DominicCobb said:
If this entire movie is full of McQuarrie designs I'm going to shit myself.
....dream come true
J
Yes indeed, they really know how to tease :)
The new X wing is a beauty,.......cant wait for the kit to come out
J
I agree with Anchorhead, I think Star Wars is in sane hands now & I'm very optimistic we'll get what we want
Going off topic slightly, here is a quote from a former LFL employee, Jeff
I coppied it from a SciFi modelling site, you need to join up to see the thread:
http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=112066&start=30
I worked for Lucas Digtal Arts in the 90's I worked at Skywalker Sound South. So not the video game world, but the film world. I worked mainly on the Foley stage. I was just a PA but in that sense I was a fly on the wall at the place. It was cool and crazy all at the same time. I can tell you from experience that George Lucas's management style sucks. The people he hires as managers even if they are competent get hamstrung and end up being hated by the staff.
The orighanl SkyWalker South was a beautiful building. It had three mixing stages. Which were huge rooms the size of large move theaters. With a full size movie screen and a large mixing board in the center. A small TV mixing stage, a Foley stage, and a ADR stage. Two beautiful fair sized screening rooms. A room for ILM that was set up to be a LA based video conference room with its own server, and a large vidio screen so that people based in LA could have meetings with the Northern California based ILM. Add to this a separate but older building that alos had a mixing stage and folly stage of its own with a small cafe and editing facilities. it was a one stop movie sound facility, with extras. It had hired some of the best talent in the industry to staff the working parts of the stages. The sound mixing teams routinely were nominated for, and won Acadamy awards. it was in many ways a movie sound dream team. Many great films came through those stages, and I got to meet so many directors and actors that I really admired while working there.
Now all that being said, over time the people who worked there wanted raises They were doing great work the facilty was always booked solid as I said the work that was being done that was routinely nomated for awards. At the time it was one of the only parts of Lucas digtal arts making really good money. The people liked working there for the most part. but they were being offered more money to go to other studios and they wanted to stay at Skywalker so they were asking for more money to stay and sometimes not a lot more just a little more.
So a big meeting was held that George came down to. He stood in front of all the asembled employees of the money making part of his company. He procedd to tell all of these people he could care less about them. He said he only really cared about the part of the company that was based up North. He told them that the only reason they existed was to keep Skywalker North going. That was more or less it, he left. He left behind a demoralized staff. Shortly after the exodus started. When another studo came to head hunt the offers were accepted and the talent left for greener pastures. Quite a few went to Sony including those of us who worked on the Foly stage.
George may be a lot of things but a perople person he is not, and that is one of the main problms with him. If it were not for the toy money his empire would not exist. A few years down the line Skywaker South was sold off. A sad end to a part of his company he should have been proud of.
J
Harmy said:
Well, over-all, I'd say it's good news, because the existing 2004 master was horrible, so even if it was the altered version, which we've now confirmed it almost certainly is, it's still good that there is a new better master. On the other hand, the fact, that they seem to have decided to restore/remaster the altered version doesn't exactly bode well for an official OOT restoration.
I think it does seem pretty likely, that this "restoration" was done in 2012 for the planned 3D release, for which the 2004 1080p master didn't cut it any more, so they hired these guys to do the 2004/2011 version over from new 4K scans.
Yeah, I agree that it all stems from the preparation for the 3D version, & I'm happy that theres a superior clean version in the vaults
What theyre gonna do with it is the question though
J
imperialscum said:
Tobar said:
I have no problem with Jedi in the Dark Times era. What I take issue with is that it's supposed to be Vader's job to hunt down and destroy the Jedi. Not these dark suited weirdos.
Exactly. I hate these stupid force-sensitive enforcers (Starkiller, this Inquisitor). Why the hell can't they just make a series or a video game about Vader hunting down the Jedi?
Yeah, I'd prefer to see some of this:
In fact I'd preferred to see some of this by Ep3
J
Good luck on your mission
J
Adium said:
I shouldn't get my hopes up, but... is it happening? Finally?
If this does actually happen, Disney is going to charge out the ass for this, no doubt. I'm pretty sure they put out a Toy Story trilogy on Blu Ray for $100 a few years back.
