The movie title is “Return of the Jedi”. It has always been “Return of the Jedi”.
Greedo shot first. Greedo has always shot first.
The obvious problem with this title is, of course, that (at least I) inevitably pronounce it as “Revenge of the Shit.”
“Revenge of the Shit” is a possibility, though using the abbreviation Star Wars: ROTS may be a more popular dig at the title.
Don’t recall much plot or character develoment in Clone Wars, it worked as a collection of action shorts rather than a narrative IMO. It does show Anakin as an arrogant bad-ass instead of a whiny douchebag, which was a welcome change. IIRC the General Grievous character, supposedly a big player in the next movie, appears in the last installment.
I’ve heard, too, that the working title for Star Trek II – originally slated to be called The Vengeance of Khan – had something to do with the change as well…
but are these the droids I’m looking for?
I had a Revenge of the Jedi poster. Like all of my posters, it ended up covered in dart-holes. :smack:
What did Princess Leia get when she let Darth vader?
A massive dose of the Sith!
Ha! Beat you to it!!
Back in the 80s I knew some film crew guys and FX designers who actually worked on Return of the Jedi they have bona fide Revenge t-shirts. Apparently it was supposed to be a red herring, (since everyone was pretty confident stuff would be leaked.)
The “revenge” titles was supposed to mislead everyone to thinking that the theme would be about Luke Skywalker coming back (from getting his ass kicked in ESB) as a much more formidable, Jedi and kick serious empire butt – the real theme was about Vader’s redemption. “Revenge” was to get everyone thinking that the Jedi in question was Luke, when it was really Anakin.
It wasn’t an “oh, I changed my mind…” kind of thing. From what I was told, the first title was deliberately intended to mislead the public.
The ILM guys I knew had their “offical” Revenge t-shirts on when I was onset (for a different, non-Star Wars movie) and I asked them about it.
My best friend back in the day was a member of the official Star Wars fan club. Got a regular newletter, “Bantha Tracks,” and a few months before Jedi opened, they sent him a “Revenge of the Jedi” patch. Two years later, he was very chuffed to have sold it for, IIRC, $20. If he ever commits suicide, that $20 is probably going to featured prominently in the note.
Perhaps. But whatever the history, the titles of III and VI now have a nice symmetry. The Sith’s revenge is undone by the return of the Jedi.
The Sith backstory would be nice to hear. Perhaps a quick flashback like the Smeagol/ Deagol scene in “Return of the King”? A narration that ties it in to the events of the Clone Wars for those “just tuning in”? It could work.
I seem to remeber a documentary on ROTJ where Lucas and crew were all wearing ‘Blue Harvest’ caps and t-shirts, to disguise the fact they were making Jedi, pretending it was a horror film or summat.
Still, its not bad as a title. As Twistoffate said in my NADS thread on this, Rise of the Empire would have been even better.
Mace Windu best go out in a blaze of glory too, just to redeem Lucas a little bit.
OMG, Bantha Tracks! Lord, I had forgotten all about that. Hell, I used to get that back in the day. Any goodies got thrown away in the meantime, I’m sure.
All I ask is that it not suck quite so stupendously hard as the last two. Y’know, I could even settle for plain old good clean bad fun MST3k style at this point. “Attack of the Clones” was a rotten title for a painfully, hideously, almost awesomely bad flick. Seriously, AotC has got to be one of my all-time biggest movie disappointments (don’t even get me started on the Matrix seq’s, as I didn’t bother to see the third, the second blew so incredibly). I just sat there in excruciating bewilderment at how a film with such magnificent visuals could also contain such gut-wrenchingly awful acting, and have such a vomitously putrid script…just…just mind-blowingly, Edvard Munch’s Screamingly BAD.
There’s nowhere to go but up, George…or…is there? :eek: