Aug-4-2000

Well these pics are not the high quality I woulda liked them to be but hey i he had to be pretty far away to get these pictures im talking about some huge lences. But here they are. Click on them to get the hole pic.

In other news that Portman has finished her scences in Sydney about a fortnight ago and is also enjoying a holiday in Queensland before the crew is to move up there to shoot some exteriors. Shooting in Sydney wraps at the end of this month. Also there has been some talk about re-issuing the 3 Star Wars pics, and on the re-issued and remastered and rejigged "Return Of the Jedi", there's going to be 10 minutes of footage from Episode II. This newa came from a rep of the Fox Studios Backlot its hard to believe I know. I just hope that they get it on DVD and also in clude the deleted scenes. If you want more news on the deleted scenes from any of the Star Wars Flicks old or new you can get that at T-Bones Star War Web Site.

July-29-2000

Paul Fisher sat with Sam Jackson in a nice Hotel room to talk with him about Star Wars Episode II. Just having returned from a 12-day shoot in Sydney of his new Star Wars adventure.  Though not prepared to give up alot of details on the new episode, Jackson says that he preferred working in Sydney's Fox sound stages, "Because we got to work on real sound stages." This time around, Episode II is being shot 100% digitally, making the experience "damn fast. There's no more checking  the gate, you've pretty much eliminated dailies because you can stand there and look at what you got." Jackson get to do more in this episode of the new trilogy, and says he has more scenes with Yoda. " This time  we're more or less on an equal footing" , he says. "I still call him Master, but we have casual conversations now; its not all business between us." Next he was off to Sydney again to shoot the action sequences on Episode II, admitting that he can "harly wait to get his hands on a lightsaber." regrettably he does not get to keep it, however. "Only Laim got to keep his from the first movie because his character is dead." Sam will have to wait until after Episode III. Yes, he'll be around for the third instalment.