Tuesday 6 August 2019

THE 'PHANTOM' AT TWENTY: TO FLEE NABOO!

"Coruscant, that doesn't compute."

The Queen and her party have been rescued by Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in a brief street skirmish, but they must now all flee Coruscant if they are to win support from the Senate on Coruscant. Our Jedi duo will have to liberate a group of captured pilots and win back the Royal Cruiser if the escape is to succeed.

Nick Gillard, Andreas Petrides and stand-in Gavin Hale watch as George Lucas demonstrates a lightsaber attack on the static Battle Droid prop - Leavesden Studios, 1997.
Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan spectacularly 'liberates' the Royal officers and pilots captured in the hangar bay.



Qui-Gon goes on the offensive.

"There was a sequence we had to fight these droids. Ewan and I had just started, and cameras rolling, and action, and we just started (swings his arms and makes lightsaber sound effects). And I thought, we don't have to do that! We don't have to make the sound effects! He'll (George Lucas) add them in later!"

Liam Neeson - 1999

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