N'Sync in Episode 2

[James Harvey]

That's right - N'Sync will be in episode 2. The upside? They get killed quickly and swiftly. Here's the article:

It's Jedi Justin!

N SYNC star JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and his boy band pals are to hit the big screen as Jedi knights in the new Star Wars movie. All five members of the group — Justin, LANCE BASS, JC CHASEZ, CHRIS KIRKPATRICK and JOEY FATONE — appear in a battle scene in Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. But unfortunately for fans they are all bumped off within seconds by savage androids.

The boys got involved because producer GEORGE LUCAS’s 13-year-old daughter Katie is a fan of the band and badgered her dad to give them a role. A film source said: “All of them play Jedi knights in an arena battle on a planet called Geonosis.

“They are only seen for half a second in the background getting blown up by droids. There is then a short, blurry shot of N Sync dying.

“It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene but getting all the lads involved in the movie should pull in N Sync fans.

“The lads are all interested in films and when George asked them to take part they leapt at the chance.”

Here's the whole article:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2001601540,00.html

WHat's that you hear? My respect for George Lucas dwindling....

[JustJack]

NOOO!!!
Oh well...at least they get slaughtered quickly. :rolleyes:

[The Guitar Slayer]

Can you say "publicity stunt"? Or how about "sellout"? Wait, we already used that one....

[Joe Tully]

I'm a bit skeptical about this. Maybe some of the U.K members can confirm, but I think that The Sun is a British tabloid, about as reliable as the Enquirer. Go to their home page and you can see what I'm talking about, with pictures of the print version on the side.

Hmm...Seeing N Sync getting blown up in Star Wars...Do I hate this idea or love it?

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by Joe Tully
I'm a bit skeptical about this. Maybe some of the U.K members can confirm, but I think that The Sun is a British tabloid, about as reliable as the Enquirer. Go to their home page and you can see what I'm talking about, with pictures of the print version on the side.

Hmm...Seeing N Sync getting blown up in Star Wars...Do I hate this idea or love it?

Unfortunatly I think it's true. Entertainment Weekly and Entertainment Tonight both reported on the rumor, sayin git's gonna go down.

Hopefully they'll be decapitated and dismembered quickly.

[HellCat]

TheForce.net also confirmed it. This stinks. What's next, Eminem on the Jedi Council?

[Bird Boy]

I'm happy about this...why? cuz I can finally see nysnc DIE....mahwhawhahwhahw

-BB

[HellCat]

Originally posted by Bird_Boy
I'm happy about this...why? cuz I can finally see nysnc DIE....mahwhawhahwhahw

-BB

Good point :D :D

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by Dick Grayson


Unfortunatly I think it's true. Entertainment Weekly and Entertainment Tonight both reported on the rumor, sayin git's gonna go down.

Hopefully they'll be decapitated and dismembered quickly.

Ugg...that does stink. I wonder if you'll even know that they're there if you're not looking for them? It said only a half-second in the background. If they really are there, I'm sure going to look to see them get blow'd up.

I can see that will be a big selling point for the DVD. You can zoom in and see them get blown up again and again and again... :D

[BWDK]

Maybe Britney Spears will also make a cameo as A Leia Slave 4 U. Star Wars sucks anyway so I don't really care :p As long as Nsync don't show up in Year One I can live with that.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

This reminds me of a funny picture I saw on a Star Wars fansite once. It was a screen capture from the movie Titanic, with Leonardo "Pretty Boy" DiCaprio walking across the deck. Someone put a cut-out picture of Darth Vader behind him, just about to slice him in two with a light saber.

The file name of the picture was "dontwewish.jpg" :D Hmm, maybe I can still find that thing somewhere...

[Jowy Blight]

Well there's a good thing and a bad thing.

Good thing:
N'Sync is killed, I hope it's a brutal death for each one of them. Yeah, I know I'm blood-thirsty. :D

Bad thing:
I've lost ALOT of respect for Lucas by this. N'Sync or any other pop singers and groups, have no place in Star Wars, EVER.

[joker]

i have to agree with every one else here in that ive lost a lot of respect of lucas since hes doing this. i dont even think its worth it to see the beeing blown up. i knew his kids had a lot to do with the writing of the scripts, but i didnt think it was going to be this bad.

[Fantasie117]

unfortunately for fans they are all bumped off within seconds by savage androids.

Don't they mean fortunately?

Seeing them blown to bits is good. Having them there in the first place is not. *sighs*

[HellCat]

I think we now know why Anakin turned to the dark side...

[Evil Dr. Reef]

Why is everyone [explentive deleted] about this? Guys, this is what we've been waiting for for almost 4 four years!!! The violent death of N'Sync! I'd pay $8.50 just to see that!

