• Caro Visitante, por que não gastar alguns segundos e criar uma Conta no Fórum Valinor? Desta forma, além de não ver este aviso novamente, poderá participar de nossa comunidade, inserir suas opiniões e sugestões, fazendo parte deste que é um maiores Fóruns de Discussão do Brasil! Aproveite e cadastre-se já!

Star Wars: Episódio VII - O Despertar da Força (2015)

temático é complicado. o fandom se concentrava no fórum do aliança rebelde, do que eu lembro. fui dar uma olhada sobre o fórum e pans:

ATENÇÃO:

O Forum do Jedicenter encerrou suas atividades em julho de 2012.

O Fórum Jedicenter nasceu com o fim do FAR – Fórum Aliança Rebelde, antigo parceiro do Jedicenter no final de 2003.
Quando da abrupta interrupção das atividades do FAR, num ato extremista de seu antigo administrador, a então equipe de moderação do fórum na época resolveu não deixar a bola cair e fundou as pressas as bases do que é hoje o Fórum Jedicenter como conhecemos.
Nos seus primeiros dias, o Fórum Jedicenter foi hospedado provisoriamente num servidor gratuito da Miarroba em espanhol e com recursos limitados, enquanto fórum definitivo era devidamente instalado e configurado na plataforma da Fórum Now, nossa conhecida dos tempos do FAR.

No tempo da Miarroba vivemos tempos difíceis pelas limitações da plataforma, sendo essa época inclusive carinhosamente apelidada pela equipe de “Fórum Paraguaio” em alusão ao idioma usado pela plataforma do Fórum.
Mas o “Fórum Paraguaio” serviu ao seu objetivo principal que era não deixar os antigos usuários do FAR se dispersarem por ai.

Em uma época em que as redes sociais e ferramentas como Orkut, My Space, Facebook e Twitter não existiam, a equipe do Fórum procurou conectar o máximo possível de antigos usuários do FAR através do MSN e do ICQ. O contato “Boca a Boca” entre os moderadores e usuários foi se expandindo e em pouco tempo a grande maioria dos usuários estava de novo entre nós ainda no “Fórum Paraguaio”, e em seguida na Fórum Now, nossa primeira casa.

Tão logo conseguimos engrenar o Fórum Jedicenter, começamos a estudar a adoção de uma nova plataforma que suporta-se a demanda de tráfego que o Fórum Jedicenter utilizava, pois na época vivia-se a expectativa pré-Episódio III e o Fórum era um sucesso tremendo, no entanto a Fórum Now não tinha estrutura para suportar tal demanda, e não poucas foram ás vezes em que o Fórum saia do ar por excesso de tráfego.

A Solução desse problema veio as vésperas da estréia do Episódio III, mais precisamente no dia 10 de Março de 2005, quando inaugurávamos “do zero” o Novo Fórum Jedicenter, agora em um servidor dedicado, usando a plataforma phpBB, onde estamos até hoje, firmes e fortes.

O Episódio III passou, e com o tempo muito do movimento e da febre que envolvia a Saga Star Wars também foi passando…Mas nós continuamos, com muito ou pouco movimento, pois o Fórum Jedicenter foi feito POR Fans PARA Fans da maior Saga da história do Cinema e também por que foi fundado sob a raiz de grandes pessoas que por aqui passaram que muito dedicaram seu tempo e seu conhecimento para o desenvolvimento do Fórum.

Saudade dos amigos Lestat, Marina, Jedi Micreiro, Solo, Kukulkan, Hakuna, Orion, Japanoise e Ulic, pessoas que ajudaram a fazer do Fórum Jedicenter tudo que ele foi e ainda é.

Aos que buscam um local para se compartilhar conhecimento e opiniões sobre a nossa amada Saga, o Fórum Jedicenter continua de “portas abertas”.

Que a Força esteja sempre conosco!

Fabiano “Fab-Wan”
Abril de 2011.
 
