Dammit - why didn’t I guess first and then lock the thread? Easy wins 😉
My numbers plucked out of the air guess… 685m US. 1.65b total.
Прекрасный!
It is indeed beautiful, mate 😃
50 years ago today they released their final masterpiece. Happy ‘Abbey Road’ Day everyone.
And in the end,
the love you take
Is equal to the love you make.
Thanks the reminder, Ray 😃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXaOgmYBBU - Come Together: Take 5
PLus a belated ‘hi and welcome’ to everyone who has posted in here so far - and also thank you for doing so 😃
Darth Giacomo - I’m looking forward to reading your intriguing Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace re-written script when I get the chance - nice one! 👍
A really cool recreation - and great for those of us who that haven’t been to the Disney parks to view the original.
Great website, podcast and youtube channel you have too, emmett - nice one, thank you 😃
What the hell is this shite?
Thread locked.
Do not carry on the conversation into other threads on here - thank you.
I wonder if TFA is the original release or the one from the 3D combo that has the Abrams commentary.
It does NOT have the Abrams commentary mate - according to the NathanPButler video linked on these releases above. He talked about that particular subject in depth on it.
I wonder if TFA is the original release or the one from the 3D combo that has the Abrams commentary.
That’s actually a good question. Anyone have photos of the backs of the covers?
The NathanPButler video above has him holding up the back covers (and spines etc) to the screen for a decent look at them mate.
Re the September 2019 blu ray (with Digital Code) and dvd releases for the ten main Star Wars films to date - with matching artwork…
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the new releases are just repackages of the existing releases, albeit with new disc and cover art. Some day.
Also…
‘From the Star Wars Home Video Library #221: All 20 Sept. 2019 Reissues’ - youtube video by NathanPButler:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_LujIU-4E
NathanPButler’s youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/ChronoRadio/videos - is well worth a watch for information on the various Star Wars releases down the years - including releases for non-film content such as Resistance, Rebels, Clone Wars and more - as well as a fair few rarities from around the world too…
You guys could just ask him? 😃
He is on twitter (maybe other social media too?)
I really dislike the added Jabba scene in the SE, and not only for the obvious and poorly executed CGI either.
In my opinion Han would have managed to get off Tatooine WAY before Jabba even got the chance to catch up with him.
In fact, I don’t think Han would be careless enough to leave any trails to allow Jabba to discover where the Falcon was docked.
Han was better than that!Just another thing to mess up Han’s character, and is right up there with the ‘Greedo shoots’ scene for me!
Well, the problem is the scene was originally made back when the rest of Star Wars was originally made. You make it sound it’s something Lucas thought up years later. He just didn’t have time to add in an effect to replace the stand in actor back in the 70s so the scene got cut.
You refer to the professional theatre, tv & film actor Declan Mulholland hired to play the role of Jabba - playing the role in made to measure and full screen-ready costume?
It is well documented that George was short on money and time whilst filming Star Wars - so it is surprising he went to the lengths - and cost - to hire a professional actor and then also fitted him out with a screen-ready costume… especially if he was planning to then going to replace him with ‘an effect’ later.
Surely a stage hand or anybody around the set willing to do a ‘stand-in’ would have been a lot cheaper, quicker and easier… than going to above lengths?
As Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz pointed out… the Jabba scene is also fairly redundant as the audience has already learnt much of the same information - and dialogue - from in the Greedo Cantina scene.
Along with Kurtz’ quotes on the subject of “… and that character was originally going to be a human being”, and also “Jabba is [now] this a giant slug rather than a human being… the sightlines are a bit odd… the position of the characters… if that had been the way the original scene was going to be shot… it would have been shot differently”.
That there are no plans, sketches or mentions of an alien slug-like Jabba prior to shooting the film is also an indicator that Jabba was - as he originally appeared for the shooting of the film - a human.
Lucas attempting to go back in time and alter scripts/screenplays to fit with his later narrative claims also raises issues on him once again ret-conning history to fit in with his later and grander ‘vision’(s)…
More information on this can be found here - George Lucas: Unreliable Narrator & Time Travelling Revisionist…; in Category No. 9 - ‘Jabba originally was a human; from planning to filming…’
MonkeyLizard10 - If you could also limit your posts made one after the other it’d much appreciated mate (eight consecutive posts in a short space of time is a bit much) - you can use the ‘Edit’ button in the future to help place your content/replies into one post.
‘Earlier Josh asks Daisy if she ever played as Kira before J.J. decided to change her character’s name to Rey, and she says yes. She shot scenes in Abu Dhabi as Kira for a few weeks before they opted for a different name. #TheForceAwakens’ - https://twitter.com/sleemo_/status/1145878466312757248
There is also some information on the title of Episode IX - and what it could mean too…
More info here on the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast - with Daisy Ridley, titled… ‘Daisy Ridley, Vol II’, on Spotify (so you’ll likely need an account - or to register - to listen to it?):-
A superb video - very much of it’s time (yet also so good for anytime)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hpU6UEq8hA
‘Aron Eisenberg, the actor who played Nog in ‘Deep Space Nine’, has died’:-
https://entertainment.ie/tv/tv-news/aron-eisenberg-nog-star-trek-ds9-421178
RIP Aron Eisenberg.
Edit: ‘What We Left Behind Tribute to Aron Eisenberg’:-
Remember when all the fanart for 7 showed the rusted husk of the Falcon?
