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The Mandalorian: Exclusive footage revealed at Star Wars Celebration - CNET

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Star Wars Celebration fans got an exclusive look at footage from The Mandalorian.

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No disintegrations. Fans at Star Wars Celebration Chicago got to take in an exclusive look at The Mandalorian, the first live action Star Wars show, at a Sunday panel. While most of the panel was broadcast on the internet, two features were screened only for the audience that made it to Chicago.

The Mandalorian will be released on the Disney Plus streaming service when the Netflix-rival launches on Nov. 12, and Sunday's panel provided more information about the show since it was announced. Pedro Pascal (best known for playing Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones) will play the titular role and wear armor similar to that of classic character Boba Fett.

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The entire panel, with exclusive footage blacked out, is still available to watch on the Star Wars YouTube channel, but we've also embedded it here and recapped below:

Executive Producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni first took the stage to set up how they created the show. The two met at Skywalker Ranch around 2007. Filoni was the first person to see Iron Man and he showed Favreau Clone Wars. 

The Star Wars underworld was a very rich storytelling environment, according to Favreau. He wanted to get back to the tone of the old western and samurai films that inspired George Lucas. The Legends canon, Star Wars novels and media created before Disney took them out of canon with 2015's The Force Awakens, is also being looked through as well to create ideas for the show.

Cast members Pedro PascalGina Carano and Carl Weathers hit the stage and gave more details to each of the characters they are playing.

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Pedro Pascal takes stage at The Mandalorian panel.

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Pascal will be playing title character as previously announced, with actor playing a little bit coy on the specifics. 

"The Mandalorian is a mysterious lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy," said Pascal. "Some might say he has questionable moral character."

Carano's character is named Cara Dune (we will update when spelling is confirmed on the name). She's an ex-Rebel Shock Trooper.

Weathers plays Reef Carga, and it sounds like his character will work closely with Pascal's. 

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Gina Carano is playing Cara Dune.

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"He's kinda the head of this guild of bounty hunters," Weathers revealed. "The Mando is a guy who he figures can get the job done."

The panel exclusively showed attendees a sizzle reel that opened with the Mandalorian walking on a bridge on an icy world. It quickly flashed through moments, along with behind-the-scenes moments with directors Deborah Chow, Bryce Dallas-Howard and Taika Waititi. The reel showed the Mandalorian's ship, called the Razor Crest, and shows the character following a transponder to a shelter. Presumably he was hunting a mark. Pascal is seen being suited up, with Favreau noting that new planets, races, species and starships will be introduced.

"It's beautiful hearing the fans react to it," said Weathers.

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Stormtroopers from the 501st cosplay group were recruited for The Mandalorian.

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Fans also got to literally be a part of the show, as there weren't enough Stormtroopers for a scene. Members of the 501st cosplay group were recruited to help out.

Favreau and Filoni are taking the lead on Twitter questions, which include asking where the Mandalorians were during the prequel and original trilogy films. Favreau finished one of this scripts on Christmas and Filoni has written one episode.

In describing more of his character, Pascal further pushes the western and samurai edge. "He's got a lot of Clint Eastwood in him," said Pascal, noting that he watched a lot of Sergio Leone and Kurosawa movies to prepare.

Fans attending got another exclusive look at a scene set in a cantina. The Mandalorian and Weathers' Reef are discussing a job, and we see Salacious Crumb on a spit in a marketplace.

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Carl Weathers plays Reef Carga.

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The Mandalorian is seen encountering a bunch of Stormtroopers, who note the bounty hunter is outnumbered. "We have you four to one," a Stormtrooper says. 

"I like those odds," Pascal's character shoots back.

Werner Hergog's character offers him Bescar in exchange for the bounty, dead or alive. It's not bad offer, as Bescar is what the Mandalorian's armor is made from.

"Is the world more peaceful since the revolution," asks Herzgog's character, referring to the fall of the Empire. "Look outside. I see nothing but death and chaos."

Giancarlo Esposito is seen playing an Imperial officer.

We also caught glimpses of bounty hunters 4-LOM and IG-88, previously seen on Vader's Super Star Destroyer in The Empire Strikes Back.

This post will update as we find out more about The Mandalorian.

