Darth Cracker

An attendee tweeted that they were playing Yub Nub prior to the panel.

Good luck everyone!

I was thinking of that quotation that’s always being misattributed to Einstein:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

I feel increasingly insane allowing myself to get excited about the same OT rumor year after year.

It’ll never happen!

Empire
Star Wars
ROTJ
TFA
R1
LEGO STAR WARS SPIN OFFS 😃
ROTS
TPM
AOTC

I wish someone could just ask Gareth Edwards, directly & on the record, which damn version of SW he saw in this 4K “restoration print”. Seems every time there’s an anniversary we all get our hopes up and then… (insert Vader-esque “Nooooooooooo!!!” here)

arctofire said:

I want to know what you guys think.

No. It’ll never happen.

Hmmm… still no clearer which versions?

[BFI said:]

Fans of George Lucas’s cinematic classics will be offered the chance to be the first to see the remastered, original Star Wars films under the stars on a giant screen with state of the art sound and visuals, set against the incredible backdrops of Hampton Court Palace and Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. Launching on the 3 August at Hampton Court, the iconic films will be screened in order, one per evening for three nights, followed on Saturday 6 August by a special family day, giving younger fans the chance to take part in special Jedi master classes. Under the watchful eye of the Jedi Master and a Jedi Knight, young Padawans will don Jedi robes, learn the ways of the Force and discover how to master a lightsaber, before a screening of Star Wars: A New Hope.

http://www.thelunacinema.com/sci-fi/4592658751?utm_content=buffer54eec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer
They list the OT release years as '77, '80 & '83 but i bet these will be the '04 versions.

GlastoEls said:

Darth Cracker said:

Kinda disappointing that there was no #Chewscript post on May 4th.

I’m wondering now if that ‘special announcement’ thing is just “i’m playing Chewie in the Han Solo movie”?

Which to fair to Peter, actually is a big announcement for him and the character…

That is a fair point 😃

Nice to see all the Wookiee love on his birthday - and a case o’ Skywalker Wine:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/733334038660816896/photo/1

No further #Chewscript tweets as yet though…

Bit of a sensationalist headline, but “this movie is not testing well” (according to the unnamed MausHaus spokesperson)

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/post/145200529566/is-the-new-star-wars-movie-rogue-one-in-trouble

(no plot spoilers a.t.o.p.)

Kinda disappointing that there was no #Chewscript post on May 4th.

I’m wondering now if that ‘special announcement’ thing is just “i’m playing Chewie in the Han Solo movie”?

Nice tweet about the 1138 line:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/711398940130680833/photo/1

And it seems Carrie Fisher’s illustrious script editing career got started in the 70s:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/712009825715142656/photo/1

Nice detective work. I’m thinking Mayhew’s on both Episode VIII - and maybe a new documentary to tie-in with the '77 anniversary? I dunno why but his use of “special assignment” on his site suggests that to me. In my wildest dreams, such a documentary is purpose-built for an official OUT release…

http://comicbook.com/2016/02/18/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-tweeting-his-original-star-wars-scr/

Big announcement to follow his Tweet of the final pages…

His retirement from SW?

Release of the OUT?

i have no words for these latest developments.

sorry.

i meant to say i have noooooooooooooooooooo words for these latest developments.

made the front page of Yahoo UK today too (apologies if already posted)

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/31082011/35/pain-star-wars-fans-0.html

liked the FB page & shared with my friends, some of whom signed up also. one commented "why not just release the originals in a cleaned up transfer? they'd sell more copies!" - truer words ne'er spoken.

Brilliant to read Spielberg's comments, thanks for posting the link/extract.

Just in case you guys didn't see it already, He Who Shot First also took a pop at CG in movies this week...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8546869/Harrison-Ford-criticises-soulless-action-films.html

Tootsie aside, Star Wars is kind of dead to me nowadays. I mean, I'm interested in what the fan archivists/restorers are up to (which keeps me coming back to this forum) but when i visited the official maythe4th website i just closed the window, didn't even wait for the video to load. I'm sick of LFL's self-aggrandizing bullshit, which results in this:

...over this:

PRIORITIES?

To paraphrase an earlier post, it's not about the films anymore, it's just bu$ine$$ (and i guess has been that way for quite some time).

But there is a bright side, all those dollar$ i would've spent on the Blu-rays? They'll buy a helluva lot of mosquito nets for people in REAL need.

Laters.

:-)) !!!!

the Yahoo! UK homepage, tonight:

One fan tweeted "wait...so the big Star Wars announcement was that its coming out on Blu Ray? That was announced in January. @StarWars you have failed me", another said " 'Again, us loyal fans have been cheated with another release of digitally "enhanced" nonsense. Boycott this item and demand the original theatrical versions on Blu-Ray!!'"

 

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/174464/fans-backlash-at-star-wars-flop.html

Star Wars is officially up shit creek without a paddle.

Will stick with my GOUT dvds (still haven't bothered going blu ray at Cracker Towers, although an O-OT release woulda swung it!)

So long George. It's been.........................really infuriating.

Darth Hade said:

Back in the very early days of prequel hype, I subscribed to the Homing Beacon that was/is sent out by the official site: starwars.com

Subscribing to the Homing Beacon seemed to always get one e-mail updates to all things Star Wars. I didn't have a Homing Beacon in my inbox today, but I did have this...

 

i got that too. smiled nostalgically for a few moments. then remembered LFL is again using iconic OOT imagery to hawk yet another boxset that won't contain the OOT. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

may the BARF! be with you. and with you, alway$.

hey, i've read it before, i know he asked her back (to work in the editing suite, oh George you old romantic, you!)

i was just using "come back, all is forgiven" as a turn of phrase to illustrate how much i would've liked her to return & potentially save the SW franchise...... not as a direct comment on Lucas' personal life ;-)

skyjedi2005 said:

Anyone going to bother seeing episode I in 3D ?

Will the 3-D glasses be brown?

Cos that movie is s***. It opens with 2 Jedi Knights having a cup of tea, a sit-down and a chat for Chrissakes!

So, no. In my case it's definitely not. No more $ for George.

http://blastr.com/2011/03/3-ways-george-lucas-wife.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Great article! Come back Mrs Lucas-the-former, all is forgiven!

Mod Edit: a working link to the above article can be found here:-

https://web.archive.org/web/20130219111531/http://blastr.com:80/2011/03/3-ways-george-lucas-wife.php

4th March 2021 Edit: Also of interest…

In Tribute to Marcia Lucas - an article up on the ‘A Secret History of Star Wars’ website, by zombie84

The ‘secret weapon’ behind Star Wars - 2015 article at News•com/au

The secret weapon of ‘Star Wars’ was George Lucas’s ex-wife Marcia - 2021 article at SFGate

How Star Wars was saved in the edit - an 18 minute RocketJump youtube video exploring how Star Wars’ editors recut and rearranged Star Wars (1977) to create the cinematic classic it became.