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.'
I could see those scenes being inserted at the scene in RoTJ where Luke is asking Leia if she remembers her mother. It is just before he reveals that they are brother and sister. All during Ep. II I was thinking how much Padme reminded me of Leia! Now we know from where Leia gets her chutzpah!
He's just trying to get everybody to buy yet another copy of his movies. I'm betting that he releases Jedi on DVD without the new scenes, and then comes out six months later with the "Special Edition."
Novels: Rogue Planet is pretty good. Approaching Storm is awful.
*weeps*
I won't be seeing AOTC until tomorrow or Thursday, but isn't Yoda in charge of all the jedi children? If that's the case, then Yoda was Obi-Wan's teacher, just not his only teacher.
Everything in I and II seems to mirror things that have happened in the other movies (Anakin and Luke taken from Tatooine by the Jedi and taught the ways of the force, both losing their arms fighting the Sith, Anakin destroys the Trade Federation ship while Luke destroys the Death Star, etc, etc).
Obviously in Episode III Amidala dies (as do scores of others). I predict that the Emperor convinces Anakin that the Jedi are to blame and he goes on a murderous rampage wiping them all out just like w/ the Sand People in Episode I, all save for Mace Windu who gets beheaded by Boba Fett just as Windu did with his father Jengo Fett.
After wiping out the Jedi, Anakin then realizes that the Emperor is Darth Sidious and that he was tricked into his actions. In a scene reminscent of Vader and Luke's battle in Empire, they have a lightsabre duel which will climax with Anakin severing the Emperor's arm to reveal ... a mechanical one (just like Anakin and Luke). At that point the Emperor confesses to Anakin that he is his father (GASP!), yes his father (possibly even a clone of himself implanted in Anakin's mother). And just like in Empire, Sidious will invite Anakin to rule at his side as father and son and Anakin at that point embraces the dark side and the transformation into Darth Vader will be complete, in contrast to the decision made by Luke in Empire.
Episode III will then close with a distant shot of a young Luke Skywalker playing on his uncle's farm on Tatooine. The camera will pan back and we see that we are witnessing the scene through the eyes of Obi Wan Kenobi. And that is how it will end with the thought that there is still this flickering hope for the Republic in the form of this young boy whose fate has been entrusted in the hands of Kenobi.
They will have no choice but accept your control of the system.."
Yoda was his old teacher by that time. Qui-gon was his Padawan Master. Yoda is his Jedi Master as Obi-Wan rises from Jedi Knight to Jedi Master. There's still a lot of teaching going on in the Jedi Order, necessary to eventually achieve the status of Jedi Master.
Just finished Rogue Planet yesterday. I'm reading the first of the New Jedi Order series right now - Vector Prime.
Damn you, Palpatine!! You're the cause of all this trouble, you Menace!!!
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