What Star Wars Movie Has Ewoks
| Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Genre |
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| Screenplay past |
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| Story by | George Lucas |
| Directed past |
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| Starring |
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| Theme music composer | Peter Bernstein |
| Country of origin | United states |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | George Lucas |
| Producers |
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| Cinematography | Isidore Mankofsky |
| Editor | Eric Jenkins |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Production companies |
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| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Color |
| Audio format | Dolby |
| Original release |
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| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure |
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a 1985 television film ready in the Star Wars universe co-written and directed past Jim and Ken Wheat from a story by George Lucas. A sequel to Caravan of Backbone: An Ewok Adventure, it focuses on Cindel Towani, the human being girl from the first moving picture, who, after being orphaned, joins the Ewoks in protecting their village and defeating the marauders who have taken control of the Endor moon.
Plot [edit]
Nearly six months have passed since the events of the showtime film;[1] the Towani family's star cruiser is almost completely fixed and Jeremitt is putting the concluding touches on the craft. While the family is preparing to leave the woods moon of Endor, the Ewok hamlet is attacked by a Marauder grouping led past Terak and his witch-like sorceress Charal. Many Ewoks are captured, while Jeremitt, Catarine, and Mace are killed helping to defend the Ewok village. The marauders steal a power cell from the Towani'southward star cruiser believing it to take some sort of magic power over the stars.
While running away from the marauders, Cindel and Wicket encounter Teek, a small, fast native of Endor. Teek takes them to the home of Noa Briqualon, a human male person who is angered past their uninvited presence and throws them out. Somewhen he proves himself to be kindhearted, letting Teek steal food for Cindel and Wicket, and inviting the two in when they endeavour to build a fire for warmth outside.
At the Marauders' castle, Terak orders Charal to find Cindel, assuming she knows how to use "the power" in the energy jail cell stolen from Jeremitt'south star cruiser. Meanwhile, Noa, Cindel, Wicket, and Teek are condign friends. It is revealed that Noa is rebuilding his own wrecked star cruiser, only missing the energy jail cell, originally landing with a friend of his named Salak who disappeared while searching for another jail cell. Cindel is awakened one morning time by a song her female parent used to sing. She follows the voice to find a woman singing, who transforms into Charal and takes her to Terak. He orders Cindel to actuate "the power", but she cannot, and is imprisoned with the Ewoks where it is revealed Salak was killed after telling Terak about "the power". Outside, Noa, Wicket, and Teek sneak into the castle, costless Cindel and the Ewoks, and escape with the free energy cell.
Terak, Charal, and the Marauders pursue them back to the ship, where Wicket leads the Ewoks in defence force of the cruiser as Noa installs the energy cell. The Ewoks put upwardly a valiant try, and are nearly browbeaten by the fourth dimension Noa powers up the ship and uses its light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cannons to fend off the Marauders. Cindel goes to salvage Wicket and is captured by Terak, as the other Marauders retreat. Terak and Noa face off, with Wicket finally coming to the rescue, killing Terak and simultaneously leaving Charal trapped in bird form. Presently thereafter, goodbyes are said, and Cindel leaves Endor with Noa on his starship.
