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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)."
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)."
Hmmm...Where have I known that taste before? Ah yes! The well familiar taste of bullshit! And when this guy was done writing "Ep III" he might well have tried his hand at another brand of fan fiction.
Lucas' stroytelling prowess seems to have diminished with the ensuing decades after Jedi, but have they diminished this much? I sincerely doubt it. Even taking Ep I into consideration.
Face it folks. We're waiting until the release date.
AS much as my enjoyment of the franchise has diminished with age (damn you adulthood!!!) I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Until Lucas changes his mind and decides once more to make the last trilogy
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Wow that went down fast!!! Hopefully the story has more strength!
Scanned script direct from George Lucas' desk:There, I've save you $8.00.
Trolling is a art,
Will we be seeing the Star Wars Kid?
Did the Star Wars kid make it in?
"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.
Natalie Portman gets herself into a gritsy---er, I mean gritty situation.
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
Damn thing's slashdotted before a comment's posted. Fortunately, Google's cache is on the case.
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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.
Here's a mirror of the dead link:
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There's a great picture of Anakin/Vader still floating around (hi-res one was taken down).
On what planet do you live that you have 6 month years? Here on Earth 18 months is 1 1/2 years.
I can accept bad spelling from slashdotters but bad math is just scary.
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Some Of Lucas's best work yet
In Soviet Russia, Trojan exploits YOU!
..this thread's gonna get bumpy.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
DARTH SIDIOUS I find it amazing that your overwhelming stupidity is only offset by your incredible ability with a lightsaber. You've come a long way from those days on Naboo when you were tripping over every single available object.
DARTH JAR JAR Mesa not cuttin' off mesa arms, mesa not cuttin' off mesa legs! Mesa muy good with a lightsaber, Darth Sidious!
DARTH SIDIOUS (massaging his temple) Christ, I need a Tylenol.
DARTH JAR JAR Whatsa bein' wrong, Darth Sidious?
DARTH SIDIOUS Jar Jar, please, don't talk again. Just listen to me.
DARTH JAR JAR Okieday! Mesa listenin' to you now!
DARTH SIDIOUS God, I need a drink, too. Look, Jar Jar. I'm going to take you to fight the Jedi. We're going to lure Anakin to the Dark Side, and...
DARTH JAR JAR (interrupting) Nooooo! Little Annie?
DARTH SIDIOUS Jar Jar, I'm serious. Shut your stupid mouth and listen to me, or I will make you suffer as you've never suffered before, all right?
DARTH JAR JAR Okieday, mesa shuttin mesa mouth now!
DARTH SIDIOUS Jesus. All right, here's the deal - we lure Anakin over to the Dark Side, which should be easy to do. I'm surprised he hasn't drifted over here yet of his own free will. He was a little pouty brat of a kid, and he was a surly, rude, angry teenager who pouted and got all pissy when he didn't get his own way. Now he's a little older and he's still acting like a petulant teenager. I will simply have him embrace his rage, and he will join us.
DARTH JAR JAR But Darth Sidious, if Annie besa joinin' us, doesn't that mean hesa goin' to have to kill mesa?
DARTH SIDIOUS (hurriedly) No, no, of course not, Jar Jar. We've...um...abandoned those usual rules. Yeah, that's right. Now there can be a master and two apprentices.
DARTH JAR JAR Oooooohhhhhhh. Okieday! Mesa ready to besa killin' the Jedi!
DARTH SIDIOUS (quietly) I can't wait until Anakin joins us.
BOBA FETT steps out on to the balcony. SIDIOUS and JAR JAR turn to look at him.
DARTH JAR JAR Hey there, little Boba! How's yousa doin' today?
BOBA FETT Shut up, Jar Jar.
DARTH SIDIOUS Now, Boba, is that any way to talk to a Sith Lord?
BOBA FETT (his mouth hangs open in amazement for a moment, but then he composes himself) You've got to be kidding me. Tell me that's a joke.
DARTH JAR JAR Nonono, it's not bein' a joke! Mesa a Sith Lord! Mesa havin' mesa own lightsaber!
