thekremlin

My dad took me to see Star Wars at our local cinema when it first came out. I was four. I remember being terrified at Vader's entrance. When we got home he painted me a picture of Luke standing by the Falcon. I can still remember it now. Got an R2 figure soon after.

Empire: we went to see Empire as a family on holiday in Blackpool in 1980. My brother would have been two. I had a red plastic Star Wars hat and, on the same holiday, was not allowed to buy the 12" Luke figure. I was devastated. I did however get the Luke Bespin figure which slightly made up for it.

Jedi: my dad brought home a pirate video and surprised me by putting it on. I can still remember seeing the Lucasfilm logo and wondering what on earth was occurring! Then the crawl... the new Star Wars film at home!! Unbelievable! A week or so later my mam took me and my friend, Zac, to see it at the cinema.

http://www.theimaginariumstudios.com

Yep, I agree. Sounds like a continuation of the PT rather than the OT. Time will tell, I suppose...

Stuff and nonsense... I'm not sure I like the sound of it, to tell you the truth. Possible spoilers... blah... blah...

http://makingstarwars.net/2014/06/6-13-14-now-podcasting-episode-37/

Any chance we can not link to The Sun? It's an offensive rag that does nothing but lie. It should not be encouraged.

The opera/Darth Plagius scene. Great music.

The Anakin/Padme bit where they look across Coruscant. No dialogue, great music.

Watto.

The bit in TPM when the Battletanks are moving across the Naboo plains.

The start of Sith up until Artoo jumps out of the fighter.

Anakin chopping off Count D's head.

Order 66.

The worst thing about that video is everyone nodding along and laughing while they grin and bear it. I really do wonder if anyone on those three films had the balls to say, "You know, George, that's not really a very good idea." at any point. I would assume not.

I wonder if George will come out of retirement.

I was thinking of making an ebook (mobi, epub) of all the original scripts (if it already exists... tell me now!) so I've pulled all the ones I can find together. Does anyone know if there are any out there I haven't found yet? Here's what I've got:

Star Wars - 5/73
Star Wars - 5/74
Star Wars - 7/74
Star Wars - 1/75
Star Wars - 8/75
Star Wars - 1/76
Star Wars - 3/76
Star Wars - 2/77 (SE 2/97) - Not sure about this one!

Empire - LB 1st Draft
Empire - 4th Draft
Empire - Final
Empire - Some of LK's handwritten notes

Jedi - 6/81
Jedi - 12/81
Jedi - 12/82

Obviously this is non-profit, educational purposes only. For my own amusement. etc etc

Mrebo said:

Curious possible casting choice.

The source is The Sun. Probably some writer had one too many at lunchtime and had a bit of space to fill.

I'd like to see Luke as the baddie. Perhaps they could have Han and Leia killed at the start of EP VII, perhaps as a consequence of the New Republic doing something idiotic. This pushes him over the edge and he goes off on a revenge mission and he plots to overthrow the NR. The new Jedi he has trained have to stop him. Mark Hamill could use his Joker voice and everything.

imperialscum said:

thekremlin said:

Has GL ever given a decent reason for why he killed Maul off? Or was it just another misguided attempt at symphonic symmetry (Maul/Kenobi)?

 

PS. Hello everyone! First post. :)

I think he wanted to make some conclusion. I mean if one of the main heroes is killed, the general audience expects a dead villain as a compensation. :)

If that was the idea surely it would have been better to have allowed Maul to live because then we'd have known he was someone to be reckoned with, someone we didn't like and someone to spark a bit of tension for Kenobi and Anakin rather than Grievous who was just rubbish. He could also have fulfilled the role of Dooku with a only a little bit of jiggery pokery.

Killing Maul was a missed opportunity to have a really cool villain in all three films. It was similar to killing Boba Fett in such a crap way IMO. Waste of a good character.

Has GL ever given a decent reason for why he killed Maul off? Or was it just another misguided attempt at symphonic symmetry (Maul/Kenobi)?

PS. Hello everyone! First post. :)