The Clock Is Ticking...
Yep, the countdown has started. Well, it could have started at any point, but, well... Look, the new Star Wars film comes out in exactly one year. It has been confirmed that Episode III will be released on May 19th, 2005. What it's going to be called is another question. The papers were all full of it being called "Birth of the Empire", but then the official Star Wars website www.starwars.com "accidentally" said it would be called "The Creeping Fear", but then it was April 1st.
Anyway, I'm excited. This will be the BIG one, the one where it all kicks off - the big Anakin/Obi-Wan showdown, the death of Padmé, the birth of Luke and Leia (though obviously not in that order...), and the moment we've all been waiting for, the moment when Anakin becomes Vader. I personally hope it's the last scene of the film - just imagine Vader's theme thundering out in glorious Dolby Digital, the sound of his breathing, and the first shot of that cool helmet.
Um, that sounded a bit crap (and a little bit suspect...) You know what I mean. I hope.
Just as long as they don't balls it all up with too much CGI and some crappy slapstick moments... You know who you are, Jar-Jar Binks... Don't make us come down there....
Until then, though, we've got to all be content (heck, ecstatic) with the release of the Classic Trilogy on DVD on September 20th. Finally we'll be able to see A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in glorious, pin-sharp DVD-ovision! Of course, these will be the Special Editions released a few years back, as George Lucas has decided these are the "correct" versions of the films. I personally think they should have released them in dual-format, like they have done with the Alien Quadrilogy, so you can decide which version you want to watch. On the plus side, there are rumours that the nasty CGI Jabba in A New Hope has been replaced with the smoother version from The Phantom Menace, and that Ian McDiarmid has re-recorded the Emperor's scene in Empire, just to keep things nice and contiguous.
Anyway, I'm excited. This will be the BIG one, the one where it all kicks off - the big Anakin/Obi-Wan showdown, the death of Padmé, the birth of Luke and Leia (though obviously not in that order...), and the moment we've all been waiting for, the moment when Anakin becomes Vader. I personally hope it's the last scene of the film - just imagine Vader's theme thundering out in glorious Dolby Digital, the sound of his breathing, and the first shot of that cool helmet.
Um, that sounded a bit crap (and a little bit suspect...) You know what I mean. I hope.
Just as long as they don't balls it all up with too much CGI and some crappy slapstick moments... You know who you are, Jar-Jar Binks... Don't make us come down there....
Until then, though, we've got to all be content (heck, ecstatic) with the release of the Classic Trilogy on DVD on September 20th. Finally we'll be able to see A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in glorious, pin-sharp DVD-ovision! Of course, these will be the Special Editions released a few years back, as George Lucas has decided these are the "correct" versions of the films. I personally think they should have released them in dual-format, like they have done with the Alien Quadrilogy, so you can decide which version you want to watch. On the plus side, there are rumours that the nasty CGI Jabba in A New Hope has been replaced with the smoother version from The Phantom Menace, and that Ian McDiarmid has re-recorded the Emperor's scene in Empire, just to keep things nice and contiguous.
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