Tobar

Caravan of Courage

Temptor (grabby tree creature)

Boar-wolf

Giant Spider

Gorax

Battle For Endor

Blurrg

Condor Dragon

Howard the Duck

Dark Overlord

Willow

Ebersisk

It was great being able to play again but yeah the first ended perfectly whereas the sequel didn't add anything but take away from the ending of the first.

If you guys'd like a vintage visual take on the first of the Han books the blog in my sig is currently covering it.

Not to drag on the debate about the galaxy/forming star. I think the idea that it's a forming star is a pretty good explanation for it. But I thought I'd share this excerpt from the script by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett:

Luke wriggles his fingers, makes a fist, and relaxes it. His hand is completely functional. He gets up and walks over to Leia. There is a new bond between them, a new understanding. Leia is thinking about Han; Luke is thinking about his uncertain and newly complicated future. Together they stand at the large window of the medical center looking out on the Rebel Star Cruiser and a dense, luminous galaxy swirling in space. Luke puts his arm around Leia. The droids stand next to them, and Threepio moves closer to Artoo putting his arm on him. The group watches as the Millennium Falcon moves into view, makes a turn, and zooms away into space.

EXTERIOR: SPACE -- REBEL STAR CRUISER

While Luke, Leia, and the droids stand, looking out the window of the star cruiser, two escort fighters join the large ship. Slowly, the cruiser turns and moves away into space.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXTERIOR: GALAXY -- SPACE


END CREDITS FADE IN AND OUT OVER BACKGROUND

THE END 

The script was published in 1980 in a book titled The Empire Strikes Back Notebook and includes this storyboard with it: 

I think the problem extends from the fact that originally the falcon was supposed to just shrink into the distance but ILM ended up changing it so it veers off screen.

I remember reading in 1983 that George was going to take two years off, then take three years to make the first prequel, which would be released in 1988. If that had actually happened in 1988 (instead of 1999), would you have considered directing one of the prequels? 

Ten years later, I would have said yes to directing one of the prequels. 

 

Check out the article here.

I wasn't sure where to post this but #starwarslies is currently a trending topic on twitter.

Here's an interesting article that I don't think has been linked to yet.

Some interesting excerpts:

BD: Tell me about your role.

JK: It's mostly being the arbiter of good taste. There's a lot of different ways to play stereo. How deep do you go with it? Where do you play convergence? Do you rack convergence? Do you do floating windows? How stylistic do you go on wide shots? Do you leave them realistic? Or do we need to see stereo even on a wide shot with nothing close to camera where you wouldn't really see much. A lot of those kinds of questions need to be answered and I'm trying to provide the answers that result in good-looking stereo that looks to the largest extent possible that it looks like it was shot in stereo; and not with the weird miniaturization or the cardy look or the warped spaces or the edge artifacts that we've seen in other stereo conversions.

BD: So, what's your plan?

JK: What we're doing that one-third forward, two-thirds back use of depth. We'll be using floating windows to maximize good, usable, depth dynamic range. And then, stylistically, I go fairly realistic with the stereo. I don't like hyper stereo and there are a lot of shots in the Star Wars pictures that are meant to be big vista spectacle. It's a big wide view of a city or a space battle, and there's nothing particularly close to camera. Shooting in stereo, you wouldn't get a lot of depth. So I'm not going to go hyper stereo on that because it has a really ugly artifact, in my view, of that miniaturization. You don't want to see that these ships are really closer than the star field and undermine all the effort that we tried to put in to make those scenes have vast scale. So I'm going to play all the wide shots more realistically and rely on the overall context of the sequence where you're right there with the characters, experiencing this with them. And there are loads and loads of action where we're in tighter and closer, and that's where the stereo shines.

TheoOdo said:

You can't forgive someone who isn't sorry.

You certainly can't forgive someone while they are committing the offensive act.

Mmm...I would say you can on both counts. It's certainly not easy but it can be done.

The darkside ending and the subsequent bonus levels that were released for it were entertaining. But I appreciated the "canonical" good ending a lot more because it ends with birthing hope for a better future without the empire and then later Luke takes his place as A New Hope.

bkev said:

Also, there's no way Mark Hamill would come back. What would make him go back to the universe that typecast him? Yeah, I know, money talks, but still...
also, Luasfilm Response to rumor

He's stated in the past that he wouldn't mind returning to Luke for a video game it's just that Lucasarts has never approached him.

Yeah there's a comic going on now called Dark Times. It's actually my personal favorite of the current lines. Only trouble is it's only published sporadically.

Don't know if this will help but I just stumbled upon this in the ESB Notebook:

This really makes those lights up there huge! I'm really liking the new scale but maybe the lights could be addressed as well. But then I dunno how much of Ralph's work should be altered. Either way, looking forward to how it will all turn out in the end.

none said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMbdG6eB-8&feature=player_embedded

John Williams Conducts while Galina and Valery Panov Ballet.

via:clubjade.net

Dang it, I was just coming in here to post that. =P It also might help to note this is circa 1978 and was part of a salute to Israel turning 30. It's also a STAR WARS BALLET! 

Looks like it was Star Tours after all: On the Set of Star Tours with C-3PO 

Sweet! =D

For those of you who feel he missed the point, his email is at the bottom of the article: joel@gizmodo.com. It might be a good idea to properly inform him so that the real issue might get some proper exposure.

I guess I get a seat at the cool table as well.

Basically he's re-edited Ian McDiarmid's 2004 dialogue to conform to the original 1980 while using ROTJ for the hologram. The only difference was instead of saying Luke Skywalker he says young Skywalker and that's because Ian never says Luke. That might be changing though if Ady can get the audio Jaitea found to sound right.

(Oh and I think Palps mouth might still be from '04)

Just saw this article and knew I had to share it with you guys. Thoughts?

Cynicism does no one any good. It's better to live with a little hope than to sink into despair.

Was any headway ever made with this?

I agree about Dark Horse but only for their 90's work, what they've put out this decade has been pretty great especially the last few years.

I was told by an employee there that was to be closed in november but looking around apparently it was closed September 7th.

I really like the Han Solo Adventures, as well as the Galaxy of Fear books. I also am barely reading the Thrawn trilogy for the first time. Still in the first book it's...alright I'm hoping it gets better.