In the making of documentary they said they decided to do that as a tease for how tough the game gets later on. I guess keeping the hardcore gamer skeptic in mind. I think the thought process was that players that dared venture there would quickly realize they weren’t ready and then leave right away.
27-disc 4K Skywalker Saga to street 3/31/2020.
(Includes very short, non-spoiler comments on Rise of Skywalker)
27 discs?!?
Carol Wikarska Titelman, director of publications during the early days of Lucasfilm, died on Dec. 7 in her New York apartment. She was 73.
Titelman died following complications with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement released on her behalf.
Titelman began her career at Lucasfilm answering phones in the months before “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’s” release. She rose to head three key departments — art, publishing and creative services, including all photography and negotiations of book deals — in support of George Lucas’ original trilogy. In the late ’70s, she aided the creation of art-focused books, particularly with editorial work on “The Art of Star Wars.”
As Titleman’s most ambitious project, “The Art of Star Wars” was designed by Mike Salisbury and published by Ballantine in late 1979. The art book — which included the original “New Hope” script illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie — has since been reprinted in many formats and multiple languages, including the 1994 and 1997 expanded and special edition issues.
Titleman left Lucasfilm after Lucas decided to move the company to Northern California.
Titelman was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1947. She graduated from UC Berkeley and became involved in the creative community of the Bay Area. Her circle included poet Michael Davidson, filmmaker Tom Luddy, performance artist Carolee Schneemann and Rolling Stone writer Jonathan Cott.
Titleman is survived by her husband, Russ Titelman.
I’m very saddened by this news. I would always see her name pop up in those early '70s books about the franchise and wondered what she was like. Would have been wonderful to interview her. The Art of Star Wars especially is incredibly important to a lot of people. She will be missed.
Came to see if news had gotten to you. That’s pretty awesome that he has a copy of Despecialized. The no official OOT though is…sigh.
Matt the Radar Technician’s uniform is now canon. =P
I could also see there being a fear of dynasty, whether that has to do with literal power regarding their bloodline, or just the consolidation of power under a family name and the attachment that comes with having power and a family. I could see their being an interesting Old Republic story that deals with the implications of a Jedi dynasty.
I haven’t played it yet but I think that’s the basis behind The Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion for SWTOR.
Four will end up being important because it was the introduction of Cara Dune who WILL return if not this season, it’s already confirmed she’s in the second season.
Similarly I think we’ll probably learn how or why Chapter Five is important later.
It did feel more like OOT Mos Eisley but they did include that tall SE building in the background.
And yeah, I really hope they bring back Ming-Na.
I love that they even nailed the antennas on top of the buildings. That’s a detail that gets missed a lot when depicting Tatooine.
The only little detail that they didn’t cover that would have sent me over the moon is if there had been a jerba wandering around.
Richard E. Grant’s reaction after seeing TROS for the first time.
Also the bat’leth is stupid. It’s one of the most impractical weapons I’ve ever seen. The knife from The Search For Spock is a much better melee weapon for Klingon warriors.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . .
Years after the events Star Wars Episode 6,
Luke Skywalker teaches a new generation
of Jedi as his Sister Leia leads the Resistance
against rising tyranny of the First Order.
Her son, Ben Solo, who trains with Luke,
is strong with the force; but as time passes
the Master senses darkness rising in the boy.
Afraid that he might follow in the footsteps
of Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker desperately
tries to save his nephew from a terrible future. . . .
STAR WARS - TRAGEDY OF THE CHOSEN ONE
This was surprisingly well done. It really shows the potential Source Filmmaker has for these kinds of projects.
A true legend. She was easily my favorite writer on the original series.
I would seriously consider including a Klingon episode since they’re so integral to the franchise. Errand of Mercy maybe?
But it does make me wonder if Lucasfilm actually has some psuedo-vocabulary they use for simple Huttese when writing alien dialogue for the actors/voice actors to speak, and the variations are just due actors pronouncing words slightly different or loose translations.
I went and dug out my copy of the Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide. Here’s Ben Burtt on the creation of languages in Star Wars:
Returning to the early development of alien speech in Star Wars, I listened to recordings of many foreign languages and found inspiration among many that were entertaining and exotic to my ears. I auditioned language sample tapes from university linguistics departments. I combed through recorded language lessons and even monitored shortwave transmissions from around the world just to get ideas. I especially enjoyed listening to shortwave, because the aberrations and distortions of speech produced by sidebanding and mistuned transmissions gave me many ideas for electronic processing. These I exploited along the way.
Part of my research was to identify interesting real languages to use as a basis for alien ones. The advantage of using a real language is that it possesses built-in credibility. A real language has all the style, consistency, and unique character that only centuries of cultural evolution can bring. I found that if I relied on my familiarity with English, my imagined “alien” language would just be a reworking of the all-too-familiar phonemes of everyday general American speech. I had to break those boundaries, to search for language sounds that were uncommon and even unpronounceable by most of the general audience.
