Star Wars: Episode 7 -- This Is Who Andy Serkis Plays

@sol_invictus: "Not even using real actors anymore" You wot m8? Do you know who Andy Serkis is? But seriously if you're worried about CGI there's already been loads of things confirmed which don't involve CGI. They've built X-wings, the millenium falcon and other space ships, there's this video with J.J. Abrams and costumed people in the background and this amazingly intricate one that walks past. There's a video of a big explosion going off and storm troopers getting flung everywhere with stunt mats. The film won't be a CGI glory hole. Andy Serkis and CGI aren't exactly a bad combination anyway, so I wouldn't lose your wig yet. And besides all of the 6 films have some pretty poor acting, especially in the prequels, which I doubt we will see here, because George Lucas isn't casting. R2-D2 is being played by the dwarf that played him in the originals for god's sake, they're going all out to please the purists, yet still your anger boils, its not like they've made frekin Chewbacca CGI like they did in the prequels.

@sol_invictus: If you are into Sci-fi and fantasy especially right now, and you don't like the CGI, then you should really stop watching movies and TV shows in the genre. Stick to books. There isn't one sci-fi/fantasy show or movie out there today that doesn't use it. I will agree that it can be overused, but it's a necessary tool that can be absolutely brilliant in the right hands.

@sol_invictus: << LINK REMOVED >> Definitely doesn't look "so fake." If you want practical effects go watch the original king kong or something. And to be honest, nobody cares whether you see the movie or not.

@sol_invictus: You don't deserve the name Sol Invictus.

@sol_invictus: I'm sorry, did you just call Andy Serkis not a real actor? If so... yikes. I'm not eve sure how to respond to that.

@sol_invictus: I guess you are totally disregarding Gollum and Caesar?

@sol_invictus: "Not even using real actors anymore" Quite the opposite in fact. A lot of the actors they are getting for this kind of stuff are the best of the stage, because the people need to act without a real set or other actors. You're giving great actors far more free range to perform things that were never available to them before simply because... well, nobody is every going to actually be the size of the Hulk, even if the proportions are largely the same.

If you've got a problem with the CG, that's fine, but the amount demanded of these actors is far more than ever before.

@sol_invictus: Actually from what I've read this movie is a making a return to practical effects more than CGI. No surprise that Andy Serkis is playing a CGI character, that is his niche, after all but it's not like the prequels which relied so heavily on it that it may as well have been animated.

@sol_invictus: Not even using real actors anymore? Hahahaha. Was Yoda played by a real actor, or was he just a fake puppet? Or are you perhaps trying to tell us that Andy Serkis is not a real person?

@sol_invictus: Lol. Do you think they're going to find a real alien to portray one in a film?

@sol_invictus: "Not interested myself"

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@sol_invictus: I actually really enjoyed the Star Trek reboots, especially the 1st. I'm sure with whatever criticism Abram's took away from those will help him with Ep 7. Hopefully, however, he gives Star Wars a completely different treatment, as they are different franchises that should feel distinct from one another

@sol_invictus: **** you the star trek reboots were absolutely amazing.

@sol_invictus: Yeah, it feels somehow fundamentally wrong, too, that the same guy in charge of Star Trek could also being in charge of Star Wars..

@jski@drflyntcoal: I actually saw Star Wars for the first time just 3 years ago and the old trilogy names still kind of sounded cool. Han Solo, Leia, Skywalker, even Darth Vader. All the names in the Force Awakens are just regular names with a typo. Like Phasma is just Plasma with an h instead of l, Rey's just Ray with an e instead of a, Kylo Ren's just Kyle Ron with their e's and o's switched. Poe, well I don't know, Pie maybe? And Snoke is Smoke with an n instead of m. It's a pattern, and I bet every other name's just like that because Lens Flare Abrahams thinks it's "cool".

All the originality is straight up gone.

@bdrtfm: He's pretty good out of the motion gear too.

@bdrtfm: He was also amazing in the highly underrated video game, Heavenly Sword.