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Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild
Someone managed to get a clip on-line of the lost Star Wars scene from Jedi where Luke is shown crafting his Lightsaber. The full clip will apparently be included on the Blu-ray box set expected to come out in 2011. Hit the link below to see what is circulating. It's not much, but it looks real. Can't wait to see what they include in the 2015 version.
Update: 08/16 22:44 GMT by S : Lucasfilm complained, and YouTube took the video down.
Update: 08/16 22:44 GMT by S : Lucasfilm complained, and YouTube took the video down.
Or it could in fact actually not be him. Stand-ins for scenes like that aren't uncommon in the industry, or even in the Star Wars movies themselves....ask David Prowse.
The Blaster Master Fighting for Truth, Justice, and Evil Pie since 1979
I'm not fluent in leet speak, but I'm assuming this spells "Thanks suckers".
English is not this
Search YouTube for Star Wars revisited. A fan by the name of adywan has created his own Special Editions of the original trilogy ...including The Imperial March into the Battle of Yavin IV, as well as there actually being thirty Rebel ships to count (and a bucketload more in the dogfighting department) are included. Episode IV is available in its entirity in 13 parts.
As a teaser, here is the beginning of the battle (YouTube video) showing the DVD version and adywan's version. Notice the engines are now red instead of pink, the increase in ship numbers as mentioned above, and how the gas giant of Yavin is now viewable in cockpit scenes. The annoying discrepancy with the screen countdown (where '7 minutes' to the Rebel base was shown as 18 seconds, counting in 1/24ths of a second) has also been corrected.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
The ROTJ lightsaber scene isn't the only new piece of footage going into the BluRay disc set. It's just the one he showed at Celebration V.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
All James Earl Jones has to do is say a few lines.
Actually this would be quite expensive. A-list actors aren't going to work for Equity minimum, and I can't imagine JEJ bothering to go to the effort for the sake of faking a deleted scene.
Heck, they're sufficiently innocuous enough that they might be from the audio recordings Jones made at the time (they had the luxury of not having to match dialog to a visible mouth so there might have been several audio takes of slightly varied dialog).
But that's quite plausible.
Really? The subtitle A New Hope has been in use since 1981. That was when the film was re-released theatrically after the release of Empire, and well before Return of the Jedi first played in 1983.
I thought that was because there were two plots - the first being the "big picture" Alliance mission to destroy the second Death Star with the Emperor on board, and the second being Luke's personal quest to redeem his father. Luke even comments on that when he and Vader sense each other as the shuttle makes its initial approach: "I'm endangering the mission. I shouldn't have come."
Although, if memory serves, the Emperor was only there because he'd foreseen Luke coming to rescue his father...
(but on the prequels in general, and Anakin picking up the Lightsaber of Opposite Alignment, I completely agree)
> As I recall, it was changed because Star Trek 2: The Revenge of Khan was due to come out
Close; it was originally going to be Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country, but was changed to The Vengeance of Khan before finally ending up as Wrath.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan