RUMOR General Star Wars: The Last Jedi News & Rumors Thread

Yeah baby I am part of the fringe element!! I feel different already....of course being fringe can have its problems,

 

Yeah I'm pretty sure we're getting 3 trailers again I just forgot to point that out lol. I think we'll get the second in July because Star Wars reached an agreement with Sunday Night Baseball so we'll probably be getting one there (fingers crossed it's a Mets game!) That trailer will probably resemble Rogue One's second teaser and the third, full trailer we'll will get in October/November during Monday Night Football which hopefully my Giants playing are playing in again

 

Some Snoke details:
http://makingstarwars.net/2017/04/details-snoke-guards-kylo-ren-star-wars-last-jedi/

 

link not working for me

 

Site seems to be busy, but let me in after about 2 mins...

Jason's really letting loose this week. Bring it on!!!!

 

MSW is down right now.

Full article for those who can't reach the website:

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Snoke is looking more and more like a new character. I always believed this to be the case but you still have to speculate and ask “what if?” In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Supreme Leader is dressed in black, via hologram, looking like he shops at Palpatine’s old hot spots. The thing is old Snoke wears more outfits than just that boring black robe and in The Last Jedi we get to see him looking very decadent. I think what he wears is probably insightful to his values and concerns as an evil being.

Snoke wears a gold silky robe with a very ornate pattern on it in The Last Jedi. In fact, I think you can pretty much see the robe on page 226 of The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What is also interesting is his slippers are like “jester shoes” or “genie slippers.” They’re also gold because you have to match if you that far in with the gold robe. I think the robe and shoes are lined in red too so he’s stylin’. He has a very “blood and gold” vibe to him.

Another interesting detail is that Snoke wears a fancy ring on his left hand. Remember when I told you guys about those long puppet hands they made for him? Well his hands are decrepit and his pinky is sort of shriveling inward. But that doesn’t stop him from wearing a ring about the size of a “Ring Pop” if you remember the old candy. However, the stone in the ring is black and it could be a black Kyber Crystal according to the rumors around the ring. There will be more on that side of things later.

I don’t have a lot of details on his throne room but it is opulent. This guy cares about money. Back when he was a good looking young person, he was probably a playboy of sorts. Unlike the Sith, I think wealth means a lot to Supreme Leader Snoke based on his appearance. They based Snoke’s design on a marble aesthetic and I think his throne room has white marble and gold trim.

If Snoke has two tigers that walk around his house, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Things get weirder when it comes to the new “Praetorian Guards” of which there are six to eight of them. I’m not sure if they’re actually called “Praetorian Guards” or if that is their placeholder name because of the similarity to the Roman Imperial Guards. These guys are a new spin on the Royal Guards that Emperor Palpatine used. They have glossy red armor, shell plating, and matte red cloth elements for the capes and such. The old guards had that black visor that defined them but these new guys have a much different head shape. These new guards all have different helmets but they don’t have visors to the best of my knowledge. The helmets are lot like the far out designs they came up with for Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens where it was sort of a medieval helmet with upward facing shields with no eye holes. It is such a strange design. The helmets are just solid red face shields to put it bluntly. I have no idea how most of them see anything. They’re faceless red guards in red armor with red capes and martial arts weapons. The new helmets do not take any design cues from the classic Royal Guards in look or shape.

The interesting thing about the “Praetorian Guards” is they all have different weapons. Pretty much all of the Ninja Turtles are represented. For instance, one has a staff but with two blades on each end. One uses nunchucks. One uses a sword and I think one has some kind of throwing weapon and knives. There are more weapons but I’m not entirely sure what the rest of the break down is for them. These guys are in Snoke’s opulent dwelling and they’re his personal elite guard. I have been told these guys will have an action sequence in the film and they do actually do “something” so we shouldn’t be disappointed by them.

I’m not entirely convinced the black knights that show up on Ahch-To are “The Knights of Ren” anymore and I do wonder if they’re related to the “Praetorian Guards” or if they’re lesser versions of these elite guards. It is weird that there are other melee based guys in knight type outfits and they’re not the Knights of Ren. Maybe the Knights of Ren are simply Kylo’s unit of elite warriors and aren’t that special in the big scope of things? It would seem the Praetorian Guards would be above the Knights of Ren in this context.

Snoke will be on his Mega Destroyer for a lot of the film from what I understand. I think his “palace” could be inside this ship once referred to as a “mobile command unit.” The Mega Destroyer itself is shaped like a flying wing. It just might be the biggest ship we’ve seen in Star Wars outside of a Death Star. You know how the classic Star Destroyer has three large engines? I think this one has at least ten and they’re double stacked. This is also the setting where the First Order BB units can be glimpsed with their hexagonal shaped heads and glossy black bodies with vents that glow red on the inside. This squad rolls deep.