To this end I searched and found several fascinating possibilities. First came Huttese, which I needed for Greedo when he confronted Han Solo in the Mos Eisley cantina. I heard some recordings of Quechua, an ancient native language of Peru. Some phrases had a comic rhyming. It had a musical intonation. There were smacking sounds and clicks not a common part of speech or of any of the familiar Romance languages. I collected recordings of Quechua and searched for someone who could speak the language.
Out of this research came a linguistics graduate student from Berkeley. His name was Larry Ward, and he already could speak eleven languages, though Quechua wasn’t one of them. But Larry was gifted with the talent of mimicking any language. He could listen to Quechua, and then reproduce a stream of sound that would convince you he was speaking fluently. In fact, it was all double-talk, and this was a major discovery for me.
I got together with Larry and reviewed all I had in Quechua. We wrote down the sounds phonetically, invented and derived new sounds based on what we liked, and did some free-form recording sessions. From this activity, Huttese emerged. Once a collection of favorite words and phrases existed, I sat down and carefully studied Greedo’s mouth movements in the cut scene. I wrote out phrases and recorded with Larry specific sentences that were timed to Greedo’s movement. Having Greedo speak a humanlike language wasn’t actually George Lucas’s first choice. At first Greedo was supposed to speak with an electronic, insectlike sound. Then for a while, he spoke in a staccato “oink-oink” language that was created by George and me “oinking” simultaneously into the microphone. The fake Quechua came late in the process.
After recording a good take of each line and editing it to fit Greedo’s snout movement, I made two identical loops of each line. I would play the two copies back in sync, then drag my thumb on the reel of one copy, knocking it a few milliseconds out of sync. The blend of the two slightly out-of-sync recordings produced a phasing effect, or “comb filtering,” as it is also called. It gave the sound a tubular quality that was consistent with a sound generated in Greedo’s long snout. The result was immediately a hit with George and everybody on the crew. Pretty soon everyone was greeting each other in the editing room with the phrase “Koona t’chuta, Solo?” At that point I knew we had a success with Huttese, but I never realized it was going to be taken so much further in the subsequent films.
From there he’s built pretty hefty vocabularies for the various Star Wars languages which are cataloged in the book. Highly recommend it if you’re curious!
Finished it tonight. Took me about 36 hours to 100% completion. LOVED IT! Easily the best Star Wars game since Jedi Outcast. It was fun, visually engaging and had a solid story that managed to utilize and tie together a lot of different things. I really hope they can keep this team together for another game. They absolutely nailed it.
I wonder if this will finally cause studios to stop being so freaked out by the possibility of “spoilers” when it turns out this weird, hugely overstated fear of spoilers is costing them a lot of holiday money now.
I sure hope not. The surprise reveal for ‘The Child’ was great television.
I don’t think they’re going to do that. Adapt OR Eviscerate it. It worked as a book but I can’t imagine an adaptation working at all.
Well you can judge for yourself. Someone is currently working on a rough adaptation of HTTE as we speak.
If you’re in the US, Best Buy is currently having a sale for the 1TB PS4 slim for $199.
Dave has been quietly visiting and interacting with all of the directors that have come on to do all of the new films. It’s been my suspicion for years and now it’s confirmed that he’s been gearing up slowly to start working in live action. He even made reference recently in an interview that Kennedy has been shepherding him through the process. Teaming up with Favreau is the perfect next step for him. They’ve been friends for over a decade. Dave showed Jon early Clone Wars footage and Jon showed him some early Iron Man footage at Skywalker Ranch back around 2007.
In their interviews about the Mandalorian they make it clear that the writing of the show is very collaborative. Jon uses Dave as a sounding board and they work out ideas for episodes together before Jon goes off to write them. And now on set, Jon is mentoring Dave on the art of live action filmmaking.
This has been a long thorough process and I’m excited to see what Dave has in store for the future.
I think it’s an interesting turn for the Mandos. George really turned the established Mando culture on its helmet when he decided to tackle them in the Clone Wars. After his departure Dave has slowly brought them more back in line with what the EU had established.
From what we’ve seen so far, I think the evidence would suggest the Empire nearly wiped them all out. And the survivors believed the reason for this was the abandonment of their old ways. And so now they’ve rededicated themselves to those ancient ways that made their people great originally.
I’m really enjoying these glimpses of their current society.
I have it on PC and it’s been a fantastic experience. Haven’t run into any major bugs or glitches. The big one that I’ve heard of was people going out of there way to break into an area they haven’t unlocked yet and then finding they’ve broken the game. I don’t have much sympathy for them but the devs have said they’re working on a fix.
I like the setup of subverting expectations. We heard Mandalorian and thought kickass bounty hunting and instead we’re going Star Wars does Mr. Mom and people are onboard with it.
This is actually exactly in line with one of the directions I thought they might go. A lot of lone fighter stories tend to ape Lone Wolf and Cub. As such, I was a little disappointed they went that route but the execution thus far has been fantastic.
How can you kill such a giant rhino beast with such a small knife ?
He probably made an educated guess as to where the beast’s carotid artery was.