[The Mad Hatter]

Eh, as long as they're in the background and don't gratuitously get pointed out, that's fine by me.

But what shocks me is that a British tabloid actually got something right!! :eek:

[Naraht]

Originally posted by Evil Dr. Reef
Why is everyone [explentive deleted] about this? Guys, this is what we've been waiting for for almost 4 four years!!! The violent death of N'Sync! I'd pay $8.50 just to see that!

Well..I like seeing pop icons killed as much as the next guy, but I also like my sci-fi....and don't like to mix the two.

It's like pizza & ice cream...good by themselves...lousy together..

[Failure]

I dont care whether n sync dies in 2 seconds or not, any self-respeccting filmmaker would not put them in their movie. So how many more reasons do you think we'll need before it becomes obvious that Ep2 will be a total and complete clunker.

(Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but like many have said I've lost a little bit of respect for Lucas. Now if they start publicizing this as a reason to see the movie I'm quitting on SW)

[Bird Boy]

think about it guys..they're extra's.....heck, if nobody said anything, I doubt we'd know they were even in there!

Plus, it might not have been Lucas's whole deal. McCallum might have been in charge of casting extras...

-BB

[Karkull]

Originally posted by Evil Dr. Reef
Why is everyone [explentive deleted] about this? Guys, this is what we've been waiting for for almost 4 four years!!! The violent death of N'Sync! I'd pay $8.50 just to see that!

Yeah! It's like an added bonus.

[Calhoun07]

Why this blantant publicity stunt? There was a time Star Wars worked on it's own, using then unknow actors at first and not pandering to publicity stunts. This is just wrong.

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by naraht


It's like pizza & ice cream...good by themselves...lousy together..

*Joe remembers a certain pizza & ice cream post from the "Weirdest Food" thread*

:o :D

Anyways, like Hatter, I think we probably won't be aware of N Sync's presence until the exact scene is pointed out, probably on the internet shortly after the premiere. I think that Lucas at least has the taste to hide them in the background.

[Kylewayne]

Just hope they don't sing guys :D

[Nightflower]

That's just disgusting.

[Trent Lane]

Good and bad, it won't affect the fact that I'm still seeing it first show opening day. Besdies, maybe it's a sign, N*Sync gets blown up, their careers all fall waaaaaaaaaay off, and we never see them again... I can only hope.... :rolleyes:

[Elven Moon]

It just doesn't seem right that they should put a pop group into this movie. Doesn't Lucas want to keep these timeless? As in, it could be made and yet still enjoyed 25, 50 years later, since it makes no reference to the specific time frame it was made, like the first Star Wars movies? It's just a big mistake to me, and just a big publicity stunt to promote the band. For SHAME, George Lucas :rolleyes: Will Janet Jackson be in the next movie then? How about O-Town?

[joker]

as long as n sync is pretty much unnoticeable i think the movie will be fine. ive seen the previews and the movie looks pretty good for what they show. so i think all and all this is just one submicroscopic bad thing added to a movie that will be very good. lucas just needs to get his act together.

[The Guard]

If we can get to Lucas's daughter...maybe we can get her to make him do an Amidala strip scene...

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Elven Moon
Doesn't Lucas want to keep these timeless? As in, it could be made and yet still enjoyed 25, 50 years later, since it makes no reference to the specific time frame it was made, like the first Star Wars movies?

Well, there were those hair-dos.....

[oranthal]

if they really are in the movie and people actually get to noticed them and then they die, how much you wanna bet that the majority of the audience will cheer a applaud at the boy band's death?

[Calhoun07]

I still hate it. I hate it as much as when the rumors were flying around that Leonardo DiCaprio would be Anakin Skywalker. Even if they die, and people notice, it's just going to throw whatever scene they are in as people focus on them.

[The Guard]

Going by things I've heard, I'd say it's safe to say that NSYNC will

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be in a LARGE crowd of Jedi that is slaughtered in Episode II.

[The Dork Knight]

Guys, guys! If you want to see pop stars killed in violent ways, then watch Celebrity Deathmatch!

Lucas, you are the biggest sellout ever.... Great, NSTINK in a Star Wars movie. Oh well, at least they get killed... I hope....

- Foley Is Good

[The Mad Hatter]

That's true, from what I've heard they'll be barely visible for less than a second as they get slaughtered in the background. So it doesn't really register with me.

[Evil Dr. Reef]

I'll be watching for it.

[Maxie Zeus]

So what if they're killed quickly, in the background. Lucas is putting them in as Jedi Knights; in other words, he's flattering them. Now, if they were chattel in a slave market and got mowed down by Boba Fett, that would be cool. But now they get to portray martyrs.

