It took me a second to recognize Kasdan in the last two photos as he’s rarely present in BTS photos (which isn’t to strange considering people rarely bother to take photos of people writing movies).
Kasdan and Lucas both shopped at Chess King apparently. 😉
Anyone know which scene that last photo is from?
The only glimpse we get of the bigger fleet ships in the hangar. Too big even for the massive set at Elstree.
Whoa. Did not know that. Phil is looking a lot like Ray Harryhausen these days, or Santa Claus, I can’t decide…
I loved seeing that in the theater. I called out, “It looks like shit!” 😀
o_O
I do recall among the cantina patron costume sketches in The Art Of Star Wars a character or two were called local uglyman.
So there was a talent agency specializing in Ugly looking gents? Only in England! 😉
And I can’t believe I never saw that Threepios cereal commercial before. They spent some serious money on these ads. A new shot of Ackbar’s(?) cruiser headed towards a planet and a rock alien planet in the other commercial.
https://youtu.be/Fe3TWZ_3qRg
https://youtu.be/p00WyfM6ALc
Ewok head shops were briefly popular in the 80’s
Well, Clarice, have the Ewoks stopped screaming?
Why yes, I am a movie star! Thanks for noticing…
The heck? The Unknown Comic was in ROTJ?
Can’t I just sacrfice myself and go up with the shield generator, George?
No, Harrison…
Interesting that George is wearing an ESB crew jacket considering the efforts they took to hide the ROTJ location shoot under the Blue Harvest name.
And I wish they made those jackets now.
Have anyone seen any photos of this droid before? The post said it was from ROTJ, but I couldn’t spot it in the torture droid scene, so this is either a background character that didn’t make the cut or they replaced it with another design at some point.
The trailer for the CW movie I presume?
Yeah, don’t know if there is any interest in it here. Does anyone know if the TCW movie had a physical film release or was it digital only?
There were definitely film prints made, as none of the theaters near me had gone digital yet in 2008.
I’m just curious why any cam rips would be around these days to begin with. I doubt the movie has ever really been out of print in the past 20 years, and I’ve seen a few Russian DVD copies for sale online.
A lot can happen over 40 years. That Japanese documentary footage with a visit to Elstree and interviews with Kubrick and his daughter Vivian, (who directed the making of doc) right after The Shining was released only surfaced a couple years ago.
There’s been some confusion for years with the U.S. and shorter European cuts co-existing, but never specifically labelled as such.
It’s a miracle those in theater recordings for Star Wars and ESB exist at all.
Steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown said in a podcast interview last year that he had recently requested a print from Warner Bros. containing the hospital scene to show in one of his lecture presentations. He felt the scene was some of his best camera work, but WB declined. Not that they don’t have it. So either he’s mistaken, or a complete print is sitting in a vault somewhere.
Would like to see screen shots of these mysterious Russian cam rips if they exist.
The trailer for the CW movie I presume?
The Boba Fett figure was out way before ESB though, especially if you sent in your Kenner proof of purchase seals. 😃
So was the costume built before the Holiday Special cartoon was made?
Are there screenshots of these?
Do cam versions even exist? Video gear was very bulky in 1980, not something you could sneak into a movie theater. Unless somebody was buddy buddy with a projectionist in L.A. or the New York area opening weekend and set something up after hours, it seems very unlikely.
I have wondered about the possibility of an in-theater audio recording, like those that have surfaced for Star Wars, Empire and a couple other movies.
I think it was an off the shelf jacket modified for those productions.
I sometimes wonder if that jacket was borrowed from Space: 1999, although I don’t recall ever seeing a yellow one on the show. 😉
May just be a primer coat. It occurs to me that the Kenner toy is about the same size as the filming miniature if not slightly larger!
The shot of Vader at a console may be from that VHS/Board game that came out in the 90’s?
How does one take something that looked perfectly fine as a DVD extra and make it worse?
