Official ROTJ Info. (**spoiler**)

mitccc!opus
Feb 22 1983, 4:02 am
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
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From the 'Horse's Mouth....
Official Information on....

RETURN OF THE JEDI

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Boy! am I having fun! this is my first letter to the net, and I am enjoying it immensly. so, please excuse the slightly overdone, obnoxious psuedo-graphics and take this letter in the spirit intended.

I have just returned to my PDP 11 from BOSKONE XX. YEA!!!!!!!!! It was a blast, man. And part of the festivities was the first ever presentation (anywhere) by Lucasfilms, actually telling the public (sort of) some truth to dispel the wild rumours and conjecture that has sprung up. The persons there doing the dispelling were:
THE PRODUCER Howard Kazanjian
VP of Marketing Sidney Ganis
and Fan Club Director Maureen Garrett

The form in which they did this was an 11-minute documentary film on the 'creatures' they have made for it, a slide show of various stills from the movie and info about the sets (one is the largest outdoor set ever constructed next to one for Cleopatra). The slide show was full of teasers, and extremely well done, but the doc movie was a definate spoiler.All the shock effect, for me, is now gone. Suffice to say, they're fantastic (literaly), and there is going to be another cantana-type scene, like in the bar in the first movie- the perfect excuse to show dozens of neat 'beings' without any necesity or reason for their being there.

A lot of little bits of info was given, from stats to things seen in the stills. I will not describe the stills, say where some of the action takes place, its looks or the plot occurances one can gather from them. This being my first letter, I do not wish to have a baptism by fire (wrong religion), and so will endever to avoid one.

This much I will tell/remember (I am straight from the con, I am still opperating on adrenalin alone).

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THE TITLES

This is the saga behind the controversy, which was actively cultivated by Lucasfilms.

When George Lucas concieved of, wrote and copywrited this movie's script, the title was/is Return of the Jedi. When Lucasfilms started the pre-publicity, they actively used the title Revenge. I believe this was done partly out of a total paranoic fear of ANY security leaks, and partly out of pure boyish mischievousness. The third title,"Blue Moon" was the working title on location. That was the 'cover' name. all filming requisitions and location shots were done using that title, and the cast and crew wore T-shirts emblazoned with the logo. They showed slides of all three. all were the same basic style.

THE OTHER

During the question and answer period, someone asked who the other was. After the laughter had died down, they asked for the next question. But they did answer positively the question of whether we would find out who the "other" is.

THE EMPEROR one slide showed the red carpet literally rolled out, and regal looking minions parading down. They said that we would "find out more about the emperor" in this film.

LUKE AND THE DARK SIDE

I won't elaborate on the plot conjectures one can make from the stills, but Luke was dressed in black in every shot.

DARTH VADER AS DADDY

We'll definately find out 'fer sure'.

ONE INTERESTING STILL

In one still, beautiful beyond belief, there were a couple of x-wings flying in front of a large, luminous planet (I wax poetic). Up in one corner was an exquisite moon, and to the other side was what appeared at first to be a planetoid half illuminated, vertically, until the men from Lucasfilms pointed it out specically. upon closer examination, it reveled itself to be a half constructed Death Star.

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This episode is extra-long, because they've tried to answer as many questions as they can. Among the unanswered: What were the Clone wars?
What does the "Sith" in Darth Vader's title
mean?
What are the Whills?

Closing Remarks
It looks damn good. Opens May 25th at a theatre near you.

Stacey (opus) Goldstein Uucp: mitccc!opus Arpa: opus@mit-ml

mitccc!jfw
Feb 22 1983, 11:54 am
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers

An addendum to OPUS' news article, also garnered from BosKone.

While Luke definitely is dressed in Basic Black in all the shots, we were also shown slides which were teasingly described as Luke appearing to lose a fight with Darthy and handing over his Light Saber, plus he seems to be handcuffed in the slide shown next (however, these slides could be interpreted differently, and the Lucasfilms person definitely gave the impression that his was not the only possible deduction...).

Interesting note: Remember the Royal Celebration scene at the end of Star Wars IV, with the parade and so on? Dress all the spectators in white Imperial Battle Armor, and you'll have one of the scenes we saw -- sounds bad, folks...

utcsstat!willy
Feb 22 1983, 10:42 pm
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers

According to the STAR WARS Fan Club, of which my son is a member, one of the working titles was BLUE HARVEST, not BLUE MOON. They're offering promotional posters with the REVENGE title. (Now you can own the poster that is already a collector's item!)