How The Star Wars Prequels Pulled Off Jedi Jumps And Flips With out Any Wires

These air ramps have been concerned in among the greatest stunts in the entire film, like Darth Maul’s aerial backward somersault, which actor Ray Park carried out by touring 40 ft throughout the stage, in accordance with the “Star Wars: The Making Of Episode I – The Phantom Menace” book. 

In a separate interview with Vulture for a retrospective on “The Phantom Menace,” Gillard talked in regards to the last massive stunt of the film, the second Obi-Wan jumps from an enormous pit, does a somersault, then slashes Maul in half, seemingly killing him (until he came back, of course).

Due to how intricate and troublesome it’s to have a stunt actor, not to mention the star of the film, do that stunt and really land on his ft, a unique answer was required, to shoot the sequence backward. Park and Ewan McGregor’s stunts carried out the sequence in reverse, with Obi-Wan stitching Daul again collectively along with his lightsaber earlier than leaping right into a pit on the finish. A bit much less glamorous however spectacular nonetheless.

Even with out the acrobatics, the lightsaber duels have been nonetheless fast-paced, intricate dance choreographies. “Revenge of the Sith” particularly has so many actions that you just would not even discover all of them with out pausing and going body by body. Much of this wasn’t even in the script, like Dooku’s death by decapitation.

Although this would possibly create a disparity within the high quality of lightsaber motion between the unique trilogy and the newer “Star Wars” motion pictures, there’s one thing to like about each duel in any period.