Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith

[Myxo]

He should have gone with what worked for him in Episodes 5 & 6..

Lucas comes up with the story and somebody else writes the screenplay and directs it.

[lamas]

anyone else think Lucas holes himself up in his Skywalker Ranch and records himself playing with Star Wars figures to get dialogue ideas?

[matt35mm]

I'm getting pissed that I still haven't been able to see this trailer yet.  I've been trying but I can't figure out how.  Every link I find is either dead or times out after a minute of trying to download.

[matt35mm]

Guess I had to find it my damn self:   .

I'm a bit underwhelmed after all the hype, but it's a pretty good trailer.

[Myxo]

Guess I had to find it my damn self:   .

I'm a bit underwhelmed after all the hype, but it's a pretty good trailer.

As far as big box office giants go, it's one of the coolest trailers I've seen..

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

And this link should remain.

[picolas]

there's this part in the trailer where the chancellor is arrested, and he goes "are u threatening me?" after they hav told him "u are under arrest". i hope that's just a badly cut trailer moment where they left a lot of dialogue out, otherwise the script may be just as bad as the other prequels.

i'm pretty sure that's the way it actually happens based on Lucas, and how  Mcdiarmid compensates for the embarassing illogic by moving only his mouth.

[cron]

there must be a good excuse for a battle in the sea.

[MacGuffin]

Sony Music has announced that the soundtrack CD for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith will street on 5/3. The CD will include a bonus DVD-Video disc that will feature a 70-minute presentation of some 16 newly-created music videos of composer John Williams' signature themes from all 6 Star Wars films (set to footage from the films) that takes viewers chronologically through the entire saga. Each will be introduced by actor Ian McDiarmid (Senator Palpatine) and will feature the music along with dialogue and sound effects excerpts in full Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. The package will also include a booklet with liner notes by George Lucas and a poster.

[MacGuffin]

Lucas Calls New 'Star Wars' a Titanic Tearjerker

Director George Lucas had a message for fans as he previewed a glimpse of the final tale in the billion dollar "Star Wars" film franchise: leave the lightsabers at home, but don't forget the tissues.

"It's not like the first one. It's more emotional," said the director of space adventure, "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," which arrives in theaters May 19.

"I describe it as a 'Titanic' in space. It's a real tearjerker, and it will be received in a way that none of us can expect," he told theater owners at the ShoWest convention.

ShoWest is a major gathering of movie theater owners in the United States and a launch pad for Hollywood's summer movies.

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox teased a packed house here with the first six minutes of "Revenge of the Sith," marking the first time the scenes had been shown to audiences.

Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and master Obi-Wan Kenobe (Ewan McGregor) wage a furious fight against their adversaries in a battle of deadly spaceships. In this episode, Skywalker becomes the notorious Darth Vader.

Lucas and the promotional clip did not divulge much about the "tearjerker" love story. But Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman), who married Skywalker in a secret ceremony witnessed in the last movie, plays a key role.

If Lucas's comparison to "Titanic" is to be believed, there must be heartbreak in "Revenge of the Sith" because 1997's tale of the doomed ocean liner, "Titanic," stirred audiences with its tale of an ill-fated affair between characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

Love can work wonders with movie audiences. "Titanic" is the highest grossing movie of all time with more than $1.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales, surpassing No. 2 "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" with $1.1 billion.

The "Star Wars" films are no box office losers, either, but there hasn't been much romance in them -- not yet, anyway.

The adventures began with 1977's "Star Wars" and have sold nearly $3.4 billion worth of tickets at global box offices.

[bluejaytwist]

"jaws was never my scene, and i don't like star wars"

[Ghostboy]

I picked up that Clone Wards DVD today. It was alright, but I really don't get what all the buzz was about, with people saying this was Star Wars done right and all. It was just a lot of cool action scenes, some great, some merely decent, but overall it was nothing that wasn't already done just as well, if not better, in the brilliant last forty five minutes of Episode II. The best part, for me, was the footage of the space battle in Episode III.

I liked them enough that I do want to see the new ones that are airing right now, though. And it's probably better in little five minute excerpts anyway, rather than one long feature.

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Spielberg Worked On Revenge of the Sith
Source: StarWars.Com March 31, 2005

In an interview on StarWars.Com with J. W. Rinzler, author of The Making of Revenge of the Sith, he revealed an interesting bit of trivia for Star Wars fans:

Steven Spielberg was involved in some of the animatic sequences in the film. Can you tell us about that?

As George explains in the book, he gave Spielberg a few scenes to play with at the animatics stage: a bit of the Mustafar duel, and Yoda's duel with the Emperor, along with a couple of others. How much of Spielberg's contribution made it to the final film, only Lucas or Spielberg could say, particularly as George revised and reinvented every scene in the film so extensively in editorial.

[mogwai]

so it's not shite after all?

[ono]

so it's not shite after all?

Spielberg Worked On Revenge of the Sith

I think you answered your own question.