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    Star Wars Rebels

    I'll echo what everyone else has said about watching TCW in it's entirety. I hadn't watched any of it prior to Rebels but I tackled it after S2 was over mainly because I liked Ahsoka in the later series so much and I was curious about the particulars of how Maul was brought back from "the...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    Another wrinkle: Ben Affleck Not Directing Batman Affleck, who most recently helmed Live by Night, wrote the script with Geoff Johns, and a rewrite was just turned in by Chris Terrio, the Oscar-winning scribe of the Affleck-directed Argo. Our sister publication Variety was first to confirm...
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    Dune (2020)

    Legendary has both the movie and television rights to it so they may opt to do a bit of both by using a TV series to explore and set up the world that the movies end up playing around in.
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    Star Wars Rebels

    By the foul odor of Lucas' taint this.
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    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

    That short of a gap is generally a sign of not really wanting early screenings but also not wanting to deal with the blowback of no early screenings.
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    And of course now rumors are starting to circulate that Affleck will be done playing the role of Batman after Justice League. Jesus ...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    That would be a slight bump in status for Johns and they'd have to reorganize the company to create the equivalent position. Johns problem isn't so much his position it's the fact that he doesn't have the experience and proven track record in the movie industry that Feige has so he's going to...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    If only Warner Brothers had someone overseeing their DC franchise who ... a) knew what the fuck they were doing and b) had enough clout to be trusted within the company to actually manage the franchise ... then there would be some hope for more than just good Batman movies. And they don't...
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    That's what they're using as the internal code title for the movie.
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    Are you talking about the books with the new artwork for the covers? Those came out a few months ago. I don't know that the Thrawn trilogy has actually ever been out of print.
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    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    You can but just know that they are no longer canon. The new novel is supposed to be about Thrawn's beginning with the Empire so the Legends books shouldn't be required one way or the other.
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    Star Wars Rebels

    The next new episode isn't until Feb. 18th
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    RIP John Hurt

    Ollivander
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    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    They've announced a couple of new novels that will be coming out. One about Jyn Erso's time with Saw Gerrera titled Rebel Rising by Beth Revis and a Cirrut and Baze book called Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka. They're both for younger readers (young adult and mid-grade respectively) and...
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    Marvel's Iron Fist

    Most of the episode titles and directors have been released: Episode 1: Snow Gives Way (dir. John Dahl) Episode 2: Shadow Hawk Takes Flight (dir. John Dahl) Episode 3: Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch (dir. Tom Shankland) Episode 4: Eight Diagram Dragon Palm Episode 5: Under Leaf Pluck Lotus (dir...
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    RIP John Hurt

    I always liked him in Contact as well. He was just a great character actor.
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    RIP John Hurt

    He passed away at the age of 77. The first role I remember seeing him play is a classic.
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    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    Well after running off their 2nd director they've decided to scrap the script as well ... again. Joby Harold to Do Page-One Rewrite of ‘The Flash’ Script (EXCLUSIVE) The chances of making that release date next year just went down the crapper. Warner Brothers' handing of the DC franchise is...
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    That sounds fake as shit. Is that supposed to be Snoke? And of all the things I would expect to see an in and fade out shot of in a Star Wars teaser trailer, a nebula isn't on the list.
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    The Fast Food Thread

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    Justice League (2017)

    The perks of casting Khal Drogo to play your fish whisperer.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I don't know that they'll step away from the Jedi label. It's too intertwined with what Star Wars is. But I can definitely see a reformed Jedi ethos replacing the previously established order with either Luke or Rey as the bridge between the two. After all Luke didn't take the path that...
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    Sports Entertainment

    Brent Musberger is finally retiring. He hasn't been as good as he once was for a while now but my god have I watched a lot of games over the years with him on the call. And he's had some memorable ones.
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    Deadpool (2016)

    It got some nominations within some of the individual industry organizational awards for best adapted screenplay so some were thinking it had a chance of getting an Oscar nomination for the same.
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    Deadpool (2016)

    That's only the half of it ... Suicide Squad got a nom.
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    Star Wars Rebels

    It's one of my favorite episodes of the whole series as well. Not most favorite but it's in the cream of the crop. Star Wars fans tend to fall along a spectrum of those who value world building to the point of being very forgiving of shortcomings in storytelling to those who are much the...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    The first R1 teaser came out in April but Celebration was in Europe last year so it fell in July. On top of not knowing if they'll move the release schedule around there is also the criticisms following Celebration last year that it didn't offer enough bang for those not in attendance, so they...
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    Marvel Universe Stuff

    I wish we could get the execs for all of the major studios imbibed with truth serum and find out once and for all who has the rights to what. Her is another limbo character. Universal might have the rights because she first appeared in The Incredible Hulk as Paragon but maybe Marvel has...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Nice.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Another interpretation is that Luke is supposed to be, destined if you will, the last Jedi. He tried to create a new Jedi academy only to have one student turn to the dark side and kill off the remaining students. Maybe it's some "will of the force" type of dynamic at work.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Super powers aren't boring but celibacy sure would be.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    One of the things that came out following the death of Carrie Fisher was that Leia and Luke were supposed to have a reunion in Ep IX. Unless they were talking about Luke as a force ghost he should live through this next one.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Ben Solo will end up being the last Jedi ;) But seriously several of the previous logos have used red lettering though not exclusively. ESB, Return of the Jedi, and RotS all did that I can think of off hand.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    And it also gives an opportunity to address, if you just go from what is presented in the movies themselves, just what the fuck is "balance" in the force supposed to mean? It's obvious that it was something that Lucas just threw into the script to give a zenlike quality to force without...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    There are signs of that to be sure. Yoda has at times indicated a certain sadness at the error of the Jedi way in the waning days of the order and Ahsoka, in her novel, expressed a sense that something was wrong with the Jedi and the Republic as a whole. It could very well be that Luke...