More Wishlist Fodder and Revenge of the Sith Stuff
I wish I'd win in the Daily Prophet Sweepstakes. Aside from that vacation to the Maldives and Egypt for two, I'd love to have the galleons to get these:
The Final Challenge Chess Set ($295)
Gringotts Coin Collection ($29.50)
The Mirror of Erised ($69)
And
this one's especially for
Brother Ron. More new Harry Potter stuff from the Noble Collection
here.
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SW EPISODE III SPOILER ALERT!
TheForce.Net reports the following confirmed lines from "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith".
Padme: "It's not all about you, Anakin."
Obi-Wan: "Now let's get a move on, we have a battle to win."
Commander Cody: "Yes Sir!"
Anakin: "I don't fear...."
Woooo!
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I got the Star Wars Homing Beacon in my mailbox today and read some pretty interesting stuff from the Episode III Set Diaries by Pablo Hidalgo. Here's a cool excerpt:
I've brought copies of the Daily Production Progress Reports from those three days of shooting along with me to the re-shoots, to see if they jog any classic Star Wars memories.
An eye-catching detail is the length of the workday. The current Episode III pick-up schedule has days starting at 7:30 am and wrapping at 7:00 pm. In 1976, it's a different story. On May 14, it's 8:30 to 5:40. On Tuesday, May 18, it's 8:30 to 7:35. On Wednesday, it's 8:30 to 5:30. Furthermore, on Episode III, the first set-up is typically completed within a half-hour of the day's start. For Episode IV, these three days have set-up times of an hour, an hour and a half, and two hours, fifteen minutes.
How things have changed. "This was the crowd breakdown then?" asks Ewan McGregor, who also examines the progress reports. He looks at what the extras got paid for the Massassi war room sequence. "Seventy-eight [extras] at £12.38p, two at £10.00p..."
"Those were the days," chuckles George. "In those days, you could get a really good dinner for £10!"
Ewan, who has spent so much time preparing for the fateful duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin, took special interest at the May 18, 1976 report. "Look at this: 'As per Call Sheet, a rehearsal of the Sword Fight between Sir Alec Guinness and Dave Prowse was held, but the venue was EMI Studios this morning, under the supervision of Stunt Arranger Peter Diamond,'" he quotes. "These are amazing."
Anthony Daniels, who was present at the '76 Shepperton shoot, recalls that it was George Lucas' birthday during the first day. He also recalls the assistant director giving him an important piece of advice on an extras-heavy day. "He told me to have lunch a little early. I said I could wait for everyone else, to which he responded: 'have you ever seen a crowd of extras rush for lunch?'"
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Today is September 4. 255 days 'til Episode III.
Happy Birthday, my beloved! =)
.:chronicled by senator skywalker at 6:56:00 PM:.
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