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**Hulksmash**

Makes sense. If this works for him it's bank. He'll officially be the go-to director for the two largest sci-fi brands. That's pretty crazy huge.

And yeah, i liked the new Star Treks so I'm happy to see him on this too. It might not be deep but it'll be a fun movie. Which is pretty much most of what I want from my action/sci-fi films.

**d-usa**

He kept a tight lid on Star Trek. But there have been many Star Treks so I think it was more important to keep "his interpretation" secret.

I'm hoping that being so open with his leaks shows that there is a healthy respect to the source material and an acknowledgement that the fan base is worried.

**reds8n**

http://io9.com/if-the-rumors-are-true-star-wars-episode-vii-is-weird-1608208842?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

this is odd indeed.... if it's true

Badass Digest claims to have details about the plot of Episode VII, and, if true, it's going to have a ridiculous MacGuffin. So, spoilers if you chose to read on.

Let's preface this with the standard disclaimer: This could all be fake, so take everything with an entire box of Morton's kosher salt.

According to the article, the thing that sets the whole plot in motion is: Luke Skywalker's hand and lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back. The hand's apparently been chilling in space for a few decades and now is falling to a desert planet.

There, the new heroes of the trilogy find it: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. The two decide to return it — it's unclear if "it" is just the lightsaber or the hand and the lightsaber — to the proper people. They run into Han and Chewie, who recognize it as Luke's, but they haven't seen him since Return of the Jedi. Which, seriously? They haven't seen Luke in 30 years?

I really hope they ditch the hand and just keep the lightsaber, otherwise this is A) going to be unintentionally hilarious and B) be very reminiscent of Doctor Who. So the whole quest of the film is a search for Luke.

Other details include an ice planet where evil people are building a weapon that can destroy whole solar systems. (Of all the things that survived the great EU purge, I was not expecting the Suncrusher to be one of them).

Badass Digest says the whole structure of Episode VII is intentionally designed to mimic that of A New Hope:

In many ways this plot of Episode VII is an echo of A New Hope. Instead of R2 coming to Tatooine it's a hand falling from the sky, but the basic sweep of the story is similar, and intentionally so. But things that seem familiar may not be as familiar as you think - don't assume that every ice or desert planet in the galaxy has already been visited, if you know what I'm saying.
The initial report was followed up by a second, clarifying article which stated that the sources of the first report have been reliable in the past. It also contained the detail that Boyega's character is a Stormtrooper who switches sides, which Badass Digest's Devin Faraci says is "the single most confirmed piece of news I've ever written about in terms of sheer volume of independent sources who agree." He also says that all the desert filming that people have assumed is Tatooine is actually a different planet.

soo ..... yeah

Quest to look for Luke/whomever I'm probably alright with ...

.... the rest .. well ...... we'll see I guess.

Didn't get Lynch to direct Episode VI so seems they've homaged Blue Velvet in VII then ?

**Paradigm**

Ok, that sounds... abysmal. It wouldn't be hard to find fan-fictions with better plots (nothing against fan fictions, by the way)

**Medium of Death**

Didn't a Force Sensitive Cerean traveler find Luke's old lightsaber in the dunes of Bespin? Why not just keep that element?

The hand's apparently been chilling in space for a few decades and now is falling to a desert planet.

The hand's apparently been chilling in space for a few decades

chilling in space for a few decades

chilling in space

in space

space

Cloud City is in space? WHO KNEW!?!?!?!

If this is true then this movie is going to be grade A dog-spank.

**d-usa**

I thought we already knew what happened to his hand?

**Gitzbitah**

LoL, someone is totally trolling. That sounds like a peculiar mix of Wall-E, and Star Wars. Plus, Hna was marrying Luke's sister, who he just discovered. Luke's not going to pull a Yoda without some serious impetus.

I would be more willing to believe a story about our Force sensitive street urchin mastering the Force, turning to evil, and accidentally unleashing the Sith, then attempting to help everyone else destroy them in order to redeem herself.

**Frazzled**

Wait...what...er...wa????

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d-usa wrote:
I thought we already knew what happened to his hand?

Thats good. Thats real good.

**reds8n**

http://io9.com/j-j-abrams-reveals-star-wars-episode-viis-brand-new-x-1608241349?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

competition update but perhaps of more interest is the new .. improved (?) X-wing there

**Paradigm**

New X-wing looks pretty cool, I like the fact it's clearly a progression of the original in the same way that the ARC 170 was a predecessor of it or the Jedi Fighter was of the TIE fighter.

I have a feeling this will be like ROTS: Visually stunning and poorly written/performed.

**Medium of Death**

Well that's a lot better looking than that market scene. Don't think it's wings will open though.

Still hoping that the hand thing is BS.

With the inclusion of that droid at the end we can assume they'll still be remaining Imperial forces. Perhaps get to see Star Destroyers again.

**Paradigm**

Medium of Death wrote:
Well that's a lot better looking than that market scene. Don't think it's wings will open though.

Still hoping that the hand thing is BS.

With the inclusion of that droid at the end we can assume they'll still be remaining Imperial forces. Perhaps get to see Star Destroyers again.

Assuming the New Republic keep a standing military, is there any reason they wouldn't assimilate Imperial ships and fleets rather than scuppering them? If the enemies are the remnant of the Empire, now functionally a rebel alliance (see what I did there?) that could be an interesting take on things.

**H.B.M.C.**

Paradigm wrote:
I have a feeling this will be like ROTS: Visually stunning and poorly written/performed.

So I'm not the only one dreading this new film?

**Paradigm**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Paradigm wrote:
I have a feeling this will be like ROTS: Visually stunning and poorly written/performed.

So I'm not the only one dreading this new film?