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2019-04-14 17:35:00Z
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The first Game of Thrones theory: Inside R+L=J, Jon Snow & fan history - Polygon

Once upon a time, George R.R. Martin set out to write a trilogy of medieval fantasy books that tracked the ruling families of a fictional land called Westeros. That trilogy’s planned length grew into the seven-novel A Song of Ice and Fire, a saga so long that Martin has yet to complete it, even as the television adaptation, HBO’s Game of Thrones, comes to an end.

Jumping from character perspective to character perspective, Martin’s novels are robust with histories, prophecies, and foreshadowing. The murkiness gave birth to an onslaught of “fan theories” that have existed nearly as long as the book series. But which is the oldest? The answer, as far as internet sleuthing can determine, won’t surprise book readers or die-hard TV viewers, but how it erupted from fan chatter speaks to the power of Martin’s storytelling. The theory involves Jon Snow’s true parentage, and while the novels still haven’t confirmed it true, the finale of Game of Thrones’ penultimate season showed us once and for all that “R+L=J.”

The acrostic addition alludes to Rhaegar Targaryen (“R”) and Lyanna Stark (“L”) being the true parents of Jon Snow (“J”), raised as a bastard of Ned Stark, much to the chagrin of everyone involved. Unlike Martin’s book, the television adaptation didn’t have the benefit of being inside Ned Stark’s head during the first season, so the story about his sister Lyanna being kidnapped and raped by Rhaegar Targaryen, kicking off Robert Baratheon’s Rebellion, was stuffed into the first two episodes of the show.

The TV series’ condensed version didn’t have the breathing room to hint that this was one of history’s great lies, and that Rhaegar and Lyanna were very much in love, with Lyanna dying in childbirth, and Ned taking her son under his wing, making him swear to keep the child — a Targaryen/Stark, and potential heir to the throne — safe. So, considering Martin has yet to confirm the truth in the book series, how and when did fans stumble across one of the core twists of the series? Why were audiences so prepared when showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss finally pulled back the curtain in flashback?

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When A Game of Thrones, the first book in Martin’s series, was published in 1996, some readers quickly theorized that Jon Snow’s true parentage could me much more complicated than presented. A close read revealed that Ned Stark’s memories and dreams didn’t entirely line up with the historical narrative, or at least left room for interpretation. A Storm of Swords, the third book published in 2000, included a sequence in which Rhaegar presented Lyanna with blue roses at the Tourney of Harrenhal. The series adaptation has yet to flash back to that moment, but it’s been a key piece of the puzzle in the saga of “R+L=J” throughout its 20-plus-year history.

A Song of Ice and Fire fandom was fervent far before HBO’s Game of Thrones and remains so. When Weiss and Benioff ushered in a series based on Martin’s books, the question of Jon’s parentage was really a litmus test to see which readers had been paying attention. The theory was widely discussed in the fan community amongst many other possible threads, and only propagated further as the show ramped up, thanks to new audiences poring over the books. Eventually, the fervor provoked a reaction out of Martin. The author told an audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2014, “At least one or two readers had put together the extremely subtle and obscure clues that I’d planted in the books and came to the right solution.”

Tracing the definitive origins of “R+L=J” is a bit tricky. Curious fans have speculated that the first person to propose the theory was actually Anne Groell, George R.R. Martin’s publisher. Being deeply involved with every tweak made to Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire text, Groell was in a position to suggest that certain clues be better hidden or excised entirely. Notably, Groell once guessed that the character of Coldhands was actually Benjen Stark — the sign of an editor engaging in some theorizing herself. Martin simply wrote “no” under her question.

The “R+L=J” theory may have snowballed out of fan chatter and book groups reacting to Ned’s fever dream in the first novel, though the first signs of online discussion date back to September 1997. As uncovered by our friends at Vox.com in their oral history of the theory, the proposal dropped in the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written stumbles into what would eventually become a full-fledged theory.

@primenet.com (Rodrick Su) wrote:

4. Jon Snow’s parent. It is wholely [sic] consistent that Jon Snow is the offspring of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Ned probably keep this a secret because Rober [sic] Baratheon is obsess [sic] with killing off all Targaryen, especially any offspring of Rhaegar.