Espero nunca ler um texto dele quando acessar valinor.com.br/forum :|

BTW eles bobearam, vai ter mais três filmes. :dente:
 
mas é complicado tb, né, na época que acabou ainda não tinha nada de muito certo sobre filmes novos. e pega a valinor como exemplo, no momento não tem qualquer sinal de um novo filme baseado nas obras de tolkien, e mesmo os livros novos que vão aparecendo, não tem lá o apelo comercial de sda. se o movimento no fórum vai minguando próximo de nada, para que mantê-lo no ar? mesmo que seja "ah, deixa só lá, não precisa de manutenção", ainda assim tem custo.

a sorte da valinor é que o deriel é teimoso bagarai.
 
A Shot-by-Shot Breakdown of the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Video
Germain Lussier
Filed to: STAR WARS 7/13/15 11:09am

There wasn’t a new trailer from Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Comic-Con but, in a way, they gave us something better. A three-minute, behind-the-scenes video chock full of nostaliga, intrigue and quite a few easter eggs. Did you miss any? We’ve uncovered them all.

Here’s the video, which may or may not have our first look at Luke Skywalker, but also reveals several fan favorite characters potentially returning, IMAX filming, tons of new creatures including one from the prequels and more. Below it, we break down each shot.

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The Planet of Jakku, home of Rey.

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The interior set of the Millennium Falcon.

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The interior of some kind of First Order installation. Possibly a ship, possibly the Starkiller Base.

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R2-D2, looking a little older, but also in some kind of industrial-type location. Almost like the Jawa Sandcrawler from A New Hope.

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First Order Stormtroopers, as seen in the first teaser trailer.

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WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY? We don’t know his name yet, but we know the suit is practical. He almost seems like Jabba the Hutt, with his updated version of Slave Leia.

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Concept art of a crashed First Order TIE Fighter. Notice the new paint job; we also saw this on the Hasbro toy revealed at Comic-Con.

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Now the concept art has been turned into a model.

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Now the model has been physically built.

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Finally, the TIE Fighter is actually smoking on set. Rumor is, this is Finn’s TIE.

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This looks like animatic or a storyboard of the Millennium Falcon. Love the strong framing of this shot.

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Another interior shot of the Falcon. What stands out here is just how big it is.

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The new, practical, creature is cool here but look in the background. Admiral Ackbar!!!

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A Stormtrooper escorts Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). Why has he been captured? How will he get out?

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Lupita Nyong’o gettting motion-captured for her performance as Maz Kanata.

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C-3PO, but notice his arm is not chrome. We’ve seen from early images it’ll be red for some reason.

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Actually shooting on film!

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Shooting in the desert, we see Rey (Daisy Ridley) and some kind of green-suited guy. He could be a character, or could be like that to get digitally painted out. The structures Ridley is next to could be debris or the bottom of a ship.

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy talking is cool, but cooler are the AT-AT feet coming out of the sands of Jakku.

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This Ralph McQuarrie-inspired structure is interesting but look in the back right. That sure does look like the walkway to the Millennium Falcon.

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Director J.J. Abrams hugging Ridley in some kind of marketplace set.

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We saw another side of this shot in the second trailer, but this seems to be stunt people testing out the pyrotechnics.

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Someone (Poe Dameron, most likely) running around a new, blue X-Wing fighter at night.

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Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) descends from his ship, flanked by a few Stormtroopers.

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A First Order Flametrooper lights some crap up.

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Simon Pegg? What are you doing in a Star Wars video?

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We’re meant to look at the beautiful practical Chewbacca mask, but check out the characters in the back. One looks like a grown-up Pit Droid from the prequels!

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Peter Mayhew, as Chewbacca, on the set of the Millennium Falcon. So awesome.

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That sure looks like Daisy Ridley’s Rey sitting in Han Solo’s seat of the Millennium Falcon.

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Look at the insane detail on these masks.

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This creature seems to be vaping. But look how the human performer fits inside below it. Great design.

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A Resistance X-Wing Fighter helmet being handed painted by the costume department.

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Force Awakens production designer Rick Carter with some unfortunately blurred out storyboards behind him.

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An actor gets suited up as a practical creature.

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Oh, that’s what Simon Pegg is doing in this video. He’s playing a creature in the movie. We won’t see his face.

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Another actor in another suit but this one is a bit more interesting. It looks like a Gonk Droid.

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Here’s the same actress, but look at the beautifully detailed set in the background.

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This is a terrifying creature but also, look at the monkey reference art they have in the background.

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An under-construction X-Wing.

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Millennium Falcon blueprints.

