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Somehow, Rick Moranis and the gang returned…

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/spaceballs-2-enters-production-as-table-read-reunites-rick-moranis-bill-pullman-and-daphne-zuniga/

Well, if this turns out to be another misfire, at least it should be a good-looking misfire -

https://www.thewrap.com/top-gun-maverick-dp-will-shoot-star-wars-starfighter/

And here’s another early look at things -

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-starfighter-first-look-ryan-gosling-1236522249/

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

To coincide with both the 50th (!) anniversary of STAR WARS (1977) and the 40th anniversary of their original adventures…Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, and Rick Moranis are returning to a Galaxy Far Far Away…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w&t=102s

Here’s a bit more context by KK herself -

https://deadline.com/2025/02/kathleen-kennedy-clarifies-lucasfilm-exit-star-wars-future-1236304421/

Ryan Gosling may be onboard for Shawn Levy’s upcoming movie -

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-wars-ryan-gosling-in-talks-shawn-levys-1236084451/

Nice to see another top notch clip adywan, and intrigued to find out what you have in mind for ROTJ:R now.

Good to hear you’re doing well.

Have a great Christmas.

Just to wish adywan and everyone here at OT(.)com a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Fantastic news that you’ve been recovering well adywan.

Good to see your latest update, and your re-grading continues to look terrific as always.

My local cinema started showing a few re-releases this month (Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, and Rogue One), so I braved taking a couple of my younger family members to see the current version of A NEW HOPE on the big screen for their first time viewing last week.

They should be sued under the Trades Description Act for using ‘1977’ in their advertising, but I knew going in that it would just be the latest ‘Special Edition’ version - so I had to suffer the likes of the Ronto’s butt…the jawa swinging from a Ronto…Greedo’s “Maclunkey!”…and Han standing on Jabba’s tail etc. as best I could. 😃

I hadn’t actually seen the latest ‘Disney’ version before, so the new silver ‘Lucasfilm’ logo at the beginning set my teeth on edge a little - while it suits the more ‘sombre’ mood of The Empire Strikes Back quite well, I’ll always prefer the colouful previous version to kick off Star Wars and Return Of The Jedi, due to it’s more ‘optimistic’ visually-interesting look. Just a minor thing in the scheme of things, however. The likes of the Mos Eisley scenes also looked quite washed out, compared to the more vibrant colour of the previous ‘Special Edition’ releases I noted.

The kids thoroughly enjoyed the movie however, and I was glad that they got to see and hear it on the big screen for maximum impact. The score and sound effects sounded terrific of course (If I ever happen to be watching a movie on my own, I like to listen through headphones for a similar ‘cinematic sound’, so as not to annoy my neighbours!), and now they are looking forward to seeing The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi on the big screen next week also. They are in for a treat, but I’ll just have to suck up ‘Jedi Rocks’ too, I guess… 😃

Just caught up with your recent health troubles Ady. How awful. But I’m heartened to hear that you are feeling much improved after your latest treatment in the NHS Bacta Tank.

All the very best for your recovery, and I’ve just added a lengthy update of your marvellous recent work over on the ‘STAR WARS REVISITED by Adywan’ thread on the Fanedit(.)org site.

May the Force be with you.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - 1950’s Super Panavision 70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqhAoMkFUc - from the Abandoned Films YouTube channel (1.07 min. long)

Star Wars - 1950’s Super Panavision 70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUm3oRYV7yM - from the Abandoned Films YouTube channel (1.23 min. long)

Although A.I.-generated vids like these are still in their infancy (and weirdly-creepy due to their limitations), I really liked the ‘retro’ stylings and effort put into these couple of short examples. And the overall colour-grading also makes me yearn for a big-budget, live-action sci-fi or fantasy done with a similar 50’s look overall. Which reminds me, I must have a re-watch of ‘Forbidden Planet’ again for it’s wonderful, now ‘old-school’ production design and settings.

