Star Wars: Episode III (SPOILERS)

[dangerman]

Jar Jar dying would be perfect. Lol I'm going back to Aldeeran.

[Alexander]

How could you go back to Alderaan? It isn't real, and it was destroyed.

[beeurd]

Use a time machine /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />


EDIT: Just remembered... That doesn't solve the not being real problem...

[Shark Death]

And can time machines travel to galaxies far, far away?

[beeurd]

Quiet you... My plans are falling apart... *sniff*

[Alexander]

Those really aren't major spoilers, these are:

• Sometimes the webcam does not show as much action s fans would like due to technical limitations or because the webcam is purposely placed away from the sets so it would not be a distraction.
• Anakin's Jedi robes are darker in Ep3. Trisha Biggar will have an article in the next Homing Beacon where she will discuss the changes in wardrobe to the characters.
• There at least six more cast members to be announced but they are only waiting for deals to be signed, paperwork. Expect another new casting announcement this week.
• Jocasta Nu is not in Ep3.
• Currently there are no plans for any major characters to shoot scenes in March during the scheduled pick-ups but that may change. (We know that Chewbacca, Owen and others will shoot scenes in Mar 2004)
• Kenny baker has not yet been on set.
• In addition to 70's style themes, there are plenty of "blinking lights" to merge the PT into the Classic Trilogy.
• Nick Gillard has shot part of his cameo as a Jedi.
• Anakin will "save" Obi-Wan at one point during the film.
• Ian McDiarmid will be shooting scenes until the very end of filming.
• Ian has several scenes with Hayden.
• Sola, Pooja, and Ryoo will shoot their scenes in the coming days.
• There is no truth to the rumor that the original person cast to fill the Vader suit was fired (due to fanboy giddiness).
• Obi-Wan's actions in the film are pivotal to what ends the Clone Wars.
• It appears Senator Lott Dodd will return for Ep3.
• Pablo has a hard time believing some of the imagery will get a PG rating. Nothing is too over the top but in today's MPAA standards, some scenes are intense.
• Christian Bale, Ralph Fiennes, and Peter Wingfield are confirmed as not playing Tarkin nor having anything to do with Ep3.
• Rohan Nichol has already shot his scenes as a starship captain.
• The EU character is neither Thrawn nor Xizor. But Pablo said "nice try."
• The Death Star plans are not really important in Ep3. The focus of Ep3 is on more important story points.
• Pablo doubts we will see daily updates during post-production but we will see further coverage of the completion of the film.
• Pablo said to re-read Rick McCallum's quote on whether or not anyone turns out to be a clone in Ep3.
• There will be a few tender moments of romance in the film.
• Pablo stated that the Dagobah cave was explained in Ep5, does not need further explanation, and to focus energies on other things.
• Palatine has more than one look/style of appearance in the film.
• The "no disintegrations" line will not be explained in Ep3.
• The "force ghost" theory will be explained.
• Jar-Jar's role in Ep3 is not that important, in Pablo’s words.
• Over the remaining 10 days of shooting left, the webcam will not cover much of the shooting but will be located on other stages.
• There will be no doubt that Anakin is Darth Vader as seen in the film. Pablo added "unless someone out there starts a clone theory or something".
• Plo Koon, Saesee Tiin, and Kit Fisto have completed their scenes. Ki-Adi-Mundi still has some shooting left to complete. Luminara, Barriss and Bultar will shoot their scenes in March during pick-ups.
• There will not be any puppet characters but there will be at least two important alien species showcased in Ep3 that will be realized through old-fashioned creature effects.
• So far no new styles of lightsabers, but we will see new styles of lightsaber combat.
• Anakin knows Padme is pregnant and expecting.
• The Trade federation Cruise will be a new design. Pablo is unsure on how large the ship will be on film but he expects it to be larger than the Republic Cruisers.
• There will be cut scenes from Ep3, as with every movie.
• The fate of the younglings will be explained.
• Ewan and Hayden are the actors with the most screen time.
• Palpatine and his entourage will be watching some performance art (Coruscant Theater) at one point in the film. The art will be created by ILM.
• Pablo related more to Obi-Wan's perspective n the film as opposed to Anakin's.
• Anakin's fall is shocking.
• Pablo sends his set diaries to California each day and the diaries are scrubbed for any potential spoilers that may be too revealing.
• Wherever the March 2004 pick-ups are held, someone from starwars.com will be there to document the production.
• At the beginning of the film Anakin and Obi-Wan are still good friends and we will see they have grown even closer since battling in the clone wars together. But Anakin has been building another friendship too...
• The March 2004 pick-ups will be studio-based and Pablo expects that some characters will be digitally added or edited in the scenes, such as Sio Bibble was added into Ep2.
• Overall, Palpatine has much more screen time than Sidious. But Sidious will have much more screen time than seen in Ep2.
• Pablo says that some of the theories seen on StarWars message boards are very close to the plot of Ep3, but also that the story is not that much of a secret since we have known the basic plot since the prologue to the Ep4 novel. The only mysteries to be revealed are the "why" and "where" things happen.
• The reason Obi-Wan changes his name to "Ben" will be seen in the movie but not an explanation as to why he chose "Ben" as the specific name.
• The timespan covered over the course of Ep3 is similar to that of the other films.
• Passel Argente will not have any lines in the film, but he will have a new look and will have on-screen closure to the character. Passel's aide Denaria Kee will also be seen in the film.
• Though Padmé's screen time is less than that of Obi-Wan and Anakin, she will still have an important role and a fair amount of screen time.
• Pablo knows the opening scroll text as it is in the script. The opening scroll will be important in Ep3 as it is in media res like ANH.
• Miniature work is part of post-production and that phase has yet to begin.
