Showing posts with label CANTO BIGHT PATRONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CANTO BIGHT PATRONS. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

EPISODE VIII: HIGH STAKES OPULENCE!


The wealthy elite of the galaxy- criminals in luxury clothes - gather at the Canto Bight casino, determined to have a great time at everybody else's expense and misery, in this image of alien/human diversity from The Last Jedi, out now on Blu-ray and DVD.


A best seller in hardback last year, the popular short story collection Canto Bight, featuring contributions from four acclaimed Star Wars novelists, now arrives in UK paperback from Arrow, bearing an all-new colourful cover now including the popular Fathier racing beasts.

More info on the book here:

Get Canto Bight here:

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

EPISODE VIII: WINNING STREAKS!


Distracted and awed by all the glitz, glamour and opulent wealth seemingly on tap within the Canto Bight casino on Cantonica, Finn will soon be introduced by Rose to the harsh reality behind the decadent facade, in this great image from The Last Jedi.

John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran voice their characters for the latest Forces of Destiny animated short, this one linked to their journey to Canto Bight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3pkOFym6sY

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

EPISODE VIII: SPOT THE SCANLAN!


A happy Neal Scanlan, UK Creature and Special Make-ups Effects Creative Supervisor for The Last Jedi, enjoys the people and alien patrons of the Canto Bight casino (200 of which were created and costumed in all by Michael Kaplan), as seen in this fun image taken for VANITY FAIR's preview of the film from mid-2017, by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Lens legend Annie Leibovitz directs the Canto Bight shoot for VANITY FAIR.

Mark Hamill makes a fun vocal cameo as a CGI alien with slot-machine interests in BB-8.

Find out more about the film's cameos and Easter Eggs here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09c0MXDxto

Don't forget, The Last Jedi spin-off short story book Canto Bight is still available in hardback worldwide, and in the UK from Century Publishing.


Get it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canto-Bight-Star-Ahmed-Saladin/dp/0525480366/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516032911&sr=1-1&keywords=star+wars+canto+bight

Thursday, 4 January 2018

EPISODE VIII: A SPEEDY SECRET MISSION!

A successful search for our heroes at Canto Bight?

Though the sequence set within the casino city of Canto Bight bugged many critics and divided fandom as to whether or not it actually was a needless plot element within the middle of The Last Jedi, it did at least bring together in a satisfying way our former runaway (soon turned hero proper) Finn with an unlikely new ally in Resistance technician Rose Tico, played with likeable vulnerability and ultimately gutsy heart by Kelly Marie Tran. In a film already crowded with main and supporting characters, newcomer Miss Tran managed to hold her own effectively on the big screen.


It will be interesting to see where Finn and Rose's relationship goes next with EPISODE IX, especially after the physically and emotionally devastating events suffered during the Battle of Crait.

Rose and Finn look beneath the glitz and glamour of Canto Bight...

For those who did love the casino scenes and the diverse aliens of Canto Bight, don't forget that the previously sold out CENTURY UK hardback novel of short stories linked to that environment is back in stock online:


Get it here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canto-Bight-Star-Wars-Journey/dp/1780898576/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515097357&sr=1-1&keywords=canto+bight


Tuesday, 5 December 2017

EPISODE VIII: GREED IS GOOD!

Image: Lucasfilm/Topps.

One of the weird and wacky alien gamblers of the super-rich intergalactic elite frequenting the out-there, and out there, Canto Bight casino envisioned by writer/director Rian Johnson, for one of the many highlight sequences of The Last Jedi.

See a little bit more footage of the environment in the recently released Chinese trailer for The Last Jedi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLIvp8JIWNE


The ambitious Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi's book programming release schedule is almost at an end with the release of Canto Bight, the new short story collusion hardback from CENTURY that gives us a sneak-peek of what to expect from the gambling resort complex in the eagerly-awaited film, as well as a look at some of its many quirky background characters, out now in the UK.

Here's the publishing blurb:

Soon to be seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. A place where exotic aliens, captivating creatures, and other would-be high rollers are willing to risk everything to make their fortunes. Set across one fateful evening, these four original novellas explore the deception and danger of the lavish casino city.

An honest salesman meets a career criminal as a dream vacation turns into the worst nightmare imaginable in a story by Saladin Ahmed.

Dreams and schemes collide when a deal over a priceless bottle of wine becomes a struggle for survival as told by Mira Grant.

Old habits die hard when a servant is forced into the mad struggle for power among Canto Bight’s elite in a tale by Rae Carson.

A deadbeat gambler has one last chance to turn his luck around, all he has to do is survive one wild night as told by John Jackson Miller.

In Canto Bight, one is free to revel in excess, untouched from the problems of a galaxy once again descending into chaos and war. Dreams can become reality, but the stakes have never been higher―for there is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury.



Get Canto Bight here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canto-Bight-Star-Wars-Journey/dp/1780898576/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512486454&sr=1-1&keywords=canto+bight

Friday, 20 October 2017

EPISODE VIII: 'SCUM AND VILLAINY' - GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL!


We're used to seeing low life scum in the STAR WARS universe - bounty hunters, informants, killers and thieves of the Outer Rim, now The Last Jedi shows us a different but no less memorable side of villainy at the lush and decadent Canto Bight casino on Canto, bringing in a diverse and powerful variety of all-new corrupt evildom, whose distinguished clothes and wealth-on-tap peoples and patrons can't hide their true, petty, greedy veneers, and status as collaborators to anyone who'll widen their bank accounts, be it Resistance or First Order.

http://www.starwars.com/news/check-out-the-cover-and-new-details-of-journey-to-star-wars-the-last-jedi-canto-bight