Tuesday November 17, 1998 was the day the first TPM trailer dropped (it went online a few days later) in a select few theaters across the country and on just about every channel on t.v..
Decider has a piece on how this was the first event trailer. Here’s my recollection from 10 years ago.
Everything he’s saying here is absolutely true.
H/T Naboo News.
Surprise! Hallmark just dropped its first Queen Amidala Itty Bitty, in her iconic royal red dress from TPM.
Find it at your local Hallmark shop or order it here!
Dan Zehr’s “Coffee With Kenobi” podcast discusses with guests their top five things about TPM.
Check it out here!
Naboo News posted a link to this new video comparing TPM’s concept art with the final product on film:
Naboo News found Le Monde’s video interview with Conrad Pope, the orchestrator who worked on TPM. Here he discusses the “secrets” of “Duel of the Fates.”
(What does an orchestrator do, as opposed to the composer? An orchestrator prepares music for performance by a full orchestra. In this case he would’ve worked closely with John Williams to figure out how the London Symphony Orchestra was going to perform the music during recording sessions.)
The video is here. Even though the site is in French the video itself is in English with French subtitles.
As part of the run-up to TLJ, Her Universe’s Ashley Eckstein has been summarizing each SW film in 60 seconds. Here’s TPM:
Still catching up on Star Wars? Here's a 60 second recap of The Phantom Menace by Ashley Eckstein from Her Universe! pic.twitter.com/POLmyydr6B
— Hot Topic (@HotTopic) December 11, 2017
Vulture is doing a prequels week and while I dread what else they’re going to post, this interview with Nick Gillard is fantastic. Gillard gives the inside skinny on TPM’s climactic lightsaber battle as well as other tidbits.
Three thoughts: one, it’s hard not to smile thinking of how this is easily one of the saga’s greatest moment, two, involving Ray Park and Gillard was genius, and Gillard captures the poignancy of not having Lucas around anymore.
By Liam Bailey
During the events of Episode I: The Phantom Menace, we discovered Captain Panaka, the security captain Queen Amidala’s forces. After the events of the film, Panaka was never seen again in the following films which left fans wondering what actually happened to him. Well, I have found the answers.
“Your Highness, this is a battle I do not think that we can win.”―Quarsh Panaka, to Queen Padmé Amidala during the Battle of Naboo.
Quarsh Panaka was a native of the planet Naboo. He was a security forces captain who served the Royal House of Naboo during the final years of the Galactic Republic. When the Trade Federation invaded Naboo during the events of Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Panaka fled the planet, alongside Queen Padmé Amidala to Tatooine and then Coruscant before ultimately returning to Naboo in order to liberate their homeworld from under the siege of Nute Gunray and his separatist army.
Panaka remained in Amidala’s service. When her two terms were over, Amidala became senator of Naboo, and Panaka stepped down from his functions as her personal bodyguard, making way for his nephew Gregar Typho. He did, however, continue his services as head of Security under Queen Jamillia. During the Clone Wars, a three-year conflict that pitted the Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Panaka met Viceroy Bail Organa of Alderaan several times.
“Panaka’s loyalty to Palpatine was great. Still, he was as good a man as anyone in the Emperor’s inner circle could ever be, and much better than most. Panaka was… an option I wish had been left open to us.”―Breha Organa
Immediately after the Clone Wars, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine abolished the Republic and replaced it with the Galactic Empire, a government solely controlled by himself. Panaka remained loyal to the newly anointed Emperor and was made the Moff, or governor, of his native Chommell sector.
In 3 BBY, Panaka met with both Queen Dolne of Naboo and Princess Leia or Alderaan. As the meeting progressed, Panaka became to suspect that Leia was, in fact, the long-lost daughter of Padme Amidala who he formerly served. It was intended that he was going to inform the emperor of his findings, but a bomb exploded in his chalet, destroying the building and subsequently killing him in the process. It was discovered that the bomb was planted by the infamous Saw Gerrera and his Partisans.
Source: Wookieepedia
Check out Liam Bailey’s blog here.
Podme is back with a new episode, this time focusing on TPM.
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