5. If Jon Snow is a Targaryen, then by tradition, he is the most likely mate to Daenery, being that she is his aunt...

Like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s parallel creation of calculus, the seeds of “R+L=J” sprouted up all over the forum scene. Just a few weeks later, in January 1998, one user wrote on rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan:

From: Sarah
Subject: Re: TAN: A Game of Thrones ( Was Re: You Know It’s Too Long Between Books When)
Date: 1998/01/13
Organization: Harvard University University Information Systems
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Dave wrote:

> Speaking of which, doesn’t it seem odd that none of the Targaryens, nor any
> of Cersei and Jaime’s children, seem to have shown the physical annomallys [sic]
> that are rather more common in children of incest? I know that this happens
> less than is popularly believed, but over the course of a few hundred years
> within the same family, I’d think something bad is bound to happen. But
> then, I’m no geneticist.

That bothered me, too. Then it occurred to me that there seems to be a healthy dose of insanity in the family. I think mental disorders are one of the traits associated with inbreeding.

Speaking of Targaryens, wanna bet Jon is really the son of Lyanna and Rhaegar?

In 1999, as sub-groups of the internet found each other on the asoiaf.westeros.org message boards, “R+L=J” became more prevalent as other readers bought into the notion. Boosted by the release of A Storm of Spoilers, there was more in the books in favor of the theory than there was evidence it was untrue. With everyone guessing that Rhaegar and Lyanna made Jon, the narrative math was on the way to becoming fan nomenclature.

There are several searchable threads on the ASOIAF forums that use the actual “+” and “=” notation. A quick search shows the earliest could be a May 2, 2006 thread titled “The Lyanna + Rhaegar = Jon Thread.” The first comment to the original poster reads: “Wow, I’ve never heard this idea before. ;) Welcome to the boards. While nodding to the theory’s popularity before that post, the comment doesn’t discount the possibility that user “StarkFuture” may have been the first to abbreviate it as “R+L=J.”

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A Song of Ice and Fire fans meeting, embracing, and becoming Game of Thrones fans created the ultimate necessity of “R+L=J.” The first season of the show is a very straight adaptation of A Game of Thrones, meaning fans of the novels already knew the fates of some main characters in the show. Specifically, and most famously, those who knew about the Red Wedding, an event in A Storm of Swords in which Robb and Catelyn Stark are massacred by the Freys that didn’t take place until the third season of the then-popular television show.

Fans needed a spoiler-free way to speak to one another, a secret code that worked between people who had read the books. Thus, we get fun little shorthand for events based on nicknames or catch phrases: The Red Wedding, The Purple Wedding, “For The Watch,” and “Only Cat,” each allude to a major event in the novels that would later appear on HBO. A lack of context meant the spoilers were kept under lock and key.

Fans have been out there saying “R+L=J” for well over 10 years to allow non-book readers to experience the revelation in the seventh season of Game of Thrones (and perhaps again in this final season, too). In that way, the origin of the oldest fan theory is also an optimistic story of fandom itself: everything can be a surprise, if everyone plays along.


Dave Gonzales is an entertainment writer and podcaster. Find him on Twitter @Da7e.

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2019-04-14 15:04:54Z
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Saturday Night Live recap: Emma Stone and BTS do their best to try and save the night - Entertainment Weekly News

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2019-04-14 14:34:00Z
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Game of Thrones season 8 premiere: what time and how to stream - Polygon

Winter is coming for Game of Thrones fans. The eighth and final season of HBO’s hit show, based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, will premiere at 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 14. HBO confirmed that season eight will be the shortest season yet, with six episodes clocking in between 50 and 82 minutes, but judging by the official trailer there will be plenty of drama, death, and dragons packed into those 432 minutes.

Of course, an HBO account is required to watch the final Game of Thrones episodes (and to catch up on the last seven seasons). But in the age of streaming, there are plenty of options. Gone are the days when you had to call your cable company to add an HBO package. Many streaming services offer premium add-ons, while HBO itself offers a streaming-only service. Below, we break down how to stream Game of Thrones on each streaming platform.

Direct from HBO

There are two options to stream directly from HBO itself — the version you can use depends on if you subscribe to HBO through a traditional cable package or as a standalone service.

HBO Go

Those who subscribe to HBO through a cable or satellite package can stream Game of Thrones live or on demand via the HBO Go service. The HBO Go app is available on most phones, tablets, smart TVs, and gaming consoles. Check if your device is supported at HBO’s Help Center.