• All the droids in the Droid Unit, to include "copper top" (Obi-Wan's starfighter droid), have been crated up as their time for shooting has finished.
• There are scenes that will have moments that could be seen as "scary".
• Darth Sidious will remove his hood.
• Spy report states Anakin gets BADLY burned, a threat to the PG rating
• The windy environment in Ep3 is a concept in which Ralph McQuarrie had done previous designs. George decided to re-visit the idea and give it a fresh pass.
• We will see prototype TIE Fighters.
• About 1/3 of the action sequences in the film will occur on the new planets where will we also see the most visually spectacular sequences.
• Much time was spent in designing new weaponry for both the clone and Separatist armies. We may even see some walkers (predecessors to AT-AT's).
• Great care was taken in the design work for Ep3 to ensure it bridged the trilogies and will mesh the prequels so far and on into ANH.
• The designs for the new worlds are brand new concepts that George wanted to explore, and they may not all be necessarily "Star Wars-like".
• A very large number of designs were created and submitted to George for Ep3, and there are so many ideas that many of these designs will not make it into the final film.
• Spanish art neauvau and 1940s futurist / art deco were some of the design influences used for the Ep3 concept work.
• Ryan's favorite things to design are vehicles and military hardware. He also enjoys painting the environments and situations.
• Ralph's favorite Ep3 design of all is one he cannot reveal due to being a heavy spoiler.
• There were many designs for Ep2 that George had discarded but had also specifically saved for use in Ep3.
• We will see both the "used universe" design style common in the Classic Trilogy as well as the sleek, "pretty" environments seen so far in the prequels.
• Some of the new environments have sophisticated cultures that are hard to categorize because they don't really fit with being "used universe" or "pretty".
• During pre-production, George presented the design crew with some art work by Mark Rothko and asked that some of those influences be captured for the film.
• To avoid repetition, the design crew has developed a new look for the outer space locations.
• Ryan designed many of the separatist planets but they are currently not scheduled to be used in the final film.
• For the new planet designs, some historical sources were researched and integrated, but most new worlds are focused on being as unique and fresh as possible.
• Most of the Coruscant designs will expand on previously seen locations. There are a few new locations on Coruscant we will see - and one in particular that Ryan thinks is really cool.
• Before reading the script, the design crew created many designs based on suggestions from George before he ever came out and specifically asked for them.
• Flash Gordon style sci-fi images have always been part of the influence in concept designing for the films.
• We will see evidence of Rebel Alliance ships.
• While the feel of the movie is bridging the prequels and the Classic Trilogy together, Ep3 is also meant to contrast with them.
• We will see many land battles and at least one is of the continuing Clone Wars. Ryan thinks it looks cool.
• The new Federation Cruiser is a large and aggressive warship. It will look "slightly familiar".
• In addition to working directly for George, Ryan also works with the animatics crew and ILM when they work on creating the shots.
• There are not too many scenes that take place in or around a Death Star.
• Visually speaking, Ryan believes Ep3 will certainly be the best Star Wars film to cross the screen.
• The clonetrooper designs are not very different from Ep2 but the clones will be doing a lot more in this film and needed customizations to their suits.
• The Jedi Starfighter is not the same design seen in Ep2.
• Ryan mostly works on locations, architecture, ships and droids.
• The crew designed the entire planet for the alien race played by Bruce Spence's character, to include ships and technology.
• We will see a new location on Naboo.
• We won't see 2-1B ( ) but we will see some cool new designs on medical droids.
• The fire ship captain will be seen flying a fire ship and puts out a fire on Coruscant. The fire ships are the fire department.
• Derek Thompson of he design crew tried very hard to get IG-88 into the film. It is not known whether the droid will be seen.
• George was very certain about what he wanted for the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel environment. The design crew only created the architecture.
• Ryan does not think there will be any other actors in suits other than Chewbacca.
• The first thing George asked of the design team was to conceptualize the seven planets of the clone war. However, many of those planets did not make the final cut.
• Doing the design work for the wookies was one the favorite jobs Ryan has had so far on Ep3.
• The design crew worked very hard to make the new bad guy in Ep3 visually distinctive.
• The new bad guy has a lot of screen time, a memorable role, and he is central to the plot.
• Non-droid soldiers for the Separatist Army were designed but it is uncertain if those characters will make it into the movie.
• Ryan's main goal in working on Ep3 is to have ILM bring the designs to realization, photorealistically creating the worlds from the paintings.
• Ryan designed the prototype for the X-Wing.
• We will not see any more characters of Yoda's species.
• Ryan does not think we will see Dooku's Solar Sailor ship in Ep3.
• Ryan likes to listen to soundtracks and opera while working on Ep3.
• Ryan is most proud of his Hailfire Droid design from Ep2 and was surprised George put it into the final film. (The droid that shot the rockets and had large wheels)
• The busiest time working on Ep3 for Ryan was during the 9-month pre-production phase. There were lots of late nights because the work was so fun.
• Some of the old Ralph McQuarrie images were incorporated into Ep3. At the start of designing, George pointed out certain designs he definitely wanted to see in the film.
• There was a change of plans and today's scheduled shooting was postponed until next week due to an injury Hayden sustained while executing a leap in an action scene weeks ago. The injury has been aggravated to the point where it may start affecting Hayden's physical performance. Hayden will be taking it easy the new few days and hopes to be ready to go for the cameras on Monday morning.

