in SW7. The scene description is coming from Making Star Wars.

Nighttime under the cover of darkness. Four characters convene.
Imagine the next generation of R2 unit. A jump as drastic as the Return of the JediStormtrooper to the Star Wars: Episode VII Stormtrooper. Sleeker, more futuristic, yet somehow still a little bit 1950s with a dash of Art Nouveau included.
The droid is smaller than R2-D2 and Chopper. His head is just above the knee, but not quiet to the hip, he’s tiny. His head is silver like Artoo-Detoo but his markings are redorange (Note: I originally reported the droid’s markings as being red, but I should have said orange). He has a single eye and two antennas on the top of his head. His neck has a black covering that kind of accordions when he looks around and connects to his body. He is similar to something you might see in Wall-E mixed with one of the senate cams in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.  He has a holographic projector in the same place as Artoo-Detoo as well. His head looks up.
He’s cute but kind of sad looking in a way.
Standing next to him we have an alien. He’s slightly taller. His face reminds me of Station from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. His eyes are just black and tiny, his mouth is almost a round snout which is sort of like an armadillo. His skin is a darker brown color but in this image it appears blue from the light. He has a towel on his head and his costume appears to be similar to a kimono.
In the foreground, Daisy Ridley’s character Kira stands startled as a character ignites a lightsaber and it is very clear this is an unexpected occurrence and all the characters are startled by the enigmatic beam emitting from the lazer sword just turned on accidentally. John Boyega’s character has the lightsaber in hand as the characters all look on amazed.
Kira’s discovery is further enhanced by Boyega’s character’s discovery. This could be one of the most memorable sequences from the next trilogy of Star Wars films.




Above, a picture posted by producer Frank Marshall recently visiting SW7 pinewood Studios set where this poster is put to be seen by anyone visiting the set! 


Next is about the Chrome Stormtrooper Commander, and if you follow me on the D&M Facebook page you've seen recently a picture of what the Chrome Stormtooper will look like in SW7 - if you missed it you can see it HERE. On this image the Stormtrooper was wearing a cloak but according to the new description that cloak has been removed. Making Star Wars then go on and describe the leader of these Chrome Troopers:

This leader may be played by Gwendoline Christie. But I can’t sure, that’s the prevailing rumor for now. There are old rumors the character was male and then became female after we fans voiced our concern about the cast being primarily male (which is totally unverified and we were hearing Games of Thrones connections well before the casting announcement anyhow).
The top of the Chrome Stormtrooper commander’s head is not unlike a TIE-Fighter/AT-AT driver helmet. The eyes are more like a classic Stormtrooper’s eyes as opposed to theStar Wars: Episode VII Stormtrooper’s visor look. There’s a chance this changed but with what I looked at, it was like the classic Stormtrooper. The left side of the helmet has a communication type device that moves down and isn’t on the ride side of the helmet. The part underneath the head helmet, the face area, reminds me of a folded napkin  (with a Stormtrooper face printed on it) if that makes sense. It doesn’t have the rounded trim at the bottom like the classic Storntrooper, it’s almost like Darth Vader’s mask in a way.
The center of the helmet is black, where the commander’s forehead would be and its kind of like a really tamed centurion (like the AT-AT driver). The armor is very much like the new Stormtrooper chest piece. The character wears a black cape with red lining on the inside.

And now here is an art description from the movie showing a wampa claw lightsaber!

A wampa claw lightsaber. Imagine a wampa claw and the lightsaber fits into the talon. It has a red button on the side. There are two different saber designs that aren’t that far part in differences (one has etching on the nail and the other doesn’t).
This sits at the side of the Chrome Stromtrooper Commander’s right side on a utility belt while the cape flows freely behind him or her in the wind.

The next info comes again from Making Star Wars, and offer great scene descriptions, as well as details on a villain, aliens, and other characters in the movie. Although there's no way to authenticate the descriptions, they do sound very plausible. 

