Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg discuss Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith. For seven pages. Well, they do bitch about the Special Editions for a bit. But there’s some interesting stuff:
Empire: Is there something about Star Wars that makes us talk about it, 28 years after it came out? What is it about Star wars that promotes that fanaticism and makes people like yourselves reference it?
Simon: Basically, for the likes of us, it’s because of what it meant at the time. Star Wars isn’t just about the film, it’s about what it was at the time. It changed cinema, it changed us. Nothing else can do that now. The Phantom Menace was never going to do that again, because the surface of cinema had changed so much.
Edgar: Yeah, punk rock can’t happen twice. It was never going to have quite the same impact.
Kevin: And it’s mythology, it’s someone adding to your mythology. Imagine if, 30 years after the death of Christ, somebody was like ‘Christ Part II – the saga continues…’
Simon: Every saga has a beginning!
Needless to say, there’s some heavy duty spoilers.
Meanwhile, MSNBC Entertainment editor Denise Hazlick lays out what she’d like to see in the movie. It’s all speculation though, so I won’t comment on the spoiler levels.
In response to Denise Hazlick’s writtings about what she would like to see in the Sith. Luke asked Leia, sitting in the tree house, what she remembers about her mom and Leis says she remembers her being sad. That would indicate that the mom did not die in child birth.
Yeah, you’d think that, wouldn’t you?