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And there’s the Falcon’s top being constructed.

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The final product is mind-boggling.

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J.J. Abrams calls “action.” Can’t really tell where he is.

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A ton of First Order Stormtroopers.

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One of the more intriguing shots in the piece. It’s of a monitor shooting two troopers we haven’t seen before, in red and black, running down a dark corridor.

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John Boyega’s Finn being interviewed on the Millennium Falcon.

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Ridley jokes as walking up some stairs...

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...to the Millennium Falcon cockpit.

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Yes, Rey is flying the Falcon with IMAX cameras pointed at her.

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Make that two IMAX cameras. If we connect the dots, this is the inside of the Falcon during the final shot of the teaser trailer.

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First Order Stormtroopers run on a pretty burned up environment.

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This is the same environment and now we see they’re chasing some people in red and black. Are these the Resistance fighters?

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Stormtroopers can never catch a break.

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Back to Jakku where a camera copter flies overhead. In the back you see some debris which we recognize from the Rey and Finn running shots in the second trailer. Which means maybe this camera is filming the explosion from about 50 photos ago.

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The Resistance stands around the Falcon. This looks like the base drones caught images during filming.

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C-3PO in a very, very familiar location. It looks very much like the Rebel base on Yavin in A New Hope. And you get a better look at his replacement arm too.

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Domhnall Gleeson, who plays the evil General Hux, on what appears to be Starkiller Base.

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Finn and Rey in the desert between takes, enjoying some green drink. This looks like the set with the helicopter.

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Co-writers J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan sit on some kind of First Order set (Starkiller Base?) working on the script.

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We saw him in the back before, but now we see him in close up. Admiral Ackbar! Or at least another member of his race, the Mon Calamari.

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And this looks like the Battle of Endor Millennium Falcon co-pilot Nien Nunb. Or another member of his race, the Sullustan. Odd that this and Ackbar are back-to-back since concept art of their characters leaked a few weeks ago. I wonder if this is acknowledgement.

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And there’s Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher! She’s in a pretty ratty location. Maybe her Maz Kanata meet-up from the second trailer?

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Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) on a set that may be the one we saw C-3P0 on before.

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They seem pretty happy now but I have feeling these Stormtroopers won’t have a happy ending.

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Legendary actor Warwick Davis, who played Wicket the Ewok, with another new character. We know Davis is in the movie so is this who he is playing? It’s got a Chewbacca-meets-Dark Helmet vibe.

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A literally touching moment between actress and director.

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Abrams watching the monitor. It’s hard to see clearly but it looks like some kind of caped figure, maybe Kylo Ren, shot from behind facing a few Stormtroopers. They’re on the same side though, so doesn’t make sense. Could this be our first look at Luke Skywalker? It’s hard to capture as an image but in the video, it appears there are swords being used which could be made into lightsabers later. (It’s at 3:08.)

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It looks like this is the reverse of that previous shot and, even if it’s not, Kennedy and Abrams are very happy.

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C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels takes in the set of the Millennium Falcon, somewhere he probably hasn’t been in over 30 years.

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The man, the myth, the legend: Harrison Ford as Han Solo.

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Solo as the pilot, Rey as the co-pilot and Finn as in the backseat of the Millennium Falcon. This looks like the Vanity Fair cover but with Abrams directing, but it could also be from the movie. Probably both.

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And that’s the end.
 
temático é complicado. o fandom se concentrava no fórum do aliança rebelde, do que eu lembro. fui dar uma olhada sobre o fórum e pans:

Eu era assíduo no Templo Jedi, nos idos da década de 90, que acabou por causa de briguinhas bobas e foi substituído pelo FAR - Fórum Aliança Rebelde.

Este fórum era sensacional, com pessoas de alto nível (assim como o Valinor). Pena que o administrador resolveu, do nada, tirar o fórum do ar, inclusive com mais de 10.000 posts meus, que tinham resumos dos livros do Universo Expandido, por exemplo (eu, burramente, não mantive nada no meu HD). Além de outros grandes usuários como o Darth Hakuna, que tinha resumos bem melhores que os meus, também para os livros do UE.

Com o fim do FAR, veio o Jedicenter, que não era a mesma coisa. O pessoal era bem intencionado, mas boa parte abandonou o fórum por ficar muito chateada com a perda de conteúdo (inclusive eu).

