SilverWook

They look like they're at a certain hidden rebel base. And I spot some recycled props from TFA. :)

Will somebody give this guy a hint?

https://www.inverse.com/article/3942-why-finding-the-original-1977-star-wars-verges-on-the-impossible

And I take great offense at the idea only insane people own a Laserdisc player at this point. ;)

OMG! That made my day, and Jaxxon's too. :)

Got a link to who made that comic?

Elan is named in the credits. :)

The used speeder lot guy is easily the creepiest alien in any of the films to date.

If a sequel was to BTTF was seriously being considered during production, everyone would have been contracted for at least one more film at the time. They certainly wouldn't gamble losing Michael J Fox to some other project. He was shooting BTTF and Family Ties concurrently as it was, and his star was rising.

Other films have more blatantly promised a sequel, and we're still waiting. ;)

Luke's ROTJ duds are so black, it's often hard to see the fine details in the film. And in all of the location Endor sequences it's mostly covered by a rebel poncho.

I never even noticed before that Luke loses the outer tunic somewhere between the Ewok village and his capture...

The lines of the TFA costume seem to follow the old outfit, but the tunic is much longer.

Anchorhead said:

ZkinandBonez said:

...but it's a tad better than making a blatant reference to Don Quixote.

Don Quixote and Don Juan aren't the same person. Different stories and very different characters.

*edit*

I missed the Kahotay reference. Lame on both counts.

 The comics could get away with that sort of thing to a degree the movies can't. The whole of that particular storyline is completely lifted from Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven.

And I'll take Don-Wan Kihotay over Elan Sleazebaggano any day of the week. ;)

Makes sense, in a George Lucas sort of way.

Only Goofy wasn't manipulated into putting a sith lord into power, ultimately causing the deaths of billions across the galaxy. ;)

That's a cool shot of the first Doctor(s), but I don't think anybody in 1983 or 2013 was under the impression William Hartnell was still alive.

If Lucas was paying enough attention at the time to give my favorite meat eating rabbit trouble, he or an assistant could have sent notes about Jedi garb.

Given that the Marvel guys weren't able to do anything with Vader for a while, (after the movie adaptation, he didn't reappear until issue 21) I imagine an Obi Wan story had to be run by someone at Lucasfilm?

Since the Jedi underwater breather thingy is just a rip of Sean Connery's gadget in Thunderball...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeoLKR1Q12U

If that's too subtle, the 007 theme would work as well.

JEDIT: You could also use the MST3K version of the 007 theme, as Agent For H.A.R.M came out in the latest DVD set. ;)

It's debatable whether Kihotay was just a crazy old guy who admired the Jedi, and found a lost lightsaber though. His name is a lot better than some prequel characters I won't name. ;)

He did don some armor when going into battle.

The Obi Wan flashback story from issue #24, set during the Old Republic era gives us a different outfit, which ties in nicely with Luke's ROTJ look.

It all boils down to an actor wanting control over their likeness. If it was a bad performance, you wouldn't want people thinking that was you?

If not for the bad blood between Glover and the filmmakers, things might have been ironed out in advance. His replacement didn't get a large credit either.

I don't know what was said when BTTF II came out, but the filmmakers certainly were not drawing attention to the Glover situation, at the same time not making a secret of reshooting the ending of BTTF, to incorporate the new Jennifer.

Nobody was thinking sequel when the original film wrapped.

I would think a large number of prints were made and probably left over when the attraction closed in the 90's.

If Kodak is still the corporate sponsor, they must have ways of cleaning and maintaining a print. It's not like they would have to spruce up a two hour film made up of multiple reels every night.

Sounds like it might be fan edit gold.

Unless you stuck around for the closing credits, some people may have thought Glover's replacement was actually him. (Glover's credit, with the tiny mention of it being stock footage, is at the very bottom of the cast list.) And as Leonardo pointed out, there was an issue of compensation for using stock footage of an actor for a new film, and Screen Actor's Guild has rules about it now.

Marty's girlfriend changed and nobody noticed. ;)

Go ahead and spoil the ending of TFA, why don't you? ;)

Ben must have gone off world at least once during all those years. He was pretty familiar with Mos Eisely, and where to find the best pilots for hire.

Post TCW, there's very little ground left to cover between AOTC and ROTS.

Maybe there's a Qui Gon story to be told before TPM, but would Liam Neeson want to come back at this point?

Maybe it's tech to keep every spinoff from costing $200 million to make?

I doubt the Kenobi one is going to be entirely set on Tatooine either.

Note the multiple still cameras. Action figure scan, or are they shooting a hologram sequence?

Uncorrected sample posted to the old AMPS site many moons ago...

ATMachine said:

Does anyone else suspect that the villain General Hux (Domnhall Gleeson's character) is named for the Huxtable family from The Cosby Show -- ie, that the name might be a swipe of sorts at Bill Cosby, given what's come to light about him in the past year?

Abrams claims to be unable to remember where the name came from. Maybe that's true. Or maybe it's plausible deniability.

 The final nails in Cosby's career coffin didn't come to light until well after the movie wrapped. And the script would have been written before the scandal broke.

DuracellEnergizer said:

In that case, I think "Phanta" or "Phantas"would have made a better homage than "Phasma".