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Post: #97887
Topic: SW TV Confirmed
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97887/action/topic#97887
Time: 22-Mar-2005 10:25 AM

Sci-Fi Wire

Star Wars TV Confirmed

Steve Sansweet, who handles fan relations for Lucasfilm, told Now Playing Magazine that Star Wars will live on in various TV projects beyond the upcoming final prequel film Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith.

"We are looking into all kinds of things for the future," Sansweet, Lucasfilm's director of content management and fan relations, told the magazine. "We're looking for television clearly—animation [and] we are looking into live-action television." Sansweet declined to say what kind of live-action TV programming the studio envisions.

In addition, the Star Wars franchise will continue in LucasArts games, Sansweet said. "Not only the kinds of things that are there now, but as technology progresses, we're looking at what direction that can go," he said. "We're also continuing to see how we can expand Lucas Online in various ways." Episode III opens May 19.

Post: #97751
Topic: STAR WARS in 3-D!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97751/action/topic#97751
Time: 21-Mar-2005 2:32 PM

I don't think I saw this mentioned anywhere, so I thought I'd mention it...

thedigitalbits.com is citing a source stating that this is what Lucas is going to do for the 30th anniversary...a return to the theaters for the OT, in 3D.

Post: #97699
Topic: How bad can it get? (The changes to the films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97699/action/topic#97699
Time: 21-Mar-2005 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by: Trooperman
More news: Lucas has decided not to go with John Williams' orchestral score for Episode III. Instead, the film will be accompanied by a rap soundtrack, to keep things fresh and to appeal to the masses.

"I really enjoy Johnny's work," says Lucas, "but I just think that the orchestral thing has been done to death in the last five movies. It's time to adapt the movie to changing times."

I dare say I wouldn't even go to see it.

Post: #97404
Topic: STAR WARS in 3-D!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97404/action/topic#97404
Time: 19-Mar-2005 10:37 AM

Shouldn't it be 'goggles', not 'googles'?
All this time I thought it strange that you're talking about a search engine...

The Cleveland Science Center had a special exhibit recently all about optical illusions, and 2 of those 3 methods were demonstrated (red/blue glasses and the LCD goggles).

The Captain EO thing at Disney uses the third method (polarized light).

Post: #97362
Topic: How bad can it get? (The changes to the films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97362/action/topic#97362
Time: 19-Mar-2005 4:47 AM

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Originally posted by: Rebel11_38
For a truly PC and pro-feminist version of the movies, Luke's character would have to be a female too and the force would become the "Gaia."

Also, Han Solo would no longer chase after Leia. Instead, he would be a bumbling fool who Leia approaches when she exercises her right to enjoy her body. After her tryst with Solo, he would be the one confused and following her around like a sick puppy.

Leia would be the one to destroy the Death Star, but it wouldn't be accomplished like it is in the movie. The imagery of shooting two "torpedoes" into a deep "hole" would no longer be acceptable. Instead she would destroy it by....

Yapping at the station officers until they are so ticked at the sound of her voice, that they employ the DS self-destruct...anything to shut her up.

Post: #97263
Topic: How bad can it get? (The changes to the films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97263/action/topic#97263
Time: 18-Mar-2005 10:39 AM

1. At the end of EP3, Bob Newhart wakes up and says to his wife "I just had the strangest dream."

2. Lucas edits EP4 so that we see Newhart going to sleep before the movie "begins".

Post: #97254
Topic: The Star Wars Saga DVD Box Set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97254/action/topic#97254
Time: 18-Mar-2005 9:39 AM

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Originally posted by: ThatArtGuy
Quote
Originally posted by: HotRod
All we need is a SW version of the Alien Box set, and everybody would be happy!
With better packaging though

My sentiments exactly!

Make it like the Japanese Alien 25th Anniversary Collection set...

or the Borg Mega Cube (all 7 seasons of TNG) released only in Europe...

Post: #97220
Topic: STAR WARS in 3-D!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/97220/action/topic#97220
Time: 18-Mar-2005 3:45 AM

I was beaten to it!

