Sluggo

jedi93 said:

Hey guys!!! In 2007 I went to Celebration Europe and I meet Robert Watts. He gave me his e-mail address and, the other day i asked him about the lost sandstorm scene and this is what he said: "Regarding the sandstorm sequence, I cannot remember what was in the script for this sequence as it was never in the movie. However attached is a photo taken during the shooting of this sequence.It shows left to right, David Tomblin the assistant director, myself, George Lucas and Richard Marquand the director. You can see how we are dressed, to protect us from the blowing sand. The sequence does not exist so I cannot get you a copy. 

 

 

 You got us a new pic from the cut sandstorm sequence!  You are the man!  As is Watts.   Send him a big thanks from Sluggo.

Bingowings said:

Sluggo said:

Bingowings said:

I noticed that this Treadwell might as well be called Deadwell, It's just sitting in the middle of the hanger not moving or working on anything, doesn't it know there is a war on?:

 

 Not a bad idea.  Maybe a different color than the orange to distinguish it from that was seen everywhere on Tatooine.

To paraphrase Lady Bracknell "the colour is immaterial" I was refering to the fact it was a dead prop.

I don't know if it was meant to be moving but broke down or not but stuck where it is, it does look a bit of a strange place for the droid to power down.

Maybe just adding a bit of movement or removing/replacing it could be a possible solution.

 I'm agreeing with you.  I'm just thinking if Ady does go ahead and add a little movement, maybe it could also include a change of the color.

When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?

Good idea.  I am taking you with me Ric.  I need somebody to 'splain to me whats a goin' on.

Agreed, someone should do another one of these.  You have Sluggo's blessing.

Bingowings said:

I noticed that this Treadwell might as well be called Deadwell, It's just sitting in the middle of the hanger not moving or working on anything, doesn't it know there is a war on?:

 

 Not a bad idea.  Maybe a different color than the orange to distinguish it from the one that was seen everywhere on Tatooine. 

So is there any incentive for a non-gamer (me) to think about seeing this?

I'm predicting a win for my Angels tonight.

Meco is dope!  I have 3 of his CD's and a few vinyl 45's.  One of them is even autographed.

Bingowings said:

Talking about cheese that Hadyn Christiansen and Jayke Loydd were as stinky as Gorgonzola.

 How are we supposed to take your opinion of cheese seriously?  You can't even spell "Jake Lloyd"?

Woah, DE is back!

*brain explodes*

I thought your version was pretty good.  I really wouldn't change much.  If you are starting over, any chance you will be working with 1080 or 720?

I think the slugs are getting an unfair treatment.  Slugs are people, too.

-Sluggo

And LFL: Just release the trilogy in it's original form in HD.  Warts and all.  What are you so afraid of?  It might be a surprise to you, but people like Star Wars.  They will buy it.

It was done for the IMAX documentary on special effects called Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

I saw it a few times in the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC back in 96 or 97 or so.  It was really cool.  The shot of the Falcon blasting into hyperspace at the end was mindblowing.

It is a shame that this hasn't been released ever.

The imdb article is helpful: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117709/

The recent batch looks great!

I think the only things that look a little odd is the shot of Luke in the speeder looks a little more pale than your first render.  And the last shot of Leia, Lando and Chewie in the cockpit looks a bit overprocessed.  Maybe that is just me.

One of you guys needs to get a job at one of these transfer studios, work there for a while to build up some cred and do the transfer on a lunchbreak. 

And you shouldn't have to pay some clown a shopping cart (or trolley for my pals across the pond) full of money to get it done right.

Just sayin'.

xhonzi said:

But my suggestion was to use Infinities to backdoor complete rewrites.  Maybe reuse character names and likenesses if they have to.  And give it to authors that were working in Star Wars prior to the Prequels and had some private concept of what the Clone Wars were and how the Fall of the Jedi/Republic went down, etc. etc...

 I love this idea! 

No way in H-E-Double-Hell is it going to happen.  And honestly, unless one of these Infinities ideas gets made into a movie, I don't think I'd be interested.

And on the flip side, what happens if Lucas gives the green light, and then some EU writer or video game programmer exposes the prequels as the joke that they are?  I don't see Lucas being secure enough to show him up as the beloved, flannel-wearing story-teller.

Should this heresy version of SW ever get made, it needs to have lots of R2 bloopers from the old Making of Star Wars documentary.

Bobocop said:

I stumbled upon this picture of what I can only assume is George Lucas' long lost brother and his family. Surely we can work them into a few scenes somewhere.

 

 I believe http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ is what you are thinking of.

Jono11 said:

russs15 said:

Check out the majority of threads on this website at the moment and you will get some fantastic ideas for this thread.

I like my Star Wars as I saw it in the theatre. Sorry!!

Aren't the majority of threads on this website just preservations of the various versions of the theatrical cut?

 

Unfortunately, no. 

Secondary Picture Track based on Clones Revealed, Sith Revealed, Beginning Star Wars, Building Empire, Returning to Jedi.

I don't know how good those would look compared to the HD versions of the Saga.  If you went the secondary picture track, I'd rather have the 97 SE and the 04 DVD as a secondary track and a color-corrected version with some of the more offesive SE parts removed as the main picture track. 

And I like the idea of one trilogy per disc so I can watch my favorite movies all on one disc.

Animated menus would kick butt.

I read the novels and the Han Solo books about once a year.  I watch my laserdisc transfers of the trilogy frequently and play Lego Star Wars on the PS3 sometimes.  Really, between college classes and my career, I wish my favorites got more attention.

Favorite of my remaining toys?

 That's about it.

skyjedi2005 said:

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I always wondered did the good in luke and leia come from Padme? Or the love of the foster parents.   I mean their is little good shown in Anakin in the prequels as a confused and horny emo teenager, so i guess Its the foster parents,lol.

I mean good and evil as an hereditary thing rather than a moral choice.

That only works through the prequel lens of revisionist history.  I think I would prefer to say that Luke and Leia got their good qualities from Anakin and their mother even though the execution of the characters was botched.

I think there is interest.

Bingowings said:

Wasn't it something like "and you call yourselves human"?

That seems to be more of an expression of moral indignation than emotional turbulence.

Leia possibly had been trained to keep her emotions in check and stay focussed on the task at hand but going by what she does in ESB and ROTJ she often let's that slip and that must have been one hell of an emotional stab to the heart for her.

 This line would have been interesting as it would have shortly followed the (then) cut line of "Jabba, you're a wonderful human being."  The contrast of these lines close together is interesting.