Rumor: Frank Oz Has Recorded Lines For Star Wars Episode VIII.

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Recent rumors suggest that Frank Oz could be appearing in Star Wars Episode VIII as the voice of Yoda, and that a puppet may be used to bring the character back to life (in a manner of speaking).

 

From IndieRevolver:

Typically, I don’t run Star Wars information that I haven’t vetted through two sources, but since there have been rumbles elsewhere about this already and it’s not spoilery I thought I’d share a potentially cool piece of info that was floated my way recently. A source tells me that Frank Oz has been in to record new audio as Yoda for Rian Johnson’s currently in production Star Wars: Episode VIII in England. The source also says that (to their knowledge) Oz is there only to lend his voice and is not on hand for anything visual.

Oz apparently only being involved with the voice isn’t too surprising, considering that Oz has suggested that if he were to return to the role, he would prefer to used his voice only and not operate the puppet itself (meaning that his cameo appearances on Star Wars Rebels are right up his ally). It should also be noted that new Yoda dialogue was recorded for the “Forceback” sequence in The Force Awakens, but since that sequence was heavily-edited in post-production and altered from what was originally planned, the new recordings weren’t utilized. In the meantime, IndieRevolver has heard that a Yoda puppet was actually built for The Force Awakens, though – again – it ultimately wasn’t needed.

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On a different corner of the internet, Making Star Wars were the first to report rumors of Oz’s arrival last month at Pinewood Studios for work-related reasons. One source has told them that there was a specific Ahch-To set that was built to be friendly to puppet operators, which would indicate that our little green friend might be seen as a Force Spirit on the planet where the Jedi first came from. So from the sounds of things, there’s probably going to be a Yoda puppet involved over at the studio, but Oz won’t be the one to operate it. There are a few possibilities that rise from this situation. Oz could be there as a creative consultant to whomever is operating the Yoda puppet, presuming that one is actually available for the movie. There’s a chance that they might try to do what they were initially planning on doing with Maz Kanata and have a puppet on-set for the actors to use as a reference while Frank Oz does motion-capture that will be superimposed onto the face of puppet (merging practical effects with digital effects). Or it even might be possible that the Ahch-To puppet is for a different alien creature altogether, and Yoda will only be heard speaking telepathically to Luke and Rey instead of actually being seen.

 

Right now, all that’s clear is that Frank Oz went to work at Pinewood Studios while filming for Star Wars Episode VIII is underway, and that he has apparently recorded some dialogue for the movie that may or may not be used. Of course, if Yoda really is present in the movie, then one would definitely wonder what the chances of seeing the Force Spirits of of Obi-Wan and Anakin again are. Stay tuned to Star Wars News Net – your Force for news – as we report more on Episode VIII and everything else related to the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

99 thoughts on “Rumor: Frank Oz Has Recorded Lines For Star Wars Episode VIII.

  • May 18, 2016 at 4:42 am
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    As Palpatine once said: “Goooooood.”

  • May 18, 2016 at 6:09 am
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    YES FOR YODA FORCE GHOST!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO for Anakin ForceGhost (I’d leave the Theater at that point)

    • May 18, 2016 at 6:45 am
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      Then I’ll take your seat without second thoughts.

      After all, Anakin was arguably the most important character in this saga.

      • May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am
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        Ugh. George made him Space Jesus.

    • May 18, 2016 at 6:52 am
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      If given the right dialogue and a director like Rian (No offense to George Lucas I personally love the guy) who can actually direct actors, Hayden Christenson (sorry for spelling) may actually give a really good performance. To me he was not the problem as much as the material he was given. There is only so much an actor can do with lines like “I hate the sand” and “From my point of view the Jedi are evil.”

      But how knows… “difficult it is to see the future.”

      • May 18, 2016 at 7:37 am
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        You’ve confused two seperate Yoda quotes.
        Correction: “Impossible to see, the future is” and/or “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future”

        • May 18, 2016 at 4:06 pm
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          Damn sorry time to turn in my fanboy card. LOL I knew as soon as i posted i got the quote wrong, but did not care enough to fix it. Actually i was expecting to get hate for liking George Lucas.

          P.S. Its really sad that i remembered the Anakin quotes but not Yoda’s.

      • May 19, 2016 at 1:06 am
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        I believe the problem with prequel Lucas was that he’d barely directed after Star Wars, and as a result lost a lot of his skill.

        • May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am
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          He went bad long before that. Howard the Duck anyone?

          • May 19, 2016 at 6:24 am
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            He was only a producer on that film.

