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Moriarty: I’ll tell you, the thing I’m most looking forward to that has anything to do with STAR WARS, tangentially or otherwise, is Carrie Fisher’s book next year, based on her diaries she kept while she was on the set of STAR WARS.

Sarah S: It’s just going to be POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, but with STAR WARS?

Moriarty: That sounds awesome. That’s going to be the greatest book ever written. That’s exactly what I want to read, but it sounds even more awesome if it leads to her doing the RETURN OF THE JEDI diaries. Because that’s the one I want to read about.

Sarah: By the way, we love you, Carrie Fisher, for donating.

Herc: Sarah, is there anyone else’s dick you want to suck tonight?

(Groans)

Sarah S: Tough talk from a man who’s had Joss Whedon’s dick up his ass for years.

(And the crowd goes wild)

Andre: So who’s really excited about this, besides Obi-Swan?

Moriarty: I actually am. I really look forward to seeing this film. Andre and I have very different reactions to the material we’ve read, and if it’s the film that I’ve read, I think it’ll please 90% of the fans. I think they’ll walk out saying, “You know what? That was a cool STAR WARS film.”

Darth Benedict XVI: Which puts it at, basically, JEDI level.

Moriarty: Yeah, I don’t think we’ll ever get an epic-perfect-does-everything-we-want-it-to film again, but I genuinely think that this time out he’s built something that’ll satisfy people. Here’s what I would actually defend about these films: I think the one really great subversive notion of this trilogy, that is about writing, that is about what he built and not just the eye candy, is the idea that we’re watching a trilogy of films that are feel good mainstream entertainments that build to a climax in which the bad guys boot-stomp the good guys to oblivion so they have to turn tail and run. And the triumphant ending of the movie is the bad guys standing, looking out at everything they’ve done, going, “We won! AWESOME!” And that’s this trilogy of movies. I can’t think of another trilogy of films like that. It’s as if LORD OF THE RINGS ended with Frodo climbing the side of Mount Doom, and Sauron catches him, kills him, takes the ring and puts it on his finger. That’s what this feels like, and I think that’s pretty cool. I think that’s pretty unusual, and I am looking forward to see that final piece snap into place.

Andre Dellamorte: I’d say that you’d have a point if that wasn’t exactly where he had to end up when he started this trilogy. He had no other option. And it’s great that he did it, but after reading the script my feeling is that whatever interest Lucas had in this film, I don’t think he was all that artistically motivated. I don’t think he embraced the challenge of having to reverse engineer the series, and when I look at that script… hey, if I’m proven wrong when the movie comes out, and maybe when it comes out, stuff will be fixed.

Moriarty: Really? You don’t like any of the way the resolution is handled? Because I actually think… and you might kill me for using his name Beaks, you might launch across the table, I’m not saying he’s as good a writer, so please don’t hit me… but I was talking about Preston Sturges…

(at this point some Council members looked to see if they would have to restrain Beaks. Though his ire was up and his fists wereclenched, he remained seated)

Moriarty: … and I’m not saying Lucas is Preston Sturges, but we were talking about how Sturges would write himself into corners, almost joyfully. The ending of THE PALM BEACH STORY, which is an unworkable ending, just wraps up with the most insane sort of brilliant-pulled-out-of-his-ass ending humanly possible. I’m not saying this pulls that off, but I think as a third act goes, it’s far superior to act one and two. Almost to the point where it just feels like a different level of enjoyment. To me, the EPISODE III script felt like, “You know what? I’m done. This is it. I’m done.” And he enjoyed writing how he finished, ‘cause he left just the good parts for this one.

Mr. Beaks: Well, Sturges… I mean, he’s not like Sturges. This is a guy who had a Dictaphone and he just dictated the scripts - he was reeling it off the top of his head, and it was because of his innate sense of structure that he was able to resolve everything. It was like playing jazz for him. Maybe Lucas is Smooth Jazz. But… I don’t know, I’ve reiterated this so many times in these Councils that it’s probably boring now, but I really believe that THE PHANTOM MENACE was reflective of Lucas’s artistic sensibilities at the time, and it was the story he wanted to tell. Whereas ATTACK OF THE CLONES, I felt, was a response to the fans and kowtowing to what they wanted to see. So I don’t really think he’s engaged.

Moriarty: I think this is a different animal again.

Mr. Beaks: Well, I haven’t read the script.

Moriarty: It’s not EPISODE I, certainly, and I’m betting it’s not EPISODE II. It’s very different than either of them in terms of the way it’ll play. It’s two hours and twenty minutes at this point, and he lost a lot of weight from the script.

