Has anybody seen this reported by any larger/more legit news sites (other than the UK's shady-ass Daily Mail)?

North Kent Quarry Location Scouted for Ep VII

It was also reported on this website:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml
No idea if it's more legit, though.

British quarries? What is this "SW" or vintage "'Who"?

"The last run of Star Wars films tended towards very artificial, green-screen facilitated settings. This would be the more organic approach that worked so well for the original Tatooine, Moon of Endor and so on. I think it would make some of the fans rather happy to see a “practical locations” plan in place."


Oh for fuck's sake.

Bad Robot's Bryan Burk:



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For perspective, Episode I principal photography started on '97, Ep. II on '00 and Ep. III on '03. That 2015 date is looking kinda shaky unless they plan on throwing thousands of VFX houses at it as is the custom nowadays, which would be a damn shame. I really hope they take they time on it even if it means pushing it to '16.

The filming timeline of the Prequels was just how Lucas worked. Hell, he would take several months off during the winter, then go back at it the next Spring and work on it until he felt it was finished. Cut that down time out, and Disney/Lucasfilm/BadRobot/Etc. could easily pull this off and have it ready for a 2015 release date.

Would someone just kill bleeding cool already?! They're worse than TFN forums...

Kill the fucking IMDB forums too, while we're at it. Because everybody there seems to be brainwashed into thinking that not one single second of the Prequels was shot in an "organic" or "practical" location:

http://starwars.com/watch/the_beginning_3.html

At one stage, I thought about collecting every single picture of practical sets used in the PT and starting a facebook page, dedicated to it.
But in the end, I thought who gives a fuck. I'd rather laugh at their dumb-assery.

IMDB- Because some things are too stupid to discuss even on TFN...

You lie....there are no limits to stupidity at the TFN Forums!

Ah, one of the great fallacies perpetuated by bandwagon prequel haters. (Although, to be fair, there was no location shooting on ROTS).

Next you're going to tell me that they should go back to miniatures and models instead of CGI. Yeah! (Hint: There were more models used in TPM than in the entire OT combined. Even the fucking lava in Mustafar was a practical effect, not CG).

Or maybe the ST should go back to the "used universe look" missing from the prequels! (Because the personal starship of a planetary ruler should look just as dinged up as a ship described as "What a piece of junk!". Or maybe the Supreme Chancellor's office (the real life equivalent to the Oval Office) should look as ratty as a low-life cantina in a low-life spaceport. Go back an look how "used" the public areas in Cloud City seem. They're pristine.)

The worse thing is the whole hipocrisy over this. Star Wars can't have CGI sets, characters, etc, yet they will probably go droll themselves over CG shots on films like Transformers, Avatar and the Avengers...

Ummm, there are parts of the prequels I sort of hate. The effects, however, don't pop out at me as those parts. The design, look and effects, both practical and computer generated, are really the bulk and appeal of the PT for me. Eye-candy, with something about mini chlorine cypher Diaz oh noes thrown in for good measure. It was fun, if not particularly engaging.


The story itself has grown on me though. Regardless of what kind of bitching I have done in the past about the PT, I still have always preferred them to other, non-Star Wars movies. I don't even cringe upon seeing Gungans anymore. Jake Lloyd (sp?) still irks me, but that might just be the "Kevin Bacon" effect.

Click to view annoyingly drawn-out explanation of wtf that is supposed to mean:
[spoil]Like, in every movie I see him in, I hate Kevin Bacon. That doesn't mean I dislike his performance, I just would like to smack him. Especially when he plays an asshole, 'Sleepers' comes to mind, I could strangle that guy. And one day, upon loathing the sight of seeing Kevin Bacon's face flash across my channel-flipping TV screen, I had an epiphany. A vision from on high. I hated Kevin Bacon because he was really, really adept at playing the kind of person I just don't like. And I found a new respect for the guy as an actor. I still don't intentionally watch his movies, but I'm not intentionally steering clear of him either. Young Anakin, and the performance of him by Jake Lloyd, makes me cringe. Maybe we weren't supposed to really like him anyways. Do we need to like him to understand him? Not really. Does all of this wreak of rationalization? Probably, but suffice to say his portrayal doesn't make me quite as irate as it used to. [/spoil]

All of that said, I'm done with school now so the reading public is screwed. I have months of backlogged aggression I need to get out. If JJ Abrahams is as big of a nerd as he appears to be, he's probably reading this thread. Hey, JJ, please put some hot broads into the Star Wars universe in a way that doesn't make me feel creepy like the Padme' bustier scenes in AOTC did. Or the Luke/Leia incestuous kissing scene. Or the Anakin ruffied his pregnant wife on the balcony scene in ROTS. Give us something we can feel happy to feel pervy about, like the green tramp in Star Trek. Help a brother out, huh?

I have a good feeling about this guy though. If it doesn't work out for him I'm going to say I didn't say that.

It's amazing that so few people get that.

It's funny how I'm going through the exact opposite of this. Used to love the prequels but I'm growing disenchanted with them and basically anything else after 1983. Lloyd annoys me more than he used to, don't even get me started on Jar Jar (whom I used to defend), etc. Is there an opposing thing for your Kevin Bacon effect?

C3PO used to annoy the crap out of me with his incessant complaining... I assumed Jarjar had taken his place. GL always has that sort of character. think "short-round".

The closest thing I can think of would be season two of Heroes. OR what I refer to internally as the "watching something you once loved turn into a gigantic pile of crap" effect. I'd imagine a similar feeling would arise in anyone who's girlfriend had dumped them and turned into a drug addicted prostitute. Although it doesn't quite fit because I could really give a rats ass about Kevin Bacon. His rise from loathed to slightly tolerable wasn't quite as meteoric as it would need to be to compare to the dent in my brain left by Heroes.

And for the record, Short Round was probably my favorite movie sidekick of all time. In 'legitimate' movies anyways.

just speaking to his MO... the beginning of Temple was awesome, it sort of strayed from the path after that.

Episode VII will film in the UK:



StarWars.com

Also: CONFIRMED!

Looks like Episode VII could be filming on location in Ireland.

http://www.examiner.com/article/j-j-abr ... m-location

I have this feeling we're going back to Yavin at some point in this movie.