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[ManaByte]

This has been on Hyperspace for a while, but now it's public:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/publishing/f20050330/indexp6.html

Steven Spielberg was involved in some of the animatic sequences in the film. Can you tell us about that?

As George explains in the book, he gave Spielberg a few scenes to play with at the animatics stage: a bit of the Mustafar duel, and Yoda's duel with the Emperor, along with a couple of others. How much of Spielberg's contribution made it to the final film, only Lucas or Spielberg could say, particularly as George revised and reinvented every scene in the film so extensively in editorial.

So you have Spielberg tinkering with scenes at the animatic level, Frank Darabont doing a secret dialog wash of the script, and the acting coach Sofia Coppola used on the Virgin Suicides working with the cast.

 

[FortNinety]

And yet the film will still be a total trainwreck!

 

[whytemyke]

I don't know if it'll be a trainwreck. It won't meet the expectations, not by any means. But trainwreck is how I'd describe Alexander... and I think I'll at least be able to watch the Star Wars Sequerilogy. This is going to suffer from the same shit the last 2 Matrix movies did... there's just no possible way for them to stand up to the hype. All the movies stand alone as solid action/sci-fi movies.... they just all can in no way compare to their originals.

 

[Drozmight]

Oh. My. GOD.

 

[Socreges]

So you have Spielberg tinkering with scenes at the animatic level, Frank Darabont doing a secret dialog wash of the script, and the acting coach Sofia Coppola used on the Virgin Suicides working with the cast.

Why must Lucas make his talented friends complicit in this disaster?

 

[Link]

Why must Lucas make his talented friends complicit in this disaster?

If he's going down he's taking everybody with him!

 

[Amir0x]

I don't know if it'll be a trainwreck. It won't meet the expectations, not by any means. But trainwreck is how I'd describe Alexander... and I think I'll at least be able to watch the Star Wars Sequerilogy. This is going to suffer from the same shit the last 2 Matrix movies did... there's just no possible way for them to stand up to the hype. All the movies stand alone as solid action/sci-fi movies.... they just all can in no way compare to their originals.

Man, the reason the last two Matrix movies were a "trainwreck" is because they sucked. Oh God, did they suck. It's one thing not to live up to the hype. It's quite another to be a Matrix Reloaded and Revolution type disaster. Which, imho, Episode I and II were - disasters. I hope Episode III is good. I really, really do... but with such bullshit comments as "Titanic-like emotion" or whatever and George Lucas never-ending reliance on special effects as a crutch for shite directing and piss-poor screenwriting... well... we'll never know what the prequels might have been.

 

[silver]

He didn't say Titanic-like emotion. He said titanic emotion.

 

[soundwave05]

He should have just let Spielberg direct it (or definitely should have let him direct Episode II) and let Darabont write it. Letting Spielberg do one or two animatic scenes isn't going to really change anything in the movie IMO.

I don't understand the DGA/WGA crap because Rodriguez/Tarantino/Miller all co-directed Sin City, and I don't think they got kicked out of the DGA.

 

[hiryu]

Actually didn't Rodriguez have to leave it so he could give Miller a co-director credit?

 

[VistraNorrez]

Rodriguez left the DGA, which in turn made hime drop out of John Carter of Mars. The DGA have some strange rule about Co-directors, that's why up until recently only one Cohen brother got the directing credit.

Also Gary Oldman was to voice Grievous but because he was in the SAG, he could not work with non-Guild people.