http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/28/film.starwars.reut/index.html 'Star Wars' faves back for 'Episode III' Monday, April 28, 2003 Posted: 10:51 AM EDT (1451 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- George Lucas is bringing back the classic characters Chewbacca the Wookiee, C-3PO and R2-D2 for the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode III." The director has already hired actors Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker to reprise their respective roles as sprightlier versions of their characters for the prequel in preproduction. All three actors have donned costumes in past "Star Wars" episodes, and in the case of Daniel and Baker, the thespians have loaned their voice talents to puppet and motion-control versions of their characters. Lucas has noted in the past that having Baker inside the R2-D2 suit brought "an element of humanity" to the character. The film, whose full title has not yet been disclosed, is scheduled for a May 25, 2005, release.
Lucas has become such a terrible writer that I bet he'll even make R2D2's and Chewbacca's lines sound awful.
It's a shame that it's come to that, imo. Unless someone other than Lucas writes and directs the thing, I don't have much hope of it being very good. I'll go see it, however. Must be a glutton for punishment.
I thought Anthony Daniels used his own voice for C-3PO, but that article made it sound like that was not the case.
The thing is that he's got some brilliant ideas. He just needs some dialogue help. And that's not even that hard. Just read some good novels and steal some stuff. It's not that hard to create good dialogue. The hard part is the plot. And he's written an amazing plot from the beginning. Maybe he should ask for help if he doesn't have time. That's not a bad thing.
sample dialogue from SW Episode III: C-3PO: Oh dear...R2...slow down! Why did I ever hook up with you? I will never know. R2-D2: beep beep...(triple) beep.... C-3PO: Master Annakin is in the garden whispering sweet nothings to Queen Amadelia. I think he likes her a lot...much more than I like you. R2-D2: (frown sounding) beep... C-3PO: I think I'll go over here. You stay there and think about why I don't like you. Yeah...I'm looking forward to that SW III bullcrapiness .
"I don't like sand, it's course and rough. Not like you, you're soft and smooth..." Come on!! That's award winning stuff right there!!
Lucas will probably make "Chewy" into a young fluffy ewok looking thing. The movie will end with young Chewy and Jar Jar singing a song about love.
The most damn annoying thing about George Lucas is his idiocy in taking characters from the first movie and trying to incorporate them into these ones to make them lack in their suckiness. The thing with C3P0, R2D2, Boba Fett and now Chewy is just stupid. Even making Luke and Leia brother and sister was stupid. And then he uses the 'force' as the methodology to make up for the holes in his horrible storylines.
Luke and Leia were brother and sister from the very beginning...from the whole initial idea of the concept of this story.
Damn it, I was trying to stay spoiler free for the last movie. I guess I would of heard about this one eventually.... Chewie was 200 years old in Star Wars. I don't have a problem with him being in ep3. Will his dad and wife be in the movie too?
For some reason, I liked Episode I better than I liked Episode II. All the time...I was hearing that Episode II was the better of the two. Even with annoying Jar Jar in I...I still thought it was better. I guess I didn't like the new Anakin character in II. Does anyone agree with me or am I crazy? Honestly, I didn't like either one but, if I had to choose, then Episode I gave me more of the SW feeling than Episode II did. Granted, it was cool seeing Yoda whip some butt but that wasn't enough for me...even with the grand fight sequences. That stupid racer chase with Obi-Wan and Anakin and the factory sequence in Episode II really annoyed me. I'll take the original SW IV over any of them any day.
Hmmmm. I'll bet Chewy and Han will be smugglers working for Jabba in Episode III (running the Kessel run in 4 parsecs), and Anakin will "accidentally" bump into them. Small freaking universe, eh? Maybe... just maybe... if we're all incredibly lucky, Chewbacca will fart in his 5 seconds on screen, thereby continuing the fabulous prequel tradition of kid-pleasing, out-of-place fart jokes. Oh, boy! Set phasers to ROTFLMAO!!