Sarah: I’ve heard 2 hrs. 11 min.

Windy Starkiller: They showed a ton of clips at Celebration.

Moriarty: What frightens me the most is that he’s cut the shit out of it again.

The Hellboy: What frightens me most is that you look at the Art Of book, and you look at the Making Of book, and the way that they wrote it this time, it goes week by week. And he put off writing that script until the last possible moment. That art department had worked a year, and he hadn’t delivered a script, and they’re all freaking out. I feel like he just really didn’t want to do it. He just kept putting it off.

Sarah: Who wants to write a script?

The Hellboy: But you’ve gotta have it. You’ve got to have a script, and I just worry that it floated away and he didn’t put in everything he should have. I know what you’re saying about it, but it just feels to me like it plays a bit better at pleasing the fans.

Moriarty: I’ll tell you some things I really wanted from this film. Maybe this is why my expectations have been met. I wanted a great role for Ian McDiarmid. I wanted him to be front and center in this film, I wanted him not to be in the shadows, and not being coy about it, not conning the audience, but just (slaps table) he’s the Emperor in this movie. That’s the way it is, and this is him putting the last things into motion, because he’s my favorite thing in this entire trilogy. In fact, the only thing I would say that kept me completely engaged from the first movie to this movie is Ian McDiarmid. My favorite moment in PHANTOM MENACE is I love how over the top, in your face, obnoxious the ending is, where everybody’s outside and they’re dancing in the streets and celebrating, and Palpatine’s standing in the middle of them, thinking “I just fucking beat all of you. This is awesome. I won and nobody knows it. Okay, dance, laugh… my plan’s in motion.” And I like that ending a lot. I like what that is in that movie, how it plays into the title. I like the set up. I like in the second film how they handle him. And I wanted pay off in this movie, and I think we’re going to get it. What I read is a Palpatine heavy movie where it’s basically him finally revealing everything he wanted.

Mr. Beaks: And you can stomach the clunky dialogue?

Moriarty: I’ll tell you what… it all depends on how it’s played. I think McDiarmid’s a phenomenal actor. I think he’s going to chew the shit out of it. I think he’ll sell it.

Andre Dellamorte: I guess, having read it, this series – I’ve always thought and maybe I’m wrong, because I seem to be proven wrong – that this is about the fall of Anakin. And about a character who becomes evil.

Moriarty: I think that’s what we thought it would be about. I would argue that Palpatine might be the main character .

Andre Dellamorte: I think he is, but I also think it’s by default. I think that Lucas is a very lazy writer, and a lot of people have theorized that Jedi are bad, or that they’re assholes, but I honestly don’t think Lucas intended that. I think that’s how it comes out because he’s a lazy writer, and he hasn’t thought about it as much as we have. I honestly don’t think Mace or Yoda are supposed to be dicks, they just come across that way because there’s nothing to them.

Moriarty: I think that plays into this third film. There’s a whole - well, depending on how he’s cut the movie – but there’s a whole subplot in this movie about how Palpatine didn’t just beat the Jedi by killing them, but he beats them in a public image level too. He’s totally ruined them in the public’s eye. He makes them look like the bad guys, and I think that’s kinda on purpose.

Andre Dellamorte: Lucas changes the rules of the Force as it suits him. He just does, you know, Jedi can see into the future, except when they can’t. And it’s like, “Man we were really fooled by this guy, we were idiots.” And that’s the answer. They’re arrogant. “Jesus, we were right next to him!” And even though, I guess, from the first films, with the Midichlorians, it’s like a blood type…

Mr. Beaks: Well, that’s the thing with instincts. If you get a bit arrogant, then you can miss what’s right under your nose. It’s kind of like a sleight of hand, like a magician. That’s the way Palpatine has been working in these movies.

Moriarty: I actually don’t remember seeing in the future clearly as something you can do on command. It wasn’t like a party trick. I got the sense that there were prophetic dreams, in the first trilogy, and stuff where you got vague ideas, but there wasn’t a lot of sitting around making the visions happen. It wasn’t MINORITY REPORT.

Darth Benedict XVI: After I read the EPISODE III graphic novel, and it’s clear that the writers used the script and whatever cut of the movie and they went frame by frame, so I thought, “I’ll go on Amazon and buy the EPISODE I and EPISODE II graphic novels just to see.” And what I read in the graphic novel for EPISODE I, I think it’s Liam Neeson’s like, “The Jedi can see into the future,” or something like that. I thought it was literally the set up for these dreams Hayden Christensen has. It’s nice, you know, that Mace and Yoda can do this from the sides, but principally it’s there to foreshadow his dreams of his wife’s death, or it doesn’t work.

