Slashdot Mirror
Principal Photography on Star Wars III Complete
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)."
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information." Slashdot should be more responsible than to post links to personal sites with low bandwidth quotas.
Last time I checked, Geocities still sucked, and Slashdot still had a million visitors. So please stop submitting stories with Geocities links because they WILL NOT WORK. Ever.
We already know how the movie franchise ends. Vader dies, balance is restored. See this link for more about it.
do not read this line twice.
...when most of the acting is going to be done by the CGI characters anyway.
Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm trolling. But Episode 1 was so disheartening that I didn't even bother seeing Episode 2, and Episode 3 has elicited zero excitement from me. So, whoopeedoo, we've got the stonefaced lines-reciting from Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman. Big deal.
--------
Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
Look, rebel scum, I know you're all up in arms about how bad the last two were and how bad this ones going to be, and you're all talkin' 'bout how you'll wait until it comes out on TV, blah, blah, blah.
But let's face it - nothing any better is going to be on at the theater, and you've seen all the other ones, so you're gonna go see this one as well. You know it, I know it, the dark side is calling and you're gonna suck it.
Then you'll complain in the following 'review' story on slashdot about how you were right, it sucked, and you wasted money and time.
Let's just cut to the chase. You're most likely a guy. You like action scenes. The movie could suck, the characters and plot could suck, but as long as it has one or two good fight scenes, you'll be all over it.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Go to the theater (because you don't have the big screen and kick-butt sound system you are planning on building someday), pay up, enjoy the fighting, and go home and then complain about it.
-Adam
If only they had some good writers. As Harrison Ford once said, "George, you can write this stuff, but nobody can say it."
You wrote:
In episode 3 [...] Yoda goes to Dagobah (though it might not be revealed in the 3rd movie) [...]
I'm pretty sure, it will be shown. (I don't expect much new stuff in Episode III, BTW.) You remember the old tree on Dagobah, where Luke had his first "date" with the dark side of The Force? :-)
In Episode VI it is explained, that Yoda was able to hide on Dagobah, because he killed a Sith Lord there, exactly where that tree is, and whose left behind aura saved Yoda from being found by the emperor.
So we just need a "victim" for Yoda. And we already know who him. :-)
George Lukas let Yoda already have a quite absurd fight with Count Dooku in Episode II. Count Dooku is nowhere mentioned in Episode IV to VI and somebody explained somewhere, that Sith always show up in packs of two. The Emperor, Darth Vader and Count Dooku (aka Darth Tyranus, thanks to imdb) are one too much. So bye, bye, Dooku, R.I.P.
So not only the Count has to die, but the studio bosses also love lengthy fighting scenes, to attract the not so much Star War addicted. So I would be very, very surprised, if we don't see Count Dooku dying on Dagobah in Episode III.
I think, the Star Wars universe is quite well known, so there is more than enough fabric for an excess length Episode III. There will be some new details (why or how get C3PO and R2D2 the leap to Episode IV?) or dispensable scenes (with Jar Jar, for example *eg*). But I think, that the basic story board is already pretty well known.