2004/07/25

Star Wars Episode III: The Title Has Been Announced!
And the title is, 'Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith'. Agh. That's right, 'tis not 'Rage of the Hungry Ewoks' or  'Dances with Maori Clones' or 'The Marketing Bonanza' or 'The Gluttony of George Lucas' or 'The Insatiable Hype Machine' or 'The Time I Cried Wolf and Only a Dark Helmet Remained' or 'When Anakin Became Darth'. Here is the article:  

"Star Wars" creator and filmmaker George Lucas did not attend the event, but sent fan relations chief Steve Sansweet in his place.
Sansweet announced the title by pulling off a baseball jersey to reveal a black T-shirt emblazoned with "Revenge of the Sith."

"For some time now, the naming of a new 'Star Wars' movie has taken on some special meaning among core fans who love to take part in guessing games and speculation before a title is announced," Sansweet told nearly 6,500 convention attendees. "And then (they) engage in debate once it is ... so let the debate begin."
Minutes later, a sampling of audience members dressed as Jedis, stormtroopers and other "Star Wars" characters showed they approved.

"I thought it was great, I loved it,' said Barren Wright, 35, a graphic designer from Modesto who was dressed as the green-armored bounty hunter Boba Fett. "This takes it back to the classic trilogy, It's a smart move by Lucasfilm to tie it all together since the logo and everything is identical to 'Return of the Jedi.'"
Wright said the symmetry between the titles reflects the story lines.
Anyone who has seen the original "Star Wars" from 1977 knows that the good guys — that is the Jedi — would be wiped out by Darth Vader in "Episode III" just as Vader and his evil Empire were toppled in 1983's "Return of the Jedi."

In addition to the title, Lucasfilm also sent concept artist Ryan Church to show off drawings of a Wookie tree civilization from "Episode III" and played footage of Christensen's climactic light-saber duel — minus all the special effects — with co-star Ewan McGregor, who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"Return of the Jedi" was originally to be titled "Revenge of the Jedi." Some advance promotional material even featured that title, but Lucas changed it later in production.

"This time, George tells us he's going to keep 'Revenge' in the title," Sansweet said.
He had one other announcement for fans: "Revenge of the Sith" T-shirts would go on sale inside Comic-Con's main hall in five minutes.


To quote William Shakespeare, I do be-groan with all. The sad thing is that while George Lucas is making his Star Wars movie, he has a monopoly on Space opera projects in Hollywood. nobody else would dare make one, let alone pitch one. So it's comic book translations to the screens and low budget horro numbers for the forseeable future otherwise.

A few weeks back I had a conversation with some of our readers who noted that the trend with Darths seems to be to have word that start with 'In', and then drop the 'in'.
-  i.e. 'Invader' becomes 'Darth Vader'. Insidious becomes Darth Sidious.  
While this doesn't apply to Darth Maul, by this logic, we can still figure out that there may be the following Sith lords in waiting (in no particular order):

Darth Continent
Darth Valid
Darth Congruous
Darth Sanity
Darth Dispensible
Darth Formed
Darth Dustrious
Darth Telligible
Darth Corporated
Darth Iraq
Darth Coherent
Darth Defensible
Darth Toxicated
Darth Vention
Darth Sensitive
Darth Structive
Darth Competent
Darth Decisive...

- Art Neuro a.k.a. Darth Yerface


2 comments:

DaoDDBall said...

But hang on .. Iraq doesn't begin with In. Oh! I get it!

Art Neuro said...

Hello from Darth Bed-With-Madonna. :)

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