I just read an article about this at Yahoo. Seems the Yahoo article is a little longer:

Filmmakers Hawk New 3-D Technology
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

LAS VEGAS - After a brief incarnation in the early 1950s and a short-lived revival in the 1980s, 3-D movies are now getting serious consideration among filmmakers who want to send images leaping off the movie screen and into the audience.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Titanic" director James Cameron were among those promoting a new digital alteration that converts two-dimensional movies into 3-D.

Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts.

Lucas said he hopes eventually to release all six of his "Star Wars" movies in 3-D format that can be shown in regular moviehouses, not specialty theaters such as IMAX.

"It looks better than the original, to be honest with you," Lucas told theater owners Thursday at their annual ShoWest convention.

Developed by In-Three Inc. of Agoura Hills, Calif., the new technology involves converting a movie into two slightly offset images, one for each eye. The special glasses trick the brain into perceiving the picture as a single image.

Unlike some 3-D systems that require two side-by-side film projectors, In-Three's system operates with a single digital projector, the filmmakers said.

A snippet of "Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones" converted to 3-D was screened, and the images showed remarkable depth in a scene where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi pursue an assassin in a flying vehicle.
(Coruscant Speeder Chase...I suppose that would be a decent scene to do. I'd rather see a 3D Battle of Geonosis or Battle of Yavin)

While the filmmakers all have an interest in releasing old movies in 3-D and shooting new ones in the format, they also tried to sell theater owners on digital systems to replace film-reel projectors that have been the standard for a century.

The digital projectors can be inexpensively modified to handle 3-D, they said.

"I can't shoot in a lesser format," said Cameron, who is filming the science-fiction adventure "Battle Angel," in 3-D. "I believe that 3-D is absolutely the future. ... They'll have to pry my glasses out of my cold, dead fingers."

Post: #96799
Topic: Apple Switch parody
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96799/action/topic#96799
Time: 15-Mar-2005 2:40 PM

Saw this a while ago (2+years)...
Liked it then.
Like it now.

Post: #96771
Topic: George Lucas on 60 Minutes.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96771/action/topic#96771
Time: 15-Mar-2005 1:15 PM

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Originally posted by: Warbler
Well, if they no long exist then Lucas is an even bigger ass then I've given him credit for being. For how in god's name could he allow the OOT to cease to exist?!? It's one thing not to release it, but to destroy it would be exceedingly stupid!

Especially when he knows he can probably charge us through the nose for it.

Post: #96645
Topic: More unreleased ROTJ music
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96645/action/topic#96645
Time: 14-Mar-2005 2:05 PM

I don't recall what I got mine for, but I'm pretty sure it was less than that Amazon price.

If you find it for, say, $12-14, its a nice pickup. I was happy to get it because, as I said before, I don't own all 3 of the soundtracks.

If you've got all 3 of the 2-disk soundtrack sets, though, you're probably better off making your own compilation with a CD burner.

Post: #96587
Topic: George Lucas on 60 Minutes.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96587/action/topic#96587
Time: 14-Mar-2005 10:28 AM

Let me try my hand at the proper analogy:

Say my house was hunter green, and everyone liked it like that. Then I found out that aluminum-siding was the new thing to do. I decided against going with green again, so I found this great hot-pink siding. Cost practically nothing.

If I may, the trouble with the analogies (both his and previously posted ones), is that we didn't want him to change the color. It was just fine the way it was before.
HE'S the one that changed the color of the house, not us.

Post: #96585
Topic: More unreleased ROTJ music
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96585/action/topic#96585
Time: 14-Mar-2005 10:19 AM

Its available on Amazon.

John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy

I wasn't able to get all 3 2-disk sets when they were released, so I bought this one to supplement my collection.

Post: #96500
Topic: More unreleased ROTJ music
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96500/action/topic#96500
Time: 13-Mar-2005 4:39 PM

What non-London Symphony version is it you know of?
I've got a Sony Classical CD where John Williams conducts the the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. Jabba's Theme is 3:07.

Post: #96344
Topic: Padme VS Young Aunt Beru
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96344/action/topic#96344
Time: 12-Mar-2005 11:25 AM

Portman.
Keira is my sister's age, and that would weird me out a little.