Mas acredito que aqui, no Valinor, poderemos usufruir de uma bela infra estrutura e aproveitar muito nesses anos vindouros com essa nova safra de Guerra nas Estrelas.

Que a Força esteja conosco!
 
13 Things We Just Learned About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Germain Lussier
Filed to: STAR WARS 8/12/15 10:45am

Star Wars fans knew they were going to get news this week, they probably just thought they’d have to wait longer. There will be Star Wars at the D23 Expo Saturday but first, the new issue of Entertainment Weekly is chock full of new information on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

So what’s new? Here we go. There are spoilers below so beware.

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1) Kylo Ren is obsessed with Darth Vader
This is a rumor we’d heard for a while but now it has been confirmed. The film’s main villain, played by Adam Driver, is just like us and is obsessed with the man who was once Anakin Skywalker. “[Ren] is well aware of what’s come before, and that’s very much a part of the story of the film,” Abrams said.

2) Kylo Ren isn’t his real name
Much like Darth Vader wasn’t his real name, Kylo Ren isn’t the name of the man under that mask. “He is a character who came to the name Kylo Ren when he joined a group called the Knights of Ren,” Abrams said. What are the “Knights of Ren?” He wouldn’t say. But writer Lawrence Kasdan said he’s a character wholly unique to the franchise. “I’ve written four Star Wars movies now, and there’s never been a character quite like the one that Adam plays. I think you’re going to see something that’s brand new to the saga,” Kasdan said. “He’s full of emotion. No matter how we express ourselves in the world, whether we hide it and act very calm or whether we’re very out there and demonstrative, everybody’s roiling with emotion. And you want your characters to be that way, too. Then they have to deal with their emotions as best they can, with what they are.”

3) We’ll learn the origins of Ren’s mask
“The movie explains the origins of the mask and where it’s from, but the design was meant to be a nod to the Vader mask,” Abrams said. He’s obsessed, remember?

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4) Ren built the cross hilt lightsaber himself
This, again, was a rumor we’d heard before that has now been confirmed. “The lightsaber is something that he built himself, and is as dangerous and as fierce and as ragged as the character,” Abrams says. Expanding on that, the director says the character isn’t as fully formed as Darth Vader was when we met him. Much like the saber, he’s still a work in progress.

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5) That is the iconic Skywalker lightsaber in the trailer
Speaking of lightsabers, the saber that’s handed to Princess Leia in the trailer is, in fact, Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber. The one Obi-wan Kenobi gave to Luke Skywalker, and that Anakin himself separated from Luke when they battled on Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back.

6) A single question made J.J. Abrams do the film
J.J. Abrams famously turned down the job directing The Force Awakens, until Kathleen Kennedy said to him, “Who is Luke Skywalker?” Meaning, who is he now, thirty years later. “He said, ‘Oh my God, I just got the chills. I’m in.’ I mean, it really was almost that quickly,” Kennedy said.

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7) At the start, there was no formal story in place
When Abrams came on board, there was no formal story for the film in place. Several people (Michael Arndt, Simon Kinberg, Lawrence Kasdan) were working on it, but it was a blank slate. “[They] had just been hypothesizing and throwing out a bunch of what-ifs, but there was no story in place,” Abrams said. “It was, without doubt, a formidable assignment. There were so many options and so many paths that could be taken. Even when we were in debate — and sometimes it was frustrating and heated — it was always thrilling, because it seemed almost everywhere you looked there was something potentially extraordinary, which felt very much like the DNA of Star Wars itself.”

8) Both sides of the Force see themselves as heroes
Abrams drops an interesting quote in the article when talking about the motivations of Kylo Ren. “I think that there are two sides to the Force. Both sides, arguably, would see themselves as the hero of their story, and I think that applies here.”

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9) Han Solo is a lead character, but not necessarily Luke or Leia
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are all back for The Force Awakens but the extent of their roles are likely different. While Ford’s Han Solo is one of the film’s leads, the amount of screen time for Leia and Luke is still a mystery.

10) George Lucas has definitely influenced the film
Though he has no direct role in the making of The Force Awakens, producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said he did have a strong influence. “George spoke often about that tension in everybody between what’s good and bad. He always felt that it was easier to be bad than good,”she said. “I’m not sure all people would agree, but I think that that’s always an interesting conflict to explore. So that’s a big part of the themes inside of Episode VII.”

