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Episode II Update!
Today the Official Star Wars Site has a report from producer Rick McCallum on the status of Episode II.
For Episode II to be completed for a 2002 release, producer Rick McCallum must constantly be mindful of the future, but not at the expense of the moment.
As the rough cut of the film is still being assembled, with animatics artists previsualizing effects scenes, Industrial Light & Magic is busy with the shots already delivered to them. "ILM has completed about 160 shots," says McCallum, "which is a lot better than what we had at this time for Episode I. Then, we were at about 63 shots. Our next goal is to have 1,100 shots done for early fall. We're looking at about 2,200 shots total -- virtually every shot in the movie."
The current rough cut is scheduled for completion in June, with new cuts finished each month thereafter. "The game plan's there," says McCallum. "We're very goal-oriented now. We have calendars everywhere. We know what we're doing next Friday. We know what we're doing the Friday after. We know what cut we have to get to."
McCallum left last night for Sydney to supervise looping of dialogue. While the completion of Episode II is the current goal on everyone's mind, at least one person is thinking ahead to the next installment of the Star Wars saga.
"George is starting to think about Episode III," says McCallum, "Hopefully we're going to start in September on conceptual work, and start on animatics for some of the larger sequences for Episode III. We'll try to lock down the costumes by December 2002 so we can make it easier for wardrobe staff to start constructing costumes in Sydney for January 2003."
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