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Those of you with internet access probably have read the blurbs on the Internet Movie Database about Ewan McGregor making light saber-esque buzzing noises during his battle scenes and about Natalie Portman's having to redub all her lines in postproduction because the pitch of her voice had changed during shooting...
Lucas is not alone in wondering if the $115 million film on the screen will be able to top the spectacle outside; one imagines rampant ticket scalping, if not pitched light-saber battles. Can Lucas keep his huge, devout constituency awed while gently reminding them that it's only a movie? Or has all the promotional percussion deafened the audience, spilled the best secrets? Maybe moviegoers who have read stories like this one will have a slumping sense of deja view when Episode 1 is finally revealed...
Iain McCaig, a children's book illustrator, "conceptualized" the costumes--and some of the creatures inside them. For Darth Maul, the dark-side warrior who battles Qui-Gon with a prototype double-edged light saber, Lucas asked McCaig to draw his childhood nightmare come true. The artist drew one so frightening that Lucas said, "Do your second worst." That was Bozo the Clown, who had terrified McCaig as a child. "His face had long red tassels, and he had big metal teeth...
DARTH MAUL Episode I --The double-edged-light-saber-wielding Dark Lord of Sith who pursues Queen Amidala and her allies...
...Light Saber...