BOBA FETT This has got to be the stupidest damned thing you've ever done, Palpatine.
DARTH SIDIOUS What did I tell you? When I'm in the robes, you're supposed to call me Darth Sidious.
BOBA FETT Oh, blow me.
DARTH SIDIOUS Boba, you will maintain a tone of respect with me, or I swear that I will...
BOBA FETT (interrupting) You'll what? Oooooh, more threats. I'm really scared of you, "dad."
DARTH SIDIOUS That's it! Go to your room!
BOBA FETT No.
DARTH SIDIOUS Go to your room, Boba, or I'll have Jar Jar here cut off your head.
BOBA FETT If he doesn't cut his own head off first. Stupid, clumsy idiot.
DARTH SIDIOUS That's enough, Boba! Go to your room!
...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.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
I bet baby Luke Skywalker and baby Han Solo will have a chance meeting! Maybe baby Han Solo will throw a tater-tot at baby Greedo
our efforts to get "The Star Wars Kid" into the film have failed?
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A million fans are about to cry out in terror - and are suddenly silenced.
Episodes 4-6: I liked them. They were the cowboy fantasy with a tale to tell of redemption, growing into an adult, and the small, plucky rebellion beating the odds against an Empire of British accented bad guys.
Episodes 1-2? We've got some of the worst scripting that has ever happened. Episode 2 alone was nearly a black hole in a craptastic display that was barely saved by the precense of Ass Kickin' Yoda. (And it still had the stupid heroes who couldn't seem to figure out how to roll out of the way of a falling hunk of metal so Yoda had to save their dumb asses rather than taking out the "Bad Guy".)
So unless Episode 3 has a huge song and dance scene with a whole parade of digially generated Natalie Portmans in that super tight white Princess Leia like outfits singing "You Are My Sunshine", I'll just wait until it shows up as a special on Fox.
With plenty of commercial interruptions so I can have a time for hurlage.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
INT - MOS EISLEY CANTINA (Hand written in ballpoint, in crabbed, small letters) No point in reinventing the wheel or paying out our asses again for thirty midgets and a small army of makeup artists and top-ranked FX crews, guys. CGI this in its entirety. Get me some of those Japs at Circlehard or wherever. People love repeat themes and babies too- so we'll just have the Cantina band all be a bunch of toddlers, since this is all maintaining the prequel theme, which should go well for our Huggies Pull-em-ups! plug spot. I can just feel the Baby Snoots dolls flying off the shelves at Target and Wal-Mart now. Oh, squeeze in that Britney Spears-as-Twi'lek-dancer cameo we promised if possible too. - George
YODA and ANAKIN sidle up to the bar. The BARTENDER eyes the sabers on their belts suspiciously.
BARTENDER: We don't serve your kind here.
ANAKIN: (Gestures in some arbitrary, mystical manner) You need to go outside now and shave a bantha. We should serve ourselves.
BARTENDER: I need to go out back and shave a bantha. Why don't you two gentlemen serve yourselves.
ANAKIN Force-pours himself and YODA a couple of tall, stiff drinks.
YODA: (Shaking his head remorsefully) Strong in the Force you have become indeed, Anakin. Powers you are not using responsible. (YODA grumbles) Not responsible. Not responsible.
ANAKIN: With all due respect Master Yoda, coming here was at your request. Not only have I prevented a conflict, but now we have an open bar.
YODA: (Sighing in resignation) Then knocking a few back, we will be, and explaining I will the reason of this meeting.
TRANSITION- Now ANAKIN is Force-pouring rows of drinks, sloppily, for a garrolously cheering crowd of CGI, puppets, and whatever monster suited extras we had in the closet. 'Friends' cast cameo.
ANAKIN: Woohooo! Make mine a Force Light!
YODA: Talking we must.
ANAKIN: Okay. But do you gotta keep talking like you learned your grammar from an electrocuted Wookiee?
YODA: Comment sliding I will let. Talk to you of Amidala, I must.
