Posted on 05/28/2002 8:18:02 AM PDT by codebreaker
Dark Horzizions (Movie news site) is reporting that Natalie Portman will appear on the 'Return of the Jedi-Star Wars Episode VI' Digital Video Disc.
Music Television apparently re-iterated rumours that Natalie Portman (Senator/Queen Padme Amidala) has signed on to be a part of the new scenes being filmed for 'Episode VI-Return of the Jedi'
She will shoot scenes during the production of Episode III ('Rise of the Empire?-ed.) which will then be re-inserted into the Digital Video Disc release of 'Jedi.'
You may be right. Lucas likes to milk his projects as much as possible. I just hope Star Wars doesn't get as bad as Star Trek in reference to Voyager and Enterprise. Paramount is still milking thier Trek cow long after they ran out of ideas.
Lucas added many new scenes to the final few minutes, showing cities on many planets celebrating the destruction of the Death Star.
What really irritated me was the new-age music they substituted for the original Ewok dance music in the final scenes.
I second that emotion! Some other freeper said it best: "She is all kinds of hot" in the new star wars movie - and I agree. Saw her on Letterman a few weeks ago - she seems like a real sweet girl. She turns 21 in two weeks.
From IMDB:
Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel as the only child of a Doctor (father) and an artist (mother, who also acts as Natalie's agent). Natalie left Israel for Washington when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she lived until her graduation from high school. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard. She was discovered by an agent in a pizza parlor at the age of 11. She was pushed towards a career in modeling but she decided that she would rather pursue a career in acting. She was featured in many live performances, but she made her powerful film debut in the movie Léon (1994) (The Professional). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996) and Mars Attacks! (1996). It wouldn't be until 1999 when she received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated $431 million grossing Prequel Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Natalie next starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas Anywhere But Here (1999), and Where the Heart Is (2000).
According to my daughter who has read the endless stream of novels it all has something to do with choice, power, and opportunity.
But inserting major characters is something different entirely.
I also suspect - you heard it from me first - that in the next decade at least one film from the original trilogy will be redone entirely in CGI with the trilogy being completed in CGI within the next 2 decades.
In regard to the article, Portman could appear as a flashback in either the scene where Leia tells Luke about her memories of her mother (indicating that she does not die until after Ep. III), or during Luke's final duel with Vader where he (Vader) looks back and forth from Luke to Palpatine and finally decides to toss the emperor into the core.
A farther out theory I've seen is that Amidala is Mon Mothma (the 50ish woman in white giving the military briefing before the attack on the second Death Star).
What I really want to see if Jar-Jar's death, if they don't kill him in Ep. 3, I hope they edit Ep 4. and put him at ground zero on Alderan.
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