• This shift in schedule means the scenes planned for next Wednesday (Sep 10) were moved up to today. This called for three new sets for use in today's shooting.

• Here are the six scenes shot today:

1: Darth Sidious communicates with someone via hologram. Duncan Young provided the voice of one of Sidious' evil henchmen.

2: Obi-Wan Kenobi stunt double, Nash Edgerton, did a stunt where he is hurled through the air, hits the wall, and collapses on the ground - all without wirework. Nash managed to land in the exact same sprawled position that Ewan assumed in a previously shot segment of the overall sequence.

3: One scene with the revolve (rotating set) was shot for the final time today. Originally the revolve was only a a floor and a ceiling. Stunt performers in the set were to start in a normal orientation, and then fall towards the "ceiling."

4: An alien wilderness rocky cave was shot with Obi-Wan Kenobi doing the spelunking. Given the craggy gray rocks and the circular cave-opening, Ewan compared the scenes as entering the butt of an elephant.

5: A new environment within the Jedi Temple as Obi-Wan fiddles with a high-tech piece of equipment and a computer console embedded inside a pillar.

6: Another new section of the Jedi Temple where there will be a conversation between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. Duncan Young provided the voice for Yoda. A little person, about the Yoda's height, served as a stand-in to block the scene, since Yoda must walk across frame.

[beeurd]

Ugh, I already read it over at GBnet... Don't make me read it again /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

[Shark Death]

Cool stuff. So .. we're going to see Chewie, but not Han?

[beeurd]

Well... Han would only be about 9 at the time of Ep3, and we've already had one annoying 9-year-old in the prequels...

[Chaotic_Baryonyx]

Wait... A new bad guy? Huzzah!