spielberg furious over indy plot leak to small paper

Or move to Mexico and take this guy's job:

 

So you're working at the Edmond Sun, the kid calls begging you to take the story down because Spielberg is pissed. Do you take it off the Web site, or alert your IT guys they might be getting tens of thousands of hits on that page?

 

Well, if he really didn't find out about it until he saw the movie, as I wrote above, then he probably had some reason to be pissed. Still, not a good idea.

 

spielbergo is gundy? huh? ... ever see both of them in the same room?

 

Don't tell me the Jokelahoman got scooped AGAIN !?!

 

He found out during production and then began to talk. He had a hoity-toity British accent and there was no way in hell they were going to use his voice. The only reason he was cast was for his imposing size. They were going to do the same thing with Anthony Daniels until they realized his voice actually worked with the character.

Spielberg takes this stuff very seriously, Lucas even moreso. They spent years getting the right treatment on the script. The young actor should have known better, though it was a great get for the hometown paper.

 

Ok. I was wondering how it could actually get to the theaters wiithout him knowing. I guess that old story isn't right. I'd heard it before and IMDB has it with Prowse not finding out until he was sitting in the theater watching it.

I have heard that story about Daniels before, which was funny to me because his voice really turned out to be so perfect for the character. Then again, I have been hearing him voice C-3PO since I was about five years old.

I know those two take this stuff seriously, as they should. They want to be the ones controlling any spoilers that get out. Just like on Phantom Menace. The soundtrack was out before the movie. A friend of mine bought it and made the mistake of reading the titles of the tracks, which included "Death of Qui-Gon (SP?)" and "Death of Darth Maul." Whoops.

 

I think you're underestimating the geekiness of Star Wars fans. Prowse regularly appears at those things, or at least used to.

(Knowledge gleaned from reading about Star Wars conventions, not attending them, I swear.)

 

Suuuuure it is.

But really, pulling his name from the credits doesn't do much in the eyes of fans at that point. Even somebody doing the research now is going to find out that he filled the suit for that movie.

 

who cares?

Here's the plot: 80 year old man breaks hip fighting Koreans but escapes when Marty McFly saves him from melting when his spaceship blasting Huey Lewis & the News picks him up and escorts him BAck in Time.

 

I enjoyed that on so many levels.

 

To return to the minor Starwars-jack: Given the timeline subsequently established in the prequel trilogy, Prowse, at 48, would have been about the right age to play the role of the unmasked Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker in "Return of the Jedi," instead of the ancient, fossilized-looking Sebastian Shaw.

When ROTJ originally came out back in 1983, I thought it was ridiculous that Anakin Skywalker was shown as a late-middle-aged to old man, quite obviously in his late 60s at the very least. "What, did he father the twins at the age of 55?"

Which of course made all the caterwauling by SW purists when they replaced Shaw with the image of Hayden Christensen in the digitally remastered version of "Jedi" even more ridiculous. Lucas made a dumb casting mistake in 1983 and fixed it in 2003. What's the problem with that??

Of course, there were also reports that when Lucas was getting ready to film "Revenge of the Sith" that Prowse, now near 70 and supposedly walking only with the support of canes, lobbied Lucas that he, Prowse, should perform the scenes in the Darth Vader suit.