          • May 19, 2016 at 7:08 am
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            AND? It was still another movie in his hot streak of shit.

    • May 18, 2016 at 8:07 am
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      Well I hope you leave the theater crying.

    • May 18, 2016 at 8:50 am
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      Disagree. Without Anakin. There is no Luke, Leia, Kylo Ren and possibly Rey. This entire saga is about the Skywalkers! I hope Hayden is back at some point as a force ghost….

      • May 18, 2016 at 11:15 pm
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        I would not mind seeing Hayden as Anakin’s ghost, either. Don’t hate on the guy just because he had to act out a sometimes-inferior script in II and III. In the latter, I think he does everything any actor could have done, given the material he had to work with. Episode III is by far the best prequel, and many recent fan listings has it as one of the two top Star Wars films ever.

  • May 18, 2016 at 6:35 am
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    I’m not really excited about seeing Force Ghosts in the ST, but I do appreciate that they are getting Frank Oz and Ewan McGregor for this trilogy where Yoda and Obi Wan are needed. I would hate to see them do something and have someone else do the voices.

    • May 19, 2016 at 1:05 am
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      Ewan Mcgregor said he’s not coming back as a force-ghost.

  • May 18, 2016 at 6:39 am
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    GIVE US YODA NOW.

    • May 18, 2016 at 4:03 pm
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      Probably have some assistant puppeteers do the Yoda puppet work. While Frank just doing the voice. Remember this is a Jedi Spirit Yoda like at the end of ROTJ.

    • May 18, 2016 at 9:00 pm
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      I think I’ll put this here too… this is a comparison, puppet vs CGI, I believe epI cgi Yoda is really amazing, judge by yourself.

  • May 18, 2016 at 7:46 am
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    SUPER EXCITING! At this point i’m almost 90% sure of force ghost yoda, especially since Mr. Oz reportedly recorded several key lines of dialogue with luke for episode 7 that were cut. They weren’t included in the deleted scenes either so my guess is that they were repurposing / rewriting that scene to fit into episode 8. I want the full ghost trio back if possible!

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:08 am
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    I suspect/hope that Yoda will be something beyond a hand puppet. More animatronic and possibly enhanced digitally. I saw Empire in its original run and loved Yoda, but even as a 9- or 10-year-old I thought he moved like a muppet.

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:25 am
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    BRING HIM BACK! BRING THEM ALL BACK!

    • May 19, 2016 at 5:18 am
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      Make it stop. Make it end.

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:32 am
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    Joss Whedon is coming on as a cameo director for a scene in which Luke, Rey, Kylo and Chewie turn into puppets.

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:38 am
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    Love the thought of Yoda being in but just no Muppet please. I’m all for practical effects etc. But for characters that talk with close-ups they need to be like maz was done. Mo-cap. I’m praying they’ll do it that way if he’s in it and close to camera.

      • May 18, 2016 at 9:28 am
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        That’s just sad to look at

      • May 18, 2016 at 11:17 am
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        This is one of those examples where the story is at the service of the FX, not the opposite, as Lucas usually predicates.

        It’s very easy to prove: The idea of creating a fully CGI Yoda came from Rob Coleman from ILM, not from George, way before a script was in place (see link below)

        Honestly Yoda from ep. II should be all re-done, it’s a horrible CGI, though what they re-did for ep. I was very good IMO. Nonetheless, I think for respect to the original character, CGI Yoda should have never been used despite for scenes where the puppet was impossible to operate. As much as the puppet from Episode I wasn’t great, they did a good job using the CG version only on the shot that he walks beside ObiWan in the end of the film. Having this character fully CGI in the prequels make his original appearence in ep. V inconsistent (and yet, the old puppet is the best Yoda so far).

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh-5UhwcBW0

        • May 18, 2016 at 5:29 pm
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          ….

          • May 18, 2016 at 5:55 pm
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            Once again, Joaquin with the sensible, reasonable counter-argument that clearly demonstrates an intelligent point of view… Lol.

          • May 18, 2016 at 6:16 pm
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            Just trolling trolls

          • May 18, 2016 at 7:27 pm
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            No see, i make actual arguments. All you do is tell people to F their opinion because you have no arguments.

          • May 18, 2016 at 9:29 pm
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            Come on Crixxxx, you are always moaning about CGI, Prequels and such on every corner of this site.

          • May 18, 2016 at 9:47 pm
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            Let me know when it stops being terrible, and I’ll stop calling it terrible. At least I don’t tell people to go F themselves because I disagree with them.