Post: #96292
Topic: The Wal-Mart $6.88 Bin: What Bargains Have You Found?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96292/action/topic#96292
Time: 11-Mar-2005 1:18 PM

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Originally posted by: TheSessler
The latest thing I found in the bargain bin was Stargate.

Interesting...

I bought my own Stargate back when the T2: Extreme Edition was released. Best Buy had a deal where you could get T2 for $25 or T2 and Stargate: Ultimate Edition for $30.

So I did it. Then I opened the T2 and inside was a $5 rebate, good only if I had another Artisan Entertainment DVD release on the same receipt. Stargate happened to be one of the DVDs listed.

So, I basically ended up getting my Stargate for free. Fair deal for the 2-disk ultimate set.

Post: #96243
Topic: New ROTS Trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96243/action/topic#96243
Time: 11-Mar-2005 6:41 AM

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Originally posted by: yanksno1
I hope Fox plays the trailer again on some other shows (please for "24"). I thought the Adam Brody Jedi fighting thing was pretty funny too!

I thought 24 was commercial-free, so you could get a full-hour...I actually don't watch the show, so I wouldn't know.
(I don't watch much network TV period. Used to watch X-Files and its short-lived spin-off, and I DVR Enterprise weekly, but beyond that...practically everything I watch is on cable.)

Post: #96220
Topic: New ROTS Trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96220/action/topic#96220
Time: 11-Mar-2005 3:42 AM

I saw an article yesterday on tf.n saying that EP3 might be the first, and obviously last, Star Wars movie to be given a PG-13 rank.
That its not a movie that you take 5-6 year olds.

Post: #96143
Topic: New ROTS Trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96143/action/topic#96143
Time: 10-Mar-2005 3:40 PM

DVR'd it. Saw it live as well. Will watch it slowly to see what all I can gleen from it.
Unfortunately, I don't have the proper technology to transfer it onto my computer.

What I thought looked like it was going to be quite a scene is the...

Spoiler

Yoda/Palpatine fight IN THE SENATE BUILDING, with Palpy throwing around the floating seating areas.

End Spoiler

Post: #95728
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95728/action/topic#95728
Time: 8-Mar-2005 8:04 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Not enough to cover the cost of production.
If that was ever going to be a deterent, Gigli would have never been made and the world would have been spared the knowledge of the phrase "Turkey Time".

Post: #95719
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95719/action/topic#95719
Time: 8-Mar-2005 7:05 AM

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
FINALLY! C'mon, let's burn Star Trek tapes on a big fire while we sing the Ewoks song!

Got a better idea. Let's shoot them off to some distant world so that in the year 3000 a space-based delivery service can find them...
That might be my favorite Futurama episode.

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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Do you think anyone in the audience still cares enough about Star Trek to bother seeing an 11th film?

I went to see Nemesis in the theaters...

Post: #95664
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95664/action/topic#95664
Time: 7-Mar-2005 12:36 PM

Well gentlemen, since I have no way to stop a snowtrooper or a rabid 7-foot lizard, here is your target:

Post: #95657
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95657/action/topic#95657
Time: 7-Mar-2005 9:40 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
BASTARDS!!! Death to Star Trek!!!!!!!

I sensed that reaction.
Tosk (I was misspelling it)- A reptilian humanoid bred to be hunted for sport.
Bossk- A reptilian humanoid that hunts for sport.

Post: #95654
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95654/action/topic#95654
Time: 7-Mar-2005 9:09 AM

Sci-Fi channel occassionally plays the original series in 8-hour mini-marathons.

Spike TV played 2 hours of Deep Space 9 (11AM-1PM ET) followed by 2 hours of The Next Generation (1PM-3PM ET) every day. Every Monday and Tuesday I watch the last half of the first and the first half of the second as I eat lunch before leaving for work.
(The 11AM today was the one with Tossk, which I think is a rip-off of ESB's Bossk)

Voyager is in syndication, although I haven't seen it anywhere in my area for quite a while.

Post: #95646
Topic: StarTrek Movie 11 is a go...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95646/action/topic#95646
Time: 7-Mar-2005 6:58 AM

I haven't heard "this talk", but I like that idea.