Stream Game of Thrones on HBO Go.

HBO Now

Cord cutters can still watch HBO on the network’s own platform. HBO Now is a standalone service, so it doesn’t require a cable subscription or another streaming platform; you stream directly from the HBO Now website or app. A one-week free trial is available — after that it’s $14.99 per month.

Stream Game of Thrones on HBO Now.

On streaming platforms

Many streaming services allow users to add HBO to your subscription for an extra monthly fee, with the exception of DirecTV which includes HBO. Subscribing through a digital streaming service also includes access to HBO Now.

Amazon Channels

In addition to the TV shows and movies available free to Prime members, Amazon offers add-on premium subscriptions through the Amazon Channels program. The HBO add-on costs $14.99 per month (the same as HBO Now). Most devices allow live streaming from the Amazon Prime Video app, but check Amazon’s official list if you’re worried about it.

Stream Game of Thrones on Amazon Channels.

Hulu

Hulu also offers an HBO add-on for $14.99, which allows live HBO streaming whether or not you subscribe to Hulu’s live TV subscription tier. It’s important to note that the Hulu app for PlayStation 4 doesn’t allow any live streaming. PS4-based Hulu users aren’t out of luck though. As noted above, subscribing via Hulu also grants access to HBO Now, so you can stream live through the PlayStation HBO Now app.

Stream Game of Thrones on Hulu.

PlayStation Vue

Sony’s own TV subscription service, PlayStation Vue, is another option. HBO is available as an add-on to a multichannel package or as a standalone subscription. It costs $14.99 per month either way. The PlayStation Vue Ultra package, which costs $79.99 per month, includes HBO and Showtime.

Stream Game of Thrones on PlayStation Vue.

DirecTV Now

AT&T’s streaming service is the only subscription that includes HBO at its base level, though at $50 per month it’s the most expensive plan on the market. Because DirecTV Now operates more like a traditional cable package, subscribers have access to HBO Go, rather than HBO Now.

Stream Game of Thrones on DirecTV now.

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2019-04-14 14:04:42Z
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Coachella day two: kidult silliness and Billie Eilish's freaky vibes - The Guardian

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  1. Coachella day two: kidult silliness and Billie Eilish's freaky vibes  The Guardian
  2. 'Billiechella': Eilish stuns with career-making Coachella Saturday set  Yahoo Entertainment
  3. Watch Billie Eilish Bring Out Vince Staples at Coachella 2019  Pitchfork
  4. Billie Eilish on her packed Coachella debut: ‘I don’t deserve this at all’  Los Angeles Times
  5. Billie Eilish Meets Frenzy of Anticipation Head-On at Coachella  Variety
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2019-04-14 12:16:00Z
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'Billiechella': Eilish stuns with career-making Coachella Saturday set - Yahoo Entertainment

INDIO, CA – APRIL 13: Billie Eilish performs at Outdoor Theatre during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 13, 2019 in Indio, California. (Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella)

Perhaps no Coachella performance will ever top Beyoncé’s from 2018. But the Saturday set by horror-pop wunderkind Billie Eilish came closer to feeling like a “Beychella”-level event — something culture-shifting, Zeitgeist-capturing, and just plain important — than anything else at the festival this weekend.

Call it “Billiechella,” if you will.


Although Eilish was only playing the second stage, she attracted so many thousands of fans — including celebrities like Kylie Jenner, Travis Scott, members of 5 Seconds of Summer, and, in a bit of a game-recognizing-game moment, Lady Gaga — that she could have easily headlined the entire evening.

“I don’t deserve this at all,” the 17-year-old insisted modestly, staring out in amazement at the densely packed field and repeatedly exclaiming, “This s** is crazy!” However, this felt like a bit of a humblebrag — not just because of the unflappable bratty swagger Eilish exhibited throughout her show, but because the indie-electronic chanteuse has actually been working towards this goal since she released her first bedroom music recording four years ago. “I used to sit in my room and cry because I wanted this s*** so bad,” she sweetly confessed towards the end of her triumphant set.


