Originally posted by: Marky2004
Well this is a truely amazing bit of detail--thanks for illuminating a little bit more of this unknown bit of Star Wars trivia.
Would be cool to maybe make a neat video of the saber to show how it opens up and collapses to get a better sense of the visuals of the scene.
And that is a shame if the scene is lost forever. It was completed and edit because there was music scored for it, which is available on the uncut RTOJ SE 2-disk release. Very surprising that something this major could have been thrown away. There are, as far as i know of, no production still of any kind for this sequence, only a storyboard. So this lightsaber is the only physical proof of the scenes existance! jeez...
Well this is a truely amazing bit of detail--thanks for illuminating a little bit more of this unknown bit of Star Wars trivia.
Would be cool to maybe make a neat video of the saber to show how it opens up and collapses to get a better sense of the visuals of the scene.
And that is a shame if the scene is lost forever. It was completed and edit because there was music scored for it, which is available on the uncut RTOJ SE 2-disk release. Very surprising that something this major could have been thrown away. There are, as far as i know of, no production still of any kind for this sequence, only a storyboard. So this lightsaber is the only physical proof of the scenes existance! jeez...
Unfortunately, footage like this probably wouldn't have held any value at the time - these days everything is kept (and sometimes to rediculous lengths) because everyone knows a DVD will be made and they can get extra mileage out of it, but way back when, no value was attached other than for the crew to have a laugh, so i guess it's more luck than judgement that we have as much as we have!
I'm going to have a word with a couple of collegues tomorrow to see what we can come up with to shoot the saber in action but without making it look cheesy
so I'll keep you informed...Mark