WOW !

Fantastic footage.

adywan said:

Some footage shown at CE2 that will be in the digital edition of the making of book. We finally get to see the deleted scene of Luke jumping up to the floor grille during the Rancor scene in ROTJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9m2TTmGa8

 This has now been taken off youtube.

SilverWook said:

Was that a gorilla suit in the rough cut?

 It looked like the 1976 King Kong spliced into the scene.

TK-949 said:

 

adywan said:

Another goodie from the CE2 panel. "YUB NUB" with the English lyrics. Just listen to those cheers when a certain Sebastian Shaw appears :) Let's just hope Disney was listening....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShn_zxm4lY

I was a little embarrassed to be the one who started the cheering.

 

Then good on you, Sir!

SilverWook said:

More pics.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20647938_20695713,00.html?hpt=hp_t3

Bit of a tangent, but that link led me here: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20647938_20361457,00.html?stitched#20770650

It's a similar collection of pictures for the Empire book, but what's interesting is the specific picture. It's a picture of Irvin Kirshner's copy of an early version of the script, and what stuck out to me was the line where Yoda says "the tree, remember your failure at the tree." In the final movie, that line had the word "cave" instead of tree.

You're probably wondering what's so interesting about this, and here's the answer: there's a note in the annotated Heir to the Empire where Timothy Zahn talks about why he described the cave as having a tree growing out of the top of it. He says it was because the track on the soundtrack album used in that scene was "The Magic Tree," and he wanted to gracefully solve a discrepancy that had bugged him growing up listening to the album over and over again. Looks like we now finally have the real answer, which is that the title of the song is a holdover from an earlier version of the script.

This stuff is brilliant!

Here's the Rancor scene again for all those who missed it (like me) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgl0YP4UIU4

Reminder: the book comes out on Tuesday.

The digital editions with all the deleted footage come out on the 22nd

imperialscum said:

I think I ll wait for digital version. It is much more convenient for me. And if there is really more material in digital edition than in printed book, another reason more to buy digital.

Think it's hard to say, this kind of thing seems pretty new (a coffee table book with video on a flat little computer, very Jetsons) but this will be a good test case. I was excited to run out and get the book on Tuesday but I just remembered every book store near me has gone under recently.

I've had the book on pre-order from Amazon UK. They say I will receive it at the end of the week. These giant books are the way to go for me. I'll just have to hope that I see the digital footage somewhere, somehow.

OK again a dumb question - what exactly will this digital release be? What format? Some Kindle file? Or a CD/DVD? Or a downloadable thing or what? I feel like an idiot but I can't find the info anywhere :-(

Yay, my book arrived today! And in spite of Amazon.de claiming a shipping date of October 10th. YES! :)