I do believe that the entirety of Episode III was shot in green-screen studio lots. I know that originally, there was a shot of Tatooine for the end scene, but then it was changed to CGI. If so, this would be the only SW movie to have no on location work right?
The ending scene for Episode III was originally shot on location in Tunisia during production on AOTC, but was reshot in the studio on ROTS.
http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/special-deliveries/
Crews were dispatched to various locales to shoot background plates for Mustafar and Kashyyk, but it does seem the main unit never left the studio.
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The pick up shots done in Tunisia were done during post production on Clones i believe so they would not have to go back again.
As for where it was shot i thought a good deal if not all was on set in a warehouse that used to be a rolls royce factory and they used green screen to shoot Vader's masking, Vaders NOOO and Frankenstein act, Vader the emperor and tarkin overlooking the death star.
The making of book really try to get into a sense of where Lucas wanted to take the direction of the film, a lot of ideas were not used many for the better. But changing Vader's turn from being seduced by power to saving padme from dying was moronic.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
SilverWook said:
The ending scene for Episode III was originally shot on location in Tunisia during production on AOTC, but was reshot in the studio on ROTS.
http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/special-deliveries/
Crews were dispatched to various locales to shoot background plates for Mustafar and Kashyyk, but it does seem the main unit never left the studio.
The same as Crystal Skull. Background plates were the new location shooting for the jungle scenes and waterfalls. Though other sets the college, the restaurant/bar, new Mexico and Peru were real. Or at least i think they were.
The clone troopers and pilots in Episode II and III were cgi using the actors likeness for jango and boba. No stormtropper like suit of physical armor was made or used no actual human was shot playing those roles.
The precursor to the X-wing, Tiefighter ships were all cgi in II and III. The stardestroyers or republic cruisers were all faked in cgi. Well at least Hayden Vader's suit was real but he was too short to match Prowse height.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
SilverWook said:
The ending scene for Episode III was originally shot on location in Tunisia during production on AOTC, but was reshot in the studio on ROTS.
http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/special-deliveries/
Crews were dispatched to various locales to shoot background plates for Mustafar and Kashyyk, but it does seem the main unit never left the studio.
Whoa! Tbone (finally) updated his site!
EDIT: I feel kind of dumb, but judging by the news section, I was always looking at the archive site without viewing the new one.
So basically, with the exception of background plates shot by dispatched units, none of the film was done in anything but a green-screen warehouse. I really hope the new trilogy takes us to actual places. You can really tell when actors are freezing their asses off in Norway or sweltering under the Tunisian sun.
skyjedi2005 said:
The clone troopers and pilots in Episode II and III were cgi using the actors likeness for jango and boba. No stormtropper like suit of physical armor was made or used no actual human was shot playing those roles.
Well that's not true. It's true they never made any clone armor and their bodies were completely CG, but in ROTS when they had their helmets off it was Temeura's real head. I remember being disappointed in the theater at how poorly those shots were composited.
I recall seeing shots of Temeura in a spandex suit of some kind wearing what looked like an old Stormtrooper helmet, so he had a physical prop to use.
CGI clones for the battle scenes makes sense, but the logic of not even having a single costume to wear on the set for a simple scene between two actors escapes me. Then again, they stuck a CGI Artoo into shots that could have been easily done with the real prop in ROTS. Sticks out like a sore thumb.
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The radio controlled R2 Units (like the K9 units on Doctor Who) were notorious blooper reel material, so while it may look crap I can see the financial reasoning behind using CGI as much as possible from a cheapskate perspective but from an artistic perspective it was very dumb.
Kenny Baker could have done the shots on the bridge of Grevious' ship. Artoo is mostly just standing there, and all of his little floors flying open, and appendages popping out was done before as a practical effect on ROTJ.
The flying Artoo in AOTC doesn't look as bad as the ROTS model.
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The OT era radio controlled R2 units sure but this generation's? Are there any real reports about that? The stuff the Artoo Builders club can build nowadays is pretty reliable and nuts.
Disney should hire those guys for the sequels. ;)
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The actors never stepped outside a soundstage for ROTS, so far as I know. Even if they did shoot outside, it was still probably on a backlot.
McCallum bragged about how they went to more separate locations around the world for RotS than on any previous Star Wars movie, but these were entirely for purposes of getting live-action effects plates. For example, a crew was sent to Sicily when word got out that Mt. Etna was erupting. They got some footage (from a distance, of course) and used it to help create Mustafar. Some shots from Switzerland were used to realize Alderaan while remote locales in China and Thailand formed the basis for Kashyyyk. The Tunisia plates for the Lars Homestead were filmed while they were there for AotC. I'm not sure if they went back to Italy and/or Spain for that short scene on Naboo.
The locations crews for the various shoots are all listed in the end credits of RotS.
Is it fair to say then, that ROTS was an animated film with a few live actor's faces peppered in? I mean when you have a guy holding a prop helmet, and then post-production even changes that prop to another helmet...
It is actually quite amazing that the film even turned out as good as it is. I can't imagine actors having to act in the very "inspiring" empty room.
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imperialscum said:
It is actually quite amazing that the film even turned out as good as it is. I can't imagine actors having to act in the very "inspiring" empty room.
People always say that and yet some have been getting along just fine for centuries....
Most actors can concentrate on their part, and not worry about the backdrop, whether it's an elaborate set or a green screen.
Being asked to play your emotional scene opposite a tennis ball on a stick is another matter. ;)
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There's a single close up shot of Obi-wan climbing out of a pool of water before it transitions to a master composite shot. So it's possible that, if nothing else, that could've been a complete on-set shoot.
SilverWook said:
Being asked to play your emotional scene opposite a tennis ball on a stick is another matter. ;)
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Tobar said:
imperialscum said:
It is actually quite amazing that the film even turned out as good as it is. I can't imagine actors having to act in the very "inspiring" empty room.
People always say that and yet some have been getting along just fine for centuries....
Theatre acting (at least to me) is very different than that in the film. I don't know how to put it... well in film the aim of the acting is to make it look like they are not acting while in theatre they do it in a way that it is extremely obvious that they are acting.
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twister111 said:
That and George Lucas altering the script on the day leaving you with maybe three minutes rehearsal time.
Wasn't Anakin falling to the dark side by wanting to save Padme a last-minute script change? (in the original script he just wanted power).
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition
Not sure, but in the behind the scenes footage on the DVD, you catch a glimpse of a different version of the Mace Vs. Palpatine fight being shot. Anakin is there watching as opposed to walking in at the very end.
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