The first illustration they're talking about includes six different rebel characters. Three women and three men that are lined up against a white backdrop, apparently dressed similar to extras at Greenham Common’s rebel base set. Here's a description of one of them:

"The first fighter is male, early twenties, he has Adam Driver’s haircut, longer, and kind of swooped to the side. Dark hair. He wears a mustard tunic, closed, with a black best. He has dark brown pants. He wears boots but the ankles are wrapped in white like Anakin Skywalker’s in The Phantom Menace. He looks directly at the camera, blaster in hand and at his side."

The next description is of a character who, although we don't know who this is, looks obviously evil:

"The helmet looks like a samurai helmet. If you took Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and removed all the ornate additions from the helmet, you could have something similar. The back is kind of like Vader’s helmet but it is short, it just protects the back of the head, leaving the neck exposed. The face is covered. But you can see the eyes. This costume is Darth Vader if he were a ninja. Where the eye holes are, there is some light colored design. It has a good vibe about it. It reminds me of Shredder, a little bit of someone from Cobra in the old G.I. Joe and he has a black flowing cloak and red lightsaber which makes it look very cool."

Another info offers a description of huge wickermen tree-type characters which apparently look like the Dark Elves from Thor: The Dark World, and have General Grievous’s head and long brown tunics:

"The figure’s face is almost like General Grievous in spirit. White, skeletal, black eye sockets with little pin points [for] eyes. The mouth is almost like Jerry Lewis style buck teeth. Is it an apparatus?  But make no mistake, he’s scary! The face is totally white but its face looks like a mask, but it appears to be its skin, as its hands are the same color. The head is almost pointed but where a hair line would begin, there’s pointy wicker like brambles sticking straight up. The face is almost as if Satan made an army of Shy Guys from Super Mario Brothers and outfitted them with riffles.

"He wears a dirty brown poncho. His boots are sort of like a Tusken Raider’s boots. His pants are tied off. He has a bandolier with bullets and pouches strung across his chest. He has a sniper riffle weapon with a scope on it. At the end of the rifle, the barrel is almost rocket shaped. It clearly isn’t a rocket though. At his waste [SIC] a leather pouch rest covering his belt line."

Making Star Wars also reveal that an illustration features a group of 15 children who are students sitting on little mats on the ground. All of them are aliens except for one little girl. A teacher stands before the class and two of the children have their hands raised. Jump HERE to read descriptions of the characters.

The site also describe a “Special Forces Tie Fighter” believe to be the one that John Boyega’s character flies in the movie, and crash lands in at the start of the film.

"The new Special Forces TIE Fighter is very much the same classic TIE Fighter from the front. But it is black. It isn’t a dull black either, it kind of a shiny black on the body, closer to Darth Vader’s shine than the classic dark TIE Fighter dull black paint. The wings are exactly the same as the TIE wings we’ve seen in the past. The distinguishing feature on these new TIEs is the red markings near the glass cockpit. It is painted red.  If the front of the TIE was a clock, two, three, and four o’clock are red on the right. On the left, eight, nine, and ten o’clock are red in that area. The same goes for the back of the fighter."

Last but not least, a final description coming from Making Star Wars is an epic battle that takes place in a forest and include huge pod like creatures, speeder bikes, and even Stormtroopers using flame throwers. It's a long description but here are a some excepts from it and you can read everything HERE.

"This planet is inhabited by large creatures with tentacles. They are not unlike the Expanded Universe’s Orgons. But I do not believe they are one and the same, its just a good comparison. The body is more peanut shaped and the tentacles are easily 90 feet long. The body of these creatures is about 2.5 times the length of a speeder bike. The creatures travel fast with their long arms by grabbing onto the tree cover and traveling like a fast kid on the monkey bars.

"In one piece of concept art we see the trees high into the air. To the far right of the frame, two speeder bikes race for their lives! They’re being chased by two of the tentacled beasts. The bodies of the monsters are shaped like peanuts, we can only see the silhouette of these monsters under the tree cover. They have long tentacles, six in total, three on each side of its body and it use those tentacles to transverse the tree tops chasing down the speeder bikers. The bikers are racing side by side practically, but the beasts are also chasing them side by side and it doesn’t look very good for the biker closest to us in the frame. It seems he’ll likely be killed in a matter of moments."