Obi-Swan: Well, that kind of goes back to the stuff in EMPIRE, when Luke has the vision of Han and Leia being tortured and in trouble on Cloud City and Yoda says…

Andre Dellamorte: “It is the Future you see.”

Obi-Swan: Yeah, and Yoda says, “Hey don’t do this” and it’s kind of a parallel.

Moriarty: I get the feeling it’s in fits and starts, it really is. It works… unless it doesn’t. But I didn’t see that so much as inconsistent as just that’s how it works.

The Hellboy: Yeah, I don’t think he screwed that up.

Moriarty: And I like that the big choice in this movie comes down to that he believes in one of those dreams too much. He’s convinced that he’s figured a way around one of them, and doing that makes his downfall happen. I like that it’s his downfall. Look, he hasn’t been written great so far, and I needed it all to happen in this movie, and I think it’s set up pretty well to happen all in this movie.

Jeff: I didn’t like it all that much. His downfall wasn’t all that convincing to me. It wasn’t convincing that he’s going to the levels that he’s going to.

Andre Dellamorte: The big thing is Duel, then Purge. Duel, then Purge.

Jeff: Exactly

Andre Dellamorte: Duel, then Purge. I think that it’s a horrible mistake that he wanted the third act duel and it had to be Duel then Purge.

Moriarty: I can see that as a structure thing, and I admit I was surprised at the order that things happen. I was surprised it happened that way.

Jeff: Did you mind that the turn didn’t make any sense?

Andre Dellamorte: It didn’t for me.

Jeff: ‘Cause that’s the one thing I was looking forward to the most, to see what would draw someone who was so innocent and so pure as a kid to go so evil. And the script doesn’t deliver enough to make sense of him doing what he does. It makes a lot more sense after the Duel.

Windy Starkiller: I can live with the Purge before the Duel if the Purge is going on after the Duel.

Jeff: Really?

Windy Starkiller: We don’t know. Suited Vader had to lay the smack down.

Jeff: When he’s marching with those troopers, do you think he’s had enough motivation? To go to that extreme. In the comic book, it didn’t make sense to me.

Andre Dellamorte: After one thing.

Windy Starkiller: The comic book doesn’t have the quiet moments.

Flmlvr: In the comic book, it’s love.

Moriarty: That’s been driving Obi-Swan crazy.

Flmlvr: It’s love that drives him over the edge. And it’s not about this big thing we’ve all imagined over the years, but love.

Jeff: To me, it wasn’t Darth Vader.

Sarah S: But isn’t it that the smallest things can turn you bad? Isn’t that what the whole thing’s about? It’s the little things that turn you the wrong way.

Darth Benedict XVI: But this is a big operatic movie and that’s really, really hard to sell.

Jeff: It’s really weird. He goes from like 2 to 18 in evil. There doesn’t seem enough time in there to go to the level that he goes to.

Andre Dellamorte: It looks like it’s five to ten minutes where he goes from “urr?” to “URG!”

Moriarty: But it isn’t about what happens right before the turn. It’s about that opening sequence. It’s about what happens with Dooku. What happens there to me says whether or not I’m going to believe the rest of his arc. Because he’s starting with this. That’s one of the big moments in the movie, and it’s the big misstep, the moment where he’s already surrendered. He went so far there that the rest of it is just a little more.

Windy Starkiller: One of things that I look forward to cinematically is that in that sequence he’s got the blue lightsaber and the red lightsaber, and he’s got the Jedi on this side and the Sith on the other in the opening first act. We see it. We’re being shown it visually. He’s telling us this in a cinematic way and I’m very impressed with that.

Flmlvr: It’s all going to be execution. That doesn’t say a lot for Lucas, but it’s all going to be about how the actors interpret the material. That’s going to be the big thing, if they can take that material and make it work.

Jeff: Well, he doesn’t have a very good track record.

Andre Dellamorte (said like Padme): “Lucas, you’re breaking my heart”

Windy Starkiller: There are moments that make you cringe in the trailer, I admit.

Obi-Swan: But look at those new TV spots. There’s that new shot of Mace Windu looking all pised off. Isn’t that bad ass? That gives me hope.