:mad:

[Bird Boy]

the latest:



Star Wars fans have been reeling at rumors that the members of *NSYNC will make an appearance in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, so LAUNCH sought to separate fact from fiction. A call to Lucasfilm spokesperson Lynne Hale confirmed the following: Yes, the members of the aging boy band were shot in the background of a scene in Episode II, but no, it wasn't at the behest of George Lucas's daughter, allegedly a big *NSYNC (news - web sites) fan. Hale laughed at the latter detail, a story that has been widely reported as fact.

Truth is, Lucas himself had little or nothing to do with the already controversial cameo, explained Hale. She says it was producer Rick McCallum who invited the *NSYNC gang to the set after they explained what big Star Wars fans they are. Their contribution to the Star Wars universe--and the resulting uproar over it--might all be for naught, however, since Hale explained that the *NSYNC scene might be edited out the final version of the film. If Star Wars fan reaction is any indication, Lucas better get cutting.


For more..click here (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lc/20020103/en/_nsync_might_appear_in_star_wars_episode_ii__1.html)

I knew it wasn't lucas's fault.. :)

-BB

[Failure]

Originally posted by Bird_Boy
the latest:



For more..click here (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lc/20020103/en/_nsync_might_appear_in_star_wars_episode_ii__1.html)

I knew it wasn't lucas's fault.. :)

-BB

Cut! Cut! Cut! Best news I've heard since this thread went up. :D

[Lodoss War Fan]

I just lost my respect to george lucas :(
on the bright side they do get blowned up :)

[Jowy Blight]

Hmmm, if it's not Lucas falt, then I'm not as mad as I was about this before, but it would be best that they were cut out of the film. I don't care if I don't see them, they shouldn't be there PERIOD.

[James Harvey]

Well - it's good to know that Lucas isn't the spear head behind this - but Rick? Gah! Anything for attention! I can already see the N'SYNC-themed promos for this movie...ugh...

[Calhoun07]

I just hope Lucas removes the footage and beats Rick with a ten foot pole.

[Frozen]

Joe Tully wrote:
Maybe some of the U.K members can confirm, but I think that The Sun is a British tabloid, about as reliable as the Enquirer.

I'm not sure if they are as bad as the Enquirer, but the Sun doesn't have a glowing reputation for reliable news over here in the UK...

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Put me in here as a person who heard they'd get blown up as well. And frankly, I say...

YYYEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!! :D

Seriously, I was dissapointed by this news. Star Wars bowing down to pop culture was something I never thought I'd see...when this thing is rerealesed 20 years from now, that cameo is going to be WORTHLESS. Oh well. At least they'll be killed. As Dr. Evil Reef said, THAT'S worth it for the price alone. :)

[Frozen]

Lucas not a victim of pop culture? Now there's a laugh... Take a look at all the Episode 1 junk that sprang up at Pizza Hut etc and then tell me he isn't crippled by it...

As for a rumour to REALLY make you cringe, what about the beauty I heard that Episode 2 features a love song by none other than Celine Dion...

[Nightflower]

Great news! But just a query:

Yes, the members of the aging boy band were shot in the background of a scene in Episode II...
Aging boy band? :D

[Bird Boy]

Originally posted by Frozen
Lucas not a victim of pop culture? Now there's a laugh... Take a look at all the Episode 1 junk that sprang up at Pizza Hut etc and then tell me he isn't crippled by it...

As for a rumour to REALLY make you cringe, what about the beauty I heard that Episode 2 features a love song by none other than Celine Dion...

I about spewed the food I was chewing when I heard about that celine dion thing...but...thankfully, the rumor was debunked...she's NOT doing a song.. :)

-BB

[Frozen]

Thank The Lord - so there is a God after all!!!

[Majin Vegeta]

That's cheap, using pop singers getting blowed up to draw fans... Yes, Lucas is definitely a victim of pop culture.

[James Harvey]

Star Wars is the last franchise I'd expect to see any pop culture stuff put in. It just seems to out of place, ya know? The movies have no way to connect to our current culture (bad boy bands, movie spoofs, etc...) and it seems out of place. Thakfull y- NSYNC'll be dead before I realize they're there in the scene.

[Kathy Kane]

I 'll I can say is yuck!
I had faith in Lucas once for the Esp. 1, but after reading the Ain't Cool News, comments about the stiff acting between Ankin and Amadala, among other problems I've heard of, I may not see Esp. 2 on the first screening.

I think I've found my salvation with Lord of the Rings, and the X-Men movies coming out in 02.
Forget Star Wars, I want my Frodo!