O-Kay, that's all for the "text" part of this SW7 news, now jump to the D&M Facebook page HERE to see the SW7 artworks that you don't want to miss!

Pictures: copyright Frank Marshall, Lucasfilm

Monday, September 8, 2014

New Spoilers Filled Details From Star Wars: Episode VII Second Draft Script



The always well informed Latino-Review website has some new spoilers filled details about Star Wars 7, and these are supposed to come from the second draft of the script. They have been leaked out from someone named Mizzlewump who claims to have read this SW7 second draft. Although you must consider what is below as rumors for now, the reason why Latino-Review decided to post it now is because some of the details have been reported by several other news outlets, which led them to believe that there was some truth behind it.

Some of the info here are massive SPOILERS so as usual read all this at your own risk!

And now here's "Mizzlewump's" list of spoiler filled information!

- Leia is made leader of the Republic after her predecessor's death

- Han is a retired veteran of the Republic fleet

- Luke hasn't been seen in nearly 30 years

- the lead character is Han and Leia's daughter

- the other lead is the child of Lando Calrissian, and either a male or female depending on who is cast

- the other lead is a Stormtrooper, also either a male or female depending on who is cast

- dialogue for these two characters is very rough in the second draft

- Luke has no known offspring

- The Empire still exists in the form of a number of loyal galaxies and are in a state of cold war with the Republic

- The Empire is simply referred to as the "Empire," and the Republic is referred to formally only once, as the "Galactic Republic;" no "New" anywhere

- There are no Jedi whatsoever, and people still speak as if they are extinct, with Luke being "the last of his kind"

- The main antagonists are an older student of the Emperor, and his apprentice

- The apprentice takes control of the power dynamic between the two pretty quickly...

- The Republic are excavating ruins on a neutral world for a weapon; the world factors into tense negotiations the Empire have had with the Republic, and is referred to as the "Sith Homeworld"

- Loredump: In the script, the Sith are a couple thousand years old, founded by an ancestor of Palpatine called Ruin; the apprentice in this film also goes by that name

-The ruins within the Sith Homeworld are a control station; the planet itself is the weapon

- Luke saves the day at the end, but in a bad way; he has changed."

As for the casting there's a strong possibility that Lando's kid could be played by Lupita Nyong'o. We've heard before that Daisy Ridley is playing the daughter of Han and Leia, and that John Boyega is rumored to be playing the Stormtrooper. I wouldn't be surprised if Adam Driver was the one playing the Emperor's older student and that Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie could be his apprentice.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Harrison Ford Suffering Serious Ankle Injury After Being Hit on the Set of Star Wars 7 by the Fall of a Millennium Falcon Hydraulic Door



A really bad accident happened to Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars 7 in England when he was hit by the fall of a hydraulic door of the Millennium Falcon. Harrison clutched his chest in pain as crew members rushed to free him from underneath the prop’s hydraulic door. He was then stretchered off set and flown to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which specialises in fractures. A source added that he was in ‘a lot of pain’ and his foot appeared ‘damaged’.

According to an update from The Hollywood Reporter: "Harrison Ford sustained an ankle injury during filming today on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII. He was taken to a local hospital and is receiving care. Shooting will continue as planned while he recuperates," Disney Studios said in a statement to THR".

This seems to be a serious injury for Harrison and potentially could have a huge impact on the filming of Star Wars 7 if he can't be back on set for months or can't walk, etc... More about this on Disney by Mark website HERE

On the picture above, Ford is walking recently in a street of London with J.J Abrams and co-star Oscar Isaac.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Fresh News About Star Wars Episode 7 !


Fresh news about Star Wars Episode 7, and "from the horse's mouth" as they are coming from J.J Abrams himself in an interview during the Television Critic Association Press Tour. First, a good news, the script is ready, shooting will start this spring and the release date will be December 18, 2015. 

