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6.29.01
Homing Beacon #38!
The latest Homing Beacon has arrived with a great article from Rick McCallum on the new Episode I DVD. A lot of news today! When it rains, it pours!
Enthusiastic Star Wars fans were abuzz last week with the announcement of The Phantom Menace coming to DVD. Episode I Producer Rick McCallum is among those anticipating the release.
"People forget that the greatest thing about DVD is the quality," says McCallum. "You have the ability to experience a quality presentation that most accurately reflects what we've made, much more so than the person who sees and hears the film in an average cinema, which is a tragedy. We don't want to cut into that theater experience. All of us are working on getting theaters to give everyone the kind of quality picture and sound you can get on a DVD."
Adds McCallum, "The average person just wants to see the movie, and other people want to go further, but that's what makes DVD fantastic." The Episode I DVD has over six hours of additional material, including seven deleted scenes that had their visual effects work completed just for this release. "It's painful to cut something out; it's not done lightly," says McCallum. "Now, you can see it in a different light. You have to make the decisions at the moment. Years later, you still think about if you should have left certain things in."
An all-new hour-long documentary entitled "The Beginning" promises an unblinking look into the making of The Phantom Menace, with unprecedented access into the inner workings of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. "For too many years people have mythologized what they do, and the whole industry is shrouded in secrecy. You could only know what happened if you knew somebody. We want to get all the stories, all the pain -- not the 'oh it's so nice to work with George and Rick'-syndrome. We want to show the pain we had in getting the picture out there, the problems we had, the challenges we faced, where we succeeded, where we didn't succeed, and some of the things we had to cut out. I think that's what I'm really excited about people seeing."
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