Check out some of the other neat examples over there, such as ‘Dune’ and ‘The Matrix’ amongst others - https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms/videos

Patty Jenkins is back working on a script for the stalled Rogue Squadron movie it seems -

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/patty-jenkins-rogue-squadron-star-wars-wonder-woman-3-canceled-1235941798/

adywan said:

ROTJ:R is back in production.

Great to hear!

Good to see the vibrant blue skies of Tatooine restored again, and looking forward to the video comparisons of your grading improvements.

Your points are valid of course J J B, and it will be interesting to see how all this pans out eventually.

I didn’t catch that this development had been mentioned on page 113 of the ‘Unusual Sequel Trilogy Radical Redux Ideas Thread’ yesterday, before I brought it up here - and I’ve now added the video shown by idir_hh in that thread to my previous post above.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Bearded Kylo riding on a Tauntaun is the ST’s biggest missed opportunity.

Going off at a bit of a tangent here, but it’s really quite amazing what various tech-heads are coming up with regarding ‘creative AI’ at the moment. And really quite worrying too in certain ways!

The latest development which OpenAI has come up with seems to give impressive video generating results just by interpreting whatever your text instructions are.

While a Tauntaun-riding, bearded Kylo wouldn’t necessarily salvage the sequels… 😉, it sure makes me wonder how all this will evolve over the coming years… - https://mashable.com/article/how-to-try-sora-openai-video-generator

Some further examples of what ‘Sora’ can do - https://openai.com/sora

And another video about it here too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpdyAWLDas

Great new preview clip adywan.

Wishing you and everyone here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Nice to see things have been resolved now. Thanks for your continued efforts Jay.

Grogu’s journey continues…

Season 3 Teaser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odnRRZKhNPk

Season 3 Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znsa4Deavgg

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.

Well it’s that time of year again, so I’d like to wish adywan and everyone else around here a very MERRY CHRISTMAS.

The blue Tatooine sky as it should be! Lovely jubbly adywan.

(still loving your ‘bush vegetation’ fix during Luke’s exchange with Beru too)

Bridger12 said:

There’s one little mistake I noticed in the movie that has never been fixed.
I don’t think Vader’s forearm should be bending like this, especially after it was cut off at the wrist.

Just so you know, I seem to recall that when this particular issue was brought up long ago, that adywan confirmed he would be doing something to improve it.

Octorox said:

Having him call Darth Vader “Anakin” at this point in the timeline would be a bad idea all around. I think it’s important that when he tells Luke that Darth Vader killed his father, he’s also lying to himself. In his mind, Vader is all hatred and has no Anakin left in him. If he still thinks of Vader as Anakin, it makes his lie to Luke seem more manipulative.

Valid points. As long as it’s not changed to Ben calling him ‘ANI’, I’m good. 😉

Master Lawdog said:

It’s way more than just that. He looks much younger, his hair color is different, even his beard his a little different.

Indeed M L, I was just kidding around with you - but the lack of care taken with trimming/colouring Obi-wan’s facial hair (in the lightsaber scenes with Anakin) to match a little closer to how he looked in ‘Attack Of The Clones’ is just a trivial detail to me in the scheme of things…compared to my own bigger bugbears concerning the many dodgy ‘creative choices’ and contradictory aspects seen and heard across ALL the live-action offerings which came after the Original Trilogy, including the ones in ‘Attack Of The Clones’ and this current show.

Anyway, back to this Deepfake malarky. I happened to come across this creepy one the other day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPU0WNUzsBo

And here’s a short teaser from the guys behind it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_oUcVxKtqg

Yeah, that missing forehead spot really took me out of it… 😃

arabian said:

So with the latest episode of Kenobi, is anyone working on deep-faking Anakin in the practice-fight scene with Obi-Wan?

Came across this one for anyone interested in how a ‘younger’ Anakin could have looked like in the latest episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-N2ywWhOw

(another interesting thread EddieDean, by the way)