Few movie sequels hold a candle to The Empire Strikes Back, but Mark Hamill believes Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes pretty damn close.
While appearing alongside Rian Johnson at the ongoing SXSW film festival, the franchise veteran went so far as to suggest that The Last Jedi is the “most sophisticated” Star Wars movie since Irvin Kershner’s classic of 1980. Of course, this is by no means the first time that Episode VIII has been talked about in the same breath as Empire – nor is it likely to be the last – considering they were both conceived as the middle chapters in their respective trilogies.
However, Hamill has now gone one step further to claim that Johnson’s follow-up belongs in the Star Wars pantheon:
…probably the most sophisticated Star Wars movie since Empire…I just think it’s a stunning film — it’s challenging, it’s surprising, it has humor.
While appearing alongside Rian Johnson at the ongoing SXSW film festival, the franchise veteran went so far as to suggest that The Last Jedi is the “most sophisticated” Star Wars movie since Irvin Kershner’s classic of 1980. Of course, this is by no means the first time that Episode VIII has been talked about in the same breath as Empire – nor is it likely to be the last – considering they were both conceived as the middle chapters in their respective trilogies.
However, Hamill has now gone one step further to claim that Johnson’s follow-up belongs in the Star Wars pantheon:
…probably the most sophisticated Star Wars movie since Empire…I just think it’s a stunning film — it’s challenging, it’s surprising, it has humor.
- 3/13/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Could Supreme Leader Snoke be resurrected in time for Episode IX?
That’s one of the big debates currently swirling around the Star Wars fanbase – up there with Rey’s parentage and the possible return of Luke Skywalker – and that’s despite the fact that Snoke was sliced in half, Darth Maul-style, during the midst of The Last Jedi.
Lucasfilm and Rian Johnson refuse to be drawn about Snoke’s future – or lack thereof – but while promoting Marvel’s imminent Black Panther, the Supreme Leader himself, Andy Serkis, tackled those rumors head-on in a recent interview with /Film:
Look, it’s Star Wars, so you never know how life, or whether life can be come back to or not. Whether you can be resuscitated or brought back. I was shocked. Dramatically, it felt absolutely right for that moment in the film, so I didn’t question it. I just think it’s a very,...
That’s one of the big debates currently swirling around the Star Wars fanbase – up there with Rey’s parentage and the possible return of Luke Skywalker – and that’s despite the fact that Snoke was sliced in half, Darth Maul-style, during the midst of The Last Jedi.
Lucasfilm and Rian Johnson refuse to be drawn about Snoke’s future – or lack thereof – but while promoting Marvel’s imminent Black Panther, the Supreme Leader himself, Andy Serkis, tackled those rumors head-on in a recent interview with /Film:
Look, it’s Star Wars, so you never know how life, or whether life can be come back to or not. Whether you can be resuscitated or brought back. I was shocked. Dramatically, it felt absolutely right for that moment in the film, so I didn’t question it. I just think it’s a very,...
- 1/31/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
What a surprising city Rotterdam is and the Festival and Cinemart are full of surprises too.
Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
“Fox and HIs Friends”
Except for my...
Being in The Netherlands is like a homecoming for me. My first major job in the film industry was with 20th Century Fox International and City Fox Films in Amsterdam in 1975 which is when I first attended the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, three years after its founding by Huub Bals. It was much smaller then. Iffr’s logo is a tiger, loosely based on the M.G.M. lion as an alternative. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. It has become one of the most important events in the film world, an integral part of the winter circuit of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals.
“Fox and HIs Friends”
Except for my...
- 3/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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