Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.movies.sw,net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Next SW film begins production Message-ID: <3061@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 03:38:35 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3061 Posted: Thu Aug 2 03:38:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 02:02:15 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 38 From CINEFANTASTIQUE, Vol. 14 #4/5, September 1984 (reprinted w/o permission): STAR WARS IV: ROCK & ROLL INSPIRED After wrapping up work on INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, director Steven Spielberg and producer Frank Marshall began scouting locations for the next installment of George Lucas' STAR WARS saga, which Spielberg will direct. Filming begins this September in Hollywood, a shift from the series' tradi- tional production base at London's Pinewood Studios. Lucasfilm producer Howard Kazanjian is said to have insisted on the move for the film, to be titled either THE OLD REPUBLIC or THE CLONE WARS. Effects will feature ILM's version of the kind of computer-animated spaceships developed first by rival expert John Whit- ney, Jr., on view now in Universal's THE LAST STARFIGHTER. Lucas was widely quoted when RETURN OF THE JEDI was released last year that he would swear off involvement with the series to take a much-needed rest. Rock star Linda Ronstadt is said to have rekindled Lucas' interest in STAR WARS. The couple has been linked romantically in the press. Ronstadt starred in Univer- sal's version of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE last year. When asked whether Ronstadt would appear in the new STAR WARS film or provide songs, sources close to Lucas- film smiled broadly, but kept mum. ******************** BTW, this issue of CINEFANTASTIQUE has 32 pages worth of material on the forth- coming DUNE film. One might be dubious about the fact that it's a "diary" of the production written by Paul Sammon, the publicist for the film (if any of you saw a presentation of the film at an sf convention, it was most likely Sammon doing it), but it's information presented is worthwhile, and it's chock full of nice production photos. So, if you want to see the designs for the Guild Navigators, or an H.R. Giger (ALIEN) painting of a sandworm for the aborted Jodorowsky DUNE production, this is where to go. It's an expensive magazine (this double-sized issue, 112 pages, costs $8.95), but if you're really interested in sf/fantasy films, it's worth it. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA