One thing I do like about ROTS: the fact that Palpatine being Darth Plagueis’ apprentice is conveyed indirectly, through Ian McDiarmid’s acting, rather than being stated outright. A flaw which the otherwise impeccable novelization by Matt Stover somehow stumbled into itself.
For George, because I know you’re listening:
Will you release those “experimental films”? Pretty please?
I LOL’d.
But what is this place?
Well, of course! Those two statues are cribbed from the design of the Valley of the Jedi in LucasArts’ Jedi Knight.
Good find! 😄
And Guy Henry there definitely isn’t wearing the special mo-cap headpiece used to create CGI Cushing Tarkin… which was filmed as a separate element against blue screen. Looks like a shot of recast Tarkin in the wild.
Here’s a short ILM video that serves as a prequel to Rogue One… both the cinematic version and the original, pre-reshoot version(s) of the film.
The short shows Rebel ships transmitting information about the Death Star to Alliance Headquarters. At the very end, just before being blown up, one of the Rebel pilots tries desperately to confirm whether the data was received.
In the final cut of Rogue One, it didn’t get through: the Alliance doesn’t know about the Death Star until Jyn Erso learns about it. But in earlier Rogue One edits, it evidently did get through – trailers show Mon Mothma briefing Jyn about the Death Star, rather than the other way around.
Like the film itself, this short prequel to Rogue One is deliberately designed to be compatible with multiple Star Wars canons.
The trouble is, most of those alternate canons (including varying edits of Rogue One) are currently locked away in the Disney/Lucasfilm vaults.
Just goes to show: the whole point of the SEs was to make the films worse.
Wait, all of them? Wouldn’t that take a long time?
I think he only means the ones on duckduckgo, google and bing.
No, I’m referring to the ones kept by Lucasfilm and associates in their Satanic vaults.
I just want to stream the movies that are in. Bit more difficult that.
I’ve played Rebellion, thanks to the GOG version. I would have played Supremacy, but it’s not on GOG, it doesn’t run on 64-bit systems and the sites hosting fanmade patches disappeared a few years ago.
Is there any difference between the two other than the name?
Not that I know of. But like I said, I can’t tell, because GOG only has Rebellion and all the fansites with utilities that let you patch the game yourself for 64-bit systems are dead.
I’ve played Rebellion, thanks to the GOG version. I would have played Supremacy, but it’s not on GOG, it doesn’t run on 64-bit systems and the sites hosting fanmade patches disappeared a few years ago.
^ Nice.
“Handling” in that last sentence might be better expressed as “strip-mining.” The relentless exploitation of superhero franchise films is threatening to run down Marvel in the same way Star Trek was exhausted in the 1990s.
Zahn said he wanted the Noghri faces to look like Vader’s helmet. Personally I wonder exactly how that was supposed to have worked.
One could argue that after what Tarkin did to that Imperial facility, the Emperor might instruct Vader to keep a close eye on him, lest the good Governor get any funny ideas.
Indeed! As Tarkin himself says in the January 1976 draft of SW, “With the right maneuvering, I could be Emperor.”
Was this chair in Han Solo’s sky house?
Yep. It even has it’s own article;
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Most_comfortable_chair_ever_designed
(So, is this from a well known Legends story? I’m a bit surprised that you immediately made that connection.)
It’s from The Glove of Darth Vader, a SW story for kids so bad it’s amazing. The Sky House is infamous among certain quarters of fandom.
And, for the record, I was actually kidding. I didn’t realize the Most Comfortable Chair Ever Designed™ was in the Sky House - though now you mention it, I should’ve made the connection in earnest from the hyperbolic description alone.
Was this chair in Han Solo’s sky house?
Fans too often attempt to make the individual films integrate perfectly with each other and identify what they consider bugs in the plot or with technicalities.
Sure…if Vader can just lift bodies in the air like in Rogue One, why didnt he simply lift Luke as he attempted to fall into Cloud City’s central chasm?
The answer is simple…because it would be silly from an artistic standpoint to see Luke take a dramatic stand; let himself fall and then suddenly is just caught and placed right back where he tried to fall from…or even worse maybe Vader could simply levitate him all the way back to his shuttle. But that too would ruin the drama.
Conversely in R1, Vader could simply not levitate the rebel in that corridor. But even more logically consistent would be if he was slow and plodding and actually got hit a few times given that he’s not quite what he once was. But that wouldnt quite make Vader as menacing as his reputation suggested he was.
Both solutions are far more logical and would allow the films to ‘sync up’ better. But would make each scene individually not as good.
I think Vader levitating Luke on Cloud City was contemplated during production on ESB. Might have been mentioned in the original making of paperback.
Actually, the idea during shooting was that there was wind in the tunnel shaft, which came in rising and falling gusts. So Luke fell a while, then got blown upwards by the changing wind, then fell back down and into a side vent out to the weathervane.
They actually shot footage of Prowse on the gantry looking upward and reacting as Luke bobs up and down in the wind. But it wasn’t used because ultimately it was a rather needless complication.
I wonder why they cut the scene of the tie fighter rising to meet Jyn on the comm tower? It was the most dramatic visual in all the trailers.
I’m of the opinion it was just a dramatic visual for the trailer.
Also very possible.
Good question. Perhaps the pilot was a Rebel from the ground battle who’d captured a TIE? The major changes to the layout in the Act 3 battle scene may have necessitated dropping it.
Probably.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Hutts?
Lawrence Kasdan might beg to differ. In his first draft of the ROTJ script, he even wrote dialogue making it explicit that Leia suffered a “fate worse than death.”
At ILM at least it’s an open secret what happens at night in Jabba’s throne room. (Trigger warning: brain-bleach-requiring imagery after that link.)