The Rancor Attack With Return Of The Jedi, George Lucas wanted to pull out all the stops to finish his saga and give the fans even more of what they loved before. Whilst it could be argued that regurgitating the Death Star attack, albeit with added elements, was repetitive, Jabba’s palace, with even more bizarre [...]
They say that heroes are born, not made. Sadly, some heroes end up on the cutting room floor. This month’s unsung hero is Biggs Darklighter, Luke’s Tatooine pal, the rebel with the shortest ever career path, and proud bearer of the baddest ‘tache outside of Magnum P.I. Before the Special Edition Star Wars release in [...]
A Star Wars parody of the Loose Change 9/11 conspiracy theory film is now on Youtube, suggesting that the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job, orchestrated by Darth Vader, helping his son Luke, with assistance from a “mysterious freighter” that was seen in the space station “shortly before the attack“. Something to do [...]
Recently m’colleague John and I were discussing hypothetically how different things might have been had classic films of the past been subject to the intense internet scrutiny of today. Imagine a Harry Knowles on-set visit to Blade Runner, for instance: “Scott doesn’t know what he’s doing! Why is Edward James Olmos talking gibberish? Why is [...]
It’s hard to believe that more making of footage from the Star Wars saga remains to be discovered, but fresh gold is still being dug up from the vaults. The latest is French journalist Michel Parbot’s fly on the wall footage from the sets and Norway location of The Empire Strikes Back. Previously this material was shown on [...]
The Jabba scene, Mos Eisley When George Lucas first clapped eyes on what CGI could do for his mate Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, he probably rubbed his hands with glee and thought: “Great. Now I can improve some of those things that bugged me back in the ’70s!” Fair enough; replacing the [...]
It’s been a while since it was announced that Disney bought Star Wars, but facts have been few and far between. While my first thoughts are well documented, I figured the recent announcement of the director of Episode VII being JJ Abrams would be as good a time as any to combine my thoughts into written words. [...]
On June 21, 1979, on Stage 5 at Elstree Studios, one of the most iconic lines in cinema history was created. But it didn’t come from Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett’s original script. Instead it, and many more elements of this seemingly straightforward scene, came about from a great deal of rehearsal and script [...]
Now that Disney have bought Lucasfilm, will they plough ahead with their intended remake of Star Wars’ coat trailer, The Black Hole, or consign this imitators memory to the dustbin of history? The success of Star Wars took Hollywood by surprise in 1977, and suddenly science fiction films were hip again. Disney dusted off elements of 20,000 [...]
Remember when a poster really sold the promise of a good time at the movies? When that one sheet of an iconic character, maybe even one you hadn’t got to know yet, but just knew looked intriguing, could get your heart racing? Chances are it was painted by the Don of movie poster artists, Drew [...]
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