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Last uploaded: Wednesday, April 1, 1998

You'll see the "Star Wars, Episode One" teaser trailer -- in May!!?

Some days you get hardly any decent information or scoops about movies in production, the slow days. Other times you'll get scoop after scoop with people telling you all about the latest (and soon to be public knowledge) deals done around Tinseltown. Lucky for you, these past few days have seen a tremendous amount of activity as studios prepare their summertime arsenals for release...

But this, this is big. Get ready to read some major scoopage:

'Gospel', a new codename for an old scooper, told me some neat facts about the new teaser trailer being cut right now inside Lucasfilm. For -- what else? -- Star Wars, Episode One!

"Not too much to see in the way of new footage from the film, but there'll be a doozy in front of the Deep Impact movie," the scooper told me. "It's going to be the teaser trailer for the next Star Wars film. Lucasfilm has finally done it because my end of production got to work on it for two days last week. It starts off really dull but by the end of it you can't wait to see the picture!

"It starts off with a starfield and then pans down (like in the opening of the first three films already) and then it distorts into hyperspace. There's supposed to be some narration but I wasn't privy to that side of the coin when you're working on the effects. Then the starfield/hyperspace segment turns to black.

"A second later the brilliant blue beam of a lightsaber rises in the center of the frame. You can see the hand of the 'saber owner and it's probably supposed to be young Obi because it was definitely a human hand holding the hilt of the 'saber. I say human because a moment later another saber ignites (this one is a rosy pink) and you see another hand (human), then another 'saber and another and another!"

"In all there was about twenty hands being raised with their 'sabers on. All I can say is that it sent chills down my spine even without the sound effects in place. Some of the hands belonged to aliens (I don't know what races were represented, sorry). But the 'saber colors are gorgeous! There are different shades of blue, green, some orange, yellow, one looked like it was violet and a robot arm was holding it(!!) I couldn't tell if some of them were CGI but they looked like make-up (prosthetics) to me. One of the 'sabers was black(!!) because there was a chalky-white fuzz outline surrounding it."

"I think the idea is to keep your eyes looking all over the screen at the different 'sabers and alien hands popping up. But I definitely remember this: look close to the left hand side of the screen when you see the trailer in May in front of DI. There's one hand that looks like it's got writing (tatoos) all over it, maybe it's an alien one I can't tell. But that knight tosses his saber into the air and it turns on so you can definitely tell it's two 'sabers connected together (blood red like Vader's lightsaber). I know for sure that's got to be Darth Maul.

"It's supposed to be running in front of Deep Impact I was told," 'Gospel' told me in their email to CA. "But for sure no one has the rights for the films just yet. Lucas told his company in a mail that same thing two weeks ago and word is no deal will be set until early autumn when work begins on the real trailer for X-Mas (I'm told, but it always changes around here.) For sure the trailer will be in front of The X-Files movie because Lucas is going to distribute it to anyone who wants it in front of their picture. We think he's letting his buddy Spielberg (exec prod on DI) run the trailer first. That way he gets huge exposure and hypes up the distribution offers from the studios for the new films."

And in closing the scooper lovingly tells us "Love your site but most of your SW1 stuff is rumor sorry to say." Gee, uh, thanks -- I think.

New IMAX James Bond short to explode on screen in 1999

I was online when the MGM press release broke on the Internet. Figuring I'd get a million scoops about the new project within 24 hours, I drafted a page for it that's already up. Now that Paramount and MGM both have their own IMAX featurettes, can a Star Wars short be far behind? Click on Escapade to see what the new Bond IMAX film is all about.

"Titanic 2" in preparation?

Sure looks to be that way. After a report that Variety ran a story that Kathy Bates had been approached to reprise her character in Titanic again for a sequel/follow-up, that confirmed what out inside sources at Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Digital Domain had been telling us for weeks. To check out the complete story, visit CA's Titanic 2 page right now.

New film pages also online...

...so go check out the latest new additions to Coming Attractions and get back to me with the scoops you've heard about these projects. As for me, I'm off to watch the videotape my London Spy sent me direct from the post-production of Eyes Wide Shut. Even though more sets have been constructed in the past three weeks and it looks like Cruise and Kidman may be forced back for more shooting, I'll try to remember this is just a rough cut of the picture.

(The whole tape will be available on the site for downloading by the weekend.)

Patrick Sauriol
Creator, Chief Content Writer & Director
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