11) Lawrence Kasdan turned down working on the prequels
Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, is not only a co-writer onThe Force Awakens, he’s co-writing the Han Solo Anthology movie. He’s fully back in Star Wars, which is not a place he was a few years ago. He revealed Lucas asked him to come back for the prequels, but he turned him down. “That wasn’t where I was at,” he said.

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12) J.J. Abrams won’t direct Episode IX
With Rian Johnson taking the director’s seat for Episode VIII, many are wondering if Abrams will return for Episode IX, tentatively scheduled for release in 2019. He won’t. “No, I’m not going to direct Episode IX, as much as I am deeply envious of anyone who gets to work with this group of people on the future movies,” he said.

13) There is an end point, but the middle is murky
As for what might happen in Episode IX, Kennedy said they have general beats of where this trilogy will go, but that the details are still being worked out. “We know where we’re going, but only in the broadest sense,” she said. “When Rian came in and started writing his script, he started from scratch, other than knowing what we had done in Episode VII and projecting out where it was going. He then sat down and put pen to paper, and it’s 100% him.”

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens December 18.
 
DROID DREAMS: HOW NEAL SCANLAN AND THESTAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS TEAM BROUGHT BB-8 TO LIFE
STARWARS.COM SPEAKS WITH THE CREATORS OF THE GALAXY'S NEWEST ASTROMECH.

How do you create a Star Wars droid that’s different from what’s come before, but authentic to a galaxy far, far away? How do you push forward in the spirit ofStar Wars innovation, but not push too far? How do you hold on to the magic ofStar Wars robotic design, but still make something imaginative? Those were the questions faced by the designers, engineers, and puppeteers working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They answered by blending the old with the new, by staring down expectations, and by eagerly jumping into the unknown. They answered with BB-8: the lovable, practical-effect, ball-shaped droid.

Here’s how they did it.

Droid design 101

When it came time to create a new astromech droid for the first film of a newStar Wars trilogy, director J.J. Abrams started as anyone might: he made a sketch on a napkin. It’s a fitting beginning, considering the handmade, warm look and feel of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The sketch was basic — two circles atop one another, with a tiny dot for an eye — but the core concept was there. And it was powerful enough to get the proverbial ball rolling for Lucasfilm concept designer Christian Alzmann. “J.J. wanted something rolling on a sphere, so I tried a lot of different designs developing that idea,” Alzmann says. “He would give direction on the kinds of shapes to use, and that led to a personality for the droid. Of course, the original sketch had very pleasing, round shapes, so you kind of figured it wasn’t going to be a very serious or angry character. Ultimately, BB-8 developed out of a back-and-forth process with J.J. where he gave feedback on each iteration of the design.”

And as for the fans who initially referred to BB-8 as the “soccer ball” droid due to patterns on his body, well, they have a keen eye. “I looked at a lot of soccer balls,” Alzmann says, laughing. “When you’re on a project like that, you start looking at everything spherical for inspiration. I think I ran across a soccer ball, and I was just like, ‘Oh, it’s kind of perfect.’”

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With Alzmann solidifying BB-8’s basic design, the decision was made to try and create the droid as a practical effect. At this point, concept designer Jake Lunt Davies of the creature shop developed BB-8 further, working through many variations of the head and body, with very subtle placement of features to really show a personality. The final design — a rotating spherical body with a half-dome head almost hovering above — looks, quite simply, very Star Wars: imaginative, but also functional. And with the goal to make BB-8 a practical effect, he would have to function somehow.

Into the creature shop

Nailing the actual design of BB-8 was only half the trip through the asteroid field. It was now up to the creature shop to finish the ride. “When we originate a design from the start,” says the legendary Neal Scanlan (Babe, Prometheus), and head of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens creature shop, “we can change aspects of the design to make it work as a practical effect. In the case of BB-8, we couldn’t make any concessions as the design already existed as a hemisphere on a ball. So, our challenge was bringing this to the screen.” It’s a greater challenge than one might think — and while BB-8 is a practical prop, that wasn’t always set in stone. Scanlan’s team had to figure out if they could do it and, not inconsequentially, convince Abrams it would look good. But at this early phase, they still had to answer the how of it all.