        • May 19, 2016 at 12:44 am
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          Yoda with a lightsaber shouldn’t have been done (#hottake #opinion #relax).

          I still dream of Palpatine and Yoda facing off without lightsabers, just wrecking shop trying to defeat each other. The second half of that Palpatine-Yoda fight was awesome, the first half….not so much.

          Hell, Yoda should have just fought Dooku with his walking stick.

          • May 19, 2016 at 8:46 am
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            Do you remember when Luke said he was looking for a “great warrior”? Yoda with a lighsaber makes total sense, he is a warrior not just a force user, he fights, like a jedi…

          • May 19, 2016 at 1:57 pm
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            Luke never heard of Yoda being a ‘great warrior’. That line is naiveté.

            In fact, it was never stated in any 7 movies. It was Luke’s assumption about being a Jedi. In fact, that was the whole point of Luke needing to be taught what a Jedi was, and why Yoda didn’t want to train him. Luke was naive and wrong in stating that.

          • May 19, 2016 at 8:46 pm
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            Yes, I’ll give you that, all is about how Luke is expecting to find something “great” in the begining, but think this, Yoda is a jedi master (stated), right?, and the movies stated too that he is really strong with the force, and a great fighter, and it is know by now that Luke did his own research by that time, he may o may not know somethig more about Yoda, but is very possible, because by this time, or the time before ESB luke has the “Journals of Old Ben Kenobi” So i think this is part naiveté and part knowledge maybe?

            So, if Luke knows more than what is shown in the movies, at least NH, its easy to assume that that “assumption” about Yoda being a great warrior have something of knowledge.

        • May 19, 2016 at 1:04 am
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          Yeah, episode 3 Yoda is fine, but I can’t stand episode 2’s. He looks terrible in episode 2, because the cgi hadn’t advanced enough back then. I think Lucas says something about bump-mapping advances or whatever came around by the time of episode 3.

          • May 19, 2016 at 8:19 am
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            Well… this movie came out the same year and Gollum was quite better than Yoda. Among the problems Yoda had, there’s the digital, colorful aesthetic of Episode 2, I think they really failed with the color and the among of detail.

            Really, I may sound like a whiner, but this is ILM dealing with a project that they couldn’t afford. Way too much of CGI that ended up with a lack of refinement. Why they complicated their lives doing a digital Yoda when they could perfectly just do a better puppet than the one in Episode I?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cewdg-lxXXg

          • May 19, 2016 at 8:40 am
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            Gollum was Mo-cap (Serkis acting) and human… a totally different story with Yoda, you really can’t compare those guys… Yoda is a Creature/Alien/Puppet/Animation/Green… etc. you know… Different aproach in each cases.

          • May 19, 2016 at 9:28 am
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            The only thing I’m saying is that the technology was well advanced at that moment. The problem here is the approach. They approached a creature that was perfectly done as a puppet without any concern by the audience, being one of the most popular characters of the saga. It was completely unnecessary out of the fight scene. They could have limited the CG version when yoda jumps. All the rest, including him igniting the saber, could be puppet.

          • May 19, 2016 at 9:46 am
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            Lucas wanted Yoda to use a lightsaber, and he thought the puppet version was bad. So, we got a digital one instead.

          • May 19, 2016 at 6:16 pm
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            He uses the lightsaber for less than a minute. Many human characters in the prequels have CGI stunts and they look great because they are used when fast, dangerous and impossible movements are executed. Yoda could have been like that. Most of the movie is an old walking frog, as we always knew him.

      • May 18, 2016 at 9:02 pm
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        In epI (2011) really good 🙂

        • May 19, 2016 at 6:20 pm
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          While I think it’s inconsistent to have a CGI Yoda, I recognize that what they did in 2011 for Episode 1 is a fantastic job.

  • May 18, 2016 at 9:04 am
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    It would be cool to see him actually talk in spirit form. I’d love to see him as a puppet but in the Episode I documentary, Frank Oz seemed pretty indifferent about performing him as well as the fact that I think he’s retired from puppeteering. If he’s CG, I just hope he looks better than he did in the PT.

  • May 18, 2016 at 11:26 am
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    The title of the post is spoilerish… I visit starwarsnewsnet for the comic reviews, and the updates on new star wars content in general, I don’t want to be spoiled about the movies. I would like to ask the managers of the site to think about it. It’s a mild spoiler, it’s not a big deal, but it’s spoilerish nevertheless. Thank you for this great site, by the way!