Supreme Leader Snoke was let down by Kylo Ren when he failed to stop the “girl.” Now he is trying to prove himself. He doesn’t wear his helmet as much as he did in the first film from what I’ve been told. His new TIE has pointy wings like the TIE Interceptor but with a pill shaped body. The cockpit is sort of like an old B-29 bomber compared to the classic TIE cockpit window. The thrusters in the back remind me of the Falcon as they glow blue and sort of evoke the Falcon. The custom ship was supposedly made to his specifications so he could take down the Resistance and I believe we see Kylo fly from the Mega Destroyer in his new ship.

As I’ve already mentioned, Captain Phasma has a spear and two Executioner Stormtroopers. The First Order is not messing around in The Last Jedi. They’re relentlessly hunting the Resistance Fleet in the film and Poe and his gang have a reason to run. The First Order is more fearsome than we thought and they don’t even have a Starkiller this time. They have a Mega Destroyer, elite guards, execution Stormtroopers and a Captain Phasma that actually fights this time. All of this is under the command of a guy in a golden kimono.

 

Hego Damask was a wealthy man...

 

Great article, can't wait to see Phasma's gear.

 

These details sound like their vision for the FO continues the idea of the Ancient Rome = SW galaxy that GL started to a degree in the OT but really pushed hard in the PT.

Yes the OT is heavily based on Vietnam, but the Germanic tribes, Vandals and Visigoths, etc. slaughtered whole Legions ("Quinctilus Varus, where are my Eagles?!"), sacked Rome, etc. and were a Republic that fell in large part because of an inept and corrupt Senate, as well as a Senator who used a time of crisis he helped create to seize power.


This opulence works to reflect the real world examples of a divine dictatorship in Europe in the Middle Ages and renaissance, Ancient Rome (mostly post Commodus), and Far East rulers.

I think he's making the TMNT comparison more out of memory bias for recent pop culture as opposed to what RJ and the art department are drawing from, which is the praetorians he referenced and samurai who were such a strong influence for the Jedi.

KR's TIE sounds a lot like the new one from RO and Vader's ANH TIE. That makes sense from a design and functional standpoint.

If you look at fighter jets from 1960 until today especially 1985 to the present and they all share tons of features

I'm very excited about Snoke, and that is the first time I've said that since before I saw TFA.

 

Bearing in mind everything we've learned this week, I'm surprised they haven't named this movie "The First Order Strikes Back".....

 

right...because they have totally outlined everything for a two hour movie that sounds exactly like TESB.

 

golden kimono... -_-

 

Getting a serious Dark Crystal Skeksis vibe from these Snoke rumors and I love it.

 

F.O. BB units! Wicked! And I'm glad they ditched the dark Palpatine robes for Snoke and made him more regal. MSW rocks! All this deluge of information over the last week or so helps satiate the thirst new trailer.

 

I suspect a lot of their recent leaks will be confirmed this weekend.

 

Firstly, funny post. I can sympathize. Secondly, I find it ironic that your post about unoriginality now has two unoriginal ratings.

As for the Snoke stuff...

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I actually really like the sound of this. The idea of a clearly-opulent Dark Side master will probably be cool to see. Palpatine had a bit of that in ROTJ, but by the time ROTJ happened, he was just a man in a black cloak in a very minimalist Death Star. Granted, he still used Coruscant, but the OT didn't show that.

 

Trailer description:

Lucasfilm Logo fades in and out...

A piece of music that sounds like a very slow version of the imperial march plays throughout the trailer. Sets a very gloomy mood.

We see Finn, Rey, Poe, Luke, Chewie, Kylo, Leia, and I believe Del Toros character in the trailer.

The trailer opens with Yoda dialogue from Return Of The Jedi where he says "After me... the last of the Jedi you will be."

Shots of Luke and Rey staring at each other, both with tears in their eyes. This is not from the continuation of their scene from the end of 7. It's a whole new scene all together.

A shot of Poe and Finn together both with guns out.

Shot of Kylo walking down a first order hallway with two Troopers with half black, half white helmets behind him. He doesn't seem very happy. It's like he just got bitched out by someone.

Luke mentions to Rey that the dark side is stronger than ever right now. Rey says she can feel it.

Finn mentions something about how the galaxy is separated right now. Followed by a shot of Leia looking stressed.

Only a few shots from the Dubrovnik set are in the trailer but we do see Finn and Kelly Marie Trans character riding on that big creatures back on the streets of that city.

Shots of Rey swinging around the saber.

Another shot of Kylo at the base of the steps that Rey went up on the island Luke is on.

Shot of Poe running to his X-Wing with what's seems to be explosions behind him.

 

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From whom? Please don't say Mike Zeroh. I will break the internet.