Mocata

JadedSkywalker said:
For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.

Groan. I get that the actor himself has seen warmer reception recently, but any new Vader stuff is just key jangling, especially in recent streaming shows. Which I guess these fans are okay with despite the same Disney source.

Unfortunately general audiences might not see it that way. Just look at how many of them seem annoyed that people even talk about their desire to get it released. Like, how dare we even think about messing with with George’s true artistic vision etc. They’ve been fed that idea for so long now; if respect is due it’s not to SW 1977 and the ground breaking award winning original film… it’s respect for George or nothing; especially in the Disney era where they can say his story has been “ruined”. Despite all of the content he added between 1997 and 2005 being utter crap.

Uh yeah no need to get heated over this dude, just read up a bit. Save your annoyance for the inevitably disappointing news.

Weirdly I always remember Chewbacca being created with real mohair, but there’s not so much info for these. The few details available seem to suggest fake fur, maybe because they had to make a lot of them.

Definitely. A lot of Yoda’s teachings are about being afraid which leads to poor decisions. Fear led him into the path of Vader who was waiting to twist his mind, and letting Han die might have prevented it. It’s not “if you get married you’ll be afraid to be alone, so never get married or have attachment to anybody, and don’t feel anything for your family either”. If anything Anakin’s stupid love taboo plot cheapens Luke’s arc because it’s compassion over fear that saves the day. Unfortunately now the Jedi Order looks like a real life cult that takes kids and teaches them to forget their parents.

Well maybe lots of people enjoyed it when The Hobbit looked like a daytime TV reality show, but I hope it doesn’t come back.

One of Vader’s lightsaber hilts from ROTJ is being auctioned. It’s… expensive.

https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/info/id/456/

Darth Vader’s Hero Screen-Matched Lightsaber from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)/ Return Of The Jedi (1983).

Hidden from public view since its use during filming, this lightsaber now emerges for the first time in over 40 years. We are incredibly proud to present this grail-worthy piece of entertainment history and welcome all inquiries from collectors and fans alike.

Estimate: $1,000,000 - $3,000,000

If they can’t make gold standard movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones work why bother.

Firstly that one Ecks guy said the new version of SW had grain, which sounds more realistic as a leak.

Second what are they talking about 8k 120FPS, that’s not a thing right? I mean I hope, the high-frame rate stuff always look like utter crap, I thought it died out.

For a thousand bucks I’d expect it to be the full globe at least, yikes.

benduwan said:

does anybody know what hapend with this site? https://starwarsarchives.com/
it´s a long time offline…😦

It’s been “coming soon” for years, you have to go back to 2021 to get anything

https://web.archive.org/web/20210121230242/https://www.starwarsarchives.com/

Interesting but vague. Does anyone here believe that screenshot he posted was legit? It’s not a lot to go on.

A rumour where one dubious source is reporting from another

https://x.com/sw_holocron/status/1952757061600588113

Plans for the post-Episode IX era have reportedly been revealed

• It will be similar to the Mandoverse with multiple stories

• The first story will be Daisy Ridley’s NEW JEDI ORDER

• It will build toward a culminating event that brings back old characters

(Via: @DanielRPK)

It’s got to be the Maclunkey version, especially after that Kathleen Kennedy speech about the BFI print being super rare and whatever. Even the name has been revised again! The sequel trilogy era convention of losing the numbered episode is still in effect.

Edit: the online press thing claiming this is a “once in a generation event” is weird too. Like, is it the 1977 version? If it’s not why is this such a special event? If it is are they going to put it into a vault for a few decades and not stream it until a new generation grows up? What are they talking about?

re-release of the 1977 classic back for a limited time, in theaters everywhere.

Star Wars: A New Hope

What the hell are they going on about, jeez.

Director said:
the question is: what do you want from me?

Some screenshots.

Mocata said:

Please post some screenshots of this.

I think the dancers/singers were new additions (even with the same actress who falls in the pit) but the ending has extended 1983 bits with Wedge and Lando. Beyond the Biggs on Yavin stuff in ANH I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head.

fanO.U.Tpreserver4K77 said:

Harmy said:

doubleofive said:

I… what? No. That’s not how anything works.

😄😄😄

After two months the legend post something on the forum. Love the despecialized editions, I just showed them to my grandmother, who’s never watched any of the Star Wars films, and she loved them. thank you for your work.

I read your posts, I especially like the $£200,000 part. Thank you for the laughs.

Please post some screenshots of this.

Here’s the “rumour”

Because now the well-known “Star Wars” YouTuber EckhartsLadder reports that documents have been leaked to him by a source that prove that Lucasfilm is working on a restoration of the original theatrical versions of all three titles of the original trilogy. He assumes that the plan is to make these available on Disney+ as an extra in the future.

So, I have a fairly big, genuine bit of Star Wars news to leak.

In short: Lucasfilm is in the process of restoring the Star Wars Original Trilogy for public release. Probably on D+.

And there is proof.

I’ll explain as much as I can, though there are limits to what I can share. pic.twitter.com/09sXXaiqcY

— EckhartsLadder (@EckhartsLadder) July 8, 2025

oojason said:

Yeah, I think Mocata was being somewhat sardonic or flippant

I would never.

JackNapier said:

What is an LLM?

A language model (AI)

Edit: wait I could have sworn nobody else posted to answer this above… weird

“This is some rescue (she mouths something like AH!) (cut to Han shooting) … you came in here didn’t you have a plan for getting out?”

Possibly after the first part she’s just getting bashed by Luke’s costume or the pyrotechnics caught her off guard, and then they just spliced the second half of the line from another take? There’s probably some editing and dubbing trickery here.