    • May 18, 2016 at 11:49 am
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      Is posting an article on a rumoured character return truly spoilerish?

      Always though a movie spoiler concerned the storyline or plot.

      • May 18, 2016 at 12:50 pm
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        That concerns the storyline or plot. A lot.

        • May 18, 2016 at 12:58 pm
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          How do you know this?

          What information has been revealed about the storyline/plot shape or development. How can you possibly put it into any form of context?

          All this rumour suggests is that Luke takes dialogue with the force ghost of Yoda on the planet Ahch-To.

    • May 18, 2016 at 6:51 pm
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      These sites exist for a reason and a large part of that is for advanced information. The term “spoiler” is a complete misnomer and there has been a false narrative perpetuated that advanced information spoils anything. There are worse things to be upset about in this world than knowing information about something you love in advance.

      • May 18, 2016 at 7:24 pm
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        “Spoiler” used to mean knowing “who” Rosebud was, or “I am your father,” or the identity of Keyser Soze. Now it’s character names and set designs. A little over the top.

  • May 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm
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    My god, I hope they don’t revert back to using a puppet. One of the best things GL did in the prequels was CGI Yoda. The puppet in Episode 1 was unbearable (before the re-do in CGI on Blu-ray). I totally understand the desire to recapture the feel of the original trilogy, but the bringing back the puppet will not accomplish that. Frank Oz yes, puppet no.

    • May 18, 2016 at 6:02 pm
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      The CG Yoda was terrible. It looked like a video game character. I don’t know how anyone can look at that versus a Yoda on set, with real cloth and hair, with real light and shadows being cast talking to Mark Hamill, and think that an obvious cartoon Yoda was better. They’ve come a long way since 1979 in mouth articulation capability as some of the puppets in TFA have demonstrated. They can build a new Yoda puppet with the new articulation capabilities and make it look far better than another animated piece of garbage.

      • May 18, 2016 at 6:17 pm
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        The nostalic purist feelings is too real with you

        • May 18, 2016 at 7:39 pm
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          The nostalgia for fake cartoon crap is too real with you.

        • May 19, 2016 at 12:42 am
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          This comparison doesn’t work without other data.

          Also, considering OT fans who hate the PT likely still bought Yoda merch that wasn’t as available prior to 1990.

      • May 18, 2016 at 6:20 pm
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        Seriously? The puppet originally used in the PM was terrible. When replaced with CGI the character came to life.

          • May 18, 2016 at 9:02 pm
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            In epI (2011) really good…

          • May 18, 2016 at 9:34 pm
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            No. However, the ESB puppet couldn’t do what the CGI one was needed to do.

          • May 18, 2016 at 9:45 pm
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            Having Yoda jump around and fight was totally out of character and never should’ve happened.

          • May 18, 2016 at 10:22 pm
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            Oh right………you must own the character……didn’t realise, so many apologies you must be right…

          • May 19, 2016 at 4:45 am
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            No, I don’t own the character. But we have these 2 movies that came out before Attack of the Clones. Perhaps you’ve heard of them, they’re called The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Those movies fully established Yoda’s character, temperament and philosophy. Then you make a movie that throws all those things into the dumpster and completely changes him into Sonic the Hedgehog.

          • May 19, 2016 at 11:02 am
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            Nope- those movies show Yoda at a stage in his life. The prequels show him in another, and for all the screen time he has in the prequels combat isn’t the main focus, so he’s not jumping around all the time on the screen like Sonic. You’re perception of the character is flawed.

          • May 19, 2016 at 5:04 pm
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            Yeah, because an 870 year old is so vastly different from a 900 year old. The reason it doesn’t work is because Yoda has to constantly jump around and bounce off of things like a stupid video game character because of his small height in comparison to Dooku, which goes against what he said in Empire about size and physical strength not mattering, and that the use Force being about the mental rather than the physical.. So it’s a total contradiction of his character.

          • May 19, 2016 at 5:19 pm
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            Physical age isn’t the difference, but the context of the era he was living in. In combat he’s using the force, you do agree with that? At what point in the OT was it needed for him to use the force? Size and strength matter not, as the force is you’re ally, mentally you control the force and channel into you’re actions, be it to look into the future, raise an X-Wing from a swamp, jump out of a carbonite processing pit, or channelled throughout you’re frail old body to aid lightsaber skills. I’m not sure you understand the ways of the force.