Bandage [edit]
- Warwick Davis as Wicket Westward. Warrick
- Aubree Miller equally Cindel Towani
- Wilford Brimley as Noa Briqualon
- Carel Struycken every bit Terak
- Siân Phillips as Charal
- Niki Botelho as Teek
- Paul Gleason equally Jeremitt Towani
- Eric Walker as Mace Towani
- Marianne Horine as Young Witch
- Daniel Frishman as Deej
- Tony Cox equally Willy
- Pam Grizz as Shodu
- Roger Johnson as Lieutenant
- Michael Pritchard equally Carte Player #1
- Johnny Weissmuller Jr. as Card Player #2
- Matthew Roloff every bit Ewok with Crutches
Product [edit]
Creation and crew [edit]
The film, shot in the middle of 1985 in Marin County, California, was directed by Jim and Ken Wheat, executive produced by Lucas, and written by the Wheat brothers, based on a story written past Lucas. Co-director Ken Wheat explained the production and inspiration of the film:
Lucas guided the cosmos of the story over the course of two four-hour sessions nosotros had with him. He'd just watched Heidi with his daughter the weekend before these took place, and the story idea he pushed was having the trivial girl from the first Ewok Boob tube movie go an orphan who ends upwards living with a grumpy old hermit in the wood. We'd been thinking about the adventure films nosotros'd liked equally kids, like Swiss Family Robinson and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and so we suggested having space marauders, which was fine with George — as long every bit they were vii anxiety tall, of class! The rest of the brainstorming was done along those lines. Joe Johnston (the production designer and second unit director) and Phil Tippett (the animate being supervisor) were involved in the second day'due south story session, and they contributed an assortment of bits and pieces.[2] [three]
Lucas' involvement during product was primarily in the design and editing stages, according to Wheat. The motion picture's working title was Ewoks Ii.[4]
Effects [edit]
Both Ewok films were some of the terminal intensive stop-motion animation piece of work Industrial Light & Magic produced, as in the early 1980s, the technique was being replaced by get motion animation, a more than avant-garde form with motorized articulated puppets that moved while the camera shutter was open, capturing motion blur in the otherwise static puppet, eliminating the harsh staccato movement often associated with stop motion. However, the budgets of the Ewok films were such that go motion was simply too expensive for the projects, and so end motion was used to realize creatures such as the condor dragon, the blurrgs, and the boar-wolves.
The Ewok movies proved an opportunity for Industrial Light & Magic to hone a new technique in photographing matte paintings, called latent epitome matte painting. In this technique, during live action photography a department of the photographic camera's lens is blocked off, remaining unexposed, and a painting is crafted to occupy that space. The moving-picture show would so exist rewound, the blocked areas reversed, and the painting photographed. Since the painting now existed on the original pic, there would be no generational quality loss.
Music [edit]
The musical score for Ewoks: The Boxing for Endor was composed by Peter Bernstein. Selections from the score were released on LP past Varèse Sarabande in 1986.[5] The release was known simply as Ewoks, and also contained cues from Bernstein'southward previous score to The Ewok Adventure.
Alternating versions [edit]
- In a home video release, the post-obit two scenes were deleted: when being chased by Terak'southward men, Wicket races for Noa'due south firm but Noa tells him the only chance they accept got is the star cruiser. And then a scene that happened soon after where the men went inside and burned down Noa's business firm.
- When Cindel has a nightmare almost bad men coming into Noa'southward house, a scene was cut from the television broadcast, in which Cindel rushes to Noa's bed to wake him upward, but instead finds Terak in the bed and wakes upward. The television version but shows Cindel waking up after the men break in.
- Cindel'south lines: "Exercise something, Wicket! Use your sling! You hit the ring!" have been altered to "Practice something, Wicket! Do something!" for the DVD release.
- In the original Idiot box broadcast of the film, the end credits were rolled over the last scene, simply in all dwelling-video releases of the moving-picture show, the stop credits are rolled over a traditional black groundwork after the terminal scene.[ citation needed ]
Adaptations [edit]
In 1986, Random House published a children's book adaptation of The Boxing for Endor chosen The Band, the Witch, and the Crystal: An Ewok Adventure. The book was written by Cathy East Dubowski, and utilized the pic's storyline and imagery.
Release [edit]
Ewoks: The Boxing for Endor initially premiered as an ABC Television special on Nov 24, 1985. It was given a limited international theatrical release in 1986.[ citation needed ] After the run had disappeared due to depression box office receipts, it appeared on habitation video in late 1987 on MGM/UA and re-issued for retail in 1988 and 1990. The U.Due south. later released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1990 through MGM/UA Dwelling Video.
The film was released on DVD with its predecessor as a double-characteristic drove entitled Star Wars: Ewok Adventures on November 23, 2004 via 20th Century Fox Home Amusement. Ane film was on each side of a single double-sided disc, with no bonus textile.
