Mark Hamill appeared at the May the 4th anniversary screening of Return of the Jedi at the Egyptian Theater as part of Entertainment Weekly’s CapeTown Film Festival. He had a question and answer session afterwards. Mark honestly and openly answered question about Star Wars Episode VII. Below is a few quotes from the AICN article.
“There’s nothing wrong with CGI, but I think you have to have a balance because the camera perceives the width and the depth and the weight of a miniature or a model.” He just said he isn’t a fan of the one guy surrounded by greenscreen look and told Kennedy that he’d hate for these new movies to “look like Roger Rabbit.”
While he was the first to admit that any creative decisions involving the new Star Wars Trilogy won’t have “Make Mark Hamill happy” as priority #1, he did say that Kennedy agreed with him and already discussed that with George Lucas, citing how Jurassic Park only had a handful of digital shots in the whole movie that are sold by blending the in with practical creatures and other cinema tricks. (AICN)
Here is some further comments from the article.
He anticipated the focus of the trilogy to be on the next generation “and that’s as it should be.” Hamill doesn’t know anything specific, he was quick to remind us, but he suspects the “old folks” will be more like Sir Alec Guinness in the OT. “I want it to be age appropriate, so heavy on the Jedi mind tricks and lighten up on the lightsaber duels. Let the kids do the heavily lifting!”
“Part of me is cautious, saying ‘let well enough alone, let everyone keep their nice memories if they have nice memories and don’t try to go back and do it again.’ But the other side of me, the adventerous side, thinks ‘If everyone’s in, how could I miss this?” How could you indeed? (AICN)
finally this is the best quote of the article.
“I’m one of you, I feel like you’re one of us. I’ll be in there fighting and trying to be as honest as I can be about what I think it is made these movies so special in the first place. It always starts with the script and that’s why I’m so encouraged by Michael Arndt’s involvement because I respect his writing so much. He’s a big fan of these movies, so hopefully we can make something that doesn’t make everyone want to find us, cut off our heads and throw it right in our faces.” (AICN)
You can check out the full article here on Ain’t It Cool News.
