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Marky2004

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#220157
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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The film isn't dead. Not yet. The only footage George would destroy is his own negatives for the SE's. Lost the footage? Maybe. Destroyed it. No way.

Recreating this footage would be awesome.


Sorry - I didn't mean maliciously destroyed, and I think you're right, lost would be a better comment, but you have to remember that in those days when a rush didn't work, or scene was aborted after a few shots, the footage literally ended up on the cutting room floor, and it was just chucked away - all part of the job.

I'd love to see that scene resurface, or indeed just some shots - that'd put a whole new tilt on this saber

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#219794
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Originally posted by: Marky2004

Well this is a truely amazing bit of detail--thanks for illuminating a little bit more of this unknown bit of Star Wars trivia.

Would be cool to maybe make a neat video of the saber to show how it opens up and collapses to get a better sense of the visuals of the scene.

And that is a shame if the scene is lost forever. It was completed and edit because there was music scored for it, which is available on the uncut RTOJ SE 2-disk release. Very surprising that something this major could have been thrown away. There are, as far as i know of, no production still of any kind for this sequence, only a storyboard. So this lightsaber is the only physical proof of the scenes existance! jeez...


Unfortunately, footage like this probably wouldn't have held any value at the time - these days everything is kept (and sometimes to rediculous lengths) because everyone knows a DVD will be made and they can get extra mileage out of it, but way back when, no value was attached other than for the crew to have a laugh, so i guess it's more luck than judgement that we have as much as we have!

I'm going to have a word with a couple of collegues tomorrow to see what we can come up with to shoot the saber in action but without making it look cheesy so I'll keep you informed...

Mark
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#219779
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Zombie - the cave saber opens out in 3 sections to about 41cm to show some "internal workings", it then telescopes shut in one smooth action with a very satisfying "whoosh" from some cleverly built pistons to then be identical to the classic ROTJ saber, in that state it can even be belt hung (not that you ever would !!!!!).

It's a lovely piece of engineering.

From what I've been told , this scene was shot on location and also in the studio for later compositing, but I'm told the footage has been destryed - a terrible shame, but I'm not giving up hope!

Mark
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#219761
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Hi - new to this forum, but have seen Building Empire & I really admire your work. I have a couple of items that you may want to include somewhere in the edit of Jedi.

I have the original lightsaber fired from R2-D2 on the Sailbarge, it's the one used on April 23rd 1982 as they wrapped shooting on the location sailbarge set. It's used in both closeups, although the first closeup was shot later after the top of the saber received some damage from aborted shots. It's also the one shown flying through the air, though not of course the one Luke catches.

But more interesting from your point of view, I have the original gadget hero saber used (yes - used, & yes - original) on the lost shots of Luke in the cave building his saber and inserting it into R2's head in November that year.

I don't know if these items are of interest to you, or if you can include them in the project, but if you want to then you'd be welcome.

Mark, UK