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Geek Tyrant
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Ewan McGregor Confirms George Lucas Slowed Down Obi-Wan's Duel With Darth Maul, "Was Worried That People Wouldn't Believe it" — GeekTyrant
Star Wars fans have debated for years whether Star Wars:The Phantom Menace 's epic lightsaber battle between Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ray Park's Darth Maul was really slowed down in post-production because the actors were just too fast. Now, McGregor himself has set the record straight, and it turns out the legend is true. Speaking at Fan Expo Boston, McGregor revealed that George Lucas actually over-cranked the camera during filming to make the fight slightly slower on screen. 'When me and Ray did that fight… George over-cranked. We used to shoot on film, and you can adjust the speed that the film's going through the camera. If you want it to be slow motion, you make the camera run really fast so when you play it back, it's in slow motion.' McGregor recalled Lucas telling the crew, 'They're going too fast. Slightly over-crank the camera.' He continued: 'So they over-cranked the camera to make it slightly slower because me and Ray were so fast doing this fight. He was worried that people wouldn't believe it.' McGregor played Obi-Wan across all three prequel films and returned to the role in 2022's Obi-Wan Kenobi series, where he reunited with Hayden Christensen for a lightsaber duel in a Clone Wars-era flashback. As for Lucas, his on-set tweaks were just one part of his ambitious approach to Star Wars . At one point, he developed Star Wars: Underworld , a live-action series that Rick McCallum says would have 'blown up the Star Wars universe' — but its budget was simply too big for the time. "The problem was that each episode was bigger than the films, so the lowest I could get it down to with the tech that existed then was $40 million an episode," McCallum revealed on the Young Indy Chronicles podcast. It's a fun bit of Star Wars trivia to know that one of the saga's most famous fights was literally too fast in real life for audiences to believe. I would've loved to see them shoot that scene! Via: Collider
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Customer's disgusting surprise in salad leaves her scarred for life
A woman in New York City was horrified after she bought takeout only to find a rodent mixed in with her salad leaves. Hannah Rasbach, 27, ordered a salad from a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan but was disgusted by the unwanted addition. 'When I tried to cut it, it didn't feel right, it felt like a fatty piece of meat or something...' she told ABC 7 grimacing. 'I took a better look and I saw the tail and eyes.' Rasbach was halfway through her meal when she found the rodent and immediately took the container of food back to the restaurant. Footage showed her inside Ongi on West 37th Street on Monday afternoon talking with an employee before handing over the food. '[The employee] asked if I thought it had come from the spring I'm not sure where it came from,' Rasbach continued. She rushed to the doctor and was put on antibiotics as a precaution, concerned that the rodent may have urinated or defecated on the food. 'We had no idea how this animal died, it could have been rat poison, it could have been disease, any number of things,' she said. Rasbach told the outlet she can't imagine eating out again ever again. The owner, Ray Park, handed over the footage to the outlet insisting that the rodent didn't come from his restaurant. 'I was thinking, how can it be happening here, because we have a high standard to run every single day here,' Park told ABC 7. He added that he had no idea where the rodent came from, and didn't want to guess, as he revealed the establishment had combed over the footage countless times. 'If I use my finger, it's this big including the tail. It's not small,' Park continued. He said that the kitchen is clean and there had never been evidence of droppings. He kept Rasbach's meal as evidence, he told the outlet. Rasbach filed a complaint with 311 and the Health Department said it's investigating. 'I would like them to be shut down or investigated,' she said.