[zero zero nine]

does anyone know when they'll do the casting for Episode 3? Because if NSYNC or whatever can be Jedi Knights, then I want to too! At least bring in people that can FIGHT! Jedi Knights are supposed to be the best of the best... and THESE fools get killed in FIVE seconds?

ARGH.

[Majin Vegeta]

Maybe this is one of those funny things they add on purpose to movies. Maybe they won't ever do this again.

[The Dork Knight]

Originally posted by Majin Vegeta
Maybe this is one of those funny things they add on purpose to movies. Maybe they won't ever do this again.

Let's hope so. :D

- Foley Is Good

[Calhoun07]

Something occured to me: Lucas and his creative team have always hidden things away in the Star Wars movies that are better reserved for those freeze frame moments, such as Harrison Ford's ship from Blade Runner and ET and such. Well, they are throwing members of a band we universeally hate now. Ok, well, he has done stuff like that before, of course I don't think with a current boy band or such, but he is known for this. So what if like all the other things he had hid in his movies, this one went unheard of until AFTER you all saw Attack of the Clones then somebody said, "Hey, if you stop the movie at such and such a time sequence, you will see N Synch!" Would it ruin the movie for you at that point?

[Majin Vegeta]

Nope.

[Clayface]

I don't see why the fan-boys have their panties all up in a bunch over this. Get over it people. N'Sync wasn't chosen as extras because they were a boy-band. They were chosen because they have a genuine interest in Star Wars. Just in case you didn't know, many, many of the actors in the Star Wars movies were chosen in this exact same way (Samuel L. Jackson, anyone?).

And, on top of it, they don't even have starring roles - they're friggin extras, people! Extras!

[The Mad Hatter]

Good point. There have been plenty of things hidden in the Star Wars flicks (remember the ET race in Episode One?) that have done nothing to ruin the movies. If the boy banders were spotlighted, attempted to do some lame fighting moves, and had a few bad lines, then yes, I would say that would be crossing the line. But instead, they'll be hidden in the background and splattered in less than a second. Nothing is interrupted.

Honestly, it's become popular to automatically bash the new Star Wars flicks nowadays. I say, watch the movies, THEN bash (and this is coming from someone who hates Jar-Jar almost as much as everyone else).

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Clayface
N'Sync wasn't chosen as extras because they were a boy-band. They were chosen because they have a genuine interest in Star Wars.


Well, I have a genuine interest in Star Wars, so how come I didn't get picked to be an extra? :p

Seriously, it's that string-pulling aspect that annoys me. I don't mind Samuel L. Jackson being in Star Wars, because he's a genuinely good actor--whether he wanted to be in it or not, he fits. A boy band like this doesn't. And they didn't get it just because they're fans, but because they're N'Sync.

Anyway, that's my reason for ranting. You can take it for what it's worth. ;)

[Nightflower]

Originally posted by Maxie Zeus


Well, I have a genuine interest in Star Wars, so how come I didn't get picked to be an extra? :p

Seriously, it's that string-pulling aspect that annoys me. I don't mind Samuel L. Jackson being in Star Wars, because he's a genuinely good actor--whether he wanted to be in it or not, he fits. A boy band like this doesn't. And they didn't get it just because they're fans, but because they're N'Sync.

Anyway, that's my reason for ranting. You can take it for what it's worth. ;)

Hear, hear, Maxie!

[Clayface]

Originally posted by Maxie Zeus

Seriously, it's that string-pulling aspect that annoys me.



Umm, that's just Hollywood. To have a fit about Lucas or Rick doing it, you've gotta have a fit about all of Hollywood. Nothing new there.




I don't mind Samuel L. Jackson being in Star Wars, because he's a genuinely good actor--whether he wanted to be in it or not, he fits.



But he wouldn't have gotten the role if he hadn't gone on TV and told everyone he could that he wanted a role in the film and that he was a big fan - he wasn't originally in the running for the role until he did that. It was his butt-kissing that got him the role, just like with N'Sync.




A boy band like this doesn't. And they didn't get it just because they're fans, but because they're N'Sync.



No, they got i because they're famous and they kissed butt - much like many other people that have appeared in the Star Wars films - again, nothing new there.

[Calhoun07]

well, 99.99999% of roles in hollywood are given because of butt kissing....uh, I mean because of politics. It's the nature of the world.

[James Harvey]

This isn't the first and won't be last time that a star got into a movie becuase he asked or kissed up. Men In Black 2 is in the exact same situation with Micheal Jackson (easy joke - I know!). He pleaded for a cameo in the movie and got it. Rumor has it it'll be a breif cameo in the MB headquarters as either an agent or an alien.

