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Excellent. Obviously late to this party but now I'm totally fascinated with this. (Maybe I can debate the end of The Sopranos too since I'm timely like that.)
Huh, I'm on the list, somebody must have named names.
You wanted to be around when I made a mistake, this could be it sweetheart.
I think it's Lorne Peterson, the ILM guy.
Wow! This looks interesting. Now I just have to get my old ass to sign up and figure out reddit. Somebody's gotta have a 2k scanner in their garage by now, I thought this was the future.
Ryan McAvoy said:
Checkout Orson Welles's 1973 documentary/essay/forgery 'F For Fake'
I've seen it, but I don't consider the situation with Star Wars comparable.
What he shot is pretty far from a disaster, that's just one of those dramatic "facts" that gets passed around a lot and becomes true. The greatest editor in the world will be the first to say you can't actually make a shitty movie great after the fact. George was sharp as a tack when it came to shooting what was necessary and possible and the actors are allowed to be loose and likeable. Thats pure good directing.
So they showed JEDI in hollywood last night and lucasfilm provided a 35mm print of the 97 special edition. 3 years ago Empire was a digital presentation of the DVD version. Progress? (Also, apparently the crowd cheered the ghost Sebastian Shaw)
The movie is a blast. Just make sure you see it somewhere good though, the digital projection was so utterly shitty where I saw it.
There was a line cut out where they get into the Death Star and Wedge sees the big reactor thing and says the x wing torpedoes won't even hurt it. But the Falcon and its tricked out gunnery can. In essence it would not have worked if the unconventional Falcon hadn't been there. If that line had been left in it might have alleviated the idea that the same mistake had been made twice. (And made good use of the "character" of the Falcon as well and adding weight to Han's insistence on it being used.
For what it's worth, bantha tracks 29 has some good editdroid related pictures.
http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/specialreports/banthatracks/
September, according to this. The artwork is really great. (The interview reminded me of reason 37G I liked the Sebastian Shaw Anakin ghost better-the 2 old jedi invoked the image of Starkiller and General Skywalker)
Get back to work. Your client can't give himself a Cleveland Steamer.
Here's a dumb question, is Star Wars making enough money? The movies will be huge naturally, but is the ancillary stuff in trouble? I recently heard that the merchandising from Episode I 3D last year was the biggest retail disaster in the history of star wars merchandise (and the clone wars toys and ratings took a major hit even before that). Maybe disney is just taking a hard look at the numbers of everything that isn't a movie.
I think that was part of the save Clone Wars campaign. (They were rallying people to vote for those characters). Even though Clone wars Yoda seems like a real dick from what I've seen.
Awesome.
She's gonna look fine, what the fuck.
The making of book seemed to indicate that there was even some feeling that, before ILM moved up north, all the Galactica people were there at the Van Nuys building and took note of early planning for Empire and that's how an ice planet ended up in Galactica.
The Veronica Mars movie had to get approval from Warner ahead of time before they could do the kickstarter, anything involving someone else's IP would be the same.
I want 3 plain vanilla blu-rays of the old movies. Nothing else means anything until then. It's all just frosting without a cake.
Ah, the quake, I got thrown out of bed, flying out like a cartoon. The water and power was out for days. Luckily there was a swimming pool we could use to fill up a gallon jug and fill the toilet tank with!
I'm not positive but that quote seems to be referring to the trims and alternate angles and b roll that were used for the 2004 version when they talk about the '94 L.A. earthquake damaged stuff. The actual cut negative of the regular movie should be ok, normally it would have been in some midwest salt mine with all the other WB theatrical releases. Ideally.
Bingowings said:
That was never on the cards for ROTJ though was it?
Back at the beginning when the Vietnamese as big apes were in the end of the only planned Star Wars film it might have happened but by the time that idea got to Episode VI they were always little bears.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think in the early stages (like late 80 early 81), the original wookiee concept was split into the very short ewaks and the really tall yuzzem. The ewaks were kind of creepy looking at first.
Cartoon network moving the show to Saturday mornings was a decision that predated the Disney thing, so I have to wonder how long the show would have gone on even with George still in charge. When Young Indy was canceled, he kept going with a handful of TV movies to wrap it up that showed on cable, which really doesn't sound much different than what is happening now anyway.
"No, not Detours!", said nobody. It's weird how carefully worded that press release is, I wonder why they cant just say " x number of episodes are still in the pipeline and they will come out" or whatever. Everything is always so coy with LFL.