“Outside there in the big open world,” Scanlan says, “the whole ball-bot, as you would call it, concept, is something that universities to individuals have played around with. We looked very closely at what one would consider existing technology and decided that it was not far enough advanced to be able to put that into a droid or into a robot that we could use in the film world. Not yet, anyway…So, the idea of having versions of BB-8, which we knew we could have aspects digitally removed, really then opened up a much greater sphere of possibility.” Joshua Lee, senior animatronic designer on Scanlan’s team, got to work.

“I made a little puppet version,” says Lee, “because there was a lot of talk about how this thing could move and whether it needed extra parts, like an extending neck, to allow for greater movement. I had this feeling that it didn’t need anything else, and so to prove that, I built, in half a day, a little polystyrene puppet with the main movements. All the head movements and the ball rolling around, and handles on the back. I remember as soon as I picked that up, it was just so expressive. You could see that there weren’t any other fancy movements needed, that there’s so much expression and character actually in the shapes and in the way the head sort of arched over the sphere. Neal was working in a different office at the time, in another part of the studio, and I excitedly ran down and showed him this thing. We both thought, that’s it, there’s really something there, and a puppet version would be one way of achieving it on set.”

Before any filming began, however, they’d have to convince Abrams that it would work for his purposes, that it could perform with his actors. Enter Dave Chapman and Brian Herring, the puppeteers literally behind BB-8.

“We had, I guess, two weeks to ourselves on an empty soundstage, just figuring out how this character moved,” Chapman says. “Neal Scanlan came in and advised and directed us. We did camera tests and recorded it for ourselves, and just found every parameter of this character’s movement.” The personality of a droid — and discovering it — is something that audiences usually don’t even think about. But that was Chapman and Herring’s job, and it meant not only figuring out how to manipulate BB-8 the puppet to convey joy, sadness, curiosity, and fear, but defining how BB-8 the character would convey those emotions consistently.

“BB-8 can cock his head over and look away, he can double take, he can look scared, he can look angry,” says Herring. “We managed to find a whole vocabulary of movement for him, if you will. We worked out a whole bunch of stuff. What would he do if you turned him off? What happens to his head if you power him down? Does he go down stairs? Does he go up stairs?”

“We did show and tells [with Abrams],” Scanlan explains. “All credit to the man, he didn’t actually see his version of the puppeteered BB-8 until about a week before we began shooting. He never put pressure on us, he never made us feel bad. I remember the day that we showed it to him, his first initial response really hit home with me, because he looked at [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy and said, ‘What a relief.’ And I could see the weight of the world lift off his shoulders. I think that was the point at which, I suppose, the decision was made that we could go practical, and we didn’t have to go digital. I think up until that point, it was sitting in everybody’s mind that unless we were able to deliver something that was actually believable and usable and directorially friendly, the only other option was to go digital. He put his faith and trust in us and, as such, apparently we didn’t disappoint. Then, after we showed it to him, the mood in the room lifted immediately. Everybody started to engage with BB-8 not as a practical effect anymore, but as a little character. They started to view it much more as that, and we sort of built it all from there. The use of BB-8 was built on that first initial impression we left J.J. and Kathy with.”

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This model of function would then serve as a springboard for a small army of BB-8s, all with their own specialty, designed by Lee and Matthew Denton, the electronic design and development supervisor. There was the “wiggler,” which was static, but could twist and turn on the spot and was used for close-ups. There were two trike versions, which had stabilizer wheels, allowing them to be driven by remote control without a puppeteer in the shot. There was a version that could be picked up by actors and controlled via remote for specific reactions and movements. There was the “bowling ball” version, which could literally be thrown into a shot and never fall down (like a Weeble toy). Finally, there was the rod-puppet version, which was operated by Chapman and Herring — one controlling the head, adding nuance and attitude, and the other the body — who would then be digitally erased. It was this version that would be key and able to act on set. Lee and Denton did all their engineering without seeing the script, though they were told of certain BB-8-has-to-do-this benchmarks they needed to hit. It all worked out in the end.

“Matt made the brain, Josh built the body,” says Herring, “and, hopefully, Dave and I gave it heart and soul.”

