Hey folks, Harry Knowles here, human geek knowledge recepticle, at your service with a look from Clint at Anthony Daniels and his thoughts and responses about working on EPISODE 2 thus far... Also, at San Diego Comic Con this year there will be a gigantic presentation, including what seems to be hinted at footage from EPISODE 2. Spies... do your duty to geek kind everywhere...
C3P0 himself, Anthony Daniels, landed back in Australia this afternoon and I grabbed an interview with him. Talked mainly about STAR WARS EP II, and I Thought you would like to use some of the goss he spilled out;
Im attaching the word document version of the interview in this email (moviehole will run it soon); but below are the highlights of the chat:
Anthony, hows the cast?
The Cast of “Episode II” are great. Hayden Christensen is very good. He is going to have a huge career after this. Now that it’s Digital, We watch shots of filming straight after on a 3 Foot Screen. The Rushes, and Hayden is great. Hypnotic. I mean he’s the boy growing into that odd man (Vader). We start to see some of the problems in Ep II.
Ep II lowdown :
It will become known in Ep III though, that he is Vader. Out of all the Australians involved (and yes they do all have American accents), Joel Edgerton, the young 21 year old is great. I mean I knew his character (Owen) as a 65 year old. Edgerton walked up to me on set and said I remember watching you as a child, and I said to him I remember you as a 65 year old.
3P0 is more involved in II. I actually control the puppetry of the character in the next one. I control his walking. I work out every morning at the Gym, because Im holding this big Albatross. Im the puppetmaster – scary, very scary.It’s essentially the same costume as first time. It’s the old ones, painted. Justin Dicks, an Aussie guy did it. It’s a new look – I look like a walking scrap heap, because Im made of old scrap. It looks the best though.
R2D2 details?
With 3P0’s bigger role in EpII, comes R2D2 as well. R2 is brilliant in this one. Don Bies controls him. The motives etc are great. I mean with R2, I am Ten Feet away, and there Don is with his control panel, behind something.
Yoda details? Yoda? As for Yoda flying through the air as a Jedi?
Hmmm, does he? (lol) We’ll we definetly see a Meaner side of Yoda this time around. He gets up, and while you may laugh at that – that’s a big shot. ILM shot scenes of 3P0 getting up and back into a chair, but I think we are going to cut it. It takes so much. Think about it, we never actually see 3P0 sitting down and sitting up. The magic of cinema. We think we do, but we don’t.
Ep II Title?
George hasn’t decided on the title yet. I mean when he chose Phantom Menace, everyone thought it was crap. But it seems to have worked. I mean, Cliched, but it worked.
Sequels to originals?
Hmm, well I was thinking. George will be like 60 when we start shooting Ep III. I mean he’s not going to live forever, no matter what the fans think. And they really are a killer to make these movies, just ask producer Rick MacCallum. But then again, we’ll see, if people start begging for more, demanding more…they just may.
What's left?
I think the only thing left to do for me with STAR WARS EP II is to put some voice overs back on.
MOVIEHOLE will be running the full interview soon
Clint - www.moviehole.20m.com
