Indy IV Watch, new SW books

[lazypadawan]

Indy IV wrapped a few days ago in scenic Fresno. Read all about it here and see some shaky-jake video of Papa George and Harrison Ford:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/17/indiana-jones-4-wraps-production-shoots-at-fresno-airprort/

I picked up the novel "Death Star" today and went on a wild bantha chase to look for that new pop-up book. Stupid Borders probably hid them all just so I won't be able to buy it with my weekly coupon! Curse you, Borders...but you won't win!

The AOTC photo comic I ordered from Things From Another World arrived today. Pretty cool. It's like a Cliffs Notes version of the movie.

I bought on eBay a small magazine called FLIcK that somehow I missed when ROTS came out. I guess it was a giveaway. There's some funny stuff in there, including an article on who the PT characters would be at your high school. Anakin was the Tragic Loner, Obi-Wan was the Upper Classman, Padmé was the Homecoming Queen, Mace Windu was the Cool Dude, and Jar Jar was the hall monitor.

Comments

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Fresno, eh? Guess Lucas got lonesome for central California, though Fresno is pretty far from Modesto.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

That and I'm sure it was cheap to film there ;).

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Hee.

Some 20 years ago, there was a comedic TV miniseries called "Fresno" which centered around the thrills, chills, and sexual misconduct in a familial dynasty that produced...raisins.

I recall it got a lot of media attention because it was the first time TV had done a comedic miniseries. Or, as its star Carol Burnett remarked wryly, it was the first time TV had done a comedic miniseries on purpose.

[quidawn.livejournal.com]

Didn't it seem like just yesterday, relatively speaking anyway, that Indy IV had just started shooting, and so now I guess they've wrapped up at least principal photography, or the bulk of it anyway, though of course as well we know with Papa GL and even Steve-o too, well, filmmaking and thus storytelling on the whole can be a pretty fluid and consistently changing, always-evolving and adapting thing, even to the point where they can even end up shooting and re-shooting, adding and subtly tweaking and fine-tuning again and again, here and there, until they get it all "just so"....and that seems plenty fine to me, actually, I'm totally on board with that particular approach, and hey, who knows but what it's something *all* of us of a particular creative penchant....are rather prone to do, anyway.... ;) *chuckles* Still, though, hrmmmm....so, Indy IV having wrapped principal photography, then, I guess that doesn't really surprise me....Papa GL, and all, and don't I just love 'im for that even more.... ;) :D

*tee hee* Or mmmmmmmm, yep, as Rick McCallum would say, and actually this is just the quote I thought of exactly, it came right irresistibly to mind, soon as you'd mentioned Indy's shooting wrap-up...."Good luck, everybody! Kick some ass! Let's do this in sixty days!" And evidently that still holds true, 'twould seem, at least with GL's obvious strong influence and natural close involvement and all....heck, at this point maybe he wouldn't ever settle for anything less than that kind of practiced, fine-art and exquisite-science perfect rhythm of set-ups, lighting, shooting, setting up again, then shooting again, rebuilding and tearing-down and then moving on and shooting some more....like clockwork by now, anyway, I think that's how he's pretty well gotten it. And, well, hey....it *works*, anyway - no wasting time, money, effort or talent here, it all seems to be pretty well streamlined and precise, rigorous, thorough and perfectly-honed, which surely is the main and paramount thing anyway.... :)

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

It's not the exactly break-neck speed they had on the prequels' principal photography--they really did finish in 60 days--but there probably won't be a lot in the way of additional shooting either. There's little time for it.