More, now, about all the rumors with J.J Abrams in his own words answering first on a rumor about Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons playing in SW 7: 
"He is one of the actors that we’ve talked to, yeah. It’s not often that I read about actors that I’m going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, 'Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It’s very nice to see you.' It’s usually agents talking to people about what’s happening. It’s just a lot of noise.”  

J.J was also asked if some scenes will be filmed in IMAX: 
“In the right situation, I’d like to use IMAX again. The problem with IMAX is that it’s a very loud camera. It’s a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can’t really do intimate scenes with it. It’s slow. They break down often. Having said that, they’re working on digital versions of that, so there may be a version one day. But, we’re going to be shooting this next movie on film.”

Abrams was then asked what was the craziest rumor he's heard so far: 
“There’ve been so many of them. It’s amazing to see how many there are. … But it’s sweet because it shows that there’s an interest in this movie that we all obviously know is there. But it is an incredible thing to see how many incredible things get thrown out that people then write commentaries about. How happy they are, how disappointed they are about something that is completely false. It’s a lot of noise, frankly.”



And, talking about rumor, here is the latest one: Dame Judi Dench ( who was playing "M" in the last Bond movies ) would play the character Mon Mothma. Who is Mon Mothma, you ask? It's a character who had just one scene in Return of the Jedi in which she was coordinating the rebel attack on the Death Star ( picture above ), her most memorable line being "Many Bothan spies died to bring us this information." 

As Star Wars 7 storyline happen many years later that's why they'll need someone older and Judi Dench who is a great actress could be great playing an older Mon Mothma. But it's sell a rumor, so wait and see!

Picture: copyright Lucasfilm

Friday, November 7, 2008

Star Trek , A New Beginning ?



I don't know if you think like i do, but i've always been surprised that Disney never acquired the rights to build a Star Trek attraction. Frankly, in the 70's the Star Trek universe would have fit perfectly in Tomorrowland, and later in the 80's it would have been also perfect for a Space pavillion in Epcot.

I know, Paramount got the rights and Universal studios Hollywood did the Star Trek Adventure FX show in the 80's, but when you see how well themed was the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas - now closed - i can't stop thinking that there was really the material for a big futuristic attraction at Disney theme parks.



Now, of course, it's too late, the Star Trek license is not as strong as it was before, although the new Star Trek movie which will be released May 2009 have some exciting elements.

If you know nothing about the story, here is what IMDB tell us about it:

"From director J.J. Abrams ("Mission: Impossible III," "Lost" and "Alias") and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci ("TRANSFORMERS," "MI: III") comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, "Star Trek," featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before.

Explores the early Starfleet careers of future Enterprise officers Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Amanda Grayson (Winona Ryder), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), McCoy (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekhov (Anton Yelchin). A Romulan, Nero (Eric Bana), and a much older Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are influences, as well as Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood), the first captain of the USS Enterprise."



In two words, this new Star Trek movie will be a prequel where we will have the pleasure to discover the Enterprise crew when they were young. And how these young Spock, Mc Coy, Scotty, Sulu and others do they look? Well, just like this. ( Click to see each picture above and below in big size )



A closer shot on the young Spock



...on the young Kirk



...and on the young Sulu



Of course, even young they need to fight a villain, and it's Nero, a Romulan.



It seems also that this young Mr Spock may have to fight with a traitor inside the Enterprise...



...and the young Captain will also be in jeopardy on what could be an ice planet...



But one of the most brilliant idea of this new movie is definitely the sequence of the making of the Enterprise. Well, the Enterprise is so huge that i should say the "building" of the Enterprise. You can see more of this amazing sequence on the first teaser below.




Here is some beautiful shots of the new Enterprise.




Of course, as new as it will be, the Enterprise will suffer some attacks, but, hey, we know the future, so we shouldn't worry too much about this magnificent space ship!



The movie was previously supposed to be released at Christmas 2008, but the release date was "pushed" to May 2009. In the meantime, you can have a look at the teaser below, or in High-Def HERE





One last picture for the road with a wallpaper picture, just like the one on the top.



All pictures and video: copyright Paramount Pictures