The first ever Blu Ray release of the theatrical Star Wars trilogy? Probably the most highly demanded Blu Ray release of all time? I'd expect $150 - $200 for all three films, at least. Should be a fantastic set, at least. Disney does a great job with these kinds of things.
A release leading up to Episode VII would be amazing.
I bought the SE trilogy on Laserdisc box set at the time around 98 for £120....uk version wasn't even ac3 sound either
J
ComputerGeek said:
Harmy said:
Yes, but this is the eternal debate here - who should determine which changes to make and which not to? It's a matter of taste and there can be a million different altered version based on a million different opinions, whereas the original version is just that, the original version.
Point taken. I agree that the original is the best version, but if the SE is released again, hopefully the version which the most people are fine with is the one that is distributed
I don't think there is a version other than the original that we'd be happy with
Thats why we are all here OriginalTrilogy.com
If a SE edit were to come out though Id say the 97 version would be the most useful for Harmy etc to make an Original from
I wonder how Ady feels about a much higher quality canvas to work from.....how will this effect ESB:R?
J
Intresting
....but I still think the files that were given to Lowry, the files that LFL had restored & scanned themselves in 95 at the highest resolution at that time....2K, the ones with the 97 SE alterations......thats why imperfections that have been evident since 97,...eg Humdinger glitch are still even on the BD's
It is possible that Lowry upscaled the film to 4K
.....but
I would love this to mean that the company has been working on an entirely NEW scan
that staffers credits:
(5-8/2010, 9/2012-12/2012, 5-6/2013)Reliance Media Works/ Lowry Digital:
Restoration, Mapping, Dirt Picking : Little Mermaid - Disney Blu-Ray Release
Restoration, Mapping, Dirt Picking : Star Wars 4K Blu-Ray Release
Restoration, Mapping, Dustbusting/Dirt Picking : Pinocchio
Restoration, Mapping, Dustbusting/Dirt Picking : Snow White
If the 2012 is related to Star Wars, that was after the BD's release
....sounds pretty positive
J
Ian McDiarmid is gonna be in series 2 of sci-fi series Utopia in UK,
the might be something useful there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5h8yvHIJQ
J
Just a small update of my MPC Falcon:
Still got a fair bit to do
J
Brian Muir confirmed for EP7
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/brian-muir-confirmed-star-wars-vii-115200902.html
J
The year I saw Star Wars will always be with me, my Mother died in March '77 when I was 8,....my world was Planet of the Apes, Six Million Dollar Man and Space 1999,...through the summer I had to stay at my uncles farm, where I saw images in newspapers of an exciting new film coming, I remember drawing sketches & making models of some of the characters out of plasticine.
Elvis died that summer.....he died at the same age as my Mum
I had to wait until January '78 to see the film,....I saw it in Belfast in a cinema that has been torn down now
I remember getting a paper Chewie mask & 'The Official Collectors Edition' magazne at the Kiosk
.......my life hasnt been the same since
I'd say theres hardly a day that I don't think about Star Wars
J
It looks seamless,
my only comment would be that the planet looks further away/smaller on the last shot....
J
Well....what he says in the vid,....he doesn't hate the Prequels,....he appreciates the work that went into them,.....the continuation of the story etc....he loved them when they came out & still reguards them highly,.......but when he stepped onto the Ep 7 set,.....he realised what was missing from them,.....'tactile & real....this is gonna work better than the last ones'.....his quote
J
.Mac. said:
Thank you so much for sharing that Jaitea, that was a very fun and interesting read!
No problem .Mac
I still get a rush when I read it over......full scale Falcon....inside & out
My life is complete
J
Very cool...
....but lets get back to Kevin Smith....he has done another interview where he goes into more detail of what he saw on set
This news has got me very excited and I even mentioned my hopes that this would happen on a thread here somewhere:
Kevin Smith was doing a Q&A at the Neuchatel International Film Festival in Switzerland, where he shared even more bits about his Episode 7 set visit…
Here’s an excerpt from the Q&A via /Film:
What I saw, I absolutely loved. It was tactile — it was real. It wasn’t a series of ****ing green screens and blue screens in which later a bunch of digital characters would be added. IT was there, it was happening. I saw old friends who I haven’t seen since my childhood, who aren’t really friends, but I love them more than some of my ****ing relatives. I saw uniforms, I saw artillery I haven’t seen since I was a kid. I saw them shooting an actual sequence in a set that was real. I walked across the set, there were explosions. And it looked like a shot right out of a Star Wars movie.
