Episode 1
George Lucas - Lucas will definitely
direct the first Prequel but the directors of the next 2
are unknown.
He has decided to direct the first movie to be able to
set up the tone, style and look and the way it's going to
be done for the other directors who are going to come in
and do it for him on the other two films. "If I'm
going to do this movies, why not do it right?"
Producer:
Rick McCallum will produce the new
trilogy. He has worked with Sir Lucas before on the
Special Editions and the Young Indy series.
"George jokingly refers to the first movie as an
animated movie as it will have a lot of live action, but
also an enormous number of visual effects, amounting up
to 1,500 shots, 3 times as much as what we see in
Empire." Rick McCallum
Studio:
20th Century Fox? Most likely...
Dreamworks SKG?
Dates:
Filming of the first prequel is to commence in
September, the 8th according to Harry Knowles. Many
visual effects have already been completed to be
digitally composited once principal photography is under
way.
Completion for the prequels is expected in mid
February 1998.
On May 21st, 1999, we
will once again be taken back 'a longer time ago in a
galaxy far, far away'.
MOVIE DESCRIPTIONS:
Episode One introduces some of
the characters we know in the current trilogy aswell as a
whole heap of new folk.
R2 and 3PO will not be all CG, because that would be
very expensive and George is not into spending money, he
is into making it. From what we have seen in the Special
Edition of Star Wars, the CG R2 and 3PO were only used
for long shots. The film starts out with a bang and
doesn't slow down!
This first image you see here came from
the Time magazine 'Star Wars' edition. It is a production
sketch of the first episode which shows a transport ship
docking on coruscant. The sequence begins with the famous
yellow writing and the camera pans down to the surface of
a bustling city world, where an apparent passenger ship
is boarding. There were gaps in this footage, presumably
where live action footage will later be added. The ship
then takes off through the avenues of the city, and is
soon set upon by five or six small black ships,
resembling tie fighters with sweeping fins. The ships
pursued the large craft through the city, firing all the
time heading to even bigger problems. Could this be the
first sign of Star Destroyers in the Star Wars galaxy?
Who knows, but it certainly sounds like the ride starts
off early in this movie.
The sequence, which was probably only a couple of
minutes in length, looked great.
This first image you see here came from
the Time magazine 'Star Wars' edition. It is a production
sketch of the first episode which shows a transport ship
docking on coruscant. The sequence begins with the famous
yellow writing and the camera pans down to the surface of
a bustling city world, where an apparent passenger ship
is boarding. There were gaps in this footage, presumably
where live action footage will later be added. The ship
then takes off through the avenues of the city, and is
soon set upon by five or six small black ships,
resembling tie fighters with sweeping fins. The ships
pursued the large craft through the city, firing all the
time heading to even bigger problems. Could this be the
first sign of Star Destroyers in the Star Wars galaxy?
Who knows, but it certainly sounds like the ride starts
off early in this movie.