No. I want to be excited, but I just can't be, given a) how sickeningly bad Into Darkness was, I don't want JJ killing Wars as well as Trek, and b) the prequels were poor and sold, so there's no reason for them to change the formula, which means we're going to get more jar-jar like antics and dialogue so cheesy it could give a Wave Serpent a run for its money.

On a side note, I'm also dreading Rebels. Everything so far suggests it's going to be a Disney-fied kid's series, which Clone Wars really wasn't, especially in the later series. I mean, a Mandalorian whose favourite past-time is doing graffiti on Imperial property? Really?

**chaos0xomega**

Paradigm wrote:
New X-wing looks pretty cool, I like the fact it's clearly a progression of the original in the same way that the ARC 170 was a predecessor of it or the Jedi Fighter was of the TIE fighter.

I have a feeling this will be like ROTS: Visually stunning and poorly written/performed.

Thats about par for the course for JJ Abrams...

**Kanluwen**

I can't help but wonder if the reason he's saying "The new X-Wing" is just because it is going to fill the same 'slot' so to speak.

Because that clearly is a Z95 Headhunter.

**Hordini**

Kanluwen wrote:
I can't help but wonder if the reason he's saying "The new X-Wing" is just because it is going to fill the same 'slot' so to speak.

Because that clearly is a Z95 Headhunter.

That's what I was thinking. If that's not a Z-95, then I don't know what is.

**Compel**

Didn't we see a picture of the new X-Wing ages ago, along with the Millennium Falcon?

I'm sure I remember seeing the wings almost interleaving / slotting into each other.

EDIT: Yup:

**Platuan4th**

Hordini wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I can't help but wonder if the reason he's saying "The new X-Wing" is just because it is going to fill the same 'slot' so to speak.

Because that clearly is a Z95 Headhunter.

That's what I was thinking. If that's not a Z-95, then I don't know what is.

Z-95's only have one Laser per wing.

**Kanluwen**

Platuan4th wrote:
Hordini wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I can't help but wonder if the reason he's saying "The new X-Wing" is just because it is going to fill the same 'slot' so to speak.

Because that clearly is a Z95 Headhunter.

That's what I was thinking. If that's not a Z-95, then I don't know what is.

Z-95's only have one Laser per wing.

See, I didn't watch the video. I was busy doing other stuff so didn't want to watch the video.
From the image on the 'front' of the video it looked like just a single laser set into the side of the wings not a double.

That design matches the "improved" X-Wing description from "The New Rebellion" though.

**Platuan4th**

Kanluwen wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Hordini wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I can't help but wonder if the reason he's saying "The new X-Wing" is just because it is going to fill the same 'slot' so to speak.

Because that clearly is a Z95 Headhunter.

That's what I was thinking. If that's not a Z-95, then I don't know what is.

Z-95's only have one Laser per wing.

See, I didn't watch the video. I was busy doing other stuff so didn't want to watch the video.
From the image on the 'front' of the video it looked like just a single laser set into the side of the wings not a double.

That design matches the "improved" X-Wing description from "The New Rebellion" though.

I thought so at first, too. Towards the end it zooms out and shows the near wing clearer and that it has 2 lasers. I hadn't seen the picture Compel shows, however, so I got really excited for seeing a Headhunter.

But yeah, it really does look like the design described in New Rebellion.

**squidhills**

X-wings suck anyway. Y-wings for life!

**Platuan4th**

squidhills wrote:
X-wings suck anyway. Y-wings for life!

Y-wings are for nerds, B-wings are where it's at.

**Paradigm**

Platuan4th wrote:
squidhills wrote:
X-wings suck anyway. Y-wings for life!

Y-wings are for nerds, B-wings are where it's at.

By that logic, given this discussion, we should all be flying Y-wings

But I agree, B-wings are awesome. Also, the A-wing is pretty cool. And the Falcon...

Who am I kidding, give me Slave 1 any day.

**Hulksmash**

1) I quite liked Darkness
2) The hand thing is ridiculous but I have faith that this won't totally suck since it's not Lucas. And if I watched those god awful prequels in theatres I can at least sit through this. Since Abrams at least makes fun movies (to me).

**kronk**

I bet its a fake leak to determine whom on their staff is a dirty, rotten leaker!

**Platuan4th**

kronk wrote:
I bet its a fake leak to determine whom on their staff is a dirty, rotten leaker!

Disney is GW?

**Swastakowey**

The best thing about the originals, in my opinion was the lack of CGI. Its the same reason I like the original Planet of the Apes etc etc. I personally feel like movies that reduce CGI have a longer life span than CGI heavy ones and turn out to be pretty good.

So im very excited to see this movie have sets and model aircraft etc. I personally hope they rely a lot on these sets and models to keep things looking somewhat real.

This is my second time actually looking at these rumors, but does anyone have a good link to a site which has all the rumors etc and updates of the film so far?

I can feel my enjoyment of the Star Wars Trilogy coming back to me again...

**d-usa**

Compel wrote:
Didn't we see a picture of the new X-Wing ages ago, along with the Millennium Falcon?

I'm sure I remember seeing the wings almost interleaving / slotting into each other.

EDIT: Yup:

Here is a good breakdown of how the wings actually split:

**chromedog**

Disney won't be releasing the original trilogy on blu-ray BEFORE 2020 - and that's only if Fox lets them have epIV (Fox retains the film rights to 4-5-6 until 2020 - and 4 for perpetuity - or until they wish to dispose of them).

A new SW movie without the fox fanfare won't be the same. Saying that, though - it's pretty certain that these new ones ALSO won't have the disney logo (not if the marvel crapola* is anything to go by. They are also wholly owned by da mouse, after all).

*no, I'm not a fan of marvel movies (or DC for the most part) - apart from the first two BLADE movies.