Rick McCallum, producer of Star Wars: Episode III, told fans in a chat on the official Star Wars Hyperspace Web site that the movie has shot about 80 pages of the 129-page script so far, and that they are two days ahead of schedule. "Everything is going well, and every day is a challenge to get through, especially the underwater work we're doing now," McCallum said in the chat. "I've just left the stage where we have an underwater tank, where we're shooting Obi-Wan [Ewan McGregor] fighting with droids."McCallum also let slip a few spoilery tidbits about the upcoming prequel. Among them:
•"We've shot three major lightsaber battles."
•The film will include a scene in which Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) receives the name Darth Vader, and it reveals why.
•David Prowse, who played the dark lord in the original trilogy of movies, will "absolutely not" play Darth Vader in Episode III.
•The movie will show an infant Luke and Leia Skywalker "less than a month old."
McCallum added that the prequel will have "the same emotional depth as [Empire Strikes Back], and yet, because there are so many new planets, it is visually one of the most ambitious films we've done. On the surface, the film ends on a sad note (and for me, a personally gloomy one, because I'll be out of a job), but of course, we know where the story goes from there. Anakin is the Chosen One, after all."
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