Star Wars Episode III To Open Cannes

bonch wrote in to mention an article on the IGN site. "The Cannes Film Festival is going to the dark side. After months of negotiations between George Lucas and festival officials, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge Of The Sith will open the festival in the South of France in May."

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[Lord Haha]

http://filmforce.ign.com/starwars/articles/588/588 920p1.html?fromint=1 [ign.com]

Sith Opening Cannes
Final Star Wars film set for festival debut. February 18, 2005 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith will open the 58th Cannes Film Festival. According to This Is London, a deal was recently struck after months of negotiations between Star Wars creator George Lucas and festival coordinators.

Festival De Cannes takes place May 11th-22nd in the south of France.

The UK-based website is also reporting that Ewan McGregor may be in attendance. McGregor is preparing to star in Michael Grandage's new London stage version of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre.

If you're not on the Cannes guest list then you'll have to wait until May 19th (in most countries) to see Revenge of the Sith.

The final chapter of the Star Wars prequels takes place three years after the events of Attack of the Clones. The Clone Wars are nearly at an end as the Jedi Council dispatches Obi-Wan (McGregor) to bring General Grevious, the deadly leader of the Separatist droid army, to justice. Meanwhile, back on Coruscant, Chancellor Palpatine has grown in power. His sweeping political changes transform the war-weary Republic into the mighty Galactic Empire. To his closest ally, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), he reveals the true nature of power and the promised secrets of the Force in an attempt to lure him to the dark side.

Re:But...

[theKinkyRabbit]

A film can be in or out of the official competition [festival-cannes.fr]. The list of films in each category hasn't been announced yet for this year, but if Star Wars has to be shown, it won't be in competition.

Re:LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

Return of the Jedi wasn't directed by Lucas either.

My ORIGINAL link--avoid the ad

[bonch]

Not sure why my submission was switched around to link to an IGN article that linked to the ThisIsLondon [thisislondon.com], which would have bypassed the big ad you're forced to click through. I also didn't say Cannes had "gone to the dark side"--the original article was cheesy enough.

Didn't you hear?

[Vthornheart]

Jar-Jar's the hero in the third one. He's actually an undercover Jedi, and has 1337 lightsaber skillz. Probably with two "z"s he's that good.

Anyways, he ends up decapitating Skywalker, forces Emporer Palpatine to wet his pants, and gets satisfied by Lady Amadala in an hour long scene that cannot be described in a thread that might be viewed by youngsters.

Who *didn't* know about that? Gosh... ;)

Someone did have a rebellion prepared.

[Anonymous Coward]

Palpatine himself was the one who had a rebellion prepared. It just wasn't as easy for him to turn it off as he wanted. The idea I get from the arc is that, up until the start of episode IV, the rebellion is still essentially part of Palpatines plan. It is his excuse for many of his actions, such as dissolving the senate. After the senate is gone though, I think he plans to simply do away with the rebellion in one fell swoop with the death star. Let's face it, the rebels would not have been able to kill him if it weren't for his ploy to lure the rebels into a trap around Endor. They would have eventually been battered down at least to the point of operating only in small, independant cells rather than having a fleet.