I wish we got that movie.
Like this?
It does look an intriguing concept - maybe even a good place for an alternative opening shot for VII…
Mannie Both-Hanz turns up alive with vital information to the Rebel cause just in the nick of time.
The camera then cuts to a silent Mon Mothma… who is still staring sadly into the distance…
I believe this is it mate (the image used may have varied for some countries?):-
http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/cover-art/Ep1-Phantom-Menace/SE-type-2-Episode-1.jpg (3240x2175 - click on the link and then hit the ‘+’ for the full size image. You’ll have to chop off the rear and spine part of the DVD cover yourself 😃)
From the wiki page on The Phantom Edit (not a great image - but you get the gist of it):-
Some more info about The Phantom Edit can be found in the ‘An Index Thread for Star Wars Fan Edits and Other Projects…’ thread - it has it’s own section there too, mate.
Below is a ‘cover’ image is from the ‘Star Wars – The Fandom Editors – A Real New Hope’ article at GeekDad.com - though I am not sure if it is an alternative or later cover from the DVD or VHS - a fan made cover - or just a promo poster / cover for TPE…
(I’m guessing at a fan-made DVD cover image)
Edit: This youtube video shows an image of the VHS cassette label for The Phantom Edit:-
‘The Phantom Editor Responds To Ahmed Best - Steele Wars ep 183’ - from the Steele Wars youtube channel
Rikter has some quality DVD covers based on it (there is a link to Rikter’s collection of early Star Wars covers in the DVD Covers Index thread) - he may have, or know of, some VHS covers too?
It has been a long time - but may be worth asking him (a fountain of knowledge, Star Wars rarities and a great guy too)…
Let us know if you do find a hi-res or decent quality cover images, and please post them up here 😃
^ sweet Jay - thank for you that mate.
I am consulting the diary (aka the missus) - hopefully should able to make the 4th October showing…
Good to see the events are selling well too. Full respect to the BFI 😃
I’m still trying to figure out why Luke, if he wanted to be left to die, and wanted the Jedi to end, goes to the planet where there is a Force tree, and where the first Jedi Temple set up shop.
How in the hell does that make any sense?
And who gave Tekka that piece of the map?
And why let R2-D2 have the rest of the map if he didn’t want to be found?Just poor plot devices to drive a poor narrative forward.
The whole thing is an utter mess of nonsense starting with The Force Awakens.
The answers you seek are in this thread (or the TLJ Ratings/Opinion thread) - having already been discussed a few times 😉
Good luck with it mate 😃
^ mate, this is a thread for Rian Johnson’s new Star Wars Trilogy - not to bash on Disney, TLJ, RJ, parks etc; there are several other threads which address and discuss those issues on here.
Though, if you are going to post claims such as this (which seemingly reads like something you picked up from a negative youtube video channel) please post them in a more relevant thread. Though be prepared to be asked for some facts or evidence to back your claims up - or to give credence to them.
In the interests of balance… a random recourse to similar claims you have made in here, yet taken from another thread…
Two movies in the top 10 all-time domestic box office list and a third at #12 is tanking? I bet a lot of people wish they could tank like that.
1.The Force Awakens - $936,662,225
2.Avengers: Endgame - $858,041,646
9.The Last Jedi - $620,181,382
12.Rogue One - $532,177,324
Plus, a new streaming service with various new and made-for Star Wars content, 2 new film trilogies, theme parks, hotels, rides, considerable new animated content aimed at younger fans, new blu ray film releases, rumoured 4K releases, more comics and books released, games too, as well as a range of merchandise aimed for wider groups of fans than ever before…
Disney also recouped it’s outlay to purchase Lucasfilm a year or so ago from cinema takings of the film revenue alone…
A small, but vocal corner of fandom online may not like a new film or two (or have issues with the supposed direction) - though seems the franchise itself is doing just fine (racist, sexist, homophobic trolls, bots, troll farms, toxicity and monetised agenda-led clickbait apart).
On Rian Johnson himself… he delivered a main Saga film seemingly without the production issues suffered on some other Star Wars films, on budget, on time, which made a $1.3billion on cinema tickets alone worldwide, and sold 3 million blu rays & 1 million DVDs in the US alone in 7 months. Disney seem so impressed with his work and abilities that they have trusted him to come up with a new & separate Star Wars Trilogy…
Nothing much has changed since - though some information about the new trilogy would be most welcome 😉
Now back on topic…
Edit: spoilery info REDACTED by moderator
You’ll understand should you choose to read the spoilers.
Please don’t refer to possible events based on the supposed leaked spoilers outside the Episode IX spoiler thread on here mate - thank you.
^ Seems they’re putting some effort into these trailers… 😃
‘Ace Returns! | The Collection: Season 26 Announcement Trailer | Doctor Who’:-
It’s like poetry. It rhymes? 😃
Any other scenes you’d like to see in TROS, Sohail Mccarthy?
I mean, when I think about it, Darth Sidious/Vader must have had something more interesting to do with their time than moping about and doing evil stuff. Did they even do anything? Space graffiti, space volunteering, space Tinder?
Have you any other thoughts on hobbies for the Sith, Sohail Mccarthy?
An image screenshot of the ‘Star Wars fans seek long, long ago edition’ article from the Chicago Tribune’s Metromix website, from October 2005, in this thread’s opening post - by none:-
^ which can also be viewed on the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine:-