Smith talked about visiting Stage M at pinewood, where they were not filming that day, where he visited the set of the Millennium Falcon:
He turns the lights on and there is the Millennium Falcon from my childhood. Now the ship outside looks like a movie set, but the inside, fully replicated, fully built. The guy told me, they took two blueprints: Star Wars and Empire, because the cockpit in Empire was bigger than the cockpit in Star Wars. So they went somewhere between the two. So he takes me over and I’m just looking at it. You look at it from the outside and you can still see inside. I don’t presume we’re going aboard or anything, and then Morgan (JJ’s assistant) says “You ready to go up?” I said (excitedly) “We can go on it?!”
As I walked up that ramp I realized that the something that was missing from those other movies (the prequels) and its now in these movies. And its not the obvious like hey the Millennium Falcon or hey the characters that we know are returning. Its something else entirely — he’s building a tactile world, a world you can touch. And hes replicating with all the love of someone who has the world’s greatest collection of Star Wars figures. And when you walk on that set man, I don’t know how else to describe it except thusly: you use another pop culture reference to describe this pop culture phenomenon. Its like the field of dreams, the Kevin Costner movie. And if JJ builds it, we’re all going to come hard, because its amazing. It looks fantastic. So anyone out there wondering if hes going to pull it off, hes pulling it off. He showed me cut scenes, he showed me sequences, images, pictures. I cried and I hugged that guy. And I’m sure as I was crying and hugging on him that he was thinking “time is money” because theyre making a movie. But he got it. He was very flattered. And I was like “Honestly dude, you’re doing it. You’re making my childhood again. You’re doing our Star Wars. What I saw, blew me away.
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9116901/KevinSmithMasterclass/videos/55760968
J
New practical creature effect with JJJ Abrahamrahams:
Practical Creature Star Wars 7
Wow scary!
J
Yeah its like they re-used a lot of the sounds created for Star Wars in ESB, (and any created for ESB were made in the same way as SW) but by ROTJ they had to create new sounds and the style was different,.....6 years had passed
J
Andy Serkis to play a Mo-Cap character:
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/star-wars-7-exclusive-andy-serkis-talks-script-jj-abrams-more/
“It’s extraordinary. I grew up with Star Wars and was a massive fan of the original films. I never imagined in a million years that I’d be engaging with this. It’s just come about so organically.
“JJ Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us. He said, ‘You’d fit really well in this universe,’ and I said, ‘I think I probably could.’ We’re working very closely, as I say, in two ways: the Imaginarium is providing all of the performance characters, and I myself am playing a character in it.
“I’m thrilled, deeply excited,” he continued. “Sitting at that read-through the other day was just extraordinary. It was an amazing event; being with the original cast was just incredible. I just think the script is so wonderful, and both the old and the newbies in the cast are just so thrilled and excited to get together.”
Son of Jar-Jar?
J
Went into the Disney store in Belfast today.....big poster of Star Wars in the window,.....Luke, Han, Leia, Ben,....in the shop they had all classic Star Wars,.....you would have thought you were back in 1977.....then I spotted it....a Anakin Skywalker figure,.....just that one character,....Hyden with long hair......a minuscule amount of Prequel just to spoil the mood
J
I'm with you on the thought that the probe travelled a good distance before finding Hoth....& the Destroyer that launched it, but the Destroyer looked alone out there whereas Vader was in a fleet, so I recon that the Destroyer that was sending the probes was jumping from system to system on its mission while The Executor in the fleet was monitoring any feedback
J
Yeah but Vader was on the Executor.....
J
The probes are dispatched in a variety of directions,...the last one is shot down lower and the camera pans down to follow it. After a cut the probe appears from behind our camera and heads out into open space. After the next cut the probe does exactly the same move from behind the camera except this time Hoth fills 3/4 of the frame....as the probe falls into the planet
J
Yeah, it's a strange one, I don't mind it as a couple of probes on the planet......after thinking more about it...would it be cool if the probe container that approaches Hoth splinters and fires off half a dozen probes to investigate the planet.....that would settle my question when viewing the film
J