In Jan 2019, Disney and Lucasfilm released The Battle for Endor on Amazon Prime number Video, where it was available to rent or buy in standard definition. Equally of December 2019, the film was no longer available through that service.[six]
Prior to 2021, Disney announced no plans to add the Ewok films to its streaming service, Disney+. This prompted Eric Walker to start a petition for Disney to add them.[7] In March 2021, information technology was announced that both films would brainstorm streaming on Disney+ on April two, 2021.[8]
Reception [edit]
At the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and the CBS documentary Dinosaur! were both juried-awarded Emmys for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.[nine] The picture additionally received two nominations for Outstanding Children's Program and Outstanding Audio Mixing for a Miniseries or a Special.[x] [eleven]
In his review for The New York Times John Corry faulted the product'south source of inspiration, saying "The problem with Ewoks: The Battle for Endor isn't that it'due south desperately done; on the contrary, information technology'southward wonderfully well done. But when it'due south over it'south over, and at that place is no residue. Mr. Lucas and his colleagues find their inspiration in their own engineering science, and there should be other places to look."[12]
Pointing to the main characters and plot elements, one pair of writers ended that both Battle of Endor and its predecessor Caravan of Courage are fairy tales despite occurring in a science fiction setting. They indicate to magical phenomena in both films, which is a fantasy chemical element. They argue that in a science fiction story, the hero wants to disrupt or challenge the hierarchy of a supposed "utopian" lodge; whereas in both Ewok films, society is not challenged or disputed. Additionally, they debate, that while the Star Wars saga also has fairy tale tropes, it adhered more towards scientific discipline fiction.[13] Another writer agreed that the films are fairy tales, whereas "Science explains all magic."[14]
In dissimilarity to his negative review of its predecessor, Aidan Mason of Pop Civilisation Beast stated the film, "manages to improve on the original" and felt much more like a Star Wars movie, although he was still disquisitional of the acting.[15]
Legacy [edit]
Several elements from the film have gone on to appear in other works of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was alleged non-canon and rebranded as Legends in 2014.[sixteen]
- Ewoks (1985–1987) was an ABC blithe series featuring the Ewoks that ran for ii seasons; it was retroactively ready before the original Star Wars trilogy.[17]
- Tyrant'southward Test (1996) - In the Star Wars Legends continuity, Cindel Towani went on to appear in Tyrant's Test, the third book of Michael P. Kube-McDowell'southward Star Wars book series, The Black Fleet Crunch trilogy. In the novel, set up over x years after The Battle for Endor, Cindel is shown to take grown to become a reporter on Coruscant. During the Yevethan crunch, Cindel received the so-called Plat Mallar tapes from Admiral Drayson, and leaked the story of the only survivor of the Yevethan set on of Polneye. The report was meant to garner sympathy amongst the people of the New Commonwealth and the Senate and it worked. The Expanded Universe timeline states Cindel decided to join the New Democracy and go into journalism after witnessing the Battle of Endor.
- The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (1997) by Kevin J. Anderson retroactively set the film between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and explained that Charal was a Force-sensitive witch from the planet Dathomir.[18]
- HoloNet effect #49 (2002) was an issue of the in-universe news report. In the "regional" section of this upshot, the article "Moddell Starship Search Abandoned", explains that the search has been called off for the rescue of Salek Weet and Noa Briqualon, which had been funded by Salek's begetter, Jimke Weet. The search was said to accept been called off due to the fact that Jimke had to file bankruptcy due to his expenses in the search.
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (2003) is a MMORPG. In the game, when exploring the forest moon of Endor, the thespian can meet the base of the Sanyassan Marauders.
- Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds (2004) was a sourcebook for the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. In it, Terak'southward son Zakul takes over rule of his Marauders after Terak's death. The book gives Terak'due south bio and stats. It explains his death, and the rise of his son, Zakul.
Canon appearances of elements introduced in the film include:
- Blurrgs appear in the blithe TV serial Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and the streaming series The Mandalorian,[19] the latter of which is the first live-action Star Wars television project since The Battle for Endor.
