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Vanity Fair pictures are now online
Lincoln writes "We've got
someone to get us a First Bound copy of Vanity Fair -
the pictures are now online!"
That didn't take very long at all. The other major news is that
Lucas has been saying that there probably won't be
an epilogue trilogy as originally planned.
Anybody know of a mirror?
Jerked around?
Hell, Lucas & Co. doesn't have to advertise in order to make sure that I go see their movie.
Ya know, if they decided to call the movie "Star Wars: A Big Fat Piece of Shit" it would still sell! You can't stop it.
So don't worry, be happy, and go see the friggin movie when it comes out.
also said on Extra -- Lucas won't be making, the originally planned, 9 episodes. Instead, after the sixth one, he said that he's stopping the Star Wars legacy. When asked if he would let someone else continue the saga, he replied "nahh, it's my thing."
Hey, when I watched ROTJ, around the age of 13, I loved the Ewoks. It's too bad they don't appeal to everyone, but StarWars IS a fairy tale and thus is allowed to be cute. Nowadays the amazing space combat scenes in the movie far outweigh the annoying Ewoks.
Who said it's an adult film?
By the way, was Chewbaka supposed to be from Endor originally? Has anyone seen the South Park episode where Johnny Cockrane uses his "famous Chewbaka defense"?
vanity fair is making ppl take down the pix from their magazine article.......
just so ya'lls know.....
Maybe Lucas will create a epilogue that takes place long after the original three movies.[
That would be far more interesting IMO.
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Bummer.
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I thought that Luke would become an agent of evil, and get turned back by Leia.
"one you start down the path to the dark side, forever will it rule your destiny"
-yoda
Luke had at least started. . .
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Not just Slashdotted..
It's all over aint-it-cool-news as well.
Can you say 'server meltdown?'
I knew you could.
Patrick Connors
As it's becoming habit, I'm mirroring the Star Wars postings from one of my servers in San Francisco. Enjoy!
http://lavender.cime.net/star_wars/v anity_fair
or
ftp://lavender.cime.net/star_wars/van ity_fair
E.
http://eugeneciurana.com | http://ciurana.eu
Is anyone else starting to feel jerked around by the tremendous amount of manipulative marketing tactics beaming from the Fortress of Lucas-itude in the last few months? Using a reasonable amount of modern marketing, media manipulation, and DC spin techniques to create some excitement is one thing, but what is going on with Star Wars I right now is far beyond that.
"Leaks" of inside information, the super-hype around the different previews, careful release of limited quantity of toys to whet that market: it all starts to feel like the Ewoks (that is, created only for the purpose of extracting more $$$ at the toy counter, not for true customer satisfaction), only 100 times worse. And I for one am feeling somewhat abused.
sPh
How he'd fit the droids in (supposed to be in all 9 movies) is beyond me. And it would kinda break the continuity of the episodes to have 6 which are more or less continuous and 3 which are not.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
Yeah, the whole epilogue trilogy never made much sense to me -- with the Empire defeated, do the rebels just sit around ala the non-violent version of Itchy & Scratchy saying "More Lemonade? Yes, Puh-lease."
I seem to remember Lucas saying somewhere (the interview he did with WIRED, maybe?) that he wouldn't be doing the third trilogy because the actors were all getting too old. I assume that's why the novelizations all take place in this time period.
I'm not sure how much of Lucas's notes and ideas for the third trilogy were used to create the books, though obviously as more books come out, they're less and less of the original, more and more of whoever is writing the book.
I'm just hoping that TPM is more like the first two movies and less like JEDI.
Jon
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
I don't see the third trilogy being done either. In addition to the comments above about marketing and about the timeline being screwed up by the books, there's also the fact the the "current" trilogy won't be finished until around 2003-04. Then if Lucas were to wait ANOTHER 15 years... ain't gonna happen, kids. Sorry.
BTW, big THANK YOU to Rob & Co. for fixing the "flat" display option. I'm on a dialup (I don't work in a fancy office with a fancy T3 -- so shoot me) and using threads to see all the responses just takes like forever, man. Spasibo!
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
If you think about it. 9 movies about a basic space opera, with good vs. evil confrontations, is really taking things a bit too far. Just leave well enough alone, and start making more original movies.
Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars. And I am definately watching the prequels, but after a while you just have to say enough already, and don't ruin a good thing. Leave that for the fanatics.
Man
No. It's a RELIGION...
These images are mirrored at:
The Force.net
and
My ISP
The second link will only be live for a day or so....just doing my part to offset the slashdot effect. Cheers.
Here's another mirror:
http://lonewolf.rh.rit.edu/prequel
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ipfwadm@adirondack-park.net
http://www.adirondack-park.net
I have to say, with all I've seen and heard, I still don't think I'll be disappointed.
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I saw Satan laughing with delight
It seems like the Slashdot effect has hit the site. Oh well.
No, they're probably not planning an epilogue trilogy because the officially endorsed series of books currently depicting the next, oh, 30 or so years after ROTJ would conflict with anything they came up with (unless they restricted themselves to one of the books, which would be a bad idea).
:)
Personally, I feel the first few series of books released depicting the "future" were good; they started going downhill after awhile, though... same damned predictable outcome: New Republic (the new name for the Rebel Alliance) wins again... and again... and... you get the picture.