[Apache Chief]

These Star Wars films are supposed to be timeless. Yeah, I know, the bad hair in the original trilogy really dates it, but those three films will last forever. N'Suck will eventually go the way of New Kids on the Block, and their presence in the film cheapens the whole thing. It doesn't matter that they're only in it for a second and then they die. It's the principle. I never though things could get worse than Jar Jar, I really did not, yet here we are.

[Apache Chief]

Wait - wait - I just figured out the title! It has nothing to do with a bunch of baby Fetts. It's the boy band clones that are attacking!

[SonGoku V3]

Originally posted by Dick Grayson
This isn't the first and won't be last time that a star got into a movie becuase he asked or kissed up. Men In Black 2 is in the exact same situation with Micheal Jackson (easy joke - I know!). He pleaded for a cameo in the movie and got it. Rumor has it it'll be a breif cameo in the MB headquarters as either an agent or an alien.

WHAT?!?!? I heard Michael Jackson is in MIB2 because Sony(his record company) had him doing songs for the Soundtrack anyway, so they decided to put him in for a cameo just so MJ can get a little promotion in this year. The last thing Michael Jackson will do is plead for something :yawn:

[Clayface]

Originally posted by Apache Chief
These Star Wars films are supposed to be timeless. Yeah, I know, the bad hair in the original trilogy really dates it, but those three films will last forever. N'Suck will eventually go the way of New Kids on the Block, and their presence in the film cheapens the whole thing.

How exactly does the presence of N'Sync make the film not timeless? As you said, several years from now no one's going to know who they are. And they're just going to be another set of extras in the background. Doesn't seem to date the film to me at all. Its not like they'l be focused on in the film, or get some big billing on the movie poster, or contribute a song to the score or something. Putting them in the film doesn't date the film in any way shape or form.

[Fantasie117]

Originally posted by Dick Grayson
[Michael Jackson] pleaded for a cameo in the movie and got it. Rumor has it it'll be a brief cameo in the MiB headquarters as either an agent or an alien.

Alien. Definitely alien.

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by LilSonGoku


WHAT?!?!? I heard Michael Jackson is in MIB2 because Sony(his record company) had him doing songs for the Soundtrack anyway, so they decided to put him in for a cameo just so MJ can get a little promotion in this year. The last thing Michael Jackson will do is plead for something :yawn:

Hmmm...I also reead that he's still unsure if he wants to do a song for the movie - which would really be a nobrainer. It would help the sales of his album, which are just over 1 million, I think. I really think he'll be an alien - maybe one of those that has those little aliens inside of his head..ya know...?

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Clayface


Umm, that's just Hollywood. To have a fit about Lucas or Rick doing it, you've gotta have a fit about all of Hollywood. Nothing new there.

But he wouldn't have gotten the role if he hadn't gone on TV and told everyone he could that he wanted a role in the film and that he was a big fan - he wasn't originally in the running for the role until he did that. It was his butt-kissing that got him the role, just like with N'Sync.
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Well, the polite word is "politicking," and yes it goes back to the days of "Birth of a Nation." Samuel L. Jackson angling for a part in TPM is no different from Bette Davis lobbying for the part of Scarlett in "Gone With the Wind." My point is that Jackson and most of the others who similarly lobby for these roles do so not only because they are fans of the material, but because (a) they think they would work well in the part and (b) they are good actors who would fit in well.

Here is what I would not have a problem with: Suppose one of the N'Sync guys decided he wanted an acting career, and thought he was good enough to appear in AOTC, and lobbied Lucas for a part. Granted, once news of this broke we would all have a good hard laugh at his expense, and pray to God that Lucas would say no. But if Lucas actually put him in, I for one would blink and wonder, "Maybe this guy has some quality Lucas sees that would make him right for the film." After all, Mark Wahlberg (is that him?) had a start not so different from the N'Sync boys and has gone on to do some great stuff in film.

But this appearance is just an in-joke. It's like N'Sync saying, "Could you smuggle one of our song titles into the dialogue, or name some of the bounty hunters after us." It's just trafficking to their vanity. In jokes like this are great in comedies (like the Paul Dini cameo in J&SBSB), but in an allegedly serious work they strike the wrong note.

I mean, if it doesn't bother you, that's great. And I don't think it will ruin the movie. I just despise N'Sync and the other boy bands, and loathe seeing them stick their fingers in any old pie they want.

[The Mad Hatter]

I hate N'Sync too, and I hate that they still have the pull to get themselves in there, but I'm just glad that their cameo will be "hidden," and won't detract from the movie in any way. Just imagine if they showed up in a cantina and started singing about the pains of being a Jedi... ech!