          • May 19, 2016 at 5:50 pm
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            I understand the force exactly as Yoda describes it in The Empire Strikes Back. He does use the force in that battle, but so does Dooku. He should be above having to overcome his small stature and age to overcome a man three times as big as he is by jumping around and bouncing off of things. The force is bigger than physical limitations. And if Yoda needs to jump around and fight with a lightsaber, it no longer becomes about the mental, but about the physical, and the wild jumping and bouncing is needed to match Dooku’s height and strength.

          • May 19, 2016 at 5:58 pm
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            If it came straight down to a sword fight or even unarmed combat between a midget and someone 6′ you can’t stand toe-to-toe. Speed and misdirection are required, which is simply what Yoda is doing with the aid of the force. Which he could not do if he wasn’t mentally open to allowing the force to flow through him. I’m curious on how else you think this meeting between Yoda and Dooku should of played out?

          • May 19, 2016 at 9:03 pm
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            A lightsaber fight should never have been necessary. You have two massively powerful force users and Dooku says that the contest cannot be settled by their knowledge of the force but by a lightsaber battle. Why? Is the force not adequate enough but flinging laser swords is? A lightsaber fight makes it a physical contest, rather than a battle between light and dark force power. And as I already explained. Yoda is above that. His physical smallness prevents him from competing against much larger opponents, so he has to do the flip routines to compensate. So everything he says about physical strength not mattering does indeed matter a great deal in a lightsaber fight. There’s a reason why Yoda never takes the time to teach Luke anything about lightsaber combat when he trains him. How it should’ve played out would’ve been an epic contest of force power. Both Yoda and Dooku would’ve been fighting with the force alone, rather than flinging laser swords simply because they’re popular scenes in these movies. And the character of Yoda wouldn’t contradict his own teachings and be reduced to video game antics.

          • May 19, 2016 at 9:36 pm
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            The use of the force was basically flinging rocks and lightning, you’ve not suggested what else could of been done that would of been great to see on the screen concerning force power. His physical smallness does not prevent him, its the whole ‘judge me by my size’ question, no you should not ‘because the force is my ally’.

            I ask again for you to give a valid suggestion of how a force battle could of been played out on the screen.

          • May 19, 2016 at 10:01 pm
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            They fought with the force for about a minute before reverting to the lightsabers. How do you make a force-fight more exciting? First of all, set the fight in another place besides another boring, gray mechanical room. Set it in some amazing natural setting on Geonosis, like a massive rocky canyon. Have them hurl boulders the size of trucks at one another. Have them fling each other off cliffs with the force. Have them cause rockslides to come showering down on one another. A pure battle of the force rather than yet another lightsaber battle. It would be even more exciting and you wouldn’t contradict Yoda’s character.

          • May 19, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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            So you’re saying just fling more rocks about in a bigger location……wow that’s not really that impressive. I really thought you might have something to go with, new and fresh, like having the force shape the rocks into instruments for offence and defence. You label it as just another lightsaber battle, which means you didn’t even feel the atmosphere become charged in the cinema when Yoda ignited his lightsaber.

          • May 20, 2016 at 12:31 am
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            That would be new and fresh. Yet another saber fight is the repetitiveness. All the previous saber fights up to that point had taken place in sterile, mechanical rooms and chambers with the exception of the very short fight in the desert between Qui Gon and Maul in TPM. At what other time had we seen anything like what I described in the saga? It would be exciting and energetic, showing what force-fueled combat was other than more saber flinging.

          • May 20, 2016 at 9:51 pm
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            There was only one lightsaber duel in AotC, the battle with Dooku. I’m not sure what you’re getting at otherwise. There was a scene in a bar, the younglings, vs Jango, Anakin killing Sandpeople, the dodgy droid factory scene, and then the start of the Clone Wars stuff. Only the droid factory section is as you describe. It was hardly a large number of lightsabers till the clone sections. The Obi-wan fight with Jango was great, followed by an even better space combat scene.

            Just a thought, but maybe there isn’t going to be a force fuelled fight as you describe because its not what Lucas or anyone else thought was required. At best it was flinging senate pods around in RotS.

          • May 20, 2016 at 9:58 pm
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            Anakin and Obi wan fought Dooku before Yoda fought him. And I was talking about the series as a whole leading up to that point there were lightsaber fights as the climax of all 4 previous films. Hence the repetition.

          • May 20, 2016 at 10:17 pm
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            I view the battle with Dooku as a whole. The mid-scene with Padme squirming and groaning on the ground and then getting back up when the trooper asks if she’s ok far more concerning that repetition. Lightsaber fights are the bread and butter of the Jedi vs Sith in Star Wars though, its what almost everyone wishes to see. The boards are full of people looking forward to seeing Luke in action again in VIII, and that will be a lightsaber fight.

