If Lucas had gone the ST Trilogy route in the late 1990’s- Harrison wouldn’t have been in it. Han Solo would have been MIA.
Mine is cutting up the original negative to create the Special Edition. That pisses me off to no end.
From 2012-2015 the main goal of Lucasfilm was getting the ST and Anthology movies up and running. This is a huge undertaking, and a lot of man hours and work. Now they’ve got 2 hits, The Last Jedi is coming along and Han Solo is going into production. They have a system down and its working. Now Kennedy and co can focus on other areas.
If the GOUT was the result of people ripping laserdiscs to DVD, then Lucasfilm needs to do a real restoration to match what Harmy and other people are doing.
Lucas was totally going to replace Shaw’s unmasked scene with Hayden in the 4K version.
Because of harmy I’ve been able to show my boys the OUT.
Unfortunately, a friend of theirs recently showed them the 2004 DVD Special Edition.
They now prefer that version.
That friend has been banned from my house.
You already showed them the OUT first and then later on someone showed them the SE and now you banned that kid from your house because of that? That is just stupid. They would see the SE sooner or later, whether you like it or not. Acting like a paranoid dictator and trying to censor things like that is obsessive behaviour. Ironically, reminds me of the behaviour of a certain person who did not want us ever to see theatrical versions again.
Umm…the comment about the kid being banned was tongue in cheek.
Apologies if that wasn’t obvious
I wouldn’t offer the good snacks to him/her. My little cousin said Jar Jar was really funny (He’s 8 and watched the Clone Wars on Netflix) and I joked I was tempted to push him out of the car. But I took him to the Force Awakens, he became obsessed with TIE Fighters and everything worked out great.
I’ve read
A New Dawn
Tarkin
Lords of the Sith-
Lost Stars
Battlefront: Twilight Company
Aftermath
Bloodline
The ones I recommend are Lords of the Sith, Lost Stars, Twilight Company and Bloodline.
I’ve always liked Return of the Jedi. In fact, it gets more rewatches than Empire for me, especially when I was a kid. Its the movie that suffered the most from the Special Editions.
because that’s always been part of George’s original plan.
So was, supposedly, the praxis effect.
Heh. I mean it was one thing George hasn’t changed his tune on over the years.
Yeah, the droids were always meant to be in every saga film. Now I can see them just doing R2-D2, as Anthony Daniels is getting older and they will probably go with 10,11,12 in 10-15 years.
The Force Awakens had nice Blu-Ray disc art. I wonder what Rogue One’s will look like.
I think I read who become Poe would have had the Millennium Falcon if Harrison wouldn’t come back and the Luke McGuffin would have been for another Jedi if Mark said no. I do remember Carrie being the first to agree to return. Mark and Harrison took more time to convince.
It just hit me that seeing the first teaser/trailer for The Last Jedi will be super emotional. Seeing Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia one last time. Bittersweet.
I can’t do a barrel roll without an anthropomorphic rabbit telling me to do it.
I always loved the Rogue Squadron game for N64. I played the hell out of it, and ended up getting all the Gold Medals. The only PT influence was the Naboo Fighter they hid and released the code when TPM came out.
I’m praying for no prequel references. That’s all. I honestly don’t care about anything else.
I don’t mind small ones, like in TFA there was talk of balance in the Force and mention of a Clone Army. That’s fine. Even Bail Organa in Rogue One was ok- he had such a small role in the PT that he was untainted.
Any word on if Hayden Christensen is going to be ruining the movie by being in it? I dread that more than anything at all.
I know there was a contingency plan in case the big three didn’t want to come back for TFA- I wonder if they will use that.
I liked how they went more into the history of the Darksaber. The Mandalorians are somewhat justified in taking it from the Jedi.
Fox and Marvel have had issues. There was the Fantastic Four thing, where Fox made a crappy movie to keep the rights and won’t do a Sony. Marvel wanted the film rights to certain parts of the FF4 mythos: Silver Surfer, Galactus and Doom. That could cause bad blood between Fox and other Disney companies.
Again, I don’t think it was ever plan. It was a test and proof of concept for the prequels.
You know Lucas got a hard on thinking of putting more CGI in the Original Trilogy. I’m shocked he didn’t replace Nein Nunb with Jar Jar in Jedi. Or alter Vader’s dialog to change “Obi-Wan once thought as you do” to “Padme, your mother, once thought as you do.”
Replacing Empire puppet Yoda with CGI would make all the “Han Shot First” stuff look quaint. It would be blasted by every nerd outlet, with only the most hardcore Prequel Justice Warriors for it.
Kennedy has no reason to even pay lip service to Lucas anymore. He called them white slavers and went off on TFA when it was in theaters.
Hopefully a 4K restoration was completed with Kennedy at the helm: Lucas’ was probably done on the cheap (like 2004) and with not much care to making the movies look right. Kennedy at least knows you have to spend some money once in a while.
[Haarspalter said:]
If you want to find out what George Lucas was thinking when he made the PTI think if George could have, he would have made the originals exactly like he made the prequels.
It shouldn’t be underestimated that Lucas’ creative judgement became heavily influenced by his fatherhood since the early eighties. Ewoks anyone? During the Phantom Menace production phase, his son Jett was at age of 4 to 6. Jett inspired him to create Jar Jar Binks’ name. Phantom Menace became so childish because he wanted that Jett enjoys the movie. During the Clones production phase his two daughters had to live trough puberty —> Anakin & Padme romance. One of Lucas’ daughters had a crush on N’Sync so Lucas wanted to put them into the Geonosis Arena battle as backround characters. Lucas’ alibi “I make movies for children” can be changed to “I make movies for MY children”.
I’ve often thought his brain turned to mush when he became a parent.
China has terrible taste in movies. They loved that Warcraft piece of garbage.
The Clone Wars cartoon Anakin is so divorced from the PT Anakin- I’m shocked Lucas never noticed.
So I was watching the Paul Lynde Halloween Special and it has a lot in common with the HS. I guess it was a 70’s thing. The cartoon is still great though.
ray_afraid said:
I’m pretty impressed by the Tarkin in R1. […] I bought it! Not as Peter Cushing, but as the character of Tarkin.It’s apparently true that most men are focused mainly on visuals and technical details. That’s what we read all over the net, “CGI this, CGI that”. For me the biggest deparature from original Tarkin/Cushing was the voice… oh, how I missed his rrr’s 😉 …a distinct accent from a person born 100 years ago.
Yes, the voice was a bit off. Stanton tried his best and it sounded better than he did for Tarkin in Rebels.
I saw this three times and it got better the third time. The second time, I was sick, the theater seats were uncomfortable, the projection sucked and my little cousin insisted on sitting way in the back (I took him because his parents didn’t want to go see it and he wouldn’t have gotten to). The third time, I was in VIP seating in a good theater with decent projection and had a supply of cough drops and Cherry Vanilla Coke to keep me from feeling like garbage.
Why is the head of story group even engaging in this? Seems like he has a lust for attention.
Or was tasked with obfuscating the situation until and official announcement, at Celebration perhaps.