Despecialized: Crossing the Velvet Rope, or Petr Gets Pegged (speculation thread)

A lot of people are worried/excited/fascinated by the fact that the Despecialized Edition is now apparently known to and loved by the Hollywood insider crowd.  Rather than panicking and speculating in all the other threads, let’s put it all here.

I’m placing odds on the following events:

1:1 - Harmy gets name-dropped by someone onstage at the next Academy Awards.

3:1 - Harmy gets name-dropped by more than one person at the next Academy Awards.

50:1 - Within a year, Harmy has permanent guest privileges at several Hollywood homes, and spends the next few years couch surfing with the stars.

700:1 - A small Czech flag keeps showing up on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Theatre, on the same sidewalk square dedicated to a certain film franchise producer.  The flag keeps getting removed, but a new one keeps showing up to replace it.  The theater owner is perplexed.

3000:1 - A famous Hollywood hillside landmark gets some of its letters replaced, and the O-L-L is replaced by an A-R-M.

Ain’t gonna happen - Star Wars is officially released on Blu-ray.  Sorry, folks, let’s keep it realistic.

I think we should start a betting pool on what offer Harmy accepts.  Will it be a job at a major studio?  Will it be the Smithsonian or the Library of Congress?  Will it be venture capital startup funding?

10000:1 - The Nobel Prize Committee finally caves to the times and expands their Literature category to include "The Arts".  First winner?  You guessed it.

A bit much to think that it'll get mentioned at the Academy awards, I think. I can't tell if you're saying so in jest or not, my sarcasm meter is on the fritz today.

If Harmy lived in the US I think this could have been a problem. But if Lucasflim bothered to press charges or take action against him in the Czeh Republic? Whatshername in charge would have to be pretty nuts and I'm pretty sure it would be a PR fiasco.

I'd love to see Lucasfilm release a statement of SOME sort, though.

I'm serious, 50-50 odds on a name drop.  Like: I'd like to thank my mother, my analyst, Petr Harmacek, my voice coach, my dog trainer, blah blah blah.  So many people go up there onstage and say the most random things, a name drop is pretty small potatoes, and I think by the time the awards roll around, some of the right people will have seen it to make it happen (yes I know Pegg and Wheaton are unlikely to be up there themselves).  I'm not suggesting Billy Crystal shows a 15-minute clip or something.

You are correct to detect a half-joking tone for the whole thread.  Speculation is fun, especially when we're betting which starlet Harmy will soon be having breakfast with!

I personally think Lucasfilm will say nothing and do nothing, either from a genuine belief that it has no significant impact on them, or for fear of drawing more attention to it.

I've got to admit, I'm baffled by Simon Pegg's relationship with LFL. He's been very critical of the SEs and Prequels. Yet he was invited to do voice work for the Clone Wars.

CatBus said:

I personally think Lucasfilm will say nothing and do nothing, either from a genuine belief that it has no significant impact on them, or for fear of drawing more attention to it.

My thoughts exactly. The only action they might take would be a C&D.

They wouldn't go after Harmy - they'd go after ot.com.

Man, everyone's focusing on the negative!  How about some speculation about which superhero franchise reboot Harmy's gonna star in?

I was thinking he'd be good in a reboot of the F/X movies.  The bad guys try to thwart him using all these fancy digital effects, but he cobbles something together using models and rubber masks that saves the day.

Put a giant spider in the third act and this thing could go places in Hollywood.

Forget Harmy! You and me are going to Hollywood, Mr. Wings!

Guys, guys. Shouldn't we ask Harmy what HE'D want to star in?





Naaaaaah.

Wait, wait.  Laserschwert is right.  We need to tie this back into Star Wars somehow.

So Darth Vader will be in it.  But he can't wear a black cape, and he can't use a lightsaber.  But other than that, he'll still be Vader.  This is gonna be AWESOME!

It's so beautiful...

Actually, you know what?  That picture zoomed in and shrunk down to 100x100 would be a great avatar for Harmy when he gets tired of the Yoda/Joker avatar.  I'm tempted to use if for something myself if he doesn't want it...