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Star Wars - Secrets of the Rebellion!! Coming in 2008

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For those who haven't heard of this yet, I came across it on slashdot

http://edmsun.canoe.ca/News/Edmonton/2006/07/28/1708135.html

We gotta get his guy to become a member here. He seems to think alot like the rest of us, and is going to kill himself, non-profit like of course, so that we can see the character development that the PT failed to provide.
Anyone else excited. I'm excited to see where this guy will go with this.


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Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to have this setting on my shelf where the PT used to be!!!!!!!!


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Jeremy Bulloch will be playing an air traffic control tech in the Kessel hangar bay, and Zach Jensen's, who played Kit Fisto in AOTC, appearances will be scattered throughout the film.


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Originally posted by: SpecialEditionSaboteur
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


Why?


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Originally posted by: Marvolo
Originally posted by: SpecialEditionSaboteur
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


Why?


That was more of a joke. But if you want a serious answer, the fact is most independent films I've seen suck.
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Don't forget, Star Wars was considered an independent film.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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It will give us an idea of what the PT could have been.


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Originally posted by: SpecialEditionSaboteur
That was more of a joke. But if you want a serious answer, the fact is most independent films I've seen suck.
And most independent films I've seen haven't sucked. Example: 11'09"01
Some were not blessed with brains.
<blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith

You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money,
make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm.
I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum.
we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
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I don't know. This could be good, could be really bad. The easily accessible technology that we have these days and the ease with which these "films" can be distributed via internet, etc, makes it way too easy for people with lots of friends, toys and technology to make a tidal wave of "fan films" that are dreadfully short on anything resembling talent. I'd like to hope that this is one of the RARE exceptions. The last thing the net needs is another "Star Wars" film that consists of little more than a bunch of overweight, pale-faced "Jedi" running around the woods in bathrobes and acting out storylines that make the crap that my friends and I used to do in our backyards as kids look like Shakespeare.
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Sounds pretty neat, but we'll see how it turns out.
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Originally posted by: JediFlyer06
I don't know. This could be good, could be really bad. The easily accessible technology that we have these days and the ease with which these "films" can be distributed via internet, etc, makes it way too easy for people with lots of friends, toys and technology to make a tidal wave of "fan films" that are dreadfully short on anything resembling talent. I'd like to hope that this is one of the RARE exceptions. The last thing the net needs is another "Star Wars" film that consists of little more than a bunch of overweight, pale-faced "Jedi" running around the woods in bathrobes and acting out storylines that make the crap that my friends and I used to do in our backyards as kids look like Shakespeare.


That's the spirit...................

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Sounds like this could potenitally be very cool. It's not trying to do anything spectatcular like remaking the entire PT, its focusing on Han Solo and some other characters. I just can't imagien the acting would be on the level of what Harrison Ford gave us.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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I'd like to think it will be of the same calibre of IMPS, in regards to cinematography, so that it doesnt look like it was filmed in someone's basement, like most home job fan films.

As I agree the acting will obviously not surpass the OT as it is an indie movie, I just hope the script and dialogue is OT like, so that GL feels that cold feeling in his stomch of "damn it, this cheap indie movie blows the entire PT out of the water"
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Someone mentioned New Voyages... it never ceases to amaze me how that show makes Shatner look like a true thespian.

Actually, the *real* problem with New Voyages (apart from it not being very good) is McCoy. He is the weak link in the actor chemistry - he's not even *Southern*, yet he used the words 'Southern charm'. Just not a good actor, at all.
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I think this sounds very ambitious, and I like it. Hollywood does not a movie make....great. Since this is set with a shoe string budget and a lot of heart, I think this could capture the same romance that ANH did back when Lucas himself was working with a meager budget and cheep sets.

I anxiously await the first installment of this new series. Lucas has already proved that he is no longer capable of taking care of his own characters. He lost that privilage when he fucked up episodes I - III (and VI for some of you). I think this guys effort will yield great results and I for one want to support him.
"I am altering the movies. Pray I don't alter them any further." -Darth Lucas
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The article states the story is LFL approved.
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Quote, please?
"It's the stoned movie you don't have to be stoned for." -- Tom Shales on Star Wars
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
Quote, please?



Well if you read the article you'd see the quote, but here it is anyway. However, one could read this sentence from the point of view that they got approval from LF to expand on copyright ideas, instead of their storyline being LF approved. The guys at Slashdot took it as the latter.

“We’ve taken (Lucasfilm-approved) storylines and expanded them, to fill in the gaps between Episode III Revenge Of The Sith, and the original,” Twitchell said. “It’s for the fans.”
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I did read the article, which is why I asked for a quote. There was nothing in there saying that their storyline was approved by LFL -- or that they got any other form of approval or acknowledgment from LFL. Just that they were expanding upon LFL-approved storylines, much like any other fan fiction writer.

Curious, I skimmed through the Slashdot discussion and found no mention of LFL approving any storylines. Only that Lucas encourages (or at least doesn't discourage) Star Wars fan films. I didn't read the whole discussion, so I could've missed something.
"It's the stoned movie you don't have to be stoned for." -- Tom Shales on Star Wars
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.