There are two endings about Jedi Master Shaq Ti. One is that she was killed by Vader in the Jedi Temple, and the other is that she was directly killed by him on a spaceship in General Grievous, but both scenes were deleted and included in the DVD Delete Scene. Lucas said that these two scenes do not represent the real ending of Shaq Ti, and the official assumption is that Shaq Ti survived Command 66, which has been confirmed in the game Star Wars: Release of the Force.
Lucas promised to explain why someone deleted information about Kamino from Jedi files in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. However, he failed to explain this problem because he emphasized Anakin in this film, which was later answered in the derivative universe novel Star Wars: The Labyrinth of Evil by writer James Lussino. On June 30, 2003, at 8: 07 am, the main shooting of the film was officially launched at Fox Film Studio in Sydney. Director Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, starring ewan mcgregor and hayden christensen, robot R2-D2 and more than 65,438+000 other actors gathered together and started shooting.
In addition to filming in Australia and Britain, the crew also filmed in China, Thailand, Switzerland and Tunisia, thus creating a strange planet in this film. In 2002, the crew rushed to Italy and completed a thrilling and dangerous task: shooting the spectacular scene of the eruption of Eitner volcano in Sicily. This is the prototype of the planet in the film of Anakin and Obi-Wan.
The post-production of the film began in the summer of 2004, and the crew went to the studio in Hiberton, England to make a 1 1 day. (Earlier in the same year, the crew also completed Wookiee's blue screen stunt production in Sydney. ) In June, 2005, 65438+ 10, after the last round of filming in Elstree Studios, the filming finally came to a successful conclusion.
Hayden christensen running wildly on a platform is the last scene of the film. When Lucas calmly announced to the crew: "Stop-that's it", the camera finally stopped turning, which was in the No.8 studio in Elstree, England, where 1977 A New Hope was filmed. As early as the early 1970s, conceptual art became an important part of the development of Star Wars movies. Ryan Church and Eric Timmons, the concept design directors of this film, began to lead the art department to design this film before Lucas' script was finished, and put every detail in the film into practice, perfecting all the concepts of vehicles, scenes, equipment and clothing in 1 year.
General Grievous's design is one of the most difficult problems, because Lucas found the Fine Arts Department before he thought about what Grievous was. Designers only know to combine aliens with robots, which looks scary. Later, Lucas adopted the design of China conceptual designer Fu Jianhua, and Grievous became a biological robot.
The art department will also help production designers and fashion designers complete their designs. Among them, Gavin Bauquet, the production designer, is responsible for designing and building 72 main sets, which are not only seamlessly integrated with the digital special effects completed by Industrial Light Magic a few months later, but also related to the previous Star Wars movies. For example, if the rebellion in "A New Hope" reappears to block the main passage on the ship "Xinshi", it must be strictly consistent with the previously demolished scenery, so it should be rebuilt bit by bit according to the remaining design drawings. Teresa Gaby, a fashion designer, not only has to recreate the clothes worn by darth vader in 1977, but also has to cope with the arduous task of 500 sets of clothes in the film, making every effort to explore unique fabrics and create an exotic style consistent with the whole film.
In order to give full play to the battle scenes such as Anakin's decisive battle with Obi-Wan, the martial arts directors Nick Gillard and george lucas in this film divided the Jedi's abilities into 1 to 10, in which Obi-Wan was level 8 and Anakin was level 9. Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin, and ewan mcgregor, who plays Obi-Wan, started rehearsing and training immediately after they arrived in Sydney. Christensen's training plan is particularly difficult. Revenge of the Sith has more than 2,200 special effects, surpassing any previous Star Wars movie and other fantasy masterpieces, and even the The Lord of the Rings trilogy is candidly admit defeat. Some shots use 5 or 60 different elements, and most of these shots are invisible to ordinary people.
John knoll, the special effects director of Industrial Light and Magic, and Roger Gujett shared the heavy special effects production in the film. Knol has been dedicated to the special effects of Star Wars movies for more than 10 years. In this film, he completed the spectacular and thrilling air combat scene at the beginning of the film. Gujett directed the production of the volcanic planet Mustafa, which was the decisive battlefield between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Finally, the computer-generated Mustafa Star consists of erupting Eitner volcano, digital scene map and miniature models, some of which are as long as 30 feet. Special effects personnel used Methylcel, the raw material of milkshake, to make fake magma, and thousands of gallons of this "magma" were used to make a 4-foot-wide lava river.
The animation of this movie is as long as 90 minutes, which is more than any previous Star Wars movie. Animation director Rob Coleman pointed out that Jedi Master Yoda may be one of the most important achievements of the animation department. Although Yoda generated by digital technology appeared in Attack of the Clones, Yoda's image in this film is fuller, his skin is more real, and his appearance time and dialogue are more.
The film grossed $380 million in North America and $75.5 million in Chinese mainland. The film was released in 1 15 countries and regions around the world, with a global box office of 848 million US dollars. In 2005, the film ranked first in the global box office, first in the North American box office list, and sixth in Chinese mainland.
The film set four box office records on the first day of its release on May 19: the box office on the first day of its release at midnight (the original record holder was The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King, US$ 8 million), the total box office on the first day of its release (the original record holder was spider-man 2, US$ 40.4 million) and the single-day box office (the original record holder was Monster)