Eilish went on 33 minutes late due to technical difficulties (at one point, the crowd chanted, “F*** that screen!” as stagehands tinkered frantically with her audiovisual displays), and there were a couple other hiccups — a giggly lyrical flub during the live debut of “All the Good Girls Go to Hell,” a microphone snafu during unintentionally silenced guest rapper Vince Staples’s verse on “&Burn.” But this was an otherwise flawless performance, well worth the extra half-hour wait — and the fact that the audience stuck around when there were plenty of tempting options on neighboring stages (Weezer, Aphex Twin, Wiz Khalifa, even a Yuma Tent DJ set by actor Idris Elba) spoke volumes about the anticipation and excitement surrounding Eilish’s appearance.


And any tardiness was immediately forgiven when Eilish bounded out in blue Björk buns and her signature XXL streetwear, moodily whisper-singing “Bad Guy” and “My Strange Addiction.” This was the first time both new tracks had ever been performed live, but the young, adoring, largely female audience of course knew and sang along to every word. Highlights of Eilish’s 13-song tour de force ranged from thrillingly over-the top (Eilish intoning “Bury a Friend” while striking an Exorcist pose on an iron bed suspended on chains in mid-air) to the stark but effective (a stool-seated “When the Party’s Over” against a backdrop of that song’s freaky, inky-crying music video; the hushed ballad that started it all, “Ocean Eyes”). 


Eilish’s critically acclaimed first full-length album, WHEN WE SLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, just went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and smashed chart records as the biggest debut of the decade for any new artist. And backstage at Coachella before her concert, she celebrated another milestone in the YouTube Artist Lounge, as she was presented with an award (and a Louis Vuitton-patterned cake) for hitting 10 million YouTube subscribers.


Warming up the Outdoor Stage for Eilish was gender-bending French art-pop provocateur Héloïse Letissier, a.k.a. Chris of Christine and the Queens. This magical performance was pure theater, reminiscent of an Emmy-winning Mia Michaels/Travis Wall routine from So You Think You Can Dance or David Byrne’s jaw-dropping performance on the same stage last year — and it was “weird and glorious and scary,” just like the self-described Chris herself. Chris joked that the last time she played Coachella, in 2016, she said she was “tiny, French, and angry — I’m still tiny, I’m still French, but I’m just horny now.” Chris’s daring performance in this “safe space” was indeed aggressively sexy (“I’d rather be the one desiring than waiting to be desired. … I’m grabbing it,” she explained), but it also featured a simple, near-a cappella cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes.”


While Eilish and Chris may be the future faces of pop, Saturday’s lineup was otherwise the only day of the weekend that bore any resemblance to the alternative-rock Coachellas of years past. Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala, who’d previously performed in 2013 and 2015, headlined the main stage amid a Sabbathy swirl of lysergic lighting effects.


Indie darlings like Ty Segall, Mac DeMarco, and attitudinal South London punks Shame performed, the latter inciting an old-school moshpit as rabblerousing, shirtless frontman Charlie Steen crowd-surfed.


Weezer, who played the second annual Coachella way back in 2001, showed up with special guests Tears for Fears and Chilli from TLC for the Teal Album covers “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and “No Scrubs.”

Canadian electronic duo Bob Moses paid tribute to 2002/2005 Coachella act the Prodigy’s late frontman, Keith Flint, with a faithful cover of “Breathe.” And rising R&B star Bazzi unexpectedly sang MGMT’s “Electric Feel” — referring to it as a “Coachella classic,” which surely must have made anyone who actually saw MGMT do that song at Coachella 2008 feel mighty old.



Coachella 2019 promises to offer a different sort of nostalgia on Sunday, as headliner Ariana Grande is rumored to be performing with members of *NSYNC.

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2019-04-14 10:39:00Z
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Watch Billie Eilish Bring Out Vince Staples at Coachella 2019 - Pitchfork

Bille Eilish performed yesterday at the opening night of Coachella 2019. Watch clips from Eilish’s set below. During “watch / &burn,” Eilish brought out Vince Staples, who rapped but no sound came out, presumably due to a faulty mic. “Im actually mute so there’s that. Cillie Eilish Coachella !!!” he tweeted later. Watch that and other clips from the set below. Find the full live stream schedule here.

Eilish released her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? earlier this year. She recently shared music videos for the LP’s singles “bury a friend” and “bad guy.” In 2017, Eilish dropped “&burn”—a collaborative track with Vince Staples.

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2019-04-14 09:56:15Z
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