Moriarty: I like the new TV spots ‘cause they make it sound like: “A whole bunch of Jedi are getting together to whup up on the Empire!” It makes it sound like it’s going to be this big fun thing.

Andre Dellamorte: It sounds like “The Jedi face their great challenge ever…and then they lose!”

Moriarty: Yeah, that’s the punchline that’s not in the commercials that I love.

Andre Dellamorte: I love that.

Obi-Swan: And when they introduce Darth Vader. There he is. It’s all... “Darth Vader!”

Sarah S: Can we get to a recap of the predictions we had in the past? One of the predictions was that Jim Ward was gonna go Darth Vader crazy. And, boy, he really went Darth Vader crazy. He’s everywhere.

Jeff: Does Hayden look right in the suit? It’s like, I know your robotic limbs don’t grow as you get older. He doesn’t fill the suit. He looks very strange, it’s off-putting.

Sarah S: You don’t think you’ll get fatter and age in that suit?

The Hellboy: Well, Darth Vader changed from Episode Four to Episode Six if you really look.

Jeff: It’s not nearly as dramatic as the shift to what Hayden looks like.

Darth Benedict XVI: Well, in all the publicity stills, it’s a deliberately youthful Darth Vader.

Obi-Swan: You know what, Hellboy, you said to me, “You’ve got to give Hayden his moment in the suit,” but Lucas never gave Dave Prowse the moment without the mask.

The Hellboy: I think Mr. Prowse and Lucas has a disagreement on a great number of things.

Moriarty: He was at Celebration this time. Shocking, eh?

The Hellboy: Well, maybe they’ve patched them up?

Moriarty: That’s pretty amazing then.

The Hellboy: If you’re Hayden Christensen, you’re going to push to be in that suit.

Moriarty: The big “Making Of” story was the day they put Hayden in the suit. That’s the big story.

Darth Benedict XVI: And it’s in every article.

Windy Starkiller: It was great when we were at Comic-con last year and Hayden came out there and was talking about how cool it was to be in the suit.

Moriarty: As Sarah said, it’s interesting to look back at some of the predictions we’ve made since May 26, 2003, when we held the first Jedi Council meeting, and at that point we already knew stuff like Chewbacca was in the movie. But if you look at the Making Of book, part of the reason why the rumors were so wild and all over the place was, because, so was the script. Han Solo was in the script at one point.

[SPEAKER UNKNOWN]: For sure?

Moriarty: For sure. There’s some artwork of Han Solo. They reprint a section of the screenplay that had him in it, and there’s artwork, and he’s like little Tarzan in the movie.

Mr. Beaks: And he’s wearing a little shawl in that?

Windy Starkiller: Don’t forget that at one point, Darth Sidious tells Anakin that he conceived him by manipulating the Midichlorians and in a way is his father, and that was part of the script too.

Darth Benedict XVI: Was it ever a part of the script that Darth Sidious conceived to have his mother kidnapped?

Moriarty: There is a line in some of the versions, and we’ll see if it makes the film, where it’s on board the ship and they have Palpatine tied up, and Count Dooku is talking… where Palpatine says something like “I heard him say he paid these sandpeople to kill your mother.” He says it about Dooku, and the information is given that Dooku’s the one who did that, which makes Anakin kill Dooku. Basically egging him on with, “I heard he was talking shit about yo momma!” So, in one of the versions, there is something where he brings that up, which means Palpatine did it, and now he’s pinning it on Dooku. It’s part of the big set up. There also in a line that’s in some of the stuff that is out there - the screenplay or the books or whatever - where when relaying the Darth Plagueis tragedy, where he says that he gained the power to manipulate Midichlorians enough to create life. So he’s basically saying right there, “I learned everything he learned, so maybe I’m your dad.” Now let’s see if it’s in the final cut of the movie, and if there are enough of the subtext moments that you can connect the dots for yourself. And I don’t know if that’s so terrible because there is a finite amount of time to do this.

Obi-Swan: I think it’s terrible, because it would have been like in EPISODE VI if the big question of “Is Luke really the son of Darth Vader,” if he sort of answered it in a way that you could maybe connect the dots, if you wanted to do it. I think that’s a problem because I thought the two big things coming down Broadway, and now they’re suddenly not coming down Broadway, were Anakin’s origin and the mother’s kidnapping. Those need to be satisfied and it kind of feels like…

(Obi-Swan shrugs his sholders)

Jed: The explanation from the screenplay and comic book is that Dooku paid the Sandpeople. If I remember from the novelization of EPISODE I, there were some scenes about the weird relationship between Anakin and the Sand People. So I thought the Sand People subplot in EPISODE II was an extension of that. And now it’s like it never happened. The few things I really responded to from Episode I were the idea that this boy has this weird relationship with these “Indians” and they know something’s not normal with him, and he knows there’s something not right with him. Why didn’t they make that movie? And now it’s just gone.

