I wonder if Mark Hamill tried to puts the moves on Portman with the 4chan "sand" story.

100% real comment from my wife last night when she got off TikTok and glanced at the TV, where I was watching Solo on ABC during the scene where Han, Beckett, Val, and Chewie talk family.

"THat thing looks just like Chewbacca. What's he doing in the Hunger Games movie?"

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ok i'll be the guy.....who is that?

am i to guess that's carrie fisher's daughter? doesn't make sense though since she had a small role in the ST and i assumed they would've met by this point already.

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Good lord. Someone finally more clueless than me on celebrities. Thank god.

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ok i'll be the guy.....who is that?

am i to guess that's carrie fisher's daughter? doesn't make sense though since she had a small role in the ST and i assumed they would've met by this point already.

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So you don't Star Wars?
It's Natale Portman, who played Padme.

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ok that makes a lot more sense....

there's not a lot of actors or actresses i recognize that werent big in the 90s.....mainly cause i just dont watch movies like i used to

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You're on a Star Wars thread...

Is this really about the actress? It's Luke Skywalker posing with Padme

JCRiley09 said:

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Is this really about the actress? It's Luke Skywalker posing with Padme

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No, it's about joker not knowing that is Padme

twilly said:

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That's a picture during the first part of Luke's self imposed Force exile on Canto Bight, posing with a clone of his mother, Paadme Amidaala. Luke didn't know it was a clone of his mom until after their relationship had gone "too far" forcing him to exile somewhere much more desolate.

Of course R2-D2 sat back and said nothing the whole time.

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Little twerp probably filmed the whole thing.

This feels like a huge miscalculation

I have a bad feeling about this.

I understand that they want this in movies to make the big team up an easier transition. But I don't think that team up is a really good call either

Looks like they're set on squeezing every bit of value from Grogu, yikes.

I'm thrilled with both pieces of news. Mando & Grogu movie has been rumored since the strike began last year.

More Ahsoka, more Thrawn, more Rebels.

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This feels like a huge miscalculation

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This is lazy, and they have better material ready to be made with KOTOR.












Yes, I'm sticking with my schtick.

We're pissed when they have a Pakistani woman put out a movie.
We're pissed when two guys most representative of the fan base put out a movie.

Just feels like we want to be mad about Star Wars.

The Porkchop Express said:

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We're pissed when they have a Pakistani woman put out a movie.
We're pissed when two guys most representative of the fan base put out a movie.

Just feels like we want to be mad about Star Wars.

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That's quite the reduction

Legal Custodian said:

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The Porkchop Express said:

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We're pissed when they have a Pakistani woman put out a movie.
We're pissed when two guys most representative of the fan base put out a movie.

Just feels like we want to be mad about Star Wars.

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That's quite the reduction

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Well, this is the Internet.

No, this is a Wendy's

for the record. I will watch all of it as soon as it comes out.

If this movie starts production "later this year," that seems way too early for the May 22, 2026 slot, which is the next theatrical Star Wars date on the calendar (a date I forgot about until just now), much less for the December 18, 2026 slot, just seven months later.

First of all, how has Disney/Lucasfilm still not learned their lesson? Two Star Wars movies releasing within seven months of each other? The last time they did that was The Last Jedi (Dec '17) followed by Solo (May '18), which resulted in one of the biggest gaffs, and arguably one of the lowest points, of the entire franchise. Yet here we are again. And 2025 is so packed that I don't see them moving The Mandalorian & Grogu up. Yet, for some reason, they're filming it super early. (For context, most summer movies start filming in the spring the year prior.)

It seems Star Wars movie announcements + confusion must go hand-in-hand now.

"Here's the next movie! But no release date! Even though we have two release dates marked on the calendar! Will this be in place of or preceding a fourth season of The Mandalorian? Who knows?!"

Either way, the below is basically where I'm at. After the abomination that was The Mandalorian season three, I could not care less about seeing these characters again, but whatever. In a vacuum, a Mando & Grogu movie is... fine. I guess a contained, two-hour adventure could be mildly entertaining. Rather, it's that, after seven years, the first movie we're finally getting is basically a made-for-TV movie, as opposed to something new, different, or bold. Instead, what we're getting is a reminder that they screwed up the show so bad, all they can muster now is a movie follow-up to one of the biggest nose-dives in quality I've ever seen a show make, from seasons one to three. It's just depressing, that's all…

I’ve avoided publicly criticizing how Kathleen Kennedy so I won’t feed toxicity, but man, following up Disney’s increasingly terrible Mandalorian Marvelized “universe”with a Mandalorian movie is maybe the most depressing possible outcomes for Star Wars right now

— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) January 9, 2024