We know that for a fact. Governor Tarkin announces that the Senate has been dissolved in A New Hope, and it seems to come as a surprise to the rest of the Imperial officers in the meeting.
But he didn’t mention if he meant “in a vat of acid”.
I really like Jimmy Smits but he does not seem like a good choice for Bail Organa.
FWIW, he’s been the actor who’s played the role every time it’s been part of a live-action SW project:
- He first appeared as Organa in Attack of the Clones
- He played the character again in Revenge of the Sith
- He then returned to the role in Rogue One
The whole story of Jimmy Smits in Star Wars is pretty interesting. Basically, when George Lucas hired him to be in Attack of the Clones, Smits thought the role would be significant. In the end, almost everything he filmed was cut out. Episode III? I think he has a few lines.
Despite that, he has had a chance to play it again in Rogue One and now in Obi-Wan. Kind of interesting how things work out. Nothing big, but he has had a chance to be in Star Wars somewhat often.
Chiefly, since that’s what Lucas told him. And paid him accordingly. But during the prequels Lucas was tinkering with the story almost till release date, with some shots being done only weeks before release.
He is also in Andor
The CGI in the hangar was distractingly bad – I’ve seen better in Legends of Tomorrow. The CGI has been good (or at least good enough for me) up until that point, but it was such a jarring change it took me out of the story.
Checking for tracking devices should be SOP after escaping an Imperial base/ship.
Brian
This incident explains how Leia was confident the Millennium Falcon was being tracked the next time (or third or fourth…who knows) she was rescued from an Imperial base.
Placing tracking devices just IN CASE the hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned heroes escape is one of the few things the Empire gets right.
That and dropping everything to yell TRAITOR!!!
I was listening to a podcast where they suggested that Reva is where Vader got the idea to plant a tracker on the Falcon years later. The Jedi in the crypt/trophy case? Was that going to be a Jurassic Park amber/cloning situation? Man loves his clones. Also, Vader shouting? Yikes.
Some behind the scene footage on greenscreens.
Technically, that’s a blue screen, even though though, yes, the technique is often call “green screen” (although that most technically correct term is “chroma key”).
Cloning blood for Palpatine? Like they tried later to do with Grogu after Palpatine’s death?
Any colour can be used for keying, but blue and green have won out. Blue used to be the only colour used (because it isn’t found in flesh tones (also the sky is handily blue)) and then green began to be common after James Cameron filmed most of his movies under a blue lighting scheme and needed a new colour. With digital filmmaking, green is now much easier to key out than it used to be (as long as it’s vivid and clean) but even so, blue gets used occasionally, I’m sure for appropriate technical reasons.
I was more thinking making clone Jedi. Or just studying the midichlorians?
Or trophies, hunting those Jedi is literally their only reason to exist.
McGregor is like Tom Cruise he doesn’t look too much older than he did 30 years ago.
Alec Guinness was always one of those people who looked “older” even when he was younger.
This weekend Bridge on the River Kwai.was playing on TV. This was done when he was 42, so 20 years before Star Wars, or in other words almost exactly the time between the end of the Prequel and the start of the Original trilogy.
He looks older than McGregor now, despite being (at the time) a decade younger.
I wish they had copied that look for ROTS.
Finally, someone does something more than just hold a thermal detonator.
Also, people shown doing bladed weapon training are always swinging at each other with all they’ve got. But they never seem to accidentally kill each other.
Well, it isn’t the first use of a thermal detonator.
Stranger
I think lightsabers have a training setting. They’d have to, right? No one in their right mind would give younglings a deadly weapon and have them train in close proximity to each other, would they?