Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire

lemmen writes "According the Brtish tabloid The Sun, Star Wars III will carry the name 'Birth Of The Empire'. This will be announced soon according the article. Also it describes one of the highlights of the movie: 'A thrilling lightsabre clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while surfing on lava.' Can't wait till May 15th 2005!" Thanks to reader ExoticMandibles, another quality news source: Teen Hollywood. Update: 05/20 05:47 GMT by T : Gokey writes with a correction: "StarWars.com indicates that the movie is released May 19th, 2005 (exactly one year from now) not May 15th, 2005."

Did you not hear the rumors?

[Xhad]

For awhile everyone thought it was going to be called "The Creeping Fear".

Incidentally

[darth_MALL]

Birth of the Empire will be released one year from Today! [starwars.com] SWEET!

Re:hmmmm.... i wonder....

[Soothh]

ummmm, thats been known for several years that the lava damage to anakin is why he wears the get up.

Episode 3 information

[a_ghostwheel]

Just go HERE [theforce.net] and satisfy your curiosity about plotline of episode 3.

Re:Surfing on lava?

[Anonymous Coward]

I seem to remember reading the novel adaption back in the 80's and it came up that he was burned by lava. Am I just imagining things or was this known about even back then?

Re:surfing on lava?

[sweetooth]

While I agree "surfing on lava" sounds entirely stupid we already knew that there was going to be a big battle on or near lava. This is how Annakin was damaged so terribly that he had to wear that suit as Vader that kept him alive.

Re:Class vs. Camp

[UTPinky]

SPOILER:
Read the original stories. More or less the way it went was that Obi-wan tried to save Anakin from turning to the Dark side, and in doing so ended up having to fight him. In the end of the fight Anakin was knocked into a pit of lava... becoming Darth Vader... hence the fact that he's 80% machine.

Re:hmmmm.... i wonder....

[deanj]

This was revealed way back when they had that Star Wars poster/magazine in the 70s. That was before any book, including Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

Lucas was interviewed, and he said Vadar falls into the volcano during the fight with Kenobi.

not set in stone yet...

[apachetoolbox]

... hidden at the bottom of the page: The source added: "'Birth of the Empire' is the favourite title so far."

Re:hmmmm.... i wonder....

[infochuck]

could anakin get burned during the lava fight, hence the need for the darth vader get-up? or is that just too BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS?

WOW!!!! This dude PREDICTED SOMETHING THAT WAS IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES! Better mod this '+1, Interesting'.

The idea existed beforehand, not the scripts

[spun]

None of the scripts or screenplays were written ahead of time. There were some notes, mostly about the middle three, but not even what Hollywood calls a 'treatment.' Witness the fact that Wookies, the original (intended) inhabitants of Endor, had to be changed to Ewoks because it had already been established that Wookies had technology, and the notes called for low-tech fuzzies.

Re:"Surfboards?"

[Spanyrd]

IIRC, the lava-field battle is established Star Wars history. It was the injuries that Anakin Sustained during this battle that caused him to turn into Vader. The massive internal injuries and loss of limbs were the reasons for all the cybernetics. Getting pissy about this fight being in the third movie is just ignorant, if it had been left out, that would be a reason to complain.

...the surfboard thing sounds pretty stupid, though.

Re:I sense a disturbance in the Force...

[pianophile]

a rumor supported by the fact that "episode IV" was the first one we saw in the theater in the late 1970s

But it wasn't Ep. 4 to begin with. Just "Star Wars". The Ep. 4 stuff was added when it was re-released.

Re:hmmmm.... i wonder....

[mog007]

There was a battle that occured on Dagobah between Yoda and a dark side master. Yoda defeated his opponant, and whenever a person that's strong in dark side energies dies, they leave the effect there. The tree in Return of the Empire where Luke has his vision of being inside Vader's helmet is where the dark jedi fell, there's also an area above the surface of Endor's moon where Vader fell.

Re:Yoda on the fiddle

[Anonymous Coward]

You know this actually has some connection to reality, or at least as it was explained to me. I was told some years back by an Aikido instructor of mine that the character of Yoda was based on the founder of Aikido, Morieha Oeshaba (I know I butchered the spelling). Anyway my point being that it's not uncommon to see these Aikido masters who are like 80+ hobble up to the mat w/ a chane and then proceed to stand up straight and throw 20-year-olds around like rag dolls for 45 minutes to an hour, before picking up their chanes and hobbling back off. Although admittedly Aikido's not quite that areobatic.

Re:Star Wars III:

[Razor Blades are Not]

AFAICT All That Jazz is autobiographical. I don't remember any even veiled references to George Lucas.
Check your sources.

Re:"Birth of the Empire"?

[Typhon100]

Best movies of all time?? Are you serious? The Birth of a Nation is on lists like that because it was one of the most influential movies ever.

It's about a black man (portrayed as stupid and dirty) who tries to kidnap and what-have-you some white girl...the KKK comes to the rescue.

It is a reflection of the racism of the time; there's nothing good about it.

Re:Incompetance

[Trogre]

In both the DVD and theatrical releases of TPM, just before Darth Maul races up behind Anakin there is a scene where a probe droid returns to Darth atop his mountain and says "The boy's a gangster. Booooy!" (Well, that's what it sounds like anyway). Darth then speeds off on his hover-bike to find his target.

Having said that, I do agree that the light-sabering of the probe droid added so much more and should definitely not have been cut out. As well as making the story more continuous, it showed the coolness yet deadly alertness of the Jedi.

Re:Yoda on the fiddle

[xyloplax]

Wrongo... Yoda can't WALK. He uses a cane for that. He can jump and do jedi shit. He never takes a step in that whole battle.