ANAKIN: Awww you're not going to start coming down on me like the Jedi Council, all, 'marriage is forbidden' this and 'we're throwing you out' that are ya?
YODA: Spending too much time from Amidala you have been. Speaking with Master Yoda she has.
ANAKIN: (briefly sobering up) WHAT? The bitch lies! I never laid a hand on her!
YODA: Calm, young Anakin. She is lonely. Only seeking companionship she was. Busy you have been.
ANAKIN: (Glowering) What I do wi' my time is my bi'ness.
YODA: Indeed it is... indeed it is.
ANAKIN: Will you drop this pretentious, ancient green sage midget nonsense for one minute and get to your point?
YODA: As you wish. Lonely woman, this Amidala. Seek comfort with old Jedi she did. Leads to other things, one thing does. (YODA giggles impishly) Little Yoda needed some comforting too.
ANAKIN: (Sputtering) You... she... WHAT?
YODA: Woman with needs, Amidala is. Old Jedi knows more tricks than just lightsaber.
ANAKIN: (Staring a moment) How is that even possible! WAIT, don't even respond. You're supposed to be a Master! You're not supposed to be doing that anyway!
YODA: Falling in love is expressly forbidden, but love in general is not. Besides. Jedi Master I am. Jedi Monk I am not.
ANAKIN: I'MA KILL THAT BITCH!
YODA: Find her, you will not. Hidden from you she is.
Queue the Linkin Park plug music. ANAKIN howls all angsty, Force-smashes a bunch of bottles and cups into the wall. The crowd gets upset and starts booing him. ANAKIN, knowing his kung fu is inferior to YODA's, pouts and then jumps out a window, bawling the entire way. YODA calmly finishes his drink.
YODA: Never trust a politician, told him I did.
Here's why Anakin goes bad.
"Anakin, Meesa your father."
"Nooooooooooooooooooo!"
Apparently, TheForce.net has taken it upon themselves to produce Episode VII. After the prequels, how badly could it suck? Might be worth a read for the diehard...
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Not Lucas' fault, mind you. The person responsible is my buddy Sean, who part way through The Phantom Menace turns to me and says "I've figured it out. When they say 'midichlorians', the mean 'semen'."
Gak.
Mike Hoye
First the plot of EP3 is leaked across the net, what is next? where will the madness end!!
:)
Luckly the plot for Return Of The Kind is kept under lock and key
The problem as I see it is that I have no personality of my own.
On the molten, volcanic world of Sigma Vulcanus, Anakin Skywalker, a handsome, swarthy man with a dignified stature, makes an important discovery.
Wow. What a picture-perfect description of Hayden Christenson...
Now if the script described Anakin as a punk-ass little pretty-boy shithead with a dippy smile, I'd be more inclined to believe this "script" :)
GMD
watch this
Mannequin Skywalker
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
the odds of me getting to see Jar Jar die in a wash of gore that would put the best of "Starship Troopers" to shame are?
**insert favorite profound quotation here**
I'm still hoping they'll film this!!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Are you saying the plot blows?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Right, but it's GEOCITIES. I mean come on folks, I appreciate a good slashdotting now and again too, but a geocities site? Stands about as much of a chance of staying up as a moronic weather reporter in a hurricane.
by having him kill Jar Jar Binks.
A nice 30 sec bit of him bumping into Jar Jar "accidently" knocking him off a very high cliff and then saying "oops" and running off.
Ben
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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.
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
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
$ grep "Jar Jar" episodeIII.txt
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I'm sold.
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.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
BOBA FETT
As well you should be, boy. We are supposed to all be clones,
but you look different, which makes you a threat to our morale.
You are hereby banished from the clone army, never to return.
HAN SOLO
That suits me fine, I will make my way as a rogue.
Han Solo gets up from the table, knocks over his chair, picks up a
duffel bag and walks away. He opens the bag and there is a puppy
inside. He takes it out and kisses it on the head.
HAN SOLO
It is okay, Chewbacca, we will be all right.
