Lucas is pretty merciless when it comes to editing.

Grievous is still in the opening act. Bank on it.

There's this great publicity shot of Anakin and Palpatine standing back to back with lit lightsabers. So sweet ...

JG"

Josh says the GG vs. Shaak Ti bit was cut out, not every GG scene at the start of the movie.

Whoa, is Sidious finally going to do the "wielding-his-saber-by-the-Force" trick? Or he just throws it? Or is Josh just implying that he doesn't bother to use his saber at all? Hmm.

Cutting ONLY the beheading still introduces GG "too early in the film."

I'm playing the role of Josh Griffen in a fanfilm.

What a self-important asshole.

It was felt by Lucas that he needed to estabish the opening plot and Jedi relationships before GG came onto the scene.

Still room for GG. It could easily mean his introduction is delayed just a bit.

If he meant to say "No GG on the ship at the beginning", why didn't he just say so?

You're saying that by cutting the beheading and delaying his introduction by five minutes or so, that it's still not too early in the film? I don't understand how ten minute in is too early but fifteen minutes in isn't.

I didn't post the "Yoda fart" thing and am REALLY glad LFL did say anything. I'm still in shock it was played at ILM's dailies. ((FWIW, it is still in the latest rough cut of the film))

I'm confused. What does the beheading have to do with Grievous's introduction?

As for GG, it makes good sense to cut the shaak assasination.

yoda fart is on Kashyyyk if I remember corectly. When he plays the fool to the turned clones.

As for GG, it makes good sense to cut the shaak assasination.

The first half of trailer consists of a familiar voice over with Alec Guinness. Fans will love to hear him speak his monologue to Luke from A New Hope about "Jedi Knights always being the guardians of peace." As we hear these familiar phrases, they've intercut shots from various Star Wars episodes, excluding Episode 3. Only when the monologue ends with "Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force" about 40 seconds into the trailer do we see the face of Anakin. He is partly covered with dark hood, looking positively evil.

This is followed by the shot of erupting volcanoes, then some sort of volcanic field with crab-like creatures and then darkness, all accompanied by Vader breathing. Then the following is heard:

Sidious: "Lord Vader..."

Vader: "Yes?"

Sidious: "Rise."

Then we see Anakin in full Vader gear rising on some sort of operating table to which he is chained. The rising is slow and is intercut with shot of various Star Wars main characters. When the table has fully risen so that Vader is basically standing upright, the meatiest part of trailer begins, with many, many shots from Episode III. Most of them are very, very short - this will be something for freeze-frame fanatics to analyze.

The ones that stuck in my memory:

Dozens of Wookiees on some sort of floating platform.

Padme with signature Leia hairdo.

The Tri-Fighter, aka the precursor to the TIE fighter with three curving wings and guns mounted between each wing. They shoot red lasers.

The ARC Clonefigthter, aka the precursor to X-Wing, with three wings on each side.

A gigantic starship being sprayed by streams of something that looks like dense acid.

The trailer ends with the title "THE SAGA IS COMPLETE - MAY 2005" and is about 100 seconds long.

And with this post I will announce my resignation effective 11/1/04 as Editor of TFN. Nothing related to this, just something I've been thinking about for quite a while. More details soon ... MTFBWYA

JG

If that Sidious/Vader dialog ("Lord Vader", "Yes?") is the first words spoken after Anakin awakes, it might mean he got the name Vader beforehand. No way to know for sure, of course.

I think it's pretty likely he gets Sith-Knighted (like the Queen, but with a lightsaber... ow my shoulder!) and the Vader name AFTER killing Mace and BEFORE going to town on the Jedi Temple.
After all... Vader doesn't represent the suit, it's a facet of Anakin's persona.

the site is going to hit the shitter after Episode III anyway.

DARTH PLAGUEIS - there are scores of legends about this Sith. But was he was powerful enought to cheat death? Certainly he could at least use the power of the Force to lengthen his life.

If this is true, I take it Plagueis comes from the word plague. I couldn't find any other similar words, but I didn't exactly do any deep searching either.

Could it also be that this is the first Sith lord, and hence where the plague bit comes into play?