Episode III Hints Offered
Scifi.com — Iain McCaig, who returns as a concept artist on George Lucas’ upcoming prequel film Star Wars: Episode III, offered the official Homing Beacon newsletter hints about how Anakin Skywalker makes his ultimate transition to the dark side of the Force.
McCaig based his hints on early script pages for the last prequel in the saga, which traces Anakin’s eventual transformation into Darth Vader.
“In Episode I, when we saw Jake Lloyd, we wondered, ‘Where’s the dark side? Why isn’t this kid creepy?’” McCaig told the newsletter. “And then, in Episode II, Hayden Christensen came across as a justifiably angry teenager more than a kid who crosses over to the true dark side. … So I kept waiting for the dark side to take hold.”
McCaig added, “In this film, you realize, it’s more about Anakin making the wrong choices. He’s given a glorious moment by George—I’m so happy with part of the script—where he truly has to make a choice. In the end, I think that’s a smarter way to go than a slow transformation. It’s more tragic this way.”
McCaig added that Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) finds herself having to conceal her marriage and pregnancies.
As in earlier prequels, McCaig will help develop her costumes. “What are we wearing this year in Star Wars?” he asked. “In Episode I, she was the queen, and she was wearing disguises. I once said she should be able to slip out of the back of the costume, and you’d never know she was gone. Ironically, in this one, she’s back to wearing disguises. As well as now hiding this marriage to a Jedi, which is not allowed, she has to hide the fact that she’s going to have babies. All of the costumes had to disguise these facts.”
Episode III will begin production this summer for release in 2005.
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