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EU character in Episode III confirmed.

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From http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/030722.htm

Star Wars: Episode III: Both Producer Rick McCallum & Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll talked with fans on the official site and revealed a few short details. Berman confirmed "Christopher Lee has arrived in Sydney, but he hasn't started shooting yet" whilst there is a character coming from the expanded SW universe (ie. in the novels), but "those scenes won't be shot until early next year, so there hasn't even been any casting yet". Meanwhile Knoll says the Stormtroopers will "still be CGI and they'll be noticably different", there "are currently no plans for a CG Chewbacca" and "Wat Tambor is back and badder than ever". Finally not only will we be seeing more of Coruscant, but there's more planets in this movie than any previous Star Wars film has had. Thanks to 'Kenny'.
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Suck my completist cock, purist bitches.
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Illuminatus Primus wrote:Suck my completist cock, purist bitches.
Eh?
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Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Suck my completist cock, purist bitches.
Eh?
Don't mind Illuminatus he's just cranky....but for you EU bitches...CLONETROOPERS=STORMTROOPERS BABY!!!! Take Caridia and shove it up your whiney little GL ruined the EU asses!!!!!!
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Cool.

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This is just something I'm unfamiliar with. What argument are you guys talking about?
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Stravo wrote:Don't mind Illuminatus he's just cranky....but for you EU bitches...CLONETROOPERS=STORMTROOPERS BABY!!!! Take Caridia and shove it up your whiney little GL ruined the EU asses!!!!!!
Stravo, the EU knowledge ownz joo.

Pax Emperica, the Wookie Annhiliation, CCG cards, Force Commander, 77 article, and passing references in TTT and the ISB nailed down likely clones as Stormtroopers long before GL made it a staple of the movies.

Sorry, but I believe this is Lucas encorporating EU into the movies. :D 8) Unless you hold that Anderson is be all and end all of the EU.

And where would GL be without the EU to clean up embaressing oversights like the Republic lasting both 1,000 years and 1,000 generations? 8)
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Illuminatus Primus wrote:
Stravo wrote:Don't mind Illuminatus he's just cranky....but for you EU bitches...CLONETROOPERS=STORMTROOPERS BABY!!!! Take Caridia and shove it up your whiney little GL ruined the EU asses!!!!!!
Stravo, the EU knowledge ownz joo.

Pax Emperica, the Wookie Annhiliation, CCG cards, Force Commander, 77 article, and passing references in TTT and the ISB nailed down likely clones as Stormtroopers long before GL made it official.

Sorry, but I believe this is Lucas encorporating EU into the movies. :D 8) Unless you hold that Anderson is be all and end all of the EU.
He's NOT?! :?



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So all this jibber-jabber between you guys has to do with your stance on how canon the EU is?
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There was massive debate over whether the Stormtroopers were clones or not after AOTC.

However, it was often ignored, including by myself, that some Stormtroopers had always been clones in the EU, and all that happened since AOTC is it was clarified the proportions of recruits and clones, with recruits being the exception and minority.
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There are purists (the truth knowers) and EU Bitches (The fanboyz) and it is a never ending struggle between the two on truth. :P
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Stravo wrote:There are purists (the truth knowers) and EU Bitches (The fanboyz) and it is a never ending struggle between the two on truth. :P
There are movie masturbators (like Darkstar and Bob Brown :wink: ), and completists of various degrees (Mike Wong, myself, HDS, etc). :D

Some of us understand GL's statements and LFL's incredibly simple instructions.

:P

Oh boy oh boy are afraid of GL's Clonetroopers-cum-Stormtroopers! All 1.2 million of them!

Oh...wait... :?
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I would like to take this time to point out that Zahn's books would imply that little to no stormtroopers were, by the time of Thrawn, actually clones anymore.

*glances nervously back and forth between Illuminatus and Stravo*

So... yeah... um... NYEH! *runs away*
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Illuminatus Primus wrote:
Stravo wrote:There are purists (the truth knowers) and EU Bitches (The fanboyz) and it is a never ending struggle between the two on truth. :P
There are movie masturbators (like Darkstar and Bob Brown :wink: ), and completists of various degrees (Mike Wong, myself, HDS, etc). :D

Some of us understand GL's statements and LFL's incredibly simple instructions.

:P

Oh boy oh boy are afraid of GL's Clonetroopers-cum-Stormtroopers! All 1.2 million of them!

Oh...wait... :?
See Illuminatus that's why I'm an EU cherrypicker. :D Take what I like discard the rest. It is patently absurd that there are only 1.2 million clones. The Death star alone later on would have housed something like a quarter of the entire Stormtrooper corps if that were the case.

No I CONVENIENTLY forget these things and work from more rational ideas.

I leave the integration of these absurd little oddities to more gifted folks liek you and HDS.
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BACK ON TOPIC:

Who do you think the character is?
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It's probably Ozzel. Choking on a sssspppaaaacceee-pretzel. Cause watching Ozzel choke is fun. And so is making fun of President Bush. :D
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Stravo, IP, go take your cock-waving butt-orgy elsewhere while the rest of us have a logical debate.
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Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:BACK ON TOPIC:

Who do you think the character is?
My guesses:

Mara Jade
Thrawn
Nom Anor
Talon Karrde
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JediNeophyte wrote:Mara Jade
Geez, was she even born? Okay, maybe not born, but really, really young?
Thrawn
By the Clone Wars the Outbound Project has already been destroyed and Thrawn has been exiled IIRC. He's not recovered until after Palpatine's ascension to power.
Nom Anor
He hadn't entered the GFFA by that time.
Talon Karrde
He didn't become a smuggler until after the Empire was created, but it doesn't rule him out as doing something else.
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JediNeophyte wrote:
My guesses:

Mara Jade
Thrawn
Nom Anor
Talon Karrde
Nom Anor NO! Besides he wasn't even in the galaxy at that point, Shedao SHai's ancestor was tho, but yeah, NO VONG NONONONONONO NJO SUcks and FOrce Heretic Three proves it.

Talon Karrde, nah, dont see him doing anything significant enough to warrant entry in.

Mara JAde- imposssible, That would make her close to Sixty years oldormore comethe time of NJO. Reasoning that if the EMpire lasted for Thirty years and Ep III shows the beginning of the EMpire as a political entity...

THrawn- Destroying htte Outbound Flight project perhaps?

My EU Guess would be Quinlan Vos, its a guess, I dont have any reasonable thinking behind it, but it makes sense to me in a way.
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Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:
Star Wars: Episode III: .... and "Wat Tambor is back and badder than ever"...
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Ok I bungled that last post, watching Dave Attell at the same time so sue me, But I cant wait to see what sort of shit The Techno Union throws out now, I though the Super Battledroids were pretty good and to take those a step up well, yeah. techno Union fighters ooooooooo
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I hate to break the parade but the EU 'intruded' (god it's good to use that word) on Lucas' vision before ... Coruscant anyone?
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CGI Stormtroopers? What's next, are they going to have Bea Arthur play Padme and use CGI so nobody can tell?
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Mara Jade would be silly, since she'd only be about two to five years old. That is, if she was even born in the first place...

I don't want to see Thrawn, and I'm actually really turned off by the idea of it. It'd be a much too obvious wink to the fans.

I'd like to see Sate Pestage. And performed by David Warner, if I could choose. The only possible problem is that by the time the X-wing novels/comics era EU rolls around, he'll end up as an ancient old man. But that might depend on how old he's depicted as in those sources (I've never read them).

But if that's what it takes for David Warner to play Sate Pestage, I'm willing to take that risk. :)
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