CT Classic Trilogy Rare and Behind the Scenes pics and footage

George Lucas in 6 vintage SW commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=143&v=DwxeE3jIt5A

 

Repurposed Star Wars Technology - Back from the Drawing Board, Part 2 | StarWars.com

great article about using unused concepts or other sw stuff. creatures too.

Star Wars Aliens: Recycling Abandoned Film Concepts | StarWars.com

 

WOOOOOOOW! I love this stuff. Thanks for posting!

 

I never knew that Richard Marquand played one of the AT-ST pilots in ROTJ? Pretty cool stuff.

 

It was his best contribution to the film. Zing!

 

And here is a nice pic of Treat Williams along with Carry Fisher on the set of TESB.

 

http://www.avclub.com/article/finally-star-wars-character-biggs-darklighter-gets-219263

 

Kinda sad to see how an amazing project as the above (or any of Jamie's work on the OT) doesn't seem to find an audience at all here. You'd think it would be of interest to people on a Star Wars forum. Oh well, I guess it's back to discussing whether Darth Maul is awesome or sucky.

 

Don't get too upset, the thread sometimes goes weeks without posts and days between replies to one another. Content such as what you posted is always appreciated, though. I'm sorry shy lurkers like me don't provide as much visible reaction as you'd like to see, but we do view everything in the thread and enjoy it. Thank you for sharing the video, it's well-made.

 

Indeed. Some prefer to take a little time to digest content and consider their words before posting. Knee-jerk reactions usually aren't the most sensible anyway.

That clip pertains to my fave film minor character I'll happily check it out. Garrick's Biggs deserves more attention.

 

Nice find! Thanks for sharing.

I agree with Garrick (and a lot of SW fans) that, while not full of action, the Tosche Station scene was important in the establishment of Luke's personality, and how his peers considered him at the beginning of the film, as well as presenting the close friendship between Luke and Biggs as well as their shared dream of their future.

This scene forms a nice envelop pattern to the Throne Room scene, when Luke has achieved his quest and is not only accepted, but also celebrated, by his peers.

 

10/10 thread right here.

 

wish that was in the movie.

 

Is that from some of the deleted training sequences in ESB that were meant to be used in a montage? I wonder how much of that bit of the script was filmed before being scrapped.

It might have felt a bit odd if it had actually made it into the film, though--something as consciously artificial as a montage is a rather counter-intuitive editorial trick for GL's more cinéma vérité documentary-based filmmaking style. Maybe the montage idea had something to do with Larry Kasdan's influence. After all, Kasdan's first draft of Raiders of the Lost Ark featured Sallah recounting his adventures in the Germans' camp retroactively to Indy in a narrative flashback.

 

Part of that deleted lightsaber training sequence is on the 2011 Blu-Ray set - it's not really cut together properly as a scene, though, more just the various shots laid end-to-end, some in B&W. As I understand it, the rest of the training montage (which would have included Luke deflecting laser blasts from training remotes using a frying pan!) was scrapped and never shot due to budgetary reasons.

Luke's attempts to chop a metal bar into multiple pieces in the air (part of which was shot, that's where the pic is from) are included in the Marvel comic adaptation:



Here's another pic from the scene, showing the metal bar itself:



More info here: http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/dagobah/

 

Time to show some CT behind the scenes love here...

 

I heard somewhere that one somewhat risque picture with Leia, Jabba and the wine cup had some deleted footage that goes along with it where Leia drinks from the glass, however it is too old and worn out to function properly, like much of the old OT deleted scenes. Anyone have some footage of Biggs, Fixer, Camie and Luke at Tosche Station?

 

Interview: Bill Hargreaves -- Former Jawa Scavenger and Galactic Prop Man | StarWars.com

 

Yep, all the Anchorhead scenes are on the Blu-Ray in their entirety, including a completely separate 'scene' of an old woman yelling at Luke as he speeds into Anchorhead - although there's no effects, just the shot of the old woman.
The 1998 BTM CD-ROM clips were much the same, just in poorer quality, very slightly clipped, and the first one of Luke spotting the battle above was from a rougher, earlier cut, in B&W and completely silent.

After a quick search on YouTube, however, the same clips that had been pulled off the old BTM CD-ROM appear to have been removed, and the Blu-Ray ones aren't available. Just buy it - the OT deleted scenes in that set are worth the purchase price alone, there's heaps.
There's an old thread summarising the OT deleted scenes here, started by, well, little old me:

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/ot-deleted-scenes-on-blu-ray.31932326/

As for the Jabba/Leia scene, I do remember that from the old Marvel comic adaptation - which, based upon the way Marvel did the ESB and ROTJ adaptations, would suggest that it was shot, but I've never seen any actual stills. IIRC, Leia never actually drinks from the cup, Jabba just holds it up to her face as she cringes.

 

The bit with the old woman at Anchorhead (who yells at Luke to "slow down" as he zooms by her in his speeder) was part of the shooting script. It seems to have been deleted from the longer Tosche Station/Biggs scene before the overall scene in question was cut out of the film.

So it's really a deleted scene from a deleted scene. Wheels within wheels, eh?

 

As the shot is silent on the Blu-Ray, and IIRC, appears to have been shot at a slower speed, it might have been excised because the effect of Luke's landspeeder was yet to be done - so worthless for a workprint assembled for the purpose of viewing. Or maybe it was just turfed as being a bit too naff (perhaps a bit too reminiscent of American Graffiti). It wasn't included on the 1998 BTM CD-ROM, btw.

But yes, very well put - a scene deleted from a deleted scene.

According to the 1998 SW Insider #41 article about the legendary 'Lost Cut' of 'The Star Wars', this shot was included in the 1976 cut edited by John Jympson.

 

Fascinating.

 

Well, the article (by David West Reynolds, who did earlier articles for the SW Insider about his 'archaeological tour of Tatooine' and another about the Anchorhead scenes, which he saw before the 'Lost Cut') stresses that the Jympson cut was just an early assembly of what had been shot, not even a rough cut. The B&W scenes on the 1998 CD-ROM of Luke at the vaporator and the Mos Eisley Cantina scene are the best glimpses we have of this early cut (other deleted scenes from both the CD-ROM and the 2011 Blu-Ray appear to be from later cuts).

No effects, nothing even close to completion, just a rough assembly to indicate how the production was going - the primary shoot wasn't even finished at the time, let alone the later pickups (if anyone has the original scene of Luke at the vaporator included on the CD-ROM, you can see that it cuts to a 'scene yet to be shot' board, i.e. the scenes on the Blockade Runner, last to be shot).

There's a lot of wild claims about 'disastrous screenings' and so on across the entire history of SW - Jympson (who was best known for cutting the legendary Beatles film A Hard Day's Night) wasn't kept on as editor, but I don't believe it had anything to do with the very rough cut being poorly received. GL simply wanted to take it all back to the US to cut at home with his own trusted team (including his muse/conscience/wife Marcia, without whom the SW trilogy wouldn't have turned out quite as well as it did).

If Jympson had thoroughly wowed them, he might have earned an expenses-paid working holiday for a few months, but it was never going to happen. LFL hired an expert editor to work for them while they were in England - he did what he could, and then the production headed home to the US.
I suspect the screenings which led to negative feedback and the ensuing studio brouhaha were after the UK shoot was done - but before the cantina/landspeeder pickups were approved.
(That's not taking into account the bitchy reception SW received from GL's circle of friends - not entirely sure which cut they saw)

Fortunately, Alan Ladd Jr stood by GL, the pickups were shot, ILM got their act together, John Williams was able to compose a glorious score for this ludicrous mess - and cinema history was made.