Hey folks, Harry here... This came in via email late last night while I was asleep and looking at it... well it certainly looks like Anakin on a Star Wars set... But I don't have one of them spiffy HYPERSPACE accounts, so I don't know if it has popped up there first. The photo isn't the best quality, which makes me curious about it. However, the person that sent it said... "No Questions" - so I'll ask no questions. Anakin definitely has a different hairstyle in this film... thank God, and it seems that his costume is a dark hue... like black and that's definitely a gloved right hand doing the Harrison Ford FINGER OF DOOM (tm) move!
Well The Pic was right here in this very spot - But I got a Cease and Desist letter from LUCASFILM - so it is now gone. Also - IF You are sending a scoop in from HYPERSPACE - please don't cut the burn ins off.... it helps to be able to identify where it came from! THANKS!
Here's some lesser spoiler stuff from Foray... And because Anakin's hair above looks... kinda 70's... well I'll give it the benefit of the doubt...
Hey Harry.
Got some news about Ep 3 that I thought you might be interested in . I have a friend of a friend of a friend blah blah blah, but this is genuine. I will present it in bullet form.
*A lot of the action will be taking place on Dagoba
*There will be A LOT of Wookies in the movie. Lucas has requested the services of the a Sydney basketball team to play them. And they will look MEAN! Grrrr
*They are currently building a set of the space ship we saw at the beginning of A NEW HOPE being pummelled by the Star Destroyer.
*R2D2 will be entirely CG
*Anikin's hair will look kinda 70's to gel with the first movies.
Call me Foray
Ok, then for rampant rumoring... i.e. unconfirmed balderdash, you can go into the following. Which if a line of it is true, may indeed contain SPOILERS - so beware... But I can't confirm this guy, cuz frankly my sources are doing the duck & cover till filming is over. My favorite "rumor" I've heard about Episode 3 is the increased dependence upon HAIR GEL to give em that Seventies hair styles! Oh yeah baby, that's what I'm talking about.... hehehe...
Harry,
Been a fan of your site for many a year, but damn, you don't have enough new news happening. Why does Chud have a Del Toro interview up and you don't? C'mon buddy, we need you to get the good stuff before everybody else!!
Which is where I come in handy, at least for Episode Three. Have a friend inside Fox Studios who I hypnotise to give me info he cannot consciously (by contract) reveal to anybody, but the contract doesn't cover unconscious mumblings.....
So, here's a few tidbits :
The lifesize Mill Falcon is extensively detailed, inside and out, so we should see a fair bit of stuff from the Falcon, interestingly, it isn't as battered and battle-scared, so Wookie boy Chewie apparently rescues the Twins then comes under attack from the Empire.
Lucas only finished the script last week, and he has told Fox personel he hasn't even registered a title or domain name because (GET THIS!) he wants to see the range of spec from talkbacks on sites like yours.
Don't expect much exterior stuff, they've booked all stages solid from now until early October and sets are going up in all of them.
Background shots have been done and will be done in New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland and some outback Australia. But the shooting sched for now doesn't include any of the key actors at these locales, so they may be greenscreened in later, if at all.
What little is known amongst personel suggest that Ep 3 is going to be very bleak, very grim and mostly interiors, which keeps in line with the GREATLY reduced budget. This is lo-fi Star Wars, kitchensink drama stuff.
Lucas and McCallum are bandying around a plus $100million US budget, but Fox insiders say this includes Lucas' and McCallum's fees of $10million plus each, so the actual production budget will be much less, and expect far less effects shots. Less than a few hundred.
The whole thrust of the film will be how and why Anakin turns to the Dark Side, obviously, but don't expect much beyond that. Word from inside is that this will be a three way love story, Anakin, Padme, Obi. Lots of betrayal, backstabbing, and could it be true? Obi and Padme get it on behind Anakin's back? WHAT???? You didn't hear it from me.
Besides the regulars, Jimmy Smits is heading to town,along with Sam Jackson, Chris Lee and of course, Peter Mayhew. They're booked into some righteous Sydney digs.
Don't worry about loose ends, Lucas is adamant he will tie it all those loose infuriating threads together, and many of the loose ends that seem ridiculous in Ep 1 and 2 are there for a good reason, they pay off in Ep 3, and some loose ends act as precussors to Ep 4.
Let's see, call me.....Chewie's Bum Dag.
