A Brit's recollection of a Star Wars Presentation at the London Toy Fair!

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The presentation opened up with a 20 minute montage of what Star Wars has meant over the last 20 years or so and then it was announced that unlike other star wars movies they were giving us a synopsis of the movie and then bang we were into it. It was explained that what we were seeing was

A. Rough Early Footage

B. Animation

C. Storyboards

D. Blue Screen footage

It starts with the fact that the Senator Palpatine has been kidnapped by the renegades because of the continuing clone wars. Anakin and Obi-Wan are sent to rescue him. It is basically a 'podrace-in-space' feel, with both of them in their own spacecraft, not seen in any of the previous movies. They are attacked while approaching star destroyers but and if memory serves Saw Droids (look a little similar to Matrix Sentinals but smaller) Obi-Won is attacked by 5 or 6 of them and is going to die. Anakin comes to the rescue by bashing the ship with his ship and knocking them off. This was footage and looked rough but very cool

We are then told over black screen that the rescue was successful BUT

We next see them into the control room of the star destroyer with no bad guys around but the ship is out of control and approaching and going to crash in a planet. We see the ship starting to burn up in the atmosphere and half the ship gets blown away. Our heroes we are told escape. Again footage rough but good.

The film, we are next told is set on two planets (again the names escape me) one is the planet primarily of water and mountains but the mountains have dwellings on the side, and another is the wookie planet (Kashyyyk: TK), where we are told we will meet Chewbacca. Who becomes a great hero because of this film. Storyboards

We are then told that Amidala is pregnant by Anakin - no images just storyboards.

We are then told that in the movie we will see how C3PO and R2D2 move from Ep 3 to A New Hope as it is hinted that they are passed to somebody's position.

We next encounter Obi-Wan who is investigating a matter for the Jedi on the Mountain planet, the only way of climbing a mountain is on a creature, similar to bantha but much much bigger and very speedy who runs up the mountains, bit like a taxi.

- This is animation

We are told that the clone wars are going the way of the separatists and that something is causing the Jedi to be wiped out - but we do not know why or by who.

We are then told there are two climactic battles

1. Yoda/Anakin/Obi-Wan vs New Evil Guy and Emperor: This is shown in storyboards, but we are told that yoda and palpatine fight with every conceivable item.

2. Anakin vs Obi-Wan: We see this both in actual footage but also in animation. The footing is blue screen and is very intense and we see 5 minutes worth in tunnels and rooms and bit like the rooms where Han is frozen in EMPIRE. We do not see an outcome.

Then we move to animation and then pop - it smacks you in the face of how he becomes Darth - VERY VERY VERY VERY BIG SPOILERS.

They are fighting on floating bays over a lava lake this is burning ferocious flames, they are crashing and falling over each other - and getting burnt. Again we do not see an outcome but if its anything like the animation then wow !!! My thoughts are that Anakin is very burnt and is re-built by the Emperor as Darth Vader.

At no point are we told that Padme is killed but we are told that she bears two children, we are shows the planet tattoine and told that the children are split up and LUKE is going to his uncle.

We are also show the last scene on Tatooine where we see two suns in the distance to signify the two kids

This was hugely impressive although I may not have remembered it all, but I did most and think it look great.

Then we are told that this movie answers and ties up all the questions for the last 20 years.

We are told that they will be two very very bad guys in this movie, but interestingly we are not told about Count Dooku - where is he in all this !!

The hint was that one of the baddies may be female - which would be interesting!



Here's a pic of one of the new baddies, General Grevious:

http://cgi.theforce.net/theforce/books.cgi?Books=books/images/boba-fett-5.jpg