^ I believe so mate - that or Microsoft is forcing another dodgy Windows Update / new operating system on him…
A nice touch…
from Ralph McQuarrie’s sketch concept art for ROTJ.
(credit to Mad_Rascal)
The last sentence - and word - spoken in the trailer… very nicely done.
^ 😃
Episode IX: ‘The Final Trailer’ - https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1186459349192855552
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg (from the official Star Wars youtube channel)
The trailer on Instagram is seemingly a little different - especially the last line of dialogue:-
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3506FnB7CF/?igshid=1nsw38rh5zrzd
‘Check out the new poster for @StarWars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker. In theaters December 20.’:-
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1186460828087701505
Some ticket info for IX in the US…
‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - Ticket Offers and Giveaways’:-
https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-tickets
Tickets for IX are now on sale in a fair few places in the US…
Episode IX IMAX poster (1 of 4) - apparently:-
A 5-second glimpse promoting ‘The Final Trailer’ to drop during Monday Night Football:-
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1185556207836073985
A 15-second glimpse further promoting ‘The Final Trailer’:-
(contains new footage)
https://twitter.com/blogsuperheroes/status/1186350437433257984
‘First Reactions to ‘The Mandalorian’ Praise the ‘Star Wars’ Disney+ Show as “Completely Amazing”’:-
https://collider.com/the-mandalorian-reviews-reactions
‘The Mandalorian is good! While the first ever live-action Star Wars TV show doesn’t debut until November 12th, the first reactions to The Mandalorian have arrived online courtesy of a select few journalists who were lucky enough to watch the first 27 minutes of the show’s first episode during the press day for Disney+’
^ The linked article does not contain spoilers apart from what we have already seen in The Mandalorian trailers
‘FIRST VIEW: my new animatronic Yoda, restored from original molds’:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rObexmlEa0 - by Nick Maley
The blurb…
‘At last I can show what I have been working on in my spare hours this last 2 years. Meticulously assembled, this is the Yoda that you saw in clay form a year ago. Devised by compositing original relics, it is now fabricated and mechanized with a newly designed hand control allowing it to be operated by one puppeteer instead of the usual 3. It is built to take to conventions and charity events. There will be a more in depth video about it coming soon, but this is a first taste to wet your appetite. Yoda lives, once again.’
It is well worth checking out Nick Maley’s youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/cinesecrets/videos - some really insightful and informative videos on there.
His website, facebook, & twitter too.
According to ‘The Mandalorian Episodes Episode Air Dates Revealed’ article at SWNN…
Episode 1 — 12th November
Episode 2 — 15th November
Episode 3 — 22nd November
Episode 4 — 29th November
Episode 5 — 6th December
Episode 6 — 13th December
Episode 7 — 18th December
Episode 8 — 27th December
There is also now a The Mandalorian - SPOILER THREAD (by RogueLeader) for those that wish to discuss episodes & spoilers from The Mandalorian series.
Viewers in the UK, much of Europe and various other places won’t be able to receive the Disney+ service until sometime ‘early 2020’… so please don’t post spoilers or discuss events of any aired episodes in this thread - thank you.
From https://twitter.com/sw_holocron/status/1185730482337669120?s=20…
The directors for each episode of The Mandalorian have been revealed:
1: Dave Filoni
2: Rick Famuyiwa
3: Deborah Chow
4: Bryce Dallas Howard
5: Dave Filoni
6: Rick Famuyiwa
7: Deborah Chow
8: Taika Waititi
‘Was Luke’s lightsaber originally BLUE in Return of the Jedi?’:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTsnuW2j4Yo - from HelloGreedo
^ Includes Kazanjian, Marquand, Kasdan and Lucas and in conversation about the lightsaber colour - and potential letters over it in Starlog magazine… and the deleted scene from Return Of The Jedi showing Luke tinkering with the new green lightsaber.
A more in-depth article on the subject (and conversation between the four people above discussing it) can be found here…
‘The real reason Luke Skywalker has a green lightsaber’:-
http://www.forcematerial.com/home/2016/10/23/the-real-reason-luke-skywalker-has-a-green-lightsaber
Edit: and this curiosity video in 2009 - from an old friend…
‘Return of The Jedi - Blue Lightsaber Tests’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSD8sYRvZ3A - from davnes007
More retro Star Wars gaming…
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1182732435483701249 …
‘Now THIS is podracing! Star Wars™: Episode 1 Racer continues our @starwars retro collection and receives its Limited Run for the N64 on Friday, October 18 at 10am & 6pm EDT on http://limitedrungames.com’
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1182750075258376193 …
‘Hone your podracing skills in Star Wars™ Racer Revenge. This classic @starwars game gets a Limited Run for the PlayStation 4 this Friday, October 18 at 10am & 6pm ET on http://limitedrungames.com’
A shame Lucasfilm don’t link up with the likes of Criterion for a release of the Holiday Special, Droids, Ewoks, or the two Ewok theatrical films… in the same way they link up with gaming companies who want to see some old classics out there.
These may be of some interest:-
^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/PlexPosters/comments/di1fuq/star_wars_concept_art_now_with_tros_mandalorian - by RedHeadJedi
More info, and downloads to the above art - and more, here:-
https://theposterdb.com/poster/4448 & https://theposterdb.com/user/RedHeadJedi
‘Here’s everything Star Wars coming to Disney+ in the US on November 12’:-
https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-disney-plus-november-12
^ nothing new in there - seems to be more of a reminder for the Star Wars content we already know will be available…
A little surprising the 2008 theatrical ‘The Clone Wars’ film isn’t being shown on the service.