      • May 18, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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        I beleive they don’t need to go back, I think that today they can get a perfectly done CGI Yoda, wiith good acting and really good CGI, check this CG Yoda is from 2011, and I think it is amazing.

    • May 18, 2016 at 6:26 pm
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      I liked the original puppet Yoda in Episode I, but I agree that the CGI Yoda in the redo of Episode I was much better than the CGI Yoda which appeared in Episodes II and III.
      Like many fans I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching the OT on VHS via a boxy TV set. As much as I love the entire saga, the truth is that with the progression of TV/home viewing technology the OT has not aged well. This rigid attachment to a 30 year-old view of the OT as flawless by many fans is ridiculous. I am as nostalgic about all things Star Wars saga as the next fan, but I can also see things for what they are. None of the seven films are perfect, but they all have the same tangible Star Wars magic and spirit which leaves me with the same feeling I had as that kid in the 80s.

  • May 18, 2016 at 5:30 pm
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    I’m curious, if there is an unused TFA Yoda puppet, I am supremely interested to see it, specifically, how closely it resembles the OT puppet. If there’s anyone that can top the PT’s puppet, it’s these guys.

    Also, it’d be interesting if they actually had (in the event of a visible apparition) a real puppet for the people to react to, that would be some pretty serious commitment to the Practical Effects dept. — which I’m into.

    • May 18, 2016 at 8:46 pm
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      You can have a puppet to react, in preproduction, but you can a have perfecltly excecuted CGI Yoda in the final versión too.

    • May 19, 2016 at 6:02 am
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      A potato could top the PT’s puppet.

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:00 pm
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    I’d love a mix of CGI and puppetry, but I feel like since it is a ghost you can do CGI fairly easily. If it looks like nothing is really there….then thats good because its a ghost. The CGI model is more expressive, so if the role is largely speaking, i’d say lean toward the effects, which are looking better and better each time.

    • May 18, 2016 at 8:25 pm
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      Kind of what they did with Unkar Plutt. They had Simon Pegg in costume and makeup and did the mouth articulation digitally. It looked quite good. A lot better than all-digital Maz.

  • May 18, 2016 at 8:44 pm
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    Check Yoda in the center of the image, it is impressive i think, the detail, face expression, and of course CGI have unlimited posibilities this is 5 years ago, think what can be achieved now. a combination of good performance and realism.

    In episode one they delivered a really good improvement with CGI yoda, this is a fast comparison between epI (2011) and epV.

    • May 19, 2016 at 12:39 am
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      Its certainly improved with each release.

    • May 19, 2016 at 12:54 am
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      In action…

  • May 19, 2016 at 12:45 am
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    How confirmed is the “as Yoda” part?

  • May 19, 2016 at 4:05 am
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    If they do a puppet, I hope they make it EXACTLY the same as the ESB one with the same materials and molds. The CGI version never seemed real, even with the “ear wiggle” that they were so proud of adding.

    • May 19, 2016 at 6:01 am
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      I hope they make on that looks just like the ESB puppet but with more articulation, detail, and realism. No disrespect to ESB, but Yoda’s puppet looks very Muppet-ish nowadays. The bottom halve of his jaw literally goes up and down, as if that’s what it looks like when a real person speaks.

    • May 19, 2016 at 7:03 am
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      Except for this Big George, from epI, it seems pretty real to me, i think this is a perfect mix between good CGI with “puppeteering” movements. and this is from 5-6 years ago. I think people can´t really see what CGI can do, CG gets better and better everytime.

      • May 20, 2016 at 2:33 am
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        No doubt CGI is far more flexible. But the original puppet created a precedent of how Yoda should look and move. The CGI version just doesn’t match it and does too much. In my mind ESB Yoda is real, CGI Yoda is not.

        • May 20, 2016 at 7:04 pm
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          What a lot of people can´t see, is that today, you can achieve wonderful things with cgi, he can be more realistic now, and more believable, in the OT they worked with what they had at the time, i think there is no reason to step back and make it the same if we are not in te past. At that time they had to make a lot of puppets for Yoda, one for movements, one for talking, one for the ears movements, one for reshoots, etc. and all looked a little different. Some of them looked pretty good, others no that good, i think. With CGI they can do it perfectly now, i think the proof of that it TPM 2011, from 5 years ago and it isnt perfect. I believe that the look and performance from a CGI Yoda now, would please everyone.

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