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Return Of The Jedi - 'Behind The Scenes / Making Of' images thread — Page 6

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^ Greedo-distance missing, that 😃

 

^ Death from Bill & Ted is the Emperor too? (or just giving off that same vibe 😉)

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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ZkinandBonez said:

Fated-Dualist said:

I’ve never seen these clips before. Do you know what they are from?

Sorry ZkinandBonez, I don’t. I’d guess at at maybe a ‘Making Of’ doc or special, though they could just be alternative unused shots. Hopefully someone else will have more information about them.

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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Never seen those before either! An unused shot from the movie wouldn’t have the soundstage roof visible like that though.

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ZkinandBonez said:

Fated-Dualist said:

I’ve never seen these clips before. Do you know what they are from?

They come from The Rise of Skywalker making of documentary.

https://youtu.be/txLoFqFyr08

26:08 mark.

“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don’t have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It’s just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibility for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people - these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.” - George Lucas

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A rare look at both Jeremy Bulloch and Richard Marquand.

“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don’t have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It’s just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibility for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people - these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.” - George Lucas

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^ amazing detail for the Death Star model.

 

Star Wars Identities The Exhibition (rare items)’ - a gallery of 120 images from Star Wars films; mostly Original Trilogy…

https://imgur.com/gallery/NGk88

^ some great shots of models from the Original Trilogy - and concept art for characters and costumes too.
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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I was lucky enough to see the Identities exhibit in person when it was in my area. It was pretty neat! I especially loved seeing the models up close. It’s a pity I wasn’t old enough to fully appreciate all the concept art, but it’s nice to see it again.

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So in a discussion about Mandalorian action figures on Rebelscum, after another user posted a behind the scenes image from AOTC suggesting a possible cut scene where Jango’s helmet takes (and survives) a direct blow from Obi-wan’s lightsaber, user BlasTech posted this neat little tidbit. I’d never heard of this cut scene. Sounds really cool!

[BlasTech said:]
It might be the other way around, actually. Mandalorian Iron (later named “beskar” in the Mandalorian language that Karen Traviss created for the Republic Commando game and books) was first mentioned in the Tales of the Jedi comics in 1994, meaning it predates Jango Fett and Attack of the Clones in the SW universe by almost a decade (also, I think Jango and Boba’s armours were identified as being composed of durasteel and duraplast, respectively, in various official guides, with Boba only upgrading to beskar in the Legacy of the Force novels, which were set about 40 years after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope).

Then again, there’s also some indication that Lucas may have intended for Mandalorian armour to be lightsaber-resistant as early as Return of the Jedi, as a deleted sequence from that film had Luke hacking partway through Boba’s rocketpack with his lightsaber, with the blade apparently being stopped by the armoured backing plate that the rocket machinery is mounted against. Though dropped from the final cut of the film, the damaged rocketpack can still be seen onscreen, and the prop built for the sequence is still known to exist (it apparently even appeared in the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi in the scene where Boba is flirting with Rystall and Lyn Me):

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So in further discussion, the original storyboard for the sequence was posted. Looks fascinating!

Also it appears the crew used this damaged jet pack for the scene that did make the film where Han accidentally smacks it and sends Fett to his doom. Looks like they packed pyrotechnics in the hole. Also interesting, I never realized the SE used an alternate angle or take of Han hitting the jet pack. But both the original and the SE appear to use this damaged version. (Worth mentioning that this area has a clear patchwork repair in the jet pack’s more recent appearance on Disney+).

And finally, a clean image of the prop without all the captions and screenshots pasted on top of it.

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I think they are from the Ewoks movies?

Han: Hey Lando! You kept your promise, right? Not a scratch?
Lando: Well, what’s left of her isn’t scratched. All the scratched parts got knocked off along the way.
Han (exasperated): Knocked off?!

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My educated guess would be a pack animal that would be used by the Ewoks? They did have horned pack animals in the 80’s cartoon and storybooks.

They rode ordinary small ponies in the tv-movies, but that may have been for budgetary reasons.

As for One Eyed Willy, it may be another Jabba’s palace critter that didn’t make the cut with George? There must have been a broom closet at ILM stuffed with rejected maquettes.

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Is that dianoga?

And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.

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That awesome The Spachshipper twitter account recently posted these images of the Death Star II:
 

^ from https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1656340255044239360
 

ILM even retweeted the images, in their “ROTJ at 40” thread, where ILM stated Return Of The Jedi was “George Lucas’ picture”:

https://twitter.com/ILMVFX/status/1661811470055911425 (credit to Caston for finding the weird ILM claim or error in here)
 

Beautiful and stunning model of the Death Star II!

The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Formerly Emre1601 - computer hard drives are brittle too!

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V.I.N.Cent said:

^ When I was young I somehow though this guy may have been related to Ben Kenobi - I think it may have the hair or the beard! That is one dodgy beard 😃

V.I.N.Cent, curious where you got that photo of the General? The background has some obvious signs of it being photoshoped or altered with the microphone is completely cut off. The only other copies of it I could find have the control panel cropped but the background is the original. It’s strange that the background was edited but the control panel and lower right corner remain intact. I’m big into collecting high res Star Wars photography and the original of this really piqued my interest.

Other copy of photo with original background:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKkO-Vg3VbQ/TFVucVFrgVI/AAAAAAAAAbk/06uxoDJso5M/s1600/MADINE+IN+ACTION.jpg