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no, im not really a big fan of no doubt, but this tracks got a coo 80’s vibe to it that im digging…woot. so im out photographing around nyc and all this coo movie news just happens to come out that same day. bugger. first, some news about star wars eps3: return of the suck. amazon made a slight boo-boo(?) yesterday when they started offering a star wars novel with a particular cover portraying a major villain from the movie. oops. theyve already taken down the artwork from their site, but the image is already circulating around the internet. it features three characters on the cover…boba fett, some techno guild dude with bug-eyes…and the center dude, general grevious. you can refer to this older post btw. hes supposedly one of the main villains from eps3…and he doesnt look like a happy camper. so thats grevious…but where the hell is ventress? im thinking that she’ll prolly die in the second half of the clone wars mini-series and never make it to eps3. poot. suck. in more eps3 news (some not-so-new…*shrug*), killer movies posted a new insider pic from star wars.com of natalie portman macking on george lucas. jk, what a disturbing thought. something i hadnt noticed before…in their gallery of older insider pics, they have a little pic of the new clone troopers from eps3. these were just conceptuals, but they show how the new clone troopers will look like hybrids of the super troopers from eps2 and the old-school storm troopers of eps4. pretty coo shit. and with anakin sporting the dukes of hazzard hair and amidala sighing more, the movie might be at the very least entertaining, if not un-sucky.
> amazon releases book (via cinescape)
> amazon pulls artwork (via cinescape)
> insider pics (via killer movies)
around the world
and in other movie news…the new trailer for around the world in 80 days is up! this is one of the few movies im actually looking forward to so far. you get jackie chan and steve coogan flying around the world in a flying contraption with weird gadgets meeting weird people like the wright bros (luke and owen wilson), wong fei hung (sammo hung), and arnold schwarzenegger and his poofy hair. its even got john cleese, karen mok, macy gray, spud, and one of the full monty dudes in it! wtf…rock on…
> around the world in 80 days trailer
addendum to star wars
after having read the newest round of blah blah blah-ing on aicn, more star wars news came up too. concerning the minute and a half worth of footage leaked…that besides that mini-featurette, there was apparently an even longer featurette that was shown to a select few people with actual scenes and storyboards from the eps3. the following is quoted directly from the article. > original article from aicn
(spoilers up the wazoo, btw…)
Actually, according to one source, it’s much longer than just 9 minutes, and we managed to talk one exuberant spy into giving us a full account of the presentation, which we’ll share before we continue:
Hi Harry
As promised here are the spoilers of the info of the Lucusfilm Star Wars Presentation that was for 50 or so people at London Toy Fair. Basically they were the 50 biggest toy buyers and licensing companies in Europe and i work in one of the categories !!
So here are the Spoilers
Its all true so dont shoot the messanger !!
Star Wars Eps 3
Ok this is from memory
The presentation opened up with a 20 minute montage of what Star Wars has meant over the last 20 years or so and then it was announced that unlike other star wars movies they were giving us a synopsis of the movie and then bang we were into it. It was explained that what we were seeing was
A) Rough Early Footage
B) Animation
C) Storyboards
D) Blue Screen footage
It starts with the fact that the Senator Palpatine has been kidnapped by the renegades because of the continuing clonewars. Annakin and Obi-won are sent to rescue him. It is basically a pod race in space feel, with both of them in their own space craft, not seen in any of the previous movies. They are attacked while approaching star destroyers but and if memory serves Saw Droids (look a little similar to Matrix Sentinals but smaller) Obi-Won is attached by 5 or 6 of them and is going to die. Annakin comes to the rescue by bashing the ship with his ship and knocking them off. This was footage and looked rough but very cool
We are then told over black screen that the rescue was successful BUT
We next see them into the control room of the star destroyer with no bad guys around but the ship is out of control and approaching and going to crash in a planet. We see the ship starting to burn up in the atmosphere and half the ship gets blown away. Our heroes we are told escape. Again footage rough but good
The Film, we are next told is set on two planets (again the names escape me) one is the planet primarily of water and mountains but the mountains have dwellings on the side, and another is the wookie planet, where we are told we will meet chewbacca. Who becomes a great hero because of this film.
Storyboards
We are then told that Amidala is pregnant by Annakin – no images just storyboards
We are then told that in the movie we will see how C3PO and R2D2 move from Eps 3 to A new Hope as it is hinted that they are passed to somebody’s position
We next encounter Obi-Won who is investigating a matter for the Jedi on the Mountain planet, the only way of climbing a m,mountain is on a creature, similar to bantha but much much bigger and very speedy who runs up the mountains, bit like a taxi.
– This is animation
We are told that the clone wars are going the way of the separatists and that something is causing the Jedi to be wiped out – but we do not know why or by who.
We are then told there are two climactic battles
1. Yoda / Annakin / Obi-Won vs New Evil Guy, and Emperor , this is done in storyboards, but we are told that yoda and palpatine fight with every conceivable item
2. Annakin vs Obi-Won. We see this both in actual footage but also in animation. The footing is blue screen and is very intense and we see 5 minutes worth in tunnels and rooms and bit like the rooms where Han is frozen in EMPIRE. we do not see an outcome
then we move to animation and then pop – it smacks you in the face of how he becomes darth – VERY VERY VERY VERY BIG SPOILERS.
They are fighting on floating bays over a lava lake this is burning ferocious flames, they are crashing and falling over each other – and getting burnt. again we do not see an outcome but if its anything like the animation then wow !!! My thoughts are that Annakin is very burnt and is re-built by the Emperor as darth Vader
At no point are we told that Padme is killed but we are told that she bears two children, we are shows the planet tattoine and told that the children are split up and one LUKE is going to his uncle.
We are also show the last scene on tatoine where we see two suns in the distance to signify the two kids
This was hugely impressive although I may not have remembered it all, but I did most and think it look great.
Then we are told that this movie answers and ties up all the questions for the last 20 years.
We are told that they will be two very very bad guys in this movie, but interestingly we are not told about Count Dooku – where is he in all this !!
The hint was that one of the baddies may be female – which would be interesting !
Other than that if I remember more I will advise
Yours
The Highbury Spy