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Post #662775

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ATMachine
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Making of Return of the Jedi (the book) Thread
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2-Oct-2013, 12:23 AM

The use of old film stock seems to have been an accident--apparently some unused film left over from Raiders found its way into the ROTJ stacks.

Here's more of Kasdan and Marquand arguing about Had Abbadon:

Kasdan: I like the idea of Had Abbadon.

Kazanjian: So do I.

Kasdan: I think it looks neat and I think the Empire should have a home base.

Kazanjian: I agree.

Marquand: But if you make it their home base rather than a planet, then it's a destructible thing and you achieve what George wants.

Kasdan: You mean blowing it up?

Marquand: Yes.

Interestingly, Marquand appears never to disapprove of Lucas' suggestions even once in these excerpts. Kasdan on the other hand challenges Lucas all the time, and Marquand seems to be rather annoyed at their constantly butting heads: "I am surprised at you guys--you spend a lot of time throwing scorn on each other's ideas."

Marquand elsewhere provided this interesting anecdote that really sums up Kasdan's thinking as contrasted to his own:

It seemed to us that there were too many lead personalities, just in terms of sheer directing, gads of people around the whole time. So Larry and I said bluntly to George, 'You've got to kill somebody.' Larry said, with a smile, 'Well, let's kill Yoda.' I said, 'I don't think that would be a very good idea. That would upset a lot of people.' And he said, 'Yeah, that's why I said it, to upset somebody.' So this started to get flippant and then we slowly began to realize that with the fans out there that it was very hard to actually kill anybody.

Kasdan wants to surprise and shock the audience, Marquand not to upset them.