Octogeek – 2nd December – A Victorian Adventure

With Star Wars 7 imminent we have a some stuff from Mark Hamill as well as the Captain America Trailer, Batman V Superman TV spot, Sherlock pics and trailer and an update on Ridley Scott’s Alien. Come on in why don’t you?

 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The force awakens has been given it’s US certificate. Just like Revenge of the Sith, it’s PG-13 “for sci-fi action violence”. Revenge of the Sith had the same rating and it seems likely that it’ll secure a 12A rating in the UK. Cinema patrons be warned though. If it’s anything like Specter, there will still be 7 year olds in the audience becoming bored after an hour and a half in the dark. The run time has also been released and it’s a healthy 135 minutes. So that’s 45 minutes of kids climbing on the chairs and asking their dads what’s going on. 

Mark Hamill has been speaking to SlashFim about Episode 7 and how the character of look has changed since we first saw him. “Obviously you’re seeing him in a very different time in his life, there are lots of surprises in this movie. You’re going to love it,” 

On coming back to the series and shooting in Ireland he said “It reminded me of when I was in Tunisia on the salt flats. If you could get into your own mind and shut out the crew and look at the horizon, you really felt like you were in a galaxy far, far away. I had that same wave of emotion happen to me when I was on Skellig Michael in Ireland. I wasn’t anticipating it.”

Captain America: Civil War

Fearful that the trailer would be leaked early in the same way the Age of Ultron trailer was. Marvel/Disney have opted to just drop the trailer out of nowhere, last week. If you haven’t been living under a rock check it out below with some new posters to promote the film. Directed by the Russo brothers, it looks to have the same tone as Winter Soldier. Hopefully they can produce 2 hits in a row in preparation for their new job directing both parts of Avengers: Infinity War.

 

Sherlock Christmas Special

I have a lot of time for Sherlock. Benedict and Martin do a bang up job bringing Sherlock Holmes into the modern world. Not forgetting show runners Stephen (Doctor Who) Moffat and Mark (League of Gentlemen) Gatiss who make it all happen behind the scenes like the BBC’s Moriarty . This year we’re getting a little treat in the Sherlock Christmas Special and it looks pretty, um…. Special. In ‘The Abominable Bride’ Sherlock is set for a Victorian adventure. Moffat and Gatiss have been speaking to the press about it and we have a nice little trailer to get you in the mood. 

It started with us thinking, could we justify having a ten minutes where they just put the togs on so we could see them do it? […] Then we thought, actually, let’s not do that. Let’s just do it, let’s do it for real! Do a whole film as the Victorian version, do it properly and not tongue-in-cheek, just as we would have done it had we started the other way. – Moffat

We’ve sort of joked about the idea for a long time, but it’s just massively appealing to do a one-off special where the only other people who’ve done it are Rathbone and Bruce, to do it both period and modern. […] it was sort of irresistible, the idea of actually seeing Benedict and Martin and everybody else in Doyle-land, as it were. – Gatiss

Both Sue and Ben (the producers) were both saying ‘Aah…’, because there is a reasonable expectation on their part that we might over-indulge ourselves. So the thing was saying that we’re not going to make a piss-take or a parody and we’re not going to get carried away with ‘look how we’ve dressed up! Isn’t it tremendously funny! Ooh, sideburns!’ we’re not going to do that. We’re actually going to do a really good Victorian one. It’s going to be really good. Our objective was that ten, fifteen minutes in, you’re going to forget that we’ve changed it. You’re just going to be watching a really good Sherlock story. – Moffat