The Director and the Jedi Page #3

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and in the right place in terms of the pace

that we're actually going to have to

accomplish to get all of it done.

We are here on Skellig Michael,

off the west coast of lreland.

This is a little pre-shoot.

Our main shoot isn't for a few more months.

But because it's a bird sanctuary,

it's a UNESCO heritage site,

it is so inaccessible,

we could only get there

for two days to shoot.

After months of planning,

and working it all out,

we finally have our crew here,

and it feels really nice to put

Luke Skywalker in front of a camera.

So, this is literally the moment

right after VII,

and I always knew that I wanted to see

what the very next thing that happened was.

And so, that's what we're coming in on.

Some young kid shows up

and hands him this symbol of everything

he's walked away from.

It's not like he's gonna fire it up

and say, "Let's go."

He's done with that.

That's why he's here.

And I think it's just because

the attitude of tossing on the go

worked really well.

So, it's still keeping that,

kind of, like...

Well, see, again, I mean,

I told Rian this. It's no surprise,

I said I just fundamentally disagree

with your concept of this character

and how you use him.

Now, having said that,

I'll do everything within my power

to realize your vision,

'cause, you know,

it's not my character to decide.

It belongs to other people,

they just rent it out to me.

- And cut.

- You got that?

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, so, they could be walking down...

So, now, there's a lot more meetings,

a lot more preproduction,

a lot more planning.

Casting.

- Casting. We're trying to find...

- Rose.

...who's going to play the character of Rose,

which is one of the few new characters in the movie.

As we speak,

of course another agent is calling me.

But it felt so good to get out here

and actually roll some film.

It's going to be hard to go back to work now.

It's going to be hard to go back looking at charts...

- And designs.

-... having board meetings.

Clearly, you know why we're here.

You know why we are here.

So the question is just to quantify,

if there is a way to quantify.

So, if we said, okay,

what if we took these characters out,

will it save, and if so, how much?

You know, if we were to look at

where are the cost savings,

the cost savings are those things that

we haven't already committed to,

in the biggest sense of the word.

And that pretty well starts

at the fathiers,

down through the sea cows.

So, at the moment, the casino is

coming through weekly. Daily.

A significant proportion of the work

-has already taken place.

- Correct.

At a certain point, we had to fit

our budget and our plan into a box.

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