Still, for BB-8’s designers, there was unfinished business.

Making BB-8 real

While Scanlan’s team ruled out a fully functioning, remote-controlled BB-8 for shooting, they never forgot that original goal. Despite having a full workload, they took the initiative to make one that was entirely free-running. No rods, no puppeteers, no anything. The dream.

“It had been sort of burning a hole in me,” says Lee. “I started to design this crazy idea of one that would roam around and that we would show to the fans, as well. So, we really couldn’t do it for filming, but it had to be done.” Lee already had some knowledge of how it would work based on his initial R&D at the beginning of production. It would be a matter of settling on a technique and, more importantly, one that would match the movements and personality of BB-8 as established through puppetry.

“There are several ways of doing a ball robot,” says Lee, “but there was nothing that included an articulated head or anything that could spin on the spot — and that’s one of BB-8’s signature moves. So, I started to design the prototype while Matt adapted his existing software to make control of this new BB-8 possible.”

Well…how did he do it?

“I’m not sure I want to say. Because where’s the fun in that?”

After Lee and Denton finished a gray-ball prototype that actually worked, Scanlan presented it to the higher-ups, securing additional funding. Paint and detailing were then added by the creature shop’s paint-finish designer, Henrik Svensson, to make this new BB-8 film-accurate. It all came together in time for a surprise debut at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim last April, during Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel. BB-8 rolled out onstage, dome twisting all around, peering at the audience, beeping and booping in curiosity and circling around R2-D2. It was the first official confirmation that BB-8 was not a CG creation, but rather, a practical effect, and the thousands in attendance went berserk. Denton operated the droid, having done just one rehearsal the day before.

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“It was nerve-wracking because all manner of things could have gone wrong, live on stage,” Denton says. Yet it worked, and he heard the crowd’s roars. “It was the best feeling I’ve ever had, I think,” he says. Those in attendance weren’t the only ones impressed with the free-roaming BB-8, however.

“When that thing rolled out at Anaheim,” says Herring, “Dave and I were doing a commercial in South Africa and we were watching the live stream. And out it came, and we were like, ‘They did it. They bloody did it! Look at this thing!’ It just blew us away.”

“I think the red carpet version, at this moment in time, stands almost singularly as a technical achievement that no one has yet matched,” says Scanlan. “We watch, very avidly, the forums and the discussions that people are having on ‘How did they do that?’, and no one’s yet cracked the actual problem.” So, while it’s not used in a film (yet), there has been a giant leap for droidkind.

Looking back…and forward

For everyone involved, the experience of working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and of creating BB-8 will not be soon forgotten. There were hurdles, there was doubt, there was the joy of pulling it off and the joy of seeing fans embrace him. “I’ve had the time of my life,” says Lee. “This has been the job of my life, really. It couldn’t have been a more interesting and challenging and fun project.”

“Same here,” adds Denton. “I think this is probably the best thing I’ve ever worked on, both in terms of what the film will be, and the creatures and robots we got to work on.”

Soon, the world will get to see the rest of that work. For now, BB-8 has already made an impact, representing the wonder that Star Wars makes possible.

“I hope that he can sit with the really great, memorable Star Wars characters,” says Herring. “You know, you can look at him and R2-D2 and Chewbacca and go, ‘Oh, they’re all from the same place, and they all took part in the same story.’”

“What I think is the excitement for me comes from the fact that the world, at the moment, has only seen two shots of BB-8 in the movie and the Anaheim stuff, which is all great,” says Chapman. “But in the film, there’s so much going on and so much more for them to see. I’m excited for them to see the character’s journey in the movie.”

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There’s a lot to look forward to. The head of the creature shop puts it best.

“We can’t wait to see the movie,” says Scanlan. “And if we have to wait any longer, we’ll probably implode. For God’s sake, how long does it take for December to roll around?”

Dan Brooks is Lucasfilm’s senior content writer, and spends his days writing stuff for and around StarWars.com. He loves Star Wars, ELO, and the New York Rangers, Jets, and Yankees. Follow him on Twitter @dan_brooks where he rants about all these things.

Fonte: http://www.starwars.com/news/droid-...s-the-force-awakens-team-brought-bb-8-to-life
 
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Aqui está a Jedi da nova geração:

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