Yeah, I heard some rumblings on TFN last week about Peter Mayhew signing on for Episodes 7-9, but it was kinda brushed off as rumor. Still, it would be pretty cool to have it happen, although I think they'd do better to focus on post-Episode VI rather than what happens between Episodes III & IV. But I guess you can put in more Jedi that way, and you don't have the problem of aging actors trying to fill their old roles.

I have to add, about SotE:

 

- I very much like the book

- More information about Darth Vader, his body, his thoughts etc.

Speaking of Vader's body, have y'all ever seen this: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/injuries.html over at tfn? Whether you care or not, it's impressive that GL would put that much detail into a frame that most fans will never see.

Woo, good explanations. Especially how Vader was so immobile and what killed him in the end. Saxton must have the laserdisc release of ROTJ, cause I never saw Vader's skeleton that well on my special ed. tapes.

This makes me even more aching for the trilogy dvds

Not to mention all the beautiful fleet pictures we'll be able to extract from 'em, rather than the grainy ones available now.

GL's a funny guy. Sometimes he treats SW like it's his deepest love, sometimes like it's his baby, and sometimes like it's bum on the street.

 

That dedication to detail is amazing thought. Kudos to GL.

First of all Dennis Lawson was in the Yavin briefing. He was actually playing Wedge, saying the 'That's impossible, even for a computer' line. It's just that you mostly see him with his helmet afterwards and therefore he's not easy to recognize in the one or two scenes, where he doesn't wear the thing.

 

You are totally wrong.

 

Denis (not Dennis) Lawson does not appear in the briefing, he's only in the battle scenes. The guy in the briefing, the legendary "Wrong Wedge", was played by british actor Colin Higgins.

The guy in the briefing, the legendary "Wrong Wedge", was played by british actor Colin Higgins.

 

Darn it you beat me to it!

Lawson had to be a a funeral the day that the scene was shot but begged GL to let him stay in the rest of the shots.

 

Hmm... If there was going to be a TV Series I think an animated version would be better because then you could get some of the original actors to voice act for some parts. The sound editors could tweak the sound just enough so that they didn't sound quite as old for stories set back in the Thrawn era and that. All that would be needed are examples of the actors voices from between now and when the original movies were made to make the right adjustments. Easy enough for most of them since they stayed busy.

 

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Wing Commander series

etc.

Red_5, 1.8 years later and you come to correct Maskiness

Well after seeing just how much CG is in the newest generation of successful Sci-Fi series I'd have to say that making an X-wing series would probably cost less then making Battlestar Galactica or even the newest generation of Stargates.

 

The thing with CG costs is that the vast majority of the man hours into putting together a CG effect is in creating the 3D models. After the models are built the hardest part is already behind them and we all know that there are enough movie quality 3D models of X-wings, TIEs, and Star Destroyers around to fill cyberspace.

 

Look at IMPS: The Relentless and the amount of high quality CG effects that are in it. Then think about how all of that was done by people in their spare time. It would be relatively easy for a major production company to create a viable Rogue squadron series. I mean that just looking at the recent success of Battlestar Galactica, there clearly is a market for a Squad based series. Even more of one that is like the Rogues and does allot more then fight in space.

Well after seeing just how much CG is in the newest generation of successful Sci-Fi series I'd have to say that making an X-wing series would probably cost less then making Battlestar Galactica or even the newest generation of Stargates.

Stargate: Atlantis! W00T! I have to agree- animated is moy betterioso. I'll stop pretending that I speak Spanish, now. While it would be rather awesome, I think that the general audiance would go "Oh, hey, look, just send in three squadrons of fighters and you can destroy a Star Destroyer... Why the Hell didn't the Rebellion do that at Yavin when they had 50+ fighters.

Red_5, 1.8 years later and you come to correct Maskiness

 

Better late than never!