ST Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) in Episode VII

It kind of feels that Lucas was going for Leo DiCaprio's look when he picked Jake to play kid Anakin. Wasn't Leo considered a possible candidate for adult Anakin later on? Plus, there's the whole tragic love story angle that really began with Episode II (2002). I can't help but be reminded of Titanic (1997) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) when I think of its possible influences, both starring Leo, who was insanely popular for these roles at the time.

 

Oh no DiCaprio was Lucas's fist pick for Anankin I believe.

 

What is it like working within the secrecy surrounding "Star Wars"?
You can’t say anything. You can’t say ****. But it’s fine! I don’t know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It’s so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don’t do that. I don’t go looking for stuff that I’m interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie’s about. It’s so much more fun to be surprised.
Is there anything you are excited about that won't reveal anything about your mysterious, yet-to-be-announced character?
There’s not anything that I can say about the character, but I can say that I’m most excited and, I know this seems nerdy, but I love the fact that J.J. Abrams is shooting it on film. And that’s not just from an aesthetic standpoint -- it really does matter -- but it’s about how a movie is filmed and the set, it changes it. It changes so many things. I mean, I’ve had to do things over again because there was a hair in the gate, which is so old school, but it just feels better, and movies are all about feeling, so I think that’s something that I’m so very excited about apart from the fact that it looks amazing, so textured and alive.
Okay, here's a nostalgia-based question that you'll be allowed to answer: How do you feel about the "updates" George Lucas has made to the films?
Well, it’s a funny thing. I mean there’s two things. As an artist, like, he made the ****, so why can’t he do whatever the heck he wants with it. There’s a part of me that appreciates that he doesn’t really care if people are upset about it. He decided to share it with all of it and he wants to go back and do stuff, whatever. But as a fan, I’d much rather go back and watch the old thing, because it’s a product of the time. It’s what did you do at the time with the things that you had. And that’s what made that movie so amazing. At that time with that technology he made this thing and it was ****ing awesome. So, you know, to go back and kind of tweak it with new stuff, it doesn’t make it more interesting for me as a watcher. It makes it less interesting, but I can’t fault him for doing that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/oscar-isaac-star-wars_n_5881120.html

 

I love that Oscar is a bit of a potty mouth.

 

I know! The guy swears like a smuggler. Or a bounty hunter. *sighs* Or a space pirate. Hmm. Come to think of it, Wookiees have been known for their choice growls.... something to the effect of "Rah-ruuuuuhh".

 

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-oscar-isaac-original-trilogy-changes/ Edit: never mind. already posted.

 

Oscar Isaac Supposedly Finished Filming Episode VII on Friday 26th September (Star Wars Bits)
Heads up everyone: Oscar Isaac's last day shooting "Star Wars: Episode VII" is this Friday, Sept. 26. The cast has another few weeks of filming, but Isaac is taking a well deserved four day vacation before moving on to his next project, David Simon's HBO mini-series "Show Me A Hero.

As for "Star Wars," the film will no doubt change Isaac's life. He'll go from an actor you recognize from something to "the guy from 'Star Wars.'" That's a big life change for anyone, but Isaac reveals he's not feeling the pressure. It's no different from "Two Faces" or any other high profile projects he's worked on.
"I think that if I had any success in this field, which I have, I think it comes from a place that I’m able to find stillness within all the wildness of what’s happening," Isaac says. "So regardless of whether it’s the Coens or whether it’s 'Star Wars' or 'Robin Hood' when I did that or whatever, it could be I’m able just to focus on what I’m hired to do, which is inhabit the psyche of a character. And so those thoughts don’t really come into it very much as far as like what it means or how it will come across. Because once you start going there I don’t see how you can do the job of acting at all, because those things have nothing to do with each other."
Now, you might think, "But Isaac, you weren't even a little nervous even auditioning for a major role in a new 'Star Wars' franchise?" Again, Isaac says he's able to focus past it all.
"You just do the job part of it, which is like, 'What is this character? What does he want? Where did he come from? What is he trying to do here? What am I saying here? What’s the psyche that I have to inhabit,'" Isaac says. "Obviously when you really, really want something, you have to manage those things. You know, it’s like 'Llewyn Davis.' I wanted that more than anything I’ve ever been close to getting before. But that had to be managed with the fact that, who is the character and what’s the actual job, and finding stillness in that. So yeah, it doesn’t really matter the scale of it, to be honest."
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/oscar-isaac-doesnt-feel-pressure-171800792.html

 

and the most important news from that is the film only having a few more weeks to film.

Yes, friends, in a few weeks(lets just say 3) a Star Wars film will have finished shooting. Not counting reshoots of course.

Still a Star Wars film will be on it's way to being completed. I feel sad(extremely happy and laughing quite a bit) for those few, those happy few, who will dread that news.

 

and the fact that Isaac is done filming,

 

So, did Isaac shoot any scenes with Mark at all? Seems no.

 

Why?

 

Why 'no'? No one put a 24 hour tail on any of the main cast and we only have a few sketchy rumours as to who was where, who with and when.

 

I love it. I can see him as the "rogue" character in the Han Solo vein. If he does have the Falcon, it's likely Han sees him as a son figure. (I don't buy that Han just let the Falcon go to a junkyard). But I'd like to see Isaac then have tension with an actual Solo kid who sees their place being usurped. If that's Daisy's character, even better. Tension. And funny scenarios for Han, the overprotective dad if Isaac is eyeing his daughter.

 

Both Oscar Isaac and Ewan McGregor are in contention to play the role of Marvel's Dr. Strange
http://variety.com/gallery/who-will-play-marvels-doctor-strange/#!5/ewan-mcgregor/

 

Cool. Both good choices. Ethan Hawke and Jared Leto too.

 

http://variety.com/gallery/who-will-play-marvels-doctor-strange/#!3/oscar-isaac/
Update on my Osacr Isaac for Dr Strange Post, is Isaac playing a Jedi?????
Marvel has an inside look at his Jedi prowess in Disney's "Star Wars" reboot.

 

I am willing to bet that it is a reporter who can only think of "Jedi" when they think of Star Wars, so that is what they called him.

 

but it's Variety, one of the most reliable Trades.
or maybe the cyborg (sith) is Isaac.

 

The cyborg will be Tom Cruise. Mark my words.

 

there were rumors of Tom Cruise in VII, it's possible (but unlikely)
but it would be hilarious.

 

lol if cruise is somehow involved i ragequit the cinema

i dont care darksideluke, evilcyborgleia or haydencomingbackasthevader


but if i see one alien that just remotely reminds on cruises visage---

 

or they made a mistake and he's a Sith.

 

it's an interesting idea, but it's a hard buy to believe that Driver and Isaac could be brothers.