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Infrequent updates. Pretty much moved to bluer skies.
Aug 28, 2023 • 91 tweets • 31 min read
Oh wow, we're on Rogue One. I think I coined Delta-class even though there was an extant Delta, because its triangle shape just made that irresistible. But I figure each of the abecederian shuttles has a series number that helps further differentiate
Also, I got to use "abecederian" in the accompanying guide, and I love that word.
Jan 28, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The opening crawl for this starts:

The REPUBLIC GALACTICA is dead. Ruthless
trader barons, driven by greed and the
lust for power, have replaced enlightenment
with oppression, and "rule by the people"
with the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE. Until the tragic Holy Rebellion of "06",
the respected JEDI BENDU OF ASHLA were the
most powerful warriors in the Universe.
Jan 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Those were two separate discoveries. The 'Lucasfilm is making more movies' came first, in the summer of 2012. Then 'George is selling the company' in the fall. I found out about LFL becoming a production-focused company again on July 29, 2012. Then in mid October, I knew about the sale.

starwars.com/news/on-the-br…
Nov 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The enormity of the Star Wars timeline is one of those things that shines a light on the artifice of storytelling, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but you start to question how specific notions of canon can be and realize why it's better to treat it all as myth or narrative. If you wanted to get super granular and try to define things as specific as, say, accents in stories, such specificity falls apart when you stretch that level of scrutiny across a vast timeline....
Apr 27, 2022 • 218 tweets • >60 min read
That bit of debris is a kitchen sink. :)
Image In the original animatic of this shot, these were not explosive trails coming off a destroyed Banking Clan frigate, but rather a volley of missiles deliberately fired by the ship. I like how the DK guide description attributed the shot to a SPHA-T walker in a Venator hangar. Image
Apr 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
This shot of Luke's X-wing from Empire (left) is at the 36 minute mark, just a minute off where it is reused in Return of the Jedi (right) at 37 minutes. The recycling of this footage spared Red 5 from being, presumably, forgotten at Cloud City. It was almost a different X-wing. This scene was originally going to showcase the larger size X-wing built by ILM. Sculpting a Galaxy talks about it how it was designed with an articulated Luke in the cockpit. Its head movement was meant to match Luke's action of putting on his glove over his damaged hand.
Jan 17, 2022 • 100 tweets • 35 min read
What a wonderful (and labor intense) idea for an account. Excellent showcase of shot design. Will have to dive deep. (This shot is a great way to test if your rear speakers are working) If @SWshotbyshot doesn't mind, I may occasionally QT them in this thread with observations. Like that AOTC shot 5? It includes the Orion III spaceplane from 2001 as an Easter Egg, as revealed by John Knoll in commentary tracks and elsewhere. Coruscant from space, with ...Zoom in on the small ship; ...Shot of the Orion III space...From 2001, the Orion III sp...
Nov 21, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
A few weeks ago, someone @'ed me and Matt asking about that celestial object seen out of the medical frigate window at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. It's been the subject of speculation and changing definitions over the years. A thread... The current consensus is that it's a protostar, which Matt answered. That works. But don't think you're alone if you thought it was *the* galaxy. There were a few sources suggesting that.
Aug 31, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This is the "Rebel cannon sled", a piece of production design that attempted to maximize value by building it on a real vehicle. In this case, an AKTIV snow trac sled. The blueprints for it call out the snow trac base as well as its use of an 'existing cannon unit.'
Aug 17, 2021 • 79 tweets • 55 min read
I should just start a thread of screen shots of scenes that were reshoots/additional photography. IV: insert of Jawa hand app...IV - traveling shot of spee...Tuskens run toward banthas IV - traveling shot of land...
Aug 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A side effect of this reshoot is Anakin's lightsaber occasionally showing up in Palpatine's hands in this fight, which was how it played out the first time around. (for example: ) screen shot of the duel between Palpatine and Windu where it
Aug 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If there was any intentionality in the letters TK or FN, I don't know of it. In the case of FN, my recollection is his name Finn came long before the idea that Poe named him was developed. So "FN" was reverse-engineered from Finn. As for TK... I am doubtful it was intended to mean anything specific, because the script had it as TX. It was changed to TK during production. Don't know why. But if you look at early sources, it was TK-421. The novelization ('76) even went so far as to use THX-1138 as the trooper number. Original Star Wars novelization has "TK-421" troopComics adaptation has TK-421 as "TX-421"Original shooting script has TK-421 as "TX-421"
Jun 19, 2021 • 196 tweets • 78 min read
As threatened, beginning a shelf-indulgent thread of my home library, which has made remote working extremely easy this past year or so. Starting at one end of the room: miscellaneous guides and mechanical activity books. Will be a thread. A slow thread. #shelfie top two shelves with variou... I'm missing one of the Reinhart pop-up books, which just keeps going up in price. But this past year, finally tracked down the missing mini-pop up Return of the Jedi books which are great. spotlight on vintage Return...