Question: Has any “insider” ever actually successfully predicted the title of a Star Wars movie? Especially 5 months before the likely official release of the title (it’s always been released in September)?
Answer: Not once.
As for “surfing” on lava, I imagine it’s either a lie or a misinterpretation of whatever this guy supposedly saw.
I’ll guess the maze sequence will be a chase through an extensive abandoned saarlac pit. The jumping sequence will involve Jar Jar hopping from senator balcony to senator balcony in a tragic deathmatch with E.T.
So you can suspend dibelief in believing that Jedi can move things using the force, but when you hear they are moving platforms on lava, you can’t suspend your disbelief for that? 
The first mention of Darth Vadar’s lava-bath that I remember was in the novelization of Return of the Jedi. It may have been mentioned in Splinter of the Mind’s Eye as well. I’ll check my copy when I get home.
Of course, this may not be true and I am just going by what my imagination conjures up. If done right is could be cool, if done wrong it becomes a roll eyes moment. With the last two efforts by Lucas, I must admit I think it might be the latter. I guess it’s how it is presented, if it is too over the top it can spoil it for me. If it skates to the edge and doesn’t go over then it can be fun.
Ah, yes…those heroic stormtroopers. They make quite a clan. Why, they could make a Nation into an Empire.
[homer]Heh heh heh…I get it…I get jokes. [/homer] 
The linked story is a British tabloid.
The entertainment sections of British tabloids are largely fiction.
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This linked story is a British tabloid
The entertainment sections of British tabloids are largely fiction.
This is false.
Move along,
move along…
Blah blah blah worst movie title ever blah blah blah Lucas sucks blah blah blah screwing the fans blah blah blah destroying his creation blah blah blah organic webshooters blah blah blah Han shot first blah blah blah the prequels suck ass blah blah Lucas is a hack blah blah blah what a shitty title blah blah blah Lucas owes me a refund for the last two blah blah blah oops, gotta run 'cause the line for opening night is forming and I want a good place.
I think that’s a fair synopsis of the fanboy response. 
Okay, how about “Afterbirth of the Empire”?
Or how about me that went to the first one and never went to the second one. I never intended to see it until someone sent me the DVD for my birthday.
Really anyone who pays to see this movie is a Lucas enabler and needs to get out of this abusive relationship.
Along with the rest of the tabloid.
“Lava” I don’t mind, but “surfing” brings to mind some of the painfully uninspired scenes from Treasure Planet.
I’m almost sure I first read Lucas talking about this in a piece in Starlog magazine right after the first movie came out, in like, 1977 (eek! I’m old!)
Being that the whole Vader mask originally came about just so he could go thru the vacuum of space and board Princess Leia’s ship, this was just the start of Lucas’ backfilling canon habit (what an odd phrase)…
WIth liver and a nice chianti, perhaps?
Listen everybody! I’ve already mentioned it before, but I have it on very good (though anonymous) authority that the title of Episode III will be…
The Erotic Adventures of Chewbacca the Wookie!
Seriously. And, based on that title, and other details I’ve been told about the film, it has a great chance of being the second best of all six Star Wars films - after The Empire Strikes Back, of course.
Anyhoo…
I wonder if Mini Vader will yell “Cowabunga DUDE!” while he is surfing?
I also wonder what the snappy one liner will be. (well other then “I have a bad feeling about this”) “Boy he’s hot under the collar!”? “Let off some steam Anakin!”?
Actually, it’s far too fair and measured.
Remember how corny it was in The Two Towers when Legolas skateboarded down the stairs on a shield? I don’t know what it is with every fucking director that makes them think that any movie can be made cooler with a surf/skateboard scene. Unless you are 8 years old or live in Venice Beach, CA, surfing and skating aren’t particularly cool anyway.
Nice.
Really? That’s the one thing I want to see. Darth Vader rising up and saying something like “What is thy bidding, my master”. Not a proto-Vader, but the 1977 costume.