Puppy? Chewbacca? He's 200 tears old in ANH... WTF?
lol
Never argue with an idiot. They will just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
If only they had some good writers. As Harrison Ford once said, "George, you can write this stuff, but nobody can say it."
Yeah, Geocities... the only Web host where you exceed your daily bandwidth quota while the banner ads are still loading.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Disgruntled by the piss poor Ep1, ever increasing ticket prices, half an hour of TV commercials in the theater before the movie (despite the high ticket prices) and the MPAA's increasingly obnoxious tactics, I stayed home for Ep2. I also stayed home for the Matrix 2, Spider Man, X-Men 2 and the Hulk. In fact, the last movie that I actually went to see was "Bowling for Columbine." For not much more than it costs to take in a movie (Especially if you count the ad revenue from the half hour of TV commercials) I can get dinner and a live play down at the local dinner theater. And that will be commercial free.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
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.
Love justice; desire mercy.
Would I get a show of hands who believes that an adapted version of the "New Jedi Order" novel series might be a good trilogy to film and produce for the fans? I think they could probably get all the old actors from Episodes 4,5,6 to play characters that are actually pretty close in age now to the characters to the books. Just seeing the Yuuhzan Vong and the new Jedi's trading blows with all the intrigue going on... I think there is enough story material to do a trilogy of sorts. Hell it might even redeem Lucas if he wrote a crappy Episode 3.
In Episode III, Padme realizes that Anakin is a major dork. The horror of the realization makes her break free of Lucas's stupid scripting...
As a side effect of the awakening, a glitch in the system creates a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Woohoo! Any excuse for a clone army of Natalie Portmans!!!
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Seriously though, this bloke at that message board seems to be making good progress on creating a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Go CGI-render guy!
Do I really need to remind you about the "You're not like sand" drek?
Sadly, it's almost too believable.
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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Dear Star Wars fans. The last two Star Wars movies made me realize that I am unable to write a good script. Hence the forthcoming movie "Star Wars III - the Tatooine Lightsabre massacre" will feature no script whatsoever, just John Williams music, your favourite stars and ILM special effects. After all, this is what we do best. -- George Lucas
Hmmmm....
The first three SW movies = Good
The Indiana Jones movies = Good
The most recent 2 SW movies = Bad
Let's cut the B.S. here folks. We all know that Harrison Ford is what made all the "Good" movies above as "Good" as they are. It's no wonder Lucas got jealous and castrated Solo's BadAssness in the "Remastered" movies by having Greedo shoot first.
Me, too! There's only one more chance.
And, despite what people say, I think all five movies so far have been great.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
No Lucas clearly understands that Darth and Anakin skywalker are the same character. Back in the 80's when he spoke of 9 movies it was to be 3 independent 3 movie sets. The "first" was set long before the original, the characters from the "first" 3 would have been long dead before the original was to have occured. The last 3 were to have been after the original. He stated that. I don't recall if he was as clear about how far past the original that last set of 3 was in time as he had been with the first three, but he made it clear that it would be far enough that there would be no characters from the first three in any of the other six. He very clearly stated that the two robots were to be the only two characters that were to be in all 9 movies and that none of the non-robot characters would be in per-quels or sequels.
He's clearly changed his vision since then. That doesn't mean episodes 1, 2 and C are any worse or any better than his original vision. I personally think he could have done mush better if he had followed his original vision, but looking at things like Jar-Jar it's clear that he could have screwed up the original vision too by trying to be too cute and creating merchandising oportunities and forgetting who the original movie was targeted at and appealed to. But any claim that a quick taste of the story for episode 3 was taken from anything Lucas did in '83 is clearly bogus.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I'm just dying to know -- how is it that "political correctness" has spoiled Star Wars in particular?
Greedo shooting first.
'Nuff said.
I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you.
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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I keep imagining George Lucas filming Episode III, all alone in a huge room with blue walls (like the prison in THX-1138, but blue), panning his super digital camera around and talking to himself. Then, when he gets a few hundred hours of footage, he hands it over to ILM and tells them to add the special effects.
-- stream of did I lock the front door consciousness