Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[superfunk]

It would seem Williams is going to be scoring the film.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62210

[stan]

Geez he could chill out on the Williams-dying-before-he-gets-to-score-it angle

[sandman]

'War of the Twins' sounds like something awful Lucas would come up with. Or 'A New Threat'. Or 'Dawn of Evil'. Or 'Triumph of Shadows'. 'Rebirth of the Force'.

I would copyright these right now if i were you

[JamesTW]

Lol, nice to see Ford having a sense of humour for once!

Unfortunately id say that was about 30% sense of humour 70% 'losing it'

[Glasgowchivas]

Dude, it was clearly a performance, there was no 'losing it'. Ford has previously done a sketch on another chat show where Chewie turned up in his dressing room and they fought over what Chewie had done to Ford's wife.

[whizzo]

Lol, nice to see Ford having a sense of humour for once!

Unfortunately id say that was about 30% sense of humour 70% 'losing it'

Incredible. It was 100 percent sketch

[Mr Do 71]

This will be filmed here in the UK.

[KriessG]

'Losing it' lol, yea sure.

[Hanzo the Razor]

So it'll be more like the OT by being filled with Brit actors then. No more Kiwi's or Aussies like the last two prequels.

[Jammy]

Mark Hamill has said they're going for a lot less CGI - hope that's true.

[Epcotman]

Some real locations please!!

[Hanzo the Razor]

I don't mind CGI as long as it's well executed. Some of the backgrounds (The Jedi Temple in Attack of the Clones) in the prequels looked so false it just takes you straight out of the film. Other times it worked really well. It's also often forgotten that there were still a lot of models used in the prequels and the mix with CGI was fairly seamless. More real locations would be beneficial though.

[Jammy]

I don't mind CGI as long as it's well executed. Some of the backgrounds (The Jedi Temple in Attack of the Clones) in the prequels looked so false it just takes you straight out of the film. Other times it worked really well. It's also often forgotten that there were still a lot of models used in the prequels and the mix with CGI was fairly seamless. More real locations would be beneficial though.

Absolutely - the droid army tank sequence in TPM looked like it was done on a PS2.

[Paulando]

I remember watching an SFX doc about TPM, and the waterfall outside Amidala's palace thing was made by pouring salt.

But yeah, the Jabba CGI looks laughably bad on the Blu-Ray:

[gizmo1990]

Good grief that looks amazingly awful! ILM must have given the gig to the interns!?

Compare that to Jurassic Park, which still looks utterly brilliant.

[Hanzo the Razor]

Absolutely - the droid army tank sequence in TPM looked like it was done on a PS2.

Hardly. But it is starting to show it's age.

[SeanR]

"inverse kinematics"

[Hanzo the Razor]

The decision to film them in digital at 2000k rather than on film didn't help them.

[Epcotman]

I agree. 2 and 3 looked a bit SciFi TV show. At least Phantom Menace looked like a film.

[Jammy]

Hardly. But it is starting to show it's age.

I don't mean the battle itself, that's ok - but there's one bit where you see the tanks going down a grassy slope from behind. It looked terrible in 1999, let alone now.

[Hanzo the Razor]

I don't mean the battle itself, that's ok - but there's one bit where you see the tanks going down a grassy slope from behind. It looked terrible in 1999, let alone now.

I remember that shot but never thought it stood out in particular as being bad. I'll take a look at it.

[Jammy]

It's just horribly sparse. Actually, it doesn't look finished.

[Hanzo the Razor]

That's a possibility. I remember watching the TPM documentary on the DVD (An interesting watch actually). ILM were pretty hard pushed if I remember rightly. Getting the movie finished in time for the premiere in May '99 went right to the wire.

[Jammy]

I think they had a similar problem with The Scorpion King !

[Hanzo the Razor]

You mean the abomination in The Mummy Returns?

There's nothing in the prequels that plumbs the depths of the end of that movie

[sweetdaddyg]

Im sure disney will redo the scenes in ten years

[scottcr]

After seeing Star Trek - I'm fully confident that the next movie will be very good.

[sweetdaddyg]

I remember watching an SFX doc about TPM, and the waterfall outside Amidala's palace thing was made by pouring salt.

But yeah, the Jabba CGI looks laughably bad on the Blu-Ray:

to be fair to them though, Im sure that was colour graded etc for film, perhaps its something to do with converting the image for blu ray?

[deerokus]

Abrams has mentioned Damon Lindelof involvement...

[Steven]

Abrams has mentioned Damon Lindelof involvement...

He's been hired to bring a vagueness back to The Force after the prequels tried to explain things.