The Daicon IV anime convention (1983) opened with a short film that includes some interesting (unauthorized) characters…
https://x.com/THR/status/1905017366750343234
Clive Revill, Voice of the Emperor in ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ Dies at 94
Interesting they report his passing with this role that hasn’t been officially part of the film for many years.
Lego TFA has most of the cast returning for new dialogue, which seems kind of insane today. I wonder what kind of shiny thing they dangled in front of Harrison Ford for this.
There’s probably a thread or you can make one for that kind of thing. I wonder who the “industry professionals” are.
I think maybe they will release a 23-disc Blu-ray box set of Star Wars from the original camera negatives in 4K.
Very optimistic of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtjfWvWowgM
I think it’s the lighting. I’m impressed with how well her hairs are showing up in front of the greenscreen background, but the lighting is bad. I do not know enough to say more than that.
Also the double establishing shot is weird and both of them are bad
I dunno it’s like both their faces are slightly weird, or like tired and puffy, like they got called back the studio in the middle of the night for George’s big Shakespeare moment.
Probably some kind of re-shoot shenanigans. There are a few bits where the actors look weirdly different, like they’re tired or the hair and makeup is off.
Is there a downloadable version of the UK 1982 ITV broadcast?
If not, could someone who might have a copy tell me if Luke misses with the grappling hook?
Apologies if this has been asked a million times and causes a laugh or facepalm, I’m desperate.Cheers
Hi HappyToast, unfortunately it has been asked a million times and at this stage seems to be apocryphal.
I agree that it sounds kind of low energy, it sounds kind of like a midi to me.
Right? It’s like a callback to the original Lucasarts games.
I like Luke and Artoo, and Luke winking at Threepio and holding Leia’s hand. Especially the scene between Mark and Carrie that feels real to me. Mutual love and respect.
These kind of real moments aren’t common in the series tbh.
Can I just say though that the title crawl music is still wrong. Like it’s the wrong mix. I can’t remember if they used this version in all three or just the first two.
I haven’t seen TFA in a while and last time around I felt like it runs out of steam by the third act. I just get kind of bored for some reason despite the dramatic highlights. Meanwhile TLJ I just randomly revisited and I still think it’s a notch above. It’s not well structured in the middle despite the action build ups (the saber breaking and the lightspeed crash) and I don’t like how often it stalls on Canto Bight. Rose and DJ still don’t work for me as fake morality paths for Finn. And the climax where she nearly kills herself and Finn is nonsense. It should have been edited to show Finn’s speeder crashing by itself out of luck. That being said I still like nearly all of the Luke stuff and Mark Hamill’s performance. I just find it interesting. Shame the Rey parent stuff/Kylo stuff is a dead end though thanks to part three… which I haven’t gone back to despite a mildly improved fan version.
Maybe they don’t want TFA and ROTS clashing in the same year?
Yeah I was going to post about this as I don’t know what this service is. Or how it’s a thing. I assume it’s going to be pulled ASAP.
On social media a few people were talking about it, and somebody said it was Harmy’s version. Very fishy.
This isn’t too surprising considering they’ve done this for the previous 2 Prequel films
Did AotC get a re-release?
I don’t remember that one but then TPM got a 25th anniversary one last year just to be confusing. Maybe it’s a pandemic timing thing. Or in the case of this year a cash thing.
Hopefully, the news is true
It’s not.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/kathleen-kennedy-says-im-not-retiring/
We’ll probably make an announcement months or a year out, and I have every intention of sticking around to help that person be successful. I’m already producing the Mandalorian movie, and Shawn Levy’s is after that.
KK is not retiring
I knew it.
Looks nice, though I’m always against TIE Advance models appearing so soon in the timeline. The new release schedule is at least interesting, since they could have insisted the writers change the pacing. I really hope they stick the landing on this.
After all those click-bait style thumbnails over the years I’m still not convinced it’s true this time. They just changed fired to retired, and it’s already been reported as speculation. Who are Puck News?
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-exit-lucasfilm-1236319794/
She intends to retire after her current contract ends, according to a source with knowledge of her plans. A separate source close to Kennedy, however, dismissed the initial report by Puck as “pure speculation” and said nothing has been decided.
I have to admit it would be pretty funny if he saw someone’s random email and was like ‘oh okay, why not’.
Oh right, yeah they also did that for RoboCop some years ago.
When real production actually starts on one of these I’ll believe it.
Apparently every species has the same blood, not just the human ones.
Ponda Baba’s blood looked more brown than red to me.
But somehow they all have perfect living conditions for the “M Count”…
This project is sadly cancelled.
I still don’t know what the project was, but this part was pretty funny.
Apparently every species has the same blood, not just the human ones.
It’s just so hard to take Star Wars seriously if Rise of Skywalker is actually a thing that happened. Where do you even go after “secret fleet of 10,000 Star Destroyer Death Stars” and “Palpatine magically returns and electrocutes the sky”?? I can’t take it seriously after that because we are now firmly in the Spaceballs Universe and only Mel Brooks should be allowed to direct from now on.
I have a suggestion but I am holding it for ransom from The Walt Disney Company.
The classic “it was all a dream” cold open?