Lego Star Wars the Movie in May

[Donald Duck 12]

In the latest issue of the Lego Magazine there is an add for Lego Star Wars the Movie. Says it's airing 05.08.2008 7pm (more info at http://lego.com/starwars ). There's also a pic of a Lego Grevious (at least I think it's Grevious). Wow, this is gonna be something!

[Donald Duck 12]

So who knows anything?

[Jon Hanson]

It certainly sounds... Interesting.

[Sparticus]

W00t! This should be great, I loved Lego Spiderman. :)

[Bird Boy]

http://news.toonzone.net/images/2005-03/t-legosw.jpg (http://news.toonzone.net/images/2005-03/legosw.jpg)

Just finished scanning that for those who want to get a glimpse of it. I can't find jack about it on their website though, for some reason. That or I'm just not looking in the right place.

-BB

[Discloner]

I wonder if they got the same people who did the Bionicle movies to do the CGI in this one...


...man, the one CGI company who's name I can't remember. :sweat:

[Ultra Mike]

It probably won't be anywhere near as good as Clone Wars, but it does look rather interesting. And a lot better then my friend's attempts at making stories based on lego Star War characters probably.

[Dark Fact]

So how will this movie work? Are all the Lego characters going to be animated with the exact movements in the original trilogy and have the audio ripped from the trilogy and placed into this movie?

[Batman91]

it sounds interesting but will it be direct to video or will it be in theaters?

[New Noise™]

It sounds awesome! :D

[Rabi~en~Rose]

on a Sunday night? thats a unusual time to premiere a movie for CN anyway :confused: pushing it back a day or two to premiere on Fridays or Toonami makes more sense for exposure and all

[Ultra Mike]

So how will this movie work? Are all the Lego characters going to be animated with the exact movements in the original trilogy and have the audio ripped from the trilogy and placed into this movie?
Well since it has General Grevious in it (among other reasons) I'm saying no. It will probably be an original story set in the Time Between Episode II and III or something like that.

[Matt-a-Tastic]

I wonder if they got the same people who did the Bionicle movies to do the CGI in this one...

...man, the one CGI company who's name I can't remember. :sweat:Miramax is who your looking for, they make brilliant CG, episally since they have 4 times a less time to make there movies than Pixar does (they only have 1 year when pixar have 4).

I really hope that this gets a UK release or a DVD release

[PeppeRaskell1]

I saw a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail done with Legos the last time I rented the DVD, so a Lego Star Wars movie isn't as preposterous as it sounds.

[New Noise™]

I saw a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail done with Legos the last time I rented the DVD, so a Lego Star Wars movie isn't as preposterous as it sounds.
You might be wrong.

[IanC]

Miramax is who your looking for, they make brilliant CG, episally since they have 4 times a less time to make there movies than Pixar does (they only have 1 year when pixar have 4).
Miramax are the publisher/distributer not the animation company.

[raykremer]

I saw a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail done with Legos the last time I rented the DVD, so a Lego Star Wars movie isn't as preposterous as it sounds.
To Camelot (http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2405283&htv=12)! (It's only a model.)

[HellCat]

Reports say the short will show scenes from all the films. I've seen scans of one of the LEGO Club magazines comics which is the set up- Mace is leading a starfighter battle over Kashyyk and Obi-Wan and Anakin are requested to help him. There's a scene in the comic of Anakin using the Force to rebuild blown up droid fighters into helpful devices when he's ambushed. I'd expect similar in the short.

[Rook]

The lego game has a lot of comedy in it, so knowing that, this wont be as serious as the movies or CW series.

[Discloner]

Miramax is who your looking for, they make brilliant CG, episally since they have 4 times a less time to make there movies than Pixar does (they only have 1 year when pixar have 4).

I really hope that this gets a UK release or a DVD releaseNo, thats not what I was looking for. Miramax is merely the distributer of the movie...it doesn't do the animation. They sub-contract out for that kind of thing, kind of like how Mattel sub-contracts out to Mainframe in Vancouver to make those animated Barbie movies. They do them faster than companies like Pixar because they aren't making them to the same quality, which is pretty evident. The scale of the DTV movies is MUCH, MUCH smaller than that of a theatrical CGI film.

Did my searching...again...and found it. Creative Capers (http://www.creativecapers.com/)is the company who animated the Bionicle movies, I wonder if they're the same company animated this Lego movie. They also animated Sitting Ducks apparently, for those of you out there who liked that show.