Rogue One was kind of an ILM-forward project, wouldn’t be surprised if they had more in the tank for reprising it than the others
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i wish i had any confidence in this being the case.
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Starting with the first season of The Mandalorian, LucasFilm has used a new technology called StageCraft which utilizes an immersive CGI screen that wraps around the set to create the faraway worlds of Star Wars. This technology has been used for The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan along with other Disney Plus shows. But Andor will buck this trend.
“We haven’t been working with Stagecraft at all for our show, no,” says Andor executive producer Sanne Wohlenberg in an interview with IGN at Star Wars Celebration. “It is the first Star Wars show for Disney Plus that has not been leaning into that technology.”
Wohlenberg says that the decision to shoot on camera was simply a result of Tony Gilroy’s writing, which didn’t lend itself to StageCraft. Instead, Andor will utilize “as much on camera” filming, combining location shooting and backlot sets.
Andor star Diego Luna chimed in on the different shooting styles, citing his work on Rogue One which he says “was allowed to be different and we kind of have the same look.”
“We can be different," Luna says. "Rogue One in a way was kind of an homage to the original Star Wars, a New Hope, and that kind of very theatrical way of shooting where stuff is actually there and you can interact with that. And I think we had a lot of that on this one and it’s beautiful as an actor to react to real stuff and to play the game with tons of actors.”
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what character are they going to kill off in this one and then introduce a new prequel series about?
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the woman who plays young mon mothma really hit a weird casting jackpot for continued employment after getting cut out of revenge of the sith
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It’s so funny that they insist on using the same actors that were the “young” versions of other actors in the prequels but they can’t bear to recast any other role if it’s live action
She seems perfectly fine as does McGregor, of course, but Tarkin, Leia, Luke, etc. would be less distracting if they were just played by the double on set reading lines for the synthetic voice to replace
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im totally down for the concept of digital actors, but they just do a shit job with it.
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Star Trek just recasts people and it works out fine 
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This is that doublespeak John Lennon warned us about.
Remembering Return of The Jedi is mostly friends yelling at each other with minimal quips: It’s Good.
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watching the lego star wars summer vacation special
there are flashbacks where
obi wan has to do a freestyle rap with sy snootles and max rebo to help a rebel spy steal some coaxium from jabba’s birthday barbecue
darth vader and the emperor take a beach vacation and cheat at shuffleboard and volleyball with the force to win a “ruler of the beach” contest from weird al
also it manages to still be the only thing that can tie all these movies and shows together in a coherent and entertaining way. it’s super weird that these sequel characters all get much better ongoing character arcs on these lego specials than they did in the movies
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I just read a click bait article about how the fact that Anakin Skywalker programmed C3PO to have extreme anxiety foreshadows his turn to the dark side
The workers in the content mines are not ok
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look, the queen of naboo won’t let the moon’s content miners unionize, it’s not their fault
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lol they put out a 50 second youtube video of Diego Luna explaining that Andor takes place before Rogue One. no shit!
re: Mandalorian I groan at Death Watch but the cubist art and arcologies in ruin could be cool
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We’re, what, six years away from Disney’s Ilsa, She-Wolf of the First Order?
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who will be the first to give the brooding sith antihero an Idina Menzel song? it’s a sword in the stone for the taking
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kind of can’t believe how cool andor is. the production design, acting, dialogue, the craft is just in another stratosphere from anything else that’s come out of the star wars factory
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like i could nitpick about how it’s not structurally good as a tv show but the space michael clayton vibes are good enough that it doesn’t matter
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