Moriarty: Another plot thread left unresolved.

Windy Starkiller: And what about Sifo Dyas?

Moriarty: It depends on how far into the nerd underground you’re willing to go. In LABYRINTH OF EVIL, one of the prequel novels, there is Sifo Dyas stuff in that book, like an explanation of who he was and what his relationship was, but again, not in the movie.

Herc: Does it explain why he went to the hidden planet and ordered all those clones?

Moriarty: Yes, it does. There’s quite a bit about that in LABYRINTH OF EVIL. I’m shocked actually that none of that ended up in the film. Not a hint of that.

Herc: Was it interesting?

Moriarty: I thought it was interesting. Kind of interesting. At least it was answers.

Herc: Can you tell us what it was without ruining the Dr.’s spoiler-free day?

Moriarty: Well, basically he was manipulated into thinking it was a good idea to get these clones ready, and he had a relationship with Dooku, and Dooku was leading him to believe certain things, and once he had done this and placed the order in his name, they whacked him. So they just continue the order in his name, and it was Sifo Dyas who was a Jedi. He was Dooku’s Obi Wan, basically.

Andre Dellamorte: I always thought the Sifo Dyas/Sidious thing was the payoff

Moriarty: Evidently, not.

Darth Benedict XVI: It was in the script that it was that.

Moriarty: So it was another mess that he made and didn’t know what to do with and handed it to another author and said write that.

Darth Benedict XVI: My favorite thing in the new STAR WARS INSIDER magazine is the Q&A, and it’s such a corporate magazine… Steve Stansweet’s on every other page. In the Q&A, there’s a question, “Could you just explain to me why the Trade Federation was blockading Naboo?” And I’m sitting here reading this in a fucking magazine thinking “This is a STAR WARS movie, and they’re still asking for basic plot points six years later.” It’s so fuzzy that people are still going, “That doesn’t make sense.” And he doesn’t care.

Moriarty: And Obi-Swan, you love the first movie, and I would argue the first film is enormously messy because it doesn’t do a good job at setting up the building blocks. It spends so much time with characters who are only nominally important. Why is Jar Jar a major character in the first film? ‘Cause Lucas seemed to cut back his role in the second film.

Obi-Swan: Well, I’m kinda mad at Lucas for that.

Moriarty: Yeah. And he’s an extra in the third film, in the beginning and at the end.

Obi-Swan: Lucas started something with Jar Jar Binks, and he needed to finish it. There needed to be resolution with Jar Jar in EPISODE III. If he’s so annoying in the first film, the trick is don’t sweep him under the rug. The trick is turn us around somehow.

Andre Dellamorte: Yeah, how tragic would it have been had Jar Jar died? Should they really have gone to Kasshyk? I know everyone wants to see Chewbacca, but, again, it’s like everyone in the Star Wars universe knows each other. Wouldn’t it have been better had it been the Gungans?

Windy Starkiller: I read that Jar Jar had originally been an ambassador to Naboo in EPISODE II, and everyone was trying to assassinate him. How great would that have been to have everyone in the universe trying to kill him, so he gets paranoid?

Mr. Beaks: So he becomes a recluse.

Obi-Swan: To the question “Why did he bring him out in the first place?” I think Lucas’s whole plan from the beginning was to have Jar Jar be a strong character in all three movies. I think he was the Chewbacca of this trilogy. I think that’s how he saw him. My feeling is I wish Jar Jar had gone to the dark side. Not as far as the Force goes, but as far him just saying “You know what, okay, if this is the new management, I’m down with that. The Emperor’s cool.” And I would have put Jar Jar in A NEW HOPE in the Death Star roundtable, ‘cause there’s one chair that’s empty, and I would have put Jar Jar there.

Moriarty: Again, you might actually have Lucas’s ear on that. All your bugshit crazy ideas always sound like things he might actually do one day.

Sarah S: Isn’t that what happens? Jar Jar votes the emperor into power. Jar Jar is the one who put everything in motion.

Mr. Beaks: Didn’t they give him a voice modulator?

The Hellboy: Yeah, in earlier drafts, he learned how to speak well, he explains it to Anakin and Obi Wan, and when he’s given the vote he stumbles back into his speak.

