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Principal Photography on Star Wars III Complete

Posted by michael on from the return-of-the-clone-jar-jar dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Principal photography for Star Wars III ended yesterday, and they're starting up on the 18 month post-production. Although denied by ILM, here is a quick taste of what the story for episode III might be like (either taken from Lucas' journal in 1983, or just a fake from an insider way back then)."

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  1. Linking to GeoCities? by the_riaa · · Score: 5, Informative
    Okay, you can't even pretend like that's a good idea.

    Damn thing's slashdotted before a comment's posted. Fortunately, Google's cache is on the case.

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  2. Good old google! by starcraftsicko · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google Cache

  3. Mirror by WndrBr3d · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a mirror of the dead link:

    mirror

  4. For those who care... by r_glen · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a great picture of Anakin/Vader still floating around (hi-res one was taken down).

  5. Re:BAH! by Edgewize · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, a 26 page "script" does not translate to a full movie's worth of run time. It doesn't even translate to a 30 minute HBO special. I've see longer first-draft plot treatments. And yet this thing includes camera directions and postproduction notes, like specific dissolves and cuts.

    That this "script" has got to be some fanboy's interpolation between Ep II and Ep IV, cobbled together out of famous epics and the author's (somewhat lacking) imagination.

    Even Lucas is not egotistical enough to redo the "kill-all-newborn-sons-out-of-fear-of-the-prophesi sed-one" thing... is he?

  6. Spoiler by Buzz_Litebeer · · Score: 2, Informative

    In episode 3, anakin becomes an evil man known as darth vader, after making padme pregnant with twins.
    Palpatine becomes the Empreror, and the Jedi are hunted down, with only a few escaping.
    Yoda lives through it, and so does Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda goes to Dagobah (though it might not be revealed in the 3rd movie) and ObiWan goes to live on Tatooine, where Luke is left with his uncle Own Lars.

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  7. Who cares by Rumagent · · Score: 1, Informative

    The coolness that was star wars, has been utterly ruined by episode 1+2. What should make 3 any better ? I predict lots of sabres, a romance or two, a script that have been lifted from a dutch porn movie, and acting worse than on the dutch porn flick.

    ... SW is dead.

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  8. Re:BAH! BAH! BAH! fake by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Informative

    And let me correct myself before everyone else does - the word from Lucas back then was a vision of 3 movies set long before the original 3, in which there would be no characters that overlap with the original 3 except the robots, and that followed by the last 3 episodes, again with only the robots as a common thread. He certainly had no intention of making the first 3 include Darth Vader, Yoda or anyone else he might be weaseling in because of their obvious marketing potential back in '83 when he was laying out his plan for the 9 movies.

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  9. Old Book by strider(+corinth+) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anybody read Splinter of the Mind's Eye? This plot seems to borrow fairly heavily from it. Its initial publication was after A New Hope and prior to Empire. Chances are Lucas didn't (and won't) use large portions of the plot from that book as the basis of the next movie. Also, I was pretty young then, but I'm pretty sure "genetic engineering" wasn't a household term in 1983.

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  10. Re:BAH! BAH! BAH! fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are actually a lot of interesting things Lucas does in the new films.... http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/clones1.htm

  11. Some signal to go with the noise... by jafuser · · Score: 2, Informative

    A short animated series on Cartoon Network: Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network

    Here's a picture of Anakin/Vader in Episode III.

    Finally, if you're into minor spoilers, head over to the IMDB record for Episode III, and you might recognize some interesting character names in the cast list...

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  12. Re:BAH! by sketerpot · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who have no clue what you're talking about, here are lyrics. Enjoy. :-)

  13. Re:Droid question by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 3, Informative

    So: does Vader ever actually see R2D2 and C3PO together in episodes IV to VI? I can't remember.

    Yes, and no. He may have seen them go to the Millenium Falcon in Episode IV, but he was also fighting ObiWan at the moment. He may have spied them on the moon of Endor where he picked up Luke, but I don't think he spent any time spying on them. The only times in Episode V that the droids were together were at the beginning, before Vader even showed up on Hoth (He might've caught a glimpse of 3PO running up the ramp to the Falcon) but split up soon afterward. Later on, they hooked up again, in Bespin, but by then Vader was trying to kick his son's ass.

    There are lots of similar droids, true. I don't think he would've recognized R2D2 except by temperament, but he never had an opportunity to observe artoo's temperament. I think he would have recognized threepio, though, since he was looking basically the same as he had in Episode II. However, he didn't get much exposure to threepio. Remember that when he took everyone prisoner, threepio had been blown to bits. Then he saw threepio strapped to Chewie's back, but still in pieces.

    I think that Lucas wouldn't have done what he did with the droids if it were actually possible for Vader to have interacted with them in the other movies. That would have been a plot hole even he couldn't fill with BS.

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