References [edit]
- ^ Modify, Ethan (December 15, 2015). "Star Wars: How the Ewoks Came to Telly 31 Years Ago". Yahoo!. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ Robb, Brian J. (2012). Star Wars : the unauthorised inside story of George Lucas'due south epic. London: Robinson. ISBN978-1780333991.
- ^ "Battle for Endor Writer Interview". TheForce.Net. February 11, 2000. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^ Robb, Brian J. (2012). A Brief Guide to Star Wars. Petty, Brown Book Group. p. 84. ISBN9781780335834.
- ^ Osborne, Jerry (2010). Movie/TV Soundtracks and Original Cast Recordings Price and Reference Guide. Port Townsend, Washington: Osborne Enterprises Publishing. p. 175. ISBN978-0932117373.
- ^ "Watch Star Wars Ewok Adventures the Battle for Endor | Prime Video". Amazon.
- ^ Walker, Eric (September 24, 2019). "Disney+ May Not Be The Home To All of Star Wars – All For SciFi". All For SciFi . Retrieved October 6, 2019.
- ^ Ridgely, Charlie (March 16, 2021). "Disney+: Every Movie and Goggle box Show Arriving in April 2021". ComicBook.com . Retrieved 2021-03-16 .
{{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Leverence, John. "Outstanding Special Visual Effects — 1986". 38th Primetime Emmy Awards, September 21, 1986. University of Tv set Arts & Sciences. Retrieved xvi January 2016.
- ^ "Outstanding Children's Program — 1986". 38th Primetime Emmy Awards, September 21, 1986. University of Goggle box Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Special — 1986". 38th Primetime Emmy Awards, September 21, 1986. University of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ Corry, John (November 24, 1985). "New Shows For Children: Should Nosotros Look More?". The New York Times. No. Vol. 135, No. 46, 603. p. H29. Retrieved vi December 2016.
- ^ Douglas Brode; Leah Deyneka (14 June 2012). Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Scarecrow Press. pp. 130–131. ISBN978-0-8108-8513-4.
- ^ Charles, Eric (2012). "The Jedi Network: Star Wars ' Portrayal and Inspirations on the Small Screen". In Brode, Douglas; Deyneka, Leah (eds.). Myth, Media, and Civilization in Star Wars: An Album. Scarecrow Press. pp. 129–131. ISBN978-0-810-88513-4 . Retrieved May twenty, 2016.
- ^ "Star Wars: Every Picture show Ranked". Pop Culture Beast. 4 May 2021.
- ^ "The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page". StarWars.com. Apr 25, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
- ^ Veekhoven, Tim (September iii, 2015). "From Wicket to the Duloks: Revisiting the Star Wars: Ewoks Animated Series". StarWars.com . Retrieved Nov 27, 2018.
- ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (1995). The Illustrated Star Wars Universe. New York: Bantam Books. pp. 115, 132–134. ISBN0-553-09302-nine.
- ^ Lussier, Germain (Baronial 29, 2019). "The Mandalorian Is Bringing a Deep Cut Star Wars Creature Back to Live-Action". io9 . Retrieved August 31, 2019.
Further reading [edit]
- The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, 1st edition, 1997. Kevin J. Anderson, ISBN 0-553-37484-2
- The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars), 1st edition, 1994. Dave Wolverton, ISBN 0-553-08928-v
- Tyrant's Exam, (Book three of The Black Armada Crunch), first paperback printing, 1996. Michael P. Kube-McDowell, ISBN 0-553-57275-X
- Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters, 1st edition, 1995. Andy Mangels, ISBN 0-345-39535-ii
- Endor and the Moddell Sector, article from Star Wars Gamer magazine, Outcome #9
- HoloNet News #49
External links [edit]
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor at IMDb
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor at AllMovie
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
- Ewok Adventures on WayBack (Internet Archive)
Official sites
- Star Wars Databank entry
- StarWars.com databank entries for the moving-picture show's characters
Reviews
- "My get-go Star Wars? An 'Ewoks' flick, and I was hooked anyway". Nick Hide. cent.com.
- "Before there was a new Star Wars film every year, at that place were the Ewok Television movies". Marcus Gilmer. Mashable. sixteen May 2018.
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