Darth Benedict XVI: Doesn’t mean it won’t be back in.

Moriarty: So this is pretty much it until after the movie, and we may do an e-Mail roundtable, but at this point, does anyone have any last words?

Mr. Beaks: Last time we predicted gross, total domestic gross, so what about that?

Andre Dellamorte: Let’s do some Jedi mind predicting stuff on that. Say what we think might happen.

Sarah S: Since Paramount decided to move up THE LONGEST YARD…

Filmlvr: I think it’ll do 200 in the first five days.

Sarah S: I think the energy level is as high as it was in ‘99.

[SPEAKER UNKNOWN]: I don’t know how you can do 200 in five days unless it’s on every screen in America.

Mr. Breaks: It hasn’t happened yet. Last time we did this, and I was actually shocked, I thought I said 280, but I looked at it and I said 220, and I thought, “I’m being harsh” but now with THE LONGEST YARD, and the way everybody’s not backing off STAR WARS this time, I might have been right.

Andre Dellamorte: I expect MATRIX RELOADED numbers, where it does 143 for the four-day or something like that, really huge numbers, and then… dead.

Herc: Here’s the litmus test, Sarah: do they go to bed at night, or do they stand in line at night?

Sarah S: I would say the energy levels, and not just our levels, but the press levels, is absolutely greater than ‘99. Moriarty knows… the Chinese was a circus.

Moriarty: ‘99 was a circus.

Sarah S: It was unreal, nonstop. We’re still doing at least a dozen interviews a day. And this is after the four hundred interviews in the first two days. And people are still checking in constantly, and the phones are still ringing off the hook.

Moriarty: But how many calls do you get from people saying, “Are you really standing outside the wrong theater?”

Sarah S: A lot of what we’re getting is LA residents stopping by saying “I can’t believe it’s not at the Chinese, this sucks!” Dropping off donuts and pizzas every day.

Moriarty: It is disgusting. The reasoning is that it’s Paramount’s theater, they book the theater, and they weren’t willing to give Lucas the contract for the run at the Chinese. They have THE LONGEST YARD opening the next week and they want it at the Chinese.

Andre Dellamorte: And this is the last one, so it’s not like Lucas has anything left to offer.

Moriarty: Right, they don’t have to make Lucas happy this time around. And everybody felt like they got kinda jobbed on the last two. There’s a lot of hostility. The Chinese got worked on both of those first two movies.

Andre Dellamorte: I can tell you the exhibitors were not happy with their deals. Didn’t Lucas want insane deals for the first two weeks on the first picture? He was asking astronomical numbers, locked theaters, and holding in those theaters for an insane amount of time.

Sarah S: But I would definitely say the energy level from regular fans is, judging from how busy we’ve been, is EPISODE I levels, easily.

Andre Dellamorte: But if this film doesn’t deliver, Lucas has nothing left, and if people don’t like it, there’s going to be so much vitriol. I can see people being really upset, and the press turning on it. And exhibitors and the press have felt like they’ve had to kiss Lucas’s ass because it’s been a big deal, but I think a lot of people want this film to fall flat on its face.

Sarah S: I think the people who want this film to fall flat on its face are the people who’ve spent the last six years bitching about it on the internet. I think the rest of world loves Darth Vader, and loves that he’s back.

Mr. Beaks: I don’t think that they love it, but I think they’re open to it. They’re like “Well, you know, great, Darth Vader.” I’m really interested in my friends back home and their take, and they don’t hate these movies, they just kind of accepted them. And these are guys with kids, and they’ve got their own families now. I think they’ll go see this movie. They’re not sold on it, but I don’t think they’re as excited about this as they are about THE LONGEST YARD, even after I told them I saw it and think it sucks, and they think I’m full of shit about that one.

Moriarty: I actually think THE LONGEST YARD is a big commercial film.

Mr. Beaks: Oh, no, I think it’s going to be huge. It’s just that they see the previews and think, “This is going to be hilarious, I’m going to go see this.” They also say the same thing about STAR WARS. I think they’ll see it, but if they don’t go out the first week nowadays, it’s become, “Eh, I’ll just get the DVD.”

Moriarty: And everybody knows they’ll have it before Christmas.

Andre Dellamorte: November, maybe. The Digital Bits recently reported a 11/8 street date rumor.

Moriarty: Yeah, they’ll have it out way before the holidays if they follow the time table of the others.

Obi-Swan: If Lucas just said, “I love this movie so much, it’s never coming to home video,” that would be really special.

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