From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: From Star Wars to Jedi ....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:22:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.213206.5387@nic.funet.fi> tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen) writes:
>In article <l9smbqINN3uj@aludra.usc.edu> joshuali@aludra.usc.edu (Joshua Ling) writes:
>> 
>>I doubt it VERY much that a new Star Wars film will be out in May '93.
>>I would almost bet money on it not happening for a couple of reasons:
>         ^^^^^^
>If you're ready to bet money on it, I'll bet my $10 on it happening in
>'93. 

Talk about sucker bets...:)

>>1) Who would do the effects? ILM, correct. ILM has been very busy lately on
>>other film Jurassic Park is supposed to have effects in it that are going
>>to be as breakthrough as T2 was last year If ILM haven't stared yet on
>>the SW effects if it IS to be released in 1993 then they will never be able to
>>finish on schedule. They barely got Jedi done in time.
>
>What if ILM has already finished those effects on SW? If my
>information is correct, there is almost an empty year for ILM after
>T2.

Not likely.  ILM is almost constantly working on SOMEthing, probably the
more recent Hook would fit the bill...

>>2) Lucas has ben heavily into Young Indy the past year and since it has been
>>renewed for this fall, I'm sure he is busy right now. If anything, I would
>>say that Young Indy has pushedthe next SW movie farther away.
>
>Has he really been heavily into Young Indy or has he said he's busy
>with it. They're two different things.

Well, considering YI has been filmed on location in various parts of the
world, I'd say it probably does take up a reasonable chunk of his time.

>>3)Could he actually have a film in production without some one leaking it 
>>out? It is possable but VERY unlikely. With the amount of people that he
>>will have working on it, news is bound to leak out.
>
>If Lucas has paid well enough to keep people's mouths closed. And, if
>no-one knows who's acting in SW or who's doing some work with SW,
>no-one knows who to ask. If Lucas has picked up previously unknown
>actors like he mostly did with ANH, it wouldn't be too difficult to
>keep their mouth shut. 
>That leaves all technicians etc. out but if Lucas has made some kind
>of agreement with them... 'If you leak out you're fired immediately'.
>It would keep mouths shut too. And if those technicians etc. have been
>paid enough, they have no need to tell anyone.

Again, that's hardly likely.  With the sheer number of people required
to produce a film on the Star Wars scale, word would get out.  Remember
how hard Lucas tried to hide the RotJ sets?  Admittedly, it was kinda 
obvious what he was doing, but in this case, there are thousands if not
millions of people looking forward to the new sequel, and the fact that
it's started or is in production would make a great story for somebody's
magazine...eventually, we would've heard about it sooner or later.  The
kind of money you could make off of that info would more than balance out
Lucas' threats, especially if you got assured no one would know who leaked
it out.  Journalistic integrity, and all that, don'cha know...

>(Sorry people for posting again this 'when next SW movie comes out'
>thing but I was very interested in that bet :-)

Hey, it's your money...:)

The Walrus

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