General Star Wars Questions — Page 5

I was browsing the deleted scenes for Star Wars on Wookiepedia, and ran across this scene which was apparently shot:

Luke and Ben Spend the Night at Bestine.

I’ve never heard of this scene before. Has anyone seen it, or any photos of what was shot?

Mocata said:

It’s randomly added to the map of Tatooine in The Complete Locations for some reason. There’s a bunch of lines added to show their journey, and in between the Sandcrawler and Mos Eisley they added that. I can’t see any other source.

That is disappointing, but hardly unexpected. There is but one recourse for such egregious misinformation.

Is there a thread on here that chronicles any articles (online links or magazine scans) that are behind the site here / the release of the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy?

I’m having a slow day - I thought there was one? But can’t find it now…

Edit - I found an old one below, but it is way out of date. Surely there is a more up to date thread somewhere?

Original Trilogy.com in the Press - from 2005

This isn’t a super indepth question, but in TCW S2 episode “The Mandalore Plot” Tor Vizla said the Mandalorian’s took the darksaber from the Jedi during the Mandalorian/Jedi wars.

I was wondering then if it would make sense for Canderous Ordo to have the darksaber in KotOR once he’s become Mandalore?

I wonder…what single question could be posed by a time traveler to a denizen of the Star Wars galaxy to best ascertain the precise time period?

Excluding the obvious, like ‘what year is it?’

Guess I set myself up for that one.

Who is Chancellor of the Republic?

Palpatine? Huh! Who’s vice-chancellor, Mas Amedda?!

Capture from starwarsscreencaps.com

Thus proof the sequel trilogy was being planned out all the way back in 1999 😉

This looks like the thread to ask. Does anyone remember the story about the Stardust Hotel during the making of Return of the Jedi and how Anthony Daniels was given the nickname of Stardust by a member of the crew on the first film? I can’t seem to find anything about it anymore with how searches are now overpopulated with Jyn and Rogue One. I’ve always seen that callback as a homage to that particular story. I believe also Anthony Daniels talks about it in the commentary of Return of the Jedi but it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to it while watching the film.

VegetableMan said:

Stardust1138 said:

This looks like the thread to ask. Does anyone remember the story about the Stardust Hotel during the making of Return of the Jedi and how Anthony Daniels was given the nickname of Stardust by a member of the crew on the first film? I can’t seem to find anything about it anymore with how searches are now overpopulated with Jyn and Rogue One. I’ve always seen that callback as a homage to that particular story. I believe also Anthony Daniels talks about it in the commentary of Return of the Jedi but it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to it while watching the film.

https://books.google.fr/books?id=fzCxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=Anthony+Daniels+Stardust+Motel&source=bl&ots=ndiZ7gnzSp&sig=ACfU3U1eDs6xSrRAgGlad6AbCnS9gsZc0w&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKs7T4u9nyAhWNxoUKHVTIC0YQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=Anthony Daniels Stardust Motel&f=false

I found this that might interest you (second paragraph of page 52).

That’s it. Thank you very much. I couldn’t remember who bestowed the nickname. Hearing it was Robert Watts brings warm feelings to my heart. Haha

I wonder if this is the out of universe reason why Jyn’s nickname is Stardust. It wouldn’t surprise me but I don’t believe it’s been said one way or the other.

I guess I’ll put this here, since although it’s about a line of dialogue in Star Wars (1977), it’s more about decisions made in The Star Wars Holiday Special and/or Revenge of the Sith.

All Wookiees other than Chewbacca should have been depicted with their fur kept trimmed short. Otherwise, Leia’s “walking carpet” line makes her a terrible racist.

it was the 70s …long shag carpet was a thing

I stumbled across this image here and ignoring the weird assertion that this is responding to (Of course women grew up on Star Wars), I was curious: would this costume have required a viewer with non-insider knowledge to fabricate it out of memory? It would certainly be possible to sit in the theater (perhaps a drive-in) with a sketchbook and take notes, but I imagine that there would have been promotional materials of the pilots such as lobby cards, magazine photos, and newspaper articles.

This is the only poster I could find of the pilot costume, and even then I’m not sure if it was from '77.

So purely academically, is there evidence of Rebel pilot images appearing in print in 1977?

JEDIT: I found a set of oversize character portraits that were available at the time from here, one of which is of Luke in uniform, and another which contains the full uniform from the side.

Notably, however, the high-quality image of Luke is reversed so anyone working directly from that image would have to have other reference for that and the helmet.

Finally, Marvel Star Wars comic #5 has many views of the Rebel pilots, and the comic released on August 10, 1977. Obviously they are not detailed enough to work as reference for the costume in the original photo.

So my question remains: Would there have been a high-quality reference of Luke in uniform to base a costume off of, or is it more likely that she did drawings (or snapped a polaroid of the screen?)

I think it is brilliant effort from the girl on her costume.

Is it correct in the 1970’s you could sit in some cinemas all day, for the price of one viewing? And people saw Star Wars many many times back then, without all the modern distractions, and modern faster pace of life.

I hope we hear the girl’s story, in her own words, on how she did this costume soon.