Star Wars & Sc-Fi Talk
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
So Edwards seems to be aiming for the Battle Kaiju films with my Boy G well Toho director Shinji Higuchi might be aiming to Rampage G through Tokyo once more. Either way IF Warner has any brains they will put both on the big screen in the US
Oh and in a Shocker Homer Simpson is in fact a Genius.
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
We just finished watching the end of the entire Fringe series on Netflix. Great series. Five years long.
This year we (my son, wife, and I) have watched all of the Star Gate series (SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe) which totaled 17 seasons, all nine season of the X-files, and the five seasons of Fringe. Typically we would watch about three episodes a night, several days a week (4-6)
It's been a sci-fi bonanza!
This year we (my son, wife, and I) have watched all of the Star Gate series (SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe) which totaled 17 seasons, all nine season of the X-files, and the five seasons of Fringe. Typically we would watch about three episodes a night, several days a week (4-6)
It's been a sci-fi bonanza!
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
Star Wars: the meaning behind the characters’ names
It has been a week of revelations for Star Wars fans: we have , , and now Episode VII director JJ Abrams has told the secrets of his new characters’ names
Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), the chrome-armour-clad leader of the Stormtroopers, was named as a homage to Don Coscarelli’s 1979 horror film Phantasm, in which one character gets his ear cut off by a flying metallic ball.
“Phasma I named because of the amazing chrome design that came from Michael Kaplan’s wardrobe team,” said Abrams. “It reminded me of the ball in Phantasm, and I just thought, Phasma sounds really cool.”
Fans might have expected more symbolism in the choice of names, but Abrams seems to stick with simple instincts. The BB-8 droid, for instance, is so named because its body is made of two round parts, similar in shape to both the number eight and the capitalised form of the letter b:
“I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. ... It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B’s... It’s funny how sometimes, the bad ideas, you try them out and kick the tires a little bit, and it just kind of falls apart and you can go somewhere else, you’ve just got to know it’s temporary. And that one, he never had another name.”
X-Wing Pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) similarly started life with a working title that stuck. The second part came from the name of one of Abrams’s assistants, Morgan Dameron.
“Dameron came out because it was, obviously, a name that I know, and it just musically felt right,” Abrams told the magazine. “There was no sort of deep reasoning behind it, and I also knew it would make Morgan blush if we named a character that. So she had this giant smile on her face… We kept it for awhile, and it just stuck like things that work seem to.”
Adam Driver’s character Kylo Ren wasn’t named so at birth, but adopted the title “Ren” in a similar manner to the traditional Sith style of Darth in earlier films. The Knights of Ren are the order to which he belongs.
Meanwhile the last names of John Boyega’s Finn and Daisy Ridley’s Rey – a reformed Stormtrooper and outlaw scavenger respectively – purposefully remain shrouded in mystery. "I will only say about that that it is completely intentional that their last names aren’t public record", said Abrams.
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It has been a week of revelations for Star Wars fans: we have , , and now Episode VII director JJ Abrams has told the secrets of his new characters’ names
Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), the chrome-armour-clad leader of the Stormtroopers, was named as a homage to Don Coscarelli’s 1979 horror film Phantasm, in which one character gets his ear cut off by a flying metallic ball.
“Phasma I named because of the amazing chrome design that came from Michael Kaplan’s wardrobe team,” said Abrams. “It reminded me of the ball in Phantasm, and I just thought, Phasma sounds really cool.”
Fans might have expected more symbolism in the choice of names, but Abrams seems to stick with simple instincts. The BB-8 droid, for instance, is so named because its body is made of two round parts, similar in shape to both the number eight and the capitalised form of the letter b:
“I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. ... It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B’s... It’s funny how sometimes, the bad ideas, you try them out and kick the tires a little bit, and it just kind of falls apart and you can go somewhere else, you’ve just got to know it’s temporary. And that one, he never had another name.”
X-Wing Pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) similarly started life with a working title that stuck. The second part came from the name of one of Abrams’s assistants, Morgan Dameron.
“Dameron came out because it was, obviously, a name that I know, and it just musically felt right,” Abrams told the magazine. “There was no sort of deep reasoning behind it, and I also knew it would make Morgan blush if we named a character that. So she had this giant smile on her face… We kept it for awhile, and it just stuck like things that work seem to.”
Adam Driver’s character Kylo Ren wasn’t named so at birth, but adopted the title “Ren” in a similar manner to the traditional Sith style of Darth in earlier films. The Knights of Ren are the order to which he belongs.
Meanwhile the last names of John Boyega’s Finn and Daisy Ridley’s Rey – a reformed Stormtrooper and outlaw scavenger respectively – purposefully remain shrouded in mystery. "I will only say about that that it is completely intentional that their last names aren’t public record", said Abrams.
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
Mark Hamill is making his return as Luke Skywalker in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but there's been plenty of speculation about just how the character will come back. This image, published by , is our first look at the character.
This isn't a publicity still, and it definitely looks like it wasn't meant to have been taken or published, so keep that in mind. This could be an early version of the character's look, or an outfit from a single scene.
Lucasfilm has showed some of the original Star Wars cast members as they'll appear, in costume, in The Force Awakens' trailers and that — but not Hamill as Luke.
There was always some speculation that Luke was the character with the robotic hand in the second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and keep in mind you don't see his hands or arms at all in this shot. In fact, you see no skin outside of his face. It's great to see this hint at what the character may look like, but so much is obscured it's nearly impossible to tell how he'll appear in the film. It's certainly a contrast from how Luke Skywalker last appeared in Return of the Jedi, decked out in all black.
That being said,. Luke Skywalker grew into quite the imposing Jedi Master!
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