Still no more news of Disney providing a specific release date for Disney+ in the UK…
‘The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars series, only on #DisneyPlus. Coming to you early 2020.’ - https://twitter.com/StarWarsUK/status/1165147142241079296 - has been the only indicator so far.
‘Stephen Moore, ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Android, ‘Doctor Who’ Actor, Dies at 81’:-
His imdb page - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601891
RIP Stephen Moore.
A new category has been added to the main post:-
12 • ‘The Importance of Tone Toys In Film-making…’
It doesn’t contain anything new or revelationary - though I thought the subject was worth covering and having its own category.
‘Star Wars: the changing face of Sy Snootles & the Rebo band’ - article from 2016:-
The article features videos for both the original Lapti Nek and the SE’s Jedi Rocks, as well as a BTS type video of ‘Fancy Man’ - and some other intriguing info on the differing versions of the song that were recorded (and allegedly why one version was used over the other…), ILM’s creature workshop, the later CGI work for the SE, quotes from Lucas, and more…
Color correction is underway thanks to another OT user that I’ll keep anonymous for now! I also caught a couple of mistakes thanks to DoubleOFive’s comparison. 4k83 will be used for the Rancor scenes and for Luke talking to Ghost Ben on Dagobah since they were changed in 2004 and not 1997 like I had originally thought.
I also made blu ray covers and disc art for the entire 1997 Trilogy using scans of the VHS boxes.
Disc art is here: https://imgur.com/a/b8NoKFR
A quality take on the 1997 SE covers there mate - very nicely done. The disc art too - apt images you chose 😃
Edit: this project, and I’mBateman’s quality Empire Strikes Back 1997 HD Reconstruction (Released) project, are available in…
📍 250+ available Original Trilogy Preservations - some from a long time ago . . . . 📍
A little late - though as the subject has come up elsewhere…
it’s Prowse, I think this picture might only be in the e-book of the making of.
Our good friend Jambe Davdar says it is from the e-book version of Rinzler’s ‘Making Of ESB’ book too - and that it is indeed Prowse…
https://twitter.com/jamieswb/status/961615108475703302
‘Rarely seen The Empire Strikes Back video showing Dave Prowse in the famous “under the helmet” prosthetic.’
(keep watching until the end of the 39-second video)
According to this thread - https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Actor-of-Darth-Vaders-bald-head-in-ESB/id/16462
it is Prowse; unfortunately the picture is apparently only in the e-book version of Rinzler’s Making Of ESB book (I’ve had a look through the physical book version and can’t find it).
Our good friend Jambe Davdar says it is from e-book version too - and that it is Prowse…
https://twitter.com/jamieswb/status/961615108475703302
‘Rarely seen The Empire Strikes Back video showing Dave Prowse in the famous “under the helmet” prosthetic.’
https://twitter.com/trojan_sc/status/1182761509472161792?s=09
‘Coventry City launch a kit to celebrate 40 years of 2 Tone.
Absolute Genius.
With the serious message of Kick It Out. Exactly what 2 Tone stands for.’
https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2019/october/news-coventry-city-third-kit-revealed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50027298
The half-time music must be great at Coventry City… maybe better than the footy itself 😉
More on 40 years of 2 tone…
2 Tone Records Interview: 40 Years of 2 Tone Records - at the classicpopmag website
6 Music Celebrates 2Tone at 40 - some great content at the BBC
I’ve decided to wait for DrDre’s next tool, which, as ZigZig said, will automatically restore deleted scenes, integrate them into the movie, upscale them to 4k and recolorize them to HDR. According to ZigZig, this tool will be compatible with MacOS, so the next tool seems like my only option. Could you please tell me when it will be ready? Thank you.
I think ZigZig may have been pulling your leg mate.
Though the shorties don’t half get in a grump when asked to get something off the low shelves 😉
Shortland Street 😃 A refreshing change from the main awful Aussie soaps on UK tv at the time - well in the Kiwis / Vowel Manglers 😉
^ reported - along with other listings on etsy selling the Despecialized.
‘The Empire Strikes Door (A Star Wars Mystery)’:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnzMDEv2TU - by Jamie Stangroom
The blurb…
'It’s cinema’s most concussive blooper but who was the clumsy Stormtrooper that hit his head on a door in the original Star Wars film? Has that question been keeping you up at night? If the answer is yes then fear not, three men might claim responsibility for it but I’m on a mission to to unmask the true galactic idiot.
Do you agree with the final verdict? Let me know in the comments who YOU think it was and WHY…’
‘Russian trolls’ chief target was ‘black US voters’ in 2016’:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49987657
'A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted “no single group… more than African-Americans.”
It says Russian operatives used social media to deter black people from voting and planted subtly racist content to incite conflict between ethnicities.
The report comes two years into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the 2016 election.
Social media firms say they are trying to prevent it from happening again.
Thousands of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube accounts created by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) were aimed at harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign and supporting Donald Trump, the committee concludes.
More than 66% of Facebook adverts posted by the Russian troll farm contained a term related to race.
African-American community voters were discouraged from voting, and from supporting Hillary Clinton.’
^ more in the article linked above.
The Report itself:-
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf
‘Remember the FBI’s promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…’
Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look good
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse
^ as ever with El Reg, the comments section is well worth a read too 😉
‘Twitter: No, really, we’re very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash’…
